Big Sinking Boat

Rating: Null/10 (3 October 1999)

Big Sinking Boat is a great movie. I saw it 3 days after it came out, and couldn't believe how well it was made; the scenes on the bow(I'm Flying!) as the boat chugs into the sunset probably what helped put the film over for me as much as anything. What puts Titanic up there with the other great epics-Lawrence of Arabia, Gone with the Wind, etc. is that Cameron knew, KNEW that to get you hooked, he needed characters people cared about, Felt for, and wanted to see more of.

The movie has heart, excellant performances, the best of FX; it pulls you into its world and doesn't let go until it wants to. Wrap that up with the most haunting theme music this side of Field of dreams....is it any wonder it made so much $$$ in '97-98? A deserved Oscar winner, an old fashioned epic done the right way for once.

**** outta **** of course.