beautiful love story!

Rating: Null/10 (25 February 2003)

i love this movie. this movie was one my favorites along with many other friends of mine. we would watch it over and over. hehe. i have always liked leonardo dicaprio. he is a great actor and has great looks. he plays handsome jack dawson, a poor artistic american who travels all around the world. he wins his ticket on titanic at a lucky game of poker along with his italian friend fabrizo. he seems to care very much about people and their feelings. despite all of cal's money and power, he could never measure up to someone like jack dawson. the prideful cal realizes his competition with jack even in the beginning. he thinks how could someone as wealthy and powerful as him lose a woman's heart to a 3rd class passenge? the answer is love. he meets the beautiful rose, a 1st class passenger about to be wed to the wealthy but evil cal hockley. it was an arranged marriage made by rose's money hungry mother who doesn't ever seem to consider what rose wants or how she feels. her mother and fiancee seem to have absolute control over her. this pushes her even closer to the edge. the two meet out of fate. jack reaches out to rose and he ends up falling in love with her. as does rose. rose is left with the decision as whether she should stay loyal to the evil cal and her mother. people seem to complain that this movie has way to much romance and not enough action. it has plenty of action. a movie like this can really open up your emotions. i don't see anything wrong with adding a little romance. some of the characters are ficticous obviously but it still includes history on famous passengers; thomas andrews, bruce ismay, margaret "molly" brown or the "unsinkable" molly brown, john jacob astor, captain e.j. smith, 1st officer merdock and many others. obviously they're all 1st class passengers merely famous for their money. a lot of the movie centres around 1st class and 3rd class. i didn't see anything on 2nd class though. to this day the movie still makes me cry. it would be nice if all men were like jack dawson and no men like cal hockley. hehe. well if you like romances/thrillers and want a good cry i reccomend titanic to you. 10 stars out of 10! hats of to james cameron!