disgustingly revolting

Rating: 1/10 (1 June 1999)

I almost always refrain from posting negative reviews. What I find ridiculous may be sublime to others. However, this is one movie that I find so disgustingly revolting that I cannot resist adding my unwelcomed two-cents.
If you're one of the three people on earth who hasn't seen the film, PLEASE take my advice and find something more constructive to do with your time.
Director/writer James Cameron has reduced a TRULY horrific event into a ludicrously trite love story that makes Days of Our Lives seem like a Shakespearean tragedy by comparison. Instead of focusing the story on actual people and events, Cameron took the easy way out and created a cast of dull, sterotypical characters who spout inane dialogue seemingly lifted from a tv-movie-of-the-week. Rampant historical inaccuracies, cliched directing, uninspired acting, and ridiculously cheap sentimentality all add up to one over-hyped, overrated spectacle.
The only thing more nauseating than the film itself was James Cameron's "moment of silence" at the Oscars for the real victims of the disaster. The "movie" Titanic has about as much to do with the actual disaster as the Police Academy movies do with law enforcement. This film isn't a testament to human tragedy...it's a disgusting marketing ploy aimed at bilking moviegoers out of money, while making a mockery out of those people who experienced an event that no one should ever face.