Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Uriah43 This movie essentially begins a couple of days prior to the RMS Titanic setting sail with a couple of very rich people preparing to board. When it finally departs on its westward course it begins receiving iceberg warnings from a couple of ships but due to the incredibly heavy workload of those working the wireless telegraph they go mostly unreported and those that manage to make it to the Captain are taken too lightly. Needless to say, history records what happens next as the supposedly "unsinkable" ship takes on water and goes down in the cold waters of the North Atlantic in about 2 and a half hours.. To make matters even worse, while the ship is in the process of sinking the telegraph operators send out their distress calls but the operators of the nearest ship (the SS Californian) are sound asleep and fail to receive it. Distress rockets are also fired but those on the SS Californian misunderstand them as well. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this particular film was a bit more straight-forward than some of the others and didn't spend much time on character development or any detailed personal perspectives. In that regard, it wasted little time depicting the ship colliding with the iceberg and focused more heavily on the plight of the passengers and crew. That said, although I don't believe this is necessarily the best film pertaining to the story at hand, it was certainly dramatic enough and appeared to be more geared toward historical accuracy than most and for that reason I recommend it to those interested in this particular piece of history. Above average.

runamokprods A far more definitive, if slightly less emotional re-telling of the sinking of the Titanic than the huge James Cameron version.Obviously the special effects are several generations behind those in the new film, and there's very little character development. The film, focuses instead on an almost documentary like overview. But that approach feels both more telling and more real. Also, some of the most dramatic and tragic parts of the real story -(spoiler ahead)like the presence of a boat a mere 10 miles away that simply didn't understand what was happening to their neighbor at sea - are included here and not in the recent version. It has really stuck with me.

Feralclaw This film is incredible it makes you feel as if you are truly on the Titanic as she goes down. Aside from obvious stuff like the ship not snapping in two (this wasn't found out until 1986 I believe) this is possibly the most historically accurate Titanic film. Kenneth More, while I've not seen him in any film before, steals the role as Second Officer Lighttoller. He is fantastic. This film also hits hard, it's implied (spoiler alert but the film has been out for 58 years) that a child, possibly an orphan, is helped by, who I believe is a steward, do correct me on that though if I'm wrong, dies when the ship goes down along with the kindly old man who saved him. As someone who doesn't feel too emotional about movies, that actually made me kinda sad. The couple who Mr Thomas Andrews (who also goes down with the ship) speaks to, I wanted them to survive, more than could be said for Rose in the other film, or Jack for that matter. I'm not sure if they did survive but I hope they did I'll have to rewatch it. Again, it's not often I want characters to live. But the character Development here is incredible and makes you hope these characters will make it, alas, as we all know, 1500 odd people died on Titanic, and this film does nothing to sugar coat that. This is one of the best films I have ever seen. Definitely recommend if you're interested in Titanic or something like that.

Marc Israel The recreation of the famous world event seems to have been meticulously accurate and tragically predictable. Roy Ward Allen places you on the ship full of social class, exquisite tastes and proper procedure but, unfortunately, not enough life boats for everyone. While the much heralded James Cameron film 40 years later would out-do the special effects, its' interior of the ship in 1958 production is incredibly the same as its' remake, a tribute to the detail of those in charge. What is missing for the first third of the film, however, is character identity. The first rule of the disaster film genre is to get the audience to care about those in peril. I felt for a father and those locked below in steerage, but hardly anyone else. Cold? Not as cold as the water, the force behind the drama and I needed a bit more to know who to invest my heart with. Without specific rooting interests, I was left to watch inevitable history without the ruse of entertainment.