Comments on: Does This Include Kate Winslet?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:16:31 +0000

Here is an example. You all know I went out of my way to do research into the life of Manfred von Richthofen, aka the Red Baron. He had a cousin named Frieda von Richthofen who while married to a British scholar, met DH Lawrence and ran away with him. Now stuff like that happened a lot before the earlier 20th century but if you look at her and DH Lawrence and others that traveled in and out of his (DH Lawrences) life these things happened with more and more frequency. Norms were being flaunted. Rebellion was in the air in ways none of us can understand. The time period was even more important in history and politics than the 60′s. Look at it this way: With out Lawrence and Frieda, Freud, and others you wouldn’t have the 60′s. Can you all imagine the story that idiot Cameron could have written using that kind of research? Gustav Klimt was starting the Viennese seccession movement, Picasso was beginning to be noticed, Mahler was creating, and of course the intellectuals such as Nietsche and others were making waves. A lot of social stresses were there and ripe to be picked……and there is Cameron taking a very complex and critical moment in Human history with the ability to use a horrifying event like the sinking of the Titanic to make a point and instead of becomming Jack London on one hand and Henry James on the other, we get this paint by numbers Days of Our Lives for teenagers all done in post modern language. He knows the thin surface and the names and thats it. What a moron.

By: Enbrethiliel

Enbrethiliel — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:44:01 +0000

+JMJ+

Man, that’s a big ego trip he’s taking . . . =S

By: Rufus

Rufus — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:41:51 +0000

Amen, Sister!

By: Kit

Kit — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:01:19 +0000

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER was better.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:55:12 +0000

It was worse than horrible. There is no word to describe how horrible the movie was. Cameron couldn’t tell a decent story because his knowledge of history is so lacking. The whole premise of Rose even running into a starving artist riding steerage is beyond ridiculous it couldn’t have happened. EVer. period. Dumbass (Cameron) had a chance to tell a good story not just about the Titanic but about class and how people percieved what it meant and instead of being subtle he took a ham and beat us over the head with it. And the whole Lake Neeshonek or whatever they were talking about in Wisconsin? ITS A MAN MADE LAKE THAT DID NOT EXIST TILL AFTER I THINK WWI. Why did Jack have to be poor? Why not a libertine artist that people of wealth hired to paint who was able to afford to be in first class? Its either because Cameron has the imagination of a Med Fly or it never occured to him to actually write amazing history. And why Wisconsin? I mean Jack could have been the Robert Burns or Hugh Hefner of 1912 and Cameron totally dropped the ball because he totally ignored the societal storms that were brewing under the surface to make some sort of pseudo marxist statement about class that we all already knew. Everything that happened after WWI had its start in the intellectual and literary and artist movements of Europe during this time period. The early 20th Century was a hubub of societal change and Cameron was too ignorant of what that could have meant to his story because he is an arrogant know it all who writes lazy scripts that more resemble childish teen literature or kiddie finger painting.

By: -fritz-

-fritz- — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:22:57 +0000

I only have one thing to say about a remake of “Titanic.” NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

By: Floyd

Floyd — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:59:42 +0000

I thought you meant BC… the chariot Titanic…

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:32:49 +0000

How’s that, Floyd? My head’s in Mississippi.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:14:30 +0000

Oh, you’re thinking about the ship, “Titanic.” I thought we were talking about the stagecoach.

By: Scott M.

Scott M. — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:13:24 +0000

“I’m Barack Obama,your Captain!”…Titanic = USA