"Titanic" remains one of my favorite movies.
If I'm channel-surfing and it comes on, I'll watch it until the conclusion.
I've seen is countless times and it never gets old.
It exemplified old-fashioned Hollywood filmmaking and storytelling and was deserving of every accolade it earned.
I can't judge, because I never saw it. The 1958 movie about the Titanic I saw in the theater. (But only a few years ago, not in 1958. The 1953 one was also good.
Not for me.
First off, I was a Titanic nut before they found it. In middle school I read the “Night to Remember” Bible of the disaster, built a model, and even gave a talk to high-school kids (emotionally disturbed) about it.
So though I knew it was some soapy teeny-bopper flick, I went to see it as I feel obliged to.
The guy had great sets, a great near-size model, but I felt it was squandered. On an immoral story of infatuation and sex, a caricature of an abusive selfish man, rather than the real story. I wanted to slap that bearded bastard in the sub scene so badly. So disrespectful. Even at the end the soulless staring at the fellow victims as the “couple” clung to the outer stern railing, not a hint of help.
So much great scenery, settings, but so much missed and abused.
Anyway, that’s my view. I say this also as a fan of old movies, Code days when they wouldn’t be showing all this brazen exploitation of sex. It is not old-fashioned, not that way!