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Summary: NOTHING ON EARTH BUT AN ICEBERG...AND A REALLY BAD SCRIPT!
Review: James Cameron's "Titanic" became the first film in nearly 50 years to tie the record of 11 Oscars once held exclusively by Ben-Hur (1959); an irony not wasted upon the fact that most of "Titanic's" wins came from the technical categories - not the acting categories. There's good reason for that - the plot, such as it is, is contrived and poorly acted. In a nutshell, penniless artist, Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) wins a third class ticket on the ill-fated liner. He meets Rose (Kate Winslet), a spoiled rich girl engaged to Cal (Billy Zane) but who is about to commit suicide by jumping off the ship's stern because she feels trapped in her pampered existence - oh, please! Jack and Rose become lovers. Then the ship hits an iceberg and its every man for himself. No one has more admiration for Cameron's attention to detail in sets and costumes and his epic staging of the climactic sinking of the great leviathan into the icy Atlantic, than I do. But it's all for not when the primary diversion during the first two hours of this truncated melodrama is the childish bump and grind of two misfits inside the cargo hold. Truly, "Titanic" had more fascinating real life passengers on board, whose lives could have been more fully explored. Kathy Bates is wasted as Molly Brown, Victor Garber too, as Matthew Andrews. The DVD transfer is a disappointing effort from Paramount. The letterbox picture has not been enhanced for widescreen televisions. Though colors are fairly represented and clarity and sharpness are amply present, there's a considerable amount of edge enhancement in the vertical paneling of the smoking room, the railing that surrounds the ship and many of the long shots of the ship sailing off into the sunset. Contrast levels are nicely balanced. Blacks are generally solid. Some film grain and digital grain make certain scenes break apart when viewed on a larger format. The audio is 5.1 stereo and provides a very strong and visceral listening experience. There are no extras on this disc except for the film's theatrical trailer.
Rating: 
Summary: Movie Soared; DVD Sinks Like A Stone
Review: A word to the wise; if you want to see the movie, rent the VHS version, you're not missing a thing. No special features! We had to see this movie saturate every aspect of pop culture and they couldn't even add a music video or making of special, special effects anything or SOMETHING to the DVD? If you like the movie, rent it. If you want cool special features, you're better off with Lord of the Rings or Star Wars.
Rating:
Summary: 1 Star for software form not the Movie
Review: Whoa, $10 for the Titanic DVD, what a bargain. HA!! As others have said, it is sorely lacking. Just the movie, no extras. And to add insult to injury the format is widescreen _letterbox_. I watch DVD's on my laptop and this is torture. All the beautiful scenery in this movie squeezed down to almost nothing. What were the publishers thinking??? I truly hope they will re-issue this in fullscreen and with the extras that most other DVD's have especially this incredible production. <rant mode off>
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Summary: Knocked My Socks Off (help needed)
Review: Perfect movie, one complaint-ending a little predictable (didn't James Cameron realize that everyone knows what happened to the Titanic?-I had the same complaint with the recent "Passion of the Christ"). Also, as a warning-this entire movie takes place on a boat so if you don't like boat movies I wouldn't recommend it. Also I thought it was too much of an unexplained coincidence that all the character were on the boat together-a major plot loophole. That said, this movie literally knocked my socks off. Seriously, I still can't find them and I watched this movie two days ago.
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Summary: titanic dvd.
Review: this is a great movie! I just recentley got this movie,and i was very dissapointed,i mean come on i remember when this movie came out it was like the most popular movie of the 90's,so shouldn't there be something more than a (...) trailer shouldnt there be like an intervew with someone or deleted senes or bloopers. i recomernd you to rent this movie before you buy it because all you will be doing is wasting your money.
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Summary: this could never happen
Review: oh yeah a boat this big could really sink shaa rite and monkeys might fly out of my as* i mean come on they didnt even have boats in 1912 at least not boats with metal metal wasent even inventid till like the 60's or sumtin
nice ti*ties in it tho
Rating: 
Summary: titanic!
Review: this is one of the best movies ever made...wait to get the TITANIC: extreme SPECIAL EDITION in late to mid- 2004 before buying this DVD! Titanic is awsome.
Rating:
Summary: A "Titanic" Disaster
Review: While this movie will never replace "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" or "Plan Nine From Outer Space" as the worst Hollywood
movie of all times, it certainly ranks as one of the most BORING. Director James Cameron's target audience is obviously 11-16 year old American girls. If you have anything more sophisticated than they do going on in your head, there is not much for you here besides dazzling special effects. I say this because the love story which forms the sole raison d'etre for this movie is as hackneyed and cliched as can be. Hollywood has done variations on this theme of "doomed love" dozens of times throughout the 30's, 40's and 50's, and done it better. Everything about this movie, the size of the cast, the special effects and wardrobe budgets, is HUGE, but, ultimately, empty.
Cameron should have cut the size of his cast in half and invested the money in a better script. There is only one fully-developed character in the whole film, and that is the character of Rose, played by Kate Winslett. Rose is an anachronism, a 1990's American feminist in Edwardian
times, trapped in an arranged engagement for money. Anyone who
has read their Henry James is familiar with this scenario. They are also aware of the subtle and obvious differences in attitudes between the women actually in these circumstances at that time and the attitudes of Rose. By making all the other characters in the drama, even Leo DiCaprio's Jack Dawson, two-dimensional at best, whatever conflict that could develop in the plot lapses into a morass of cliches that you've seen a dozen or more times before. When the self-centered fiance and his evil, toady butler meet their fates, your reaction is not: "Good!" but
"So what?!" The problem with a one character-driven plotline, is that the audience doesn't care one way or the other about any of the other characters, so what happens to them is unimportant. If you find the central character to be totally implausible or ridiculous, there's nothing to hold your interest in the story. This flaw is compounded by the fact that we know in the first 10 minutes of the movie that Rose survives the Titanic and Jack does not. Therefore, the only real suspense generated by the film is: "When will it be over?" Just as annoying is the way Cameron treats all the really interesting themes which could have made this story interesting,
the arrogance of wealth, the hubris of technology, the corruption and greed of vain ambition, as mere peripheral ornaments. Everytime Cameron's camera finds something of interest to focus on, it cuts away. "Okay, we've shown you that,
now back to our love story!" The conflicts between White Star Line heir Ismay and Captain Smith, which could have formed an
interesting secondary plot, are given 10 minutes of cursory,
obligatory attention, like mere factoids. "Oh yeah. This was going on, too." See the 1953 version with Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck. It's got a love story, too. It also has 3-dimensional characters you can care about and a storyline which involves you!
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Summary: Ah! Yes!
Review: Finally, a remake better than the original. The oringinal Titanic was a 1953 flick with that Clifton Web dude in it. Definitely not worth my while. But then I decided to go see this movie when it came out. I could see why it became the highest-grossing film ever to be released. The story is great, so are the special effects. I cannmot believe Leonarndo DiCaprio nor Kate Hudson won an Academy Award for their roles. Pathetic. This is the best movie to be made. Ever.
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Summary: Realistic and Great!
Review: Great movie, great acting..photography second to none. A must see!!
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