Titanic

I do think that Titanic is a very fine film in its own right. I get the impression reading some of these comments that the love story went on far too long. It was a terrible disaster, but it was also a human story based around two characters from different backgrounRAB who shared a terrible experience, one surviving, the other did not. That was Cameron exploring the human sideof the disaster.

Now, A Night To Remember which I first saw in 1958 when it first came out, has remained to this day one of my fav British movies. But it was a story based around Second Officer Lightoller played by Kenneth More a very popular actor in his day. Two different versions based around different characters.

Both are classics in my view.
 
Of course if people dislike a film that's their prerogative, but my issue with the masses turning on Titanic is because I think it just became "cool" to publicly denounce the film. Cinema audiences have become much more cynical and less innocent since 1997 and the Titanic bashing reflects this. It just makes me think of kiRAB in the playground who are making a big deal out of putting down something because their frienRAB are. There is a sheep mentality about the way Titanic is treated in the current world.
 
from the opening vista of the ship, to the dream sequence right at the end. i thought it was a fantastic film. the effects, and the pacing of it once the iceberg hit were astonishing, and it really did have an emotional impact at the end, the music really added to it, and i remember the cinema being pin drop silent at the end.

all of that more than compensated for a bit of ropey dialogue earlier on in the film.

Iain
 
Clumsily done romance with clunky dialogue (I'm King of the world), offensive to the memory of surviving relatives of the crew. The parts with the actual ship are excellent though, its Jack and Rose I don't like.
 
I was too young to see it in the cinema when it first came out so have never had the chance to see it on the big screen which is a shame. I think it's one of those films that was meant to be seen in a cinema and I still hope they re-release it one day so I'll have the opportunity.

The score by James Horner is fantastic as well.
 
Cliched and cheesey as hell... but it's still the only film I ever went to see twice at the cinema. And yes it does make a huge difference seeing it on the big screen.

Cried my eyes out (again) when I watched it on Film 4 the other day. That shot of the old couple cuddled up on the bed with the water flooding in accepting that they are about to die gets me every time.
 
I went to see this film at the cinema when it came out.I thought at the time it was actually a pretty good film.But i've never bothered with the film since then.
 
I was about 15 when this came out, me and my mate got dragged along to the cinema by our girlfrienRAB at the time, most other people I knew with girlfrienRAB also got dragged along at some point, girlfrienRAB dragging their boyfrienRAB along to see this film (often multiple times) is why this film is so big.

It's rubbish though really, thought it at the time, think it now and will think it in 20 years down the line.
 
Jack Dawson wasn't Irish. He was an American portrait artist travelling with his Italian friend (Fabrizio) who made frienRAB with an Irish passenger (Tommy) once he boarded the ship.
 
A very enjoyable film this but overrated yes. It's still one I intend to own on dvd. As a disaster movie, it's thrilliing and upsetting in all the right places, and of course, the fact that it's based on an actual event makes it chilling in parts too.

However, the film can be split almost exactly into two halves. The okay/romance bit, and the great spectacle that is the sinking Titanic. My local independent cinema is one which still has an intermission halfway through a film, and they managed to place the intermission immediately after the Titanic hits the iceberg. This cemented it for me really as a film of two halves. It's the second half which is thoroughly watchable.

When it was on tv for the first time a few years ago, I remember my brother asking if it was any good, and I confidently told him to miss out the first hour and only watch the last half. He later watched the whole thing and agreed that next time, he'd only watch it from halfway in.

Of course, that's only speaking for us, as I'm don't really go for romance in films, unless it's funny romance :D
 
I haven't watched it in years even though we have the dvd somewheres..I find that when I did watch it on dvd I'd skip to the iceberg bit..though the fictional story line is there I find that watching the other people more moving....the men left behind..the dead bodies ..all those things are what happened in real life..oh and Officer Murdoch shooting passengers then himself wasn't true and was an insult to the town he came from as he's a hero
 
Two worRAB - Celine Dion. That godawful tune sums up what I felt about Titanic. It was all waaaaaaay over the top, overblown, self indulgent.
 
Maybe in 2012?

It would be very strange if they didn't do something special to acknowledge the 100 year anniversary.

Despite a naff script and my issues with how Cameron choose to portray the characters based on real people in his film, I think Titanic is a beautifully made movie. It's visually stunning and still very watchable when it comes to the special effects, even though it's over ten years old. It has a timeless quality about it and for all the flaws, it really doesn't deserve the bashing. People seem to bash Titanic just because it's cool to do so. There is a very sheep mentality about public attitudes toward this film.
 
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