Definitely not A NIGHT TO REMEMBER

Rating: 1/10 (15 March 2019)

The most egregious aspect of this overblown cinematic vessel is not the cloying Dick and Jane script, the vulgar modern-day prologue, the primitive CGI effects (painfully obvious on the big screen even in 1997), the fact that DiCaprio looks like a thirteen year old who hasn't yet reached puberty, or the unfathomable eleven Oscars it snared.
No. The true crime here is that the perfect movie about the sinking of the Titanic had been fashioned four decades earlier in A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, which managed to break your heart with the genuine passenger list in its genuine predicament. The tragedy of the sinking, and the core of the 1958 film, is the arrogance of the masters of industry who propelled the Industrial Revolution. This was history. There was no need for a fictional plot, no blue diamond, no Celine Dion, no cartoon villains with twirling mustaches, no Frances Fisher spinning the same holier-than-thou act she's still doing on the Hallmark Channel, and no $250 million budget.
Watch A NIGHT TO REMEMBER. Then curse James Cameron for rightly assuming that modern-day audiences have no memory of their own cinematic heritage.