1. Unfortunately, this is not a movie that numerous viewings were made for. Once you get it off the big screen and on the tv (even in the widescreen format), it loses so much of it's power, & the flaws all stick out clear as day. The script is exposed for what it really is.....truly horrible. Listening to the dialogue that Kathy Bates has to say alone is an exercise in endurance.

The fact that it beat out a classic like L.A. Confidential for Best Picture is very sad. Now there is a movie that endures....on the big or smaill screen.

Posted at 9:36AM on Dec 19th 2007 by Brandon

2. Yeah, I'm not an expert or anything on this subject, but it was brilliant to kill Jack at the end and use Leo to do it because I remember something about an article back then that said young women were going to the movie three and four times and each time they would yell at the screen for Jack to not go in there, to not let them take him away, to get on the boat with her, to not trust Billy Zane's character, all the things they did, they would try to save him and then they would yell at her to blow the whistle louder and then to hold onto him and, yeah, I pretty much think the reviewer was watching these auditoriums and he would see the girls run from the theater crying and buy another ticket and go back in to save him again.
Of course, everyone else went to see it once, too. Remember, back then, the computer graphics of the massive ship were amazing to behold how real they were. At least that's the hype I remember.
"That's a big boat..."
"It's a ship, daddy."
Can't believe it was ten years ago.

Posted at 9:39AM on Dec 19th 2007 by brian

3. The movie was also released at just the right time, didn't have big completion if memory serves. And like the previous commenter mentioned you did have these hyper fan seeing it over and over again, then the media put the whack jobs on the news, seeding the idea in over peoples head's, the whole thing snowballed. Also is was a much simpler time, before we became jaded movie goers and we trusted Hollywood...

Posted at 9:48AM on Dec 19th 2007 by Eric H

4. I watched it in theater and have not watched it again, since. There's no reason to. One of the most overrated films of all time.

Posted at 9:54AM on Dec 19th 2007 by Robin

5. You know:
If Kate W. would have gotten on the rescue boat, like the man WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HER FUTURE HUSBAND told her, Leo could have floated on the board that she did & he would have survived.
Therefore, you could say that he died because she was selfish. Enjoy that observation when you watch this movie for years to come. :)

Posted at 9:59AM on Dec 19th 2007 by Bill

6. This is interesting:

http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/mostpopularmovies.html

Posted at 10:01AM on Dec 19th 2007 by Antonio

7. with the huge box office numbers it had, was there ever a though for a sequel? there had to be at least someone at the studio thinking about it.

Posted at 10:03AM on Dec 19th 2007 by justkidding15

8. I only went for Kate Winslet's nude scene.

Posted at 10:20AM on Dec 19th 2007 by kevjohn

9. I saw it once in the theater and that's it. I never saw it again and haven't seen it since. I enjoyed. I thought Cameron did an amazing job. The love story was a bit much at times but well acted.

One thing that always bugged me about the storytelling in this movie was that viewers are introduced to Jack and Rose and basically the entire crew....through the recollections and memory of this old lady!

Are you kidding me? How did she come to know ALL the people Cameron shows us on the ship? So, everything that we saw was through this old lady's storytelling? Mmmm, I don't buy it. It just seemed on odd way to start and end the story. As an epic and technical wonder, it's an amazing movie but it does have it's flaws and cheese that obviously people tolerated or were just blind to.

Posted at 10:32AM on Dec 19th 2007 by DAVID F

10. Never watched it, never will I

Posted at 10:34AM on Dec 19th 2007 by Ronan

11. "IT SINKS!!!!"

That is what I said to my wife when she suggested we go to see "Titanic". I went, because I love my wife and it made her happy. But it still ranks as the worst movie of all times in my book. I will never understand why people actually enjoyed watching the ship sink.

Why didn't they make a sequel? What were they going to do next? The Lusitania?

Posted at 10:38AM on Dec 19th 2007 by Andrew

12. It made a lot of money because people who never go to the movies went to see it. Such as my parents, who were in their 60s at the time. I don't care how exciting Harry Potter and Shrek are, older people aren't interested.

Posted at 11:01AM on Dec 19th 2007 by Jason Chapa

13. Adjusted for inflation Titanic is sixth on the all time list. Gone With The Wind remains the champ.

Posted at 11:13AM on Dec 19th 2007 by Radio Dan

14. The real "Titanic" is a legend. Most people herd about this ship. The movie was also in the press daily for almost 2 years. James Cameron made a great movie and somehow he made it seem that he brought the famous ship come back alive. On the big screen the movie became an event. It had itws own life. James Cameron somehow made us a passenger on that ship. For some reason all the movie goers forget that the ship is doomed.

Posted at 12:00PM on Dec 19th 2007 by Stan Heck

15. I reluctantly agree that TITANIC is a genuinely great movie.

Not for the story, which I found manipulative and cheesy, and unredeemable even with half-decent performances by DiCaprio and Winslet.

Cameron did, however, display an amazing attention to detail in the film (apparently even having the dining room china faithfully reproduced). This attention even extended to the historical personalities he included outside the central story.

The real genius of TITANIC, though, lies in Cameron's use of state-of-the-art digital effects to portray a historical event. No other filmmaker had done this up to that time (certainly not on this scale).

While I wish Cameron had made use of more of the fascinating true stories on board the doomed liner, I'll always admire the way he brought this event to life on the screen.

Like it or not, TITANIC was just as significant a movie, and for many of the same reasons, as GONE WITH THE WIND.

Posted at 12:08PM on Dec 19th 2007 by Thunderbuck

16. "Titanic" was so successful because teenage girls saw the movie over and over and over again. For that reason alone, I've never seen the movie and I never will.

Posted at 12:32PM on Dec 19th 2007 by Wayne

17. They should do a sequel, the "Andria Doria", about how it collided with the Stockholm in dense fog 21 miles off the coast of Nantucket, and those poor 51 people that died.

Posted at 1:21PM on Dec 19th 2007 by Captain Obvious

18. Well adjusted for inflation Gone With the Wind is number one...with like 10 different releases. Star Wars has 2 or 3 releases and when they adjust they don't account for each release only the amount of money it made divided by the cost of a ticket during the first release. So really the champ is The Sound of Music which was only released once, so how did they get people to see THAT movie.

Posted at 2:37PM on Dec 19th 2007 by AJ

19. I agree with Jason, I think it was popular because it made all sorts of people go see it, including my grandparents who rarely go out to movies in the theater. I don't buy the teenage fangirls argument because they go see lots of their favorite movies over and over. (I saw LOTR: The Two Towers in the theater 7 times as a 19-year-old fangirl.)

Posted at 3:43PM on Dec 19th 2007 by Lola

20. I saw Titanic in theaters when it 1st came out at least 25xs! Honest! I loved the film! I got it! It was just a simple love story of an old woman living with her memories, & going back into time telling us the story of her life before and after, & then making peace with it all! We all knew the ship sank, but the characters didn't! We wanted Rose and Jack to go on together when the ship docked, but we knew the ship was never to reach it's port, & when the ship sank we never knew she was going to lose Jack for good in the icy waters! & when she went on with out him you felt for Rose, & at the end of the film you see all the phots of her past life you got it that she lived, & she believed in herself.
Call me a hopless romantic, but everytime I watch the film I still cry! I loved Titanic! I got it!
It was not supposed to be a documentary, or a completely factual account of what happened that night. It is the most amazing love story ever attempted!
It is one of the monuments of the cinema which won 11 Oscars in Hollywood in 1998, a huge success (well deserved) all over the world. The revelation of two actors until then virtually unknown.
Titanic still remains 1 of the best movie I of 1997. Everything was so great about the movie. Thank you James for making this brilliant movie.

Posted at 4:13PM on Dec 19th 2007 by Chris