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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2020 17:22:26 GMT
Arguably the two most iconic films of all time - landmark production values, signature scenes, seminal characters, box office records - as beloved for the central romances as for their epic scopes both in narrative and form. Which do you personally prefer?
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Post by JangoB on Jun 27, 2020 17:34:56 GMT
I adore them both but I adore "Gone with the Wind" much more!
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Jun 27, 2020 17:41:19 GMT
The one starring an iceberg.
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Post by stephen on Jun 27, 2020 17:49:37 GMT
Is there an alternative ending of Gone With the Wind where Rhett Butler yells "THAT REALLY SUCKS, LADY!" into Scarlett's face?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2020 17:54:57 GMT
Titanic all the way.
Never liked Gone with the Wind much.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 27, 2020 17:56:31 GMT
I'd say the one that is the greatest mounted production in Hollywood history - certainly before 1950 at least - that has some great acting in it (which Titanic really doesn't as much tbh). I mean Titanic is better when people aren't even talking at all - and also and not coincidentally the one that still upsets people and got this pathetic/laughable tag applied to it as recently as just THIS week below in bold - I mean would anyone give af about Titanic enough to attempt to place it into full context so our wackjob 2020 outrage could attempt to be pacified with a "statement before the film?"? I mean GWTW is a whole different beast in a lot of ways ........historically, culturally, emotionally.... “The film’s treatment of this world through a lens of nostalgia denies the horrors of slavery, as well as its legacies of racial inequality.”
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Post by pupdurcs on Jun 27, 2020 18:16:00 GMT
Gone With The Wind wins this easily. Questionable rose-tinted view of slavery aside, it's on another level in terms of performances, screenplay etc. I even prefer the setpieces here.
Titanic is a great looking movie, with an average screenplay and narrative and mostly so-so performances. There's no comparison, other than the respective scales of the productions. It hits the right buttons to be a huge hit (epic production value, with a sappy romance at the centre if it), but it's possibly the most overrated movie ever made.
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Post by cheesecake on Jun 27, 2020 18:19:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2020 18:44:29 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 27, 2020 18:57:55 GMT
Reminds me A LOT of my 11th wife who cruelly told me she had fake every orgasm during our marriage and how she was a "better actress than the lady from Titanic" - the multiple levels of cruelty were almost too much for a man of my age to bear.
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Post by countjohn on Jun 27, 2020 18:59:35 GMT
Gone With the Wind is one of the greatest films of all time. Titanic is, well, not. Really it comes off like a soap opera with blockbuster production values a lot of the time.
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Post by pupdurcs on Jun 27, 2020 19:09:15 GMT
Gone With the Wind is one of the greatest films of all time. Titanic is, well, not. Really it comes off like a soap opera with blockbuster production values a lot of the time. This, it's incredible how cheesy Titanic is at times. The production values really save that movie, imho.
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Post by themoviesinner on Jun 27, 2020 19:13:17 GMT
Gone With The Wind by far. I really don't like Titanic at all. It's just a cheesy soap opera with two pretty embarrassing lead performances. The production values are fantastic, but the script and acting are abysmal. Not even David Warner manages to make it watchable. Gone With The Wind on the other hand is a truly spectacular epic.
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Post by countjohn on Jun 27, 2020 19:26:13 GMT
Gone With The Wind by far. I really don't like Titanic at all. It's just a cheesy soap opera with two pretty embarrassing lead performances. The production values are fantastic, but the script and acting are abysmal. Not even David Warner manages to make it watchable. Gone With The Wind on the other hand is a truly spectacular epic. I think Winslet does her best with the material she was given but yeah, Leo was horrendous. He's really improved over the years.
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Post by morton on Jun 27, 2020 19:32:08 GMT
I don't care if no one else loves it because I still will, but Gone With the Wind definitely wins this poll.
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Post by stabcaesar on Jun 27, 2020 19:38:17 GMT
One is an iconic classic that has stood the test of time for 80 years while the other is a giant sack of shit. This poll is an insult to the former.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jun 27, 2020 20:07:30 GMT
Jack! Jaaack! Jaaaaaaaahhhk! Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!
Oh honeys, as God is my witness, I'll always prefer the Gone Girl.
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Post by countjohn on Jun 27, 2020 20:16:48 GMT
Jack! Jaaack! Jaaaaaaaahhhk! Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn! Oh honeys, as God is my witness, I'll always prefer the Gone Girl. If you had been around in 39 you'd have given Vivien Leigh some serious competition for playing Scarlett, MsMovieStar
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 27, 2020 21:13:11 GMT
GWTW most def.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Jun 27, 2020 21:21:40 GMT
Quite hard for me to take either seriously - which this board tends to do, laughably. Both come from the school of the sap-o-dramas leaning heavily the demographic of women. You can't call one a cheesy soap opera and say with a straight face that the other one isn't. Sorry. That's just no can do. That being said, Titanic is more entertaining with the abandon ship scenes, the Jack/Rose stuff with some childlike courtships - whenever they're not forcing corny romantic lines on each other, and there were some moments where it came off Terence Davies like (which is good). I would rank it #2 out of the 90s Best Picture winners which isn't saying much because most of those aren't good at all. Gone With the Wind has Gable on a horse thru scorching fire which reached a peak for me personally, but that's not saying much because it's a small peak when the film was mediocre to begin with. However, Gone With the Wind has the FAR better acting, and don't really see any arguments to make there. Gable destroys DiCaprio. De Havilland was better than any supporting female in Titanic even tho Frances Fisher might've been the only one really snubbed. Leigh is better than Winslet - one is good the other is just mediocre and took a spot from Kudrow or Sorvino.
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Post by jakesully on Jun 28, 2020 15:53:25 GMT
Titanic for sure. Kate Winslet was looking all thick & acting sassy in it. Cameron's masterful direction was outstanding (Seriously say what you want about James Cameron but he directed the shit out of that sinking boat scene). Then you have Leo acting all charismatic and Kathy Bates being funny as hell. What's not to like?
Never really been a fan of GWTW and frankly don't give a damn that HBO Max did away with it (although I can understand how some folks would be)
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jun 28, 2020 17:43:58 GMT
Gone With the Wind has amazing technical designs, but I can't stress how little I give a fuck about a whiny fucking brat bitching that she's stuck with Clark Gable and not a cousin fucking Confederate. My patience for that is maybe 20 minutes, not 4 goddamn hours.
Titanic, though? Could watch joyfully pretty much any time.
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