Anybody else see the original?

Thanks for replying to my post. I have always wanted to visit Ireland. Some friends went about five years ago. They kept going on about how amazing it was.

NBC puts some of there movies and minis on video or DVD. So maybe you will get to see it that way. I can't wait until it comes out!

I am a lil bit crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

If you have the Hallmark Channel then I would expect that it will run on that service sometime soon - after a window with a larger broadcaster in your region. All of our shows go out that way.

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Hello everybody,

Thank you so much for replying to my post. It is very nice to meet all of you. I am sorry that it took me so long to get back to you; I haven't been online in a month. I didn't have access to a computer.

JP2005,

I have met many wonderful people on IMDb; but it's nice to talk to someone else who is old enough to drive, vote, and drink. (Hopefully not all at the same time.) LOL Thank you for the info. I will have to check out the theatricle version also.

chewbacca 20000-1,

I have the same DVD as JP2005. I didn't expect it to have special features when I bought it. It was a dollar more to buy it than it was to rent it. So I couldn't resist.

cool_dex,

When I saw this movie on TV as a kid, it terrified me too. I think because it was something that could actually happen. Part of my fear comes from being afraid of water. I almost drowned a few times as a kid. To this day, I still won't get on a boat unless it is large enough to drive on. It also may explain why I now live in a desert.

katzenengel,

There are quite a few movies coming out that are remakes. The Island is a remake of Clonus. Clonus is a good movie. Like you said movies from the seventy's are a little cheesy. There don't seem to be any original plots in Hollywood and the ones that they have are so worried about offending anyone that they are boring.

Nice hearing from all of you! ;) Talk to you later.

Take care,
lilwarriorvamp

I am a lil bit crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

I have it on a VHS copy- but I've seen it once. I can't tell you if it's because it's an awful film- though if it were superb I certianly would have watched it with some regularity when bored, but I remember it being OK at the time.

I love this movie its one of the all time classics in Movie History It never grows old and It just keeps getting better with each Viewing. And Depending on my Mood while watching it I get something different with every Viewing. PS the Book is also a Classic. Not sure how I feel about this being Remade Guess I will have to waite for it to show up on TV next year and then make my Guess Wonder if NBC is going to show this on New Years Eve??????? I hope not because that is the Night I traditonaly watch the Original starting around Mid Night Local time I give it time before midnight to take care of the Plot Points and then if I time it right at the Stroke of Midnight the Wave Hits and the Movie really starts to get good.

spydermann_2099: "Yes, the original was filmed in 1911. Oddly enough, the film was being shown on the TITANIC as it sank. Is that creepy or what?"
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Yes, that is without a doubt one of the creepiest things I have ever read.

The only movie camera with film on board the Titanic to be documented by survivors was owned and operated by first class passenger and newlywed Dan Marvin. He is portrayed by Jerry Houser in the 1979 film, SOS Titanic.

The scene in Rain Man when Dustin Hoffman talks about plane crashes was cut out of the movie when it was shown on flights.

Why on Earth do you think that people on a ship would watch a silent movie about a ship disaster?

Other than Dan Marvin's movie camera, no other film camera was mentioned as being on the ship, certainly not being shown in a theatre. They were only at sea for four days. Survivors all but recall what was served for breakfast on those days. Archibald Gracie recalled when J. Bruce Ismay didn't wear a hat. Mrs. Harris' fall down the stairs is well-documented. Why would none of them mention this silly movie?

Answer seems rather obvious actually.

As it is, there was an actress on the ship named Dorothy Gibson. She survived with her mother and upon disembarking from the rescue ship, the Carpathia, she went to the studio and a movie was hurriedly made, being issued about a month later in May 1912.

This movie is said to no longer exist by the way. No ship or sinking was really shown. About the most fascinating thing in it would be that Mrs. Gibson wore the clothes she was rescued in.

There is also the book, Futility, which came out about ten years before the Titanic sinking, about a fictional ship called the Titan that hits an iceberg, and the dimensions of the Titan are very similar to the Titanic's. The major difference is that in the book, by Morgan Robertson, there were only six survivors, while the Titanic had approximately 700.

But to believe such balderdash about the passengers on the Titanic watching such an absurd movie, then you might as well believe that the passengers on one plane on 9-11 were viewing Airport and the passengers on the other plane were viewing Towering Inferno.

But that would be insensitive to think such a thing, wouldn't it?

O a true classic I love the original. I have it on tape and watch it all the time. My mom always tells me how when she saw it in theaters as a kid it freaked her out. Has anyone read the book? I did it was different than the movie by far of course the time that the movie was made they couldn't really go off of the book and get a rateing below R lol. Still the book it good but I actually preffer the way the movie potrays it.