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Titanic's 20th Anniversary Is Today
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Author:  O [ Wed Dec 20, 2017 2:30 am ]
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Titanic came out exactly 20 years ago today, Dec. 19, 1997!

Can't believe it's been that long!
Author:  tree and a half [ Wed Dec 20, 2017 2:42 am ]
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Bon voyage!
Author:  Algren [ Wed Dec 20, 2017 2:56 am ]
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It came out on the day I turned 12 and the RMS Titanic sank in 1912. Spooky.
Author:  Jack Sparrow [ Wed Dec 20, 2017 6:04 am ]
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^Better don't sail on your birthday's :P
Author:  nghtvsn [ Wed Dec 20, 2017 9:04 am ]
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I remember I watched this in a very packed theatre. No stadium seating at the time and I watched it while on crutches and had an aisle seat.
Author:  Jiffy [ Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:11 am ]
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O wrote:
Titanic came out exactly 20 years ago today, Dec. 19, 1997!

Can't believe it's been that long!


I can!
Author:  Jack Sparrow [ Wed Dec 20, 2017 3:21 pm ]
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20 years and still relevant film IMO.
Author:  Ludovician [ Thu Dec 21, 2017 12:25 am ]
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Anyone else think it's BS that JJ Abrams is officlally "the director who directed the highest grossing picture of all time" over Cameron? Cameron *twice* created from the ground up two hugely ambitious original films and twice defied the absolutely massive odds facing both. Abrams was handed the most popular film franchise in history, did effectively the safest possible take with it (remaking ANH, essentially( and *he's* the one who knocks JC off his perch after 20 years? Absurd.
Author:  stuffp [ Thu Dec 21, 2017 12:42 am ]
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Let's see after Avatar 2.
Author:  tree and a half [ Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:26 am ]
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Ludovician wrote:
Anyone else think it's BS that JJ Abrams is officlally "the director who directed the highest grossing picture of all time" over Cameron? Cameron *twice* created from the ground up two hugely ambitious original films and twice defied the absolutely massive odds facing both. Abrams was handed the most popular film franchise in history, did effectively the safest possible take with it (remaking ANH, essentially( and *he's* the one who knocks JC off his perch after 20 years? Absurd.

Absurd, indeed.

Especially given the fact that making this ludicrous "highest grossing picture of all time" claim requires them to ignore worldwide box office (TFA is $720m behind Avatar) and adjusted box office (TFA is $840m behind Gone with the Wind).
Author:  Algren [ Thu Dec 21, 2017 4:47 am ]
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TFA isn't the highest-grossing movie of all-time. Wolf Warriors 2 is.
Author:  Jack Sparrow [ Thu Dec 21, 2017 5:01 am ]
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I'm sure he was referring to US domestic movies there but both valid points. There are too many factors to say that highest grossing movie is TFA
Author:  Algren [ Thu Dec 21, 2017 5:05 am ]
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Jack Sparrow wrote:
I'm sure he was referring to US domestic movies there


Well, that needs to be stated every time someone claims something is the highest-grossing or most successful film of all-time. Because it's a pretty fucking big qualifier to limit the claim to just one country. The only time it doesn't need to be stated is when it's worldwide gross being referred to, and that king is still Avatar.
Author:  Jack Sparrow [ Thu Dec 21, 2017 5:09 am ]
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That's true it wasn't the right semantics
Author:  O [ Thu Jun 22, 2023 2:09 pm ]
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Didn't find a thread about this but like most of the world I'm gripped by the Titanic sub story. Sadly it's not looking good but I find how eerie it is how much we can do and know about space but can't in the ocean. The ocean remains a mystery compared to going to space. There is something about the public's consciousness that is gripped by stories about the Titanic too.

I also have no doubts that if they ever find that missing Malaysia Airlines plane a movie about it and what happened would be massive.
Author:  Shack [ Thu Jun 22, 2023 2:31 pm ]
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Guessing they've been dead this whole time
Author:  O [ Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:50 pm ]
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In an eerie twist of fate, the wife of the OceanGate CEO captain was the great-great-granddaughter of two of the wealthiest passengers on the Titanic. They were included in the 1997 movie as well.
Author:  Barrabás [ Thu Jun 22, 2023 5:53 pm ]
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Man's hubris once again leads to his demise. You can't pay your way out of the forces of nature.
Author:  Darth Indiana Bond [ Thu Jun 22, 2023 6:45 pm ]
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Terrifying. The hubris of the Titanic leaves another grim mark on history.
Author:  Flava'd vs The World [ Thu Jun 22, 2023 10:30 pm ]
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The movie will have one of the five win their ticket in a poker game just so the audience has someone to relate to.

I feel like the public sympathy for this one is pretty low though. Cause like ... not one of us would have done this even if we did have the 250k for a ticket ... right? It was such a bad idea from the start. Makes going to space seem like a normal cross country flight.
Author:  publicenemy#1 [ Thu Jun 22, 2023 11:06 pm ]
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I feel bad for the 19 year old for sure. Poor guy just went to appease his dad yeesh.
Author:  Barrabás [ Thu Jun 22, 2023 11:16 pm ]
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When I was 16 my two best friends wanted to swim out to a platform that we could see from the beach...I refused because I knew I wasn't a strong enough swimmer. They tried REALLY hard to get me to go, and everyone knows how strong peer pressure is when you're a teenager, but I refused. It eventually took them and hour and a half to get there and back. By the time they arrived they collapsed onto the beach trembling, they told me they felt like if the had to swim another 5 minutes they would've drowned. And they were much stronger than I was.

The 19 year old was dumb. I still have sympathy for him, much more than the adults, and especially the dad who should've known better than to bring his child, but he was still a dumbass for getting onto that thing. Nothing is more important than your life.
Author:  Thegun [ Thu Jun 22, 2023 11:27 pm ]
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Flava'd vs The World wrote:
The movie will have one of the five win their ticket in a poker game just so the audience has someone to relate to.

I feel like the public sympathy for this one is pretty low though. Cause like ... not one of us would have done this even if we did have the 250k for a ticket ... right? It was such a bad idea from the start. Makes going to space seem like a normal cross country flight.


You realize commercial flights across tithe Atlantic didn’t happen until 1958. A dirt poor grifter, struggling artist winning what is equivalent to I don’t know that space shuttle plane thing today to go back home.

I think that’s pretty easy motivation to relate to. Hell the first transatlantic flights were over $3000 in todays money.
Author:  Flava'd vs The World [ Fri Jun 23, 2023 12:13 am ]
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Commercial flights at least had a worldchanging purpose, linking the various nations of the world by hours instead of days. Space will (hopefully) lead to similiar advancement. What was there to accomplish here other than saying you did it? I know that the ocean is very mysterious and all that, but the reason we know so little is because there is so little to know. It's why astronomers care about planets rather than just the unfathomable amount of space between them where nothing is happening.
Author:  Thegun [ Fri Jun 23, 2023 4:14 am ]
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I’m confused, it seems here to are talking about the son in real life that died, but in the earlier post you were talking about DiCaprio’s role in the film.

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