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Summary: Why must movies like this be allowed?
Review: This is not a love story: it is a 7,000 hour mawkish sentimentality-fest. Crouching Tiger is a love story (and much more), this is just fetid lowest common denominator fare. If you are not bored rigid by the end of this film, kindly raise your expectations.
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Summary: disappointed
Review: I know it may be hard to believe, but I just watched Titanic for the first time. After all of the hype, I'd expected to really enjoy this film, since I tend to enjoy "sappy" movies. As an amateur history buff, I enjoyed seeing the recreation of the Titanic's sinking, as well as the boat itself. However, the story line was disappointing. I get frustrated when directors try to encorporate modern characters into historical settings. Rose's behavior in the movie was completely unrealistic when historical context is taken into consideration. The chances of a turn-of-the-century socialite being willing to pose naked, much less do it with a guy in the back seat of a car after having known him for only a few days are not good. Nor would she likely be delighted to go downstairs to the steerage section and dance the night away among the rats, no matter how good the company. Also, I was annoyed by the attempt to show that women were treated like slaves in this time period. Seems to me like they were the ones who got off the boat first... However, when I just accepted the fact that this would be another Hollywood version of history, I enjoyed the rest of the film.
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Summary: It indeed dezerved all it' Oscars and box-office profits
Review: Before writing this review i sat to read some of the other reviewer's opinions and after half hour or so , i've come to the following conclusion : people these days are not able to let themselfs free and enjoy a movie . Instead they are desperately trying to find it's weaknesses , faults and bad points . Titanic's massive advertise campain and hype made many people for many reasons angry . Many of them decided not to go because " ...it's stupid , it's all corny and romantic . I'm a more serious viewer . I won't go and see this mumbo-jumbo crap because it's been advertised so much " . Talking about a film withought seeing it is , in my opinion , stupid . Others went to see it but where determent not to like it anyway .Others stucked to weird details . Read some of the following reviews and you'll see what I'm talking about : " ...those people running around would have suffer from hypothermia " or " those Picasso paintings still exist in museums . What are they doing on that ship? " are some of the lines you will read. The fact is that Titanic made a lot of people who never went to cinema to start going to the movies . It touched and made many of them cry . But for some ,this prooves a lack of high I.Q . The fact that Cameron chose to tell a love story at the same time the ship-tragedy takes place is logical. Should he just have focused at the sinking part ? No in my opinion because this would have make the film seem like a cold documentary. Could the script and the dialogues have been more mature and deep ? I don't think so . I don't believe that all those people had the time to analyze the purpose of life and the vanity of human existance at that point . Panic is the only feeling they must have experienced during that tragic night. I understand it when people tell me that they had a good time but weren't that thrilled with it . What i don't understand is how could someone detest Titanic so much to not like even one line , one image ( the frozen victims on the water for example ) , one perfomance .
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Summary: People. It was bad. Here's why...
Review: OK, although I'm not a movie expert, I do consider myself somewhat versed in this field. One of the things I look for in a movie is originality (YES, EVEN IN A TRUE STORY). James Cameron knew this, and put in a love story on top of the historic event, which was the movie's downfall. Love stories are fine. Star Wars has a love story. It's the type of love story that brought it down; it took the soap opera route. Girl fools around with guy when engaged to another guy. The guy she's engaged, in a jealous rage, flips breakfast tables and slaps her in the face. Originality? Bah. We've seen this stuff before. Next thing, the screenplay. The dialogue and plot movement are incredibly shakey. They call this picture an epic, but we can't forget that scene when Leo teaches Kate to hock loogies off the deck. When Leo and Kate are being chased, she flips one of the chasers the bird, which didn't enter pop culture until several decades later. The dialogue is stereotypical, with lines like "never let go" and "I'm king of the world" are so laughable in this, the most expensive disaster of the 1990s.P.S. You'll notice that I didn't even call Leo and Kate by their "character names" because there is no character development whatsoever. They play themselves, not unlike their good friend, Ben Affleck.
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Summary: GREAT MOVIE!
Review: I'm so sick and tired of people bashing this movie! I'm not even a Leonardo DiCaprio fan, but I enjoyed it!
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Summary: Most people still just don't GET IT....!
Review: TITANIC is one of the greatest love stories ever told whether you like it or not. Sure, it may not be as popular as it was back in '97 or '98...but every movie loses it's popularity at least at some point in time. Still, nobody has forgotten the epic love affair between Jack Dawson and Rose DuWitt Bukater. And many people still enjoy watching this movie over and over again on VHS or DVD. And nobody has forgotten the thrills and chills during the Sinking Sequence of the film. This was the one time when the Oscars didn't make a mistake giving 11 Academy Awards to TITANIC including Best Picture. The acting wasn't all that bad as everybody thought it was, either. And the special effects are specatacular and incredible. I still think TITANIC deserved every single one of the Oscars the film won. And this film wasn't really supposed to be about the TITANIC itself, it really was based on Jack and Rose. Forget the trashy reviews that don't even know what a good love story is and go see TITANIC for yourself (if you haven't already) and you'll see why this film ever became so popular.
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Summary: Dont cash in on the dead!
Review: Well - as Pearl Harbour tells us, there's always someone out to make a buck out of someone else's suffering. Overlong, corny and about as true to life as a Tony Blair election promise we have Titanic. From the Nauseating "My Heart Will Go On" (and on and on and on......) we have a movie in the worst possible taste. While there are some who see it as great romance there are a few people alive who'se parents/grandparents are at the bottom of the ocean and its these people who are the forgotten here. Indeed I remember reading about one real name charactor who was pictured running away when in real life he was a hero and his relatives were very distressed. The love story was not believable, why would a great looking girl like Kate Winslett fall for an idiot like DiCaprio and why did we have to wait so long for him to die! I think perhaps Kate is the only one who comes out of this with her credibility intact turning in a believable performance in the most difficult of circumstances. DiCaprio cant act - sure - anyone who saw him fail dismally in Romeo & Juliet knows that. But "Titanic", did this really need making when Kenneth Moore did such a fantastic job of it all those years ago. That film was a tastefull tribute rather than this which is little short of bonking on people's graves. So the powers that be are doing it again "Pearl Harbour" using a great national tragedy to write a story about inter marital nookie! What next "Timothy McVeigh - Superstar" "Charles Manson - The Musical" "Ted Bundy's Marvellous Adventure" Makes you wonder!
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Summary: The Greatest Movie Ever Made Ever
Review: As you watch Leonardo Di Caprio drown, frozen in the cruel arctic waters, it is hard not to experience a tremendous feeling of satisfaction; such is the art of James Cameron, the catharsis is overwhelming. For more than two hours you have been wishing that Leonardo, along with most of the cast and crew, were dead, and then, there they are, breathing their last. The film begins brilliantly with some lively and vulgar wordplay from an underwater salvage team - you could be forgiven for thinking you've put the wrong film in your player and are about to witness some made-for-video action and adventure flick - but no, there's been no mistake, you are about to see two hundred million dollars worth of the best that Hollywood has to offer: James Cameron has masterfully toyed with your expectations. Quickly we meet Jack (Leonardo) and, my, what a snivelling little weasel he is; within minutes a deep enmity is established between him and the gentle viewer. From then on, Jack is placed in situations where the viewer might reasonably expect his imminent demise. Thus Kate Winslett (Rose) could quite easily have pushed him overboard on several occasions, and smothered him on at least one other; Billy Zane could have shot him (rumour has it that in real life Billy actually did shoot Leonardo, and most of the budget of film was actually dedicated to the CGI recreation of Leonardo in the last 90 minutes of the film, and in the subsequent Oscar ceremonies, as well as in his so-called 'real life' ever after); he could have easily died during the Irish dancing and revelry; the possibilities are endless. The appearance of the iceberg is truly cause for celebration. What a good iceberg it is, searching out and destroying this disgraceful cast and scruppering the film good and proper. As the water itself, the very stuff of life, attempts to kill Leonardo, one feels sure that justice is about to be dispensed. The denoument is delicious. A lovely postscript shows Rose thowing her priceless jewel into the depths of the Atlantic. Rather than selling this, and using the proceeds to feed the hungry or heal the sick, she chooses to throw perhaps the equivalent of two hundred milliion dollars into the ocean, down the proverbial drain, as it were - surely a wonderful symbol for the movie as a whole.
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Summary: Great effects, watered down by a preposterous story
Review: I was really looking forward to this movie. The story of the Titanic had always fascinated me, so when I heard that James Cameron was making a movie about it, I expected a real treat. Now this was not a horrible movie, I enjoyed it, but the first half is a complete crock of pure fantasy. The love story is idiotic, because a first class woman and a third class man would never be allowed to meet, and she would not allow herself to see him again if for some reason they accidentally met. The first half was a waste of my precious time and I was bored stiff. All I could think was how could anybody think that this would be remotely possible. But that aside, the last hour and a half are fantastic. When the ship begins sinking, the brilliant effects kick in, and we are treated to a horrifying sight as the ship slowly sinks into the icy waters of the Atlantic. So if you are going to see "Titanic," skip the the moronic love story and watch the real attraction, the actual sinking.
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Summary: A fantastic film of our time!!!
Review: The first-rating story and breath-taking magnificence of Titanic from 1997 is unsurpassabled by any other fascinating film. The real-life catastrophe , which happened in 1912, is combined with an fictional love story. The handsome star Leonardo Di Caprio and the Oscar nominated Kate Winslet are the young lovers Jack and Rose in the film, who meet at first passage on the unsinkable Titanic. The passionated love becomes a seizing race against time and death when the luxury ship hits an iceberg in the glacial sea. The price-winning producer James Cameron stages a brilliantly film about forbidden love and courage in a beginning disaster with a just so fitting soundtrack and a remarkable technical department. This master-piece with romantic and dramatic elements and a lot of action and humor everyone should have seen.
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