A wonderful, wonderful film.
Funnily I went with two couples and yet I was the one most romantically touched by it.
Both my friends and their girlfriends (one now wife and mother of about-to-be-four) liked it but I adored it. And still do. Kate was so gorgeous; ditto Leo.
And it was so well written, filmed, directed, acted.
I loved Avatar too.
I'm clearly a Cameron fan. James yes; Dave no.

And David Warner is wonderfully evil in it.

Watching it for the tenth time, it's the little tiny touches I really like about it; Cameron's direction of Leo and Kate is sublime and their acting perfect; I think the reputation of the film misses how good the small bits are.

I still haven't seen this movie. It's the Greece and Gandhi syndrome. So much hype and overkill strangled any desire I might have had to view them. Even now I still haven't been able to bring myself to watch the Greece movie, although the music is quite good and I did go see the stage version.

Maybe one day.

JC wrote:
I still haven't seen this movie. It's the Greece and Gandhi syndrome. So much hype and overkill strangled any desire I might have had to view them. Even now I still haven't been able to bring myself to watch the Greece movie, although the music is quite good and I did go see the stage version.

Maybe one day.

Grease is sooooo boring.

Titanic is wonderful. Leo de Caprio is a superb actor and I love Kate because she has curves and isn't just a bloddy skinny coathanger. Very moving when Leo slides into the sea.

Reminded of that while just watching a DVD of the film Extras..Ricky Gervais..what a genius !.

Grease is sooooo boring.

Titanic is wonderful. Leo de Caprio is a superb actor and I love Kate because she has curves and isn't just a bloddy skinny coathanger. Very moving when Leo slides into the sea.


I have to disagree, if you were 10 years old in 1978, then Grease was amazing. The songs were brilliant, "Your the one that I want" and "Summer nights" were number one for weeks on end, at a time when you actually had to sell a lot of records to get to number one. I don't usually like musicals, but Grease was just the coolest thing to happen in years.

I've never seen Titanic either. I don't like films that go on longer than 2.5 hours and we all know what happens in the end anyway, so it's totally predictable.

robbiex wrote:

Grease is sooooo boring.

Titanic is wonderful. Leo de Caprio is a superb actor and I love Kate because she has curves and isn't just a bloddy skinny coathanger. Very moving when Leo slides into the sea.


I have to disagree, if you were 10 years old in 1978, then Grease was amazing. The songs were brilliant, "Your the one that I want" and "Summer nights" were number one for weeks on end, at a time when you actually had to sell a lot of records to get to number one. I don't usually like musicals, but Grease was just the coolest thing to happen in years.

I've never seen Titanic either. I don't like films that go on longer than 2.5 hours and we all know what happens in the end anyway, so it's totally predictable.


yes the music is great..just a dull and corny movie.

Titanic is wonderful..great looking and the effects superb. If you don't have a little tear when Leo slps into the sea as Kate looks at his face..you ain' t human !

wish I was 10 in '78 !

Absolutely hate the film with a passion...so much so... my hot dogs will go on.

The Fat Controller wrote:
Absolutely hate the film with a passion...so much so... my hot dogs will go on.

what did you call yourself ?.."fat and stupid"

maybe you were talking about Grease !!

Nice that someone corrected my spelling. I always spell it as Greece. Maybe it's a subconscious block against the actual spelling, protecting me from it's full damaging influence.

I was a teenager when it was first released. I cherish the lasting memory of Bob Geldof on TOTP slowly tearing a photo of John Travolta in half when the Boomtown Rats replaced him at No.1. JT's part was played by Luke Goss when I saw it on stage.

JC wrote:

I was a teenager when it was first released. I cherish the lasting memory of Bob Geldof on TOTP slowly tearing a photo of John Travolta in half when the Boomtown Rats replaced him at No.1. JT's part was played by Luke Goss when I saw it on stage.


If you hated it so much, then why did you go and see it on stage, particularly with the blonde balding Luke Goss in the role of the teenage Danny.

Since (all your fault JC and Robbie) we seem to have gotten onto a Grease theme here... I was nearly responsible for Stigwood not picking up the rights to it.
I had a dinner date booked with Peter Brown, then working for Robert in New York, and he called me and said Robert had asked him to check out this little musical in rep down in the village and would I mind going to it before we ate.
I hated it and persuaded Peter that we left in the interval, had a lovely meal and told Stigwood not to bother.
Luckily for him, Robert ignored our advice and snapped it up!

robbiex wrote:
JC wrote:

I was a teenager when it was first released. I cherish the lasting memory of Bob Geldof on TOTP slowly tearing a photo of John Travolta in half when the Boomtown Rats replaced him at No.1. JT's part was played by Luke Goss when I saw it on stage.


If you hated it so much, then why did you go and see it on stage, particularly with the blonde balding Luke Goss in the role of the teenage Danny.

I didn't really hate it. I just was fed up of hearing about it everywhere I went - school, buses, trains, shops, cafes, etc. It was over 20 years before I could bring myself to go see the stage version which was a different experience from going to the movie, because it was a live event and live theatre has an atmosphere of it's own. Luke Goss was a tiny figure on the stage but I assume he wore a wig, not that this was an issue for me. I was way up in the balcony and it could have been anyone down there.

JC wrote:
Nice that someone corrected my spelling. I always spell it as Greece. Maybe it's a subconscious block against the actual spelling, protecting me from it's full damaging influence.

I was a teenager when it was first released. I cherish the lasting memory of Bob Geldof on TOTP slowly tearing a photo of John Travolta in half when the Boomtown Rats replaced him at No.1. JT's part was played by Luke Goss when I saw it on stage.

Now I like it if Geldorf tore up Travolta's pic.

I think people mistake an inane story with great toe-tapping music.

But I like Joseph & his Technicolour Dreamcoat so who am I to talk ?

Ah ... remember it well.
Here is that wonderful moment.

robbiex wrote:
... we all know what happens in the end anyway, so it's totally predictable.
Well, you know the boat sinks at least. One of the cleverest things about the film is the way it's structured, starting in the present day, telling us something true we didn't know (that the boat broke in half while sinking), then introducing us to characters we can invest in when the inevitable occurs. It's not a great film (the dialogue is some of the worst I've heard in a major film) but it definitely works.

Yes, back to "Titanic". I haven't seen the movie all the way through but it seems to have been made more as a fictitious love story rather than an accurate account of events. One of my favourite movies is "A Night To Remember" starring Kenneth More. Apparently that earlier version was more of a docu-drama and so much closer to reality. Rather similar to how "Tora Tora Tora" was more about historical events than "Pearl Harbour" which was mainly a love story.