so much talent has never before been so wasted

Rating: 4/10 (23 June 2000)

every time i think about this movie i get ticked off. it was just so bad. james cameron! you made terminator and aliens, man! what is this schlock?! leonardo dicaprio! you made this boy's life and what's eating gilbert grape! what is this schlock?! kate winslet! i don't know anything about you but you seem to be pretty good! what is this schlock?! bill paxton! well... anyways, kind of cool special effects, but the story is pathetic. the romance is absurd and unbelievable. the characters are paper thin and i could have cared less who died by the end. this was the year i lost all respect for the academy (although it had already been severely damaged by forrest gump beating pulp fiction). how did titanic beat la confidential, goodwill hunting, and as good as it gets??? because of a great marketing and PR job and a fan base of 100 million adolescent girls the academy was afraid would attack their families should titanic lose. an epic doesn't need hundreds of millions of dollars thrown a it to be good. just look at lawrence of arabia. one last word about dicaprio in specific: dude, the beach was not a good return film from titanic and a big break. i only hope gangs of NY makes all the difference (don't take this the wrong way, you're a great actor in my book but your judgement of choice is poor lately). if any director can jumpstart someone's career it's scorsese.