Over-hyped commercialism

Rating: 4/10 (29 January 2006)

This is a bad film. When I say "bad", I mean it in a whole range of senses. Just a few of them: The fictitious love story is anachronistic, exploitative and implausible (he gets a monkey suit and gatecrashes the First Class?). The way a modern-movie-style sex scene is fitted into the film just stinks.
Even the special effects -- so highly praised -- are suspect in my book. The ship gliding through the water does not look real. It is somehow "flat".
The scene where Jack dies in the water is nearly as laughable as the unforgettable death scene in "Love Story".
Even calling the ship "Titanic" instead of "The Titanic" is wrong.
It just goes to show what hype, hype and yet more hype can achieve.