The Titanic
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Catherine Zeta Jones, George C Scott Brand: PLATINUM DISC LLC DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 180 minutes DVD Release Date: 2004-12-07 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Platinum Disc |
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Movie Reviews of The Titanic
Movie Review: Exploitative, Uneven Performances
Summary: 2 Stars
Released a year before the "real" (movie version) of the famed disaster, this mini-series features uneven performances by its cast, particularly those of Eva Marie Saint as a fictional, rather snobbish and bigoted first-class passenger and Marilu Henner in a gosh-darn awful performance as the very real Margaret "Molly" Brown. Only Peter Gallagher and the then-lovely Catherine Zeta-Jones manage to come through with any semblance of dignity or ability to rise above the mediocre, ridiculously fictionalized story, which includes, of all things, a jewel heist led by Tim Curry as a purser and a rape! also committed by Curry which happens right before the ship hits the iceberg, a rather lurid and pointless symbolism. Yeah, we get it - two maidens violated at sea - one made of flesh, the other of steel. Whatever.
The special effects seem almost cartoonish - scenes of the ship racing across the ocean look like something from a Hanna-Barbera cartoon. It should hold interest to ocean liner geeks, if no one else. As overrated as James Cameron's epic was, rent it over this one. Or rent/buy the 1953 and 1958 versions over this turkey.