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Titanic (1997) was released in movie theaters across the country. Where were you and what were you doing in life when this disaster happened?

I was here in Alaska, living in my first apartment, making my living as a food server in a fine dining restaurant. I used my tip money to watch this movie in the theater, and the rest of my tips from that day to get arse-faced drunk right after.  :cheers:

Did you see it at the Fireweed?

TITANIC is way up the list of movies fun to knock...kind of great, kind of dreadful, kind of ridiculous... it's so inventive, the leading lady gets laid... IN A CAR !!!   :bouncegiggle: They run up the ship, they run down the ship... and there goes the heart of the ocean that could pay for everyone looking for the ... heart of the ocean...  :hatred:  biatch! 

I was on an airplane going to visit my mother on L.I. The only time my kids got to see my Ma.
I never seen the movie.

Be nice to me or I’ll spoil the ending for you by telling you what happens to the ship.

Hell, I'll tell you what happens to Jack!!!   :teddyr:  Bwhahahahahaha...!!! 

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I've heard it sinks.
Would be real cool if it rose from the bottom full of the dead and landed in New York where it was planned.
And eat people.

I would soooooo f’ing buy that on 4K blu ray!

When is Hollywood going to remake RAISE THE TITANIC?

Titanic isn't my favorite movie in the world and I didn't see it in the theater, but I liked it well enough that I bought the DVD when I saw it at the thrift store.

For a more serious movie about the Titanic, A Night To Remember (1958) is very good.  It obviously doesn't have the huge budget or special effects, but it doesn't have the love story plot, though.

And don't forget it also doesn't have Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by "mmm...someobody Picasso..." 

I saw Ghostbusters 2, so I already know how it ended. 


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The ship eventually makes it back to New York. 

I saw it during its theatrical run with my girlfriend (now my wife) ... I was obviously fulfilling relationship duties, haha.

Though honestly, I enjoyed that first vieiwing. The love story plot was poop of course, but in terms of visual effects, set designs, etc., it didn't suck.

A year or so later we were married and had moved into our first house, which happened to coincide with "Titanic's" premiere on HBO, and my lovely wife watched that damn movie over... and over.... and OVER... and OVER again for a couple of months.

Needless to say, I was grateful when she finally moved on to other things. 

I don't need to ever see it again.

It didn’t enter truly terrible territory until society as a whole made the jump to high definition TVs, when all of the crude standard definition ‘90s CGI camera tricks that the film industry was getting away with since Jurassic Park (1993) really started to rear its ugly head. If only James Cameron didn’t have his head stuck so far up his own butt regarding the entire 4K blu ray home theater market, we might be able to get some halfway decent 4K reboots of his ‘90s movies.

Ditto on the girlfriend/wife thing. I’m only really trashing this bad movie because it is my wife’s favorite and she insists on making me watch it with her. It almost makes me want to start  :drink: again.

Watching TITANIC and drinking also sounds like a plan. 

I had just gotten my first apartment.  Great location with theater, bars, restaurants, grocery store, etc. within walking distance.  But big ants and searing heat (upstairs apartment) were the norm.  I was exercising every day and was fit as a fiddle, maybe still taking martial arts classes at the time.  I was working as custodian at a department store where I'd be a manager a year or so later.  My friend and I went to see TITANIC at the local theater right when it came out at the tail end of '97.  I enjoyed it even though I found it impossible not to laugh when the people were falling and smacking their heads on the ship as it tipped.

Did she move onto other movies??or did you get divorced?

Yes I did. I saw it at the loud theater #3; the big one. I watched my fellow Natives tear it down in 2010. I'm not a CIRI shareholder, thank goodness; they are dead to me because of what they did to the Fireweed.  :thumbdown: :hatred:

Coincidentally, the last movie that I saw there before the Natives tore it down was a reshowing of Avatar (2009); yet another James Cameron silly movie. To me, James Cameron is like a bigger budgeted Roger Corman, who I guess used to be Cameron's boss, so maybe a little bit of Corman rubbed off on him.

This was a big movie event. Everyone plus their momma went to see Titanic. I went three times. First time with colleagues from work. Second time with family. Third time with friends. We had to call and reserve tickets at the theater as you wouldn't get any if you just showed up at the box office. They were pretty much sold out til late March as I recall.

I enjoyed it for what it was, a big entertaining movie.

still never seen it... was at university when it came out, but to be honest I don't recall much fanfare. the whole thing passed my by like, I dunno, a train in the night

di caprio and winslett are probably good actors but I just inexplicably don't like either of them and can't watch them in anything, especially Dicaprio.

His best scene :
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I didn't know it was a blue movie

As BLUE as the Heart of the Ocean... 

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A lot of James Cameron's movies are "blue" for some odd reason.

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Not hating on you, Kornula. I’m a Doyon shareholder myself. I didn’t know about the rats in that place, I just remember one of the last nights that the place was open and they were reshowing Avatar (2009) and they had the sound system cranked all the way up; it made that movie sound ginormous!  :cheers:

We are never going to have a movie theater like that one anymore. I can’t stand these Regal Cinemas and Cinemark garbage cinemas these days. Reclining seats and cup holders are nice, but I prefer my movie theaters dark, musty, and loud.  :hot:

Make a drinking game out of it. Take a shot of Jack every time Rose yells "JACK!" in the movie and we'll come visit you in the hospital later that week.  :cheers:

1997 - I was a freshman in high school

I never saw Titanic

I'm afraid it would make me stop drinking, and start heroin.
When my ex-brother in law and his wife were staying at my house, Corky (his wife) watched it at least once a week. Poor Leroy had to sit with her. I never watched it.

No argument from me on that

Leonardo! I seen some of his movies!
I can't recall if I liked any of them because he was in it.

Wait a minute. What did I just type?

I like this!

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WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE is good. 

As was THE WOLF OF WALL STREET.

I'm in the minority for enjoying Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019).

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Really? I thought it was fairly popular. I liked it (not as well as those other titles, or INCEPTION).

Most of my friends and family found it long-winded and boring. I thought that every performance in it was great and that the biggest star of the movie was 1969, which I believe was Quentin Tarantino’s true intention for the movie. It’s like what Scott Walker did with The Frozen Ground (2013) which was filmed almost entirely on location in Anchorage, Alaska; the true star of that movie was the city itself.

I'm still trying to figure out if downtown anchorage circa 1983 was ever really that croweded....but it was cool to see

No, they greatly exaggerated those parts of the movie in order to make Anchorage look like some sprawling metropolis full of lecherous scum, when in reality our fair city is just a tiny town full of lecherous scum. Don't forget to lock your car doors.

The Butcher Baker didn't have the guts to troll the Spenard hookers by the look of it. I don't blame him either. Spenard was rough in the 1970s.

How I wish I could have seen Spenard in the 1970s!

I lived in the Bronx in the 70's. Why would you want to see that kinda s**t? It's awful. :bluesad:

We want to see it on the safety and comfort of a movie screen...not in real life.. :P

Let's see, according to my diary I was home from college for break, and I woke up and laid around and asked someone with synesthesia what purple sounded like to him (answer: a guitar), then when he had to go talk to people at his grad school I eventually had a nice dinner with my aunt and grandpa, and apparently stayed up late to hang out with a friend from the neighborhood I'd known in high school (and still know).

I don't remember hearing much about Titanic until early the next year, and since it was a mega-hit and i was a cynical late teeenager, I hated it on principal.

So, gee, now you know.... (I would say "now, 'ya'll' know," but Alex here once told me ya'll is about his least favorite word. So, Alex, then never be reborn in Kentucky or the west of Ireland.  :smile:)

Are we done playing or you want to know about more dates? (Believe me, I'm good if you do....)

Did they tear the Fireweed down?

I did not know that and that's sad.   :/     (I lived in Anchorage for a few years.)    That was a real shoes-sticking-to-the-floor type of theater.

So... are you all saying that....     

...wait for it...

Your hearts will go on?

Pics of the Fireweed Theater being torn down: https://aroundanchorage.blogspot.com/2010/08/goodbye-fireweed-theater.html  :bluesad:

Not a movie palace; a 70's multiplex. Reminds me of the theater we went to when I was a kid/teen, which is now a church.

More pics of the Fireweed, before it was demolished: https://cinematour.com/tour/us/192.html

I went there with two friends to see SPICE WORLD.. Our plan was to get really drunk and yell at the screen. We got drunk 30 minutes before the movie started.  They passed out about 10 minutes in.  I kept drinking and yelling at the screen while they passed out. 

Good thing we were the only three in the theater.

Sounds like you totally watched that movie the way would best be watched.    I haven't seen SPICE WORLD, but I'd believe anyone who says it sucked.

it does suck. It's a super cheap ripoff of A HARD DAYS NIGHT.  Made even cheaper with the Spice Girls... and a cameo by Elvis Costello.

I got free tickets from Fox Kids' Kitty Fox (she was so hot back in the day) to watch Jurassic Park (1993) on opening weekend at the Fireweed Theater. So naturally, I bought a bottle of Everclear and spent the whole day getting drunk and movie-hopping. I got there at 9AM that morning and didn't stagger out of the movie theater until after 10PM at night. I watched almost every movie showing and watched Jurassic Park twice. I think it was the sticky floors that caused it, but that was a hell of a fun movie theater to get drunk in. I watched every major popular film of the late '70s/early '80s in that theater: Jaws (1975), Star Wars (1977), Superman (1978), Alien (1979), Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T.: The Extraterrestrial (1982), Tron (1982), Conan The Barbarian (1982), Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi (1983), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), etc. Later on it was movies like Saving Private Ryan (1998) and Gladiator (2000), so I had a lot of fond memories in the good ol' Fireweed Theater.  :cheers: