Titanic
Year: 1997
Rating: 
(out of )
Rating: 8.6 (out of 10)
Undying love on the doomed ship. The ship is merely the setting for the star-crossed lovers� romance. Director/writer James Cameron has stretched the film too long, towards the end making the characters seem as if they were running around in circles on the vast ship, doing nothing. Screenplay is the weakest aspect of the film. Nevertheless, it is still excellent direction (although borrowed substantially from A Night to Remember (1958)) supported by stunning special effects. Do not even consider the number of stuntmen. I couldn't really count it, because it just ran on and on. Usually it's in columns and I would just count one column and triple it or something. Anyway, on approximation, 136.
SPOILER
Rose is such a selfless bitch (excuse the language). When she was safely aboard a lifeboat, she had to jump off and increase the burden for Jack. Suppose she stayed on the lifeboat, and Jack, after the ship sinks, finds that piece of board that Rose climbed on at the end, and survives. But of course, the screenwriter would not have written a board there if Rose had stayed on the lifeboat. And of course there would be one if she jumped off. Chaos at work?
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