O.K., but just O.K.

Rating: Null/10 (1 July 1999)

I will be the first to admit that I was one of those people who jumped on the Titanic hate bandwagon without first seeing the movie, mainly because I was sick and tired of hearing Leo-this, Leo-that. When a relative got the video for free, I decided to borrow it just to see if I had been correct all along.
Well, I can honestly say that the movie was not that bad, but I by no means consider it to be a masterpiece. Surprisingly, Leo did not annoy me as much as I thought he probably would, and I felt that there were some other actors in the film who were far more deserving of Oscar nominations than Kate Winslet (especially Kathy Bates and Frances Fisher). Finally, and perhaps most importantly, this film has been classified by most as a love story; however, I did not find the romance between the two leads to be very convincing--I felt like they were nothing more than just very good friends. HAD the point been that they were SUPPOSED to be nothing but good friends, I probably would have been much more emotionally affected by the movie.
At any rate, Titanic is not awful, but it is also not the crown jewel of modern cinema--but that's just my opinion.