My heart did not go on for Titanic back in the 1990s.
I'll admit it. I just didn't get
Titanic, back in the day. Wasn't a fan.
I've seen the film exactly once. That's it. I groan at the Celine Dion song.
I certainly did not see what all the fuss was about back in the 1997, when my sister and I giggled our way through it at the cineplex in Texas.
We were late, so we had to sit in the second row of a packed theater during the peak of the holidays. So it already felt like 3-D.
Our parents had just moved to the Houston area, and we were still living in Oklahoma finishing college, so we were the perfect core audience for the biggest movie ever.
I like Leonardo DiCaprio just fine, as an actor. Loved him in
What's Eating Gilbert Grape? and
The Basketball Diaries.
But I wasn't crushing on him. And for a 22-year-old,
that was the problem, wasn't it?
He was exactly my age back then -- just not my type. I thought he was kind of twirpy. In fact, I thought the other guy Kate Winslet was supposed to marry was more interesting. Billy Zane, right? Oh boy.
Yes, you can pretend to throw large objects at my head.
Truthfully, I was more into Johnny Depp, Jared Leto (before he turned rocker), Owen Wilson and Paul Rudd.
What's my point?
That I have to see
Titanic again -- this time with a proper perspective, as a grown up -- not a film snobbish college student.
How many times did you see the classic movie?
