The Book Was Awesome.
I haven't seen the movie. What's so bad about it?
Some antelopes are vegans -My sister
It would take to long to say what is wrong with the movie just enjoy the book.
shareQuestion about the book - in the movie that bit about the Russians coming aboard and the "secret submarine" coming to the rescue looked pretty lame to me. Is it in the book? How about the Dana-Seagram thing? That went nowhere in the movie. Was it in the book and did Cussler do anything with it?
shareIn the book a rescue team came aboard during the storm to retake the ship from the russians they was shot out the torpedo of the sub
In the book also Dirk and Dana did not know one another before they meet on this mission they a one-time flng in one of the staterooms of the ship and that is far as it went
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Rescue team shot out of a torpedo tube? And I thought the "secret sub" bit was lame. I may have to read this book - it might improve my opinion of the movie (which had its good points - the special effects were pretty good, especially the Titanic breaking the surface, and I'm a Richard Jordan fan and he never looked better. I also thought the scenes with Alec Guiness were marvelous, he made me feel like maybe the darned ship was worth raising after all)
shareThe movie version of Raise the Titanic is like The Ten Commandments without the plagues or the parting of the Red Sea; it is like Ben Hur without the chariot race or the sea battle; it is The Blues Brothers without the music; it is Love Story without anyone dying; it is M*A*S*H without the football game or shower scene; it is Dune without the sandworms.
Everything that made the book exciting was excised. It is an "action" movie without any action. All of that raging battle on the ship with the Russians? Gone. The Russian comes aboard and in a bad accent says "We claim it" - and to the best of my memory, Jason Robards says "Oh yeah, look over there" and ONE fighter jet flies over and the he says "Look over there" and ONE sub surfaces. The Russian shrugs his shoulders and leaves. Then when Robards says he didn't want the Russians to have a byzanium bomb? Huh? Where did that come from?
John Barry's score is good though. I think he reused much of it later.