Titanic: A disaster indeed.

Rating: 1/10 (13 August 1999)

While the popular thing to do would be to simply say, this movie sucks, without any particular reasons why, I won't. The reason why it drew so much attention was mostly because rabid, drooling females saw that Leonardo DiCaprio was in it. While he may not be a bad actor at all, to rate a movie as very high, simply because one of the actors is very "hot" is extremely stupid indeed. While the plot wasn't that bad, the problem was that everyone knew the outcome...the ship was going to sink and a bunch of people were going to die. In cutting off this suspense from the viewers, the effectiveness of the film was partially destroyed.
Another thing that bothered me was how the rich passengers (exceptions being Rose and Molly Brown) were all portrayed as uncaring, selfish, materialistic beings...apparently only because they were wealthy. This is an extremely biased and 2-D cardboard point of view. In fact, the whole movie seemed very 2 dimensional and an insult to the real tragedy that occured. It incured sympathy for them, but characters were often displayed as only good or only bad. Humans are made up of both sides, and in this movie, the characters were either entirely noble, or entirely nasty. It was given an Oscar for best picture, in my opinion, purely because it was one of the latest movies to come out and everyone was raving over it. Fortunately, however, as Titanic's only following were fickle teenagers (my age group) who jump onto every new movie that comes along with cheers, proclaiming themselves ultimate fans, Titanic will soon disappear into oblivion. Star Wars, although NOT winning an Oscar for best picture, triumphs in the end, for it has kept a large following for a good 25 years. Titanic seems to be fading away after 2.