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Titanic (1997)
Director: James Cameron
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Cost: well over $200m. Disregarding the ethics of such expenditure on a film, this unprecedented extravagance has not resulted in sophisticated or even very satisfying storytelling (11 Oscars notwithstanding). The main problem concerns characterisation and structure. A framing device in which contemporary fortune hunters question a now ancient survivor, followed by a romance between upper-crust but frustrated Rose (Winslet) and a poor but plucky artist (DiCaprio), entails not only a needlessly protracted build-up to the collision, but primitive plotting and performances. Moreover, the sudden, skimpy, soggy love story leads to a conclusion that's perversely uplifting: if your love's strong, you never really lose each other. (Piffle!) That said, the effects mostly ensure pretty gripping spectacle once the boat begins breaking up. Even then, however, most of the best scenes - excepting a memorably macabre floating necropolis - are so reminiscent of Rank's superior 1958 movie A Night to Remember that Eric Ambler's name would not look amiss on the new film's credits. (Bizarrely, however, Cameron neglects the poignant fact that a nearby ship failed to respond to the Titanic's SOS, thus upping the body count considerably.) Unlike its namesake, this glossy, bombastic juggernaut will not sink. Everyone will see it anyway, and so they should, if only to ponder the future of mainstream cinema.Author: GA
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- tedie said...
- Posted on Aug 28 2008 09:31 best film ever mde best actors 2
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- lisa reader said...
- Posted on Feb 25 2008 07:04 I adore this film, it is the greatest fil of all time by far!! Love it!!
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- Matt Camp said...
- Posted on Dec 02 2007 21:43 Very good movie
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- jackson said...
- Posted on Nov 12 2007 22:35 this flm conatins great coreography(music) and great acting. The special effects are amazing and tITANIC ITSELF ON THE FILM IS AMAZING. tHE storyline is great i loved it, one of the bst films i have seen.
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Cast & crew
Director: James Cameron
Producer: James Cameron, Jon Landau
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner, Bill Paxton full cast
Genre(s): Epics
Duration: 195 mins
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