Still works for me...

Rating: 9/10 (26 March 2002)

Well, it's been a year since my last review of this film (this is review #3). I saw "Titanic" on the big screen in 1997, and bought the DVD when it came out (which I still watch from time to time, maybe about twice/year).
"Titanic" still works for me as an epic spectacle and blockbuster. The love story is OK, I don't really care... this is the movie to watch for eye candy and epic scope, not emotion. I never did get caught up in any sobby or sentimental emotions with this film. The overall story isn't bad... yes, some of the lines are cheesy and the dialog is corny, so what? The low point of the film has to be DiCaprio sinking beneath the waves... not sad at all to me, but so what?
"Titanic" stands as a fabulous spectacle and a great movie watching experience. The years have not diminished that in the least, and the special effects couldn't be done any better today than they were in 1997. The nit-pickers are still picking, 'sentimentalists' are still getting outraged at the 'realists' bashing the film, and I'm still sitting back and enjoying a couple times a year a film that was highly overrated at the Oscars (so what else is new) but where every penny of the budget shows on the screen... the spectacle of it... the scope, it can sweep you away. Turn your brain off, turn the lights down, and enjoy on the biggest possible screen.
9/10 pieces of popcorn from this 38 year old male.