I think you win.

Xpost, but it still works.

But if it's not meant to be Reverently Historical, then there's no reason not to go OTT and have Loni Anderson on board, and have her hair act as a flotation device.

Is there really any chance of Loni Anderson's hair getting wet if she's dunked in water? As I recall, she has other flotation devices that would stabilize her at the water's surface first.

I hated the movie, but I loved Victor Garber.

I loved Victor Garber, I loved the art direction and cinematography and costumes, and, really, I just loved all the actors. Including (extremely grudgingly) Leonardo DiCaprio, who struck me as much, much better than he had any right to be given what a vulgar little asshole he appeared to be from all his interviews (and still is, for all I know). The script sucked lumpy desiccated diseased donkey dick just about as hard as any sucky script ever, oh dear God how it sucked, but that just made the movie perversely even more interesting to me. I can't think of anything else I've seen that was so wretchedly written and so very nearly saved by having all the wretchedness acted out by so many intelligent, thoughtful actors attending and responding to each other so beautifully.

Plus, the part of me that would later be utterly smitten with Buffy responded and still responds with a visceral thrill of pure raw joy to the power shot of Kate Winslet, all sturdy and womanly and ferocious, axe in hand, marching down a flooded hallway to rescue the boy-damsel in distress.

Still the shittiest fuckin' script in all of film history, just about.

He's saying people who don't see it are being needlessly snobbish.

Is that more defensible?

Where do I fit in, if I both saw AND enjoyed Titanic, but was embarassed about both of those facts, even at the time?

Well, you fit right here in this corner next to me...

I'll join you. I saw it three times in the theater.

I haven't seen it simply because I can't stand DiCrapio. Just seeing photos of him bugs the hell out of me. The only film I can stand seeing him in is The Quick and the Dead.

I saw Titanic and enjoyed it while I was watching it, and promptly forgot most of it after I left the theater. Except the parts that the media wouldn't let me forget.

I do remember Winslet's character doing a toestand to impress the rough men in steerage.

I thought DiCaprio was awfully good in The Aviator. Because I wasn't all that interested in the movie, and then I stumbled upon it and forgot to change channels. And yeah, Scorsese of course, but if DiCaprio didn't work, the movie wouldn't.

I liked Titanic when i first saw it with my family. I didn't like it about a month later, when every single girl I fantasized about in my high school was too busy fantasizing about Leo to give me any thought (not that they would have anyway, being a super-nerdy fourteen-year-old, but still).

Now, I think I would like it again, because I like Leonardo, and I love Kate, and I like pretty movies, and I enjoy cheesy teen angst. But I don't really want to spend 3 hours confirming that.