The thing about Titanic is that as incredibly overblown and overbudgeted and the complete and utter stereotype of the Hollywood Distaster Epic that it is, it's frustrating because you can't ever really dismiss it. It's not bad. Everybody is sincere, especially the supporting cast, and except for Winslett, and that means to dismiss this picture you have to dismiss the disaster. You can't very well mock a serious news-report because one of anchor-people is annoying, can you? Winslett hams a lot here, she has to make sure you know that she's slumming.

As much as I want to piss on any movie that has as big a following of melodramatic airheads who saw it when they were giggly teens and still hold it dear as this one does, I can't. Cameron brings out the best in his actors, as he did in the way superior (to me, anyway) The Abyss.