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Titanic [1998] | ![Titanic [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z3GT0742L._SL75_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: James Cameron
Actors: Kate Winslet, Bill Paxton, Leonardo Dicaprio, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: Video
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Format: Closed-captioned, Dolby, Pal, Surround Sound
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), German (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Russian (Original Language), Swedish (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 189
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
UPC: 070330511064
EAN: 0070330511064
ASIN: B00004CX4G
Theatrical Release Date: December 19, 1997
Release Date: October 19, 1998
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Amazon.co.uk Review
When the theatrical release of James Cameron's Titanic was delayed from July to December of 1997, media pundits speculated that Cameron's $200 million disaster epic would cause the director's downfall, signal the end of the blockbuster era and sink Paramount Studios as quickly as the ill-fated luxury liner had sunk on that fateful night of April 14, 1912. Some studio executives were confident, others horrified, but the clarity of hindsight turned Cameron into an Oscar-winning genius, a shrewd businessman and one of the most successful directors in the history of motion pictures. Titanic would surpass the $1 billion mark in global box-office receipts (largely due to multiple viewings, the majority by teenage girls), win 11 Academy Awards including best picture and director, produce the bestselling movie soundtrack of all time and make a global superstar of Leonardo DiCaprio. A bona fide pop-cultural phenomenon, the film has all the ingredients of a blockbuster (romance, passion, luxury, grand scale, a snidely villain and an epic, life-threatening crisis), but Cameron's alchemy of these ingredients proved more popular than anyone could have predicted. His stroke of genius was to combine absolute authenticity with a pair of fictional lovers whose tragic fate would draw viewers into the heart-wrenching reality of the Titanic disaster. As starving artist Jack Dawson and soon-to-be-married socialite Rose DeWitt Bukater, DiCaprio and Kate Winslet won the hearts of viewers around the world and their brief but never-forgotten love affair provides the humanity that Cameron needed to turn Titanic into an emotional experience. Present-day framing scenes (featuring Gloria Stuart as the 101-year-old Rose) add additional resonance to the story and, although some viewers proved vehemently immune to Cameron's manipulations, few can deny the production's impressive achievements. Although some of the computer-generated visual effects look artificial, others--such as the sunset silhouette of Titanic during its first evening at sea, or the climactic splitting of the ship's sinking hull--are state-of-the-art marvels. In terms of sets and costumes alone, the film is never less than astounding. More than anything else, however, the film's overwhelming popularity speaks for itself. Titanic is an event film and a monument to Cameron's risk-taking audacity, blending the tragic irony of the Titanic disaster with just enough narrative invention to give the historical event its fullest and most timeless dramatic impact. Titanic is an epic love story on par with Gone with the Wind, and, like that earlier box-office phenomenon, it's a film for the ages. --Jeff Shannon
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 The film that made me cry May 8, 2008
The following is not my own review but that of a teenage friend of mine.
There are plenty of adult reviewers so let's get the opinions of the young and impressionable.
It was difficult to believe that the ship was not the real thing.
The characters of Jack and Rose were portrayed brilliantly by Leonardo and Kate. I wanted their love to go on and on.
I was truly scared when the ship struck the iceberg. At the time I didn't know what the outcome would be. All the time I was hoping they would survive. I just couldn't believe that Jack was doomed to die and how that made me cry and cry and cry.
The flashbacks from the older Kate were very moving.
A sad film but totally brilliant.
 Insensitive April 22, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
The worst winner of the Best film is TITANIC 1997. I stopped taking the Oscars seriously after that. It's says alot about Hollywood in that it recast a film about one of the greatest disasters of the C20th as an upstairs/downstairs love story.
Imagine the film as a 9/11 climaxing with 2 lovers leaping to their deaths hand in hand from the Twin Towers as Celine Dion squawks away in the background like a Banshee.
Wretched, kitsch and expensively so at 200 million, but it went on to make 1 billion world wide due mainly to young dumb females attending this visual garbage multiple times (eg. my ex-girlfriend Emily).
The Titanic disaster was a very black day in British/American History. Over twelve hundred people died horrible freezing deaths in the middle of the Atlantic, but never fear! I am sure they will be smiling down from their clouds on the fact that their demise has been turned into a cheesy Hollywood love story! Well at least they did not die in vain.
Greastest film ever? not by a long stretch. April 11, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Just the other day i was reading the paper and a small article in the bottom corner of one page caught my eye. the article in brief said that a sample of 6000 people voted titanic the greatest film ever made. Im prity sure that my jaw dropped far enough to hit myself in the crotch "Greatest film ever!!!!!" At first i proclaimed the vast majority of the cinema going public complete morons. Titanic was the only film i could remember wishing i hadnt watched, and ive seen LXG and didnt hate it! But eventually i came round to the thought that maybe ive been too hard on this film all these years. At the time i went to see this film with a friend of mine who for some reason wanted to see it because he had a fixation with the titanic i think, but i kind of wish i had gone with a girl at least then i might have gotten some action for my troubles.
Anyways yesturday i gave the film another go and its not as bad as i remembed it being but likes saying a reliant robbin is not as slow as walking, it still one turkey of film.
Story and script: this is probably the worst part of the movie, the real tragedy is pushed to the back to become nothing more then setting, onto witch they piled a nasty ham sandwich of a love story. The lines are terrble as are the jokes based on peoples ignorance "somthing picasso, he'll never amount to anything" (wow thats bad) i cringed so baddly most of the way through this terrible script.
Cast and acting: They assembled a quality cast in fairness but im not sure they really took it seriously (probably saw the script and thought it was a comedy)infact the only decent piece of acting was from the guys in the submarine at the begining which include bill paxton of aliens fame ("the're coming out of the walls man!!" superior stuff).
Set peices and costume design: Fianlly someone did their job right! the sets and costumes are convinsing throughout the cars were a nice token as well (even is they were only as props for the, funniest, most unneccisary sex scene ever filmed).
Special Effects: Pritty good but at the time i remember thinking that there was something wrong with them, something unconvincing, but i have never been able to put my finger on it.
Additional comments: Every trick in the book was pulled out at the end to produce an emotional response and for me at least every one failed. if they had left it with just the parts with the band playing right up to the end and the captain locking himself in the bridge in may have been ok, as these where decent scenes. But the old couple on the bed and the women tucking her children into bed are just underhanded as they have no part in the plot. some people (mostly the ladys) will say that this is because im an insensitive man. Not true; I cried watching Bridge to Terabithia! and im man enough to say that. another thing is the shot of the man falling off the back and hitting the propeller, it could only have been put in to get cheap laughs (which if i remember rightly it did) its still tastless.
In conclusion, is it the worst film ive ever seen, no, that privalige probably falls to Flight of Fury (steven siegal at his worst) but this is still a smoldering turd of a film. It contains some simple lessons for film makers "good special effects a film Duth not make" you start with script, acting and storyline and work your way out. Probably the worst movie per /$ ever made. 1 star take it out of my sight!
 A Mixture Of Good And Bad March 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I felt this movie had a lot of good points, and equally a number of bad ones. I'll start off with the good. I thought that the special effects were fantastic, particularly the scenes where the ship was sinking. I thought that they got the layout of the ship very accurate, and you could really sense the 'newness', freshness and splendor of this ship on its maiden voyage. It certainly had a feel of 1912 about it.
Now the bad points. I felt the love story of Jack and Rose was awful, and highly improbable, particularly for the times. Their dialogue is really poor, and almost cringeworthy at times! The way they act, and talk, just does not ring true for 1912. Also, the mystery ship seen in the distance by officers and passengers, during the sinking, widely believed to be a tramp steamer, called the 'Californian', does not rate a mention in the movie. This is an important part of the 'Titanic' story, that has been omitted.
I felt this movie was to a certain extent a wasted opportunity. A Night To Remember, is for me, still the definitive 'Titanic' movie.
 What a load of rubbish - some Amazon reviewers....... March 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Look - if you've seen it then fine and if you haven't then nothing I'm gonna say will make you watch it, but.................
I clearly am one of the 42 people in the world that like this film. Given that it took billions and billions of dollars / pounds / whatever - it seems clear that me and the other 41 went to see this film several millions times each.
That some of the dialogue is a bit ropey clearly shows how James Cameron can't do that piece at all and we should slam him for that. Critical we apply double standards to e.g. George Lucas and even Peter Jackson because after all whether it's cool/fashionable or not to like something it much more important than anything of substance.
We obviously must blow apart some of the "quotes" as being utterly crass and obvious even though they are recorded historical fact.
We certainly need to start a campaign to execute Cmeron because that bit from 167 minutes to 169 minutes is actually fiction and that person didn't do that in real life. After all this is the first time ever that a "tue life story" has veered away from being 100% accurate. We certainly shouldn't give Cameron any credit at all for the fact that 90% of the film is frankly obsessively accurate to historical fact.
............. Was "best picture" an injustice? If we really want to talk about rubbish lets cover Forrest Gump and Shawshank Redemption.
So it's great to write about "Worst film ever made" but frankly that merely shows up a review as being "tabloid" knee jerk ignorant nonsense. Titanic is not the best film ever made by a long chalk. It has faults but as a spectacle and in its scale it is breathtaking and well worth watching at least once. For those who feel its the worst film ever made then get out more and watch some films. Clearly you haven't up to now.
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