Stop nitpicking

Rating: Null/10 (9 September 2000)

Some people will look for anything to criticize this movie. I recall one user comment complaining that the ship didn't have any bow waves. Oh dear God no! I usually can't stand the tedium of romance movies, but I found this one to be very entertaining, although I think DiCaprio should try a push-up one of these days. By the way, great career ditching "American Psycho" for "The Beach". Anyway, some criticism I'd like to offer is Billy Zane's character. I realize that he is the predesignated bad guy, but does his character really have to be so unoriginal? I'd like to have seen him as a real person and not equipped with the default personality for villains. Of course, I guess all the other main characters are pretty much just as unoriginal, but I enjoyed the movie anyway. I recollect releasing an especially malignant laugh upon the weeping audience as I witnessed Leonardo's frozen, pretty little face dwindling down into the black abyss of the Atlantic Ocean. I don't understand the point of keeping a priceless diamond for about eighty years just to plop into the ocean. Maybe her senility clouded the fact that its value is beyond that of money, or maybe she just an IDIOT! Uh-oh, it appears that now I am nitpicking. I guess I'm just a hypocrite.