Are you going to see TITANIC in 3D?

Rob wrote:

This from Twitter...

I definitely remember learning about the Titantic in school, I think it was even required reading to read a kid's version chapter book on it.

That's cool you learned about it in school/

I honeslty don't remember learning about it in school history class.

PBS has a couple Titanic documentaries tonight. At least in my area, and maybe yours, too. First is a look at the Titanic legacy with Len Goodman, DWtS judge. Apparently as a young man he worked for the company that built the Titanic!

Next is Saving the Titanic, which was mentioned earlier in this thread.

Thanks for the info.

Oh wow, Lisa! That's amazing, I'm sure they were very, very thankful that he didn't take the job after all.

Heading out to " see Leo's cowlick in 3D" as Clay puts it. I can't help but hope for a better ending this time. Have a good Friday evening all!

LOL Gin, I hope you get your better ending!

I was hoping to go Sunday, but Bill has to work. We're going Tuesday night. He about keeled over when he saw the running time. (3 1/2 hours!). He is definitely being dragged to this. But hey, he knew about this months ago! I'll just make sure to keep his pop and popcorn full (and maybe a pack of licorice) and he'll be ok.

have fun.

This was a super movie to do in 3D. You just fall in love with Jack and Rose all over again.
Mid-movie when Rose had Jack put the diamond back into the safe it dawned on me that Rose knew the combination to the safe! As controlling as her fiancee was I doubt that he would have given her the combination. Just an odd thing to me.
As far as the 3D part it was great. My favorite part is when Rose as an older woman throws the diamond back into the sea.

No happier ending. The amount of lives lost were really unreal. The babies....I just can't think about them...breaks my heart.
Its so sad we have to have tragedies such as this to learn important lessons in safety. This movie is a classic.....

Lisa wrote:

Before she passed away, one of my elderly friends told me that her Dad had been hired to work on the Titanic, but he couldn't get there in time and arrived after it had already sailed. He was sorely disappointed because it was good pay, and quite a luxury liner, and he was looking forward to the job - but obviously it was a good thing he "missed the boat".

I bet, it was God's will for your late elderly friend's dad missed the boat. It wasn't time for him to go, that year in 1912.

Correction: I believe Rose was having Jack put the drawing in the safe and not the diamond. Anyway....I found it odd she would know the combination.

Yes, a sad truth. No one should have been without a boat.

I don't know if they mentioned it in the movie or not, but there was a lifeboat drill scheduled for April 14 - the day it sank. But the captain canceled it for some unknown reason. Also, even though there weren't enough lifeboats for all of the passengers, most of the lifeboats had significantly less people in them than they could hold. The capacity was 65 people - and one of the boats only had 12. Another only had 24. Almost every one of the lifeboats could have carried much more than twice the amount of people they had in them.

I don't remember them saying anything about a drill in the movie, but yes they could have gotten many more people than they did on the lifeboats. The main reason they didn't is because they were still in "what class are you" mode. At the state of emergency they were in, it doesn't matter. LIVES were threatened.
I would have left my mothers side too, as Rose did, if I had heard her ask "Is this a 1st class boat?" So sad.
Watching the people SLIDE off that ship into the water was so hard to watch.

Amy wrote:

How could anyone be from Planet Earth and not know this?! This HAS to be one of THE most famous events in history!!!

Off-topic, but a few years back, a bunch of boys went to a school and asked the women on campus to sign a petition to end women's suffrage. Many of the women signed it, not realizing women's suffrage gave them the right to vote.

Now, back on topic, I saw the movie originally, but I'm not keen on seeing it again--in 3D or otherwise.

thats sad that they went by class.it shouldn't matter

Also sad, that the men couldn't go either. Cause it was Women & Children only first. They lock up the 3rd class people.

I remember in the movie the 3rd class break down the gate. Then they start running up to the main deck of the ship.

I don't believe they were TOLD to get on the boats by class, but just women and children first. It was just many of the 1st class folks that believed they SHOULD be first.

That ABC miniseries about the Titanic starts tonight.

Thanks.

Branson, MO has the Titanic Museum and today, they had a special exhibit. They had a special tribute to those who died and even had some ancestors of some of the surviving people....I really wanted to get to it, but had other plans for today.....I have been to the museum and it is SO neat!!! Well worth the tour and the money spent on it.....

My neice Emily, has been to it. She said when you go in they give you a slip of paper with a name of someone that was on the ship. That is WHO you are while going through and looking at everything. I want to go see it too. Rhonda, you and I have some spots to hit if I come that way.