Vapid waste of celluloid and $250 million.

Rating: 1/10 (19 August 1998)

After watching Titanic, I'd be willing to bet that most of you could take $250 million and make a better picture. James Cameron is a talentless director who made Titanic only as a pathetic ploy to garner attention and win an Oscar. His immaturity shows not only by his vicious insults towards Kate Winslet, who's a terrible actress anyway, but also in his sub-literate script. The movie sort of works like a coloring book, except that it wasn't that inventive -- I found it more like a color-by -number foray into film making. This rancid piece of garbage plays out like a low-rent made for TV movie.
Titanic represents the triumph of money and bad writing, something that everyone in Hollywood should abhore. Oh, and it won 11 Oscars for ONE reason: it was made by two of the larget studios in Hollywood and all the employees voted out of loyalty. I've never seen anything so formulaic in my life.
If you want a quality picture from the modern day, watch L.A. Confidential. If you want something that will touch you emotionally, watch Saving Private Ryan.