i be a motion picture production major at wright state university in ohio and and yesterday i be sadly give the opportunity to watch this god awful film in class . we be inform by our professor that it would be very funny to u and but the reason we be watch it be because it be one of the first sound film a complete disaster . the problem with early sound film be that hollywood actor only know how to do silent movie and they weren not good at memorize line . so producer and director would look to the stage to get actor . sound like a great idea and right . well and the kind of act one do on stage doesn not show up too well on film . most of the actor in atlantic look and sound like theyre act in a play and which result in lot of hearty laugh at the over acting . another limitation of early sound film be the technology of microphone . you couldn not move the mike like you can today and you have to keep them static or it would pick up the sound of air move through . there be usually one mike use in any give scene in this movie . in one particular scene and there be a man sit at a table . someone walk right up to him and delivers their line and then walk away . another actor come up from behind him and delivers their line and then walk away . it go on like this for a couple more people . the microphone be obviously right by the man at the table and make for a laughable actor carousel . those be only technical problem . if you get into the story and direction and then it get even bad . the story be a fictionalized account of what happen on the titanic . the character be unbelievable and pointless . a story about a man cheat on his wife and their teenage daughter have no place in the movie . it be barely resolve and leave you wonder why it be there in the first place . a lousy attempt at high drama and the actor take long and pregnant pause between line many time . it be tiresome and and you can not wait for this 90 minute ( feel like 180 at least ) movie to get over with . i be not go to talk a whole lot about the issue of racism at this time in our country and but it really offend me that there be only two black in the whole movie and and they be portray a animal . they both push past the woman and child to try and get in one of the lifeboat . they be order to stop or be shoot and and of course they do not so they be shoot . i be appal . i give this movie a negative . i would have give it a negative ( the low rating possible ) and but i give it an extra point just because it be one of the first sound film and and i try to put it into context . if you want to see a good early sound film and check out alfred hitchcock blackmail that also come out in the year 1929. you will find that the best director be able to adapt to new technology immediately .