I always love it when people refer to “this ending” or “this scene” as if everyone is supposed to know what this blurry still is supposed to be from. Even if it was a video, that still doesn’t tell me what it’s from.
Edit: to all the haters…
Saying ‘what kind of an idiot doesn’t know about the Yellowstone supervolcano’ is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.
The framing device for the whole movie is that they’re searching the wreck to find a priceless necklace, and bring along an old woman, who had it when the ship sank, to help them. She then tells them her story, moves them into abandoning the search, and in the end it’s revealed she had it the whole time when she throws it overboard.
128 million Americans saw it in theatres when it came out apparently (that’s just Americans! And just the initial theatre release). But it’s been shown on TV, streaming services, etc (and you could pirate it of course) and is accessible in pretty much every country today. There’s been surveys with results like “26% of brits haven’t seen Titanic”, etc, but no real hard data unfortunately. But I’d wager the percentage has to be double digits. Not super high double digits, but definitely double digits.
I think the count may be skewed, unless they accounted for folks who were paying to watch it in the theater multiple times per day, multiple times per week, for its entire run. I knew several of those at the time.
Still, I didn’t recognize the scene or even the movie based on the pic, the description, OR your appeal to popularity, so I’m gonna have to sustain the objection to vagueposting.
(And yes, I DID see Titanic once. Mostly meh and Leo was awful in it afair)
How so? It was the highest grossing film for 11 years straight, starting in 1997. Only been surpassed by Avatar 1/2 and Avengers Endgame. Pretty well known film.
Man it’s been over 25 years since I watched Titanic; 95% of the memory I retained of that film is boobs and the other 5% was actually Thumbtanic. I dunno how you expect anyone to instantly recall this scene from a single frame unless you were one of those hardcore fans who saw it nine times in the cinema.
Nah i’ve seen it atleast twice and it took me a while to have guessed titanic. Still needed the comments to confirm it.
Can’t remember jewel being thrown away at all
Exactly the same as me. The film’s 30 years old, and I’ve definitely seen it, but probably not in the last 20 years or more. I just about recognised it was Rose but haven’t got a fucking scooby what she does at the end of the film. I thought it ended with her sat on the piece of wood watching Jack sink.
Watched it a couple months ago with my wife. She drops the jewel into the ocean above the wreckage, then goes back home, where we see a bunch of pictures across her dresser showing that she had an adventurous and fulfilling life, inspired by Jack’s last words to her.
That explains it. I’ve never had any desire to see that movie, and thus I never have.
For GenX / Xennials we grew up with a plethora of shitty ass movies not worth your time or headspace. No electronic devices, thus you’re subjected to that crap during social encounters. Multiple video rental stores in every town containing so much garbage, friends and relatives constantly naming it as the pinnacle of entertainment.
Given choices, later, as an adult, most so called popular or romantic crap is then easily avoided. Or you just read a book on your phone instead. What I would’ve given in my teens to have a slim little book holding device no one questions in my pocket.
Never bought the hype or music for Titanic. Thanks for ID-ing this photo.
Give it a shot it’s a good film. Considering it was filmed in 1997 the visuals still hold up pretty well and the writing is pretty good, especially by today’s standards.
I prefer things more like Amelie for romantic comedy. And old school 5hr 90s versions of Pride & Prejudice for straight romance. Besides, now you’re telling me not only does the ship sink and romance not win out, but she drops the one bright spot, future financial security for her family, in the ocean. Why would I watch that?
That, and I’ve never been a DiCaprio fan. Winslet is cool though.
I mean the jewel represented way more than just financial security. I would say her reasoning to dump it is pretty valid. It also means that romance absolutely won out.
For people that have been there it kind of makes sense. The jewel represented the man that was her abuser. He wanted to keep her locked up in a cage. Her dumping the jewel was her catharsis that she was free. Free to make her own choices.
Its actually all just a high concept, softcore porno that takes place in a Model A Ford, just with an unusually developed plot and large production value, that bookends this.
Its ok, there can be cultural references you do not immediately understand, we don’t have to all have the exact same repetoire of concepts in our brains.
I have never watched the movie, don’t know that I’ve ever seen an image from this scene, but instantly recognized it because I’ve read people complain about it so many times online.
You’re either the perfect shut in that doesn’t leave the house or interact with anyone or anything. Or lying through your teeth to make yourself look cool and hipster to random internet strangers.
It’s been talked about online, referenced in other media.
I know the average Lemmite makes being a contrarian their only personality trait.
Or… and here me out… maybe not everyone has a photographic memory for every scene in every movie that they’ve ever seen going back twenty years…
Or maybe someone just isn’t a cinemaphile and doesn’t watch every movie that receives hype.
And just because you’ve heard people talking about a movie doesn’t mean you can automatically identify every fucking still frame and synopsis point from that movie.
You’re the one being contrarian. Also, apparently according to you the average lemming has at least two "only personality trait"s. Do you know what that phrase even means? Is it your only comeback? Are you a bot, or just not very creative?
If Titanic was some low budget indy film, that would be a fair complaint.
But when it’s one of the biggest films of all time.
Constantly referenced, in the popular zeitgeist for years. Changed movie going for years. If this was Crank 2, sure I would be perfectly ok with someone not knowing. But it’s not.
This isn’t about having a photographic memory for every scene and plot point. (Although if you think you need that to remember the media you’ve watched. Yikes, hate to be you)
At a certain point it changes from “I haven’t watched this so I don’t know” to “I am deliberately going out of my way to pretend to not know anything about this”
That’s being a contrarian, that’s being culturally blind, that’s trying to be a hipster and proud of it.
If Titanic was some low budget indy film, that would be a fair complaint.
So because it had a high budget and was produced by a big-name studio, that somehow obligates everyone on the internet to have seen it?
Constantly referenced, in the popular zeitgeist for years. Changed movie going for years.
In other words, hype.
This isn’t about having a photographic memory for every scene and plot point. (Although if you think you need that to remember the media you’ve watched. Yikes, hate to be you)
It’s about recognizing one still frame from the end of the movie, and a vague description of what happened in that scene. You’re doing mental gymnastics to pretend otherwise.
At a certain point it changes from “I haven’t watched this so I don’t know” to “I am deliberately going out of my way to pretend to not know anything about this”
No, some people just haven’t seen it. Or some people saw it over a decade ago and don’t remember that seen. You’re just being a dick because it makes you feel superior.
That’s being a contrarian, that’s being culturally blind, that’s trying to be a hipster and proud of it.
You’re the one being contrarian and pretentious. Nobody is obligated to understand every media reference that you dictate is so famous that everyone should know.
Nobody is obligated to understand every media reference
The very post we are talking about explains the scene and doesn’t require knowledge of the film.
If comprehending the post itself is too much? Then you are deliberately going out of your way to make yourself culturally blind, and to be a contrarian to what’s popular culture.
don’t remember that seen
It’s the emotional payoff right at the end, not some random scene half way through. If you can’t remember the end of a film, yikes.
In other words, hype
In other words you’ve been going out of your way to avoid it because it’s popular and watching what’s popular would ruin your hipster identity.
I always love it when people refer to “this ending” or “this scene” as if everyone is supposed to know what this blurry still is supposed to be from. Even if it was a video, that still doesn’t tell me what it’s from.
Edit: to all the haters…
Titanic
Never seen it. What happened in this scene?
The framing device for the whole movie is that they’re searching the wreck to find a priceless necklace, and bring along an old woman, who had it when the ship sank, to help them. She then tells them her story, moves them into abandoning the search, and in the end it’s revealed she had it the whole time when she throws it overboard.
Thanks for the actual explanation without being condescending or demeaning! I appreciate it
Thanks, I actually didn’t know this because I’ve usually fallen asleep while trying to watch that movie with someone lol
It was so long they had to put it on 2 VHS tapes
The fuck?
The big boat sinks.
I had no idea what I was looking at, then you writing this instantly made me realize the scene.
So yeah, I think the commenter’s got a point
Damn, I had a feeling, it was Titanic, because of the eerie lighting, but I’ve never watched it, never seen this scene.
I guess, it did narrow things down, though, that it’s posted here without explanation…
Literally the most watched film of all time.
I dont remember this scene from backdoor sluts 9…
“Draw me like one of your French girls”
ლ(´ ❥ `ლ) (_*_)
Bee Movie?
LotR?
Hot cheerleaders 3?
Shrek 2?
Iron Lung?
K well I didn’t see that one.
Shrek 2 obviously!
Nonetheless, I would be willing to bet that only a single digit percentage of people on this planet have seen this nearly 30 year-old movie.
I have seen it, but because it has been nearly 30 years since I have, I had no recollection of this scene.
Yeah there was a different scene teenage me found a lot more memorable
128 million Americans saw it in theatres when it came out apparently (that’s just Americans! And just the initial theatre release). But it’s been shown on TV, streaming services, etc (and you could pirate it of course) and is accessible in pretty much every country today. There’s been surveys with results like “26% of brits haven’t seen Titanic”, etc, but no real hard data unfortunately. But I’d wager the percentage has to be double digits. Not super high double digits, but definitely double digits.
I mean a portion of those have certainly died within 30 years?
Yes, and at least a billion other people have seen it since.
I think the count may be skewed, unless they accounted for folks who were paying to watch it in the theater multiple times per day, multiple times per week, for its entire run. I knew several of those at the time.
And what percentage do you think is represented on Lemmy?
4.784% of which 95.88% haven’t seen it since they saw it at the cinema or briefly after on VHS.
I bet it’s still less than 25%. Just a SWAG though.
Multiple times, I’m tired of it.
Avatar?
I saw that a year or two after it first came out and I don’t remember any of this being part of it…
Avatar made more money per view due to 3D/IMAX - which wasn’t a thing for titanic
Still, I didn’t recognize the scene or even the movie based on the pic, the description, OR your appeal to popularity, so I’m gonna have to sustain the objection to vagueposting.
(And yes, I DID see Titanic once. Mostly meh and Leo was awful in it afair)
Debbie Does Dallas?
One Night In Paris?
By you?
It’s the ending of Spiderman 3.
Gave me a solid giggle, thanks man
No, it was Gandalf wrapping the ring for Frodo.
Anyone whose seen it knows where it’s from. It’s the final scene from James Cameron’s Titanic in which Rose throws the infamous jewel into the ocean.
See, that’s where it all falls over.
How so? It was the highest grossing film for 11 years straight, starting in 1997. Only been surpassed by Avatar 1/2 and Avengers Endgame. Pretty well known film.
Doesn’t mean everyone’s seen it. 1997 was over a generation ago, the “kids” conceived in those screenings have careers and acid reflux now
I watch movies every week and I haven’t seen any of those movies. Your basic-ass experiences are not universal.
I saw the movie and had no idea. Although it was well over twenty years ago and I was more interested in the gal I was sitting next to than the movie.
If you want a recap here’s a nice summary of the important bits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saZcHBY5vyI
Haha, oh man, I forgot how much I missed these, thank you!
Man it’s been over 25 years since I watched Titanic; 95% of the memory I retained of that film is boobs and the other 5% was actually Thumbtanic. I dunno how you expect anyone to instantly recall this scene from a single frame unless you were one of those hardcore fans who saw it nine times in the cinema.
😂 I guess I’m some movie savant that remembers all the frames even though I haven’t seen the movie since 2003
Nah i’ve seen it atleast twice and it took me a while to have guessed titanic. Still needed the comments to confirm it. Can’t remember jewel being thrown away at all
Exactly the same as me. The film’s 30 years old, and I’ve definitely seen it, but probably not in the last 20 years or more. I just about recognised it was Rose but haven’t got a fucking scooby what she does at the end of the film. I thought it ended with her sat on the piece of wood watching Jack sink.
Watched it a couple months ago with my wife. She drops the jewel into the ocean above the wreckage, then goes back home, where we see a bunch of pictures across her dresser showing that she had an adventurous and fulfilling life, inspired by Jack’s last words to her.
That explains it. I’ve never had any desire to see that movie, and thus I never have.
For GenX / Xennials we grew up with a plethora of shitty ass movies not worth your time or headspace. No electronic devices, thus you’re subjected to that crap during social encounters. Multiple video rental stores in every town containing so much garbage, friends and relatives constantly naming it as the pinnacle of entertainment.
Given choices, later, as an adult, most so called popular or romantic crap is then easily avoided. Or you just read a book on your phone instead. What I would’ve given in my teens to have a slim little book holding device no one questions in my pocket.
Never bought the hype or music for Titanic. Thanks for ID-ing this photo.
Give it a shot it’s a good film. Considering it was filmed in 1997 the visuals still hold up pretty well and the writing is pretty good, especially by today’s standards.
I prefer things more like Amelie for romantic comedy. And old school 5hr 90s versions of Pride & Prejudice for straight romance. Besides, now you’re telling me not only does the ship sink and romance not win out, but she drops the one bright spot, future financial security for her family, in the ocean. Why would I watch that?
That, and I’ve never been a DiCaprio fan. Winslet is cool though.
I mean the jewel represented way more than just financial security. I would say her reasoning to dump it is pretty valid. It also means that romance absolutely won out.
When I was a kid I thought it was dumb but kids are kinda dumb ngl
For people that have been there it kind of makes sense. The jewel represented the man that was her abuser. He wanted to keep her locked up in a cage. Her dumping the jewel was her catharsis that she was free. Free to make her own choices.
To be fair, Titanic was pretty iconic
Never seen it. Something about French ladies and floating door space?
You’re not alone. I’ve not seen it, no intention to either
Its actually all just a high concept, softcore porno that takes place in a Model A Ford, just with an unusually developed plot and large production value, that bookends this.
I tried watching it three times and fell asleep every time. I’ve come to the conclusion, that it is a very boring movie.
Its ok, there can be cultural references you do not immediately understand, we don’t have to all have the exact same repetoire of concepts in our brains.
I have never watched the movie, don’t know that I’ve ever seen an image from this scene, but instantly recognized it because I’ve read people complain about it so many times online.
It’s a frame from near the end of my sex tape.
For some reason I thought it was Wendy from Hook lol
Until coming to the comments, I thought it was from The Others, but that didn’t fit the title.
The Titanic.
Titenic
T-t-t-t-titenic
The bougiest of beat-em ups!
Lemmites try not to make cultural blindness their only personality trait challenge.
Calling someone expressing their lack of omniscience “making cultural blindness their only personality trait” is a wild leap.
It’s bloody Titanic.
If you never heard it seen anything about it.
You’re either the perfect shut in that doesn’t leave the house or interact with anyone or anything. Or lying through your teeth to make yourself look cool and hipster to random internet strangers.
It’s been talked about online, referenced in other media.
I know the average Lemmite makes being a contrarian their only personality trait.
Or… and here me out… maybe not everyone has a photographic memory for every scene in every movie that they’ve ever seen going back twenty years…
Or maybe someone just isn’t a cinemaphile and doesn’t watch every movie that receives hype.
And just because you’ve heard people talking about a movie doesn’t mean you can automatically identify every fucking still frame and synopsis point from that movie.
You’re the one being contrarian. Also, apparently according to you the average lemming has at least two "only personality trait"s. Do you know what that phrase even means? Is it your only comeback? Are you a bot, or just not very creative?
If Titanic was some low budget indy film, that would be a fair complaint.
But when it’s one of the biggest films of all time.
Constantly referenced, in the popular zeitgeist for years. Changed movie going for years. If this was Crank 2, sure I would be perfectly ok with someone not knowing. But it’s not.
This isn’t about having a photographic memory for every scene and plot point. (Although if you think you need that to remember the media you’ve watched. Yikes, hate to be you)
At a certain point it changes from “I haven’t watched this so I don’t know” to “I am deliberately going out of my way to pretend to not know anything about this”
That’s being a contrarian, that’s being culturally blind, that’s trying to be a hipster and proud of it.
So because it had a high budget and was produced by a big-name studio, that somehow obligates everyone on the internet to have seen it?
In other words, hype.
It’s about recognizing one still frame from the end of the movie, and a vague description of what happened in that scene. You’re doing mental gymnastics to pretend otherwise.
No, some people just haven’t seen it. Or some people saw it over a decade ago and don’t remember that seen. You’re just being a dick because it makes you feel superior.
You’re the one being contrarian and pretentious. Nobody is obligated to understand every media reference that you dictate is so famous that everyone should know.
The very post we are talking about explains the scene and doesn’t require knowledge of the film.
If comprehending the post itself is too much? Then you are deliberately going out of your way to make yourself culturally blind, and to be a contrarian to what’s popular culture.
It’s the emotional payoff right at the end, not some random scene half way through. If you can’t remember the end of a film, yikes.
In other words you’ve been going out of your way to avoid it because it’s popular and watching what’s popular would ruin your hipster identity.