Titanic is not a classic

Rating: 1/10 (17 December 1998)

For a movie that had so much money wasted on it, I found the (very expensive) computer animation to be quite bad. Have you watched Jurassic Park recently, and thought "hey, that dinosaur animation looks really fake now!", when it looked impressive the first time you saw it? -- I think that is how the animation in Titanic will look like in a couple of years.
You will notice that the computerised people in the film have perfectly spherical heads, they waddle rather than walk, and they all waddle in exactly the same way. It's a bit like watching a synchronised dancers in a music video. Because the computer animation scenes were interspersed with live action scenes, I found the jumps between the two jarred a lot. Lighting and fog levels did not match very well between the two. Computer animation technology is capable of much more than Titanic demonstrated.
In a few years, Titanic will look cheap -- but just like Jurassic Park, people went to see it for the special effects. Unfortunately, the special effects will not last the test of time, and with such a weak storyline this is not a movie that will become a classic.