An insult to moviegoers

Rating: Null/10 (16 June 1999)

If there's a more insulting film from Hollywood out there I haven't seen it and I've seen loads. What's worse than a dumb disaster drama which consists of special effects, bad acting, cheesy romance, and a lame, unrealistic plot? This movie took itself seriously. Big mistake! Well, the movie would be OKAY if they would have edited the first two and a half hours out, this would have a watchable one. What was Cameron planning to create? Romeo and Juliet on "Titanic"? Or "Gone with Titanic? Well, he really have to reject the services of Conrad Buff and Richard A. Harris. But he couldn´t do that, because they had edited some of his other features, including Terminator 2. I did not like the first two and a half hours because that is just a waste of tape. I couldn't find a plot in this part at all - it seemes to rely solely on hardly believable romance and banal dialogs like "I love you Jack", "You are the best thing happened to me on that ship", "I will go with you"... and of course this cheap dramatic trick when Rose climbs the ship and then falls overboard, but Jack manages to save her... Well, but this movie has a lot of fans, and you will enjoy it if:
a)you think that the current crop of Hollywood movies are too deep or intellectual; b)you like seeing crying mothers trying to give someone their baby THREE times in a movie; c)you like superficial special effects for their own sake - this movie seems to be made from bits from the spare parts bin of other disaster movies...; d)if you like cheap dramas a-la "Gone with the wind" and soap operas. As for me, I like some of the actors in this film, and they should all see that they're removed from the credits. I considered erasing the movie before returning it to the video store, as a humanitarian move. Awful script, cardboard characters (the sets did better acting). Every scene rang false, not a scintillion of credibility. The characters just sleepwalked through their parts. There were some big and small stories like Rose and Jack with their "oh i love you so" kiddie-love, or Rose´s mother and Molly Brown who get (thank God) washed away in the ocean. Aaaahhhhhrrrrrggggg! As one reviewer accurately pointed out, you find yourself rooting for the disaster. Big script disappointments include never even glimpsing the underground haven, and having the end fizzle with some rather unrealistic, last-minute, feel-good moments. James Horner, the "composer" is at his usual, using his sucessfull APOLLO 13 score (why didn´t he compose anything new for this masterpiece?), many scenes seem to be shot with a videocamera... Sincerely, all this movie is a big bright rubber toy, which sinks with 11 Oscars, 2.000000000 and cast and crew on it´s board.