LA Confidential was the best film of 1997

Rating: Null/10 (1 December 2001)

Some day there will be commission of people consisting of film critics, movie fans, and of people with good taste & intelligence. They will investigate the crime that was "Titanic" winning the Oscar for best picture for 1997. It was bad enough that Titanic won anything at all but for it to be named Best Picture over LA Confidential (or any other good film that came out in 1997) is a crime against anyone who values well-acted, intelligent and well-crafted films.
Titanic is basically an overblown soap opera featuring a man-boy hero (Leo DiCaprio), a cartoonish bad-guy (Zane), and an inaccurate portrayal of life in 1912 and of events that took place that terrible night. Women in those days did not flip the bird. No Titanic officers or crewmen killed anyone or committed suicide with a gun.
What is worst is that Titanic is simply a banal film. Yes, it has very impressive special effects and looks quite real but it's boring to sit through it a second or third viewing. It has no more depth than an episode of BayWatch.