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Summary: Best and most underrated Film of the 1990s...
Review: And maybe, the best and most underrated of all time. Titanic is a masterpiece of perfectionism with touches of romance, fantasy, and adventure. I'm not sure, but I'll be willing to bet the same amount of controversial praddlings went on about Steven Spielberg's ET when it first came out 11 years ago. But, why did that movie make all the money that it did then? Why only now is it perceived as a children's film (receiving no more 9 million dollars in it's rerelease)? In that case, why is it Titanic made all the money that it did? I can guarantee you all that it wasn't just because of Leonardo DiCaprio. He did a fine, upstanding job, but just look at his recent films. The money they all pulled in, including Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can didn't even come close to compare with the money Titanic pulled in.Cameron used all of his talents, acquired over 14 years of training to make a timeless romance in a backdrop that is chaotic, dark and sad. Yes, we may have seen Rose and Jack's tale before, but never like this. Cameron takes the cliche romance and makes it his own. I'm not saying that it's a better love story than Wuthering Heights, Gone With The Wind or Casablanca. All I'm saying is that Titanic is just as heartfelt and pulls at the heartstrings just like Wuthering Heights. It commands a real life event with its love story as perfectly as Gone With The Wind and Casablanca did, and it has the epic scope GWTW did. But, on its own merit, Titanic does stand on its own as a great historical film that can be enjoyed time and time again. The '90s films were made fools of when Titanic came out. Nothing had broken the record Star Wars set since ET in '82. There is probably a lot of under-handed, misguided jealously that we're not hearing about on the surface, because some of those people had films they loved so much, break even or bomb and never make the same amount of money Titanic made. But, folks, stop being so self-involved, look at Titanic for what it really has to offer. It made 1.8 billion worldwide, took home 11 Oscars with 14 Nominations....I think it deserves our respect, at least. I am not saying Titanic is the "greatest film of all time," just one of the top ten.
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Summary: Superb.
Review: Beautifully filmed, funny, and well-acted, this film features the story of the Titanic through the eyes of young lovers. It's a love story first and an affecting "tragedy" film in the second instance. Very highly recommended.
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Summary: Titanic, The Best film EVER
Review: Titanic is the best film I have ever seen! It hase much drama in it that makes it even better
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Summary: Best Acting in a Leading Role- The boat "Titanic"
Review: Don't worry(for those who believe that this movie winning best picture was a bad choice by the Academy). Because the sappy love story that everyone loves to bash didn't get this picture the award glory. But it did get it the B.O. from millions of hopeless romantics all over the world from repeated viewing. What got this picture the glory it actually deserve was from the last hour and a half of the movie where the ship sinks. My eyes would barely close to blink when the boat sank. That was the part of the film the director wanted to do. The Rose & Jack story just lead up to that and occupy the time it would take for this film to recieve the length to be considered an epic. No this is not the greatest film of all time! It just has the highest box office. In my opinion movies like the Godfather, Casablanca, and Gone With The Wind will always have the upper hand on Titanic due to the fact that all the elements of those movies were top quality. Titanic, unlike those movies, has a really weak script. And the acting was nothing to cheer about. And don't get me started on the score. I get an urge to laugh when I think that this was once the highest selling soundtrack of all time. The hype and fan-obsession with the movie did get old fast. But come on people, you have to admit that the boat sinking was one of the most well put together, epic, sad, awe-inspiring, scenes of film history. And that to this day is the reason it won Best Picture.
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Summary: I agree
Review: The most overated of all time.
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Summary: It bears repeating
Review: Since Cranky Reviewer is intent on getting the last word every time, someone must step in for a balancing act. I believe he doesn't even read the reviews that give the movie less than 5 stars. If he had, he would see that people like myself hate this movie for reasons besides the ones he lists. I repeat, I don't have a problem with Mr. DiCaprio. I have a problem with his character. I have a problem with all of their characters. They're hackneyed, every single one of them. I just wanted to watch the boat sink, not listen to some trite love story. Cameron's a good director, but this movie didn't do anything for me. After the first hour, I just kept chanting "Sink already!" The special effects were cool and everything, but that was about it. The Lord of the Rings has awesome special effects as well, but it also has a great cast of characters, a full roster of talented actors, breath-taking imagery and cinematography and pacing that keeps it from becoming boring. Cranky, I believe you said I had no taste for hating Titanic? Then how is it you wrote a rave review of the greatness of Lord of the Rings, and I agree with you for once? You continually surprise me with your pretense, arrogance and astounding self-importance. Again, there was nothing wrong with Titanic outside of the writing and pacing, but those two things just killed it for me.
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Summary: The best movie in the history of the world
Review: I bought this movie the year it was realeased and since then i've seen it 25 times (I'm not kidding.) It's the best movie in the history of the world, maybe it's because it has a bit of every thing, romance, tragedy, greed, a few laughs, ect. I'm really glad I bought it. I recommend it to every one who loves to see a great movie and Titanic freaks, like me.
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Summary: The most overrated movie of all time
Review: I was impressed at the special effects when I saw Titanic in theaters, but the movie has not held up well over the years. The effects, which now pale in comparison to the work done in The Lord of the Rings and Matrix trilogies, are not enough to sustain a souless, plotless, poorly written melodrama. What did anyone expect, though? It was directed by James Cameron, a man who's made a career out of filming big budget pulp. He doesn't direct people, he directs explosives, car chases, machines, so it's no surprises that his attempt at injecting a human element into Titanic falls flat. How could audiences, even young ones, not see through this formulaic tripe? The poor starving artist, the opressed rich girl, her despicable wealthy fiance...it all sounds like material for a Lifetime or Hallmark channel made for television movie. Everything from Leonardo DiCaprio's cliched portrayal of the free spirited artist to Kate Winslet's outspoken society girl schtick is recycled from countless movies. These aren't people, they're caricatures of people. The sequence where Billy Zane (in an embarrassingly bad performance) goes bezerk and chases Winslet and DiCaprio through the ship with a gun, shooting wildly WHILE THE SHIP IS SINKING, is the sort of thing only a megalomaniac like James Cameron would even think of filming, let alone leave in the final cut of the movie. I strongly disagree with the Amazon review that calls this a movie for the ages. It already looks stupid only five or so years after its release, in another ten people might begin to mistake it for a comedy.
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Summary: Surprisingly Watchable and Rewatchable
Review: I say surprisingly because, when its all said and done, its 180 minutes of a boat hitting an iceberg and sinking in the middle of nowhere and all the poor people on board getting screwed. That said, the special effects are extremely well handled and boat looks very authentic and all the outfits and other period-piece bits help tremendously. Odd romance. Leo Dicaprio is a short pale mop-haired little dweeb of a guy with a goofy smile and Kate Winslet is a tall busty somewhat heavy firebrand who doesn't look like she tolerates much static from anyone. The dialogue is hilariously bad. Question for whoever wrote this script: you're kidding, right? Every character recites the silliest pseudo-intellectual touchy-feely fortune-cookie bumper-sticker platitudes with the same sort of pretentious straight-faced gravity and earnestness normally reserved for poets and college professors.I can't help but think watching the boat sink during the second half is the viewers' reward for watching the 1st half. People ask me why I recommend this movie and own it on dvd. I tell them, "I like the part where the boat sank."
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Summary: This film is kaput!
Review: Remember that one time when you were playing basketball, and you kept your sister's gerbil inside the basketball? And you dribbled it to hard, and it popped, and you had to drain out all the gerbil guts? Well, watching this movie falls between that experience and that one you had in that pawn shop with Bruce Willis, a Gimp and a rent a cop named Spider. It's that bad. If you buy this DvD you'll wish you had been between the doomed voyage and it's ice berg. And Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are really the same person.
The following is someone else's review: (he is still alive. He is a different person!)
This DVD would have been much more entertaining it it were directed by Kevin Smith, and starred Jay and Silent Bob, who are far more heterosexual than Leo. The muppets and Power Rangers would make fine extras as well. This movie is better left to lonely, fat, ugly women who only DREAM of courting the homo-erotic DiCaprio in an old automobile. I even remember seeing something floating around in my toilet that looked just as horrible as the film. If I were Kate Winslet in the scene where she lets go of Jack's hand, I would let him drown without him asking me to "let go," and even punch him in the face before doing so. If you ask me, one special feature in the disk should be a menu of preferred weapons to use to destroy the DVD itself.
Any man who takes a sigle glance at the features of the DVD or the film itself may feel a little on the fruity side, but don't worry, it's not your fault. Blame the people who made the whole sh-bang. I pity any one who likes this DVD.
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