Titanic Reviews

Soggy mess

This is a truly horrible movie, designed to jerk the tear ducts into action and give the odious Leonardo di Caprio dangerous career oxygen.

People get on a big boat. Someone forgets to navigate. Boat hits iceberg. Gradually sinks, killing most on board. That’s the historical truth that the movie is based on – obviously a tragedy. The greater disaster though, is that Cameron decided to make a sloppy ‘love conquers all’ movie about it, AND spend over $200 million in the process.

Only Kathy Bates, as the ‘unsinkable’ (i.e. cake-scoffing) Molly Brown and Bernard Hill as Captain Birdseye escape with performances they could justifiably call adequate. Leonardo wails and gnashes and is completely ineffective; in fact the only thing less effective is Billy Zane’s shooting – didn’t we all desperately want him to get Leo between the eyes a couple of times? Kate Winslet, whose career has only recovered this year with the incredible Eternal Sunshine, wobbles around the embarrassingly fake set looking like she’s about to breastfeed Leo and then selfishly lets him freeze to death so she can keep the big blue rock, and doesn’t have to pawn it to spend on baby formula.

This is about as unpleasant as movies get, and Cameron hasn’t made one since. Lets all make sure he doesn’t get near a linen-back chair ever again.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Watch it for the SFX

The first two hours are junk - cod oirish accents, poor but noble cliches abound, an upper class young woman running about the ship chasing men and having extra marital sex. Really, this would have been as unacceptable in those days as walking naked down the street is today (women were still sent to mental asylums for getting pregnant outside marriage until the 50s) The film gets interesting when the ship starts to sink. But I wouldn't watch it twice.

OK, not the same experience as the cinema but still a fantastic movie to watch on your wide-screen TV. A nice story with plenty of action and romance makes this one of the best modern movies ever made in my opinion.

We're going down...

Oh lord... where do you start with this? The intensely annoying cod-Oirish score; the idea that hey, it?s actually great to be a poverty-stricken ethnic minority because they?re all quaint and colourful; Billy Zane?s comic-book bad-man villainy; the godawful script...

No no no. Great special effects when the boat does its stuff, but otherwise dismally, comically awful.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Most overrated film ever

This film won 11 oscars. Why?

Dreary, cliche ridden dross. The effects are fine when the boat goes down, but what do you expect when a squillion dollars have been thrown at such a half baked piece of rubbish.

Synopsis: some upper class bint (Winslet) goes for a bit of rough (Caprio), they meander around tediously for two hours and the boat sinks.

I heard that some people were devestated when they found out the ship sinks before they saw the film. These people are idiots.

Also, Celine Dion doing some of the music.

Mindless sentimenal dross. If that's what you want to see in films, sure watch it.

On the other hand, if you like decent cinema, avoid like Jehoha's witnesses.

Shame on you, Cameron, Aliens and T2 were great films

Rose...Jack...Rose...Jack....Rose...Rose....Jack....Die already!

And to think that James Cameron risked his career over this one! Having sat through this, I am actually glad that Cameron's become so obsessed with the Titanic that he's given up on making films. He also very nearly sunk Di Caprio's career, or at least his credibility as an actor.

Simply The BEST!

The BEST film in the history of the world. Love, drama, excitement, adventure, betryal, longing and hope! All things we have experienced and that is why we all empathise with Jack and Rose and that is why this is the BIGGEST grossing film of all time!

[Highly rated reviewer]

superb......................

this film is superb. On April 14th, 1912 one of western civilization's most tragic events occurred when a ship thought to be unsinkable did exactly that, struck an iceberg and sank killing hundreds of passengers in the process, as the ships builders seemed to have made one mistake after another in the construction of this 'magnificent' vessel.

Film Director and screen writer James Cameron (who brought us Arnie in The Terminator), concocts a glorious love story around this true life tragedy, and quite poignantly portrays the disparity of classes aboard the vessel, as the first class passengers live in the lap of luxury, even during the 'abandonment' of the vessel: while the poor are treated with palpable disdain, to include being locked below decks after the ship begins to sink.

While the true story of this movie is the sinking of the ship, told through Cameron's brilliant writing and direction, there is whole myriad of other things going on, that are not noticeable, but would have been, had they been done incorrectly, chiefly among these - are the costumes and the sets of the Titanic.

The truly fictitious portion of this tragedy is told through Rose Dawson Calvert (played by Gloria Stuart), as she regales present day treasure hunters of her time on the Titanic, and the gloriously passionate, but brief love affair between her and Jack Dawson, who was a free spirited artist ,who taught her how to live despite his own destiny...

What happens in the film, to Rose and Jack?..... Watch the film to find out, it really is well worth watching....

Fairy tale land

This is a proper girly film. I love every thing about this film. The story, romance, the fashion, the actors and actresses.

I watched it over and over again when i first bought it and even now when there's nothing on, on a Sunday, my daughter and i buy some choccy and curl up on the sofa to watch it. Must admit though we always fast forward the first half an hour when there going on about the history stuff and how they go about discovering the story.

A must watch if never seen before.

Titanic .. ship might have sunk but not the film .

Big boat , big budget , big stars.. but most of all big entertainment . At the end of the day it is an epic film which will one day deserve to become a classic in its own right.