Poll of the Day > If Rose had stayed on her lifeboat Jack could have survived

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And this bitch has haunted me since 1997

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Foppe posted...

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Or like at least swap?? Keep your blood moving?? Let him out of the water for 20 mins?? Anything?

rose was a complete sociopath tbh

Nade_Duck posted...

rose was a complete sociopath tbh

What makes you think that

Jen0125 posted...

What makes you think that

probably the ennui of being rich leading her to jump ship

I always thought that scene was stupid even when I saw it at the age of 8.

Jen0125 posted...

Or like at least swap?? Keep your blood moving?? Let him out of the water for 20 mins?? Anything?

I clearly remember asking those same rhetorical questions to my mother when we watched it in 1998. My 6 years old sister just thought it was really sad. The stupidity of it broke immersion and didn't allow me to appreciate it. I also found the ending ridiculous when Rose threw away a very expensive jewel. I found it very selfish because you can literally save lives with that kind of money.

On the other hand, I loved the scene where they have to go underwater to go under a gate. I've always been terrified of having my head fully submerged. It made me start wondering if I would have found the courage to do something like this. Let's just say that film was a horror movie for me. It reminds me of Emma Emmerich in MGS2. The way she handled it is exactly how I would have handled it. I related a lot to her in that scene.

Jen0125 posted...

r like at least swap?? Keep your blood moving?? Let him out of the water for 20 mins?? Anything?

I'm going to go ahead and present the possibility that thinking logically is incredibly difficult while freezing to death during the aftermath of a huge disaster. Earlier in the movie when Jack is talking Rose into not jumping, he describes the water being so cold that you wouldn't be able to breathe or think, essentially foreshadowing what would happen later. When they're in the water, Jack's only objective is saving Rose, so it wouldn't make sense for him to tinker around with his placement on the door. From his perspective, he would only be jeopardizing her life. Both of them were probably counting on a lifeboat to swing by at any moment and just hoping they could hang in there long enough.

Point is, they didn't have the luxury of 20+ years of theorycrafting and scientific testing like us audience members did.

the fuck they didn't

all they had to do to survive was not have james cameron write them being dumb as hell

Wasnt that mythbusters scene done in warm water? Ice cold water in the middle of the ocean is just a different story entirely

zhangliao1 posted...

Wasnt that mythbusters scene done in warm water? Ice cold water in the middle of the ocean is just a different story entirely

Probably because they know that hypothermia is a very real issue.

zhangliao1 posted...

Wasnt that mythbusters scene done in warm water? Ice cold water in the middle of the ocean is just a different story entirely

Are you suggesting they try to kill themselves?

Jack was just being a gentleman. Y'all wouldn't know anything about that because chivalry has been dead for decades.

Sonicplys posted...

chivalry has been dead for decades.

And so has Jack

LinkPizza posted...

And so has Jack

The titanic has been sunk longer than the order of chivalry has existed.

tc you are a huge fan of that movie?

Sonicplys posted...

Jack was just being a gentleman. Y'all wouldn't know anything about that because chivalry has been dead for decades.

You might want to read what the Code of Chivalry was. Not to mention it comes from a time when women were viewed as property. Its not the upstanding ideal youre making it out to be.

GranTurismo posted...

tc you are a huge fan of that movie?

Yes

They both would have died.
There's a reason after you fall in ice water your to take off all your clothes. You have to get dry as fast as possible. We were robbed of the scene where she took off all her clothes on the door she laid naked waiting for rescue.

No hornyposting in my topic!

Jen0125 posted...

No hornyposting in my topic!

It's fine we were all young and horny back then

Not according to Fandom

horny is illegal

Jen0125 posted...

Yes

you like the avatar movies, you a big james cameron fan as well?

GranTurismo posted...

you like the avatar movies, you a big james cameron fan as well?

They're okay. I'm not a big James Cameron fan. I'm a big Titanic fan. I just finished the book A Night To Remember for the second time and I'm reading The Night Lives On for the first time right now.

Well I will say I'm not like a follower of James Cameron but I am a fan of how passionate he is about ocean exploration and his inventions to further that research are really admirable work.

Jen0125 posted...

They're okay. I'm not a big James Cameron fan. I'm a big Titanic fan. I just finished the book A Night To Remember for the second time and I'm reading The Night Lives On for the first time right now.

Well I will say I'm not like a follower of James Cameron but I am a fan of how passionate he is about ocean exploration and his inventions to further that research are really admirable work.

did you get interested in titanic right after the big movie? seems many did that

GranTurismo posted...

did you get interested in titanic right after the big movie? seems many did that

I did but I was also 8 when it came out. I loved the film so much it became a life long special interest.

somebody say James Cameron?

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VideoboysaysCube posted...

I'm going to go ahead and present the possibility that thinking logically is incredibly difficult while freezing to death during the aftermath of a huge disaster. Earlier in the movie when Jack is talking Rose into not jumping, he describes the water being so cold that you wouldn't be able to breathe or think, essentially foreshadowing what would happen later. When they're in the water, Jack's only objective is saving Rose, so it wouldn't make sense for him to tinker around with his placement on the door. From his perspective, he would only be jeopardizing her life. Both of them were probably counting on a lifeboat to swing by at any moment and just hoping they could hang in there long enough.

Point is, they didn't have the luxury of 20+ years of theorycrafting and scientific testing like us audience members did.

Idk, I'ma sustain here that if anything panic and pain would lead to a crabpot scenario where Jackyboy madly scrambles to get on the cabinet door while Rose is freaking out about it sinking and in all the flailing panic they die off because they spent more time in a panic trying to madly get out of the water. Pulling on each other and the door and such.

I appreciate the other side of the story here but nah, it was a tremendously dumb scene. Honestly Rose probably got bounty hunted by Jack's family in the sequel, "Twotanic: Electric Boogaloo."

I feel like human instinct for self preservation would kick in. Maybe Jack's just that nice but aaaah I dunno.

LordFuzzi posted...

Idk, I'ma sustain here that if anything panic and pain would lead to a crabpot scenario where Jackyboy madly scrambles to get on the cabinet door while Rose is freaking out about it sinking and in all the flailing panic they die off because they spent more time in a panic trying to madly get out of the water. Pulling on each other and the door and such.

I appreciate the other side of the story here but nah, it was a tremendously dumb scene. Honestly Rose probably got bounty hunted by Jack's family in the sequel, "Twotanic: Electric Boogaloo."

I feel like human instinct for self preservation would kick in. Maybe Jack's just that nice but aaaah I dunno.

Related, how are ocean temps now, where Titanic sank, I wonder

LordFuzzi posted...

Idk, I'ma sustain here that if anything panic and pain would lead to a crabpot scenario where Jackyboy madly scrambles to get on the cabinet door while Rose is freaking out about it sinking and in all the flailing panic they die off because they spent more time in a panic trying to madly get out of the water. Pulling on each other and the door and such.

I appreciate the other side of the story here but nah, it was a tremendously dumb scene. Honestly Rose probably got bounty hunted by Jack's family in the sequel, "Twotanic: Electric Boogaloo."

I feel like human instinct for self preservation would kick in. Maybe Jack's just that nice but aaaah I dunno.

You can always be like me and pretend Revolutionary Road is the sequel to Titanic.

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