How are the other Titanic movies?
 

Besides James Cameron's '****anic' and 'A Night to Remember', are the other Titanic movies any good? :hmmm:

My favourite version is 'A Night To Remember' It's B/W has no real lovey dovey bits and it's the one I grew up with. :rock:

Cheers

Gary

Yea, it's a great movie and stays faithful to the survivor accounts I've read. :yep:

Dowly.... what kind of spelling error you did with word 'Titanic' in your original post? :hmmm:

EDIT: Practical test '<censored>'.

EDIT#2: No... wasn't most logical one.

The 1953 Titanic wasn't too bad. Don't remember much about it. I haven't seen it in a long time. A Night To Remember wasn't bad, either.

The only thing I never liked about the old movies, and it was quite understandable why, is they always show the vessel sinking in one piece. If only one of them could have stepped out on a limb and showed the breakup.

Fecal matter

@Syxx_Killer

Only after the Titanic was found in 1985 did the theory of a break-up become popular. Most survivors
said the ship went under intact.

What about 'Raise the Titanic'?!

No-one?

No?

I'll get my coat...

Liked Titanic: blood and steel. It aired on our TV in april and I only caught glimps of it. But it deals with the ships construction and the people involved.

Construction - that would be the hand-fitted iron rivets that some say were the reason for the sinking. I'm not blaming the labourers, they only did what they were told. And hindsight is a wonderful thing. :yep:

I believe it was the iron that became brittle in cold. But then again, rivets were also iron. It was a mistake made by designers and managers.
I'm surprised the whole thing was not built of steel, it was mass produced in those times IIRC.

I watched documentary long time ago where they made "what if" plays. They explored that construction method and while they agreed that it wasn't perfect - it was still state of the art of its time.

What I find interesting (also from that documentary) is that Titanic's original design had lifeboat seat for every passenger. There was larger number of davits and each davit had more than one boat. In addition to those there were collapsible lifeboats in bridge roof as back up (those were retained in final design). White Star Line dismissed that design, if I remember correctly reasons were: 1) it looked bad, 2) those boats blocked first class passengers sea views and 3) it was excessive to what was required by law.

I realize that. That's why I said it was understandable. Those accounts is why the breakup is such a popular topic to debate on just about every documentary about the ship. How could so many people say the ship never broke up given that it would have been such a violent event? We'll never know. In the meantime, every person on TV feels they have to say something about the breakup, ad nauseum, in those documentaries. :88)

It was a gamble to use cheaper iron to cut costs and the innocent paid with their lives. That's not a mistake but a decision based on profits and the unlikelyhood of meeting just such a disaster. Still happens all the time.

It's a shame about this film... I love the Book and Clive Cussler stories albiet formulated do take yoo on a rip roaring adventure. He has NOT had any luck with Hollywoods attemps to bring his books to the screen, I refuse to watch Sahara. I mean if they can't get the main character 'Dirk Pitt' right, what chance does the film actually have.

Cheers

Gary

I made the mistake of watching it and came close to clawing my eyes out at the absurd ending. Not that the rest was any better.