Not for me.
First off, I was a Titanic nut before they found it. In middle school I read the “Night to Remember” Bible of the disaster, built a model, and even gave a talk to high-school kids (emotionally disturbed) about it.
So though I knew it was some soapy teeny-bopper flick, I went to see it as I feel obliged to.
The guy had great sets, a great near-size model, but I felt it was squandered. On an immoral story of infatuation and sex, a caricature of an abusive selfish man, rather than the real story. I wanted to slap that bearded bastard in the sub scene so badly. So disrespectful. Even at the end the soulless staring at the fellow victims as the “couple” clung to the outer stern railing, not a hint of help.
So much great scenery, settings, but so much missed and abused.
Anyway, that’s my view. I say this also as a fan of old movies, Code days when they wouldn’t be showing all this brazen exploitation of sex. It is not old-fashioned, not that way!
Lord’s book was my intro at an early age. Have always thought myself to be “in the know” as a result of that reading. Was a member of the Titanic Historical Society in the early 90’s. The details can wear you out. As for the movie under discussion, I’ve enjoyed it while trying to distance myself from the artistic liberties. The story line is decent, if not false.
“First off, I was a Titanic nut before they found it.”
As was I.
“In middle school I read the “Night to Remember” Bible of the disaster.”
I first read it in, I think, 7th grade. I’ve re-read it over the years.
I’ll tell you who was a big hero that night: The captain and crew of the Carpathia. I became almost as interested in the Carpathia as I was in the Titanic. Even after all these years (I am in my 70s), I still remember the page about the Carpathia feeding her boilers beyond anything that had previously been done, to build up speed to race to the rescue. The “old girl” shook and rumbled and creaked and groaned on her mad dash north. Anyway, one of the Carpathia’s officers was asked by a passenger what all the racket was, and why the ship had changed course. The officer told him about the Titanic’s distress call, and said, “We’re going north like hell!”
The Carpathia was sunk by a German U-boat in 1918, in WWI.
Another bit of Titanic history: Titanic’s Second Officer Charles Lightoller later in life sailed his private boat to Dunkirk to evacuate British troops in 1940.