Titanic: Love it or hate it ?

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Originally Posted by MouseWife

I have a pair of sweatpants of Leos from when he was visiting a friend here in San Diego {yes, I am the person they called to give them to as he was never going to come back for them.....}.

But, back to the movie, I loved the clothing, I loved everything {I really loved Molly Brown!!}

It's a shame you never made it out to Fox Studios here in sydney when they had the "Titanic: The Experience" attraction !! I loved going on it. You went into a huge soundstage, and after seeing all the props & models from the movie, the end of the soundstage opened up and you walked over the gangplank into the Titanic !! (a great illusion to make the ship's hull look real-size: Think 'Mile-Long Bar' and you'll guess how they did it)

Once inside, you were in 3rd class. Full set recreation. Once underway, you see the iceberg through the portholes, all goes horribly wrong, and you're evacuated from steerage in two groups. One via the boiler rooms, and one via first-class. There were two different endings, depending on which route you took.

If you were en-route to the Boiler Room, first you went through the cargo hold, and yes, there was the car, complete with misty handprint... There is a scuffle, and dialogue between actors, and they roll the car out of the way to allow egress into the Boiler room. This is in turnoil, with water all around and explosions, steam, fire, and then, the final explosion, a mist of water and..... you drown !! In the darkness the whole side of the boiler room splits and moves aside revealing the Grand Staircase as it was in the sunken ship footage - all caustic refraction lighting, seaweed, barnacles etc. We as the 'dead passengers' ascend the staircase to the exit where we are re-united with the other party.

If you were evacuated via first class, you went through some corridors and climbed a stairway to.. a locked gate ! *EEK* - Some dialogue between actors and we are let through into the Gym, and through this to Above Decks.

The Deck is tilting greatly and this angle increases dramatically as we make our way to the ramp leading to the life-boats. The lifeboats when full move across the water away from the ship, blackness falls, we swivel [to face a giant screen] and then we dimly see the Titanic hull ahead of us rising higher and higher... and then, the boat snaps in two, and the hull comes crashing down into the water in front of us, splashing us with water, and blacking out the scene once again.

We then disembark from the boats and take a short walk to join the other party.

I LOVED IT !!! (but it's closed now )


Oh, and Stoat has the recipe (I found it for him) and will be posting it soon.