[workerbee]

I agree with you insofar as the main storyline is concerned. I'm talking more about the scenes of the sinking itself: the doors closing on the engine room as the workers try to get out, the flooding passageways, the mother tucking her children into bed as their cabin floods, the people falling from the decks onto the propellers as the ship capsizes, the bodies floating in the freezing water afterwards. All that was done very well, IMO, and brought home the fact that Titanic was something that "real people" experienced, and not all that long ago.

[LadyDoc]

alas, such sinkings are not uncommon even today. Last year, several hundred folks here in the Philippines died when a ferry tipped over suddenly: some on deck managed to float long enough to be saved, but most died.

how does that hymn go “for those in peril on the sea”? Still holds today.

[Bigg Red]

Yes, the special effects were impressive. (Of course, the scenes of the so-called heroine, in a long dress, waist deep in water below decks, running as if it were up to her ankles were laughable.)

But the story line was lame, and the main characters were not at all admirable — she’s a strumpet, and he’s a bum who gets onto the ship by lying.

Also, the film painted the junior officers of the ship in a very poor light even though many acted quite nobly.

I think the film made decades ago was much better in terms of showing human behavior at its best and at its worst in such a disaster, even though, those characters were fictional, as well.

No, it was not really that long ago, as it will be 100 years next year. BTW, 1912 was the year my dear, departed mother was born.