Titanic (1997)
Country: US
Technical: col/Super 35 195m
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Leonardo Dicaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates
Synopsis:
Love blossoms between an Irish immigrant below decks and an upper-class ingénue being fitted out for marriage, but an iceberg gets in the way.
Review:
Unhappily, no analogies are drawn between the heroine and the eponymous vessel� In any event, she survives to tell the tale, bookending the film in as irrelevant a fashion as Spielberg chose for Saving Private Ryan. All comparison ends there, for this was a signally unambitious piece of drama riding the back of the costliest whale of a production since Heaven's Gate. All predicted doom in the face of mounting costs, but they should have known better, for Cameron's Midas touch had yoked the latest in technical innovation (CGI wizardry in this case) to the corniest story of impossible love imaginable, all backed by a soppy song. To misquote Woody Allen, 'They bought it!'
Country: US
Technical: col/Super 35 195m
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Leonardo Dicaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates
Synopsis:
Love blossoms between an Irish immigrant below decks and an upper-class ingénue being fitted out for marriage, but an iceberg gets in the way.
Review:
Unhappily, no analogies are drawn between the heroine and the eponymous vessel� In any event, she survives to tell the tale, bookending the film in as irrelevant a fashion as Spielberg chose for Saving Private Ryan. All comparison ends there, for this was a signally unambitious piece of drama riding the back of the costliest whale of a production since Heaven's Gate. All predicted doom in the face of mounting costs, but they should have known better, for Cameron's Midas touch had yoked the latest in technical innovation (CGI wizardry in this case) to the corniest story of impossible love imaginable, all backed by a soppy song. To misquote Woody Allen, 'They bought it!'
Country: US
Technical: col/Super 35 195m
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Leonardo Dicaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates
Synopsis:
Love blossoms between an Irish immigrant below decks and an upper-class ingénue being fitted out for marriage, but an iceberg gets in the way.
Review:
Unhappily, no analogies are drawn between the heroine and the eponymous vessel� In any event, she survives to tell the tale, bookending the film in as irrelevant a fashion as Spielberg chose for Saving Private Ryan. All comparison ends there, for this was a signally unambitious piece of drama riding the back of the costliest whale of a production since Heaven's Gate. All predicted doom in the face of mounting costs, but they should have known better, for Cameron's Midas touch had yoked the latest in technical innovation (CGI wizardry in this case) to the corniest story of impossible love imaginable, all backed by a soppy song. To misquote Woody Allen, 'They bought it!'