I love people who wait until 20 mintues into a movie to actually sit and comment about how much they hate it. Who's making you watch? Twilight? The shit in the theaters now? You mean that isn't totally uninspired and like any other computer generated big effects crap being barfed out of the studios today? Please. The day you are being paid to make movies and/or be a professional movie critic come back. The one with a prob is the one who cannot tolerate movies that aren't like the others.
Did the screen writers or producers ever actually even READ the book? Or did they use poorly written cliff notes? Admiral James Sandecker was not involved in the Sicilian Project. Dirk was not a former Navy man. During the events of this book he was a Major on active duty with the U.S. Air Force.
if i could i would write a decent book or make a movie, close to the events of the sinking of the titanic. and have the charecters be the actual real people that were on the ship. then we would know what it was really like.
in the book, Dirk Pitt is "retired" from the airforce, he had the rank of major, but here its said he was a Navyman, Admiral James Sandecker and Rudi Gunn, he was a commander, are the navymen. They didn't do a good job with making the movie from the book. Its still great.
@trekie01 its different from the Book. I have the book in front of me, here's the Wall street journal said about the book "The refloating of the liner is not all; covert and overt battles with the Soviets, a web of espionage, a major hurricane, all contribute to the melodrama...Cussler fires and thoroughly satisfies our imagination" Ppl like the book more because the movie is not really the book. There is a lot of differences and that's why it was considered that, but I still like it and i'm 17
Dirk Pitt is the same character from Sahara? ( yes i know about the books) It would be kinda cool if they re made this movie, but i guess people now days can't sit back and enjoy a movie/story like this anymore :(
Oh and FYI, this is the WORST book adaptation in history, the slam through about half the book in 20 mins, totally mess up the characters (seagrum was a burnout case un the book, the Russian hated his workers, in the move he is nice)
iv been reading the comments below and i wanna make it clear that now or even 20 years ago that ship could NEVER be raised. not even in 1912 could it have been raised.
everyone seems to forget how its split in half and mangled into the sea bed....
what do we do? dig it out with a bucket and spade then polly-fill the great whole at the end of the bow section?
@1999UTD I don’t think its even possible the weather changes and waves will make it hard I mean that small piece that they brought up almost ended going back down under the waves a few years ago and that was only 20 tones in weight.
i don't why this film gets slated, there's a lot worse out there and the music score is pure class, and the titanic coming into new york harbour is priceless. intresting to notice when she's just about to dock the twin towers are clearly visible, another tragedy that struck the world.
@Justdisco HUH? what? HUH? WHAT? HUH?...that my friend is better than the rotten screenplay...in raise the craptantic....IT IS one of the worst flics ever made...and YET...i agree..John Barry music is great....but that is the only saving grace to this turd!!!...IT would of been cheaper for Sir Lew Grade to LOWER THE ATLANTIC!!! GOT THAT!!!
@Justdisco BECAUSE at the time of this colossal failure...it cost over 35 million to make...BACK then that was a ton of money!!!! IT was a great waste. IT didn't but 2 dollars back..lol
@Justdisco Well the big plot hole for one - the Russians not only wouldn't have been interested in the Bizanium back in 1911, but also 1911 pre-dates the start of the Russian Revolution, so they also wouldn't have chased Bruster - and especially not in a submarine!
@Justdisco If you read the book, you'll see why. The book had a lot more to it, and if more from it had been adapted here the film would have made more sense; but the film makers seemed to focus more on the CGI than the plot, so there are a lot of inconsistencies in the film, if you look more closely at it.
That said, the book is floored as a 1911 Russia wouldn't have been interested in a US Expedition in 1911; US wasn't a superpower until post WW2, and the Revolution didn't occur until 1917.
@Justdisco This is a lot different from the Book, that's why. Dirk Pitt was in the airforce, rank of major, James Sandecker and Rudi Gunn are the Navymen, not Pitt, in the book that is. The book is better, but then again the book is usually better than the movie. This is not really Cussler's work in a way because it is a lot different from the book he wrote, this is my opinion. Sandecker and Pitt do not look like the description in the book either.
@tomkes100douchebag Man, you ARE a douchebag for sure, total douche. Congratulations for being a brainless follower who cannot enjoy a movie that doesn't either give you a hard on or overstimulate your senses and sinfully short attention span.
@BreezesofConey Shove the bow of the toy titanic in this godawful crap up ya dumbass ya stupid cocksucker. This shit was absolute trash, and it was a damn shame the great Jason Robards was so hard up he needed a paycheck. You are just spewing nonsense no one cares about. And your assumptions about why someone might think this shit is just that are way over the top ignorant of reality. Eat shit dickstain. This crap remains crap.
@Justdisco Well said. The movie score is not unlike any other from that era, the knuckle heads complaining obviously don't realize we haven't always lived in 2012.
It's hard to say though it might have been possible in 1980 (if it hadn't split in half) to raise from the bottom of the ocean using explosives to pry it loose and super sized artifical floating devices to rise it to the top. Problem is you'd need the U.S Goverment or some amazingly wealthly billionare to have funded it.
At one time it was believed that the bottom of the Atlantic was a dead zone. A deep freeze where everything was perfectly preserved.
Since then we've learned that it's anything but. What remains of the Titanic is, even now, being picked apart. Between simple rust, and marine life that has been feeding on the organic materials, it is fragile beyond words. The iconic image of the chandelier still hanging will become a thing of the past when it's chain finally breaks.
how can you rais ethe titanic as ONE pice if it split when it sank!
Megalego1234 3 weeks ago
@Megalego1234 because this film was made before they found the titanic and knew it broke in half.
nnothin2dobututube 1 week ago
I love people who wait until 20 mintues into a movie to actually sit and comment about how much they hate it. Who's making you watch? Twilight? The shit in the theaters now? You mean that isn't totally uninspired and like any other computer generated big effects crap being barfed out of the studios today? Please. The day you are being paid to make movies and/or be a professional movie critic come back. The one with a prob is the one who cannot tolerate movies that aren't like the others.
BreezesofConey 3 weeks ago
@BreezesofConey You're a lyin cocksucka, you just plain hate everyone!
tomkes100douchebag 3 weeks ago
Titanic should stay down there
MrComedysongs 1 month ago
Was this a Clive Cussler book adaptation?
punkfish79 1 month ago
The Name of the Guy with the Beard was Dirk Pitt! Right??
In the Movie he was quite an Asshole!
Lee78072 3 months ago
Hey @Justdisco, there is no CGI in this movie. It's all props. You might want to curtail your comments to things you know about.
mechanicalmusic 3 months ago
Did the screen writers or producers ever actually even READ the book? Or did they use poorly written cliff notes? Admiral James Sandecker was not involved in the Sicilian Project. Dirk was not a former Navy man. During the events of this book he was a Major on active duty with the U.S. Air Force.
mothafraker 5 months ago
if i could i would write a decent book or make a movie, close to the events of the sinking of the titanic. and have the charecters be the actual real people that were on the ship. then we would know what it was really like.
MsDoctorWhoFan1 6 months ago
Great book.
japittrich 7 months ago
18 mins into the film and they menssioned the word titanic lol
181Cade 9 months ago
0:19 was he in spiderman? I carnt remember his name.
181Cade 9 months ago
in the book, Dirk Pitt is "retired" from the airforce, he had the rank of major, but here its said he was a Navyman, Admiral James Sandecker and Rudi Gunn, he was a commander, are the navymen. They didn't do a good job with making the movie from the book. Its still great.
YuPokeNaruFan 10 months ago
i really enjoyed this movie when i was a kid...i don´t know why it is ranked into the worst 50 movies on the history...fuck them !
trekie01 11 months ago
@trekie01 its different from the Book. I have the book in front of me, here's the Wall street journal said about the book "The refloating of the liner is not all; covert and overt battles with the Soviets, a web of espionage, a major hurricane, all contribute to the melodrama...Cussler fires and thoroughly satisfies our imagination" Ppl like the book more because the movie is not really the book. There is a lot of differences and that's why it was considered that, but I still like it and i'm 17
YuPokeNaruFan 10 months ago
Dirk Pitt is the same character from Sahara? ( yes i know about the books) It would be kinda cool if they re made this movie, but i guess people now days can't sit back and enjoy a movie/story like this anymore :(
ChatPranks 1 year ago
Whoever wrote the dialog for this goocher was an IDIOT.
There are some good scenes but man, its SO BAD otherwise
its damned hard to keep watching it.
I saw it when it came out and it wasn't any better THEN.
4freespeech 1 year ago
The set-up is so far fetched and convoluted, hard for me to keep watching. But Jason Robards is a big help. Ditto Anne Archer.
alexalex3131 1 year ago
1:17 He's NOT NAVY!!!! Pitt (in the book) hold the rank of Major in the Air Force
amvhellLover 1 year ago
He's NOT NAVY!!!! Pitt (in the book) hold the rank of Major in the Air Force
amvhellLover 1 year ago
This is movie is not bad, is very GOOD!
leandro00000000007 1 year ago
Most people watching this movie never seem to notice the cameo appearance of Richard Pryor! It is a small part though but still!
begoneyoubum 1 year ago
Oh and FYI, this is the WORST book adaptation in history, the slam through about half the book in 20 mins, totally mess up the characters (seagrum was a burnout case un the book, the Russian hated his workers, in the move he is nice)
Zoomer30 1 year ago
If we tried now it would just dissolve to dust. The orginisims that are eating the steel have made it very weak.
Zoomer30 1 year ago
iv been reading the comments below and i wanna make it clear that now or even 20 years ago that ship could NEVER be raised. not even in 1912 could it have been raised.
everyone seems to forget how its split in half and mangled into the sea bed....
what do we do? dig it out with a bucket and spade then polly-fill the great whole at the end of the bow section?
1999UTD 1 year ago
@1999UTD I don’t think its even possible the weather changes and waves will make it hard I mean that small piece that they brought up almost ended going back down under the waves a few years ago and that was only 20 tones in weight.
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
i don't why this film gets slated, there's a lot worse out there and the music score is pure class, and the titanic coming into new york harbour is priceless. intresting to notice when she's just about to dock the twin towers are clearly visible, another tragedy that struck the world.
Justdisco 1 year ago 17
@Justdisco
Read the book. Most fans of Clive Cussler and his creation Dirk Pitt agrees that this is as far from the book you can come even for a movie.
Also the fact that it came out at the same time as The Empire Strikes Back may have had something to do whit it.
Bearram1 1 year ago
@Justdisco HUH? what? HUH? WHAT? HUH?...that my friend is better than the rotten screenplay...in raise the craptantic....IT IS one of the worst flics ever made...and YET...i agree..John Barry music is great....but that is the only saving grace to this turd!!!...IT would of been cheaper for Sir Lew Grade to LOWER THE ATLANTIC!!! GOT THAT!!!
UFOSPACE1999 1 year ago
@UFOSPACE1999 Check out TITANIC 2 that my friend is one of the worst flics ever made.
Justdisco2 1 year ago 4
@Justdisco BECAUSE at the time of this colossal failure...it cost over 35 million to make...BACK then that was a ton of money!!!! IT was a great waste. IT didn't but 2 dollars back..lol
UFOSPACE1999 1 year ago
@UFOSPACE1999 Damn right.
An observer who saw the movie being made and balked at the monitary failure later said-
"Raise the Titanic, it would have been chieper to lower the Atlantic..."
theshipman 1 year ago
@Justdisco Well the big plot hole for one - the Russians not only wouldn't have been interested in the Bizanium back in 1911, but also 1911 pre-dates the start of the Russian Revolution, so they also wouldn't have chased Bruster - and especially not in a submarine!
banjokitten 1 year ago
@Justdisco If you read the book, you'll see why. The book had a lot more to it, and if more from it had been adapted here the film would have made more sense; but the film makers seemed to focus more on the CGI than the plot, so there are a lot of inconsistencies in the film, if you look more closely at it.
That said, the book is floored as a 1911 Russia wouldn't have been interested in a US Expedition in 1911; US wasn't a superpower until post WW2, and the Revolution didn't occur until 1917.
banjokitten 1 year ago
@Justdisco This is a lot different from the Book, that's why. Dirk Pitt was in the airforce, rank of major, James Sandecker and Rudi Gunn are the Navymen, not Pitt, in the book that is. The book is better, but then again the book is usually better than the movie. This is not really Cussler's work in a way because it is a lot different from the book he wrote, this is my opinion. Sandecker and Pitt do not look like the description in the book either.
YuPokeNaruFan 10 months ago
@Justdisco Duh, this film is a pain to sit through because it's so uninspired and boring. Yes, the score is very nice but that's it.
tomkes100douchebag 2 months ago
@tomkes100douchebag Man, you ARE a douchebag for sure, total douche. Congratulations for being a brainless follower who cannot enjoy a movie that doesn't either give you a hard on or overstimulate your senses and sinfully short attention span.
BreezesofConey 3 weeks ago
@BreezesofConey Shove the bow of the toy titanic in this godawful crap up ya dumbass ya stupid cocksucker. This shit was absolute trash, and it was a damn shame the great Jason Robards was so hard up he needed a paycheck. You are just spewing nonsense no one cares about. And your assumptions about why someone might think this shit is just that are way over the top ignorant of reality. Eat shit dickstain. This crap remains crap.
tomkes100douchebag 3 weeks ago
@Justdisco Well said. The movie score is not unlike any other from that era, the knuckle heads complaining obviously don't realize we haven't always lived in 2012.
BreezesofConey 3 weeks ago
Is that the same woman who played Michael Douglas's wife in Fatal Attraction? She is really beautiful.
ianwr000 2 years ago
yes it is..the beautiful Anne Archer
Hawkeman67 1 year ago 9
@Hawkeman67 Her father was the big fruit company owner in the movie Blue Hawaii who played Elvis's father's Boss.
jvarela965 1 year ago
@Hawkeman67 Have you ever looked at the size of Anne Archer’s lips I mean there Titanic there’s no question about that. LOL
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
@Hawkeman67 she is very pretty just like her mom. a. archer should have been in the whole movie.
d4seasons 1 year ago
" I just can't put the wormy on the hooky" has been considered the most memorable line in the entire movie. At least that is what I've heard.
tscastro114 2 years ago
Is the Admirals Yacht, the Disco Valanti (the ship from Thunderball)?
trynnallen 2 years ago
Wow. Now I know what Admirals Yacht's name is.
Kanefan701 1 year ago
It's hard to say though it might have been possible in 1980 (if it hadn't split in half) to raise from the bottom of the ocean using explosives to pry it loose and super sized artifical floating devices to rise it to the top. Problem is you'd need the U.S Goverment or some amazingly wealthly billionare to have funded it.
JohnWolf21 2 years ago
It has been proven totally impossible.The remains of the bow are literally buried in the ocean floor.She's down there for keeps.
ianwr000 2 years ago
@ianwr000 Its a piece of rusted garbage now anyway. theyre better off rebuilding it.
zimfromBM 1 year ago
At one time it was believed that the bottom of the Atlantic was a dead zone. A deep freeze where everything was perfectly preserved.
Since then we've learned that it's anything but. What remains of the Titanic is, even now, being picked apart. Between simple rust, and marine life that has been feeding on the organic materials, it is fragile beyond words. The iconic image of the chandelier still hanging will become a thing of the past when it's chain finally breaks.
dkerris 2 years ago
@dkerris its also become an artifical reef
MarcusAvon2 2 years ago