2) As I mentioned before, the characters were one-dimensional. The only character with any resonance to her at all was Rose, and I will concede that Kate Winslet played her well.
3) The "love story" was ludicrous.
It was a cartoon romance. It was unbelievable and totally unjustified.
Also, since the majority of the audience have been total idiots, we failed
to notice the inconsistencies and inequity of it:
- It is Jack
who comes between Rose and Cal, not the other way around.
- Rose cheats
on Cal. We are expected to cheer her on for this. Had it been Cal who cheated
on Rose, we would have been expected to jeer and hiss.
- Rose and Jack
have sex on the day after their first meeting. What a family movie this
is. I'm sure every parent wants to encourage their child to have premarital
sex with a near stranger. Of course, most parents probably didn't notice.
-The ship looked
fake. You cannot tell me that you didn't begin rolling your eyes when you
saw the iceberg, or rather, crudely computer-animated slightly off-white
jagged hill sticking out of a crudely-animated fake ocean. But then you
were given a shot of DiCaprio in a white shirt, and all was forgotten.
-Jack's death
was unrealistic. My Lord. The boy gets out of the hand-cuffs, through the
gate, successfully maneuvers from rushing water, and rides the ship into
the water, but after he tries *just once* to get on the floating wood with
Rose, he gives up? Yeah. Very realistic, Mr. Cameron. If Jack's personality
would have remained consistent, he would have found another piece of wood,
or balanced both he and Rose on the one he found. But wait! I forgot! Had
he done that, the movie would have ended on a happy note! He and Rose would
have reached America, decided that the relationship was a fluke conceived
under stress, and broken up.
- There were
enough interesting people on board the real Titanic to have filled a movie.
Fictional characters did not need to be created. In fact, they underscore
the immense tragedy of the sinking of the ship. Pay homage to real people
who died; don't create characters just to milk our romance-starved society
for all it's worth.
