Imperfect Yet Truly Emotional Epic

Rating: 9/10 (16 October 2000)

I can see how a lot of guys would not want to watch this movie. I took my stepmother(who does not understand english)to watch Godzilla and she fell asleep through the movie. I took her to see TITANIC and she stayed awake throughout the three hours and twenty minutes. That says a lot to me.
After watching this movie, I realize how imperfect it is. Some of the dialogue is unrealistic. Did they really say "damn!!" and "cop" back in those days??? It is almost a shame to see Cameron pay attention to so many details in this movie and miss that.
However, that mistake is a small price to pay for what he really accomplished with this movie: the realistic sinking of the ship and the devastating human loss as a result. For people who went to see this movie JUST to see the ship sinking, you missed the point just as Brock Lovett missed the point: "I never got it; I never let it in." Innocent human lives were lost because of human arrogance and dependence on man-made machines.
Let me stray just a bit. I recently saw a 20/20 show on people buying their way down into the ocean to visit the titanic. I could only shake my head and remember something I heard James Cameron say: Isn't it ironic how people are willing to pay to go into a tiny submarine two and half miles down into the ocean in total darkness-- to have to depend on a man-made machine to withstand all that pressure down there- to keep them alive--- JUST so they could visit the very exact symbol of technological disaster??!!!! How ironic. LEAVE THOSE PEOPLE IN PEACE!!! and go back home and appreciate your loved ones.
As "boring" as Jack and Rose might have been to very many people , they served a very important purpose. They served as our emotional template. It is because of them that we are able to identify hope, despair and finally lost. It is not only their struggle we sympathize with but everyone else on the ship as well, especially the innocent victims.
Every movie can be very different depending on the director. Cameron does a great job because he filmed this as an epic. We have old Rose as our narrator so that we are on solid ground in present time. She takes us to the past so that we can feel as much as is possible how those people must have felt facing the last couple of hours of their lives. The transitions between the different times are effortless and moving. The ending was so beautiful and emotional.
For three hours and twenty minutes, I was totally and willingly absorbed in another world. This is what they call, "Movie Magic".