I sat through Titanic with the family the other day.  It's been a while since I saw it and I thought maybe I should give it a fresh chance since it is now properly distanced from the hoopla that surrounded its initial release in 1997. I wasn't much into romantic epics at the time, and I am not now.  But, this movie does feature a major shipwreck, so it has that built in appeal.

James Cameron's Titanic is the classic Hollywood blockbuster for sure.  Perhaps it is even the Gone With the Wind of 1990s (I don't think we had one for the 2000s).  It is a very chic flick movie for the most part and hence I am not going to really give the full CoolFilmz treatment or look at it from that angle.  This movie is an orange and we review apples.

Still, I love history and on that note Titanic is a great historical film.  Plus, I love to see big stuff go down, blow up, explode, catch on fire.  In that regards, Titanic scores very well.  Except, you have to wait patiently until all the girls have all the fun with the love story, which dominates the first half of the film.

A good friend of mine summed it up perfectly.  The first half of the movie is for the women.  The second half is for guys.  I would have to agree.  Now, in terms of how I feel about the movie overall, I am reminded of Joe Pesci in Goodfellas when they were discussing how good a certain singer was and he said, "The man's a good singer.  Let's leave it at that."

Titanic is a good movie.  Let's leave it at that.