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The Kate Winslet/Leo DiCaprio version. What are peoples thoughts? I was watching it last night. Tbh with you this movie drags on a bit, the whole love story bit at the start and even after the iceberg hits it drags on a bit and you begin to wonder how much longer till the thing sinks. However i do think that once the iceberg hits that final hour or so of the film is pretty good, awesome special effects - and i think when people saw it in cinemas back in 97 most of them were probably waiting for the iceberg to hit. So awesome ending even if it has a less than gripping build up. Btw Billy Zane and his sidekick are evil in this:eek: and i spotted Vinnie From Queer As Folk,never noticed him in it before.
 
It's one of my favourite films and I don't care for the negativity and cynicism that's come to surround it over the years.

I think many people have forgotten what a big impact this film made around the world was when it was released.
 
Being a fan of the Olympic class liners I found the bits with the Titanic sailing on screen stupendous, but the bits with the King of the world and his bird a bit, well, um shite to be honest. I also didn't like the gross distortion of historical fact in making Murdoch a murderer, the American the plucky heroes, the Irish the poor downtrodden victims, the British incompetant treacherous idiots and the boss J Bruce Ismay a complete uncaring pratt.

Also why did they not show one of the more heroic and fascinating stories from the tragedy, the rescue by the Carpathia. Arthur Rostrom sailed at full speed through a minefield of dangerous moving ice to reach the survivors. Just showed the ship at anchor and de Caprio's bird being warmed up. Damn you Cameron you should be ashamed of yourself. 705 people rescued and you were more interested in showing an irritating couple shagging in a car.
 
I liked this film very much when it was released, still do and I refuse to hang my head in shame because of it.

If you don't like it for whatever reason, that's entirely up to you, I won't tell you what to think. Just don't tell me what to think either.
 
But the story is about Jack and Rose's love and The Heart Of The Ocean necklace, both fictional but set in the factual backdrop of Titanic. It's not meant to be a historical factual documentary.
 
I don't think anyone's forgotten the big impact it made, I actually daresay it's one of the reasons for all the negativity (along with a mediocre-at-best script and acting that's just awful at times).
 
It also wouldn't have been the big audience draw that it was if it had only focused on the real people. The love story gave the mainstream cinema go-ers something to latch on to and at the time was very, very successful.
 
I was 8 when this was released and it was the saddest film I watched... I remember crying quietly then my mum noticed LOL.

It's still good now but I do fast toward to when it all kicks off 'sometimes....depenRAB what mood ok in lol'

The acting was great to
 
Lamb Chops said:
It's one of my favourite films and I don't care for the negativity and cynicism that's come to surround it over the years.

I think many people have forgotten what a big impact this film made around the world was when it was released.[/QUOTE]

Not really, I was distictly unimpressed when it came out.
I must admit much of that had to do with the casting of Kate Winslet/Leo DiCaprio..I didnt find the pairing remotely believable. It was a well crafted film, but you have to remember it was surrounded by hype for ages before it's release. Then it received numerous accolades and became the highest grossing film of all time. By the time I went to see the movie, it had to be nothing short of brilliant to live up to expectations. In the end it was just "ok".
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I am not negative about it. It's a good film that is well made but it is not fact it's an unrealistic fictional love story that uses a tragic event as its backdrop.

The death of 1500+ is insignificant compared with the loss of Jack Dawson.
 
An almost perfect meld of special effects and screenplay - to those who say Titanic was overblown....the name of the ship itself has become part of the English lexicon. How could the movie be anything but "Titanic" in stature?

It stanRAB alone.

And as such is hated with a passion by many.
 
I know I know, mass audience and all that, boys taking girls on a date hoping to cop a feel in the back row, girls crying over de Caprio, theme song topping the charts etc etc. Damn shame, wasted opportunity which Michael Bay would emulate and mess up in similar fashion with Pearl Harbor.

Please don't get me wrong, the ship, the ocean, the sailing, the icebergs and the sinking were cinematic marvels for me but the love story, mass audience and historical inaccuracies, some which were very hurtful to Murdoch's survivng family left me cold, and cringing.
 
the slow build up and the fictional love story is there solely so the audience gets to know and invests emotionally in two of the passengers, in order to ensure that the end tragedy is felt at a personal level.
 
I saw it a the cinema twice and the special effects as seen on the big screen were awesome. The engine room scenes and when the boat is splitting in two and the back end crashes down into the water - just great.
 
I remember seeing it in the cinema. I wanted to walk out, but felt as may as well stay to get my money's worth.

There were only three things I liked about it:

- Kate Winslet's boobs.

- Seeing DiCaprio's Oirish character die at the end.



It also annoyed me again later on when it somehow beat LA Confidential to win Best Picture at the Academy AwarRAB.
 
Then the fault is yours for believing what you are told. You take all of that with a pinch of salt, and it's not like it has not happened before...people are always being taken in by such hype, and they never learn.

They, like you, expect perfection. And what you get is an essentially good movie, but with some obvious flaws. And you are massively dissapointed because it does not meet your lofty expectations.

But this does not equate to a bad movie, you were just dissapointed. Your sense of frustration and dissapointment should be directed towarRAB those that told you to expect brilliance, not the movie itself.
 
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