How the fuck did this make over 2 billion dollars?

#1 movie of all time that changed cinema forever

cry more

By being good

Who is James fucking Cameron

probably VHS sales, every asshole had that set back then

>>81951259
>no internet
>lonely women watching it over and over again
>based Jim

teenage girls

>>81951295
this

>>81951295
How did it change cinema?

>>81951301
Lots of movies are good

>Want to explore the titanic just for fun
>Want movie execs to fund the dive
>Quickly hash out a Romeo and Juliet script based around the titanic
>Go on to make the best selling movie of all time when all you wanted to do was see a ship wreck up close

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_(1997_film)#Pre-production
>"It was not because I particularly wanted to make the movie," Cameron said. "I wanted to dive to the shipwreck."

How can one man be so amazing?

>>81951456
And Avatar is funding for a space mission?

>>81951259
It was in theaters for like a year straight, appealed to an extremely wide demographic, and a fuckload of people attended multiple viewings. If you were a dude in high school in 1997, there's not only a decent chance Titanic got you laid, but you probably liked the movie yourself too.

I personally love this movie. It's a visceral film with some glaring flaws, but when it hits, it hits hard. The soundtrack is in my top 10 movie soundtracks of all time (Celine Dion shit doesn't count.)

>>81951409
I remember it being in theaters for almost a full year. It was a pop culture juggernaut.

Celine Dion

Not gonna lie, I saw it twice i theaters as a kid. You just had to be there at the time.

Women
Seriously I was 7 and I got dragged to this shit 3 times by my mom

>>81951259
Love can touch just one time and last for a lifetime....

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>>81951563

No, Avatar was because James Cameron wanted to see some slave booty in a skin tight motion capture suit, his smile during 'the making of' tells it all

>>81951456
>That entire section on why men cried/ men liking the romance in Titanic

No. I hated the romance, I thought it took too much attention away from the ship, which was what I was far more interested in. And I think most males put up with the repeated viewings for the same reason. The only part of the romance I enjoyed was the nude scene, but that was because I was a teenager at the time, and the dance scene, but that was more because of the culture display. Most of the time, I wanted to punch Leo's smarmy face in and was glad that he died. The only sadness I felt was for the innocent passengers (Nearer my God to thee scene) and for the few noble deaths from the officers/crew, definitely not for Leo's death.

>>81952268
How did you 7 yo self like Kate Winslet's boobs?

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>>81952695
I still love her to this day

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>>81952695
why was this only a 12a if it has bare boobs

>>81951259
by being the biggest appealing movie to girls 11-17

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>>81951259

The movie was huge, if you adjust for inflation it made over $3b. It's was basically Star Wars for females as it appealed to such a huge demographic globally and all those women brought their husbands/boyfriends.

I still don't know how it managed to gross over $200m in Japan though

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It's easy when God is the director.

>>81951259
Vapid cunts. Seriously, the movie is rife with feminism and "women's romance."

>>81953265
It appealed to literally everyone you moron. By your logic, The Justin Bieber movie would have surpassed it.

>>81953711
>Iceland $1,082,630
>1998 population of 274 000
Did the hole island watch it?

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>>81951259

>>81951259
It was great
Women were interested in the romance plot
Men were interested in the Titanic disaster plot

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>>81951259
The hardest thing for a director to actually pull off. Not sentimentalism, but actual romanticism.

>>81951259
Dude it's an awesome fucking movie, complete no homo here.

teenage girls kept going back to rewatch it

>>81951456
Based Jim.

>>81951295
Will we ever see the return of Abatap?

>>81956948
0/10 youre just butthurt

>>81951563
He wanted to create a new camera. Basically, half of Avatar's budget went to the camera development.

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>>81951456
>downplaying the effort you've put into something just to seem like you're a genius to mongoloids

Bravo Jim!

>>81951259
It was good. That's how.

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It's a really amazing movie (no homo) and I'll fight anyone with a different opinion.

https://youtu.be/EcU0qbV70rU

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>that whore Rose marries someone else then drops that very expensive jewel into the ocean
>two guys wasted their life for that cunt
She's a cunt and it's no wonder women liked the movie.

>>81957030
Celine Dion ruined that track. Titanic would have a 10/10 soundtrack if it weren't for this bullshit.