ShangLuda Admirable film.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

lil_sumia_786 This version of the disaster was actually pretty good and in some ways the best. Instead of just focusing on one story it focuses the storys of three different sets of people and shows their loss as well as their joy.It tells the story of Jamie and Osa and his joy when he finds out that Osa is alive after all. For me their story is the best because it has a happy ending, but the story of Wynn and his lover shows the loss most people faced, and the story of the Allisons and their nanny shows how desperate people get when disaster strikes. Another thing that was good about it was that it doesn't just show the sinking of the ship but also after the ship has sank and the carpathia has come to fetch them.it shows the scenes aboard the carpathia and how people coped with the loss and it also shows the carpathia docking at NY and the scenes afterwards; people trying to find their family members and the press looking for info about the sinking.However the only thing i didn't like about it was the fact that the ship sinks too quickly into the water and it just shows faded shots of people scrambling.It doesn't really show passengers desperation as the ship went into the water like the 1997 version does.

Boba_Fett1138 Well, for a TV production this still is a quite good one. Of course it's not as well known and appreciated as the multiple Oscar winner from 1997, this movie fairly much tells the same story, with the same characters and situations but also with the same sort of stupid fiction writing.It's an almost 3 hour long production, which means that you'll have to go through a lot of drama before the sinking is starting. This movie has a couple of fictitious characters and plot-lines in it that are just too distracting from the bigger picture and above all totally unnecessarily. I mean, when will film-makers learn that the true story about the Titanic itself is already good and fascinating enough to fill a movie with, with all of its persons and real life situations involved. In that regard this movie really doesn't differ much from similar attempts and therefore also adds little to what has been told so far about the Titanic.Guess this movie got made to profit from the hype surrounding the James Cameron production with the same tittle, which had already began production first in 1995. They had to rush this movie to release it before the James Cameron movie, which is the reason why the movie is not always very slick looking but considering the budget, the circumstances and the time span this movie got made in, the end result is still quite surprising and satisfying. Both movies are comparable in lots of ways and some sequences and lines of dialog are just totally the same, which is a bit of an odd sight at times to notice.This is not a lame looking TV production, with low production values and bad acting involved throughout. They actually did a good job with filming it and the effects are also surprisingly good looking, especially for an 1996 movie with such a restrained budget.The movie has a quite impressing cast but yet none of the characters really work out well. It's because the actors are not really given much room to work with, also since the movie can't really seem to decide on which characters to put its main emphasis. The movie focuses a bit on everyone now, making the movie filled with plenty of characters and some uninteresting side tracks. Because of this some of the story lines within the movie also don't really work out. A bit of a shame of the talents of the fine actors, such as George C. Scott, Tim Curry, Eva Marie Saint and Catherine Zeta-Jones.A quite good attempt but it just isn't special or impressive enough to rate this even above the over praised 1997 version.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

ER Teed (Evan-O-Rama) There is a very good reason why the list of factual goofs for this TV movie is so long (and despite it's length it is quite incomplete).This was an extremely rushed production to capitalize on the public's Titanic fever while James Cameron's movie was being made. The sets were slapped together in a great hurry and in the final days of shooting extras would be placed to hide spots where the sets had been damaged. As one of the worst examples, on the very last day of shooting on the hydraulically-tilted ship deck two extras were assigned to support one of the ships exhaust vents to keep it from toppling over.Much of the later shooting was done in an aluminum quonset building and adding the mid-summer heat pounding down to that of of the set lights makes for an uncomfortably hot environment.Combining the rush and the heat was the perfect setting for an extremely tense and stressed working environment, to put it politely.I'm just surprised the production turned out as good as it did, all things considered. It's worth a watch and pretty decent as a made-for-TV production, but best treated as a work of fiction to enjoy the story it tells.

TheLittleSongbird It isn't great, but I was impressed by the overall project. It is overlong, with a somewhat corny script and some of the actors don't convince. The rape scene halfway through was very brutal, and perhaps inappropriate. Some people say this is historically inaccurate, but I need to check my history. The performances are good generally with some exceptions (Catherine Zeta Jones is lovely here), the costumes are nice and the special effects for a TV mini series were close to superb. George C.Scott is a brilliant actor, and he was quite good here. Tim Curry, as a villain likewise. Though both men have been better. I wasn't entirely convinced by Ase and Jamie's romance, as it was basically a retread of the James Cameron blockbuster, which also suffers from its length. The music is also good( my music teacher hates the 1997 film's music) and this is the first adaptation when the ship breaks into two, which was nicely done. Not a bad attempt! 7/10 Bethany Cox