We have come to the end, friends, after a weekend of impressive posts and worthy tributes to the Titanic and her passengers, as well as to the many cultural depictions of the disaster. I'm enjoying working through your posts and looking forward to reading the rest of them. Thank you, thank you, thank you for … Continue reading The Titanic In Pop Culture Blogathon: Wrapup
The Second Time Titanic Broke
Here we go... For all the movies and documentaries that had been made about the Titanic sinking from the time that it happened, until 1996 one very pertinent detail was always left out, and that was the ship breaking in two. It might sound a little funny now, but up until Dr. Robert Ballard discovered … Continue reading The Second Time Titanic Broke
Titanic In Pop Culture: Day Two
Who's ready for Day Two? Day One got off to a great start, with a good variety of posts, and it'll be fun to see what's on the docket for today. We really hit the ground running, here. And if anyone missed Day One, yesterday's entries can be found here. Onward, and I hope you … Continue reading Titanic In Pop Culture: Day Two
The Titanic In Pop Culture Blogathon Has Arrived
It has come! Who's ready to do this? It's kinda hard to know how to start this, to be honest. When I thought up this blogathon, I didn't anticipate the fine line that we'd have to walk between being excited to pay tribute to the Titanic's impact on pop culture and being respectful of the … Continue reading The Titanic In Pop Culture Blogathon Has Arrived
One Week Until the Titanic In Pop Culture Blogathon
Seven days left until we set sail, people. Who's getting excited? Here's something else from the Titanic film vault, if anyone's interested in a little history break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p3D7rQdhxw Getting back to the blogathon, of course, I think this is going to be really fun. Thanks again to everyone who's signed up, and naturally, there's plenty … Continue reading One Week Until the Titanic In Pop Culture Blogathon
One Month Until The Titanic In Pop Culture Blogathon
The Titanic In Pop Culture Blogathon is already a month away, all. The time is flying, just like Rose and Jack. The thing that always amazes me about Titanic is how there are always new references to her in pop culture coming out, or just resurfacing. Like the Cast and Crew video for the James … Continue reading One Month Until The Titanic In Pop Culture Blogathon
Announcing the Titanic In Pop Culture Blogathon!
Over a century after it sank, the Titanic remains a pop-culture phenomenon, and not just as far as movies are concerned. There have been books, documentaries, video games, TV miniseries, shorts, parodies, passing references (who hasn't heard the expression, "It's like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic"?). Goodness knows some of these iterations have … Continue reading Announcing the Titanic In Pop Culture Blogathon!
We Can’t Control the Titanic
Here we go... As it's turned out, I've reviewed a lot of Titanic movies. It's gotten to be kind of a So Bad It's Good tradition. This year I happened upon 2022's Titanic 666 while browsing through Tubi, and a movie with a title like that can't be anything but so-bad-it's-good, right? Heh. Heh. Heh. The … Continue reading We Can’t Control the Titanic
The Worst Titanic Movie Ever Made (So Far)
This isn't the first time I've reviewed a Titanic film for Taking Up Room, or for a So Bad It's Good Blogathon (Remember that Asylum monstrosity where the Statue of Liberty was facing the wrong way? Or how about Raise the Titanic? Yikes.). It is, however, the first time I've reviewed a Titanic film with a dog that … Continue reading The Worst Titanic Movie Ever Made (So Far)
Are You Ready To Go Back To Titanic?
Time for more badness... Yep, we're going back to Titanic again, only this time she's not sinking. The 1980 film, Raise the Titanic, which is loosely based on the highly successful Clive Cussler novel of the same name, is a tale of Cold War-era derring-do, a guy named Dirk Pitt, and firm suspension of disbelief. The … Continue reading Are You Ready To Go Back To Titanic?
Page To Screen: A Night To Remember
The late Walter Lord is kind of a legend among Titanic buffs and historians. When he wrote A Night To Remember, which was published in 1955, he basically inspired the public fascination with the ship that continues today. Pretty much every book written about the Titanic uses Walter Lord's work as a source because he's that OG. How did Lord … Continue reading Page To Screen: A Night To Remember
I’m Not Flying, Jack
OK, I can hear all of you thinking, "The Titanic already sank. How in the world could there be a sequel?" Well, folks, Asylum Films, the company that brought you six Sharknado movies, has done it, sorta, in a straight-to-video 2010 flinch-fest, Titanic II. How these Asylum people are still able to obtain financial backing is a mystery, but … Continue reading I’m Not Flying, Jack
Back To Titanic
Well, hello, Miss Barbara... In 1953, the Titanic disaster was only forty-one years in the past. Many of the survivors were still alive. However, the tragedy had all but passed from public consciousness, as between the sinking and the nineteen fifties, there were several wars, the Great Depression, and a sense of just wanting to live a … Continue reading Back To Titanic
Taking Up Room 