Easy, just give the film ONE main story and some more focus. The idea wasn't that bad. Sure, Silverstone wouldn't pass for a 1912 Philadelphian socialite in a million years and Cage looked like a creep with that stupid blonde whig and overacting as his idea of a horny 20-something, but they could have been more watchable if they actually got *more* screentime and their story and personalities were more fleshed out. Instead we had a bazillion side stories: Rose and Jack, Molly Brown, JJ Astor and his wife, the Strausses, that cameraman and his grilfriend in 1st class, the 2nd class priest, the birracial couple, the Italian and the Norwegian in steerage, the Syrians, Ismay, the Captain, Murdoch, Mooney, the butler with the other maid chick, the radio operators, the Irish coaler linked to Sinn Feinn, OH. Come. On. There was no way to keep track of so many characters and separate storylines. So what if a movie about the Titanic follows mostly a fictional couple's love story, like, say, the Italian and the Norwegian's, rather than trying to show (and follow!) as many historical people as possible. Less pandering to the Titanic buffs, more to the average moviegoer who all he knows about the Titanic is that it was a ship that sank, or not even that. And of course, less ambition and trying to showcase every single thing that was going on in the 1910s; I doubt the whole world was travelling in that boat, and I don't think people would be interested in discussing the UK and Germany's naval race while they were adrift in the lifeboats!