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Summary: titanic pleasure
Review: The expectations were incredibly high for this film when it was released, and remarkably, it exceeded them all. What a vivid, wonderful victorian world we are shown! The re-creation of the most famous ocean liner ever is breathtaking. Perhaps the plot of the young lovers is well-worn, but Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet bring such charm and sincerity to their roles, we fall in love with them as do with each other. The TRUE star of the film, however, is the gigantic ship herself. The story unfolds from one end of the ship to the other, showing off all the detail work put into this feature. The love story aside, the events depicted really happened, and perhaps no film could or should depict the true horror of that fateful night in the north atlantic. However, this film gives an inkling of the terror those poor peole faced, and the courage they exhibited in surviving. This film is old-time Hollywood at its best, and one can't help but wonder why films like this seem only to come around once a blue moon.
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Summary: The movie is a little bit long. Don't you think?
Review: A three-hour-and-fifteen-minute movie does not speak well to director James Cameron's intelligence. Not only did he spend two hundred million dollars on a film with a predictable ending (though you know that some producer suggested Arnold Schwarzenegger beat the crap out of the iceberg and save the day), but he made it so long that theaters can only show it three times a day instead of four. This significantly increases the chances Cameron will succumb to the "curse of the water picture," lose money and have people call him an idiot.
If they don't call him an idiot for his expenditure, they'll surely call him one for his writing. Obviously, Cameron was going to sink or swim with this project, but couldn't he have subsumed his world-class ego for one second and given the writing assignment to somebody with an imagination? His clever story features a poor boy, Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), sneaking onto the Titanic, then falling in love with the aristocratic, soon-to-be-wed, Rose (Kate Winslet). Naturally, none of Rose's family or friends wants that to happen, so the clandestine couple spends the entire trip avoiding people. Pardon me, but was that plagiarized from "Wings of the Dove" or "Out to Sea?"
Cameron had a titanium camera housing designed so he could film inside the actual wreckage of the Titanic, thereby necessitating an extraneous storyline involving a treasure hunter (Bill Paxton) poking around the wreckage. Cameron flashes back to the main story when Paxton finds the elderly Rose (Gloria Stuart), who has survived the disaster. If suspense were nickels, Cameron's epic would earn him little more than a hot, steaming cup of 1912 coffee. This movie is long. I mean long like the Nile, long like a Bill Clinton speech, long like a trek across the Outback, long like John Holmes.
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Summary: A Return To Grand, Classy, Old Fashioned Hollywood
Review: Titanic is a phenomenal piece of Hollywood filmmaking. It is a stunning, beautiful, haunting film that will live with the kind of respect and belovedness of classic Hollywood films like "Casablanca", "Gone With The Wind", and many more. They don't make them like this anymore. By now, everybody pretty much knows the plot. If not the romance plot, then the whole history of the grand ship itself. Director James Cameron showed Hollywood and naysaying critics that he knew what he was doing and made them eat their words. Speaking of words, some of the dialogue is a little silly, but, really, who ... cares?. A few amateurish lines isn't enough to stain a movie. No matter what. The costumes, effects, make-up, special effects, score, are some of the best seen in a film in eons. It was done with incrediblr care and accuracy. The movie deserves five stars just for that alone!. Leonardo DiCaprio is good, as usual, but doesn't have some of the depth he's had in many of his other films. Kate Winslet, as Rose, is good and appealing, but just a little weak. But, the best acting awards goes to Gloria Stuart as old Rose. A magnificent Oscar-worthy performance. ... Titanic is an epic blockbuster that isn't usual Hollywood blockbuster films. It is deserving of everything it got and did. It is one grand film that gives hope to audiences that special films like this still exist. A classic for the ages. ... Watch and enjoy. That's what it's for. A treaure for people who love movies.
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Summary: Face it!
Review: I went into this movie wondering whether a Cameron film could survive DiCaprio. Well, if you're talking about box-office, then he's a plus, but if you're talking about quality... The first few scenes in the movie are thoroughly enjoyable, and I found myself thinking that this had the potential to be one of the greatest movies EVER. These first scenes get one and a half of the stars I gave. Then, the flashback began... The cinematography (sp?) here is beautiful. I would recommend this movie just for that (the other half-star). Then, someone opened his mouth. From the beginning of the flashback to the time when I walked out in righteous indignation, both the plot and the characters were totally and unforgivably flat (a DiCaprio characteristic from the time he found out he didn't have to act to draw box-office -and since then he hasn't been able to act his way out of a wet paper bag, so he's almost forgivable, but for the others...). This movie is not worthy of Cameron. I will say it did deserve some of the Oscars it received, but not the Best Picture. I will draw kudos to the Oscar Nominating Committee for leaving DiCaprio out. Shows they haven't sold out completely. I did borrow a copy of the video at one point to watch the rest (sometimes I swear I'm a masochist!). The flashbacks only got a little better, but the last couple of scenes (including the last couple scenes of the flashback) were wonderful. But like I said, the scenes with the old woman and the cinematography are sublimely beautiful...
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Summary: Look at life today, see and compare it to this tragedy
Review: The attack on America stunned everyone. People died in carnage and we pray for them all.
The same events--not necessarily in the same way, happened with Titanic. The iceberg hit, people didnt know what to think. They were stunned to find out that they're going to die. They panicked--much like those in the news coverage on the WTC collapsing, people were running for safety.
James Cameron captured these events with just the right measure to stun his audience when they took place. The iceberg collision for example; we knew it was coming, the characters in the movie didn't. Yet, Cameron amazingly causes us to be surprised to see it and enthralls us to want the collision not to happen. Just for that emotional effect, we should applaud this film.
Cameron took measures to make every inch of the ship itself perfect in detail. He put up his share of the profits, namely: his pay check to get the movie made. It came out on December 19th after a grueling period of re-editing the film. Audiences were glued to the screen. My first screening had an united response of shock and amazement.
No one had seen a film quite like it. There was that beauty we admire today in Technicolor movies, yet it was filmed in another forum. It had a grand scope, using digital imagry (flawless) with real life scale models and setpieces. They've made attempts to duplicate that since, but no film has yet to capture Titanic's huge and awe-inspiring canvass.
The events and every other part of this modern-day classic epic resemble the tragedies in our recent history. Look at this film, mourn the people in the film and real life as if you knew them. Cameron introduced us to his characters, and we began to like them. They're people who are either made-up characters or real featured in a film--sure, I'm not dillusional. But some of us didn't know anything about the people who died in the WTC that horrible morning, but we grieve and pray for them. So when seeing Titanic for the 1rst time or the twentieth, think of the horrors, the mourning and tragedy people must have felt with that awful situation. Titanic may just be another blockbuster picture that made too much money to some people. To me and a lot of others, it may well be the greatest disaster film. If not, the most impactful. Buy it or rent Titanic--no matter what, you must experience this monumental achievement at least once.
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Summary: TITANIC WILL GO ON AND ON...!
Review: Even though this movie is so 1998/1997 it is still a great movie to watch or to have=) The first ever i saw it in theatre's was when i was 11... and now im 13 and im still a Titanic fan and ever since i heard the song My heart will go on I fell in love with Celine's music...:) She has the voice of an angel!!!!So if you like Love movies then get this movie... but please dont let the little kids see this unless and grownup is with them, coz it has bad words in it and has the scene were jack/rose do it and were jack draws rose nacked, yuk!LOL!
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Summary: I want fact not fiction!
Review: Titanic may have cool looking special effects but other than that it's just a waste of time. it starts off with the fictional love story between a guy named jack and a girl named rose. and when you watch it unfold you get a been there seen that type of feeling which you have throughout the movie. Also, the movie didn't focus on the real people that died or lived through the sinking of the titanic which people would like to see & learn more about. I say just watch the second tape or watch terminator 1&2 or the abyss that's james cameron at his best
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Summary: Chick flick? I think not!
Review: A stunning achievement in every aspect. This movie deserves a place among the classics. This is no chick flick. It is a movie that everyone needs to experience, if only once. Do so with an open mind! Colossal epic.
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Summary: A nice romance, but...
Review: All right, you would think this is common knowledge, but apparently not as common as we had all realized. 'Starboard' is right. 'Port' is left. It is obvious from the direction the helmsman turns that the director, producers, cast, and crew of the movie are all a bunch of landlubbers that deserve to go down with the boat. This is not the only mistake in the movie, nor the most obvious. There are many other problems in this production that have already been discussed- the fact you know what's going to happen before it starts, the crew shooting passengers, the length of the film, Leonardo DiCaprio- to name a few. While each are not overly distracting, taken in whole they make the movie somewhat disgusting to those who don't like to read romance novels 24-7. Even on that end, the romance is stupid (for lack of my effort to find a better description). The only saving grace of the whole affair is the set, which is, quite simply, spectacular. They spared no expense building the ship replica, and it shows. Two stars for the sets, and nothing else.
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Summary: PUH-LEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZEEEEEE
Review: How this movie ever managed to be touted as the "best of 1997" is beyond me. What is even further beyond my comprehension is why people kept going back to see it again and again. Four words to sum up this movie: Stupid plot; horrible acting. For the record, I have seen Leonardo DiCaprio give some brilliant performances in movies such as "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" but in this, he's completely dull. And Kate Winslet: WOODEN!!!! She seemed completely unable to comprehend the emotion in the dialogue: "I-will-jump-I-swear-I-will" or whatever the heck she said. Completely without feeling. Okay, the set was out of this world and the boat sinking was a pretty good piece of cinamatography but beyond that, this movie should have sank. I should point out that I am a big "Titanic" buff and have seen every movie version of this horrible nightmare that I've ever heard of. This was the absolute worst.
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