Have you NOT seen the movie Titanic ?

[skraggs]

A girlfriend once made me watch it, wasn't as bad as expected but also far from being interesting.

I have never seen any of the Star Wars or Lord Of The Rings movies though. Don't really know why I'm mentioning this here...oh well...

 

[squirrelnest]

I saw it 20 times & gonna watch it again....

 

[Pio1980]

At the time there was no clear procedures for wireless communications. The Marconi Boys on the Titanic spent their time sending telegrams for the 1st Class passengers, telegrams that were on the order of “Isn’t this great I am still in the middle of the Atlantic” messages. There was no mandatory radio watch standing by shore installations, and ships at sea that were equipped with Marconi’s were in the same position. When passing ships tried to warn the Titanic about icebergs the Marconi’s were too busy sending those “isn’t this the coolest thing” telegrams. The Marconi transmitter on the Titanic was not particularly powerful either. Naval vessels of the time had high powered rotary transmitter of many KW’s.

Being a hamradio operator this aspect of the Titanic shipwreck is of great interest. It was a hamradio operator on shore that first reported the disaster, and at first he was not believed.

Here is a recreation of the Marconi room on the Titanic.
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Here is an actual Marconi sparkgap induction transmitter like the one Titanic was equipped with. .
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My major interest as well, along with the propulsion system.

A similar existing engine of the same guage, but with only one low pressure compound cylinder, a flywheel, and Corliss variable, rather than slide action valving. This engine was the stand-in for the Titanic engine in a PBS documentary

 

[BigElCat]

I watched that Pearl Harbor movie with Ben Affleck.

Gag me. He landed his fighter plane, what was it, in the parking lot of her apartment ? Had to run in, and get himself some zero hour sugars.

 

[teal'c]

I have not.

 

[beat_truck]

I've seen the James Cameron version once or twice and own it on VHS. Every thrift store in the USA has at least one copy. I'm not in love with it, but it's not bad. Over long, yes.

I also own A Night To Remember on VHS, and thought it was very good.

I taped the '53 version of Titanic that was on TCM last night, but haven't watched it yet.

I also own the 1996 Titanic TV movie / mini series on VHS. I picked it up at GW because I had never heard of that version. I haven't watched it yet either. It has mixed reviews, but has an impressive mostly all star cast.

 

[BigElCat]

I didn't like Avatar.

He was half-dead and muttering, "ICU, ICU"...and blue face was like "I see you, too". He meant 'get me to the ICU'.

 

[transmaster]

I thought the best Cameron movie was "Dances with Clams"

 

[zebra03]

Me neither . Spoiler alert , the boat ..............................

 

[transmaster]

Me neither . Spoiler alert , the boat ..............................

That was the big problem you knew how the movie was going to turn out.

 

[vinowino]

Never seen "Titanic". Or, any other "disaster" movies. eg "Towering Inferno" Cannot tolerate them.
My wife loves them. So,
when she wants to see one she watchs the TV in our bedroom and I play records.
She did manage to convince me to go to the movies to see Tom Hanks in "Sully", true story of the plane that had to land on the Hudson river.
I said "oh no, not another disaster movie" . but it was really good. All about the court case surrounding the event. Highly recommended.

 

[kirk57]

I haven’t. But I think the ship sinks towards the end. Bummer.

 

[nj pheonix]

If you haven't seen it , you're truly blessed.
Longest 83 hours of my life

 

[nj pheonix]

Well
Maybe dances with wolves

 

[DrumminDaddy]

Well, yeah, everybody knows the boat sinks. So he turns it into a tragic love story. I saw it on the big screen. I’m sure I’ve seen it on the small screen, too. I liked it, but it gave me a bad feeling. Not for the script, just the thought of all those people going into the water. Gives me the willies.

 

[Rockyhill]

I’m a boat person so I’m not fond of sinking boats where people drown. I saw it nonetheless and found it to be meh.

 

[soundmotor]

Nope.

 

[62caddy]

Saw it along with most other Titanic films including A Night to Remember (1958) which I thought was the best of them all. Of course, none of the earlier films can compare with Titanic (1997) for finished gloss and of course, none of the others were made with the knowledge of the ship having broken in two before the final plunge.

 

[Pio1980]

Ballard's cinematic documentation was another reason to see it.

 

[transmaster]

One of the best disaster films I have ever seen is the Norwegian movie Bølgen [The Wave] (2015).
The Wave is based on a rock-slide tsunami incident which destroyed the village of Tafjord on 7 April 1934, killing 40 people. Prior to that, a similar incident in 1905 triggered a tsunami killing 60 people, and 31 years later, another 74 lost their lives. These rockslide tsunamis are an ongoing threat in Norway because of it's deep and narrow Fjords. The Wave demonstrates that you can have a good disaster movie that does not beat you over the head with CGI.