Picking Nits
Perfectly fitting borrowed tuxedo; stereotyped steerage party; broke family's fine things; untried shared debris; lucky rescue sequence; surviving Picasso; poker stakes for tickets
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- Molly Brown's tuxedo fits Jack perfectly, a recurring movie problem with borrowed clothes.
- The steerage party depicts poor people only square dancing, arm wrestling, and drinking stout; the other host accepts any depiction of European parties.
- Rose's family is secretly broke yet still has fine things to auction; their Philadelphia elite status is joked about given the city's sports-fan reputation.
- Jack and Rose might both have fit on the floating debris after only one attempt; Jack should have kept trying since he knew staying in the water was fatal.
- Rose finding the handcuffed Jack from vague directions, finding an axe, and hitting the chain in three feet of water all rely on luck before he dies anyway.
- A real Picasso painting mentioned by Rose appears to go down with the ship yet still exists.
- Jack and his friend were broke, so it is unclear what they staked against the tickets in the poker game; Cameron is joked not to understand poker.