TITANIC - Now I understand why...

The cinematography is great, but that iceberg couldn't come fast enough for me. All of those cheesy lines and setups are so contrived for each situation. You take away the incredible sets and historical looming and you got a stinker.
 
Good movie, but I can't watch it over and over again like some of the greats. (i.e. The Godfather)
So in my opinion it shouldn't be looked at as one of the best ever. It is a very good film though.

It also felt a little long in spots and that iceberg should have shown up sooner. :thumbsup:

I also agree with the L.A. Confidential comment. I love that film!

Cheers,

Mike
 
The main problem with Titanic was "My heart will go on". Its a curse to humanity that we'll have hanging around till the end of times...
 
Brandon Rice said:
For the first time tonight I watched Titanic from stem to stern... forgive the pun ;)

I had always kind of said Titanic was overrated etc. having seen bits and pieces here and there...

I think a whole lot differently now... Titanic is my new favorite film of all time... it has everything I ever wanted to see in a movie... it has the epic moments, the tense moments, the sweet moments, the intimate moments, the heart wrenching moments... it's absolutely incredible... the acting, direction, writing, cinematography, editing, music... I could go on and on...

This is the closest I've ever seen to a perfect film...

You all can have your own opinions, but this was one ride of a film that took me along and never stopped...

I just don't know what to do with myself so I had to share :beer:
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Awesome Brandon

Titanic is indeed one of my all time favorite films. The love story, the adventure, the drama, the thrills. Truly a masterpeice. I always wonder why people decry the Academy Award winning film.

I found the love story not atall cheesy or contrived. It was way more complex than that with the class struggle (rich vs poor) and the perfomances were awesome from all involved. Billy Zane didn't get a NOD for Best Supporting Actor? Blaspehemy !

The script is flat, seemingly more designed to take you to every possible part of the ship than to tell a story, some of the dialog is clunky, and DiCaprio is weak in some spots.

But it's a solid film. I saw it twice in the theater and was thoroughly satisfied.

I thought one of the most brilliant shots in the entire thing was when they were shooting off flares, and they pull back to a few miles away. The ship is tiny, you can't hear anything, and you see a flare burst in the sky.
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The script was flat ?

That would explain the Best Picture and Director win I guess. :huh: :)

My favorite shot/scene is when Kate and Leo are paused on the stern as its inverted and she looks at the Chef and the Poro Girl for a moment before the ship goes down.
 
Best Picture Winners: Not Nominated for Best Screenplay Award
  • Wings (1927/28)
  • The Broadway Melody (1928/29)
  • Grand Hotel (1931/32)
  • Calvacade (1932/33)
  • Hamlet (1948)
  • The Sound Of Music (1965)
  • Titanic (1997)
Best Picture Winners: Did Not Win Either a Best Screenplay Award or Best Director Award
Best Picture Winners: Won a Best Screenplay Award, But Did Not Win Best Director
Best Picture Winners: Won Best Director, But Did Not Win a Best Screenplay Award
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Hey, man, I love me some Star Wars, but I ain't gonna lie and say that first one isn't full of some pretty stilted dialogue. A lot of the plot points in Titanic were already moldy somewhere around the silent era.
 
J.R. Hudson said:
Best Picture Winners: Not Nominated for Best Screenplay Award
  • Wings (1927/28)
  • The Broadway Melody (1928/29)
  • Grand Hotel (1931/32)
  • Calvacade (1932/33)
  • Hamlet (1948)
  • The Sound Of Music (1965)
  • Titanic (1997)
Best Picture Winners: Did Not Win Either a Best Screenplay Award or Best Director Award
Best Picture Winners: Won a Best Screenplay Award, But Did Not Win Best Director
Best Picture Winners: Won Best Director, But Did Not Win a Best Screenplay Award
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I don't get what this proves.
 
It's not meant to prove anything.

It's meant to suggest that a picture NOT winning BS does not by fiat, make it flat.

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My opinion is saying the script was flat but still winning BP and BD doesn't hold a lot of weight beyond subjectivity.

Manny was me going yard on both of you.
 
J.R. Hudson said:
It's not meant to prove anything.

It's meant to suggest that a picture NOT winning BS does not by fiat, make it flat.

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My opinion is saying the script was flat but still winning BP and BD doesn't hold a lot of weight beyond subjectivity.

Manny was me going yard on both of you.
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The script is still shoddy and cliche ridden. The film has many pleasures, but the screenplay is not one of them for me.
 
I don't think it's a strong script. But then, I also don't care, because all I wanted was to see the boat recreated in all its glory and then watch it sink in spectacular fashion -- and that, I got.

It's tremendous eye candy, but it ain't literature.
 
Anyone here have a better script that they can produce right now (or ever)?

I really liked the story... All time top 10 favorite movies!
 
Ah, Titanic. It's great. About this script business...Okay, so it's not the greatest piece of literature out, but I don't care - it's still a hell of a lot better than a lot of the films I've been watching/reading. I like it the way it is. It's a great film, what an epic...It's got a lot of appeal. It's an adventure...you connect with the characters, you want to know what's going to happen, even though you already know whats going to happen...and it's still good. I find some moments in the film pretty haunting, last time I watched it, it stuck with me for quite a while. I can't say the same about too many films. So I'd say that's some pretty fine work.

And come on! James Horners legendary theme that everyone thinks Celine Dion wrote...Wahoo!:beer:
 
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James Horner's theme? I thought Celine Dion wrote a song and James Cameron just made a really long, expensive music video? I thought there was about as much weight to the dialogue as that old Paula Abdul music video "Rush, Rush".
 
Shitty script

Best Picture and Director.

Hmmmmmmmmm.

This goes back to the WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE SEEN element ? What story ? What would have made it so much better in your eyes ?

I found the dialogue and story to be classic Cameron style.
 
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