Pretty Overrated

Rating: 5/10 (12 December 2006)

Many say Titanic redefined the "Romance" genre of films, others say it's a masterpiece for our generation, I ask them "how" ? I first viewed this movie when I was a child of 9 years old. As you may have guessed I hated it. Now I know what you're thinking, what does a nine year old kid know about romance ? Funny that you ask that because I didn't know a thing about it. I was a child who still believed in cooties. Then at the end of November this film came on TNT, I viewed it and still hated it. I'm 17 years old now. The thing that I hate the most about this is it's crappy dialog, it's as if it was written by a 6 year old kid. "A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets", This is one of the worst quotes in any movie I have ever watched. "I'm the king of the world", um, who still says that ?
The other thing I had a problem with the actual story itself. To me, they James Cameron just took a true event, stuck a soap opera into it filled with mediocre acting and one dimensional characters, and said "hey let's see how much we can rob from the public with this". They accomplished their mission, they robbed 600 million from the public. I don't even want to go into the times where Rose broke her accent.
All the characters in the film can be described in a couple of words.
Jack: Poor Artist. Rose: Spoiled brat. Cal: Snob. Ruth: Snob.
etc.
See what I mean ? The only thing good about this movie is the visuals, they were surprisingly good. The ice berg looked cool and the ships sinking was over par as well. This movie could've been excellent if they just upped the acting alittle, made some deep characters. Alast this film was made the way it is. Every time I see it, I hate it alittle more...