Titanic - the worst movie disaster of all time.......

Rating: Null/10 (19 November 2004)

I watched 'Titanic' with an open mind, choosing to ignore my friends comments that this film was utter tripe. However several minutes into the feature I realized they were correct, and that Titanic is indeed a dogs dinner, and a poor one at that.
The central characters were wooden and impossible to like, with a real lack of depth and a feeling of complete improbability about there situation. One thing that struck me was the terrible casting, with a voluptuous and mature Kate Winslet being wooed by what appeared to be a underage teen punk waiting for puberty (Leonardo Di'caprio).
Billy Zane's quintessential English Villain was hysterical for all the wrong reasons. With an over the top accent and a mustache and demeanor that made him as camp as you could possibly get. However many historic Hollywood flicks of the same decade feature similarly ridiculous English villains (Braveheart and The Patriot other big culprits).
It is not until the monumental vessel is struck by the treacherous iceberg that the 'epic' jolts sluggishly to life. As much as I dislike the film I can not deny that certain aspects of the true disaster scene were tense and exciting with a smattering of touching moments. Although like all Hollywood flicks these occasions are hammed up with such vomit worthy sentimentality that you become nauseous just watching them.
I can sum up by saying that this is the usual corporate Hollywood trash that brought us other such astronomical turkeys as Pearl Harbor and Troy.