Titanic is still the highest-grossing movie of all time. It’s made nearly 2 billion dollar worldwide.
If you look at the other movies in the top 10, they’re all part of series: LOTR, Spiderman, Pirates, Harry Potter, hell, they even made a bunch more Jurassic Park movies.
But the thing is, Titantic is now 10 years old and nobody’s really tried to make a huge rip-off. I mean, sure, you can’t (thank God) do a sequel, but where are the people clamboring to make a gutsy-woman-leaves-her-crap-fiancee-during-time-of-major-action-catastrophe-and-finds-her-strength movies?
Sure, there’s The Notebook, but again: it’s her husband telling the story, and it’s framed as being his story. You get maybe half the story: you’ll get the romance part or the action part, and still, STILL, ten years later, we’re not getting that strong woman’s story from the woman’s POV, the sort of silly fourteen-year-old-teen-girl fantasy story with the bad dialogue that I went to see 11 times (and which did, indeed, assist me in finding the strength to break off a bad relationship).
So if Hollywood’s really so interested in making gobs of money, where are the Titantic knockoffs? Or have they just all been so bad that you don’t hear about them? Or have they been half-hearted attempts that tell the guy’s half of the romance or lose themselves in swarm and forget the action?
What’s so scary about kewl action stories about women who actually wear actual clothes, have no-strings sex, and get to spit in their abusive fiance’s face?
I mean, I would pay money to see that.
I would pay money to see that eleven times.
And, obviously, a hell of a lot of other women would, too.
(NOTE: though it does look like Kate and Leo are pairing up again after 10 years, which I find almost as surprising as the fact that nobody’s made another woman-kicks-ass-disaster-romance movie)
