It’s always fascinating to see how the collective consciousness works in the face of tragedy, and in the case of the Titan submersible’s disappearance, one of the first things people decided to do was watch James Cameron’s Titanic.
While the two most definitely aren’t unconnected, there’s still an element of bad taste about a vessel going missing while on an expedition to the wreckage of the titular ship immediately inspiring a huge number of subscribers to a variety of different platforms to watch a three-hour epic love story that won 11 Academy Awards, although James Cameron passing his public – and necessarily scathing – assessment on the matter may have played a part as well.
It’s not just an isolated incident, either, because Titanic has quite literally appeared out of nowhere to rise from the depths and cement itself as one of the most-watched titles on a myriad of platforms. Per FlixPatrol, the three-hour disaster drama is one of the Top 10 most-watched movies on Prime Video in the United States, while it’s taken a berth on the iTunes Top 10 in no less than 24 countries around the world since yesterday.
In addition, it can also be found on the worldwide rankings of Disney Plus, Amazon, Paramount Plus, Rakuten, and Star+, and there’s obviously only one major reason why. After all, based on a cumulative box office haul of $2.257 billion, there’s a lot of people out there who’ve seen the film more times than they can count.
And yet, all it takes is one doomed tourist venture to see it propelled back into the spotlight, which is a touch on the morbid side if nothing else.
