Titanic

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Summary: Once is more than enough
Review: I went to see "Titanic" in the theater like millions of people. I thought that Leonardo Di Caprio was cute and Kate Winslow was charming. I felt goosebumps when Jack screamed: I am the king of the world! and felt sad when he finally....well, you know. Great effects, beautiful wardrobe, but pleeease: How many times can you see that ship sink. I believe that once is more than enough; maybe in ten years we could see it again on T.V. Meanwhile, you should buy "Casablanca", a movie worth seeing a thousand times

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Summary: Good Movie.
Review: This movie was actually pretty good. Leo is not that good of an actor and he is a poser. I liked when the boat drowns. It is very dramatic. This movie has it's bright spots but can be dull and boring. It is really long and is great for rainy days. It is a good drama.

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Summary: ...glug...glug..glug...glug...glug....
Review: Quickreview: This movie sucks and is exploitive. Why? Great visuals are punctuated by opaque characters who act badly (on many levels) mouthing a stupid screenplay (you gettin' this Cameron?) all wrapped in an inane plot causing victims to turn in collective grave. Upshot: Cameron and Co. make big bucks from horrible historic tragedy using eye candy Leo and Kate for bait. Furthers exploitation of actual wreck which is now being dismatled for worldwide showing.

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Summary: Three hours of my life I'll never get back.
Review: What a waste of time. There is really nothing good to say about this. I had to see it TWICE in theaters when I was in 7th grade, so it's technically 6 hours of my life I'll never get back. Leonardo Dicaprio CANNOT act. He has a huge head and even Celine Dion has a more manly body. The movie was basically a sappy love story to open up the wallets of your thirteen year old girls. I bet the victims of Titanic are rolling over in their underwater grave.

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Summary: It could have been better
Review: I think this movie is a good one, I'd choosen another main actor, but.. well... it's done. The sinking scenes are just excellent made. I could feel the horror of the people. Just imagine all those people with children knowing they'll die very soon. The movie had good and bad points, but I think it's a good one when you put all in the balance.

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Summary: A FAKE.
Review: New specially developed special effects were used in great ammunt to make the public forget that fact that this is not but one of the silliest love histories ever told on screen ! THe director was smart enough to take a plot (the sinking of Titanic) that ever aroses interest in people (like sharks, for example, or the murder of JFK) to bring the audience into theaters. Then he filled it with special effects and no histories at all. By the way: at the end of the movie, Billy Zane's character, that at best could be defined as a rich person full of prejudice, transforms himself almos into the Devil himself! Absurd !

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Summary: A Very Childish Way To Approach Such Tragedy
Review: I do enjoy watching Titanic on my 46" television in all its visually and auditory pleasing splendor, but after repeated viewings I get the feeling that I may not have just been served chicken when I see this flick. The characters in Titanic are way too stereotypical and the people portrayed have too much of a 2 dimensional as compared to 3 dimensional feel about them. I will use Rose, Cal, and Jack as examples. Rose serves as a kind of simplistic bridge between the rich and poor. She seems all too ready to drop the rich lifestyle with not much more foundation for that behavior than a bit of pre-wedding jitters. She is extremely ego-centric. Cal is not evil enough. He is in the worlds of the zany Dr. Evil from Austin Powers, quasi Evil. Sure he is only interested in showering Rose with material possessions and has a distaste for those who don't make their own luck. I stress there are worser fates than that. Jack is a very unrealisticly optimistic guy who is no more than a drifting artist with no home and no future. Rose is attracted to the fact that Jack offers her an undetermined future as well as a chance for a way out of her family responsibility. By marrying Cal her family stays rich and her mother doesn't have to work-yet another ego-centric character is Rose's mother. This movie seems to promote that looking out for numero uno is the correct way to approach life even if it costs you a great deal of money. That is just implausibly unrealistic. Sometimes that just gets you into more of a hassle than you tried to avoid. It's almost welcome when the boat sinks and foils the plans of Jack and Rose. The real untold story of this Hollywood Titanic is how Rose survived on her own after the ships sinking. I'm sure that would be a real box office smash as well. Titanic is such a promising movie with an awfully poorly written plot. This is an exploitation of the true victims of the sinking of the Titanic.

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Summary: The eigth wonder of the world - The success of Titanic
Review: I shall resist the temptation to let my strong emotions (hatred) influence what I say and review this film objectively, showing how I came to a two star review.

I will not rank on the framing of this tale, which could have been interesting. It sets up a modern day crew that is after the glory and fortune associated with being able to excavate Titanic, a sunken luxury liner. An old woman says she was on the ship (is disbelieved) and eventually adds humanity to this tragedy of long ago. These characters are interesting. They have needs and goals and, eventually, change. But how this happens gets buried in an unoriginal plot and over-done cinematic spectacle.

After two and half hours of love story and tragedy, Bill Paxton, the head of the excavation team, says meekly "...all these years I thought about Titanic and I never let it get to me." Paxton's character is supposed to be our 'in' - he is modern man. When he says that, the audience should feel a similar since that this old tale has stirred their emotion. Yet, that doesn't happen. Why?

The stroyline of the back-story (most of the film) is dreadful with very little character drive. Jack and Rose are flawless youngsters who stand in defiance of old world fogies. Convenient, huh. Their convictions of early on are only enforced by the circumstances around them - never challenged. Is this drama? A disaster flick, if is not purely commercial and for the sake of spectacle, can only do one thing - show the stuff the characters are made of in the face of doom: in this film, this is no different than what they are in the beginning (brash youths). Do they grow up? Did Rose ever? Does she realize that more often than not they would grow to hate each other, realizing how shallow they are?

Now, all of you Titanic fans will say, "Surely you must admit this film is a technical marvel of moviemaking and visually captivating" Again, I raise my fist in defiance and issue a bold: NO! Titanic's computer animated effects look exactly like what they are - computer animated. Early on, in overhead shots, little simulated humans move about the digital luxury liner and I sat frozen in my seat, thinking: are they kidding me? All the while I was expecting the camera to zoom out and see that this is all recreation on a screen that the excavation team was watching. How disappointed I was that this never happened. Pay close attention to these details in your next viewing of Cameron's unfortunate blockbuster: the cartoon dolphins in the water, the long shots of the sinking ship (more importantly the never changing computerized horizon in the background) and most disgusting was the iceberg itself (which suspiciously resembles the computerized berg that's shown earlier). The computer generated imagery was a huge hack job.

In conclusion, a period piece often features lavish costumes and music and makeup and more often than not it is in an effort to create a distinct time and place - one that matches the way the characters feel and think and act. Two recent movies that succeed in recreating there time and place are the severely wronged L.A. Confidential and Elizabeth. The actions and thoughts of the characters and background were so in step with there period and location that you actually become a brief tenant of 1950's Hollywood and Elizabethan England. But something is amiss in Titanic - the costuming and music and makeup may be nice but it's all for naught - the motion picture around it is deliberately forgetful to the time and place. The characters are simply disembodied voices moving about some timeless netheregion with occasional stupid barbs such as Hartley saying nothing will come of Picasso when he had already made a splash on the Paris art scene at that time. This is a bad story people... very bad. The only reason I give it two stars is because the massiveness of the production of this meaningless corporate product has contributed to the surrounding economy.

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Summary: The secret¿s at the bottom of the ocean
Review: Right at the start of this intriguing movie, we see a robot probe going through the innards of the actual Titanic, lying deep in the ocean off Canada's Grand Banks. The probe is searching for something and for a while, it seems as though those manipulating the probe from above might have got lucky. But the diamonds and other jewels they are hoping to lay their hands on are not there, and they have to be contented with a drawing and other knick-knacks, instead.

That drawing turns into an old lady who, as if slowly awakening from a long night's dreaming, begins to recall the events leading up to its creation by a young artist. And that leads to the movie "Titanic." It's very artfully done and the only question we might still have, near the end, as that old lady returns those much sought after diamonds to the depths where they were supposed to have lain for so long, is: what are we searching for? What is down there, in that icy immovable hulk? James Cameron has asked the question. Maybe it's the film's real strength. Maybe it's what keeps us guessing all the time, even throughout the fictional recreation. What's down there for us?

Whatever the answer, I believe you'll enjoy the voyage...all the way down.

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Summary: Biggest theatrical disappointment of my life!
Review: I was fascinated by the story of the Titanic when I was growing up and must admit that this version of the story was a total failure in my eyes. Forget that it made $600 million; that just goes to show how aimless people are with their money. I felt the movie ignored too many of the historical perspectives that caught my attention as a child; the movie only seemed concerned with attempting to develop the worst love story of all time. I can name at least 10 "chick flicks" that are twice as good and didn't cost a tenth to make.