Pluses and minuses

Rating: Null/10 (18 November 1998)

PLUSES: Kathy Bates; the wonderful Victor Garber; the ship sinking. MINUSES: A movie-star's (as opposed to actor's) performance by DiCaprio -- far below his capabilities; that baloney story line -- this incident had plenty of real stories to be told without hauling this one out of the cedar chest; any scene set in the present day -- what did they pay those screenwriters? AND A BIG OL' GIGGLE: Anyone know what happens when a person puts freezing cold steel (say, I dunno, a whistle, perhaps) to a person's lips? YOWCH! And I wish I'd been there to slap him when Cameron wrote (or approved) the "Beautiful woman hocks loogey" scene. WHAT WERE THESE PEOPLE THINKING?