The most overrated film ever made

Rating: 6/10 (19 February 2001)

I went to see this movie after hearing only rave reviews and good things about it. I thought it must be an unbelievable movie. I was in for a surprise...
Many people still believe that Titanic is the best film ever made. It's not a particularly bad film...the acting is good and it's arguably well directed. The first half of the movie, the set up of the love triangle, is semi-interesting, but then the second half is different. They try to make you really care about Jack and Rose and want them to live through the inevitable sinking of the ship. (That's one thing that bothers me about true stories: you already know what's going to happen...) The acting was decent, but the characters were not written deeply enough for me to really care whether or not they die. The second half of the movie is the ship sinking. Amazing effects on this half. I guess it did a good job of showing how horrible it must have been to be there, and it was meant to be suspenseful and maybe even scary, but I actually got bored. The audience was already aware that a lot of people were going to die, but the movie spends about an hour showing the many different ways the sinking of the Titanic could have killed someone. I remember watching the Academy Awards and thinking, "Well, Titanic is going to win," and everyone else already knew this, but almost everyone agrees with the Academy's choice. There were many great movies that year: L.A. Confidential and Good Will Hunting were both better movies than this was, in my opinion. Titanic just didn't hold my interest the way many, many other movies have. So if you are easily impressed and not a big movie watcher, then you'll probably enjoy this movie. But to me, it was the most disappointing movie ever.