Titanic is epic in every way imaginable. It's been a while since I have watched this. Honestly, I don't know why I haven't put this in the DVD player on a more regular basis, especially since I hold this film up there with the greatest of all time, even if it does have some bad dialogue in a couple of scenes. So why do I still consider it to be one of the greatest movies of all time then? Titanic took me on such an emotional roller coaster ride from start to finish. I went through a whole range of emotion from wonderment (seeing the ship in all it's glory) to sheer joy (seeing Jack and Rose falling in love) to anger (seeing the crew locking the lower-class passengers behind gates to drown) to fear (seeing the boat rip apart and the passengers falling to their death in the freezing ocean) to uplifting (seeing Rose reunited with Jack in the afterlife...along with all the other passengers of Titanic).

There has not been a movie before or since that has even come close to duplicating those feelings...all from one movie mind you. There are so many things I love about this movie and all the accolades of the final product definitely belongs to James Cameron. It was shot beautifully. The music was amazing. The Special FX were astounding at the time. Still is. The editing of the movie kind of gets overlooked because it's not what you would say is a "wow" factor of the film. But think about it, if it were not for the editing, the movie itself would have seemed a lot longer than the actual 3 hour run time. To this day, it's STILL not long enough in my book.

I remember tracking the pre-production of Titanic and the uproar over the casting of Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson. I too didn't think he had what it took to carry a movie of this magnitude. Boy, was I ever wrong on that. I was aware of Kate Winslet, but I wasn't a fan of hers, only because she wasn't a household name and was still under the radar. After I saw the movie on Opening day...I immediately fell in love with her. Come to think of it, I still am.

As great as Leo and Kate were in Titanic, the heart and soul of the movie was without question Gloria Stewart. I was literally hanging on every word she would say. So when she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role, I have never been more gung-ho to see someone win an Oscar than I was that night. To say that I was disappointed when she didn't win is an understatement.

Watching the movie again brings back fond memories for me when I saw it in the theater. I took my Mom to see it the first week and then I took my Grandma to see it in the second week of release. All told, I ended up seeing Titanic 6 times in the first 2 weeks. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. I wanted to take my Grandpa to see it but he couldn't get around very well at the time. He did eventually get to see the movie when I bought the bare bones DVD. He loved it.

I'm such in a zone with the movie right now that I'm listening to the Titanic Soundtrack that I played relentlessly when it came out.

This is definitely a Buy.

Got to work right now, but later on tonight I will go through the bonus documentaries about the film and the ship itself. Be back with a review on those in a bit......

I'm amazed that I'm not the one who brought that up.  I get the whole idea of pride through copying in China's culture, but eve if this thing was in a desert I feel like it would still somehow manage to sink.