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    Posted: 21 Aug 2011 at 2:11am
Here's a partial list of all the channels that have or will show Titanic--butchered with all the good parts edited and/or blurred out:

NBC 
A&E
Tv Land
VH1
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TNT
CMT (COUNTRY Music channel--WTF?)
Telemundo
Encore (at least two of their channels)

Why does every channel feel the need to show Titanic at some point in their miserable lives! Confused
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I'm not sure, considering the movie is incredibly inaccurate to what really happened.
I'm almost certain that most of those people weren't concentrated on getting laid or having a romantic relationship. They were most likely concentrated on survival.

Of course, the sinking of a huge ocean-liner isn't interesting enough to the general population, for some reason. We have to throw in a cheesy and unnecessary romance plot.
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Who hasn't seen this Movie? Every Friday and Saturday, when I go Garage Sailing (Looking for what else?-VHS and DVD Movies and TV Shows LOL), 99% of the people selling Videos have AT LEAST on copy of Titanic for sale for anywhere between 50 cents to two dollars. With the exception of Encore, not only will this movie be hacked and slashed to stuff in the Ads, but they'll run it AT LEAST three times a day, and a month later you'll be able to recite the entire movie out of memory! It's the same with Movies as they do with the TV Series. Dead As for movies about this Disaster, IMO A Night to Remember RULES over all others. BTW The Author of the Book INTERVIEWED Surviving Passengers and Crew Members, as well as Passengers and Crews of the Steamers Carpathian and Californian before he wrote his Book, many of them were also invited to the Premeres of this Movie in the UK, France and the US!
 
BTW the Book was REQUIRED Reading in my High School Literature Class. When the Class I was in got to the part where the ship finally sunk, I instigated a little controversy when I decribed the ship's last moments afloat. The book mentioned how the stern stuck up out of the sea, there was a lot of noise (Said to be fixtures such as deck chairs, furnature, anything that wasn't bolted down), then it mentioned how the stern SETTLED DOWN IN THE WATER, then popped up one more time before finally going under. This didn't sound right to me, IMO something WIERD was happening, and it didn't sound kapish with me. Confused  The Teacher asked me if I could stand before the class to do a presentation, I then got up and did a demonstration. Across the hall from the Literature Class were the Art Classes, I went to one and got a piece of cardboard, Scissors and an X-Acto Knife. Using these I made a crude cardboard cutout of the ship. I then stood before the class and did my demonstration, taking the cutout behind the Teacher's desk (Its surface stood in for the Ocean, a stack of Books stood in for the "Iceberg"). I then dipped the bow below the "surface", citing word for word the description of the ships final moments. The Instructor and the class agreed with me on this, but then I said WAIT, I now went to the FRONT of the desk, "sinking" the ship a second time, with the entire ship visible to all. When I got to the park where the stern "settled" back, I pointed out how the front of the vessel, most of which was underwater (and filled with water) HAD to rise for the stern to settle! I asked if there were any Physics Students in the class because I KNEW some Physics Laws were definately being BROKEN, unfortunately there were no such Students in the Class. The Class's "Official" Explanation was that the Survivors were adrift in the Lifeboats, and what they saw was caused by the angle of the ship changing as they drifted in a currant. I couldn't buy that, and eight years later when Dr. Ballard discovered the Titanic's final resting place did I get "vindicated" when it was discovered the ship had broken in two before going under.
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Originally posted by Zach6848 Zach6848 wrote:



Of course, the sinking of a huge ocean-liner isn't interesting enough to the general population, for some reason. We have to throw in a cheesy and unnecessary romance plot.
 
Don't forget the cheesy and unnecessary Celine Dion song.  The fact that they chose to go with a modern singer and a modern style (rather than Tin Pan Alley music or something) tells me that "history" was not at the crux of the movie.
 
Per Wikipedia:
Cameron's inspiration for the film was predicated on his fascination with shipwrecks; he wanted to convey the emotional message of the tragedy, and felt that a love story interspersed with the human loss would be essential to achieving this.
 
Really?  If I want to know about the Titanic, I'd rather watch a documentary.  I'm pretty sure a documentary wouldn't throw in a love story.
 
Cameron should just admit that the reason he threw in the love story angle was to lure the female audience to the theater.
 
 
 
 
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Although the special effects were impressive (it's a movie best viewed on the big screen, which I did when it first came out) the dialogue is often so bad it's unintentially hilarious.  The best parts all belonged to Kathy Bates and the late, lovely Gloria Stewart.  I think Kate Winslet is ugly.  I call her "Man-Face".  You know..like "Man-Hands" from Seinfeld... LOL  Off topic..but I can think of 2 other movies that seem to be on CONSTANTLY lately:  "Mrs. Doubtfire" and "Goodfellas".  I love both, and often just watch them.  I don't want to get sick of them, though! 


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It fills a big time slot. Titanic, in original form, runs around 3 agonizing hours long. Put it on TV and it'll get stretched to 4 hours with commercials.
The documentaries are almost as bad. "Titanic: the new evidence" , "Titanic: what really happened."
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This movie is 14 years old, now WHY would numerous channels air it today? WTF? The movie is highly inaccurate in how the ship sunk. The latest evidence revealed that ship broke in two at a shallower angle. 
One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
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Originally posted by Ad nauseous Ad nauseous wrote:

This movie is 14 years old, now WHY would numerous channels air it today? WTF? The movie is highly inaccurate in how the ship sunk. The latest evidence revealed that ship broke in two at a shallower angle. 
Cry(Pleauuuz don't make me cry! Splllzzzzzzt! It's a friggin' 'women's love story', doncha know, AdN...no real man has ever seen the movie).
 
I'd say the Titanic was really 'rasied wrong, and thus sunk to new lows', but it has never been raised.
It was just built cheap - and that is hard to really say as it was the most advanced ship of its time - problem is, at the seams, they took a fatal 'short-cut'...
No matter...tickets are still available for the 'real deal'; if'n ya don't wanna see the movie, well, send the 'weepy wife' for a 'first class showing' - be sure and have flowers ready. 
 
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Pa's right.  Never seen the movie. 

However, I was always interested in the Titanic.  I read, "A Night to Remember" as a youth and have seen that movie many times.
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Yep, steel vs. cast iron rivets. This is a classic make out movie if the guy is patient enough.  
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Originally posted by Hootman Hootman wrote:

Pa's right.  Never seen the movie. 

However, I was always interested in the Titanic.  I read, "A Night to Remember" as a youth and have seen that movie many times.
 
Me too, Hooty!
 
And I have to say, this was the most eye gouging, lamest movie I have ever seen. I wanted to watch it because they kept saying how particular they were to every detail (i.e. wall paper, mouldings, luggage etc). but the movie was so F**ing annoying and insincere, I wanted to put my foot through the television.
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BTW There is one Historical "Inaccuracy" in the Movie A Night to Remember. After the Titanic Sinks, Officer Lightoller is seen transferring survivors from one lifeboat to another. One of the survivors is revealed to be a man, who dressed in Woman's Clothes so he could get on a Lifeboat. In reality, this has NEVER been confirmed.
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Originally posted by regulus regulus wrote:

BTW There is one Historical "Inaccuracy" in the Movie A Night to Remember. After the Titanic Sinks, Officer Lightoller is seen transferring survivors from one lifeboat to another. One of the survivors is revealed to be a man, who dressed in Woman's Clothes so he could get on a Lifeboat. In reality, this has NEVER been confirmed.
 
If that happened, good thing for him it was never confirmed.  It'd suck to have to live with that legacy.
 
 
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Really, I think the idea behind this movie is that, as a society, most people can't handle this kind of stuff without a cheesy heartwarming plot being thrown in. Either that or people aren't interested in genuine historical facts anymore, the only way they'd see a movie about an international tragedy that happened nearly a hundred years ago is if they got to see a damned love story.

Personally, I've always been interested in history, and even as a kid I was disappointed to learn that this movie had damn near nothing in common with the actual incident. Apparently, tragedy and history just aren't soft enough or interesting enough without some arbitrary plot thrown in.

Just wait. They'll make a movie about 9/11 with a romance plot, someday. God forbid, but if they wait as long as they did with Titanic, there won't be many left to fight it.
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Zach, I don't even like dramatic reenactments of historical events in documentaries, especially when there's plenty of actual footage that can be used instead.
 
 
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Originally posted by Zach6848 Zach6848 wrote:

 
Personally, I've always been interested in history, and even as a kid I was disappointed to learn that this movie had damn near nothing in common with the actual incident. Apparently, tragedy and history just aren't soft enough or interesting enough without some arbitrary plot thrown in.

 

Probably why Hollywood added love scenes to the Pearl Harbor movie.  Dec. 7 - the day of infamy- the day we entered WWII - thousands killed - our Navy all but scuttled....... but they made it a romance movie.Thumbs Down
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Originally posted by Zach6848 Zach6848 wrote:

Personally, I've always been interested in history, and even as a kid I was disappointed to learn that this movie had damn near nothing in common with the actual incident. Apparently, tragedy and history just aren't soft enough or interesting enough without some arbitrary plot thrown in.

Precisely why I never saw the flick.  When I was a pup I was the resident Titanic expert in the afterschool group (that was fun, what one of the teachers started as a rainy-day project turned into a whole quarter on various aspects of the sinking, everyone did history/science presentations among other fun stuff), and I knew that anything primarily billed as a love story was going to throw any type of accuracy to the winds.
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If you think this is bad, wait 'til next year when it's the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking. This movie will be on EVERY channel on a continuous loop.
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Originally posted by Moochamoocha Moochamoocha wrote:

If you think this is bad, wait 'til next year when it's the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking. This movie will be on EVERY channel on a continuous loop.
 
I Agree! Five will get you ten it will be "Death by Titanic"!Angry If my calculations are correct here's what well see the stations showing ALL DAY - Especially the week of April 14!
 
Titanic (1953)
 
A Night to Remember
 
S.O.S. Titanic
 
Titanic (1996 Made for TV)
 
and of Course Titanic (1997)
 
For a good measure they will also include:
 
The Last Voyage
 
The Poseidon Adventure
 
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
 
The Poseidon Adventure (2005 made for TV)
 
Poseidon
 
And since these movies feature a Shipwreck they'll toss in:
 
The Blue Lagoon (1949)
 
The Blue Lagoon (1980)
 
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Originally posted by Virginia Dare Virginia Dare wrote:

 Off topic..but I can think of 2 other movies that seem to be on CONSTANTLY lately:  "Mrs. Doubtfire" and "Goodfellas".  I love both, and often just watch them.  I don't want to get sick of them, though! 

 
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I think I could see "Goodfellas" just about every night.
 
They're doing the same thing with The Godfather and Godfather II (GF III doesn't appear nearly as often, which is probably just as well Disapprove ) and Scarface. Not to mention Sweet Home Alabama, Saving Private Ryan, and Jurassic Park. All great flicks, but they're getting way overexposed.
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Originally posted by Hootman Hootman wrote:

Never seen the movie.  
 
You only need to see the first 10 mins or so (on the salvage ship) and the last few mins (also on the salvage ship.)  Those are the best parts of the movie.  The rest is a waste of your life....
 
The "I'm the king of the world!" scene would have been vastly improved if a seagull had kamikazied into his fat fCensoreding face....
 
Not one mention of the real cause of the sinking:  The cursed Egyptian mummy being transported in the hold.  Disappointing....
 
And coming soon to your TV:  Law & Order: Titanic
 
(4 part Titanic mini-series also in the works.  Surprise, surprise....)
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Originally posted by MrTim MrTim wrote:

 
The "I'm the king of the world!" scene would have been vastly improved if a seagull had kamikazied into his fat fCensoreding face...
 
Or if the Ship hit a wave, knocking him OVERBOARD! LOL
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They're doing the same thing with The Godfather and Godfather II (GF III doesn't appear nearly as often, which is probably just as well Disapprove ) and Scarface. Not to mention Sweet Home Alabama, Saving Private Ryan, and Jurassic Park. All great flicks, but they're getting way overexposed.
 
For a while it was Dazed and Confused.  But the worst was years ago, when Smokey and the Bandit seemed to be on constantly.
 
 
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Originally posted by ThreadKiller ThreadKiller wrote:

 
They're doing the same thing with The Godfather and Godfather II (GF III doesn't appear nearly as often, which is probably just as well Disapprove ) and Scarface. Not to mention Sweet Home Alabama, Saving Private Ryan, and Jurassic Park. All great flicks, but they're getting way overexposed.
 
For a while it was Dazed and Confused.  But the worst was years ago, when Smokey and the Bandit seemed to be on constantly.
 
 
 
Aw, come on, those were classics!  Wink
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I like both of those movies, too, Hoot.  Sometimes, I use my cable "search" button to see if Smokey and the Bandit's gonna be on.

 
 
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