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Rating: Null/10 (17 November 1998)

I'm so glad to finally be able to get a sensible forum to utterly destroy this movie as it ought to be destroyed. What a horrible movie! I am utterly disgusted with the fact that this movie was even nominated for best picture. The rest of the films were outstandingly well made. The "Titanic" sunk, and I am grateful. First off, this movie was way too long. And why were Kate and Leo even THERE? What purpose did they serve other than to try to humanize the movie by introducing a devastatingly unoriginal and lamely wrought love story? The only purpose I could see was to lure people in and hit them with all the accustomed commercialist junk we always get nowadays. I saw the same, if not a better love story in Aladdin! And whose idea was it to have perfect characters?! Leo is the perfect poor boy! Billy Zane is the evil suitor! Kate Winslet is the femme fatale! None of the writers seemed to realize this, and gave them what would have been classic movie parts without any grace or charm that the actors could manageably pull off. I left the theater utterly disgusted and reflecting, I should have seen L.A. Confidential or Good Will Hunting again. Those were films. Titanic was a waste of time and money, and I'm glad I have convinced all that I could convince to not see it.