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Summary: Say What? 11 Academy Awards!
Review: Oh come on! I cant belive this overrated movie got 11 Academy Awards! The only good part was of course the sinking of the ship. After I saw it I realized why Leo Dicaprio didnt get a best actor nomination. And @ the end! The old ladys throwing away like a billon dollars to his old boyfriend. Oh wow who cares! No I'm just kidding hehe. Still I didnt really like it. :(
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Summary: H-e-a-r-t-e-n-i-n-g! sink!
Review: simply superb..or fantastic is much too short to comment on a movie which has so vividly&exquiecitely portrayed an event which had has & will capture the attention of millions all over the globe,not to speak of the central theme and oh god!-the heart searing music& song by celine dion...words are simply not enough-HATS OFF to James Cameron & all the casts!
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Summary: This is a great movie!
Review: This is a great movie and it is really realistic. The Titanic story is a story that really gets you involved in it and it always makes you cry when the Titanic sinks. It is a tragic love story and keeps you involved so you don't want to put down the remote. I really encourage you to buy this movie, and I guarantee that you will like it. There is a little bit of nudity in it, from a woman's (Kate Winslet) chest up, and there is some profanity (including the f-word), but otherwise there is nothing else bad about it. It is a great movie (as I said before)! Buy it now from amazon.com!
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Summary: The most intense factual account of the terror....
Review: This was the best of all the Titanic movies made with the exception that it put two fictional characters at the front. Don't get me wrong, I fell in love with Jack like everyone else did, but it focused too much on their love story and not the tragedy and misconceptions of the "Unsinkable Titanic" with too few lifeboats and man's ignorant concept of speed over safety.
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Summary: Not Great
Review: I didn't go to the theater to see it because it was too long, but I knew I did want to see it one day. All the hype got my hopes up. The sinking scenes were entirely too long- that was about 3/4s of the movie. I didn't even cry, like many people told me I would. When I finished watching, I felt like I'd wasted three hours of my time.
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Summary: What? (continued)
Review: Please allow me to explain myself a little more. What I meant was that two teenagers having sex - BEFORE MARRIAGE - and being very young and only knowing each other for only what? 15 minutes? I am a strong Christian person, and that is just wrong - in fact horrible. The profanity is also very bad for a PG-13 movie. The nudity was also bad to get that kind of rating. This was supposed to be a love story. What? Two teenagers doing so many immoral things - on a ship? Once again, the Titanic sinking was a real tragedy, but why just make the movie worse by making it appeal to teens that will fall in love with the movie and see it 20 times. The world is getting worse and worse every day, so why promote wrong things in a tragic-based movie? I am as perflexed as most people on that question.
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Summary: Flash: Big Boat Sinks - Takes Moviemaking With It!
Review: It's so hard to put into words what an utter piece of garbage "Titanic" is, because it so shamelessly offends so many of one's senses simultaneously. Wow, what a stinker. What honestly frightens me is the overwhelming success and accolades it achieved. I had the same sickening feeling when it swept the Academy Awards, as I did when I heard the first OJ verdict. Sinking the boat was well done and they clearly spent a bundle on it. That part was fun to watch, but I've seen better plot and dialog on daytime soaps. The entire mess was a nicely conceived way to get as many people as possible into the theatres, like a politician that tries to please everybody at the same time. Unfortunately, the end result was actually painful to observe. And what was with that insipid song! It was nauseating once, but who is buying this thing? Celine Dion released that hunk of poo on multiple albums and every one of them went mega-gazillion-platinum! What is going on here? Two stars for overall production value, for making the huge boat and then sinking it, and just because I still like Cameron for having made Terminator.
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Summary: Something for the young and old and for the past and present
Review: I have seen Titanic three times, twice at the movie theatre, and once on a video. Each time that I have seen James Cameron's Titanic, it has been from a different perspective. The first time was from a comparative approach to Jean Negulesco's version which I saw at the movies in 1953. My summary was that Cameron's Titanic was to a degree far fetched, whereas Negulesco's version was more realistic because of the time Mr.Negulesco directed this particular film. In 1953, it was 41 years after the sinking of the Titanic occurred, and some of the survivors, their family, relatives or friends might have been alive, and available to be interviewed for research that went into the making of this great film. Cameron might have directed the 1997 film to accommodate the needs of a present day audience; young people seeking to be entertained with lots of adventure, romance, sex, crass, and the present day god, materialism. The second time I went to see Titanic was from an impartial perspective. Taking into consideration the story line, special effects, and acting performances of DiCaprio and Winslet, there were shades of Hollywoodism, and even brighter shades of Sci-Fi. By the time that I saw Cameron's film for the third time, I was able to flesh out that there was something for the young as well as the old, and something for the past as well as the present. For the young, they were able to enjoy Titanic because the history was only secondary, as adventure, romance, sex and materialism were primary. For the older generation like myself, oh yes, I could fully cherish the special effects. At the opening scene of the ocean, it had the same impact as it did when I saw the 1953 movie, fear, trembling, and a tremendous respect for the ocean. I feel as though I can identify with the Titanic, having sailed on the Cunard ships,the M.V.Georgic, and the RMS Queen Mary. Oh yes, I was a young girl when I sailed on the Queen Mary, and I so recall with fondness and love the romance that I had with one of the officers on the return to New York on the Queen Mary. Take it from one who has been there, there is nothing more romantic than having romance on board a ship, there is you, that other special person and that powerful ocean. I feel somewhat connected to the Titanic also, because I knew two survivors myself. One was my great uncle, a successful businessman who tried to get on board the Titanic only to be turned away at the gangplank in Southampton, and the other person, a neighbor of mine who might have sailed on the Titanic if the girl he loved had turned down his marriage proposal in London only two weeks earlier. These late gentleman were survivors of the Titanic, not direct, but indirect, but survivors. There was one survivor, Mary Glynn from the same village my mother came from in Ireland, and the other lady did not survive, Irene Corbett, an acquaintance of my late father's family. Both those names can be found on the list of passengers. The end scene was extremely well handled. It was powerful. For the old lady Rose, the end scene might have been a dream or reality, but an allegory that the most valuable gem was meaningless next to everlasting feelings. And then we see the old lady Rose sleeping happily and peacefully dreaming of the young Rose being joined by those from the Titanic who had gone before her, and Jack in a beaufitul and joyful reunion. That scene was very special for the older generation because there was something in for all of us, and especially as we are more accepting of the inevitable, which Mr. Cameron's handling of it made us all believe that it can be happy. In summation, I preferred Negulesco's Titanic than Cameron's, but, yes, the present version of Titanic was worthwhile, and oh yes, I would see it again and again.
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Summary: SWOONINGLY PERFECT MOVIE
Review: Movies do not get bigger, grander or more enjoyable than this one -- truly does live up to the hype. Cameron's screenplay is utter cornball, but Kate Winslet, the cinematography and the sweeping beauty of the score all pull you in. Using a simple love story as a framing device pays off in spades, because it makes the entire awesome tragedy real and urgent -- we are on that doomed ship and it is sinking NOW. The finale is one of the most perfectly sentimental endings ever made. It transports you into a melancholy euphoria. I think the widescreen version, on a big TV, is best -- the standard version cuts off too much of the screen. The fact that this is essentially a ghost story is never ignored, even punctuated throughout, which increases the doom and terror. It really is a worthy competitor to GONE WITH THE WIND as a spectacular canvas of history, populated with winning, if somewhat cardboard characters. And the music....
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Summary: why
Review: why would anyone want to see this more than once --- what was the appeal? (and obviously was as per dollars) was so overrated and so underacted --- so little chemistry between the lead actors --- the supporting staff was the only saving grace -- could never compare to the passions of Dr. Zhivago!
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