By definition, no TV show or film with Bernard Fox in it can truly be bad.

My favorite part of Titanic: when the fat guy with the computer explains how the ship sank.

I love the doucmentry by James Cameron called Ghosts of the Abyss where they go to the wreck and use tiny fiber optically controlled ROVs to explore deep within the wreck




The Turkish Baths




State room, with clock still on mantle



Grand Staircase

The me 20 years ago liked it.

The me now can hardly watch 3 min of any movie now.

I was smiling from the start, 3:20 was a literal LOL moment

There is no page 13 only ZUUL

I thought the search was a cover for recovering some sunken Russian sub or something.

i'd put that a different way.  i think cameron writes movies that he would want to see.  he was a truck driver, and what do you do at 4AM when you're on that interminable stretch of I-70 between salina and denver?  you make movies in your head.  "it would be so cool if there was a movie about ______."  and i think that his "so cool if" tracks very well with the moviegoing population.

you're spot on regarding the well-done cliches.  a movie cliche becomes so because it is effective, and cameron is a virtuoso at putting certain tropes to good effect.  he's a great story architect.  nothing complex--almost the simplicity of myth, like a louis l'amour or ursula le guin story.  a truck driver's lean and spare sense of story.

where his past really shows is in his dialogue.  cameron is fantastic at writing roughnecks doing roughneck things.  the crew of the sulaco.  reese the thoughtful vet.  bud the driller.  even colonel quarich in an otherwise godawful script.  but he simply can't do anything else.  compare t2 sarah connor's sparse (almost eastwoodian) roughneck dialogue with the ridiculously cliche girlie-girl crap he wrote for her in the original.  the difference is that he can imagine what a PTSD-but-cool warrior woman might say, but there is nothing in his imagination capable of telling him what a normal human woman might say in a normal human situation.

at the end of the day, cameron is jack on the titanic--a gifted and talented street urchin who doesn't understand what the people in first class are saying, or why they're saying it.  so it's no surprise that he can't write it.

This is the only reason I’ll watch that movie. Fuck she’s hot in it.

Damnit! I’ll be in my bunk the rest of the day

Two of our own subs that were lost. Once they were found/documented, he used the remaining time to search for the Titanic.

Sir, you nailed exactly what I came to post.