Titanic

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Summary: Titanic
Review: Every one knows this is such a great movie. A++

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Summary: Forget 5, give this movie 5 BILLION stars!!!
Review: AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING SPECTACULAR ASTOUNDING UNBELIEVABLY BEAUTIFUL film. i cannot praise it enough. Sure, the beginning is very slow and boring, but the rest of the movie is pure genius and entertainment.

I can't express how well Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet act in this film. Winslet got nominated for best actress, but EVILLY
did not win. As for DiCaprio; well, I used to hate him. Now I think he's amazing!! Gloria Stuart is also very well cast in her role as Rose Dawson Calvert.

A beautiful score makes this movie even better. The Oscar-winning song "My Heart Will Go On," (sung by Celine Dion) can move some to tears. The movie itself sure made ME cry!! the ending is so moving and sad, I can't say in words how sad I felt.

The special effects are baffling!!!! I can't believe how incredible they are!!

I have to say once more how brilliant DiCaprio and Winslet are in this film--they should make more movies together!!

anyone who does not like this movie needs a life. They must die. I'll stalk you at night! I WILL STUFF A DRUMSTICK UP YOUR NOSE!!!!..........but really, you should see it..........

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Summary: So it's popular, so what?
Review: Should a film be faulted for being the all-time most commercially successful production ever? Should we begrudge the fact that millions of teenagers watch it to see Leonardo DiCaprio, and perhaps Kate Winslett? Or that the movie's theme is a sappy love song sung by pop diva Celine Dion?

From where I'm sitting, no. Titanic just happens to be immensely popular, and those who have difficulty swallowing that and consistently bash this film are likely the same snobs who hate DiCaprio and refuse to be identified with the swooning teenagers and all others who comprise the unsophisticated "pop" crowd.

I wouldn't want to be either (ok, I'm a snob too), but the sheer spectacle of this movie simply cannot be ignored. Consider: James Cameron virtually recreated the Titanic, constructing sets that duplicated the ill-fated ship's interiors down to the last detail. In the early part of the film, he actually takes us to the site of the disaster and explores the innermost chambers of the real Titanic. The costuming, too, was flawless, and as if that weren't enough, Cameron picked actors who actually looked like the real people who went on that maiden voyage. How can anybody deny Cameron the credit he deserves, with all the hard work he put into this film?

But beyond production design and casting, and even beyond being a disaster flick and a love story, this film is a very insightful social commentary. The arrogance, snobbishness, and frivolity of the upper class are so effectively put into perspective here, never more so than when Ruth Dewitt Bukater asks, even as the ship is sinking, "Will the lifeboats be seated according to class?" After her rebellious daughter Rose berates her, saying "Half the people on this ship are going to die," Cal Hockley retorts, "Not the better half."

Particularly noteworthy is the noveau riche Molly Brown, who proves to be the kindhearted member of the upper class. Not surprisingly, she is the one who, in the eyes of her fellow-first class passengers, does not belong.

Those who regard this social commentary aspect as a mere footnote to the entire film have missed a very important point. Without this element, the love story that takes place between Jack Dawson and Rose would be ultimately meaningless. The role that social class played in determining who would be saved and who would not would likewise go unnoticed.

And that would have been the real disaster.

If Titanic is popular for all the wrong reasons, there is really nothing we can do about that. But please, let's give credit where credit is due. It may not be a great film, but it is a very good film. For all the right reasons.

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Summary: Overrated...for real!!
Review: I, too, like a much earlier poster read the book A Night To Remember. This was a truly touching book. It broke down the entire tragedy. I found it particularly sad that the band kept playing, trying to keep the people calm. I think what did it was the ship being "unsinkable even by God." Don't test the Master!!

I also saw a movie w/Clifton Webb from the 50s. Far superior to Titanic. I think Titanic's biggest problem was that the love story dominated the ENTIRE THREE HOURS!! That is just too long. My first time seeing it was at a sleepover and I fell asleep. I just didn't feel up to watching the second tape. We all went to sleep and woke up the next morning and finished it.

I am not down for overly sappy stories. Especially when it's fiction added to tragedy. I don't think the actual tragedy was held high enough in this flick.

My fellow reviewers have done a good job of getting the point across already. If you want to see a real Titanic story, see teh Clifton Webb version. You won't be disappointed.

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Summary: Simply SPECTACULAR!!!
Review: Okay, the DVD is a bit dissapointing for a film of this magnitude (it is the highest grossing film nation-wide and WORLD-wide to date!!), however, the movie itself is simply stunning!! Titanic is STILL (after all these years) one of my favorite movies. From the moment I first saw it in the theaters I knew that this film was "special". Very few movies have been able to leave me in *awe* minutes, and even HOURS after watching them. However Titanic takes the cake. It touched so many people of many different ages, backgrounds, races, genders, etc...that it's completely a phenomenon. I don't know many people who have NOT seen this movie, or who have not at least HEARD of the movie "Titanic". This movie was able to capture the horrific incident of what actually happened on April (15th was it??) 1912. The attention to historical detail, and accuracy is where I really give James Cameron two thumbs up! If only you KNEW how much hard work and effort went into making this film as accurate as possible, I don't think that half of the negative comments would be on this board today. Even the actors in the film actually LOOKED like some of the REAL historical figures on that ship! The resemblance is uncanny! They went out of their way to find GOOD actors who actually resembled those historical people.

I think those that criticize this movie to no end have really REALLY missed the point of this film. Before this film came out, I had only read about the Titanic disaster in books in elementary school! After that, I didn't pay a single bit of attention to it,neither did I fully grasp just how AWFUL this tragedy was. I couldn't really put myself in an event that had happened way before even my grandmother was born! hahah.. HOWEVER, after seeing Titanic...I now have a deeper appreciation for the lives that were lost and for the ship itself. I literally cried during some of the end parts of this movie. It really made me think. "What would I have done if I were in this similar situation??" LEt's face it, this movie touched lives...many people.

I think that the people who incessantly bash this movie are just doing so because it was so huge.

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Summary: Titanic Triumphs Over Sinking Feeling
Review: James Cameron's 1997 Titanic is, of course, the biggest box office hit of all time, edging out such blockbuster films as E.T., Star Wars, and Jurassic Park for that title. This film, with its tale of star-crossed lovers Rose and Jack intertwined with the real-life tragedy of the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic, won 11 Academy Awards and the loyalty of its millions of fans.
In 1997, though, no one involved in its making (except maybe the determined Cameron himself) believed this movie would float to box office glory. It was so ambitious and so expensive that not one but two studios (Paramount and 20th Century Fox) financed it, splitting the distribution rights and spending over $200,000,000 to recreate the fatal maiden voyage of the 1912 world's largest ocean liner. Yet Cameron, who had previously directed the first two Terminator movies, The Abyss, and True Lies, was proven correct when world-wide audiences embraced this touching and technically brilliant movie.
Yes, this first movie to reap $1 billion in box office gross did capture the hearts of millions of teenage girls who repeated screenings to see Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack Dawson woo Kate Winslet's feisty socialite (and soon-to-be-wed) Rose. And while many detractors scoff at this admittedly clichéd poor-boy-meets-rich-girl love story, it is exactly through this pairing that we get a feel for what it was like to travel at sea in those Gilded Era days before the First World War destroyed the old Europe forever.
This film has much going for it. It has, in addition to actual location shots of the real Titanic wreck (the minisub sequence is NOT special effects), a winsome couple, a classic mustache-twirling villain (Billy Zane) with the usual henchman (a menacing David Warner), a great supporting cast which includes Danny Nuccio, Bernard Fox (who used to guest star in TV series such as Hogan's Heroes and Bewitched), Kathy Bates, Bill Paxton (who has appeared in most of Cameron's movies) and Gloria Stuart (who plays the older Rose Dawson). Titanic also has a great musical score and incredible visuals: the sinking of the great liner is certainly realistic - even if the CGI effects are a bit artificial-looking. This picture certainly was difficult to make .... Thankfully, in spite of the media hype and negative publicity, Titanic proved to be a good and entertaining film. I recommend it to anyone who likes love stories or epic disaster films. This movie mixes both genres very well.


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Summary: Best Movie Ever
Review: I mean, what can i say rather than: Titanic is the best movie ever. It might take years to release a movie as good as this one. Its DVD features are remarcable. I have the Titanic DVD movie, and let me tell you it is out of the hook. I watched the movie about 20 times and i still love it. I recommend everyone to buy this movie. James Cameron ROCKS!!

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Summary: great movie, bad dvd
Review: i agree with another user's comments about this dvd: i love the movie (for me it's one of the best movies of the last decade), but i think this dvd edition is really really bad... it's not only that it doesn't have any extras at all: to add pain to injury, the video it's not anamorphic but letterboxed, so if you've a widescreen tv you'll have to zoom in the picture, losing quality. of course it's better than a vhs, but that's not the point with this kind of film... it's one of the worst dvd editions i've ever seen, period. but the movie is so good that you'll forget about this details when you start to see it!

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Summary: Titanic: April 14, 1912...
Review: Of course everyone knows the story of the world's biggest cruise liner that sunk on April 14, 1912 after hitting an iceberg. In 1997, James Cameron had spent over $200 Million dollars into creating one of the greatest disaster movies of all time. This movie is the best out of the many other films about Titanic that captured the scare, the disaster and the special effects like no other. The movie provided an excellent cast and crew.

The movie starts out in the present day when some explorers are 12,000 deep in the Atlantic Ocean looking at the famous ship's grave. Then they find a drawing of a woman that they show on TV and the actual woman, Rose Calvert calls them and she goes out to their ship and tells her story of Titanic.

Now we travel back to 1912 and it is half and hour before Titanic's departure from Southampton, England. Inside a bar are four men playing poker with Titanic tickets as the bet. The main guy, Jack Dawson (DiCapprio) wins and aboards the ship in third class. In first class is Rose (Winslet) and her rude and rich fiance Cal (Billy Zane). The two meet and start to fall in love. Now they become extremely attached to one another and here is where the events start to hit the fan.

At about 11:15 PM the two are kissing on the front deck of the ship when the Titanic hits the Iceberg. Now the ship is going to sink. PANIC EVERYWHERE! Even worse. THERE AREN'T ENOUGH LIFE BOATS FOR EVERYONE! Half the people on the ship are going to die. Now the two are stuck on the boat without any lifeboats left along with the other 1,500 people.

The effects of the ship sinking are utterly amazing. From the boats near by the people witness half the ship sticking out of the water at a 60 degree angle in total distress, shock and tears. Then finally the lights go out. Total darkness with a ship sinking. Imagine that. Then the SHIP SPLITS IN HALF!!! The back half of the ship falls hundreds on feet back down onto the water. We see the people on the stern holding on as they fall backwards. Then the boat finally breaks apart and the back half is on a complete vertical angle. Oh, my God!

See what'll happens next. Who survives out of the 1,500 that were left in the freezing water after Titanic was finally gone? Will Jack and Rose survive (Remember, they're in that water too)? Purchase the movie that made everyone travel back to 1912 and experience that horrifying night. The shipwreck of the world's greatest ship...TITANIC.

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Summary: A Love Story that is Shortlived but Memorable
Review: Dicappio and Winslet may not have the depth necessary for their parts. The director's treatment in these respects may not carry too much weight and as such the movie may not be as convincing as some would have expected. But as a commercial film this is a big success.

The story itself may well be a true reflection of what had actually transpired. The director started the film with a recent exploration of the sunken Titanic leading the viewers deep into the ocean to be followed by an interview with the 102 years old survivor, Rose, the heroine of the movie, to make it ring as true as a documentary.

The grandeur of Titanic was particularly well captured. The life of the upper class life on board was convincingly conveyed. Even the life of the lower class was well portrayed, and when things are not quite unrealistic, they have good purposes to serve, touching up the general atmostphere making it more juicy... etc.

The two contrasting scenes, the dinner party of the upper class and the party of the poor were well handled. These are one of the mosting exciting part of the movie. The Captain, who was so convinced and so proud of the unsinkability of the ship and then the musicians who hung on till the last minute... they are so telling and touching. The rhythm of the movie is quite fast and never boring.

What more can we expect from a commercial movie like this? Recommended.