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Michael Maier | 3:46 p.m. Jan. 15, 2002
This movie represents nearly everything that is wrong with
our culture at this stage in our cultural decay, but that
isn't why I disliked it.>:) The people that watched it 400
times make me sick, as does the morally vapid message that
this film puts accross as gospel.
Phil Rockwell | 12:00 a.m. July 10, 1998
That this movie beat out movies like Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential, or As Good As It Gets for Best Picture is almost a bigger tragedy than the story of the ship itself. Don't get me wrong, Titanic was a good movie, but by no means is it the outstanding film the public seems to think it is. While it was inevitable that one of the greatest tragedies in human history was bound for the silver screen, and Cameron did do a good job with the history aspect, the dialogue was often rediculously melodramati
David VanLangeveld | 12:00 a.m. June 21, 1998
(Make that 2.5 stars.) I'm probably one of the few people in the U.S. who didn't LOVE 'Titanic' and I realize I am submitting this review at great risk to my life. Yes, the full mock-ups of the ship were incredible, as was the 'wreck set' that the divers were exploring. However, I've seen better stories about star-crossed lovers (i.e. 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'West Side Story' to name a couple). Leonardo DeCaprio and Kate Winslet had a good chemistry, but the couldn't hold their own again
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Nicole Campbell | 12:00 a.m. May 29, 1998
I think Titanic was an excellent movie for these reasons: 1.The movie was based on hard facts 2.Kate Winslet was an excellent actress who helped recreate it 3.Leonardo DiCaprio did an excellent job as Jack 4.Leonardo DiCaprio's gorgeous looks helped alot I know that other people don't have my same opinion but I just felt like sharing mine.If you would like to share your opinion with me I'd appreciate it.So if so,e-mail me. I've got to hand it to Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio though.
B. Rater | 12:00 a.m. May 24, 1998
This is definitely the best film-making I've seen in a while.It's visually stunning.The problem is that instead of focusing on either the actual facts of the crash or on the film's characters, the film attempts to do both, and in the end they both get cheated.The characters are one-dimentional with not enough developement, and the real events are overshadowed by this rather predictable plot.I would have liked to have seen more about the real passengers of Titanic and their stories, which wo
Dennis Orgill | 9:47 a.m. Aug. 27, 1998
Even after the 5th viewing I find this marvelous film to be
thoroughly enchanting and enthralling. My hearty
congratulations to Mr. Cameron, cast and crew! This is
film making at its finest.
Jackie McDonald | 9:34 p.m. Aug. 30, 1998
The movie was very exciting. I enjoyed it greatly. More movies like this one. Please!!!
Mike Trapp | 6:36 p.m. Aug. 31, 1998
It Was Awsome, "it not only was 3 hours long" it was great,
it had about everything you can jam into a movie!!!
Love Romance Drama Action Death History and all else

SEE IT AGAIN!!!
David | 12:21 a.m. Sept. 2, 1998
Titanic was a very sobering movie which caused me to think
about what is really important to me. Although it was a
very good film, I can't really classify it as
"entertaining". While it had great elements, I came out
just feeling really sad for those people. I also don't feel
that it was Best Picture. I would certainly have chosen
Good Will Hunting. Nonetheless, I'm glad that I saw it, but
probably won't watch it again.
ori | 8:37 a.m. Sept. 8, 1998
I think it was one of the best movies I ever saw. Leonardo
is a great actor and my personel favorite. Rose was played
by an excellent actress. Although the movie did have some
bloopers, lie the lake that hadn't formed yet. they didn't
have t.v.so Jack couldn't have seen a man kiss a womans hand
on Nickalodien
Sally Davis | 10:14 a.m. Sept. 10, 1998
The one star is for the special effects. The script was
poor and the plot was not believable. The real story of
the Titanic was a huge tragedy, but this movie did such a
bad job of portraying the victim's feelings that I was not
able to feel their pain at all. It just all seemed so
FAKE. My other big complaint is that the movie was very
offensive. In addition to the (unnecessary) nudity, there
was a great deal of profanity, including much profaning of
the Lord's name. I guess all that was thrown in to get the
rating they wanted, but wouldn't even more people watch it
if it were more wholesome? What a disappointment; this
movie proves that you can't trust the hype or the box
office sales.
jbrown | 8:52 a.m. Sept. 17, 1998
The film had great special effects that were unfortunately
masked by a nauseatingly cheesy love story. A good film for
an early to mid-adolescent sleep over party.
Steve Edwards | 12:04 p.m. Sept. 20, 1998
Titanic was so painful to watch that I found myself
pleading for the ship to sink at a faster pace. One hour
into Titanic I had completely forgotten about the iceberg.
I was suffering too much from the mediocre storyline and
acting. What was supposed to be a powerful movie honoring
those that lost their lives on the ill-fated ship had
quickly deteriorated to a three hour, sappy, generic love
story. All of the typical characters were manufactured on
the assembly line: the evil villain, the socially
imprisoned, liberal heroine, and the happy go lucky hero.
If the generic story and characters weren't enough tragedy
to heep on the audience, we had to languish through the
heroes' attempt to get off the boat. Hey guys, when the
boat is sinking don't spend 45 minutes going up and down
the boat's interior, it gets old. My advice for those
planning on watching: take a couple of aspirin 20 minutes
before watching and try to keep a pulse.
Kermit Kittleson | 10:03 a.m. Sept. 26, 1998
There are four areas where I have specific feelings
regarding TITANIC.
1. The first fifteen or so minutes were sick with 1990's
style garbage. Bad language that was just to get the
attention of deviates that would otherwise walk out of the
theatre and cause a panic of sorts.
2. The bare breast scene, while artistic and poignant,
should have made the movie an R. Movie ratings bracket
creep is killing the value of the system.
3. The movie dragged on way too long. I about feel asleep.
Of course I was tired when I walked in! I dozed off and
missed the bow scene. Shame on me....
4. Other than that, it was a great movie with tons of
nostalgia and romantic feeling.

I can't see buying it for $20, but may go see it again
on second release.
Zena | 8:11 p.m. Sept. 27, 1998
A real boat named "Titanic" did sink and thousands of lives
lost to the great deep. I didn't think this movie did
anything to honour those that lost their lives. The modern
story line and that same type of music (Sleeping Beauty,
Another World, etc.) is what entranced people into it and
nothin else. I have made several ocean voyages and really
didn't care to see this remake at all. A member of my
family insisted on renting it. The old black and white
version left enough of an impression. They totally missed
the part about the woman who woke up to find herself
floating in a deck chair amid the wreckage, and what
about the other survivors. The entire film focused on a
fictious? love story. The most touching part of the entire
film to me was when the father says to his young girls and
mother, "you and mummy are to go on ahead in this lifeboat
and I will follow you". That was something my own father
would have said and done, therefore, it was believable.
jess | 5:39 p.m. Sept. 28, 1998
Ever write a story? It's really not a hard thing to do, you
just sit down and think up an alluring enough plot. James
Cameron, although obviously a talented director, didn't
seem to have too many problems thinking this one up. Rich
girl meets poor boy (who also happens to be played by the
hottest actor in hollywood), rich girl dumps handsome rich
guy for poor boy, big crash (have to add a little history
there), boy dies(typically dramatic). You have to be very
simple minded to accept this movie as the "greatest ever
made".
Visually, the sets, effects and costumes were excellent.
The acting proved to be just as enchanting, but the fact
still remains that Titanic is one of the most
intellectually patronisiong movies ever made. At no point
was there any hint of mystery, nor was there any attempt to
state anything other than the obvious. I am willing to bet
my life that it took James longer to think of writing a
movie about the played out ship wreck than it did for him
to write the actuall script. I paid to give away three and
a half unrecouperable precious hours of my life to play
psychic and guess every next scene. Do not get me wrong, I
can enjoy sitting and staring at Leo just as much as next
guy, but the next time I decide to drull over him I'll do
it with a pin up.
In conclusion, calm down all angered brain washed Titanic
fanatics, much like the movie I'm only stating the
opbvious.
Annie | 7:06 p.m. Sept. 30, 1998
Titanic is the BEST movie EVER made! I want to know the place in Holladay that edits Titanic!
Titanic deserves SIX stars!
Mark Cooper | 5:09 p.m. Oct. 5, 1998
The best actor in this movie should have been Billy Zane!! He is truly the scene stealer. The boat would have been my second choice. I too would have committed suicide on the face of an iceberg knowing the talentless Leonardo Dicraprio was on board. I had respect for James Cameron til he cheated on Linda Hamilton. James Horner saves the day with a nice score, and I realize that if there were no music in the movie, i wouldn't have felt so captivated. Because the acting couldn't survive on its own. Who wrote this dribble?? Oh yeah, James. I thank James though for one thing, giving me yet another reason to give up on the hope that something good will come out of Hollywood.
Billy Bob Brown | 4:30 a.m. Oct. 11, 1998
1 Nude scene...1 star.

5 Nude scenes...5 stars.

'Nuff said.
Melinda | 2:57 p.m. Oct. 16, 1998
I loved TITANIC it was such a wonderful film.I have watched
it 5 times and I will never get tired of it!

IT IS #1!!!!!!!!!!!!
Verda Mc Farlane | 11:29 a.m. Oct. 21, 1998
I admit I was afraid to go see this movie. I have a great
fear of drowning, but my son reassured me that, "They froze
before they drowned." The story was very refreshing, done
well, moving. I cried through the last 1/2 hour and
couldn't seem to stop. Some felt the nude scene was
unnecessary, however, if not for the picture, we would never
have found the whole story. Why did she have to throw the
necklass in the water? I loved it and I loved the acting,
even though some was corny.
Jim Bollwinkel | 9:37 p.m. Oct. 28, 1998
This movie was overated. The actors were missmatched for
age.
Cherie | 10:48 p.m. Nov. 8, 1998
4 stars for giving us the story of Titanic with such
fantastic special effects. I've heard people say that
the love story steered us away from the real story, but
it was appropriate. Why just go to see it sink? It was
like we were there and we experienced it because we fell in
love with the characters and we suffered with them.

I say give us a sequel about the survivors, though. We all
want to know what happened after they got home. That would
make another good 3 hour movie, don't you think? Besides
the "afterwards" was an even more interesting part of this
tragic story.
Jessica Lamb | 10:26 a.m. Nov. 10, 1998
It was too long for its own good. It had good history and
junk, but they should not have mixed love with such an
intersesting and tragic piece of history.
Jadene Riggs | 10:27 a.m. Nov. 10, 1998
It was way too long. And it had obsece langiuage
mychal-ann & angelica | 3:52 p.m. Nov. 12, 1998
we thought leonardo de caprio shouldn't have been in there
and you should have had black or hispanic in there because
it seemed racist.other than that it was good.
t loader | 2:31 a.m. Dec. 3, 1998
I thought the movie was great. All you people that have a problem with the language and nudity should stick to G rated movies, and anyone who was stupid enough to buy it and have it edited had no right even buying it if you can't handle it.
Matthew Melton | 10:14 a.m. Dec. 21, 1998
Titanic - * * * * *
A very romantic and entertaining film that made me cry. It gave me goosebumps and it will give you goosebumps too.
Jack Sommersby | 3:20 p.m. Feb. 21, 1999
Mind you, I am not above succumbing to a sweet, tear-jerking
romancer that earns its tears and emotions. TITANIC,
however, tested my levels of tolerance to the nth degree.
The first 20 minutes or so are beautifully rendered, with 3
outstanding actors (Bill Paxton, Gloria Stuart, Suzy Amis)
exuding believable shades of hope, regret, and anticipation.
Writer-director James Cameron shows remarkable tact and
restraint in these early scenes, never pushing too hard for
effects. Yet, once the film flashes back to its main time
spectrum on the Titanic, the material quickly becomes trite
and banal.

The romance that Cameron has created has not a whisper of
ingenuity, surprise, or originality anywhere in sight, with
second-rate actors unsuccessfully filling out their
pedestrian, plastic roles. The dialogue and plot set-ups are
as inspired as episodes from THE LOVE BOAT, with a
ridiculously overinflated villian in the form of the
fiancee, while the 'spoiled princess' rediscovers the joy of
life from 'a naturalistic nomad from the streets'. Toss in a
subplot involving an asinine robbery frame-up, a deplorable
sequence where Winslet's mother catches her spitting off the
ship, and the enabling of the audience to pretty much
predict the dialogue before it comes out of the characters'
mouths, and you have an overall project that's all
sensationalism over structural and behavioral coherence. A
real turkey of our time.
Phil Wyatt | 12:14 p.m. March 19, 1999
I cannot understand why everybody is giving this movie 5-
stars or 1 star. This is obviously because the people who
gave it 5 stars love leo and the people who gave it 1 star
are the boyfriends who hate leo. You people need to
realize that this movie is very good and anyone who gave it
one star is not very bright and the people who gave it 5
stars need to know that 5 stars are only for the best
films, which this certainly was not. Thank you!!
LordNikon | 9:07 p.m. July 29, 1999
Funny this movie won almost every Emmy award EXCEPT Best
Actor. DeCaprio sucked and so did Kate. The Special Effects
were the only thing keeping me from rating turkey. This
movie was long and drawn out. Definately not as good as
everyone says. I fell asleep in the movies during the middle
of it.
mike | 2:04 p.m. Nov. 24, 1999
where can i begain. what a dreadfull long movie. its not
that big of deal to make a good movie with so much money in
your hands. yes people argue with me about the case of
water
world, but kevin kostner is hardly the director. i give
this
movie one star for the simple reason that director did a
good job. but other than that the movie was terrible. the
conversation bewtween jack and rose was that of 2nd
graders.
the actors were not convincing. and the movie just did not
end. why did it win the oscar its quite simply. the oscar
goes to the worst movies. its a pitty vote. if you the
oscar
were a true award, the full monty would recive it that
year.
or if the americans do not want to give the award to
english
so give it to good will hunting. but thats beside the
point.
the bottom line is that titanic is a bad bad movie. and yet
not surpringly the americans loved it.
Christie | 9:08 a.m. Jan. 31, 2001
After reading the other reviews it saddened me that some
people could honestly feel that this movie wasn't any
good.
This movie portrayed the anger,love,trust, and most of all
the fear that people experienced on the real Titanic voyage
in 1912. It made me very sad for simple fact that this was
real, it really happened.. not all the Kate and Leo stuff..
but, how the first class and third class were really
treated.. how the children of the third class suffered so
the adults along with any other first class could live.
How many people lost their lives needlessly! To say that
this movie was horrible.. you are very immature and shallow
minded and it is obvious you wouldn't know a real movie if
it hit you in the face, try growing up and having a heart!!
This movie was the best movie of all time and the awards
they received prove that.
biff | 2:37 p.m. June 28, 2001
This movie was entertaining and had excellent special
effects but the love story was hollywood at its worst. Why,
why, why...does every "historically" based movie have to
have a lame love story? Would Americans go to these types
of movies without the prerequisite "lust" story? Is
Hollywood even capable of making this genre of movie
without it? I laughed out loud at the final scene,
Rose's "spirit" going to meet Jack's for a glorious
reunion. What happened to Rose's faithful husband of
umpteen years? You know, the one that provided for her,
raised the children, sacrificed, etc (all those boring,
unwatchable things). I guess he got shafted for the two-day
fling on the boat. No suprise considering how James Cameron
treated his own wife.
andrew polka | 10:05 a.m. June 29, 2001
I never saw what was so great about this movie. When I was
twelve it was all that because it had special effects and a
nude scene. But know it's different. I've learned that
special effects are not always that great and can even
destroy a movie. All there is to this flick is Cameron
seeing how far he can go with the effects and re creating
the titanic. NOthing more.
paul | 12:18 p.m. July 27, 2001
Toooooooo Looooooonnnngggg!!! Leonardo is a straight up
dork. Hey, if Bruce Willis had been cast in that role, the
boat wouldn't have sunk and that Billy Zane guy would be
missing some body parts. Hey wasn't Leonardo on that TV
show Growing Pains. Out!
jared | 11:59 a.m. Aug. 25, 2001
for everyone who gave this movie a 1 seriosly now.What are
you looking for in a movie. A 1 means there was nothing
good about it.. nothing!If it was that bad, then why are
you wasting your time telling how it was the worst movie
ever. they got some dumb movies out there, F movies and you
are putting it on the same level as movies like Bio dome...
Right!!Give credit were credit is due. It was a godd movie
Michael Maier | 3:46 p.m. Jan. 15, 2002
This movie represents nearly everything that is wrong with
our culture at this stage in our cultural decay, but that
isn't why I disliked it.>:) The people that watched it 400
times make me sick, as does the morally vapid message that
this film puts accross as gospel.
Emily aka: Jack | 6:07 p.m. Feb. 8, 2007
This movie was really good. I bawled almost every time.
Although I am very disappointed with the content. Those
who gave this movie a bad rating because of it's content I
can't blame. Those of you who gave it just to be rude, try
watching the movie again, and maybe you'll get it! The
acting was awesome!!! Leo DiCaprio was so emotional! Kate
Winslet was as good also. Good Job, good movie, work on
the content of your movies James Cameron. Otherwise....
BRAVO!!!
linda | 12:56 p.m. April 15, 2007
i love this movie i think that it is the best!!! i cryed
for 20mins! i love the promice at the end it shows how the
real afects of the sinking.

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Movie Info
Rated PG13 for profanity, vulgarity, nudity, sex.

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Bill Paxton, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, David Warner, Bill Paxton; written, co-produced, edited and directed by James Cameron
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