Notas del episodio
Coming off Ben Hur — the first film to win 11 Oscars — we hit the only other movie to match that record: Titanic. And yeah, it won zero acting awards, which tells you everything you need to know going in.
Kyle, Seth, and John break down James Cameron's $200 million gamble that somehow became the highest-grossing film of its time — and one of the most emotionally manipulative movies ever made. Is it a romance? A disaster film? A technical marvel hiding a deeply mediocre screenplay? All three. We dig into why Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, and Bernard Hill (King Theoden himself) are criminally underrated here, why Rose is genuinely insufferable as a narrator, and why Jack Dawson — a nomadic hobo who apparently had all of Paris wanting their portrait done — is one of the weirdest protagonists in blockbuster history.
We also get personal: Seth ...