DVD : Titanic [1998]

Rating: - Stunning.
I cannot describe it at all.
Touching, moving, passionate.
None of these words do Titanic justice.
A TRUE tear-jerker.
The way the lead roles act is overpowering.
And the sheer terror of the sinking really touches your heart.
If you have not already, buy this film.
Please!
I'll buy it for you if I have to!!

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Rating: - 100% ADORE THIS MOVIE
BRILLIANT MOVIE, LUV EVERY MINUTE OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY BETWEEN ROSE AND JACK IS PERFECT, BUT THE ENDING GETS ME EVERYTIME, I CANT HELP BUT CRY WEN...WELL I WONT TELL U, U'LL HAV 2 BUY IT 2 FIND OUT, BUT I 100% RECOMMEND THIS FILM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EVEN THOUGH THE FILM IS ABOUT 4HRS I DIDNT TAKE MY EYES OFF IT ONCE!!!!!!!

I CAN SEE WHY ITS WON 12 AWARDS, THIS FILM DESERVES IT, A MUST SEE FILM, SO GO ON, PRESS THAT BUY BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!




HIGHLY 10000000000000000000000000000000% RECOMMENDED

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Rating: - the heart escapes despite a massive cardiac arrest
well i think it has to be said there is someting charming about this epic despite a magnitude of flaws that can sink another fleet of titanics,just imagine 2 teenagers taking you on a guided tour of the entire bowels and decks of a huge liner and that too in a frenzy of giggling and weeping alternatively without letting go of each other's hands and you can imagine the inadvertent comic affect that ludicrous image evokes while the ship sinks,

in the middle of all this is the evil stockbroker villain who is the ultimate bad materialistic yankee and has enough bullets to chase and shoot the poor boy lover from wisconsin with a heart of gold ,

we also get to see picassos and monets,not to mention, i could spot degas and goghs in the art collection of the poor little bankrupt-miss rose abroad the ship who is being cajoled to marry the evil rich prince in the form of billy zane ,this almost becomes a parody when the 18 year old miss richie rich poses in nude and starts performing acrobatics for the amusement of jack and his friends ,

it almost looks like a snug little soviet commune with a french romantic setting and german waltzes in the background with all social injustice wasted on the magnificent sets which look more opulent than any cruise liner could ever aspire to be till the ice cube strikes .

then mr.cameron kills about a million of the 1500 who actually died as he has to show a lot of people dying in every gruesome manner possible ,i lost count and really the fact that astute miss rose was able to spot very early on , that there were less than half the number of specified life-boats made me envious of this miss know-all who even knew of freud and all his theories and quoted him at dinnertime conversations .

but still there is a sincerity in the leo-kate act which touches you and the ending does arouse some unknown emotion inside you ,it is illogical but it is lovely to look at and it works in the end ,

add the dion number and the movie wins your heart while your mind resists any attempts to like this giant romantic soap opera ,

the sfx and the cinematography are great and so are the young lovers despite their crude and silly antics on the stern and in the atlantic- leo and kate save this from sinking by their class act.

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Rating: - The sinking of the Titanic is a metaphor of the 20thC and perhaps the greatest commercial film ever made
For years I have been unable to prevent myself from judging people by their response to this film. It's so easy to discover the pretentious, the mean spirited and the hard hearted, and the people who like to sneer at what they think it's safe to sneer at. And then of course there are those who always try to make jokes about something that almost succeeds in making them feel some strong emotion. And I've never heard any of them come up with an interesting or original criticism, or even a valid one.
They usually concentrate on criticising the dialogue, as if people in real life always had interesting, non-cliched things to say. A complete red herring this in a film of this type, in terms of it's subject matter and it's production values; the script is perfectly adequate to the job it has to do and does not disgrace the characters. But these critics are full of cliches themselves and usually go on to to say that the characters are cardboard, one dimensional etc etc. These are the automatic comments of people who for one reason or another have not been able to respond to the characters who for the rest of us are perfectly likeable (di Caprio), or loveable (Kate Winslet), or detestable (the rich bastard)- which the respective characters certainly are. How deeply into the character of the protagonists do they want to go in an eventfull two hours anyway?. These shallow critics should stop thinking of what they have got into the habit of calling stereotypes and to start thinking about them in terms of archetypes. Archetypes are the stuff of great fiction and I seldom recognise a great fiction unless I discern the archetypes.
What these 'critics' presumably want are characters who are so rich in arbitrary idiosyncrasies, eccentricities or backstories that they couldn't possibly be an archetype any more than the average person we meet in our daily lives. Well that sort of character may belong in a long running naturalistic soap opera, that is to say a drama of character and situation, or a piece of of social realism, or even any drama of theme - but it's certainly not what this sort of film is all about. This is an opportunity to deal with archetypes, on the level of characters, and on the story level, and to pull out all the deep stops in our psyches. In this sort of drama we do not want to be involved in any details of personal character that are going to distract or confuse us, we just want to identify with them or against them, and we need to be able to project what we need to onto them. This is a drama of story, not a drama of character or dialogue (or the lack of it), or social context, as you would expect from some piece on stage.
But it is partly a drama of social situation as all period dramas necessarily are. This provides some of the the ready-made ingredients for the Titanic Myth or Metaphor which would be far less great, if it did not include within it the class divisions that operated on ocean liners at this period. For this you need broad strokes more than you need the sort of characterisation you would expect in a novel by Zola.
I do however have one minor criticism of the film and one bigger one. Firstly I think that the drawings that Jack does are not convincing enough on any level. They look too modern and they have no artistic credibility. But my main criticism is of the ending when the emerald is thrown back in the sea. This merely follows the tedious convention that there has to be some sort of twist at the end of every film albeit a gentle one. Instead of being 'poetic' as intended it just seems like a waste.

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Rating: - The film that made me cry
The following is not my own review but that of a teenage friend of mine.
There are plenty of adult reviewers so let's get the opinions of the young and impressionable.

It was difficult to believe that the ship was not the real thing.
The characters of Jack and Rose were portrayed brilliantly by Leonardo and Kate. I wanted their love to go on and on.
I was truly scared when the ship struck the iceberg. At the time I didn't know what the outcome would be. All the time I was hoping they would survive. I just couldn't believe that Jack was doomed to die and how that made me cry and cry and cry.
The flashbacks from the older Kate were very moving.
A sad film but totally brilliant.