Titanic

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Summary: I rather look at "Golden Girls" reruns than watch this!
Review: I don't understand what the hype was about this movie. Both Winslett and DiCaprio are boring and have no talent whatsoever. Winslett: a woman having an affair with DiCaprio. DiCaprio: an American who meets with a woman engaged to a madman who eventually chases his lover and he around the "big boat". Overall, the movie was dull, boring, and lifeless. Want to see a good movie? Braveheart and The Last Emporer are good.

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Summary: eh
Review: i have to say that anyone giving this movie 5 stars is BLIND to the fact that this movie is just like every hollywood movie. a lot of time and effort was put in this, but what about feeling? NONE. it's just eye candy for the guys, and a cheesy, unrealistic love story for the Leo girls to shove down their pathetic chick flick filled throats. how can anyone expect to get a film with feeling and real emotion from the guy that directed the Terminator? come on! the acting was good, but cheesy and over done, and in some cases not done enough. sure i felt tears in my eyes, but that's just because i'm still vulnerable to Hollywood's false emotion.

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Summary: Guess what folks, the boat sinks! This movie was boring.
Review: This movie should have flopped. I have to give James Cameron credit for creating such hype for this movie. But that's where I stop. Why did people sit through 3 1/2 hours of oh my gosh suspense (just kidding) while waiting for that moment when the boat splits apart and slowly starts to sink? Maybe they thought the boat wouldn't sink if they just watched it enough times. Although I have to agree it was those silly teeny bopper girls lusting after that leo guy. (His last good movie was The Quick and The Dead, and guess what he dies in that one too) Maybe it's just me, although I hope sincerely that others feel the same way, but shouldn't tragedies be viewed as such and not profitted from? I wouldn't have so many complaints about this movie if it had focused on more than just the budding romance of a young couple. Only when the boat sinks is the audience really aware that the boat isn't just full of rich people, only when people start to die does the camera zoom in on their tortured faces. But sadly, as they are not built up as real characters in the preceding 2 hours before the boat starts to go down the audience just doesn't care about the people falling to their deaths. (Even the woman with the baby floating by hardly registered since I was getting impatient and waiting for the movie to end) So there you have it, 3 1/2 hrs, minus character development just doesn't make for entertainment to me. Although that Kate Winslet is a hottie!

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Summary: Wildly overrated, underwritten, and underacted
Review: The first mistake that James Cameron made when he set out to make a film of the "Titanic" disaster was deciding to write the script himself. He churned out a hideous piece of tripe that no amount of anything could save--stiff-as-a-board dialogue (lines such as "I'm just rolling along like a tumbleweed in the wind" indicate a startling Bob Dylan fixation), contrived and unmoving plotting, and a nearly infinite length. "Gone With the Wind" got away with it because it was poetically written and magnificently acted, especially by Vivien Leigh. "Titanic" is butt-numbingly long. The reason? A wretched script, and thespians who act as if they're to be shot with the plague at the end of the film-- they're obviously not very excited about finishing. What Cameron is not, is a screenwriter, or much good with actors. What he is, is a brilliant action director, and when the ship begins to collapse (finally), there are long, thrilling set pieces that will probably be analyzed in film classes for years to come. Unfortunately, the rest of the film is tiresome and shockingly stupid--it might be intellectually stimulating to the 13-year-old girls that made up its core audience, but not to anyone who likes to have an abstract thought now and then. Okay, diatribe over.

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Summary: Great movie but poor 5.1 surround sound for this DVD
Review: I wont need to tell you what a great story this movie is. I have only seen it twice at the theaters and now again on DVD. I will give the movie 5 stars but the Dolby Digital 5.1 surround was under use I felt. I expected the LFE to kick in during the collision with the ice berg but nothing happen and I expected my rear surround to come alive during the "dancing sequence below deck" but again highly disappointed by its lack of sound coming from the rear. I guess I will have to wait for the DTS version to buy this DVD. Maybe this is not Dolby Digital's fault but possibily the people who render the sound for this DVD. Come on guys wake up, I need to give my home theatre system a good work out!!! Put some sound in the rears will ya?

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Summary: It's just a movie!
Review: If you see this movie with the mindset of "I'm just going to sit here on a rainy day and watch a movie", you'll be fine. But if you go into it with the idea that you are going to see the greatest movie ever made, you're going to be incredibly disappointed. The love story plot is mediocre at best, and the movie doesn't seem to get interesting until the boat starts to sink. Everyone knows how the movie ends, but unlike, say, Apollo 13, which keeps you interested in the characters despite knowing the outcome, Titanic makes you wish that both Rose and Jack would end up frozen in the Atlantic. I've definitely seen better movies, but on the other hand, I've also seen much worse. I think James Cameron should stick to movies like Terminater, but that's just my opinion.

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Summary: Great animation, hopeless leads
Review: I have to say I enjoyed it enough a the time, but only because it looked good. But....Kate and Leo looked like mother and son! Neither were particularly appealing or believable (or attractive). It could have been great, but it settled for mainstream, mediocre smaltz. And as for James Cameron at the Oscars.....Gimme a break! King of the world? King of an Ego more like it!

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Summary: So much Hollywood, so little substance.
Review: Glitter and more glitter, with very little REAL people or story. How magnificent to have the terrible human tragedy of the Titanic reduced to DiCaprio and Winslett mugging in front of the camera. I guess the pretty faces and special effects were supposed to cover for the lack of substance and humanity. Still, if EVERYONE likes this movie, that must make it good, right? Rent "A Night to Remember", you will, at least remember what Titanic is really about.

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Summary: Too Much Hoopla Over Cheesy Movie!!
Review: I hated this movie!! It was long and had cheesy dialogue. While I did appreciate the technical aspect of it such as the scenery, cinematography, special effects,etc. This movie had no clue what to do with its main character Jack. Was he supposed to be a nice guy, a hero, or a jerk? The script was poorly written. The writer had no clue what to do after each scene. What's the deal with the gun chase?? Where in the world did that come from? This is just a cheesy romance movie disguised as an epic about two lovers on the ill-fated Titanic. I am a movie buff and Titanic seemed like too much of a formula film.

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Summary: BUY IT...NOW!!!!!
Review: This isn't a long review. It is straight to the point, no messing around!! If you buy one DVD this year, please, buy TITANIC...no...buy 2 of them, or 3...oh, please just buy it!!!!!!!! It is the best quality film and DVD I have seen so far...lots of time and effort has gone into it!!!!! BUY IT...NOW!!!!!! -MARIO CONSTANDINOU