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Titanic had all the material in it to earn what it got.The main reason was that it was based on a real life tragedy.A good love story was an added advantage to the film.

relatively it didn't make that much money. I think if you count inflation, there are other movies that made more than 'Titanic'. (I think E.T. was one)

i think that titanic has done a lot of buiseness and has been so super dupper hit becouse it has suspence , thriller romance at its best as well the main part is the reality of the sinking they used special effects to light the sufferings that were faced byu the passengers of titanic.the movie is a mixture of a love story reality and action that i suppose is the main cause of its success

Know why? at that time Leonardo D Carpio was very hot at that time hehe. add up the effects + the artist + the titanic + the drama + the action + the romance + the director + the story + the title of the movie add it all up it will come up as a perfect movie. thats why it become a top 1 all time movie. And the theme song was great too.

Its just like Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet's Tragedy!!! Wonder why people spend their money in the theaters to cry!

This is one of those movies that people either loved or they hated. Call me biased but, you ever notice how all the bad reviews are written by people who look like they've never spent a day in school?! Personally, I loved this movie! Sure, the storyline (the romance, mainly) could have been less cliched, but the acting fits perfectly with the time. Infact, Rose is even a little too fiesty for the era at times, but James Cameron did a remarkable job! The set was brilliant, nothing short of a masterpiece. I almost cried when I heard they'd torn it down post-production ...what a waste!! Cameron's attention to detail was amazing and he missed nothing. The supporting cast also helped keep the story afloat, and having researched, extensively, the real Titanic and her passengers, I must say that Kathy Bates was THE best pick for Molly Brown! I think the picture more than accurately portrayed the pain and fear that the ill-fated passengers felt. The romance/storyline between Jack and Rose was of course necessary to give the viewer a window into someones life aboard, rather than just random characters, otherwise it would have been a documentary! This movie has been the highest grossing film world-wide of all time, It received 11 academy awards out of 14 nominations and has become one of the biggest cult movies of all time... A piece of fluff woulden't merit those bold honours, now would it? I doubt there are many people that haven't seen this, but if you haven't, see it. Its a classic. The kind of movie your grandchildren will see and know about.

There's something almost pitiful about ``Titanic,'' director James Cameron's $200 million epic. The facade gleams. The ship is magnificent. The disaster, which sent the ship to the bottom of the sea in 1912, is impressively re-created. . . . And there's nothing else there.

Human values are either missing or clunkily handled. There's no sense of the power and presence of the tragedy that killed 1,500 people. The first sight of the Titanic, docked in England, is breathtaking. The real Titanic was 885 feet long. For the film, a 775-foot replica was built. It's imposing and awe-inspiring to watch the passengers board the ship, history come back to life.

Shots of the meticulously re-created interiors -- the ornate first-class lodgings, the sepia and brass-colored engine room, the ballroom with its winding staircase -- take the viewer back to 1912. But when people start talking, we've returned to a clumsy 1997 action movie.

Cameron, who wrote the script, aims to convey the tragedy of the Titanic through a tale of young love, which was probably a dubious strategy. And when the happy-go- lucky Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) meets Rose (Kate Winslet), he uses his charm to talk her out of throwing herself overboard (she's engaged to a nasty rich guy). It smells of a screenwriter's contrivance.

Things never get better. Jack teaches her how to spit in the wind. She looks at his portfolio of pencil drawings and pronounces him a fabulous artist.

The movie gives us almost two hours of this mismatched pair before mercifully introducing the iceberg.

All the action involving the ship's slowly sinking is surefire. At every chance, Cameron cuts and intercuts and cranks up the soundtrack. It's all a lot of fun, and yet the film never delivers the vicarious thrill of making us feel what it might have been like to have been on that ship.

The scenes are great to look at, though. As the Titanic tilts into the water at a steeper angle, people rush to the top of the ship. Some stumble and slide all the way down the long deck. The last hour of ``Titanic'' is huge and staggering, but there's no horror in it. No gravity, either. Entrusted with one of the century's monumental stories, Cameron can present it only as a crying shame. And that's a crying shame.

there was a beautiful and huge ship named titanic in which two youngs
jack and rose became lovers but the nature caused jack to die for rose.this is a real love which is shown by the nature.
love is a gift and when you devote your life to the one you like its like theres nothing between you,this is very nice!

Titanic was about a real ship that really went down. It really did happen to that ship. It was a great movie too. I think it was a sad movie because all the people that really lost their lives in that ship wreck.