SS08 (or real) Titanic questions and disputes

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[Nathan|C]

You have to give James Cameron a pat on the back though, i think you'll find there is no movie without any inaccuraces (<<How do you spell that!?). 

[RMS Gigantic]

You have to give James Cameron a pat on the back though, i think you'll find there is no movie without any inaccuraces (<<How do you spell that!?). 

inaccuracies

Anyway, there could be movies somewhere out there free of historical mistakes, but until we find one, at least some come pretty dang close!

[Nathan|C]

inaccuracies

Anyway, there could be movies somewhere out there free of historical mistakes, but until we find one, at least some come pretty dang close!

If you think Titanic is bad, watch Poseidon!

[RMS Gigantic]

If you think Titanic is bad, watch Poseidon!

I heard... and saw... most of it... (most of the escape scenes were buggy because of a poor DVD)

[Nathan|C]

I heard... and saw... most of it... (most of the escape scenes were buggy because of a poor DVD)

As soon as they jump out of the bow thrusters...notice the conveniently placed lifeboat

[firestar12]

As soon as they jump out of the bow thrusters...notice the conveniently placed lifeboat

Of only there were enough lifeboats so that people jumping off Titanic could jump into them. But OUCH I would be careful not to get splinters.

[RMS Gigantic]

Of only there were enough lifeboats so that people jumping off Titanic could jump into them. But OUCH I would be careful not to get splinters.

The boats would be breaking and collapsing, just like the officers feared!

[firestar12]

The Agony and the Extacy from 1965 (Link to the page on the IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058886/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058886/)) certainly got great reviews, and the only known errors in it are a minor prochronism and the fact that one person should have a beard!

This certainly is unlike the 1997 Titanic movie, which seems to portray the Titanic as the ship version of the "Back to the Future" Delorean!

Here is a list of a few of such prochronisms:

• Dog leashes were in the style of a leash company not founded until the 1970's
• Jack's sack is from 1940's
• Philosophy from 1930's mentioned
• The classic Lake Wisota goof!
• Wielded pipes, rather than riveted
• Gun that Cal uses during the sinking wasn't made until the late 1920's

New from the White Star Line: The world's first time traveling class of Trans-Atlantic liners: Royal Mail Steamers Olympic, Titanic, and Gigantic

What was that 1930's Philosophy?

[RMS Gigantic]

What was that 1930's Philosophy?

On the male's "preoccupation with size"