23 years ago today...

[retrorussell]

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.

[kornula]

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.

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

[zelmo73]

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.  

Did you see it at the Fireweed?

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.  

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.

[claws]

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.

[zombie no.one]

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.

[Allhallowsday]

...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 :

[zombie no.one]

I didn't know it was a blue movie

[Allhallowsday]

I didn't know it was a blue movie

As BLUE as the Heart of the Ocean... 

 

[zelmo73]

I didn't know it was a blue movie

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

[kornula]

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.  

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.

Don't hate me but I am a CIRI shareholder. Much as I am sad that theater was torn down.. I know for a fact it was a literal rat hole.  a good friend of mine was the manager and said it needed to be torn down.   Wish CIRI found a way to keep it up..but life is a string of torn down (good) theaters.   

[zelmo73]

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! 

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. 

[zelmo73]

Watching TITANIC and drinking also sounds like a plan. 

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. 

[bob]

1997 - I was a freshman in high school

I never saw Titanic

[RCMerchant]

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  again.

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.

[kornula]

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! 

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. 

No argument from me on that