Titanic

Titanic

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

  • Released: 1997-11-18
  • Runtime: 194 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, Romance
  • Stars: Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton, Bernard Hill, Victor Garber, Lewis Abernathy, Suzy Amis, Nicholas Cascone, Danny Nucci, Jason Barry, Lew Palter, Eric Braeden, Bernard Fox, Ioan Gruffudd, Jonny Phillips, Martin East, Gregory Cooke
  • Director: James Cameron
 Comments
  • kosmasp - 3 July 2024
    Going down
    I know it's a bit of a cop out ... still no pun intended! I did take my sweet time to watch this ... but at least I kept it and made it my review number 11077! Can you tell I like numbers? But this prologue aside, let's get into the matters of things ... into the movie so to speak.

    When the movie came out and the hype was big, I just couldn't handle it. It felt like this would be a movie for girls (women) and something I would have to be forced to watch. Well I caved I reckon, but while the movie does have some of the downfalls I expected (very silly and over the top villain Billy Zane to name just one) others were not as bad as I thought they would be - like the love story overall.

    On the other hand there were some things that just were too much - love is love right ... but the decision they made at certain points just were too much to suspend my suspension of disbelief! Even more true for our anti hero (Billy Zane still does a great job by the way). And even though the movie is over 3 hours long, some of the characters fall short! Like the swearing Italian friend Jack has (you can't be too sensitive about the swear words, especially if you understand them) ... or the parents ... it is a lot about the fictional romance that never really existed on the real Titanic.

    That all said, this is technically amazing ... and James Cameron did his best to guess certain things (many of which apparently look to be very close to the truth) ... there is a reason the movie was not nominated for any acting performance - but purely for technical or "crew" Oscars.

    Not trying to put it down (that is not a pun, right?) ... the movie really looks good - and the three hours go by faster than you think. Just try to suspend your disbelief when it comes to some of the characters and what they do.

    And then there is also the music - My heart will go on barely was ok for me - so just a bit better than the Bodyguard theme ... that really makes my skin crawl. Interestingly enough the song is played many times (as a theme) ... but you only get the text/lyrics at the end credits.

    James Cameron is addicted to the Titanic and his attention to detail is quite something. Also you will have a hard time seeing the CGI used in this movie ... this aged phenomenally ... job well done! Sound perfect too. If the simple human behavior does not bother you ... you'll have a grand time ... until the end ... and beyond.
  • Ms_Carter - 3 June 2024
    Necklace Drama
    So you mean to tell me I spent three something hours watching Rose now a old lady retelling the story of The Titanic Only to find out old lady Rose had this Heart Of The Ocean necklace Only to have her throw it in the ocean near the crash site WTF ? She knew they were searching for the necklace because she saw it on the news Seriously though it's a good movie Despite all my complaining But they spent too much time with the research crew team before getting into the actual story Plenty of romance and adventure But it's just not my normal type of movie Kate Winslet is good as Young Rose But the real star was Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack In my opinion he brought the movie to life with his performance It's a real shame he was never nominated for an Oscar Friendly piece of advice if you ever get a chance to see this in the theaters Don't be a dummy like me and drink a gigantic soda before the movie even starts I was never so happy to see a restroom in my whole entire life By the end of this epic movie.