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ABOMINATION OF A MOVIE!!

posted 10 months ago by [deleted]
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In light of this story today:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65953872

I really feel that any tourist excursions to visit this hallowed graveyard site should be put to a complete and utter halt. Hundreds died in this disaster, and to be honest, it's an insult to their memory for today's gormless rich paying folk to come gawk at their final resting place at so risky a location to themselves, it's utterly baffling!

And as for this movie: to think that Lew Grade even thought about this idea is just plain disgusting, and utterly too expensive, impossible and certainly implausible!

[–] thingmakersback (1194) 10 months ago

What a contemporary submarine mishap has to do with a many decades old movie, escapes me utterly, even if you do object to people looking at the century old wreck of Titanic.

The event seems to demonstrate that the tourist submersible was a bad idea, but that's all.

[–] [deleted] 10 months ago

I'm saying that sending submersibles filled with gawking tourists to such dangerous high-pressure and risky depths to visit the Titanic wreck is JUST AS ABSURD as trying to raise the wreck itself! They're both INSULTS to the DEAD of Titanic!

[–] strntz (10872) 10 months ago

Do you think the "dead" even care one way or the other?

Let's do a what-if. If the soul is not eternal and the human being expires in its entirety, then there is nothing left to care in any fashion, and if the soul is indeed eternal and is finally freed from the bag of meat that we're born into, I don't think they would care what happened to their physical corpse once they were now free to wander the universe or heavens released from the confinement of a biological meat sack.

The romanticism over this being an insult to those who once lived is silly really.

[–] strntz (10872) 10 months ago

ABOMINATION OF A MOVIE!!

It's been years since I've seen this, but I don't remember any Yeti's running amuck.

But to your comments, this is no more a graveyard than a golf course. The people who died that night aren't there - not even their teeth or bones. Sea organisms long turned their corporeal being into sea turds and the turds then consumed by other organisms.

[–] [deleted] 10 months ago

Abomination is a word like any other, strntz. It has nothing to do with Yetis. And that sort of remark makes you look short-sighted and STUPID.

[–] strntz (10872) 10 months ago

Short sighted and stupid? If I didn't know any better, I would think you're my wife.

[–] MartyMoose1977 (95) 10 months ago

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[–] MartyMoose1977 (95) 10 months ago

You clearly didn't watch the movie. In the movie's world they were not raising the Titanic because it would be cool to do it. Fiscally it wasn't too expensive to raise the Titanic because it had a vault full of Unobtainium (much more powerful than Plutonium) that they needed to power a reactor for the giant Laser defense system that was going to protect the USA from Soviet Nuclear Missiles. The Titanic wasn't the prize the Byzanium Fuel was the prize. Since you haven't seen the movie I won't spoil the ending but watch it before you criticize the film it makes you look stupid.

[–] [deleted] 10 months ago

I have seen the movie, actually. They had to insert some over-the-top 1970s Cold War reason to raise the ship, or the movie would be even sillier. It's silly enough as it is, and this precious cargo macguffin makes the purpose of the Titanic voyage cynical, too.

[–] strntz (10872) 10 months ago

and this precious cargo macguffin

I like those too, especially the ones with the sausage.

[–] DoctorThirteen (10345) 10 months ago

Lew Grade's response when this performed so badly was a classic;

'Raise the Titanic? It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic!'

[–] strntz (10872) 10 months ago

LOL, beautiful. I wish I had thought of that!

[–] jk90us (5337) 10 months ago

So you’re saying people should stop visiting concentration camps, the site where the World Trade Center fell, Pearl Harbor, or any other location where people died tragically?