Comments on: What Would Clooney Do? – A Sinking Feeling

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:15:40 +0000

Thanks guys. Nothing would make me happier than to make this a semi-regular feature as originally planned. Rather than make excuses, I’ll just say “I’ll work on it”

Titanic was my favorite whipping boy for a long time, though I never really hated it. As I said above, more than anything what bugged me was the undeserving hubbub around it…all the money and all the awards.

By: Alison Flynn

Alison Flynn — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:55:15 +0000

Craig, I’ve bothered you many times to bring back WWCD. It’s high time.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:51:43 +0000

Haha, I got thrown off by the year here.

I say bring WWCD back – nobody else is doing it, and it’s really funny.

And…I still like Titanic, through all the battered years.

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:45:43 +0000

Wow, Paul, way to dig up an oldie! Would you believe this was intended to be a regular feature?

By: Paul C.

Paul C. — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:21:29 +0000

I’m with Anthony. Yeah, the sappy stuff is so broadly drawn and sort of shameless that it gets out of control, but all that wholesale destruction and carnage at the end more than makes up for it. Of all the movies that women make guys sit through, TITANIC is one of the more tolerable ones.

DIRTY DANCING on the other hand…

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Thu, 17 May 2007 02:04:55 +0000

You’re right Tony.

I think the way they recreated the inside of the ship was pretty incredible as well. I remember seeing some photographs of the real deal then seeing the movie and being amazed.

It’s an easy movie to kick around but I’ll bet if I watched it again it might not be half bad. If that happens I’ll be the first to admit it.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 17 May 2007 01:49:35 +0000

Ok, Titanic was long, but it was what it was. A “Chick Flick” So fellas, if you want “some” you gotta endure….
Seriously though, for me, the best part was the sinking of the ship ( and not because it signaled the end of the movie ) but, imagining the fear and terror of what must have been gone thru the minds of all those people was, well, unimaginable. The special affects at that point were pretty good. Then Jack drowned. Can’t beat that with a stick….

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Wed, 16 May 2007 22:18:56 +0000

PJ, you’re a good liar, but not THAT good. I’m not buying it. :)

By: PJ

PJ — Wed, 16 May 2007 22:14:08 +0000

I LOVE Titanic. I just love to get a box of tissues, and curl up on the couch with my cat and watch it. DiCaprio is so hot, and sometimes I wish that I could be Rose.
So maybe we should get together and discuss this movie over dinner. I promise…I’ll never to let go!!!

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Thu, 10 May 2007 16:41:42 +0000

Gump is a worthy candidate, but it doesn’t burn me the way Titanic does for the simple fact that I completely avoided it when it first came out and didn’t catch it until many years later on video. The hype behind it drove me away.

For a movie to really piss me off, it has to be massively financially successful so that kind of counts out Million Dollar Baby though critics and Oscar loved it.

Titanic was hugely popular, plenty of critics liked it, it won all the awards, Cameron came off as a jerk through pretty much the whole thing and most importantly it wasn’t that good. A rare cinematic Quintuple Whammy.

Pirates of the Caribbean doesn’t qualify because it doesn’t get the critical and Oscar loving and I don’t know anyone who claims they’re great…the might like them a lot, but no one is arguing they’re great.

If I hated Lord of the Rings, it would be the perfect candidate…but I didn’t. Quite liked them in fact though I can see some of the flaws that really annoyed some people.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 10 May 2007 16:22:35 +0000

I would lump Titanic into the stupid but harmless category, a well made soap (turning a major tragedy into a well made soap is an entirely different debate). The offensive, loved by millions movie for me has always been Forrest Gump, which is truly, maddeningly, awful, especially in its bird brained hypocrisy, can anyone even sit all the way through it this many years later?

But that movie was made in 1993, I need to update, Million Dollar Baby would be a pretty good candidate.

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:13:32 +0000

Heh…the good thing about DVD is chapter stops…unless it’s a David Lynch movie but that’s another story…

I like to kick Titanic around and yet I’ve never seen it again since that first time. Since most of what I hate about it is peripheral to the actual movie itself, there’s a real chance if I watched it again I might not hate it.

I’d need a new poster child for excessive cinematic lameness. Pearl Harbor could do the trick, but A) that would mean I have to see the whole thing and B) it wasn’t the success Titanic was so it’s not as fun to beat up on.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 09 May 2007 05:36:13 +0000

For many years back in the heady days of VHS, whenever anyone would ask me about Titanic I’d tell them that if they insisted on renting it, their best bet was to simply ignore the first entire tape. Tape two pretty much starts off with the life drawing with Kate sequence and then moves on to the destruction of the ship. Or at least I think it did…I recall renting it for the life drawing class.

If you didn’t brave it in the theaters, why sit through the suck at home?

Speaking of art, if this acting thing doesn’t work out for DiCaprio he’s got a hell of a future doing portraits at the Mall.