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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 6, 2020 19:35:32 GMT -5
Hey, spoilers!!  Geez Louise.
Later on, it turns out that the iceberg was the ship's father all along.
It was the Edwardian Age counterpart of the Victorian Age iceberg that Frankenstein's Monster drifted away upon on, according to the Roy Thomas story, "Crisis on Earths-V and E." |
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Post by impulse on Nov 6, 2020 20:12:35 GMT -5
The real iceberg was the friends we made along the way.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 6, 2020 21:06:45 GMT -5
It's also the iceberg Captain America was frozen in.
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 6, 2020 22:27:48 GMT -5
It's also the iceberg Captain America was frozen in. The fact that Cap (in what I think was an alternate timeline) was worshiped by Eskimos and then hurled further into the ocean by Namor in a jealous rage just makes me laugh. It's both incredibly dumb, but also very charming |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 7, 2020 0:42:49 GMT -5
Add me to the avoided Titanic at all costs list. I like Cameron's earlier work; but, Abyss kind of showed me he was getting self-indulgent and believing his own press and a movie about the Titanic had no appeal. I'm with Prince Hal on A Night to Remember and would still rather watch the more flawed SOS Titanic, which I saw, as a kid. Peter David, in his But I Digress column, in CBG, joked about seeing it with his daughters, then coming out of the theater and loudly saying, "I can't believe the boat sank!" People actually got upset with him for "spoiling" the movie. Too many Americans have no sense of history. Bill Amend, in his Foxtrot newspaper strip, poked appropriate fun at the film, when Andy became obsessed with it....  I will say the film did inspire the funniest sign I saw in a wrestling crowd for that era. On WCW Nitro, Bill Goldberg was being pushed as an unstoppable monster, with a winning streak that culminated in him defeating Hulk Hogan for the title. One night, someone in the crowd had a huge sign, with a ship headed for a giant Goldberg face, with the text, "Goldberg, right ahead!" As for Celine Dion, I can't stand her singing and over emphasis of things; but, there is a really cool instrumental version of that song, from Los Straightjackets... One of Los Straightjackets best albums! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2020 1:37:39 GMT -5
I've not read it in probably 25 years, but I used to love FoxTrot like most people love Calvin & Hobbes or The Far Side.
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 7, 2020 12:43:15 GMT -5
I've not read it in probably 25 years, but I used to love FoxTrot like most people love Calvin & Hobbes or The Far Side. I always liked Curtis and Frank & Ernest  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 7, 2020 14:12:44 GMT -5
I've not read it in probably 25 years, but I used to love FoxTrot like most people love Calvin & Hobbes or The Far Side. Foxtrot was brilliant, especially his genre movie parodies.  His strip dealing with 9/11 was really subtly powerful...  You can just see it in the eyes, and how they reach for one another's hands |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 7, 2020 17:05:57 GMT -5
This thread got me to watch A Night to Remember again.
Great film, and I didn't remember how much of the Cameron film was inspired by it. In fact, Titanic is A Night to Remember with a love story grafted to it!
Man, I love Youtube!
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 7, 2020 19:27:38 GMT -5
This thread got me to watch A Night to Remember again. Great film, and I didn't remember how much of the Cameron film was inspired by it. In fact, Titanic is A Night to Remember with a love story grafted to it! Man, I love Youtube! Or parasitically attached. But you're the scientist.  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 7, 2020 19:40:11 GMT -5
This thread got me to watch A Night to Remember again. Great film, and I didn't remember how much of the Cameron film was inspired by it. In fact, Titanic is A Night to Remember with a love story grafted to it! Man, I love Youtube! Or parasitically attached. But you're the scientist. In this context, I think it could be defined as a barnacle!  |
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Post by Farrar on Nov 8, 2020 18:31:09 GMT -5
Re: "Titanic" The ship sank in 160 minutes, the movie in 194. I'll take "A Night to Remember"(1958) in which the emphasis is on human beings, not CGI and contrived melodrama. But that's me. Oh yes that's such a great movie, with a superb cast including Kenneth More, Alec McGowen, Bernard Fox, Honor Blackman, and many others including a pre-Illya David McCallum, with that angelic face remaining stoic in the face of disaster. I love Titanic movies (and documentaries). Anyone ever see the 1953 Titanic movie, with Barbara Stanwyck and a miscast (IMO) Clifton Webb? Stanwyck manages to rise above the Hollywood melodrama. Or the 1943 "Nazi" Titanic movie? Both are available for your viewing pleasure on YouTube. |
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Post by Confessor on Nov 8, 2020 18:55:01 GMT -5
FWIW, I really loved Titanic. I've been interested in the ship and it's sinking since I was a kid and had a couple of books on the wreck long before the film came out. Watching the film, it really transported this "fan" onboard the great ship.
As for the love story, I felt that just like all the other character interactions in the film, it really brought home the human tragedy of the disaster. The real love story in that film, however, was actually between Cameron's camera and the ship itself.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 8, 2020 19:18:27 GMT -5
I thought that Titanic was okay. I was shocked that it was the highest grossing movie for a time.
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 8, 2020 19:28:41 GMT -5
I thought that Titanic was okay. I was shocked that it was the highest grossing movie for a time. According to Red Letter Media and their popcorn bucket, the film was initially meant to release as an action movie during the summer (with the tagline "Collide With Destiny") but changed it once the "my heart will go on" song surfaced I think |
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Geez Louise. 
