Dreadful!

Rating: 2/10 (20 June 2008)

So, how do you spend vast amounts of money on a film and still wind up with a dreadful (albeit profitable) end product? Simple.
You spend lots of money on beautiful sets and breathtaking special effects. You hire some very talented and/or (mostly or) attractive actors. Then you give those actors lines to speak that are so badly written they might have been written by a 13-year-old girl trying to emulate a Harlequin romance.
Despite wonderful production values and a serviceable story line, "Titanic" may be painful to the ears of anybody who is fully literate. Why did James Cameron spend so many millions to make a film and not spend an extra ten grand to have a competent editor look at his script? Writing the "Terminator" movies really was NOT adequate preparation for writing an epic romance.
Gag me with a spoon! (Hmmm... did Kate Winslet's character say something like that in what was supposed to be 1912? Quite possibly!)