With entertainment.ie turning 25 this year, we're rolling back the clock to 1997 and revisiting movies on release during our site's early days. Each week, we'll take a trip down memory lane and come back with a movie you may remember, may have forgotten, or in this case, you've never let go of.
If you weren't around to see it, there's little chance you'd believe it. In 1997, 'Titanic' was everywhere.played on an hourly basis on every radio station in the land. In fact, so popular was the song that there were two distinct versions on regular radio play. One was the version we all know, but another version had lines and quotes from the movie interspersed with the soaring choruses and that inexplicable guitar solo in the middle of it all.
When we think back on 'Titanic', it's much the same idea. We can remember specific scenes, minute oddities like that man who lost his grip and then hit the chimney in a really weird way and fell into the chaos in an equally weird way. There's the old couple who grip each other tightly in a bed in full evening attire as the water comes in around them. Naturally, there's the steamed-up hand on the window. Even 'That '70s Show' had a gag about it.
Watching in 2022, 'Titanic' has a lot of different things going on. There is such a deliberate, intentional air of doomed romance to it that just would never fly in today's world. It's even in Celine Dion's singing, hearts going on, never letting go, a woman's heart holding all kinds of secrets, so on and so on. Audiences today could not abide that level of schmaltz, no matter how much we might like to convince ourselves otherwise.