TW: People want a horror movie about the sinking of the Titanic

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Ehm that simulation clip with the booming screams is gonna stay with me for a while. It's bad enough looking from the outside as you just feel powerless in every way to stop it, let alone being inside of it. 

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I think it makes sense   show it from a different perspective. It would be a great setting for a suspenseful, psychological horror. And it's been long enough since the tragedy and since the James Cameron movie that they could do another. It would have to be done well though to not get scrutinised and criticised because people will be paying attention to it

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2 hours ago, DontDoubtDavid said:

I agree. Big fan of titanic and there’s a team working on a game (not horror, but the sinking will be realistic).

 

the movie is my favorite, but I have to admit that the splitting from the miniseries is more unsettling than the movie:

 

It's much more accurate as well, although I do not knock James Cameron for his interpretation of it. 

While he did exaggerate the angle the ship sank at for the film, at the time it was believed that the ship got up to a much steeper angle than we now know it did so even with that exaggeration, it wasn't too far out of the ballpark of what was believed then. 

We now know through further studying of the wreck, specifically where it split, that the ship was at a much, much more shallow angle (about 11 degrees) when it split. Rather than an almighty fall back down into the water, it sort of gently sat itself back down. It is believed that the ship didn't break right in half all at once but that the two halves hung on by the double keel for several seconds. As the bow went down, it pulled the stern upward by the still attached keel which is where she did finally go to an incredibly steep angle. Somewhere along this, the keel separated and the two halves were independent of each other, but by now the stern had risen to such a steep angle that it was doomed. 

It rapidly (very, very rapidly) rose upward into the air and began to turn to the side. It went to an almost 90 degree angle for a few seconds right as it was about to go below the waterline. Where the 1997 film is wrong, and the miniseries as well, is that once the split happened, the events that followed happened very quickly, it did not take long for the bow to go down as they depicted it. 

Of course, it's done that way for dramatic purposes, just as they have chosen to light it better. Still, both versions get most of the facts right (on the film moments of the sinking anyway, the mini-series got a ton wrong about the events leading up to the final minutes whereas the '97 film for the most part is right on the money) and the '97 version did things to the best of the knowledge that they had at the time and is still an incredibly accurate film overall despite some inconsistencies with her final few minutes. 

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TW? Why?

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2 minutes ago, HotLikeMexico said:

TW? Why?

I would imagine because of the video simulation in the OP where you hear thousands of people screaming out in horror as they are sucked into the ocean in pitch black darkness

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I randomly came across that video simulation a few weeks ago and watched some of it (while I was on my couch drinking, no less) and I thought it was pretty horrifying!

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I love horror movies, but my paradox is that I still need a tiny happy handing and here there wasn't a happy ending. So I don't know if I'll watch it.

I never seen Cameron's one for the same reason (yeah I know, maybe the only human on earth to not have seen it, but I can't. To think that real people actually suffered from that... no no).

 

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There are already several versions of Titanic, if you want a historic recounting of what actually happened watch 1958 A Night to Remember, if you want to the shock and horror + the emotional factor watch James Cameron’s. The reason Cameron decided to use the story of Jack and Rose as the main plot of the film was to put the audience in the shoes of the passengers, and drive home how horrific that situation would been and the humans involved (see also: Cora the little girl, the Irish family and the Strauss's etc etc). I don’t think there are many ways you could really improve on what JC did, and making it a bit darker wouldnt really make it that much scarier. Also, just imagine trying to do the craziness of the dome smashing scene now, I don’t think we could re-create anything as effective as that in this day and age because we don’t make films like that anymore. 

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I don't understand what would make turning this real life tragedy into a horror film acceptable (or even discussing it). Imagine if someone suggested turning the horrors that happening in WW2 into a horrror movie. Like real people died this isn't supposed to be used for entertainment

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Why does many Gen-Z are so obsessed with death? On tiktok lots of death or suicidal related jokes too by them   

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20 hours ago, ProfessionalClown said:

Tbh that’s…kinda messed up. I don’t think that would be a good idea.

Aren't horror movies always messed up?