VERY OVERRATED!!!!

Rating: 4/10 (5 August 2003)

SPOILERS INCLUDED...
Although I made a vow to myself to NEVER see this movie, my girlfriend begged me to rent it and sit through it with her. So, very reluctantly, I did. And let me just say, Titanic was everything I expected. Titanic is nothing but an overly sappy, unrealistic, historically incorrect, drawn out, trashy film. With all the hype this film received, after seeing it I expected to see Titanic on IMDB's Top 250 list...but it's not! WHEW!! Good, because it doesn't deserve to be. My God, WHAT WAS THE HYPE ABOUT?? Why was this movie 3 hours and 14 minutes? That alone is a BIG flaw of this film because we all know what's going to happen in the end.... why let the audience wait 2.5 hours to see the inevitable? This movie could've been cropped to 2.5 easily...which still maybe would've been too long. The corny love story was just horrible. The language used, especially by DiCaprio's character, was totally unbelievable and unconvincing....we're supposed to be in 1912, remember?? Kate Winslet came off as an annoying little brat....DiCaprio was barely tolerable.
Another thing that turned me off to the film was the story. How could people embrace this film so much in its account of the Titanic experience... and the story is fictional? We're supposed to take Cameron's word for it? Please! The love story, along with the overall script he wrote was SICKENING. The only good part of the film is when the boat starts to sink....that's the only part of the film that really matters.

Now my major gripe with the film: What was the deal with Rose taking up the whole door??? LOL. Did you all see how big that door was??? You mean to tell me that Jack couldn't fit on the door with her? She claimed she loved Jack...even went back to save him while he was chained to the pipe in that room that was flooding. If that was the case why couldn't she make room for him to get up on the door with her instead of freezing to death in the Atlantic?? I'm curious whether anyone else has wondered that....
The scene i mentioned above embodies my feelings about Titanic. It seems Cameron just wanted to get some Oscars, so he put the formula together to do so. Get Celine Dion to sing da song, the sappy score, put Leo in there so all da little girls would go see it and feel sorry for him, have a HUGE budget, use lots of CGI and make it a 3+ hour film (so it could be an epic of course). it all comes across as CHEAP! He was trying too hard to appeal to everyone...it has the sappy emotional, 'boo-hoo' aspect for the ladies and the graphic action-packed death sequences for the guys. In the end we have 3 hours of confusion and essentially pointless narrative. I finally sat through this film and, like I knew it would, it justified my initial thoughts of it when it first released in '97. Corny, horrible story, and completely overdone.
Bottom line, this movie sucked, and has to be the most overrated film I've seen in a LONG, long time, maybe ever. *1/2 out of ****.