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Review #98: Titanic
Based on the ship of the same name, the movie revolves around two people, Rose and Jack, and a difficult relationship that sparks between them while on board the ship.
Jack is a down to earth guy and an incredible artist, he also won his ticket on Titanic in a game of poker. Rose however is a spoilt rich girl with everything money can buy. She's also stuck in a soon to be arranged marriage with a rich man she hardly knows but can't stand to be around.
During their meeting on the ship, Jack and Rose find a mutual ground and a lateral thinking between them and they plan to run away together when the ship lands in New York.
But all is not as it seems.
Cameron's movie is by far one of the most thrilling visual movies of all time. The love story/triangle is a pretty well used plot device, but with the backdrop of the Titanic as the grounds of the story was a mark of genius filmmaking from all involved.
It's a touch cheesie at times and very girlie when the love connection gets itself going, and the backdrop of Titanic will give the audience a clear sense of where the film is going, both in plot, and in storyline, but it still doesn't fail to thrill whoever is watching.
The screenmplay is another fantastic piece of filmmaking and writing. Cameron's direction adds so much more to the depth of the screenplay too, it's very well pieced together. Especially when little secrets about Rose's family are revealed in the second act.
The acting is bang on throughout though.
Just today, I slammed Leanoardo Di Caprio for being a talentless pretty boy, but his role in Titanic as Jack is by far his most likable character out of all.
He's charming, hard working, pretty yes, almost to the point of not being believeable as a homeless man but still, his natural on screen chemistry with anyone who's on screen, is brilliant.
Kate Winslet is also at her best as Rose. She's wonderfully stiff as the prim and proper rich girl but she brilliantly comes out of her shell as the film progresses.
Billy Zane is another plus as Rose's smarmy and pompous hubby-to-be. Zane does a marvelous job at portraying the snobbish squillionaire.
The effects are really what the film revels in though. Highly CG but extremely well done.
Seeing the Titanic, quite literally come alive on screen is an absolute jot to behold. The granduer of this monstrosity is captured fantastically by Cameron's direction and by his knowledge of special effects.
Being totally honest, nobody else could have done it I don't think.
Then there's the action scenes. Short and sweet after the inevitable happens, and the eventual on board panic and fight for survival are all, brilliantly choreographed and extremely edge of the seat stuff.
All in all, a very moving film and full of sentiment for the tragedy that hit 100 years ago this year... and a pretty well written love story thrown in for good measure.
Titanic isn't the sort of movie I could watch more than twice a year, but when I do watch, it gets me excited.
My rating 97%
Review #98: Titanic
Based on the ship of the same name, the movie revolves around two people, Rose and Jack, and a difficult relationship that sparks between them while on board the ship.
Jack is a down to earth guy and an incredible artist, he also won his ticket on Titanic in a game of poker. Rose however is a spoilt rich girl with everything money can buy. She's also stuck in a soon to be arranged marriage with a rich man she hardly knows but can't stand to be around.
During their meeting on the ship, Jack and Rose find a mutual ground and a lateral thinking between them and they plan to run away together when the ship lands in New York.
But all is not as it seems.
Cameron's movie is by far one of the most thrilling visual movies of all time. The love story/triangle is a pretty well used plot device, but with the backdrop of the Titanic as the grounds of the story was a mark of genius filmmaking from all involved.
It's a touch cheesie at times and very girlie when the love connection gets itself going, and the backdrop of Titanic will give the audience a clear sense of where the film is going, both in plot, and in storyline, but it still doesn't fail to thrill whoever is watching.
The screenmplay is another fantastic piece of filmmaking and writing. Cameron's direction adds so much more to the depth of the screenplay too, it's very well pieced together. Especially when little secrets about Rose's family are revealed in the second act.
The acting is bang on throughout though.
Just today, I slammed Leanoardo Di Caprio for being a talentless pretty boy, but his role in Titanic as Jack is by far his most likable character out of all.
He's charming, hard working, pretty yes, almost to the point of not being believeable as a homeless man but still, his natural on screen chemistry with anyone who's on screen, is brilliant.
Kate Winslet is also at her best as Rose. She's wonderfully stiff as the prim and proper rich girl but she brilliantly comes out of her shell as the film progresses.
Billy Zane is another plus as Rose's smarmy and pompous hubby-to-be. Zane does a marvelous job at portraying the snobbish squillionaire.
The effects are really what the film revels in though. Highly CG but extremely well done.
Seeing the Titanic, quite literally come alive on screen is an absolute jot to behold. The granduer of this monstrosity is captured fantastically by Cameron's direction and by his knowledge of special effects.
Being totally honest, nobody else could have done it I don't think.
Then there's the action scenes. Short and sweet after the inevitable happens, and the eventual on board panic and fight for survival are all, brilliantly choreographed and extremely edge of the seat stuff.
All in all, a very moving film and full of sentiment for the tragedy that hit 100 years ago this year... and a pretty well written love story thrown in for good measure.
Titanic isn't the sort of movie I could watch more than twice a year, but when I do watch, it gets me excited.
My rating 97%
