Rant: Titanic - biggest disappointment in a LONG time...

[ulthar]

Eirik wrote:
 
>
> Why is it that computer people get paid soooo much to suck sooo
> bad (at least where I work)?

Knowledge/expertise is relative.  You can know a LITTLE more about computers than the 'average' user and seem to know a lot.  That does not mean you can make truly useful things happen with them.

Also, some of the admin work you have to do with computers kinda stinks (it's repetitive, tedious, etc), and you sorta have to 'love it' to do it.  So, in a way, they might be getting paid to do what no one else really wants to do.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Whether Murdock did or did not commit suicide is just one of the controversies about the sinking. Some people say he did. Some people say he did not.

As for his home town in Scotland being unhappy about the way he was portrayed in the movie,  I heard, they were so unhappy, the filmmakers donated a sum of money, I have forgotten the sum,   to the town.

[BoyScoutKevin]

I thought this was the remake. There was the American version in 1953, also called "Titanic." The 1953 version won the Oscar for Best Script. While the 1997 version won 11 Oscars, it was not even nominated for script. Which says something about the writing in both films.

Then there was the 1958 British version called "A Night to Remember," which is regarded by some as the most accurate portrayal of events.

And I may have been insane in 1997, but I was not insane enough to like the 1997 versio, when I saw it in 1997.. Even though the story of the "Titanic" was one of my favorite stories. Not only seeing both films above, but also the TV version "S.O.S. Titanic," plus reading and/or buying every book I could on the subject.