The worst film to ever win a best picture Oscar

Rating: 3/10 (28 January 1999)

Checking out the other comments, one caught my eye... somebody had the gall to make a comparison between this film and Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece, "The Seven Samurai". To compare this film with "The Seven Samurai" is utterly rediculous and an insult to great films. With that said, I'll continue...
Let me start off with the absolute horrid screenplay that is filled with cliches. While watching this film, you can pretty much tell what is going to happen next... it's the "Rich girl forced to marry a rich guy, but she finds a poor boy that she eventually falls in love with" story you've seen hundereds of times before.... add a big boat, a historical disaster, and bingo, you have yourself a movie. The dialogue is almost laughably bad ("Oh Jack.... Jack!"). And the characters are almost as cliche-ridden as the story they're in. As you watch the film, you feel almost as if you're forced to like the characters.
A disaster as huge as the sinking of the Titanic doesn't deserve a film like this. It is an insult to the hundreds that died in that distaster to be represented in a stereotypical film such as this. And it's winning of the best picture oscar is absolute proof that the Oscars are nothing more than a huge popularity contest anymore. To even place this in the same category with films like "On the Waterfront", "Ben-Hur", "The African Queen", "Rebecca", "The Godfather", etc. is such a shame, and just shows you what direction the film industry is headed.
About the only good thing I could say about this film is that it is an enormous technical achievement. The recreation of the ship itself is amazing, but that alone cannot carry a film with a recycled, cliche-ridden plot such as this.