Titanic

Rating:
Summary: It wasn't THAT good
Review: I saw this film in the theater, and it was o.k. The effects were neat, considering they came from James "Terminator, Aliens, Abyss" Cameron. Two things ruined the film for me.

First, the characters seemed very simple and empty. Most of the characters in the film were introduced in the first 10 minutes and then disappeared for the next two hours until they died, yet the film was acting as though we should care. I think the film would have been much better as 3-4 different character stories rather than as one love story.

The other thing that ruined this film was the hype. I, fortunately, saw it opening night. I enjoyed it. The next several months it was painful to see how people obsessed on this film. I'm sorry, but the love story wasn't THAT good. It was contrived from 19th century British literature. The rich woman is supposed to marry the jerk, but is in love with the poor free spirit. Puh-lease. It's a friggin' Gilbert and Sullivan opera. I was waiting for Leo to say, "Ha Ha! But I am rich after all!" It was almost that bad.

I didn't think it was so bad the first time I saw it, but I lost a lot of respect for this film when people thought it meant SO much.

...and please, can they release a version of the movie without Celine Dion?

If you Really liked this film, you will probably enjoy watching Mission to Mars, City of Angels, and Bloodsucking Freaks ;)

Rating:
Summary: emotionally elavating
Review: I wish people would stop crushing this movie for innane reasons. Ok, it's FINE if you don't like it--diversity of opinion is what makes the world go 'round! But it would be highly desirable to know what you're talking about before you make a fool of yourself. For instance, one reviewer said that the movie would have been better if the Titanic actually reached NY. Well, it would have been DIFFERENT, except that the really Titanic sank more or less exactly as depicted in the film. Cameron made some gnarly mistakes with the script, but he wasn't stupid (or brilliant) enough to change history for his little blockbuster. Another reviewer commented that what happened in the movie wasn't possible. Cameron's characters are all strong, if somewhat cliched, but everything they did was possible. Love is LOVE, no matter where you throw it in what era. Of course, social opinion has differed over the ages, and it always affects people, but if no one before now ever thought to go against public opinion, or choose happiness over wealth, we'd be nowhere. There is such a thing as human feeling... and doesn't the film make it perfectly obvious why Jack went to dinner with Rose? He'd saved her life! And anyway, nobody but Rose approved--at least, nobody but those people who were actually fooled into thinking Jack was first class, and those (like Andrews and Kathy Bates) who were too down-to-earth and reasonable to whine about Rose's dinner guest. And it's quite obvious that both Ruth and Cal went out of their way to embarrass Jack. I suppose what I mean is that, while this movie has its faults (and some of them are pretty big) it's JUST a movie--a few people's idea of a good love story. It was historically accurated, entertaining, emotionally elavating and stimulating, etc. I agree that DiCaprio wasn't the best choice for Jack by far, but Winslet was incredible enough to make up for it, and anyway, he pulled it off OK. So relax and don't bother to waste time bashing movies you may not have enjoyed. Find a movie you DID like, and review it.

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Summary: OVER-RATED EPIC....FOR TEENS!!
Review: This so-called epic love story is kid fodder! The romance was so lame and uninvolving I couldn't wait for the real drama to take place....and that last part of the movie is what saves it from being a worthless piece of celluloid! And although the recreation of the ship's sinking was dramatic and well done,who doesn't know what happened on that fateful voyage? Great production,nothing new....performances are decent with the exception of DiCaprio.Too hammy for my taste.Best Picture? Money over substance wins over the Academy!

Rating:
Summary: only credit goes to special effects
Review: Best picture, best original song, all that....

All right- I hated the movie. The special effects were incredible, but the rest was dumb. Reason: too predictable.

Now, I don't mean, "Oh, the ship is going to sink. It is too predictable."

What I mean is, I saw the movie and could, at every single scene, predict what was going to happen in the next three scenes. And, I was right all along! It was like every other romance movie. It doesn't deserve those awards it got. It was just another pointless movie.

One other thing I hate about it: "My Heart Will Go On." The song was the same as every one of Celine Dion's other songs, so it should have stayed on the CD.

Rating:
Summary: Unbelievable story
Review: This story of a big ship getting sunk is plainly unbelievable. They should have thought about the plot better before setting out to film the movie. Why write the story in such a way that the ship sinks and everyone dies? It would have been a better love story if the ship had just plainly reached its destination and had a happy ending. Just my 2 cents.

Rating:
Summary: I think I missed the boat...
Review: It's a good movie, good writing, good acting, yada, yada, yada, but what really sets it apart is the scenery and the re-creation of The R.M.S. Titanic in all its ostentatious splendour.

I did enjoy "Titanic" probably because I've read several books on the whole story of the ship, the crew, etc. Sorry, but I liked the books better than the movie. However, I was glad to see that much of the movie was true to the real story.

One interesting tidbit - when Rose finally passes on as an elderly woman, she is a young woman again and she rejoins her lover on the beautiful dance floor of The (intact and unsunken) Titanic. A clock, barely discernible in the background, shows that for the group on the ship, only a moment has gone past in the last 80+ years. In their paradigm, it's still a few minutes before 2:00 am, April 14th, 1912.

That was an interesting insight and one of many aspects about this movie that I did thoroughly enjoy.

This was a good movie, but I preferred A&E's 4-volume documentary on The Titanic. But I'm comparing apples and oranges, I know.

I suppose I would recommend "The Titanic" but I found the GRAPHIC scenes of people suffering and dying *deeply troubling.* This is no Hollywood fantasy, after all. Hundreds of people really did lose their life that night.

In summary, it is a good movie, but I could not watch it a second time. Once was enough.

Rating:
Summary: This really didn't deserve Best Picture
Review: Going into this movie, I already had reservations, having heard the stories from teenage girls claiming with pride to have seen the movie multiple times (some into the tens, and a few even more). I predicted at once that the movie was a sappy love story playing off of the teenage generations then-obsession with girly Leonardo Dicaprio, and when I finally saw it, I was not surprised. Line after line of vapid dialogue assaulted me from all sides; I was pounded unconscious by the lack of plot or charcacter development. Kate Winslet's being the exception, every character in the movie was as one-dimensional and cliched as could be. The only thing that saved this film from total turkeydom in my opinion is the amazing special effects during the sinking scene, a Cameron trademark, and the enjoyment of seeing a few Cameron regulars (Bill Paxton and Jeanette Goldstein, to name a few). Overall, unless you still have something for Leo, or Kate, for that matter, avoid this cliched monster of a mishap.

Good Will Hunting, all the way!

Rating:
Summary: Great movie... BAD DVD!
Review: Ok the movie is so great... to me the love story is a weak point in the movie, it doesn't sound reasonable or convincing to me (that's why I did not rate it five stars). But the scenes are so RICH, great picture, great acting, great animation, great emotions and great soundtrack!

But it really bothers me that this DVD has no extra's what so ever!!!! The TITANIC DVD should be so rich with extra's and the making of the movie features...

So four stars for the movie but no stars for this DVD edition!

Rating:
Summary: COME ABOARD!
Review: What James Cameron's TITANIC proves once and for all is that, with the right creative team, you don't need tonnes of money to make a great picture. The look of the film is amazing; its period detail and grand ocean vistas make this a widescreen must. Still, the main reason for the picture's success is the adept handling of its love story; this really is as close to a big-screen homage of THE LOVE BOAT as we are likely to get. (I kept looking for Gopher or Isaac, the bartender, to show up in cameos, but they never do). While the overall excellence of the film is beyond question, I feel it was a mistake to sink the ship. This movie was hugely popular when first released, so there was definitely an audience for a sequel, (or two). Critics may argue otherwise, but moviegoers prefer a happy ending.

Rating:
Summary: What is there not to like?
Review: Not that another review of this movie was needed, but I do not understand why it has been so popular to knock this film. What is there not to like? It has drama, action, romance, humor, pathos, you get it all! Cameron does not seem like the kind of man that I would like to know, but he has given us a great film. Except for a couple of minor inaccuracies for the sake of the drama, Cameron changed very little from the true story of the Titanic, and had little touches that a Titanic buff could appreciate like the Head Baker hanging onto the railing as the ship went down. It actually happened. So what if he invented Jack and Rose, he gave us a film that let us see and feel the hopes, dreams, and heartbreaks of 1500 people who died in the North Atlantic in a way that we could grasp it. I have seen other films based on the tragedy and they put me to sleep. This film is a gem.