Nice Special Effects..Sappy Story (Spoilers)

Rating: 2/10 (5 July 2005)

Spoiler to follow.
All I could think through the agonizingly typical first two acts was "sink the freaking boat already!!!". In my opinion, the sappy, overdrawn romance between two strangers who become so in love with each other over the course of two days that they are willing to throw away everything, up to and including their lives, for each other, is not only corny and unbelievable, but disrespectful to the REAL people who died aboard that ship.
The special effects were brilliant. The attention to detail in designing the sets and costumes was brilliant. The screenplay was terrible. This is a chick flick disguised as an adventure film. All we heard about in the months prior to the film was the historical accuracies and the amazing special effects, and 80% of what we got, was a formulaic love story...and oh yeah, there's a historic shipwreck in there too, which is prety cool.