The greatest epic ever?

Rating: 10/10 (25 April 2006)

Many people think this movie is average, largely because it has been at the front of hundreds of jokes about the "pathetic" romance in it. Personally i totally disagree, the romance is how it should be. If you are going to watch a romantic film, you need it to move you and make you fall in love with the characters. In this film, you don't connect so much with the characters but you can see how the characters connect with each other which is something else entirely. If these people who were insulting this movie were to sit down in a theatre and watch it alone, i am sure that they would love it, hell these people were the ones that were raving about it in 97! The special effects are like nothing seen before on film. They are amazing, for the time the special effects were very ahead of its time and even now to this day, the effects are just as good. To be honest, the effects look far more realistic than the effects in movies like Die Another Day. You cannot spot any CG in the entire movie except for the iceberg which is obviously CG.
I am really not surprised that this picture was so great because it had an amazing director at the helm who knows the subject well. It is believed that king of the sequels director James Cameron researched Titanic for 5 years before creating this masterpiece. And it paid off with 11 Oscars to match Ben-Hur's record, which was later broke by Return of the King.
James Cameron is known as a perfectionist for his work and this is no exception, everything from the boarding of the ship to the boarding of the lifeboats is sublime and extremely correct. It is very faithful to the actual disaster and even the cutlery was of the exact nature of the real 1912 cutlery on board Titanic.
I give this a 10 and highly recommend this for anybody, young or old. Not only because it has romance for the girls but has action for the guys. Part of the reason this did so well is because has something for everyone. I am a guy and i was brought to tears watching this movie.
It is meant for the big screen so try to get hold of a High Definition TV or a projector as its the best way to be viewed.
10/10
25/04/2006