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.

@Pedalpushers

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Citizen Kane and The Godfather are both really boring.

Agree. I have tried soooo hard to watch the Godfather, but it's soooo bloody boring.

Some of you are a right barrel of laughs - you can watch things just for fun you know

It's a brilliant film and I won't hear a bad word said about it

Someone mentioned The English Patient. As much as I love a bit of 90s era Ralph Fiennes I found that film a total snooze.

I think Citizen Kane is overrated but it's in a different league to the modern Titanic. Titanic with Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck is marvellous as well as A Night to Remember

@tackling

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. )

When who drowned?

@StrychnineInTheSandwiches

Someone mentioned The English Patient. As much as I love a bit of 90s era Ralph Fiennes I found that film a total snooze.

Another multi oscar winning pile of boring drivel. Titanic wasn't it was really good. But as a pp said, MOST multi oscar winners are zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 😴

Pedant alert from @Winniemarysarah You know she meant JACK. Yeah we all know he froze to death, and Rose snapped his fingers off the big door and pushed his frozen dead carcus deep into the sea.

Andy Hamilton's 'Old Harry's Game'

The Professor: 'i died before that film came out.'
Satan: 'Then you were one of the lucky ones!'

@HelloFrostyMorning

Pedant alert from *@Winniemarysarah* You know she meant JACK. Yeah we all know he froze to death, and Rose snapped his fingers off the big door and pushed his frozen dead carcus deep into the sea.

I don't know why this is making me laugh 😂

It was a dreadfully naff storyline. The number of times Rose got back on the sodding boat having safely escaped or been about to escape was ridiculous, and it's not as if that built up any tension as we all knew she had to survive. And David Warner was such a pantomime villain.

I adored it and had a good sob the first 50 times I saw it.
But then my first boyfriend was the spitting image of Leo.

I still love it.

I was very glad I hadn't watched it on a big screen when I did see it. All the people dying on the railing really upset me
Still fucks me off that they both could have fit on the door
And yes annoying about "the old lady threw it in the ocean in the end" like the line from the Britney Spears song

I like this shortened version they put out

m.youtube.com/watch?v=OuSdU8tbcHY

I'm with you OP. I always thought it was a pile of shite. Watched it the first time when it was the Xmas movie and I was so bored. Don't get me started on bloody Celine Dion warbling that cringefest of a song, " my heart will go on".

Well it was a film for its time but probably not for all time. It was commercial risk with regards its length and the jury is still out on that. The effects were groundbreaking but not that special now. The script was not its finest point but the majority of production for the masses weren't then and aren't now. The Oscar awards are not really to do with over all quality of a film but all sorts of other competing agendas.
But you must have cried at the children being read the bedtime story of going to the land of eternal youth, when we knew they were going to drown.
I cried (again) whilst watching it with my children years later and they called me a big baby. Well I hope I get a chance to watch it again when they have their own children and see who's crying then😄

I was about 17 when this came out and was absolutely obsessed with it. Watched it a million times, had the soundtrack on repeat, learned a helluva lot about the Titanic. I remember being really awestruck by how many of the real life people had actors who looked so much like them. I think the film was at iTs best once the ship hit the iceberg, I found the action scenes very good and the ending, when so many people knew they were going to die, deeply moving.

I watched it again as an adult a few years ago and... yeah, it was definitely for a younger audience! Teens who were finding their first loves and hadn’t learned enough about the world yet to know how cliched and weak the ‘romance’ was - when you experienced something for the first time it just feels so much more profound. I still think the action scenes and the actual sinking was very well done, but the script reads like a teenaged girls first attempt at writing a true romance. And even back then I found the nauseating representation of the Irish and the vilification of the English very very cliched.

Though as the story was Irish it might have been missed by the majority

I think it was over-praised by critics at the time - Ebert being a good example. But there were always people who said that the script and story were underwhelming and even silly.

@StrychnineInTheSandwiches

Someone mentioned The English Patient. As much as I love a bit of 90s era Ralph Fiennes I found that film a total snooze.

Oh, I love TEP, I think it's so much better than Titanic. And a great book.

@eddiemairswife I love the movie "A Night to Remember." No one was better at playing the efficient, stiff upper lip Englishman than Kenneth More.

It was actually based on a non-fiction book, so that may have given a little more meat to work with. I found several incidents in it incredibly touching, whereas Titanic was hollow. However I was probably much older than Titanic's target audience. The whole movie felt like this triumph of style over substance.

One thing I did note is that the wonderful Honor Blackman and her husband are sitting at a dining table and when she salts her food the cap of the salt shaker comes off and spills everywhere. She completely ignores it and doesn't miss a beat in her dialogue.

But it’s not supposed to go into the intricacies of the build of the titanic etc. It’s about the love story of two people on board and is based on Rose’s memories of the time she shared with Jack.

@HelloFrostyMorning 

@Winniemarysarah oh dear, could you really not even remotely guess what I meant about a movie I watched a good 25 years ago where one of the main characters dies in the water??

I actually love the Godfather young Al Pacino what's not to like

I agree. The number of times they say Jack, and Rose, is cringeworthy.

It did exactly what it set out to do. Tell a very famous story while appealing to the masss. Still the third highest grossing film of all time.