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Topic: Why the hatred?
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Graysith
Chosen Daughter
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posted 02-21-2003 11:09 PM
     
Count me another salmon battling upstream. Personally, I loved Titanic. I thought it was well done (especially when the ship broke in half and went down, yeesh!) I'll admit I went into the movie prepared to sneer at Leonardo, but durn it if I didn't enjoy his portrayal of Jack. (Who for some reason I kept thinking of as a young Jack London, heh... guess the way he carried the character struck me as the outdoorsy type!)Maybe the fans who "hate" Titanic do so because it did such a fantastic job of computer generated scenes, and fans think that belongs solely to the realm of sci-fi, and in the realms of sci-fi there is nothing else but Star Wars.... (OK, so there's Star Trek and Farscape and Stargate and 2001 and all the golden oldies and yes, there's Lexx, hey I liked Lexx....)  -------------------- I ride the Stormcloud and the Night!
Posts: 3904 | From: Indianola, Iowa | Registered: Jul 2000 | Logged: 205.188.209.6
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BobPalpatine
Foo Fighter
Member # 17
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posted 04-24-2003 07:39 PM
I don't mind Leo, in fact I think he is a very cable actor. Anyone can see that by watching Basketball Diaries...However, I did not like Titanic, because well, I just didn't enjoy it. I thought it was overhyped for what it was. Although Kate Winslett's breasts in a PG-13 movie, that is marketing genius! -------------------- "Can't you hear my motored heart? Your the one that started it!" -Foo Fighters "Generator" Cogito ergo sum BobPalpatine
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Posts: 681 | From: St. Charles, MO, USA | Registered: Jun 2000 | Logged: 68.184.208.42
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Graysith
Chosen Daughter
Member # 27
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posted 04-27-2003 10:17 AM
One: I don't think you can really make a correlation between people who love "Star Wars" also hating "Titanic." Where is the proof? Just a few comments here, or the fact that you know somebody who says this?Pfft. I think it may have to do with the genre of the movie. It was a drama vs space opera, which are themes worlds apart. Also, "Titanic" was based on a true story with a known outcome; there was no "surprise" about it. All it had to separate it from "Star Wars" was the acting skills of the players (WAY BETTER), the cutting and editing, the special effects (on par with that of "Star Wars," I think), and so on. Also, in being based on a true story, there wasn't that "epic" of a plot, as there is in "Star Wars." The latter was planned as being a nine-movie presentation (originally); "Titanic" merely covers one incident about which there was absolutely nothing extraordinary -- until the ship hit the iceberg and history was made. In all fairness, you just cannot truly compare the two on the same scale. Personally, I thought it was a terrific movie, which portrayed the end of the Titanic in a realistic and gripping manner. [ 04-27-2003 10:21 AM: Message edited 1 time, lastly by Graysith ] -------------------- I ride the Stormcloud and the Night!
Posts: 3904 | From: Indianola, Iowa | Registered: Jul 2000 | Logged: 205.188.208.165
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