A great movie that has some gotten a bad rap

Rating: 10/10 (3 May 2005)

The perfect disaster movie. Just think about all those movies that have great effects and then try and through in a love story. Then think of Titanic, which is first and for most a love story, surrounded by amazing effects. Sure the movie isn't perfect, the dialogue could have been a little better. The movie starts a little slow, but then at some point you are drawn in and the characters become real, and the terror they face becomes real. By the end, when Rose dies and meets Jack on the staircase and everyone cheers it is impossible not to feel sad. This movie could had been horrible but it pulls it off. It was a real risk to make and it worked wonderfully. The reason this movie works is hard to describe. Maybe it's the slow beginning that does it. We start to forget that this ship is destine to sink and just watch what is on screen. Then when they finally do hit the ice berg the viewer feels that this is an interesting plot turn rather than the payoff the movie has been building to.