"Titanic," the high-budget, much-hyped r...

Rating: 8/10 (2 August 1998)

"Titanic," the high-budget, much-hyped romance/disaster epic, is a great movie despite its dragging three-hour length. It didn't deserve all the Oscars it won, as nearly everyone agrees, and I take pity on the poor soles who think that this is the greatest movie of all time. People, it's a good movie, but not the best of all-time. And it was the unfortunate iceberg in the way of the best film of 1997, "L.A. Confidential." A-