9.9/10
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Slatch371 — 5 years ago(May 12, 2020 12:27 PM)
The best way to rate a Titanic movie is on it's sinking scene.
Titanic - 1998 film sinking scene: 11/10. No point in watching the first 90% of the film. Skip to the ending. Best part. Jack dies.
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️ Christina 1986-05-20 
— 5 years ago(May 12, 2020 08:09 PM)I almost didn't see it.
7/10
It drags along.
I like the music and seeing the child actors.
Something terribly wrong about this.
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phantomparticle — 5 years ago(May 13, 2020 01:37 AM)
The movie deserves every word of praise as a technical triumph. It is cinematic perfection.
That aside, the screenplay is adolescent tripe designed for the teenage crowd with no regard for plausibility.
I tried to count the number of times Cameron contrived to get DiCaprio and Winslet from the top deck back into the staterooms that were filling with water, but it was hard to concentrate because my sides were aching with laughter over David Warner chasing DiCaprio all over the place with a gun.
"The ship is sinking! Get off now!"
Warner: "Screw that! I have to kill someone first!"
By the time DiCaprio said the dumbest line in the entire movie, I was close to hysterical laughter. Let's face it, there are many great and memorable movie lines spoken at the height of some dramatic moment. But as the ship was making the final plunge and DiCaprio looked down several hundred feet into an abyss of foaming, churning death, all he could come up with was, "This is it!"
That
was
it, for me.
A solid 10 for the recreation of the era and the most famous sea disaster of the 20th Century.
8 for the charismatic actors.
2 for the silly, annoying and disappointing script.
And This, Too, Shall Pass Away