Title: Titanic (IMAX 3-D)Director: James Cameron
Producer: James Cameron & Jon Landau
Screenwriters: James Cameron
Distributor: Paramount Pictures (USA) & 20th Century Fox (Internationally)
In Theaters: December 19th, 1997
Run Time: 194 minutes
Color: Color
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Victor Garber, Jonathan Ides, Billy Zane, etc.
Genre(s): adventure/drama/history/romance
Storyline: 84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning. Written by Anthony Pereyra
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My Review: Although this movie came out in 1997 and everyone I knew saw it or, in the last 15 years since, has seen it, I never did. Whenever it would come on tv I avoided it. Not for any reason other than both leads in the movie were never a favorite of mine. I am happy to state, after seeing the movie, I hold the same feelings about them. In fact, the only part I could have done without was what moviegoers probably say is the main reason for seeing that movie as often as they have; the love story. While it is wonderful and cutesy to witness that “love at first sight” moment and while the relationship they had, though VERY short, could be analyzed all on it’s own, I felt it took away from what was going on during that tragic event. Perhaps that was what the writer/director/producer James Cameron had in mind when telling this very true and very chilling true story?
While I felt the romance could have been shown without those specific two, I appreciated when it was show, if only because it distracted my mind away from the tragedy going on around them, especially in the second half of the movie when the boat hits the iceberg. I found myself getting the most emotional after this point, not because Jack was dying! Although there were MANY women in the audience who were wailing and sobbing because Jack was dying! I rolled my eyes at them and tried to block them out as I stared at the huge IMAX screen in awe of it all. I cried seeing those people falling to their deaths. Especially the mother telling her children a bedtime story below deck as they slept, knowing they were going to die soon. The tragedy of over 1,500 people dying was enough to draw tears from my eyes, NOT the one lucky couple who at least got to experience love and what it means to have and feel that love, even if just for a little while.
The way this entire movie was filmed was crazy if not genius. I would definitely love to see the behind the scenes on how a story of this magnitude was put together and filmed. I can see why it won and admit it deserved all of the accolades it received at the time and today. However, like Passion of the Christ, this will be one movie I know I will never be able to see again. Much too tragic and too real to endure no matter how brilliantly it was done. If you were like me and never saw it, I recommend seeing it now while it’s in the theater! Or if you’ve missed that opportunity, watch it on DVD or something. Don’t watch it with commercial interruptions. I’d hate to know what scenes were shortened in order to accommodate commercials.
My Rating: B+
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