Titanic

Pros: Good peripheral performances, A few moments of character
Cons: Mediocre special effects, Predictable plots (not just the boat sinking), Contrived love story, Chemistry

I'll admit it, I'm in the minority. I am not a fan of "Titanic." I saw it years ago and was utterly unimpressed with virtually every aspect of it. So, when I sat down to rewatch the film as part of my desire to see every movie that won the Best Picture ...

Pros: Great screenplay; good performances; outstanding CGI & SFX; suspenseful ending.
Cons: It's a huge soap opera (let's face it); it's embarrassing to admit you like it.

One thing all films considered to be "epics" and/or "classics" have in common is that they weren't made with the intention of being crowned as such. What's so remarkable about "Titanic" is that it seems as if it was made with such a goal in mind - a ...

Pros: Great special effects, beautiful moving Titanic footage
Cons: Shakey script, improbable fictional characters, offensive suicide scene

The film almost everyone loves to hate. Just why this movie's reputation has gone downhill faster than the real Titanic, isn't easy to understand. It is as good, and as bad, today as it was in 1997. It may be that old conundrum. If it's popular, it ...

Pros: Special effects
Cons: performances, historical characters too one-dimensional, movie lags too much, GGI sticks out frequently

"Rose" (Gloria Stuart, also played in the scenes set at the time of the sinking by Kate Winslet), a woman who claims to be a survivor of the Titanic disaster, comes aboard a ship of researchers who are searching the wreckage for a blue diamond known as ...

Pros: AT least the boat sinking sequence is mildly acceptable
Cons: Join the dots script, and acting so bad you'd think it was a spoof.

Question: How does one go about reappraising the worlds favourite film, now surely destined to be the fastest rented and biggest selling video of all time? A $200 million brouhaha that transformed itself into the second most profitable slice of celluloid...

Pros: Great special effects
Cons: Hackneyed plot, miserable acting

Guess what? The ship sinks. Titanic is a wretched, puzzling film, with superb special effects sandwiched around a hackneyed love story featuring two of our rising wooden actors. If you haven't seen Titanic, I'm glad you're out of your coma. ...

Pros: Excellent visual effects. Moving love story. Brilliant score.
Cons: Poorly written dialogue.

As someone with a lifelong fascination with anything dealing with the Titanic tragedy, I was extremely anxious and impatient in waiting for the James Cameron film to finally be released. Including my initial viewing on the day it was released, Dec. 19,...

Pros: history
Cons: none

This is a great movie. I have seen in countless times, and it still holds my interest. First I must tell you that I really enjoy movies that show disasters, such as tornados, floods, fires,earthquakes etc. So this was right up my alley.

If...

Pros: Good acting, its movie was used to create very sharp visuals
Cons: lousy chick flick script and plot, LONG

I never planned to review Titanic. The thought just crossed my mind when I saw it re-air on TV. I saw the movie back when it came out in 1997 when I was 12 and I've seen it a few times since. However, the more I was watching it, the less I was liking it. ...

Pros: Very nice love story, very realistic
Cons: Tragic, very realistic

Remember what it was like to be young and in love, well I am sure that some of you are still young and in love but that is beside the point. Some people have a love that starts out forbidden but still seems so right despite all of the odds. When two...

Pros: Background,costumes
Cons: Cliché characters,too predictable

After all the pub, I was anxious to see if it would be a classic. It was. A classic example of clichéd pandering to populist poufery.I can't understand why all the time and money was spent to reshape a compelling true story into a bubble gum fairy tale....

Pros: Emotionally devastating, romantic, stunning effects and, yes, superb performances.
Cons: Some clunky dialogue, the rather unfortunate "Rose's-ghost-returns-to-the-wreck-and-is-reunited-with-Jack" ending - what about the man she was actually *married to* all those intervening years?.

Some of you who are reading this may or may not have seen Good Will Hunting, the film written by and starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who are friends in real life. They won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and afterwards everyone - and I mean...

Pros: special effects; recreation of the Titanic, Horner's soundtrack
Cons: Celine Dion's theme song rendition; inane love story

This is not a review of Titanic. Titanic doesn't need yet another review, at least not from me. I can sum up in a few phrases my feelings about the film: spectacular special effects and attention to detail, awesome contemporary underwater...

Pros: Compelling story, awesome set pieces and costumes, great moments one after the other
Cons: A bit predictable and obvious, cheesy in spots

I love movies based on historical events, even though I know they are likely a load of crap. I love being transported back to a moment in time, a different historical era. If I feel like a movie does this effectively, I can forgive it for factual flaws ...

Pros: good special effects, Billy Zane
Cons: silly dialogue, characters that go nowhere

I dislike Titanic out of general principle. The Titanic episode in itself was horrific; it came about out of the hubris and short-sightedness of a handful of people and caused the deaths of hundreds, many of them poor, some of them children. If...