James Cameron's ‘Titanic' is hated mostly in reaction to its highest grossing film status

Your opening statements show why Titanic was more of a fad than any other movie you cited in your last round. As you said yourself, Titanic became hated a little over a year after it was released. In conjunction with the definition, this made it the epitome of a fad. Harry Potter, however, has gone on to enjoy lasting success with multiple sequels. At no point has Harry Potter come close to any of the ill-will that Titanic met with. The lasting hatred for Titanic is also akin to the lingering resentment of such other fads as the Macarena and, I suppose, Pogs. As such, Titanic is very much distinguishable from most other movies, especially Harry Potter. Like I said before, it was this fad appeal that turned girls off to the movie after the year you talked about. The group think had worn off, and the rest of us thought such things as women falling off ferries after trying to repeat that flying scene from the movie was ridiculous and laughable. The teeny-bopper argument is very much valid, because it helps explains why so many guys hated the movie. What is invalid is trying to say that an argument is invalid even though I can vividly remember that period in my life and why I and many of my friends didn't like the movie. For those of us who did have a girlfriend at the time, we didn't want to be dragged to such a girly movie. As mentioned in my last round, its cavity-inducing sweetness was very much irritating to us and we resented being dragged to a movie that we found to be irritating. We also couldn't say anything about our ill-feelings, lest we get chewed out by our gf who we knew to be in the grip of group think. For those of us who didn't have gf's, we resented that such a staggering number of girls were drawn like flies to a movie that created an unrealistic and way overdone representation of love and a fantasy-like relationship. It's the same kind of thing when a guy gets pissed about a girl falling for the bad boy. We, as single guys, were annoyed that so many girls were running to a movie to get a love-fix when we were there in real life. Is this a valid reason to hate a movie? No. But that is the psychology of a great number of guys. Trust me, I am one and went through that phase. This unrealistic portrayal of love was also irritating to those who had gf's as well. Not only that, but most guys have a natural aversion to most anything that gets girls to act like a flock, lacking any individual mindset whatsoever. The more successful Titanic was, the more this was thrown in our faces. But its success was not what was originally irritating to guys. It only made it worse. I'm sure there was also male backlash against these other movies as well, although I readily admit that is just an assumption. Titanic is hated for its love story. It is unrealistic and was yet another example of some media format creating within girls' heads a standard of love that has no bearing on reality. Guys have a soft spot too, which is why many love stories find favor with guys, such as Casablanca, but it is the level of unrealistic passion that irritated us. In this sense, Titanic's success did have something to do with the level of hatred that it faced, only because it was more constantly thrown in guys' faces. But it was not the popularity itself that made the movie annoying, it was the story. Also, anything that gets teeny-bopper girls to act like a mindless flock, such as Titanic or NSYNC, is naturally going to draw the ire of guys. The smooth-talking, pimp-like bad boy does not bother other guys if he crashes and burns. But his success is not the reason why the rest of us hate him. It is the methods he employs. Male hatred of Titanic is the same. I have shown again that it was, in fact, the story that turned many guys off to the movie. The story turned so many girls onto it, but that only reinforced guys' hatred of it. Girls turned on Titanic over a year later because of the fad mentality that surrounded it. Both guys and girls went to see it, but as a guy who had to live through that time, I can unequivocally tell you that we, as guys, had very little say on whether we went to see the movie or not...assuming we had a gf at the time. Those of us who didn't have gfs didn't go see it but still hated it for the reasons mentioned above. Titanic's success was driven by a flock mentality of teeny-bopper girls and lonely older women who saw in Titanic a great and overdone romance novel. Like the fads that surrounded Pogs, the Macarena, Pokemon, or whatever other fad you want to think of, Titanic developed a vast following driven by word of mouth until it ran its course and got out of everyones' systems. This is what happened to Titanic with the girls. The guys aspect has already been dealt with.