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Summary: A Wonderful Movie
Review: The other day I watched Titanic for the first time in two years. It made me cry all over again. Titanic is a wonderfully made movie, that shows the true horror of what happened on April, 12th 1912. The actors and actresses were great, and were perfect for their parts. The movie is both historical, and fictonal which makes it so great to watch. Not one part of this movie is boring. This movie is about Rose and Jack, and how they found love even though it was basically forbidden.It is also about thier struggle to stay alive.The special effects were also great in this movie. If you havent seen this movie yet, get out and see it! It is one of the best movies I have ever seen!
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Summary: Another Review?
Review: Over [#] reviews have been written about this film, and I'm sure another one won't sink it deeper. The film is marvelous in its technical merit, and it takes some liberties with a plot line involving some very engaging characters. The scene at the end where the ship goes down into the water, and just after it hits the iceberg is awesome to watch, and you leave the film thinking you're still bobbing in the water. The problems I had with this film was the scene where Leonard DiCaprio and his girlfriend go into her cabin and he paints her in the nude. Then there was the scene where he has sex with her in the parked car. Why these had to be there is beyond me, but it caused many children not to see it, and I certainly wouldn't my children to watch it. This is not prudish speaking but frank critical thinking. The movie didn't need this to make it a success. This was a judgment call in order to get the right rating so the studio would accept it. And why does a movie need nudity anyway to sell its wares. Do it without, and its merit will stand.
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Summary: the BEST movie in the world!
Review: This movie is completely fantastic. I'm thirteen years old, I've seen it seven times and it still amazes me every time I watch it. It is truly worthy of all the awards it received, and I congratulate James Cameron in being able to create such a believeable and heartbreaking story. Though I may be prejudiced as a Leonardo DiCaprio lover, I still think he did an amazing job in this movie, along with Kate Winslet and Billy Zane. The special effects were breathtaking (esp. in the depiction of the sinking) and I personally loved the end scene (where Rose goes "back to Titanic" - the pictures make me cry). Although I hate cliches, I have to agree - Titanic is most definitely a film for the ages!
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Summary: My all time favorite movie!
Review: I love this movie. I'm addicted to it! The love that Jack and Rose had draws me in. James Cameron is a genius to make such a great love story(movie)and find two young people to play the parts of Rose an Jack. Basically the movie is about a young girl who is stuck in a world of riches and glamour.She has dreams but is scared to do them when she meets Jack who shares the same dreams as her and saves her in every way a person can be saved.It is truly the movie of all ages!
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Summary: The greatest cinemactic bastardization of...
Review: In my personal opinion, this was the greatest cinemactic bastardization of an historical event ever made.
Sure it's special effects and accurate ship set were touted forever in a day when it came out, and implications were aplenty that-despite the fictional love story and all that kind of jazz-, it somehow evoked the real-life events of that fateful first-and only-voyage of the Royal Mail Steamship Titanic...but in reality the makers-historical advisers and all-didn't even come within hailing distance of the real story. Instead they sliced open the real Titanic story, removed alot of good history that would have been excellent material for historical drama-and instead inserted an aggravatingly contrived and poorly done love story with equally aggravatingly contrived (and cliched) fictional characters. And the real-life Titanic people that were included in the script as characters played second-fiddle to the fictional characters and were just one of the many, many misleading histoical facets of this drama.
For example: there is an outrageoulsy contrived bit of dialogue uttered in a scene more fit for a bad comic book by Second Officer Lightoller whgen he threatens passengers crowding some port side lifeboats (IIRC) with his revolver and says something like: "Get back, or I'll shoot you down like dogs."
It is true that Lightoller did wave his revolver at passengers that seemed about to rush the last port side lifeboat successfuly launched that night, Collapsible D, (and may have even fired it in the air once or twice), but it is extremely doubtful that he said suche cliched, tired words when he did. Just one of the many, many misinterpreations of character that plagued the depiction of the real-life Titanic passengers & crew depicted in the movie.
"Titanic" not only was incredibly inaccurate and absurd in some of it's vignettes (i.e. First Class passengers in the forward grand staircase as it floods, passengers foundering about in the water covering C-Deck right below the bridge like geese with their heads lopped off by sabres, plus all the horrid sequences in which Mr. DiCaprio and Miss Winslet founder about deep down inside the ship as it floods. A stund that only would have ensured you a ticket across the Jordan in real life), it also lacked the saving storytelling graces that made films like "The Great Escape", "A Night To Remember", and "The Longest Day (for example) such classics of historical drama.
The characters of Jack Dawson, Rose DeWitt Buktor, Calvin Hokeyhooey...er, Hockely (pardon the sarcasam), etc. completely lack the factual basis characters like, say, Hilts ("Cooler King"), Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett, and Danny ("Tunnel King") had in "The Great Escape." They also weren't very well-drawn characters in any case, as opposed to the above mentioned "Great Escape" characters. Dawson, Buktor, & co. were more like one-dimensonal wind-up toy sort of characters that do all the predictable stuff a bad drama posesses.
In essance, the success of this movie was a fluke. No more, no less...and the cultural excesses of it's success coated the memory of the real-life Titanic story with so much cultural junk that it will take a good-quality, stricly factual historial drama to burn it all off.
"Titanic" was a long way short of being the great movie it was hailed as, and will forever remain the greatest misinterpreation of an historial event on film ever made. Lets hope Hollywood has the guts to GET IT RIGHT the next time!
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Summary: So Good!
Review: This is a movie, that for once, actually desurves the awards it got! This movie is about the tragic sinking of the Titanic. But it is not just a boring history movie you would see in school, it has a love story in it, and some comedy. Though the actors were not that good, I was still crying at the end of it. It is a very emotional movie that will bring you back to see it again, and cry again. This movie got 11 awards, and let me tell ya: IT DERSUVERED IT!!!
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Summary: One of my favorite and must have for collection!
Review: This movie won the best picture some years ago and got about 10 Oscars. It's a very romantic with a kinda sad ending at the end. The soundtrack is awesome too. I've watched it on DVD for too many times. Gotta have it for collection. I bet you won't disappoint it.
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Summary: Good
Review: Talk about a predictable ending. Who are they kidding? Everybody knows the boat sinks and that the lady lives. I'd love to see on of those infamous alternate endings where the iceberg misses the boat and they arrive early in New York. Just kidding. Real people died on the Titanic and their memory deserves respect. I thought this movie was done very well. I am not a huge fan of ramantic films but this was a good one. I thought that most of the characters were selected well. Some of the scenes and backgrounds raised the bar for the rest of Hollywood. The mass set that had to be used was short of breath taking. In my opinion Billy Zane had the performance of the movie. He was outstanding. I don't know if he won any awards for his performance, but he certainly deserved to. The rest of the cast was good, but i don't think any of them had an above average performance. Most people have seen this movie, who have a desire to do so. The story is well written and the chaos that the disaster really was, was captures as well as it could be in a movie. I didn't think the movie was as great as the reviews or all the awards it was given. This was good though. it was an excellent tribute the the disaster that happened in the waters of the Northern Atlantic.
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Summary: The prosecution should rest...
Review: Look, you've seen the movie. You're only reading reviews to see how other people felt about it... The dialogue and acting could certainly be improved upon, of course. But I look at "Titanic" as eye candy... it's just a beautiful looking film, very much deserving of it's awards and praise. Is it a masterpiece? Not really. I was never gaga over it like so many other people were (the same people who would later bash the film as it had become the "cool" thing to do). But, hey, I was hooked right up until that annoyingly outplayed Celine Dion song blared over the closing credits. "Titanic," like "Scream," is an exceptional movie that some people hate for the following excuse: the teens love it. How droll. I loved "Chinatown" when I was a teenager. I was also very much into the works of Scorsese and Kubrick... If you simply didn't like the movie for the sake of honestly not being able to get into the love story, I'd recommend the following - next time you're about to watch it, pretendlike you've never seen it before. Forget all the hype and all the flack it's recieved. Make believe it's a TV movie, for God's sake, and marvel at the spectacular visuals. When it's all over, you'll think to yourself, "Hmm... not too shabby." "Titanic" - proof positive that hype can not only ruin the credibility of a really good film, but sink it like the movie in question's namesake. P.S. - Paramount needs to get their heads out of the ground and release this as a special edition with DTS, an anamorphic transfer and a few extra features. Really, people. This whole "theatrical trailer only" thing just ain't cutting it anymore.
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Summary: The most wonderful movie i've ever seen
Review: April 10, 1912. Technology had been delivering a steady stream of miracles for the better part of two decades and people were beginning to take this never-ending spiral of progress for granted. What better demonstration of humanity's mastery over nature than the launch of Titanic, the largest and most luxurious moving object ever built by the hand of man? But four-and-a-half days later, the world had changed. The maiden voyage of the "ship of dreams" ended in a nightmare beyond comprehension and mankind's faith in its own indomitable power was forever destroyed by uniquely human shortcomings: arrogance, complacency and greed.
The goal in making this film was to show not only the dramatic death of this infamous ship, but her brief and glorious life as well. To capture the beauty, exuberance, optimism and hope of Titanic, her passengers and crew and, in the process of baring the dark side of humanity underlying this tragedy, celebrate the limitless potential of the human spirit. For Titanic is not just a cautionary tale - a myth, a parable, a metaphor for the ills of mankind. It is also a story of faith, courage, sacrifice and, above all else, love. James Cameron's "Titanic" is an epic, action-packed romance set against the ill-fated maiden voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic, the pride and joy of the White Star Line and, at the time, the largest moving object ever built. She was the most luxurious liner of her era -- the "ship of dreams" -- which ultimately carried over 1,500 people to their death in the ice cold waters of the North Atlantic in the early hours of April 15, 1912.
The journey of "Titanic" begins in the present, at the site of the ship's watery grave, two-and-a-half miles under the ocean surface. An ambitious fortune hunter (Bill Paxton) is determined to plumb the treasures of this once-stately ship, only to bring to the surface a story left untold. The tragic ruins melt away to reveal the glittering palace that was Titanic as it prepares to launch on its maiden voyage from England. Amidst the thousands of well-wishers bidding a fond bon voyage, destiny has called two young souls, daring them to nurture a passion that would change their lives forever. Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) is a 17-year-old, upper-class American suffocating under the rigid confines and expectations of Edwardian society who falls for a free-spirited young steerage passenger named Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio). Once he opens her eyes to the world that lies outside her gilded cage, Rose and Jack's forbidden love begins a powerful mystery that ultimately echoes across the years into the present. Nothing on earth is going to come between them -- not even something as unimaginable as the sinking of Titanic. Also inhabiting this floating microcosm are Cal Hockley, played by Billy Zane, heir to a huge fortune and Rose's fiancé, and Ruth DeWitt Bukater, Rose's socially driven mother, played by Frances Fisher. Oscar winner Kathy Bates is featured as the ship's most colorful real-life passenger, Molly Brown. Other historic figures include Captain E.J. Smith (Bernard Hill), White Star Line's managing director J. Bruce Ismay (Jonathan Hyde), and master shipbuilder and primary architect of Titanic, Thomas Andrews (Victor Garber). Also participating in this devastating hand of fate dealt to the passengers of Titanic are an Italian emigrant named Fabrizio De Rossi (Danny Nucci), Jack's poor but determined best friend; and Spicer Lovejoy (David Warner), Cal Hockley's ruthlessly loyal valet. Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox present a Lightstorm Entertainment Production, a James Cameron film, "Titanic," starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner and Bill Paxton. Written and directed by James Cameron, the film is produced by Cameron and Jon Landau. Rae Sanchini is executive producer.
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