No magic

Rating: 1/10 (10 October 2005)

When this film came out in the late 90's, I made a vow that I would not see it in the movie theatre. I kept to my vow but God in his infinite wisdom made sure I saw it. On a trans-Atlantic flight the feature presentation was Titanic. I took it as a sign and I watched the film, I was preparing to be whisked away into the film but I was only slapped by it. I found the acting to be dreadful and the dialogue between the characters was awkward at best. I used to be a fan of James Horner but listening to the soundtrack I was torn, was I listening to Braveheart or snippets from Apollo 13(which was a reconstituted score of Sneakers)? Nearing the end of the flight and the film during the promise scene between Rose and Jack with the line "I'll never let go" I mumbled "let the buggar sink" a little too loudly and was shushed loudly and got dirty looks. Sorry, but the line was so corny and the delivery was not believable. The reason this is being written nearly 8 years later is that fact that Titanic was on today and I wanted to give it a second chance. With this viewing I was again struck with the herky-jerky dialogue, bad acting and Continuity problems galore! With the tagline of Titanic being the biggest budgeted film of the time where was the money for continuity and anachronisms. A ten minute search on the internet would has solved many problems. Artistically this film is good yet when I pay my 8-9 well earned bucks for a film I want to be transported away for 2-3 hours. With this film I was not transported anywhere, I sat in my seat and I was aware of my seat and that I was rolling my eyes.