The cheese-0-meter is broken - permanently

Rating: 2/10 (28 May 2016)

I semi-slept thru the first 1/3 of the movie. When I work up, I started realizing how horribly cheesy this film was. The movie is so full of clichés it looked like it was making fun of disaster movies.
Some examples: "We all live, or we all die." (Chris Pine's response to the overcrowding of the rescue boat.)
Tiny saying to the young scared seaman just as they disembark on the sinking ship: "If I can make it, then anyone can make it." (Whereupon he - Tiny - gets crushed against the ship - what a surprise.)
People flinging themselves off the sinking ship to be caught by the men on the rescue boat - as cleanly as my catching a Ding Dong before it hits the floor.
And the worst of all, Fitz who was holding on to the railing in the very front of the rescue boat, getting flung into the air when a giant wave about destroys the boat, only to land back on the boat. Pllleeeeeaaasse!!!!
It was so hokey, it was laughable.
The interesting thing is that this really was a true story - while the credits rolled, they showed actual photos of the participants with the actors staged next to them. The newspaper clippings also gave credence to the events.
It is just to0 bad they had to cheese it up with so much Hollywood, trite melodrama - which made me doubt and dislike the entire movie.
This is a poor testimony to the brave men who really lived through this experience.
Sorry I paid $2.79 for this movie. I over paid.