What's the big deal about this movie?

Rating: 5/10 (8 August 2005)

I was clicking around and saw that Titanic was the highest Grossing movie to date globally and I just don't understand what the big deal about this film was. There's been a thousand love stories where one lover dies at the sake of another: Cruel Intentions w/ Sebastian and Annette, West side story w/ Tony and Maria, Romeo+Juliet w/ Juliet thinking Romeo's dead, she cant live without him and that's d**n romantic. I'll admit the sets and costumes are gorgeous but the story's not that extraordinary-rich girl in an arranged society/political marriage with a loveless fiancé meets the charming almost always artistic poor boy who whirls her off her feet with the simple romantic things in life only to have the relationship be tragically struck down by fate-cough, cough-THE NOTEBOOK-coughI don't mean to be trash Titanic, just someone tell me what makes it so d**n special? NOTE: And saying Leo DiCaprio/ Kate Winslet is in it doesn't count