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Summary: Titanic Stays Afloat...Barely
Review: Despite incredible special effects, intricate art/set decoration, lush cinematography, gorgeous costumes, and tense commotion scenes (despite the interlude of the lovers's fate) during the sinking of the ship, Titanic (the movie/boat) sinks, as suggested by the film, as a result of its pretention. James Cameron may have done overexhaustive research on the launching and sinking of the ship, but forgot another important topic: the mannerisms and dialogue of people in the early 20th century. Hawking loogies, the middle finger, sex in the back seat (an early reference to cars being initially dubbed as "brothels on wheels"), along with various cliched phrases are more associated with the nineties "culture". A certain song/poem Jack recites was not even written prior to 1912! As a result, along with the retrospective viewpoint, the movie conveys an anachronistic nineties period and is therefore too immature to deal with such a mature topic. This accounts for the vast appeal of the film (especially among teeny-boppers) along with its top-billed stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Leo, along with Ben Affleck, should never act in period films because they are not willing to ignore their personal upbringing and bring characters with extremely different lifestyles to life. As a result, Jack remains flat and uninspiring, despite the fact that he stands for the good ol' U.S.A. and consequently liberation/freedom. He does well in such films as Basketball Diaries with which he appears to identify with. Kate Winselt's acting was rather disappointing despite giving wonderful perfomances in other period pieces, namely Jude and Sense & Sensibility. However this should be attributed to Rose's lack of character despite her wanting to be a "rebel"; she is remembered sorely for her wetness, nudity, and continual wideopen horror stricken glance at anonymous people. Billy Zane manages to snivel every line like the villain he attempts to be. Only Victor Garber, the Captain, and the extras (the musicians in particular) display a truer sense of dignity and courage during the sinking of the ship unlike Jack and Rose who fear above all that their sexual relationsihip (embodied in the phallic ship) might also sink. Most noticeable, however, are the various stereotypes aboard the Titanic, mainly the romanticizing of the poor versus the unfeeling monstrous upper-class. Recalling A Fish Called Wanda, Titanic appears to propagate that America and what it stands for is what one should embrace in order to liberate oneself from demons and society's demons! James Horner's soundtrack is a complete derivative of the theme song (which has illogical lyrics) and therefore repetitive. I believe that if more consideration was given to the script, especially the deletion of the "male fantasy" i.e. Kate Winslet's posing nude for a portrait (thus removing our shameless voyeurism), and the relationship between English society and people were further explored and devoid of stereotypes and cliches, the acting would/might follow through and might have actually made a very good movie. For all of you who believe that 11 Oscars (recalling Ben Hur!) is "nuff said," I recommend that you read Danny Peary's book, Alternate Oscars, where he correctly identifies that the Academy Awards are very rarely a good indicator of the merit of a film.
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Summary: masterpiece with hyper-fabricated scenes and performances.
Review: I have seen this movie 8 times so far:3 times in the theatre,and 5 at home on the video.Having the arousal of whole events based on a drawing of a "naked" lady who has been shown in the early course of events as 'POLITE' , 'SHY' ,and 'CONSENT' is for out-fooling the teen-agers.I feel so sorry that the farest and the best of the thoughts of the producers and directors was to turn out the seemingly "decent" into a whocker's attitude as she poses for a masterpiece memorial.Unfortunately,the thought was all directed towards the teenage-way of thinking rather than creating a moralistic motive for the events of film that wanted to speak of a 'heart that will go on. Moreover,as I was wondering why JACK could not ride up on back on the piece of wood together with ROSE as a top of hyper-fabrication that fools the teens only,one of the hearty she-teens burst crying on JACK -the frozen , and we all in the theatre burst into laugh on her.It was just a movie for the teens,that is it..also the dummies falling and the frozen dead dummies were so rediculus.Respect our thoughts please.
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Summary: Worst movie of the 20th Century!
Review: I thought the movie was awful. Maybe because when I saw it, it was on New Year's Day 1998. (Can you say "Hangover"? I was actually still drunk!) So, sitting in a theater with a bunch of pre-pubescent girls who cried like the day they were born didn't make it a pleasant experience. The dialogue was banal, the love story was implausible, the villian (Cal Hockley) wasn't very villianous, the old lady was just plain annoying, Leonardo DiCaprio makes me sick no matter what he plays, and people obsessed over the movie long afterwards. GET OVER IT!! THE SHIP SANK! I admit, the special effects during the ssinking were chillingly real, that doesn't make up for the rest of this monstrocity of a movie. Let there be a lesson in all of this, $200 million was spent to make this film. That's enough for a taxi ride from Earth to Uranus and back 6 times!! Was it money well spent? I think not!
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Summary: Watch it.
Review: ALl I can say is it's a shame you won't be seeing it on the big screen. I am a regular movie goer. I see about 10 to 20 a year. Including videos, it's closer to 50. I can't remember in recent times a movie so well put together, so well executed, so gripping, and so interesting. The character development is great- you really care about them. The music of course was good. Special effects- 'nuff said! This was real! Another seldom mentioned fact: The time frame for the movie and the boat sinking are very close to how long it really took to sink. These people knew they were going down and it took a _long_ time to happen. I may not be the most technical movie goer, but I cried at the end of this one and I hope you do too. It's one of those movies you walk out of the theater after seeing, and you feel like you will take a while to come back to the real world. You look at your fellow movie goers and think- "Can you believe we just saw that? Was that amazing or what?" Movies like this stay in the theatres for 6 months for a reason: They kick butt. It's easy (and adolescent) to go against the grain and say this movie stunk, or was boiler plate from other movies. But gut feel tells me you won't want to miss this one. It's a must see.
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Summary: A MUSTN'T BUY.
Review: The movie should go twenty miles under water, and it can take Kate Winslet's ugly boobies with it.
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Summary: Ow. This movie actually caused me physical pain.
Review: Firstly, what if Jim Cameron had stereotyped an ethnic group the way he stereotyped the rich? Secondly, how can anyone claim this movie pays tribute to those who died on the Titanic when the main characters were not real people? Thirdly, folks, Billy Zane was wearing eyeliner. The sets, costumes, and special effects were beautiful. The writing and acting were rank.
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Summary: The Best movie ever!
Review: Titanic was probably the best movie I've ever seen. Not only because of the plot but also because of the superb performances one by Leo, Kate, and Billy. For all of you that had bad remarks about the movie are just upset that this movie got all the hype, and the movies you liked more didn't get as much. I also noticed that a lot of you's that criticized Leo's acting were male. There's just an obvious explanation to that: JEALOUSY. One last thing. 11 ACADEMY AWARDS!! NUFF SAID!
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Summary: The Greatest Movie Ever???????????????
Review: I have to say if I had 200 million I could buy some oscars make a movie about, and win some more oscars in the process. Hype sells tickets,toys,cars,You name it and with proper advertising people will line up for miles to buy into that hype. When people say this is the "Greatest Movie Ever" the only thing I can do is laugh. For starters the acting is subpar Leonardo Dicapprio is not Humphrey Bogart(Casablanca I'm sure you have seen it)Kate Winslet is not Vivien Leigh(Gone With the Wind I'm sure you have seen it),and we all know how bad of an actor Billy Zane is( The Phantom did anyone see it). The directing is not much better asides from James Camerons ability to use the special effects and costumes( which by the way he had very little to do with), he is no Orson Welles( Citizen Kane I'm sure you have seen it). Just because a movie makes millions upon millions of dollars does not make this movie the best ever. Gone with the Wind had some very special effects for the time, the costumes were some of the best ever, the players will be long rembered,and the line Frankly my Dear I don't give Damn is something people will always say unlike I'm the king of the world.
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Summary: Excelent sinking scene
Review: If you really want to see talent on the part of little Leo, see "What's Eating Gilbert Grape". I would never rank it as high as "Saving Private Ryan" or "Star Wars" and its trilogy, but i will say this, skip the first tape and just go directly to the second one. Don't waist your time on the cheeziness of the first tape.
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Summary: Titanic
Review: Titanic, the ship that was, once known, as the 'The Ship of Dreams.' It was also called , "the Unsinkable", until the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank. Two hours later after hitting the iceberg, 1,500 people went into the sea. Six were saved out of 1,500 people. Afterward, the seven hundred people in the boats had nothing to do, but wait... wait to die, wait to live. The love between Jack and Rose was the most beautiful thing of the whole movie. It was the best movie I have ever seen in my life. I like how they put the love story between Jack and Rose into the story of Titanic. At the end of the movie where Jack and Rose are in the water; Jack says to Rose " Do not let go, no matter what happens to me." When Rose was rescued by the other ship, she took Jacks' name so that her Fiancé Hockely would not find her. When Rose got back to land she did all the things Jack wanted to do with her; like teach her how to ride a horse like a man and other things like that. It was the best movie of the year. I would recommend it to everyone. By: Rodney Hames
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