Well chaps, last night I was forced to sit through "Titanic", you know that film from '97? The one where you wish you were drowning? By heavens it was awful, The main lead was just soo boring, endless going one about how she's tortured because she's rich and rich people suck, yeah thanks for that Cameron. Plus the villain, Cal is so one-dimensional, so cliched, such an obvious wagon for Cameron's political views that it's near mesmerising and don't even get me started on Ismay.
Actually thats another thing, the Crew are all portrayed as unlikeable arseholes and incompetent morons. The part of Mr Murdoch in particular, I've read several books on Titanic and believe me this movie is the biggest insult to the memories of the real crew you could imagine
There are more problems, the pacing is off, this thing is nearly four hours long, Four Hours I'm not kidding and because the story is such a dead end, we have long shots of the ship sailing ever so slowly, the crew being morons for no reason and rich people being evil because evil. It's actually a relief when the iceberg appears because now something has to happen, I know thats a horrible thing to say but I think it sums up the movie, you get pumped on the knowledge that hundreds of people are about to die!
Titanic went down as being the biggest box office disaster in history, fans and historians hate it with a passion, some even posted their pre-ordered tickets to the studio demanding a refund. Critics tore it apart, Robert Erbert declared it "an overwhelming disaster to both history and storytelling alike". Titanic destroyed James Cameron's career as a director, he pretty much vanished from the scene, he admittedly came back and restarted the Terminator franchise and they were okay.
Which leads me to ask, is there anyway Cameron's biggest fail could've been made great? Or at least better than what we got?