Let me start this off by saying, "Thank you, James Cameron," for if it were not for this movie I might never know the story of Titanic. Before this movie was made I knew next to nothing about the tragedy. I only knew that it was a ship that hit an iceberg and sank. I didn't know of the gross loss of life, and so many of these people died because there weren't enough lifeboats, and those who died didn't die of drowning as I had previously just assumed, but by freezing to death. I had just never imagined.
Now on to the ship itself. I didn't even know it was a passenger liner and I never could have imagined that something built "back then" could be so breathtakingly beautiful. This movie introduced me not only to the story of the Titanic, but also to the gloriousness of the entire Edwardian era, and my life has since become ae endless pursuit of knowledge pertaining to that era.
So, back to the real question here, I saw it ten times in the theater, about half with my one closest friend, 4 times each with a different person who I thought needed to see the movie, and once by myself because my ol' reliable friend refused to go with me one more time. The number of times I've watched it since on video, tv, and dvd, I've lost count of. I do remember when I first got it on dvd that I watched it twice that same day, and probably once a day for the rest of that week. When the Special Edition came out, forget it...you couldn't talk to me until I watched every single special feature. It'd be interesting for me to know exactly how much time I've spent watching this movie!
