One cliche after another

Rating: Null/10 (14 May 1999)

The one thing that the Titanic contributed to our culture is the fact that the film managed to get a lot of giggly teenage girls to sit for three hours. No small feat. But after hearing so many people triumphantly declare that they sat through the Titanic twice, four times, ten times, ect., I began to get upset. There are a heck of a lot of better three hour movies they could have seen. The truth is, Titanic is loaded with cliches and has problems with historical accuracy. And did that old woman REALLY deserve a Best Actress nomination? Still, to its credit, the love story was fairly well done, but if it wasn't set on the Titanic it wouldn't have been worth filming.