What Movie Is A Guy Trying To Collect One Million VHS Copies Of?
A man who grew up watching this particular movie every single day has made it his life mission to collect and store a million copies of it at his home….
A man who grew up watching this particular movie every single day has made it his life mission to collect and store a million copies of it at his home.
According to a report, a man from Largo, FL named JD has been on a mission. His mission is to collect a million copies of the movie Titanic on VHS. He is currently at just under 2500 copies of the film so he still has a ways to go.
JD is a HUGE fan of the movie and growing up he watched the film every day. Which probably why he has such an obsession with the Leonardo DiCaprio film. He has collected so many of the tapes so far that he was able to build a Titanic out of the VHS tapes.
Florida Man Spends Thousands On Goal To Get 1 Million Titanic VHS Tapes
When he isn't spending his time constructing structures out of his Titanic VHS tapes he is spending a ton of cash. Currently he has spent thousands on his goal and plans on going into debt to achieve the million VHS goal.
JD is so focused on getting to his goal that he travels the country to search thrift stores, garage sales, and flea markets to find copies of the movie.
In addition to his collection of VHS tapes he also has the world's largest collection of the Titanic movie soundtrack. The Ripley's Believe It Or Not people actually came out and did a story on him and will be featured in their next book.
If you are interested in helping JD hit his goal and you have a copy or two of Titanic on VHS laying around he has a PO Box set up that you can mail it to him. send your VHS copies of Titanic to P.O. Box 5355 Largo, FL 33779.
James Cameron Now Admits That Jack ‘Might Have Lived’ in ‘Titanic’
James Cameron now concedes that Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack "might have survived" in Titanic. It's the age-old question we've been asking since the blockbuster movie was released 25 years ago: Why didn't Kate Winslet's Rose pull Jack up onto the float with her? There was definitely enough room, right?
It's a topic that is tackled in a new one-hour National Geographic special "Titanic: 25 Years Later with James Cameron." The special is set to air this weekend. Cameron took a couple of stunt actors on a series of tests to see whether or not Rose and Jack could have survived if she had pulled him out of the water. We'll explain below.
The special airs Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on National Geographic and streams the next day on Hulu.
James Cameron enlisted help from two stunt doubles
Actors Josh Bird and Kristine Zipfel, who were thought to be about the same height and weight as Jack and Rose, were hired for the test. Cameron notes that they doubled the time for every stage of the simulation, to make up for the fact that their water wasn't as cold as it would have been in the Atlantic Ocean in April.
James Cameron made sure the elements were similar to what Jack and Rose would have experienced
Close monitoring was done on the actors to prevent hypothermia
Jack would have suffered severe hypothermia after only 20 minutes, far shorter than the 2 hours it took for rescue crews to arrive. But if he was pulled onto the raft, things would've been different.
Both actors had to work to fit themselves onto the raft
Kneeling didn't work and keeping only their upper bodies on top would have given them both hypothermia quickly. They compromised and sat on the raft dipping only their lower legs into the water.
James Cameron makes this shocking conclusion
“Final verdict: Jack might have lived,” Cameron said, “but there’s a lot of variables.” However, he added, “In a well-lit experiment in a test pool, we can’t possibly simulate the terror, the adrenaline, all the things that would have worked against them. Jack didn’t get to run a bunch of different experiments to see what worked the best. Jack’s survival might have come at the cost of her life.”
Cameron says he would've made Rose's raft a LOT smaller now, knowing what he knows.
