Sacrifices characterization for atmosphere. Emotionally involving, visually accurate, and pleasing to the ears. You experience what they (whichever character you sympathize with most) experience. It's powerf

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 2002)

It's "in" to hate this movie for some reason. But I for one have this in my top ten favorite films list. This would be about 9. Here's why.
It's fiction, but everything that happens around the fictional characters is real. Ah, well almost everything. Either fact or legend. A lot of the characters we only catch a glimpse of for one moment are inspired from real photographs and such. It takes a terrible tragedy and makes you care about it, because of the fictional characters, they put you in an atmosphere of what things were like. How they missed this in Pearl Harbor I have no clue. Perhaps they were too busy trying to dupe people into thinking they were real people and not bothering to show what things were like before tragedy struck.
The music in this movie is spoken for, many times in many ways. But it's not just the main theme that is worth talking about; how about when the ship is sinking? And the other various moments in the movie? I've never been scared because of music before but this really scared me during the sinking, in addition to the sights. You know a film is a masterpiece when the theme music is famous worldwide. Think about it: Casablanca, Romeo and Juliet, Psycho, Jaws, Schindler's List, Star Wars, all of these have their notorious themes, and Titanic is no exception.
In conclusion,I recommend this movie to everyone!