Movie #108: Titanic

Movie #: 108
Movie Title: Titanic
Year Released: 1997

Director: James Cameron
Notable Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Victor Garber, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner, Bill Paxton, Gloria Stuart

Short Description: A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind, but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: #83
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: #30
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: N/A



Date Watched: 6/5/2016

Grade: 5 out of 5 (Exceptional)

Rationale: Ladies and gentleman, we have our first 5 out of 5. Now that doesn't mean I think Titanic is a flawless movie...it almost is, though. At its core the movie is less about the ship and it's sinking and more about the characters, specifically Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack and Kate Winslet's Rose. Arguably they tell the most captivating love story in cinematic history against a backdrop of epic proportions. The fact that Titanic looks and feels like a real ship on the screen is a tribute to what a master of visuals James Cameron is. If you haven't seen it because of the lame old joke about "knowing already that the ship sinks", you're doing yourself a disservice. If you're not a fan of the love story and won't see it for that reason, you just may be heartless and I've nothing to help with that. Also, as an aside, I still have my movie ticket stub from seeing Titanic in theaters in 1998. It's the oldest movie ticket stub I still have.