The biggest problem I found with the movie

Rating: 8/10 (25 December 2002)

was that I was more interested in the historical aspect of what had happened to the Titanic since I was 10. The love story was not a factor to me in seeing the movie. But I could pick out with great clarity the historical errors such as the one between Robert Hitchens and Molly Brown in the lifeboat. There was no way that the Molly Brown that we knew would have sit down and not taken action on her own. Also, the last time we saw John Jacob Astor was near the grand stair case leading one to believe this is where he died. He was actually hit with the falling smoke stack that we saw hit a third class passenger. The number of musicians were cut down from 8 to 5 I believe it was. And the burning question in my mind is, "Where was the Californian?" that sat about 10 miles away and didn't do a thing to help these people. All I remember seeing was the rescuing ship, the "Carpathia". There is controversy to this day as to whether William Murdock committed suicide. And since his body was never found, we will never know. Also there is controversy as to whether any passengers that were out of hand were shot by him or anyone else. About the best I can say for the characters of Cal and Ruth were that they showed with great clarity the attitude of the first class passengers towards the lower class of people. But on the real Titanic, Jack Dawson would not have been allowed to roam the whole ship nor make several contacts with builder, Thomas Andrews. But I do have to say that they opening underwater shots of the sunken Titanic were great. As for Jack and Rose, I believe had James Cameron dug deep enough, he could have found a ship romance that he could have used for the movie and it be a real romance. Of course, it probably would not have crossed class lines.