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"A Night To Remember" is better.


Just sayin'

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I saw A Night to Remember twice over a 20 year span. Twenty years between viewings is plenty. Similar sappy human interest side story as Titanic but without the superb special effects and technical accuracy.

Titanic is far more rewatchable, which is why it was in the theaters for so long. A ridiculous amount of people went back several times. That's very rare.


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One might argue that the remake contains sappy special effects with deplorable human interest. When it comes to story vs effects I will take story every time. The tragedy of this event is that FIFTEEN HUNDRED PEOPLE DIED. Not just that Jack did.

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I prefer the Cameron story because of the advanced special effects, and it feels like you're right there. And the bit where the ship splits in two is just awesome.

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I don't disagree, but A Night to Remember has the same type of human interest back story as Titanic, only it's even less interesting as the Jack and Rose story line.

A Night to Remember has excellent special effects, but Titanic (budget be damned) eclipses the accuracy of the sinking by a wide margin.

I would have been happy with a purely historic recreation involving characters that were only known to be on the ship and whose stories were known: Astors, Strauss', Molly Brown, etc., but then the movie wouldn't have been able to pay back it's production budget if it was more to my liking and less to favoring general appeal.

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uh... no. Once was quite enough for this garbage. And if I ever hear that awful song from that ugly Canadian chick again...

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As a film about the Titanic and a docudrama more generally, A Night To Remember is far superior. Even as a film in general it is, in some ways, better in my estimation because it doesn't have a sappy love story for teenage girls. The people who made ANTR trusted that the true story would be enough to compell and move audiences and they were right, for I understand ANTR did do fairly well--albeit not nearly as well as Cameron's film.

Each film gets different things right and as someone who has thoroughly studied the true story of the Titanic for over twenty years I would love for there to one day be a film with a verisimilitude equal to that of the two films combined!

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I watched A Night To Remember a couple of days ago for the first time when it was on TV. I liked it very much and think it was wonderfully done.
Titanic of 1997 will always be my all-time-favourite film (next to some very few others).
That said, I appreciate both films for what they are.
Both films can be criticized for historical inaccuracies or whatever, but still, to me they are both outstanding masterpieces of their time.

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I think any film can benefit from that..

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There was a great documentary about the Titanic featuring the late Bill Paxton on Hulu.

That's your go to start material.

Believe it or not?

There was an African American onboard.

His name was:

Joseph Laroche:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Philippe_Lemercier_Laroche

That's important.

He is the only known black man or woman on this great ship.

There's lots of fun facts out there:

https://www.ultimatetitanic.com/facts-statistics

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