This film is a bit like Marmite!

Rating: 3/10 (22 April 2005)

So you either love it or you hate it, I personally fall in to the hate camp. However I do feel that may be hate is perhaps too a strong a word to be using (it really should be reserved for the likes of Michael Schumacher and Roy Keane!).
The down fall of Titanic is it success really, because if it hadn't been so big no one would really care about it, and more importantly those of us who didn't like it wouldn't feel so angry and aggrieved that it made soooo much money! If you ignore all the hype and just look at the film a clearer picture emerges. As a piece of history telling it is not all that great, it is much too involved in its lead characters for that, and if you want to know more about the event of the Titanic sinking you'd be far better off watching A Night to Remember. What Titanic really is, is a romantic drama. On this front it is not too bad, slightly too sugary for me (and I expect most serious cinema goers) but for those who just want to be charmed and 'loved up' it is fine, Leo and Winslet do a reasonable job, and the story is reasonable believable and interesting.
So why, you may well ask, have I given it a rating of 2? The answer to this is simple. I love films, and I like to think although I have certain tastes and favourites I do appreciated a good film when I see it. Titanic is mediocre to reasonable at best, but when it was released it seemed to manage to brainwash the nation, and in fact whole world, into thinking it was the best thing since sliced bread. I had friends arguing its 'greatness' at me, and at the time (and still now) all I could do was feel sorry for them for having such a bad understanding and knowledge of films to think Titanic was at the top of the tree.
On top of this I really felt aggrieved at the amount of money it had commanded in cost and sales. Money which may well have made handfuls of marvellous smaller films, but much more importantly could have gone someway to solving the problems within this world instead of lining the studies pockets!
And so help me god if I ever have to hear that awful song again!