Sick Of The Titanic

I thoroughly agree, Ian.  It's annoying me as well.

I realise it's the 100th anniversary but all this bittersweet stuff was going on before this with that terrible and inaccurate movie.  I much prefer the one with Kenneth More in it.

I also have issues about this current ship that's retracing the voyage.  It's not so much the voyage but the fact everyone is dressing up in period clothes.  I find it in poor taste.  I dislike James Cameron greatly.  He makes terrible movies.

Plus that Dion song... argh!

As others have said, what about other ships that have sunk/been sunk and lost hundreds of lives?  The Lusitania being one such example.

Then you have more modern examples like the Zeebrugge ferry, The Marchioness disaster and the recent one in Italy.


Edited by VanderGraafKommandöh - April 12 2012 at 16:23

Originally posted by Gamemako Originally posted by Vibrationbaby I dunno is it me or have this Titanic thing gone overboard?  Makes a good story. Man's hubris comes back to bite him.

Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Well at least the new version of the movie redid the night sky to make it astronomically correct for the date on which the Titanic sunk. So you don't have to view it as entirely a money-grubbing venture.

Did they add color to some of the flares?

I enjoyed the film but damned if I'm going back to a theater to pay for it again just to see it in 3D with corrected stars.


Edited by Slartibartfast - April 12 2012 at 17:49

Originally posted by Sean Trane much more intriguing than a dumb f**king ship built by drunken Irish

I honestly hadn't noticed. 

I could take it or leave it, no worse than JFK or Nazis or 9/11 I suppose .. but the film ?  The Cameron film?  It's annoying as hell except for maybe the iceberg scene, A Night to Remember so much better

Cameron just took the story, added love interest & special effects, so ended with effectively a disaster movie scripted by Merchant Ivory. He knew what he was doing & ended up with the most successful movie of all time (until he out-did this with his remake of Dances With Wolves, Avatar).

The guy's bloody clever & knows what the public like.

Oh, and for the record, I like the movie (Spoiler alert - the ship sinks at the end )

Oh, and finally, my great (great??) uncle on my mother's side worked in the engine room of the Titanic as a Leading Fireman; William Peter Mayo died in the sinking & his body was recovered by the Mackay-Bennett 2 weeks later & buried at sea just off Nova Scotia

Edited by Jim Garten - April 13 2012 at 07:25

Careful, Slarti, the TV series may get popular () and therefore inelligible for any kudos here (ie, not in black & white, not moody enough, insufficient existential angst for our intelligensia to discuss ad nauseum & crime of crimes... entertaining! )

Originally posted by presdoug For me, the Empress Of Ireland sinking is just as, or even more, chilling.           It sank in 14 minutes, more people lost their lives than with the Titanic, and the tragedy happened near Montreal (I live nearby in Ottawa)

Empress of Ireland: 1012 dead
Titanic: 1514 dead.

Your statement is correct only if you don’t count the crew: A few more passengers died in the Empress of Ireland disaster than in the Titanic disaster.

Originally posted by Vibrationbaby I agree with you on Gordon Lightfoot's Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald.

One of my favorite songs of all time