Big loss; "Sundown" is a legendary tune, and "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" was a song that my stepson and I were able to bond over (he's on the spectrum and went through a ship/shipwreck phase).
Interesting. My son had a Titanic fetish. Still kind of does.
Same here! He and I went down to NYC to see a Titanic exhibit in November of last year. It was pretty cool.
Funny story: Titanic is my daughter's favorite movie, so one day a couple years ago (he had to be about 8 or so) my stepson says to her "Hey, do you want to watch Titanic with me?" and she was all fired up to have something in common to share. She gets some popcorn, puts the movie on... and my stepson proceeds to fast forward through every scene with Leo and Kate. All he wanted to see were the scenes after they hit the iceberg! They made it through the entire movie in about 45 minutes. 
We laugh about it now.
There's actually a fan-edit that does that. I think it's called "The Historical Edition." Knocks it down to about an hour-ten.
I definitely have a Titanic fetish
I first took a liking to it when I was about 6, and when the movie came out when I was in 3rd grade, I was hooked. I even wrote a poem about it in 5th grade that got published in some national poems book.
That NYC exhibit was pretty cool, but I'd argue it was more of a White Star Line/Olympic Class exhibit more than a Titanic one. I love all of that stuff though, so I didn't care, but I know a handful of people that reviewed it poorly because they felt like it was misrepresented. They were expecting tons of artifacts that were lifted from the wreck itself, not just a few items pulled off bodies that were found or heirlooms that were donated by the decedents of survivors. There's actually a huge exhibit out in Vegas (at the Luxor I believe) that features all of that stuff. I wish I had known that was out there the five times I went between 2016 and 2020.
To the movie:
I used to dislike the love story aspect to Cameron's film, but I've come to really appreciate it as I've grown older. Not only have I come to like it, but I think it was necessary to give us an un-forced tour of the ship in under 3 hours while also acting as perfect mechanism to properly highlight the class differences of the time, both on the ship itself and in general culture.
There's a movie from the 1950 called A Night To Remember that's really phenomenal. It's a Titanic movie that was every bit as big of a production at the time as Cameron's version was. Cameron actually incorporated a number of intentional calls/nods to that film, some shots being almost 1:1 colorized recreations. Fun fact, the guy who played Archibald Gracie in Cameron's Titanic also played Frederick Fleet (guy who spotted the iceberg) in the ANTR. I always thought that was pretty cool.
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