I am a pretty big James Cameron fan, and I think he's a smart guy with a lot of knowledge on Titanic.
But he is not a scientist. He's not a physicist. He has no training in hydrodynamics, metallurgy or engineering. He is a film maker, and that's all.
So it was fairly galling to have to watch him throughout the entirety of this film saying "I think this", "I think that", while other actual scientists with actual training in the above fields are disagreeing with him, but he bluntly refuses to acknowledge their input.
Some of those scientists actually say in the film: "You can disagree with James, so long as you have all your evidence ready, lined up in a row and doing a chorus line." James, however, seems to require no evidence at all for any his theories, and blindly bulldozes over the actual science with his own narrative.
So if you are looking for a truly science based, forensic detailing of the Titanic sinking, this movie is not it.
What this movie DOES have though is some absolutely fantastic, modern footage of the wreck. That at least was worth seeing.
So stick to the film making James, and in future leave the science to the scientists.
But he is not a scientist. He's not a physicist. He has no training in hydrodynamics, metallurgy or engineering. He is a film maker, and that's all.
So it was fairly galling to have to watch him throughout the entirety of this film saying "I think this", "I think that", while other actual scientists with actual training in the above fields are disagreeing with him, but he bluntly refuses to acknowledge their input.
Some of those scientists actually say in the film: "You can disagree with James, so long as you have all your evidence ready, lined up in a row and doing a chorus line." James, however, seems to require no evidence at all for any his theories, and blindly bulldozes over the actual science with his own narrative.
So if you are looking for a truly science based, forensic detailing of the Titanic sinking, this movie is not it.
What this movie DOES have though is some absolutely fantastic, modern footage of the wreck. That at least was worth seeing.
So stick to the film making James, and in future leave the science to the scientists.