I love Titanic. Absolutely love it!

Rating: 9/10 (28 July 2003)

I love Titanic. Absolutely love it!
It's a film about a magnificent machine; a triumph of human technology over environment that goes horrifically wrong when the masters of the machine become too prideful. Perfect film-making material!
In some respects I'm surprised that it's taken so long to make a block buster film about the Titanic (I'm not counting the 1958's 'A Night to Remember' which was a fine film but hardly a big budget production). But with today's digital technology, it's been well worth the wait.

The faithful creation of the Titanic is the most intricately beautiful machine brought to the cinema screen, and James Cameron uses the film's human characters as camera guides to weave the audience through all the grand rooms and all the nooks and crannies of the immense ship. Brilliant, brilliant stuff!!
As for the characters in the story  Handsome Jack, Lovely Rose, her brittle mother, her insidious fiancé, I love them all. Yes they are all representatives of class cliche from the era, but every single actor injects considerable life and genuine personality.
As my tag line states: I'm a guy and I cried.
It's very, very rare for me to cry during a film, but Titanic swept me off my feet. I've seen it twice on the big screen, twice on video, and caught it on TV two nights ago. Even though I had the intention of channel surfing, my heart and full attention were captured yet again by this magnificent, lavish film and I couldn't switch channels even during the ad breaks.
Yes Titanic deserved every Oscar it won (and yet I'm as cynical about the Oscars as the next generation X dude). 9/10