An unsinkable ship goes down and kills a young love story

Rating: 6/10 (5 December 2001)

Well, here we are four years later looking back at the phenomenon that
was Titanic. I was in sixth grade when it was released, and I was
surrounded by hundreds of young girls seeing it seven times in a row
just to get a long look at Leo. And this movie won best picture. The
truth is that Leonardo DiCaprio is not a very good actor. He's no better
than the other teenybopper actors out there like Freddie Prinze Jr. or
Ryan Phillipe. I mean look at the movie he made right after this, The
Beach.
Back to the film itself. It's simply a love story that we've seen
countless times, attached to a horrible tragedy. That's all. Why so many
critics and audiences fell for this is something I'll never understand.
It was simply a one-hit wonder. Just about every single person I know
who liked that movie back when it was in theaters barely even think
about it anymore. As for James Cameron, he's one of the most egotistical
people in Hollywood. When the guy shouted that he was the "king of the
world" at the Oscars, that's when I knew that he doesn't care a jot
about anything other than cash. Not to mention his appearance on
Saturday Night Live when he lit his cigar with a burning hundred dollar
bill. He takes a horrible tragedy, a film that could've lasted about two
hours or so, and pastes in a formulaic, cliched love story to boost it
up to 3:14.
If you're one of the few people out there who still hasn't seen this
film, I say just skip the middle section and just go to the sinking of
the ship. That is the only place where you will get any of the intensity
and suspense that this film deserves. I think that half of the
passengers who died on the Titanic would've been embarres