One bone to pick.

Rating: Null/10 (22 August 2000)

Everything that needs to be said about this movie has basically been said. I would just like to throw some light on perhaps the final overlooked flaw.
What's the deal with that fat bearded jackass who pilots the submersible in the "present day" scenes in the movie? You know what I'm talking about? You've got this incredibly complex expensive salvage operation in the middle of the Atlantic, you've got what's probably a multi-million dollar deep sea submersible craft that can send a robot camera into the Titanic wreckage, and who do we have piloting this delicate operation? Who's making the clutch decisions here? A scrappy, loud fat bearded jackass who the filmmakers have presented as some kind of, I don't know, Titanic junkie? Extreme deep-sea salvage enthusiast? He looks and acts like he's about to pull a large, drippy chili dog from an on-ship microwave and stuff it in his face while screaming "Wooooo! It's the freaking Titanic man, Woooo!"
I think they may have imported this character from Twister, where you may also recall that one of the scientists on the research team was also a fat bearded jackass who was presented as some kind of die hard extreme tornado enthusiast. Aren't these characters really annoying? What purpose do they serve? I guess the point is that if you are REALLY into your hobby, in an extreme, WOOOOOO! kind of way, you will probably forget to shave and eat sensibly.