Just stupid

[XCashier]

I must be one of about 5 women in the US who disliked that movie, for several reasons.
1. The hype and gushing! There are movies I *refuse* to see because they practically became a religion with very overzealous people telling me "You MUST see this!". Uh, no.

I guess I'm another of the 5. For the very same reason you listed.

At that time, I saw a few people wearing T-shirts that read, "The ship sank. Get over it." I wish I'd gotten one!

[Myra]

I'm an American and have NO problem dissing that movie. I was dragged into seeing it with a friend who adored Leo DiCaprio. I thought it was all right, not worth another viewing. But to hear others go on about it, I was thinking "Okay, the acting was medicocre at best, but the effects were good...it was really kinda predictable. What's the big deal?"

However, the Husband has heard a rumor they are actually making a sequel. Please tell me what on earth have they to talk about? Leo's character drowned, the old lady chucked the necklace in the sea, the boat sank. What would they make a movie about? The chick's life with the rich dude? YAWN!

[mrsmarit]

Oh man I am one of those 5 women who didn't like Titanic either.


And I worked at a movie theater when it came out. In fact the most fun I ever had at that job was announcing the sold out shows of Titanic.


A typical Friday and Staurday night went like this.


Good evening ladies and gentlemen the following shows of Titanic are sold out for the evening.. and then proceed to list every single show except maybe the last one of the evening which was past most of the people in lines curfew...

Then see them scramble for whatever shows still had seats.. which after I announced the sold out shows I would make sure to tell them the ones that still had seats available.

Then I would end with.. and if you wish to see this movie on a Friday or Saturday may I suggest that you buy your tickets ahead of time and get here 60-90 minutes ahead of the scheduled time to make sure you get decent seats.

This went on for 2 months.. 2 months of gleefully announcing sold out shows.. man I miss that sometimes

[AFpheonix]

I guess then that I'm the 5th woman

I saw it when it was on video, someone lent it to us. Meh. The effects weren't even that exciting by the time I saw it on the small screen. I guess I'm one of the few straight women that thinks DiCaprio is kind of ugly, too. However, I did think that Kate Winslet has nice tits. That's really all I took home from that movie.

[Gurndigarn]

One day, when meeting with my conversation student, I overheard three American women talking at the next table. Now, this is a tearoom. The sign says "tearoom" in Czech AND English. When you sit down (self-seating), the server hands you a whole damn TEA menu. The only non-tea drinks they have are mineral water and soft drinks.

So these three women sat there chatting, and when the server approached, the spokeswoman came out with it:

"Do you have any decaf coffee?"

God, I hope they haven't bred.

Well, to be fair, it's probably just a cultural thing. In the US, you can get coffee at just about every place imaginable... so it's quite likely that they didn't even think that other places might be different. It would be like a european coming to my state (now smoke free in most public areas) and lighting up in a resturaunt.

[Gurndigarn]

However, the Husband has heard a rumor they are actually making a sequel. Please tell me what on earth have they to talk about? Leo's character drowned, the old lady chucked the necklace in the sea, the boat sank. What would they make a movie about? The chick's life with the rich dude? YAWN!

Oh, is that how it ended? Forbidden passion and star-crossed love. Oh, and noble sacrifices on top of it all?

For that final touch, it should have had a thousand elephants.

[rvdammit]

However, the Husband has heard a rumor they are actually making a sequel. Please tell me what on earth have they to talk about? Leo's character drowned, the old lady chucked the necklace in the sea, the boat sank. What would they make a movie about? The chick's life with the rich dude? YAWN!

Raise the Titanic? Didn't they do that one already?

[Eireann]

The thing is, this tearoom is NOT easy to find, even for those who know where it is. It's off the beaten path. So these women either worked very hard to find it, or they saw the sign. The sign does not say anything about coffee. The sign has a teapot painted on it. As if that weren't enough, there is zero coffee aroma inside (though not infrequently, in warm weather, the area outside is redolent with pot).

And if that's insufficient, all they had to do was open the menu and SEE what was offered. That's what gets me, every time. They didn't open the menu. They also pulled the old "all-foreigners-speak-my-language" when addressing the server.

Gah.

[repsac]

Personally, I loved it. But only because I got a kick out of looking for the little easter eggs like the rubber ducky.

[skeptic53]

My father-in-law was born in Slovakia in 1919. He came to the US at age 10. We took him back in 1993, when Prague had been a hot ex-pat hangout for only a couple of years. He was 74, very cranky & self-centered. It was like traveling with a 3-year-old who had seniority over us.

The dumb-American-wanting-decaf thing is nothing. We were traveling in Czech & Slovak Republics for a month, and he wanted a martini every night. The first few nights he got Martini brand sweet vermouth on the rocks, much to his disgust. From then on we tried teaching the bartenders how to make a martini, but they never came out dry enough for him. However, he refused to tell us how much dry vermouth made a perfect martini. He'd just say "You know,...." and make a brief pouring motion. I finally got him to say it was 11 drops. I looked up "drop" in our Czech/English dictionary, had one made to his specification, nope. No good. I tried asking bartenders if they knew the drink that James Bond liked, but that was no help either.

Worse, from his point of view, was the fact that the menus were mostly in Czech and German. He had fought in the Battle of the Bulge (Bronze Star) and had absolutely no use for Germans or their language. I speak a little German and would sometimes use it to try to clarify our order or to ask questions (I don't speak Czech) and he'd get really mad. He spoke a dialect of Slovak that no one outside his hometown could understand.

Our last night we went to a nice restaurant in Prague and they brought a drinks trolley. I saw that they had gin and dry vermouth on it and I pounced. "OK Mike, show us how you make a perfect martini!" He poured the gin, then he poured the vermouth... glug, glug, glug. He pronounced it perfect. I about fell out of my chair laughing.

[HYHYBT]

Tea is indeed made from leaves. Coffee, on the other hand, is made from beans.

Green beans? Pinto beans? Lima beans? Butterbeans??

Raise the Titanic? Didn't they do that one already?

Well, it was a board game at least, possibly a movie too...

[cheese]

I'm afraid I adored Titanic.. I had a huge crush on Leo, and went to see it 5 times at the cinema I believe. I was only 12 though, so its understandable. Right? I've grown out of it now, obviously..

Had some American ladies in once, came up to me and said
Them: "Where the hell are your bikes??"
Me: "Excuse me??"
Them: "Are you an idiot, you know, bicycles? Where are they?"
Me: "Er, this is a supermarket, we don't sell bicycles.."
Them: "What? Walmart does! You mean we have to go somewhere else?" *walk off muttering*
Why would you to buy a bicycle when you're on holiday anyway?

[Dreamstalker]

I must be one of about 5 women in the US who disliked that movie, for several reasons.

*raises paw* Make that 6. My name's Dreamstalker, and I am a Titanic-hater.

Yes, I was the "Titanic trivia master" in my afterschool group and I've watched almost every Discovery Channel special on it, but that does not mean I would automatically love the movie. I've always been more interested in the disaster from an engineering standpoint (i.e. what failed and how, what should the designers have taken into account, why didn't they, etc) and an archaeological view.

--Too. Long. Yes, LoTR was of a similar length, but that's a movie I can get into.
--I just hate sappy movies with a passion. Not sure why.
--like you said Seanette, what about everyone else on the ship? Were they not important?

I did like DiCaprio in The Departed, but that's the kind of movie I like anyway.

Well, to be fair, it's probably just a cultural thing. In the US, you can get coffee at just about every place imaginable... so it's quite likely that they didn't even think that other places might be different.

I'm an avid (some might say minorly obsessed) coffee drinker. On my first trip to Ireland, I was a bit puzzled at the non-availability of coffee "to go", but got over that in about three seconds. I actually came out of that trip with a liking for tea.

[Cia]

In a tea shop I order tea, in a coffee shop I order coffee and in a shop that sells both it just depends on what looks good and what kind of munchies they sell.

BTW who do you spell 'tea' and 'coffee' in Czech?

[Seanette]

--I just hate sappy movies with a passion. Not sure why.
--like you said Seanette, what about everyone else on the ship? Were they not important?

What's really irritating is that apparently the only people on that ship who mattered were FICTIONAL. No *real* people were worthy of being remembered, apparently.

I share your distaste for sappy movies. My DH likes them more than I do, AAMOF.