Reader comments: Titanic

LINDA | Apr. 15, 2007
i love this movie i think that it is the best!!! i cryed for 20mins! i love the promice at the end it shows how the real afects of the sinking.
EMILY AKA: JACK | Feb. 8, 2007
This movie was really good. I bawled almost every time. Although I am very disappointed with the content. Those who gave this movie a bad rating because of it's content I can't blame. Those of you who gave it just to be rude, try watching the movie again, and maybe you'll get it! The acting was awesome!!! Leo DiCaprio was so emotional! Kate Winslet was as good also. Good Job, good movie, work on the content of your movies James Cameron. Otherwise.... BRAVO!!!
MICHAEL MAIER | Jan. 15, 2002
This movie represents nearly everything that is wrong with our culture at this stage in our cultural decay, but that isn't why I disliked it.>:) The people that watched it 400 times make me sick, as does the morally vapid message that this film puts accross as gospel.
JARED | Aug. 25, 2001
for everyone who gave this movie a 1 seriosly now.What are you looking for in a movie. A 1 means there was nothing good about it.. nothing!If it was that bad, then why are you wasting your time telling how it was the worst movie ever. they got some dumb movies out there, F movies and you are putting it on the same level as movies like Bio dome... Right!!Give credit were credit is due. It was a godd movie
PAUL | Jul. 27, 2001
Toooooooo Looooooonnnngggg!!! Leonardo is a straight up dork. Hey, if Bruce Willis had been cast in that role, the boat wouldn't have sunk and that Billy Zane guy would be missing some body parts. Hey wasn't Leonardo on that TV show Growing Pains. Out!
ANDREW POLKA | Jun. 29, 2001
I never saw what was so great about this movie. When I was twelve it was all that because it had special effects and a nude scene. But know it's different. I've learned that special effects are not always that great and can even destroy a movie. All there is to this flick is Cameron seeing how far he can go with the effects and re creating the titanic. NOthing more.
BIFF | Jun. 28, 2001
This movie was entertaining and had excellent special effects but the love story was hollywood at its worst. Why, why, why...does every "historically" based movie have to have a lame love story? Would Americans go to these types of movies without the prerequisite "lust" story? Is Hollywood even capable of making this genre of movie without it? I laughed out loud at the final scene, Rose's "spirit" going to meet Jack's for a glorious reunion. What happened to Rose's faithful husband of umpteen years? You know, the one that provided for her, raised the children, sacrificed, etc (all those boring, unwatchable things). I guess he got shafted for the two-day fling on the boat. No suprise considering how James Cameron treated his own wife.
CHRISTIE | Jan. 31, 2001
After reading the other reviews it saddened me that some people could honestly feel that this movie wasn't any good. This movie portrayed the anger,love,trust, and most of all the fear that people experienced on the real Titanic voyage in 1912. It made me very sad for simple fact that this was real, it really happened.. not all the Kate and Leo stuff.. but, how the first class and third class were really treated.. how the children of the third class suffered so the adults along with any other first class could live. How many people lost their lives needlessly! To say that this movie was horrible.. you are very immature and shallow minded and it is obvious you wouldn't know a real movie if it hit you in the face, try growing up and having a heart!! This movie was the best movie of all time and the awards they received prove that.
MIKE | Nov. 24, 1999
where can i begain. what a dreadfull long movie. its not that big of deal to make a good movie with so much money in your hands. yes people argue with me about the case of water world, but kevin kostner is hardly the director. i give this movie one star for the simple reason that director did a good job. but other than that the movie was terrible. the conversation bewtween jack and rose was that of 2nd graders. the actors were not convincing. and the movie just did not end. why did it win the oscar its quite simply. the oscar goes to the worst movies. its a pitty vote. if you the oscar were a true award, the full monty would recive it that year. or if the americans do not want to give the award to english so give it to good will hunting. but thats beside the point. the bottom line is that titanic is a bad bad movie. and yet not surpringly the americans loved it.
LORDNIKON | Jul. 29, 1999
Funny this movie won almost every Emmy award EXCEPT Best Actor. DeCaprio sucked and so did Kate. The Special Effects were the only thing keeping me from rating turkey. This movie was long and drawn out. Definately not as good as everyone says. I fell asleep in the movies during the middle of it.
PHIL WYATT | Mar. 19, 1999
I cannot understand why everybody is giving this movie 5- stars or 1 star. This is obviously because the people who gave it 5 stars love leo and the people who gave it 1 star are the boyfriends who hate leo. You people need to realize that this movie is very good and anyone who gave it one star is not very bright and the people who gave it 5 stars need to know that 5 stars are only for the best films, which this certainly was not. Thank you!!
JACK SOMMERSBY | Feb. 21, 1999
Mind you, I am not above succumbing to a sweet, tear-jerking romancer that earns its tears and emotions. TITANIC, however, tested my levels of tolerance to the nth degree. The first 20 minutes or so are beautifully rendered, with 3 outstanding actors (Bill Paxton, Gloria Stuart, Suzy Amis) exuding believable shades of hope, regret, and anticipation. Writer-director James Cameron shows remarkable tact and restraint in these early scenes, never pushing too hard for effects. Yet, once the film flashes back to its main time spectrum on the Titanic, the material quickly becomes trite and banal.

The romance that Cameron has created has not a whisper of ingenuity, surprise, or originality anywhere in sight, with second-rate actors unsuccessfully filling out their pedestrian, plastic roles. The dialogue and plot set-ups are as inspired as episodes from THE LOVE BOAT, with a ridiculously overinflated villian in the form of the fiancee, while the 'spoiled princess' rediscovers the joy of life from 'a naturalistic nomad from the streets'. Toss in a subplot involving an asinine robbery frame-up, a deplorable sequence where Winslet's mother catches her spitting off the ship, and the enabling of the audience to pretty much predict the dialogue before it comes out of the characters' mouths, and you have an overall project that's all sensationalism over structural and behavioral coherence. A real turkey of our time.

MATTHEW MELTON | Dec. 21, 1998
Titanic - * * * * * A very romantic and entertaining film that made me cry. It gave me goosebumps and it will give you goosebumps too.
T LOADER | Dec. 3, 1998
I thought the movie was great. All you people that have a problem with the language and nudity should stick to G rated movies, and anyone who was stupid enough to buy it and have it edited had no right even buying it if you can't handle it.
MYCHAL-ANN & ANGELICA | Nov. 12, 1998
we thought leonardo de caprio shouldn't have been in there and you should have had black or hispanic in there because it seemed racist.other than that it was good.
JADENE RIGGS | Nov. 10, 1998
It was way too long. And it had obsece langiuage
JESSICA LAMB | Nov. 10, 1998
It was too long for its own good. It had good history and junk, but they should not have mixed love with such an intersesting and tragic piece of history.
CHERIE | Nov. 8, 1998
4 stars for giving us the story of Titanic with such fantastic special effects. I've heard people say that the love story steered us away from the real story, but it was appropriate. Why just go to see it sink? It was like we were there and we experienced it because we fell in love with the characters and we suffered with them. I say give us a sequel about the survivors, though. We all want to know what happened after they got home. That would make another good 3 hour movie, don't you think? Besides the "afterwards" was an even more interesting part of this tragic story.
JIM BOLLWINKEL | Oct. 28, 1998
This movie was overated. The actors were missmatched for age.
VERDA MC FARLANE | Oct. 21, 1998
I admit I was afraid to go see this movie. I have a great fear of drowning, but my son reassured me that, "They froze before they drowned." The story was very refreshing, done well, moving. I cried through the last 1/2 hour and couldn't seem to stop. Some felt the nude scene was unnecessary, however, if not for the picture, we would never have found the whole story. Why did she have to throw the necklass in the water? I loved it and I loved the acting, even though some was corny.
MELINDA | Oct. 16, 1998
I loved TITANIC it was such a wonderful film.I have watched it 5 times and I will never get tired of it! IT IS #1!!!!!!!!!!!!
BILLY BOB BROWN | Oct. 11, 1998
1 Nude scene...1 star. 5 Nude scenes...5 stars. 'Nuff said.
MARK COOPER | Oct. 5, 1998
The best actor in this movie should have been Billy Zane!! He is truly the scene stealer. The boat would have been my second choice. I too would have committed suicide on the face of an iceberg knowing the talentless Leonardo Dicraprio was on board. I had respect for James Cameron til he cheated on Linda Hamilton. James Horner saves the day with a nice score, and I realize that if there were no music in the movie, i wouldn't have felt so captivated. Because the acting couldn't survive on its own. Who wrote this dribble?? Oh yeah, James. I thank James though for one thing, giving me yet another reason to give up on the hope that something good will come out of Hollywood.
ANNIE | Sept. 30, 1998
Titanic is the BEST movie EVER made! I want to know the place in Holladay that edits Titanic! Titanic deserves SIX stars!
JESS | Sept. 28, 1998
Ever write a story? It's really not a hard thing to do, you just sit down and think up an alluring enough plot. James Cameron, although obviously a talented director, didn't seem to have too many problems thinking this one up. Rich girl meets poor boy (who also happens to be played by the hottest actor in hollywood), rich girl dumps handsome rich guy for poor boy, big crash (have to add a little history there), boy dies(typically dramatic). You have to be very simple minded to accept this movie as the "greatest ever made". Visually, the sets, effects and costumes were excellent. The acting proved to be just as enchanting, but the fact still remains that Titanic is one of the most intellectually patronisiong movies ever made. At no point was there any hint of mystery, nor was there any attempt to state anything other than the obvious. I am willing to bet my life that it took James longer to think of writing a movie about the played out ship wreck than it did for him to write the actuall script. I paid to give away three and a half unrecouperable precious hours of my life to play psychic and guess every next scene. Do not get me wrong, I can enjoy sitting and staring at Leo just as much as next guy, but the next time I decide to drull over him I'll do it with a pin up. In conclusion, calm down all angered brain washed Titanic fanatics, much like the movie I'm only stating the opbvious.
ZENA | Sept. 27, 1998
A real boat named "Titanic" did sink and thousands of lives lost to the great deep. I didn't think this movie did anything to honour those that lost their lives. The modern story line and that same type of music (Sleeping Beauty, Another World, etc.) is what entranced people into it and nothin else. I have made several ocean voyages and really didn't care to see this remake at all. A member of my family insisted on renting it. The old black and white version left enough of an impression. They totally missed the part about the woman who woke up to find herself floating in a deck chair amid the wreckage, and what about the other survivors. The entire film focused on a fictious? love story. The most touching part of the entire film to me was when the father says to his young girls and mother, "you and mummy are to go on ahead in this lifeboat and I will follow you". That was something my own father would have said and done, therefore, it was believable.
SARA MAHMUD | Sept. 26, 1998
I thought that Titanic was the most touching movie out of any other movie that was played in the theaters. Most people said that Armegedon was a way better movie than Titanic. In which I don't really give a shit about that stupid movie and what the hell people say about Titanic. I love Titanic and it will always be remembered by me!!! Thank you for listening to my opinion about the movie I appreciate and think about Leonardo Decaprio once in a while. Thanx again. Your's Truly, SARA!!!
KERMIT KITTLESON | Sept. 26, 1998
There are four areas where I have specific feelings regarding TITANIC. 1. The first fifteen or so minutes were sick with 1990's style garbage. Bad language that was just to get the attention of deviates that would otherwise walk out of the theatre and cause a panic of sorts. 2. The bare breast scene, while artistic and poignant, should have made the movie an R. Movie ratings bracket creep is killing the value of the system. 3. The movie dragged on way too long. I about feel asleep. Of course I was tired when I walked in! I dozed off and missed the bow scene. Shame on me.... 4. Other than that, it was a great movie with tons of nostalgia and romantic feeling. I can't see buying it for $20, but may go see it again on second release.
STEVE EDWARDS | Sept. 20, 1998
Titanic was so painful to watch that I found myself pleading for the ship to sink at a faster pace. One hour into Titanic I had completely forgotten about the iceberg. I was suffering too much from the mediocre storyline and acting. What was supposed to be a powerful movie honoring those that lost their lives on the ill-fated ship had quickly deteriorated to a three hour, sappy, generic love story. All of the typical characters were manufactured on the assembly line: the evil villain, the socially imprisoned, liberal heroine, and the happy go lucky hero. If the generic story and characters weren't enough tragedy to heep on the audience, we had to languish through the heroes' attempt to get off the boat. Hey guys, when the boat is sinking don't spend 45 minutes going up and down the boat's interior, it gets old. My advice for those planning on watching: take a couple of aspirin 20 minutes before watching and try to keep a pulse.
JBROWN | Sept. 17, 1998
The film had great special effects that were unfortunately masked by a nauseatingly cheesy love story. A good film for an early to mid-adolescent sleep over party.
SALLY DAVIS | Sept. 10, 1998
The one star is for the special effects. The script was poor and the plot was not believable. The real story of the Titanic was a huge tragedy, but this movie did such a bad job of portraying the victim's feelings that I was not able to feel their pain at all. It just all seemed so FAKE. My other big complaint is that the movie was very offensive. In addition to the (unnecessary) nudity, there was a great deal of profanity, including much profaning of the Lord's name. I guess all that was thrown in to get the rating they wanted, but wouldn't even more people watch it if it were more wholesome? What a disappointment; this movie proves that you can't trust the hype or the box office sales.
ORI | Sept. 8, 1998
I think it was one of the best movies I ever saw. Leonardo is a great actor and my personel favorite. Rose was played by an excellent actress. Although the movie did have some bloopers, lie the lake that hadn't formed yet. they didn't have t.v.so Jack couldn't have seen a man kiss a womans hand on Nickalodien
DAVID | Sept. 2, 1998
Titanic was a very sobering movie which caused me to think about what is really important to me. Although it was a very good film, I can't really classify it as "entertaining". While it had great elements, I came out just feeling really sad for those people. I also don't feel that it was Best Picture. I would certainly have chosen Good Will Hunting. Nonetheless, I'm glad that I saw it, but probably won't watch it again.
MIKE TRAPP | Aug. 31, 1998
It Was Awsome, "it not only was 3 hours long" it was great, it had about everything you can jam into a movie!!! Love Romance Drama Action Death History and all else SEE IT AGAIN!!!
JACKIE MCDONALD | Aug. 30, 1998
The movie was very exciting. I enjoyed it greatly. More movies like this one. Please!!!
DENNIS ORGILL | Aug. 27, 1998
Even after the 5th viewing I find this marvelous film to be thoroughly enchanting and enthralling. My hearty congratulations to Mr. Cameron, cast and crew! This is film making at its finest.
PHIL ROCKWELL | Jul. 10, 1998
That this movie beat out movies like Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential, or As Good As It Gets for Best Picture is almost a bigger tragedy than the story of the ship itself. Don't get me wrong, Titanic was a good movie, but by no means is it the outstanding film the public seems to think it is. While it was inevitable that one of the greatest tragedies in human history was bound for the silver screen, and Cameron did do a good job with the history aspect, the dialogue was often rediculously melodramati
DAVID VANLANGEVELD | Jun. 21, 1998
(Make that 2.5 stars.) I'm probably one of the few people in the U.S. who didn't LOVE 'Titanic' and I realize I am submitting this review at great risk to my life. Yes, the full mock-ups of the ship were incredible, as was the 'wreck set' that the divers were exploring. However, I've seen better stories about star-crossed lovers (i.e. 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'West Side Story' to name a couple). Leonardo DeCaprio and Kate Winslet had a good chemistry, but the couldn't hold their own again
NICOLE CAMPBELL | May. 29, 1998
I think Titanic was an excellent movie for these reasons: 1.The movie was based on hard facts 2.Kate Winslet was an excellent actress who helped recreate it 3.Leonardo DiCaprio did an excellent job as Jack 4.Leonardo DiCaprio's gorgeous looks helped alot I know that other people don't have my same opinion but I just felt like sharing mine.If you would like to share your opinion with me I'd appreciate it.So if so,e-mail me. I've got to hand it to Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio though.
B. RATER | May. 24, 1998
This is definitely the best film-making I've seen in a while.It's visually stunning.The problem is that instead of focusing on either the actual facts of the crash or on the film's characters, the film attempts to do both, and in the end they both get cheated.The characters are one-dimentional with not enough developement, and the real events are overshadowed by this rather predictable plot.I would have liked to have seen more about the real passengers of Titanic and their stories, which wo

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