to think titanic movie is cringy

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Came out when I was 12 and I loved it but at 36 caught it on tv last night and it is so cringy. Whilst I think Winslet and Leo are great actors their acting in it is cringe although I don't know if it's their inexperience or just the script. Every 2nd line is 'Jack Rose'. I don't get how both were nominated for Oscars for it when it genuinely wasn't good acting by any means on either part and again I think both are genuinely brilliant in their other films.

Watching it is reminiscent of watching 90s Home and Away or just bad teenage tv acting. Yea the effects are great but the script in itself is just so mediocre and so 12 year old girl stuff. It didn't occur to me how little the film actually go into the subject matter of the Titanic like the creation of it and the aftermath of the sinking etc.

The rich in it like Cal and Rose's mum are so 1 dimensional greedy villains which is kind of hypocritical considering how wealthy Cameron himself is, and the poor Irish on 3rd class are just laughably bad and cliche with accents Irish people never have. And I say that as an Irish person myself so no racism.

A critic said after that the only reason it got oscar noms was because of the money it gained and I sort of agree. Again the effects and cinematography were great but the film itself was just a predictable cringe fest.

it is more so bad it's good type film which by its own merit as fine but to be lauded as a masterpiece is just laughable.

MNers do spend a lot of time cringing....

I never liked it much, but love stories rarely move me. It was quite epic for the time. People are more critical of stories than they used to be. It shouldn't surprise you thar you feel differently about it at 36 than you did at 12. It was probably aimed at a younger audience.

It was amazing at the time because of the massive sets, CGI and special effects. They're so commonplace now that it looks extra cheesy. I remember liking the music too.

(Having said that, my abiding memory of watching in the cinema is when my friend elbowed me hard for laughing when he drowned as the entire row of girls in front of us burst out crying. )

Victor Garber can do no wrong.

Why WYBU to have an opinion on a film?

Of course it’s cheesy!

It was thought so at the time as well though wasn’t it?

You may be cringing at your 12 year old self's response compared to that of your present day self.

It's a mega budget, appeal to the masses, romantic, sob fest. I'm not much of a fan of it myself but I can see why it was a box office smash.

It's never unreasonable to not enjoy a film.

At the time I thought the script was appalling.

YABU though to use cringe/cringy four times in your post.

Lots of it is ridiculous. Like the spitting. Ok she doesn’t want to be bound by upper class rules and corsets etc but that doesn’t mean you suddenly want to go round hocking your spit up 😂

It was far, far too long and didn't arouse any emotion (apart from boredom) in me whatsoever. Whereas 'A Night to Remember' was genuinely moving.

It didn't occur to me how little the film actually go into the subject matter of the Titanic like the creation of it and the aftermath of the sinking etc.

It was a commercial exercise - the point of the film was to make as much money as possible. Not to render a scientific examination of events.

Same goes for all the industry awards. It's about money, connections and reputation not an objective rewards process.

It was a commercial exercise - the point of the film was to make as much money as possible. Not to render a scientific examination of events

i know that but my point was exactly that-that the film was an inflated special effects piece of teenage melodrama with no depth and yet it gets classed with the likes of Citizen Kane in its greatness when it's bloody not.

It was shite then and it's shite now. We saw it at the cinema and people laughed out loud in a number of places

It was thought so at the time as well though wasn’t it

no films like that are usually given rassies,this topped oscar season.

it gets classed with the likes of Citizen Kane in its greatness

Are you high?

tbh, I've seen a cumulative 10 minutes of this film. Based on that, YANBU.

yet it gets classed with the likes of Citizen Kane in its greatness

Does it?

It is but I still love it!! We are the same age OP.

There was enough of the historic facts and the grandeur and tragedy that I could ignore the boring love story. I don't like love stories at the best of times, but the sheer magnificance of the story was more than enough to make up for it. And the music was just amazing.

I loved it at the time, and I enjoyed rewatching it recently with my 10 yo dd. YANBU to not like it, I guess I must be one of the masses it was aimed at

Saw it in the cinema when it came out and was bored rigid.
ExH kept muttering “hurry up and die” and I had to agree with him.
Hugely overrated at the time.
Never in any list of great films though. A bit like the film of Les Mis, which was lauded at the time. I hated it (love the stage show). And now it has just quietly disappeared.

i know that but my point was exactly that-that the film was an inflated special effects piece of teenage melodrama with no depth and yet it gets classed with the likes of Citizen Kane in its greatness when it's bloody not

I thought Citizen Kane was shite.

But I've never heard anyone make the comparison.

But I've never heard anyone make the comparison

the film broke records for the amount of Oscars it got nominated for AND win