Great direction

Rating: 8/10 (30 July 1998)

Titanic was an excellent film, but definitely not because of anything Leo or Kate did. They, in my opinion, were just crowd attraction techniques. They could have used anyone for these roles and the movie would have been improved/worsened only slightly.
The real reason this movie was excellent was because of Jim Cameron's undying devotion to the project's perfection. He did countless retakes of key scenes, got behind the camera himself many times, and made sure every part of the movie matched the picture in his mind. He even drew the portraits himself! If all directors would put this much into their films, there would be no shortage of quality films, as there have been in past years.