Céline Dion weighs in Jack's unnecessary Titanic fate, somehow turns it into a Pointer Sisters tribute
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One thing’s for sure: Jack had to die at the end of Titanic. What remains up for debate? Whether it could’ve been prevented.
The Mythbusters guys think so, but director James Cameron will assert that the door Jack and Rose were floating on in the final act couldn’t have supported the two of them, despite there being plenty of room on that thing. But what, you might wonder, does Céline Dion think? Could his heart have gone on if Rose had scooted over just a skotch? She offered an answer on a recent episode of Fallon.
“You know that’s a long time ago, right?” Dion asks, marveling, as she should, over still being asked Titanic questions. Still, she serves up a serious answer, essentially saying that both were probably too “frozen” to have the strength to balance themselves on the board. More importantly, though, she puts the blame not on Rose, as is often the case, but on Jack, who could’ve just hopped up on the board himself. “He doesn’t need an invitation,” she says, offering a cheeky glare at the camera.
Most enjoyable, though, is her using the question to launch into an impromptu Pointer Sisters tribute. “Maybe his body is so frozen that he doesn’t have the strength to…JUMP—for my love.” Fallon, his brain not as clogged with Funkin Gonuts and Jay Leno residue as we thought, gets the reference, egging her on for a few more bars.
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For a while after Titanic, it appeared Leo’s career was destined for a similar fate as his charter in the movie.Awful film overall, even worse soundtrack.
It’s this kind of detailed cinematic analysis that I come to the Commentariat for.
Tough but fair. That was utterly lazy, even by my standards.
FOR THE LAST TIME. It’s not about whether they both could have fit on the door. Their combined weight would have sunk the damn thing and they both would have died. It’s been over 20 years of this now!I have spoken.
Mythbustres “proved” otherwise, but I gave you a star for the Mandalorian reference.
Only because they cheated by adding a life preserver underneath the wood…
TBH i’m now sick of seeing that reference everywhere.
I find her simultaneously freakishly charming and horrifically embarrassing. Net result should be indifference, but she’s so damn goony, I’m developing a surprising fondness for her. She needs to show up on Bob’s Burgers.
She can advertise his My Hart Will Go On venison burger.
The “I Clove All Night” burger.The “It’s All Cumin Back to Ghee Now” burger.
I always disliked her until her Al TV interview. Really humanized her.
Somehow I have never heard Celine Dion speak (only sing), and I had no idea she has an accent. My world is turned upside-down….okay, I’m better now.
It’s as I said to my friend when I sent the link to her carpool karaoke: what a delightful weirdo. She’s definitely grown on me.I don’t listen to her music at all, but I came across a taped concert of hers on TV a few years ago and I couldn’t stop watching because her performance was so gripping. I mean, she has an amazing voice, whether the music style/embellishment is to my taste or not, but it was more than that. It was just her entire attitude of having fun and knowing that she’d do a good job that made it pretty damn magnetic. The only other person I can say that for is, unfortunately, Michael Jackson. Tl;dr: What a delightful weirdo.
I don’t think I appreciated how charming Celine Dion is earlier in her career. She just seems to enjoy being her.
And here I thought she was going to talk about how she’s so excited.
It really speaks to the French culture how they managed to make the nicest people on the planet (Canadians) fucking terrifying.