James Cameron commissioned a whole study to resolve the Jack-on-the-door Titanic debate

It has been called one of the greatest movie controversies of all time. Not only did 1997’s Titanic rock audiences with its action-packed, bittersweet story of ill-fated love on the “unsinkable” Titanic in 1912, but it also changed the landscape of movie CGI forever.

Oh, and Jack and Rose could have totally shared that floating door together. WE SAID WHAT WE SAID.

Except Canadian director James Cameron doesn’t think so, and for 25 years, he has been on the receiving end of endless commentary – why did Jack have to die? Why couldn’t they both have floated on that door together? WHY DO YOU HATE HAPPY LOVE STORIES, JAMES?

So the Oscar-winning director did what any man with an ego and lots of money would do - he commissioned a forensic study to analyse whether Jack and Rose actually could have survived on the door together. And according to him, the facts don’t lie, because the results say "nope."

Speaking with The Toronto Sun, the Avatar: The Way of Water director said, “We have done a scientific study to put this whole thing to rest and drive a stake through its heart once and for all.”

“We have since done a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who reproduced the raft from the movie and we’re going to do a little special on it that comes out in February,” he continued. “We took two stunt people who were the same body mass of Kate and Leo and we put sensors all over them and inside them and we put them in ice water and we tested to see whether they could have survived through a variety of methods and the answer was, there was no way they both could have survived. Only one could survive.”

The ending of Titanic left many moviegoers emotionally traumatized and shocked that the epic love story between Jack and Rose couldn’t (as Celine sang) go onnnn and onnnnn. Does Cameron feel the same way?

“No, he needed to die,” he bluntly told the outlet. “It’s like Romeo and Juliet. It’s a movie about love and sacrifice and mortality. The love is measured by the sacrifice.”

The outlet reports that the Titanic re-release will hit cinemas next Valentines Day, and he hopes that this study will finally offer him some peace. “Maybe … maybe … after 25 years, I won’t have to deal with this anymore.”

This isn’t the first time that this controversy over the floating door debacle has rocked the cast and crew of Titanic. During promotion for 2019’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie grilled their co-star Leonardo DiCaprio on what they called the “greatest movie controversy of all time,” the floating door. The Titanic star outright refused to comment, even after Margot admitted she bawled her eyes out the first time she saw the film.

Co-star Kate Winslet has also had to contend with the drama. During an appearance in 2017 on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the late night host made her crawl up on his desk alongside him to prove Jack and Rose could easily fit.

And people on Twitter are definitely not convinced.