TITANIC 3-D, PG-13 ( 3 hr & 15 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Thursday, April 5th, 2012
show:  11:30 a.m. ( Extra Dollar Off First Show Matinee )
costs:  $10.00 Ticket + $4.50 7.5 oz King Size Triple Chocolate Nestle Drumstick + $4.00 20.0 oz VitaminWater Power-C = $18.50
auditorium:  8
seat:  6th row, 8th column


synopsis/overview:  A "rich girl/ poor boy" love story is set against the White Star Line's launch of its second ship, the new Titanic, the "ship of dreams". One of three luxury sister ships built and designed for shuttle service between Southampton, England, and New York, USA, it set sail on its maiden voyage on April 10th, 1912, an ill-fated journey.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) The Titanic's undersea wreckage; 2.) "The same thing happened to Geraldo [ Rivera ] and his career never recovered"; 3.) Artwork; 4.) "I told you, you wanted to take this call"; 5.) "That makes you my new best friend"; 6.) "Fine forensic analysis"; 7.) Card game; 8.) "Where's Sven"; 9.) "Something Picasso"; 10.) "New money"; 11.) "Male preoccupation with size"; 12.) "Always the same narrow-minded people"; 13.) "I don't have a choice"; 14.) "... tumbleweed blowing like the wind"; 15.) "One legged prostitute"; 16.) Spittle; 17.) Fancy new duds; 18.) "You can almost pass for a gentleman"; 19.) "They love money"; 20.) "Start from the outside and work your way in"; 21.) "Life is a gift"; 22.) A fun pa"rty; 23.) Fiancee; 24.) "You know the money is gone"; 25.) The portrait; 26.) Chase; 27.) Cargo hold; 28.) Note; 29.) Crow's nest; 30.) Iceberg; 31.) Rats; 32.) Planted evidence; 33.) Ship's diagram; 34.) Distress call; 35.) "You remember what I told you about the boats"; 36.) "Small token of our appreciation"; 37.) "Not enough boats"; 38.) "I'd rather be his whore than your wife"; 39.) "I'll just wait here"; 40.) "To Hell with you"; 41.) Practice swings; 42.) "You'll have to pay for that"; 43.) Mob; 44.) "I make my own luck"; 45.) "Yes, get on the boat, Rose ( Kate Winslet )"; 46.) Gun; 47.) The coat; 48.) "I have a child"; 49.) The musicians; 50.) Bedroom; 51.) "Can you walk faster through the valley there"; 52.) "Jack ( Leonardo DiCaprio ), this is where we first met"; 53.) "Never let go"; 54.) "Come back"; 55.) Whistle; 56.) Wait; 57.) "It's all steerage"; 58.) Crash of '29; 59.) Rose Dawson; 60.) "He exists now only in my memory"; 61.) Assorted adventures; and 62.) The Reunion.

favorite scene:  I liked the Reunion scene.


audience reaction:  There were just about a dozen or so in the audience with me. And I didn't hear much from them, reaction-wise.

recommendation:  I just went to see this again because I wanted to watch it in 3-D. I didn't know that this is also playing in I-Max 3-D, else I would have gone to see it on such a screen. Anyway, this is a true Romantic Chick Flick for those of you who are into such movies.

spoiler alert!  He took out whatever he needed to take with him; still, he locked the safe. Exposed to such an icy-cold water, I'd find myself shivering and my teeth chattering! Deep sea water is blue; freshwater and some coastal water are green. In the scene wherein a lifeboat was being rowed through flotsam and dead people, a flashlight revealed the color of the water to be green, not blue. ( Chlorinated and fluoridated  swimming pool water is not freshwater. ) A shot was omitted near the end of the movie, the scene wherein the old lady walked toward the stern originally had a shot of her body from behind clearly silhouetted inside of her night gown. I know because the first time that I saw this movie years ago, I remarked to myself about this particular shot, Wow, she's got quite a figure for a little old lady! I guess that this particular shot was too much to process in 3-D.

fyi:  The following is an article from the Spring 2009 Edition of the Scoopified catalog that I've chosen to copy verbatim for your reading pleasure:

The Princess of Amen-Ra lived approximately 1,500 years B.C. When she died she was laid to rest in an ornate wooden coffin and buried deep in a vault in Luxor on the banks of the Nile.


In the late 1890s four rich young Englishmen visiting the excavations at Luxor were invited to buy an exquisitely fashioned mummy case containing the remains of the Princess of Amen-Ra. They drew lots. The man who won paid several thousand Pounds and had the coffin taken to his hotel.


A few hours later he was seen walking towards the desert. He never returned. The next day one of the other four men was shot by an Egyptian servant, accidentally. His arm was so severely wounded it had to be amputated. Another of the foursome found on his return home that the bank holding his entire fortune had failed. The fourth guy suffered a severe illness that cost him all of his possessions, reducing him to poverty.


Nevertheless, the mummy reached England, causing other misfortunes along the way, where it was bought by a London businessman. After three of his family members had been injured in a road accident and his house was damaged by fire, he donated the mummy to the British Museum. As the coffin was being unloaded the truck suddenly went into reverse and injured a helper. Then, as the casket was being lifted up the stairs by two workmen, one fell and broke his leg. The other, apparently in good health, died two days later. After the Princess was installed in the Egyptian Room, trouble really started. The museum's night watchmen frequently heard frantic hammerings and sobbing in the coffin. Other exhibits in the room were often hurled around at night. One guard died on duty for no apparent reason, causing another guard to quit. Cleaners refused to go near the Princess. When a visitor derisively flicked a dust cloth at the face painted on the coffin, his child died of measles soon afterward. Finally, the museum management had the mummy carried down to the basement, figuring it could not do any harm down there. Within a week one of the helpers was seriously ill, and the supervisor of the move was found dead at his desk.


By now the media had heard of it. A journalist photographer took a picture of the mummy's face. When he developed it the picture was transformed into a horrifying face, resembling his own. The photographer was said to have gone home, then locked his bedroom door and shot himself. 


Soon afterward, the museum sold the mummy to a private collector. After much misfortune the owner called a noted authority of the occult for help. When entering the house the psychic was seized with a shivering fit of incredible intensity. "Can you exorcise the evil spirit?" the owner asked. The psychic replied: "There is no such thing as exorcism for a curse of this magnitude. Evil remains evil forever. I implore you to get rid of this evil as soon as possible!" But no British museum would take the mummy. 


Finally, an American archaeologist who dismissed the happenings as quirks of circumstance paid a handsome price for the mummy, and arranged for its transfer to New York. In April of 1912, the new owner escorted his treasure aboard a sparkling new White Star Liner about to make its maiden voyage to New York. On the night of April 14th, amid scenes of unprecedented horror, the Princess of Amen-Ra accompanied 1,500 passengers to their deaths at the bottom of the ocean. The name of the ship was ~~~ Titanic.


Some say that the above is true while others say it's just an urban legend concocted a century ago by a pair of Englishmen, William Stead and Douglas Murray. But, according to eye-witness accounts, the fact was that William Stead ( a well-known writer and editor ) was also on board the Titanic and entertained the other passengers with his "curse of the mummy" tales at dinnertime on the 12th and 13th of April, 1912.  And, perhaps, jinxed the maiden voyage as a direct result!

Can you just imagine what William Stead and the other dinner guests were thinking of just before they drowned to death or died of Hypothermia in the icy water?

( Note: It's Priestess, not Princess, of Amen-Ra. Slight variations of this "mummy's curse" can be found on the Internet. )

Found on the Internet.

The Titanic had two sister ships: The Britannic and the Olympic. The Britannic sank in almost the same way, but in the shallow water of the Kea Channel of the Aegean Sea on November 21st, 1916; the Olympic was in service from October of 1910 to April of 1935, sinking a German U-boat during WWI and running into a couple of other ships before and after the war. All in all, the sister ships had bad luck.

word of advice:  You can't buy Love.

tidbits:  When this movie first came out in 1997, I waited 9 months before I finally went to see this movie. I saw it at the bargain cinema inside of the Hilltop Mall in Richmond, CA, on the top floor. It's not there anymore.

I was gonna get another one of the THREE STOOGES Icee Collectible Cups. But they were all sold-out. They still have the HUNGER GAMES Collectible Cups, though. Phffft! Who needs it? I don't.

After I paid for my purchase at the theatre's concession counter, I realized that I shouldn't have bought the ice cream drumstick because I had a periodontal cleaning at 7:00 a.m. this morning, and my teeth were extra-sensitive--but I hadn't had an ice cream drumstick at the cinema, yet. So, I just kept it and endured the pain in sweet silence.

I had less than four hours of sleep the night before because I did an Internet research on the Titanic. As expected, I dozed-off here and there as I watched this movie.

After the movie, I went to the Benicia Safeway to have a talk with Brett about something. I was walking the length of the checkstands, behind a black lady, towards the produce department. As we were passing by the Starbucks booth, she just let-out a loud fart! And she acted all-innocent about it. Dang! some women, I swear ....

I thought that today was a Passover but I'm a week early. This is what happens when I try to observe a Jewish holiday using a Christian calendar! LOL.  I observe the Thursday Passover because I have Jewish-Christian blood on my mother's side of the family. And Jesus Christ told his Apostles at The Last Supper to observe the Thursday Passover in remembrance of Him: New Testament of The Bible's Book of Luke 22:19. So, I shall be sure to observe it next week. I'm the only one among my relatives on my mother's side of the family who has embraced our Jewish-Christian heritage and who has accepted our Jewish-Christian legacy. It's literally I against the World--which is also one of the teachings of Jesus Christ, Himself--New Testament of The Bible's Book of John 15:19 ( I'm on the right track, indeed ).


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Two old men, a white man and an oriental man,  were seated close to each other in the dining hall at a local retirement home for old folks. The old white man, a WWII veteran, looked at the old oriental man, a new resident, contemptuously.

"I hate all of you, you f-cking Japs!" said the old white man. "You bombed Pearl Harbor."

"No," said the old oriental man. "I'm not Japanese. I'm Chinese."

"Doesn't matter. Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, you're all the same to me," said the old white man as he spat on the floor.

Noticing that the old white man was wearing a yarmulke, the angry old Chinese man responded in desperation, "Well, I hate Jews!"

"Why?" asked the old Jewish man.

"Jews sunk the Titanic!" said the old Chinese man.

"Hah! that's so typical of you Gentiles, always blaming bad things on us Jews," said the old Jewish man.  "Well, for your information, an iceberg sank the Titanic."

The old Chinese man retorted angrily, "Goldberg, Rosenberg, Iceberg, no matter--all the same!"


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