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titanic...The Movie....Is just that.
I enjoy the story, from that perspective.
I appreciate the effort to create a level of interest in such an event. Drama can attempt to capture, only you can respond!
In reading short 4-5star reviews, and Loooong 2-3star reviews, I believe the connection has been made, as planned!

I know a lot of you out there will hate me for saying this, but I am entitled to my opinion, not yours. I thought this movie sucked!

Three hours for Lord of the Rings? No problem, I can understand the need. The pacing was good enough to keep those hours from becoming tedious. Three hours for Star Wars: Attack of the Clones? Kind of a stretch, but it's a guitly pleasure of mine. Granted, I had some problems with it, but that's another story. But three hours for Titanic? No! It didn't work for me.

Now I'm not going to diss Mr. DiCaprio as many others have. He really can act, but the problem here wasn't him, it was his character. All the characters in this movie were hackneyed and trite. I just couldn't bring myself to care about any of them. I just sat there waiting for the cockamamey boat to sink!

And the love story was painfully trite. A lower-class boy with an upper-class girl, real original. You can take old concepts like that and make them work, but this movie wasn't able to in my eyes. I much preferred the love story of The Princess Bride, but I'm not here to make comparisons.

The visual effects with the sinking of the boat were decent, but that was the only good part of the entire movie. Frankly, there was nothing else worth considering in this movie aside from the sinking of the eponymous boat.

On the whole, I found Titanic to be boring, trite, and painfully uninteresting. But like I said, that's my opinion. None of you have to agree with me, and you certainly don't have to like what I say, but I'm certainly free to say that this movie is one of the worst I've ever seen, and as a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000, that is saying something.

If you liked BEN HUR, you'll love this puppy too...Overly long, emotive and pretty dull with an exagerated action sequence, and some oh so very sincere characters. BUT THE SPECIAL EFFECTS WERE GOOD, lol (as if that's what makes a movie good).

WARNING: The nausea factor is VERY high here.

Moving right along. I saw "Titanic" for the first and only time a couple weeks after it was first released in 1997. If I weren't such a prideful cheapskate at the time, I would've walked out of the theater during the first 20 sappy minutes. It was like torture to sit there and listen to the sighs and shrieks of the preteens who had obviously come for the one-dimensional, talentless vision that is Leonardo DiCaprio.

Built around a tragic, real-life story that is sad enough on its own, Cameron's version of "Titanic" seeks to fool us into believing that these two kids have found their true loves in one another during the course of a few days on the ocean and a couple of nude drawings. His attempt at writing romantic dialogue smacks of conversations overheard in high school cafeterias worldwide.

If I had been DiCaprio and Winslet, I'd have run as far and wide from this project as I possibly could have. But wait a minute . . . they aren't that good to begin with, so that explains that. There's certainly nothing more I can add to the 1512 reviews already posted here, but basically, if you're over the age of 13, skip this movie and watch something with a bit more substance and depth.

Two final words: Hollywood. Drivel.

Much has been said and written about this mega-movie. People tend to either love it or hate it. Personally, I belong to the second category. The film's special effects are generally impressive, but the plot is so utterly stupid that it makes the average soap opera look like fine art. Rarely have so many cliches been used in the same story, the characters are stereotypes and the plot turns are generally very predictable. James Cameron made some fine films in the 1980s, but in the 1990s he lost his touch, which is evident here. Still, the film won both Best Picture and Best Director Oscars (instead of LA Confidential), which once again proves that the academy tends to reward the wrong films.

My apologies to Kundera, but this is, in a way, what he was talking. 'Titanic' is so light on substance and emotion that it is simply unbearable. Until I saw Mel Gibson's 'The Patriot', this was the worst film I had ever seen. The nauseating romance scenes, the blindingly cliche dialogue, the boring chase scenes, it's interminable length - these all add up to one of the worst movies of the century. Like a few of the other reviewers, I, too, had to summon up great strength not to burst out laughing and cheering when Leo slipped into the dark Atlantic. (I couldn't summon up enough and may have ruined it for a few people.) I imagine people like the film's love story and drama, but you get more drama from a table and chairs. 'Titanic' would have been just a laughably bad movie, except for it's promotion and production. Now it's just an unbearable waste of time.

This movie blows so much it should be in the guiness book for world's biggest piece of excrement. Only redeeming scene: when a guy falls off the back of the upended boat and clangs against the propeller on the way down.

Remember when this movie was first released on video, and they kept saying something to the effect of "Now you can own the movie of the century?" Well, la-di-da, what a priviledge! I hadn't seen Titanic in the theater because it was so popular that I didn't want anything to do with it. All I heard was how everyone loved it except for a handful of people. Because I don't like trends, I wanted to be among the handful until I finally rented it a few months after its video release. We had a big screen TV, so I fell in love with it upon first viewing and was so haunted that I had to get it for my own.

Most people have seen this by now, but for those of you who haven't, I'm warning you right now, it wears thinner and thinner with each play. You begin to realize what a flimsy love story James Cameron wrote, and you really start to feel cheated as you realize the script is absolutely pathetic where the love story between Kate Winslet and Leonardo De-Greasy-Crapheado is concerned. A rich girl like Rose wouldn't want a poor guy who just happens to be able to draw for very long, so that's unbelievable right there. What's really funny is, given the distinct separation of classes like there were on those large ships, the only place Jack and Rose could have convincingly met was the church, yet he's denied entrance in Cameron's account.

The historical inaccuracies in this film are gastronomical (Such as Picasso paintings sinking with the ship that hadn't even been released to the public until after the tragedy, and the fact that nobody told Molly Brown to "shut that 'ole in yer face!"), but the larger crime here is how much more eyeliner Billy Zane is wearing than Kate Winslet. Worst of all is the lame dialogue. How many times must we hear these two say each other's names until you never forget them? Jack, Jack, Jack. Rose, Rose, Rose. Barf, barf, barf..."I'm the king of the world!" No, you're not. You're a really lucky guy with a big, fat, greasy head, and you look like a 12 year-old who wants to rake my leaves instead of a hot stud. Kate Winslet deserved a better actor to play her man than this! When he drowns I don't even care. At least his hair finally gets washed. The worst piece of dialogue in the film happens to be, "A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets." Only a man would write a stupid line like that, and only a highly paid actress would say it.

I've made it crystal clear the love story is crap, but I will say that the special effects and the actual scenes having to do with the disaster are very well done...well, except for the part where the boat is all full of freezing water, but Jack and Rose are still cavorting around in the passageways of the ship like it's a water theme park. They'd have had hypothermia too badly already for any of that to have happened. The underwater shots of the old boat are eery, but the one scene I find very disturbing is the longshot of all those people screaming for help in their life jackets after the boat has finally sunk. That living grave always sends a chill down my spine.

Titanic has very impressive moments, good costumes, and excellent effects. The tragedy is replicated on the screen with harrowing efficiency enough to haunt a person long after the credits roll to that awful Celine Dion codependent shrieking. It's just such a shame James Cameron had to ruin it all with a sleazy, hollow, unbelievable love story to rival the old nighttime soaps like Dallas. "If you jump, I jump," Rose and Jack take turns saying to each other in two different sections of the film. I couldn't agree with them more. God to dear God, JUMP already!

oh yeah a boat this big could really sink shaa rite and monkeys might fly out of my as* i mean come on they didnt even have boats in 1912 at least not boats with metal metal wasent even inventid till like the 60's or sumtin
nice ti*ties in it tho

I cannot reconcile myself to living in a world where this is the number one movie of all time. The real sinking of the Titanic was indeed a tragedy, as was the script, the acting, and everything else about this movie. I don't know if I've ever witnessed such horror on film before. If someone was really as self-centered as the fiancee is supposed to be, would he continue chasing them around the boat when it's obviously sinking--wouldn't he be more interested in saving his own hide? And I shudder at the spitting scene--there's no better way to cause a common steerage passenger to fall in love with you than to learn to spit with him. What a trooper she was to descend to his lowly level. Ah, it must be true love. I'm just embarrassed for Hollywood, and for all involved in making this movie. Especially Kate Winslet who is so much better than that. Shame, shame, shame on James Cameron.