I didn't even see it all the way through, but I started - as I always do - at the bit where the captain goes into the wheelhouse and shuts the door, and didn't stop until the titles were rolling. *sniffles*
Uh-huh. The designer standing in the dining room and stopping the clock, too. Waaaaah. *sniff*
And even though he dies (oops, spoiler!) I always get left with that Being Single Sucks feeling at the end. I want someone to steal meee away and wait for me in a drowned ship at the bottom of the Atlantic, damn it!
I hate, really really hate at least the first hour and a half.
But when that beautiful creation hits the iceberg and all hell breaks loose, it looks excellent. It's just a shame it was SO badly written. My beautiful ship deserved better than that.
but no matter how bad the film is, when she finally slips beneath the too-still water, my eyes start to sting. Not because it's a good film (it's really not) but for what might have been.
I think I missed about the first hour and a half. I saw about the last hour and a quarter, I think.
I get more upset over the hundreds of people who died - not in the film, but in reality. Good film or bad film, it gives an idea of what a terrifying and horrific experience it must have been for the people who were there. That sort of thing never fails to move me.
Exactly. The Titanic has held a kind of thrall over me since I was very small, and it was always the people rather than the engineering and stuff. When I wrote my personal study for it for History A-Level, I found myself in the National Maritime Museum or the PRO choking back tears as I read stuff.
For a really great film about the Titanic? A Night To Remember. So it's in black and white and doesn't have the ship split in two? Other than that it's pretty solid.
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Date: 2005-07-22 11:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-22 11:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-22 11:29 pm (UTC)And even though he dies (oops, spoiler!) I always get left with that Being Single Sucks feeling at the end. I want someone to steal meee away
and wait for me in a drowned ship at the bottom of the Atlantic, damn it!(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-22 11:33 pm (UTC)And ditto. Definitely, ditto.
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Date: 2005-07-22 11:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-22 11:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-23 12:02 am (UTC)But when that beautiful creation hits the iceberg and all hell breaks loose, it looks excellent. It's just a shame it was SO badly written. My beautiful ship deserved better than that.
but no matter how bad the film is, when she finally slips beneath the too-still water, my eyes start to sting. Not because it's a good film (it's really not) but for what might have been.
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Date: 2005-07-23 12:07 am (UTC)I get more upset over the hundreds of people who died - not in the film, but in reality. Good film or bad film, it gives an idea of what a terrifying and horrific experience it must have been for the people who were there. That sort of thing never fails to move me.
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Date: 2005-07-23 12:28 am (UTC)For a really great film about the Titanic? A Night To Remember. So it's in black and white and doesn't have the ship split in two? Other than that it's pretty solid.
*hugs*
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Date: 2005-07-23 12:55 am (UTC)Does that make me a bad person? Or is it just something to do with Leo Di Caprio dying that brings out something in me....