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Summary: Excellent movie, disappointed over the DVD.
Review: Don't get me wrong, I love TITANIC but I found it odd how the disc transfer was only limited to the bare bones! A theatrical trailer, that's it! Come on! This is the most expensive movie, highest grossing movie, most critically acclaimed, and most award-winning movie an there are zero extras? Cameron's other films are fully loaded. TITANIC gets the shaft while lesser films like AMERICAN PIE 2 are blessed with double disc sets with hours of bonuses. This pains me beyond belief as a film buff. I remember a well-done special that was once on FOX about the film and would've been perfect on the disc. A commentary, for crying out loud! A million filmmakers and castmembers and no commentary track? Insane! This disc should be the most overwhelming, extra-ladden DVD ever made, but instead only got left with the standard. The picture and sound quality is top notch, but once you're done the movie you're anxious to find out more. There aren't even any cheesy production notes! Collectors, skip this DVD unless you really love the movie. I only hope that J.C. realizes this and is in the works of a TITANIC SPECIAL EDITION. Now that would do it justice.
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Summary: Titanic
Review: Titanic is the highest grossing movie of all-time and it was pointless! A 3rd class guy saves a 1st class young woman and they fall in love.
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Summary: I LOVE TITANIC!
Review: Titanic is my favorite movie! i REALLY want TITanic to come out on Special Edition DVD though!
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Summary: SAPPY excuse for psychological torture
Review: There are thousands of reasons that this movie deserves to be condemned. I will list the most obvious and extreme reasons that everyone should despise this movie.
First and foremost, the person that said Leo DiCaprio could act needs to have a bucket of VERY icy water dumped over their head. He is the second worst actor that I have ever seen on screen (the first being Hayden Christiansen). 'Jack Dawson' comes across as an imbecilic, sappy cornball.
Also, who exactly decided that Kate Winslet could act? 'Rose' is one of the most melodramatic, annoying, bratty characters that I have ever seen.
As if the combination of DiCaprio and Winslet weren't bad enough, the script writer...well, let's put it this way; any person who gives a line about, and I quote 'making lots of babies' to a character that was supposed to be around the age of twenty should not be allowed to write the script for anything, let alone a movie that was supposedly worthy of eleven academy awards.
This movie reminds me destinctly of a badly written melodrama, complete with a 'heroine' (read: bratty, rich damsel in distress) a villian who practically ties her to a railroad track, and a hero who heroicly dies saving her.
To wrap up this review, I would just like to give anyone reading it six words of advice: STAY AWAY FROM THIS CINEMATIC ABOMINATION!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: ITS BEEN ABOUT 7YRS AND I STILL LOVE IT!
Review: Ever since was in forth grade I have loved this movie and still today I love it! Its romantic and just flat out great! But if your checking this out then you should already have seen the movie, or atleast heard of it... its still the #1 movie on my list!
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Summary: SPECIAL EDITION DVD in progress!
Review: (Titanic is towards the bottom)"This is, perhaps, the most important area to keep an eye on. Now that more and more old 'movie-only' discs are being replaced with special edition treatments, knowing about these developments early on may save you from buying multiple versions. The following titles are currently in production, but as yet no official release date has been set. The dates listed are tentative and are subject to change without notice." Batman: Special Edition (TBD)
Batman Returns: Special Edition (TBD)
Backdraft: Collector's Edition (TBD)
Blade Runner: Special Edition (TBD)
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Special Edition (TBD)
Chariots of Fire: Special Edition (2004)
English Patient, The: Special Edition (Mid 2004)
Fifth Element: Special Edition (TBD)
Goodfellas: Special Edition (TBD)
Iron Giant: Special Edition (TBD)
It's a Wonderful Life: Special Edition (TBD)
The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride: Special Edition (TBD)
Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition (late 2004)
Office Space: Special Edition (TBD)
The Outsiders: Extended Version (TBD)
Spaceballs: Special Edition (TBD)
Stripes: Special Edition (TBD)
Titanic: Special Edition (Late 2004)!!!!!!!!!!
Top Gun: Special Edition (Mid 2004)
True Lies: Special Edition (TBD)
Untouchables, The: Special Collector's Edition (July 2004) Keep track at this website http://www.dvdangle.com/articles/se_list.html for changing or the official relese date of TITANIC Special Edition DVD!!!
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Summary: Clumsy, Overblown
Review: The set is spectacular and ornately authentic, the lighting and colours glossily decorative, the action-- a young, glamorous, romantic couple struggling against all odds for survival--as old and formulaic as in a silent serial. For all the extravagant expenditure, the mostly superb effects work, and the needless claims to historical accuracy, Cameron's recreation of the tragic sinking of the world's most famous ocean-liner is dramatically archaic and primitive. Lauded for his expertise with exciting action set-pieces since making the ingenious cult hit The Terminator, he had never been successfully shown much interest in his stories' emotional or psychological aspects; Titanic's relentless focus on a crudely drawn ill-starred couple (upper-crust Kate Winslet and salt-of-the-earth impoverished artist Leonardo DiCaprio), trying to save their lives and love from the schemes of stereotypical rich villains and an inconvenient iceberg, is hackneyed, cartoon-thin and frankly something of an insult to those who perished in the real disaster. Overblown and clumsily scripted, the doomed romance wrecks the narrative's momentum, though once the ship starts going down, Cameron, clearly happier with chaos, carnage and high-tech, displays the grasp of rapid cutting, epic-scale terror and visual bravura that defines the most memorable scenes in his earlier work. Sadly, as he aims, ambitiously but all-too-conspicuously, for the mythic, he equates more with better: good business sense in the era of the 'event movie', maybe, but grandiose, simplistic and artistically limiting.
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Summary: Movie celebrates the most overrated event in history
Review: The Titanic movie should never have been made. Because no one should remember the Titanic. 1912 (the year the overrated ship sank) was a bored year for America. Nothing much was happening so the papers spent time covering this shipwreck. Six years later the world plummetted into the worst pandemic ever seen---Spanish Influenza.40 Million people died of influenza in that outbreak. Hollywood listen up and make a film about the SI Pandemic. Unlike the Titanic it was important.
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Summary: the best movie ever...with NO SPECIAL FEATURES!!
Review: I loved this movie and saw it a million times in theatres. The DVD of this film however is way below standards. PLEASE release a 2 disc version enhanced for widescreen tv's. Special features would also be a nice touch. This is the higest grossing movie of all time! Lets treat it with some respect...thank you!!!
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Summary: Sappy love story - in a titanic way!
Review: When I saw this movie on the big screen, I was overcome with emotion and the images of the catastrophic fate of the largest oceanliner in its time haunted me for days. Unfortunately, this movie lost its charm and appeal quickly. The video is nothing compared to the big screen. The grandness, both of the magnificent ship and of its horrendous destruction, are lost when viewed on the TV. While this film made Leonardo DiCaprio a household name (and somewhat of a pre-teen idol to be mocked by most adults), he has played far more challenging roles in What's Eating Gilbert Grape and The Man in the Iron Mask. Kate Winslet looked stunning and gave her character semi-believable growth and development throughout the film. What is most striking about this film, especially when viewed on video, is the very apparent break between love story and disaster drama. The first video literally ends when the two young lovers come together and face the adversaries of their relationship. The second tape is almost entirely about the sinking of the great ship Titanic. It is filled with incredible struggle and pain, fear and intense love. In one incredibly striking scene, a mother holds her children in bed and tells them a story as they drift off to sleep - and their watery grave. This film rates 3 stars in my book - no more because the cheesy love story is almost too much to take! But no less either, because the tragedy and immense drama of the Titanic's fate is truly brought to life as no work as done before.
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