Thread: Want to see Titanic on your cruise???

This evening while reading the numerous accounts of the Crown Princess's "Steering Incident" there was more than one report that tonights show on the big screen was Titanic. Just wondered how folks feel about maritime disaster movies being shown on-board.

P.S. Mea culpa for my typo....#2 should say 'or other movies'

Good Poll, localady!

While we don't watch movies on cruises, Titanic would certainly NOT be one we would watch!

Ditto EVERYTHING LuLu said!
On our last cruise, they played music from the Titanic during dinner; I was NOT amused.

I don't like when they play Apollo 13 during a space shuttle flight; I remember movie theaters changing films during the real Apollo 13 - many of them were originally supposed to show Marooned. They understood the meaning of bad taste during the 70's, except in clothes! Now almost everything is in bad taste, from private conversations on cellphones in restaurants, to Howard Stern, to badly timed movies.

Okay, here's one for you....I was on a scuba dive boat charter to Catalina Island. Some of the divers sat out on a couple of dives. Upon getting back on the boat, they were watching TV in the galley....what were they watching???? "JAWS" of all things!!!

A little off topic but when I was working for an ad agency in the late 70s, the terrible Pan Am crash happened. One of our media people said that as a matter of course, any airline ads (one of our clients was Laker Airways) will automatically be pulled. It was a personal tragedy for our PR Director as a friend of hers was on that flight.

I do watch movies in our cabin, usually parts of a movie here and there while we're getting ready for dinner or settling down at night (I'm one of those types who often needs the TV on to fall asleep to). There were a couple of disaster movies on our last cruise: The Aviator -- we were started watching it in the middle of a scene involving a plane crash and hubby said let's change the channel -- and Pearl Harbor -- again, our timing wasn't good and I turned it on during the attack scene.

It seems fun movies work a lot better on a cruise, but there's only so many of those.

I like to watch a movie in my cabin late at night, as I wind down from the day. I wouldn't like to see Titanic, but that's because I personally didn't think it was that great of a movie.

The idea of Movies Under the Stars like they have on Princess (and now Carnival) has no appeal to me at all, since I wouldn't have a choice of what to watch, other than to walk away.

Originally Posted by cruisin' chick

There were a couple of disaster movies on our last cruise: The Aviator -- we were started watching it in the middle of a scene involving a plane crash and hubby said let's change the channel -- and Pearl Harbor -- again, our timing wasn't good and I turned it on during the attack scene.

I don't have a problem with all disaster movies on cruises. But if they played "Pearl Harbor" on a Hawaiian cruise, well, that would not be my first choice. Some people like having movies related to where they are going, so they may not mind though. But in this case "Pearl Harbor" was not a very accurate account of what happened. It was a chick flick - love story - with a war theme glaze.

Watching movies while on a cruise is one activity that we never do!!

We only watch parts of movies also while in our cabin getting ready or before bed.
I would not, however, want to watch any ship disaster movies. Nor would I want to watch a movie like "White Water" before a snorkeling excursion.
I wish I had never seen that movie!!!