I Really enjoyed it

Rating: 10/10 (21 January 2003)

And this coming from a thirty something heterosexual married male. Figure that one out will ya.
I just read a number of the posts and I find it amazing the hatred for this movie. IT WAS A MOVIE. Throughout the history of movie making there have been mediocre plots and mediocre acting. Unbelievable sequences and inaccurate historical portrayals. I believe this movie rates average to above average in all these.
This movie is typical Hollywood in every sense. Cameron wanted to do a movie that encompasses the non-fiction events of one of the most well known human tragedies with a fictional story. Fantasy meets non-fiction. So what if he didn't get all the historical events exactly right, but he did give an accurate sequence of events that lead to the tragedy. for example, The fact that Astor is on the stairwell as opposed to beneath the stack is irrelavent (even though his whereabouts cannot be truelly confirmed either way, the fact is he went down with the boat). The class stereotypes are very accurate. Todays society doesn't reflect such class division as it did at the turn of the century. Not all rich people in the movie were evil, just.....rich. The middle and third class just knew how to have a good time with what they had.
The story does leave something to be desired, but it is a love story that has to fit inside 3 days. It was ok.
What impressed me the most about the movie was the non-fiction that encompassed the story. A truely accurate dipiction of society of the turn of the century and the human errors that caused a horrible tragedy that should never have happened. 1500 people did perish with a very high percentage of them middle and 3 class. It still stirs something in me when I'm reminded of that stat.
I say hats off to James Cameron for having the courage to even attempt this extremely expensive film. I guess someone believed it could a success. Both at the box-office and in theatres.
1.8 billion. Someone liked it.