Great Looking Film but ultimately flawed

Rating: Null/10 (28 March 1999)

I like millions rushed to see this overhyped film when it opened and what it did was just confirm what Hollywood does to true life events for decades. Overdramatization and inaccurate storytelling of real events. For those who are really interested in how events actually unfolded on the doomed steamer, go run and see the 1958 film "A Night to Remember". I kept comparing the story of that film to this one and kept asking myself how can it be so different and omit so many scenes as to why the ship went down the way she did? But then again, James Cameron's script went for the old formula love story with class discrimination thrown in with a jealous fiancee. Does it entertain the moviegoer - it does...the film does an incredible job of recreating the feeling that you were there through the finest details, costumes, sets, special effects etc... But the most important thing to note here is that with the sinking of Titanic came the end of the "gilded" age and with the release of this film, it will probably close the 20th century as the highest grossing film of our era. Finally, this film should not be on anyone's best list.