Titanic (1997) Review || Oscar Madness #70

[@adamhasideas6813]

I agree with a lot of what you say in this review. The tone of this movie shifts incredibly once the ship hits the iceberg, it goes from a romance to a tragedy. It is a very well made film from its production aspects. It is let down by an overly cartoonish villain, poor script, Rose's enormous floating lifeboat, and a prima donna elder Rose. But, yes, it is a must see movie! I ranked it 40th out of the 95 best picture winners! Great work on your videos!

[@ThisVideoAnnoyedMe]

Feel like the present day scenes kinda add to reminding the audience that the ship was real and that the disaster actually happened and this isn't just a fully fictional movie you're watching. Realistically though, it was probably just Cameron showing off how obsessed he is with the Titanic and the actual literal deep dive research that went into making the film.

[@ThePreciseClimber]

Billy Zane obviously should've been the iceberg in disguise! :P Anti-patriarchy message, huh? Well, at least it's not an anti-whaling message (looking at you, North Korean animated Titanic). But don't worry, Cameron will give us a heavy-handed pro-environmentalism message in the Avatar movies. And that's basically all he'll do for the next 27+ years. Gotta agree that the present day scenes feel superfluous in the grand scheme of things. It's like if Gladiator had an archaeological dig at the Colosseum or something. I guess Cameron wanted some sort of tribute to his own underwater expeditions.

[@solomonrichards599]

Btw in The English Patient, I really liked the scene with Willem Dafoe and Jürgen Prochnow, where Dafoe gets his thumbs cut off. I didn't really like the film as a whole, but I think that was a good scene.

[@IaMD.B.]

I agree with you, that scene specificaly was good.

[@kaykutcher2103]

I don't mind the mob, A Night to Remember 1958 was way better.

[@fr.williamnicholas955]

"Titanic" is perhaps, for me, the most irritating of the Best Picture winners. First of all....of course they are going to make love in the back seat of the ONLY car on the entire ship. Second.... like your comments regarding the prologue and epilogue scenes, I can never get past the "oldest teenager in history" dumping a multi-million-dollar diamond into the sea (so much for her grand-daughter's inheritance! Thanks for taking care of me in my old age!) Third...your comments on the gender issue is further accentuated in the completely inaccurate portrayal of Margaret (the "Unsinkable" Molly) Brown, played by Kathy Bates. Historically, she stood up to the crew member in the lifeboat and rallied the ladies to row back to try and rescue some of the people in the water. In this movie, she is docile, and obediently acquiesces to the orders of the crewman when he tells her to sit down. For anyone who knows her history, and why she is called "the unsinkable", that was a BIG disappointment in how she is portrayed. I can go on, but I won't, except to say this would have been much better had it been a straight docudrama about the sinking. I remember hearing a rumor that DiCaprio was going to play Jack Thayer rather than a fictional character. The real story of the real people on that ship is far more compelling than the fictionalized versions, of which this is the third that I know of. In short "A Night To Remember" is still the best movie about the Titanic (even though it goes down whole, not split in half) and "LA Confidential" is my pic for Best Picture this year with "As Good As It Gets" a close second.

[@ΓΕΏΡΓΙΟΣ-ι8ν]

How would you feel if good will hunting won that year instead

[@fr.williamnicholas955]

Not a fan. Saw it when it came out. It is what it is.

[@ΓΕΏΡΓΙΟΣ-ι8ν]

@@fr.williamnicholas955 Respect, i guess at least robin Williams won for this

[@jordancollins444]

I have officially been born now! Hello Titanic

[@porcupinecraig]

I was in my mid 20's when this came out and I saw the craziness of how people reacted to it and I equate it with the stupidity of how people reacted to COVID. I had a girlfriend who just lost her mind over the movie. She dragged me to see it multiple times and each time, I just less impressed. The way people (especially woman) gushed over it constantly just made me think "someday, you will look back on this time and wonder why you acted like such idiots). People didn't just love the movie, they were obsessed with it in a way I have never seen. They equated their own sense of self worth to the movie and to its success. I was one of the few who looked around and said "This movie just is not that good and does not need this much hype" I really wondered what happened to people and it was one of the first times that I realized that people will collectively fall for anything and defend something stupid to the death. The movie is not really that good, beyond the visual aspect of the ship sinking. But so what. The rest of the movie was awful. I still have a dim view of Leo and Kate Winslet and can't take either of them seriously. It's like they have spent their whole careers trying to get an oscar to justify their existence. The emotional manipulation of the movie was unforgivable for me. The interesting thing for me is this: I never see anyone watch this movie and I haven't even heard one person mention it in over 15 years. I haven't not even once seen it in anyone's collection. For my personal experience, it is almost as if it never happened. It would be interesting to ask my former girlfriend what she thinks of it now, but I would not want to bother looking her up. It is better to just leave some things in the past and that goes for this movie.

[@aville01]

Spot on with this one.

[@ΓΕΏΡΓΙΟΣ-ι8ν]

Where will be new video. No offense i just asking

[@IaMD.B.]

None taken:) Hopefully soon, but I can't promise. I've recently entered a very busy stage in my life outside of KZbin, so it's hard for me to find the time or the will power to make content. However, with that being said, I definitely will come back and make more videos, it's just a question of when. When I'll make a new video I'll let you know via the community tab beforehand.

[@ΓΕΏΡΓΙΟΣ-ι8ν]

@@IaMD.B. 👍😀 thanks

[@filmfanman2647]

This film totally did not have an anti patriarchy message. If it were depicting present day events like this then yes of course. But back in 1912, women pretty much did have a raw deal lol. They weren't even allowed to vote for crying out loud. In that respect, the film was spot on.

[@IaMD.B.]

Did the women of the Titanic get a raw deal? They didn't get to vote, but they got to go on the lifeboats. I think these women would've taken that deal.

[@adrielayson749]

I have to disagree with your analysis of this movie. Gone with the Wind, Sound of Music, and West Side Story did the same thing of having their first half focus on romance and how events like the rise of the Nazis, The Civil War, and Racism between the Jets and the Sharks loom over and the effects it has on the characters. If you take out Titanic's first half, you get just another disaster film with great visual effects. Lindsey Ellis gives a more in-depth analysis defending the first half and Rose and Jack, also with addressing of the patriarchy, and class division, which is heavily addressed in the first half. It wasn't made to say a black-and-white picture of things.

[@dnasty312]

You can see that too in the old double VHS set 📼📼 Look at the distinctly different cases

[@solomonrichards599]

Since your expressed your distain for the previous winner "The English Patient", I think you are going to find this "Seinfeld" clip very funny. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWa5nah-ZqeYjtE

[@IaMD.B.]

That was great!!!