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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on September 19, 2007, 10:11:09 am ---
So as a result, it might seem as if people "hate" Titanic. I don't; I think it's entertaining if not great.
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Personally, I think it's great.
People seem to forget that Titanic was number one at the box office for how many months? Six? And it won a slew of Oscars. Now I hear people saying, "Oh, Titanic...it should never have won best picture! It is such a soap opera...the dialog is trite, the characters two-dimensional, Kate Winslet was fat..." blah, blah, blah. That's their opinion...I still love it.
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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on September 19, 2007, 10:57:59 am ---Personally, I think it's great.
People seem to forget that Titanic was number one at the box office for how many months? Six? And it won a slew of Oscars. Now I hear people saying, "Oh, Titanic...it should never have won best picture! It is such a soap opera...the dialog is trite, the characters two-dimensional, Kate Winslet was fat..." blah, blah, blah. That's their opinion...I still love it.
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You have every right to! :) Leonardo DiCaprio is one of my favorite actors, generally. And anyone who calls Kate Winslet fat deserves ... well, I can't think of a bad enough punishment but it would probably involve brown rice and low-fat tofu.
Personally, I was very sorry that the fabulous LA Confidential didn't win that year. But Titanic was entertaining, moving and had amazing special effects. In any case, to each her own! :D
Also, I bet the people who dis Titanic and the people who kept it No. 1 at the box office aren't necessarily the same people. Lots of moviegoers probably still do love Titanic, even if most of them aren't Brokies. Though somewhere along the way I recall seeing posts by this very intelligent, insightful woman who loved Brokeback and was writing a college thesis on the psychological-something-or-other in Titanic! So it's not that the two can't ever go hand in hand.
MaineWriter:
Actually, I never meant to imply that the Titanic-bashers were BBM-lovers. I was speaking more in general...for a long time, everyone loved Titanic and then, it came out on DVD. And when they watched it on DVD (probably endlessly), people could suddenly see the mistakes in the sets, and when they listened carefully to the dialog, they said it all sounded so trite, and they never realized just how cardboardy all the characters were, etc. etc.
It was sort of like, "Oh, Titanic...that's so 90s."
And it just irritated me because the movie hadn't changed. It was more like it became fashionable to bash Titanic.
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oilgun:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on September 19, 2007, 03:10:24 pm ---Actually, I never meant to imply that the Titanic-bashers were BBM-lovers. I was speaking more in general...for a long time, everyone loved Titanic and then, it came out on DVD. And when they watched it on DVD (probably endlessly), people could suddenly see the mistakes in the sets, and when they listened carefully to the dialog, they said it all sounded so trite, and they never realized just how cardboardy all the characters were, etc. etc.
It was sort of like, "Oh, Titanic...that's so 90s."
And it just irritated me because the movie hadn't changed. It was more like it became fashionable to bash Titanic.
L
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You're right that following it's huge success Titanic became the movie 'everyone' loved to hate. Lately though, I've noticed that several movie/dvd sites are calling it under-rated so the backlash seems to be abating, lol!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on September 19, 2007, 03:10:24 pm ---Actually, I never meant to imply that the Titanic-bashers were BBM-lovers. I was speaking more in general...It was more like it became fashionable to bash Titanic.
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Oh, OK. I haven't talked or read anything about Titanic one way or the other in years -- except on Brokie boards -- I guess I'm just out of the loop.
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