i avoid watch this film for the long time . long before it be even release i have dismiss it a an over hyped and over blown and overly romanticized piece of hollywood schmaltz and and i want nothing to do with it . i never watch it in the theatre . i shake my head in disbelief at the 11 academy award even though i have never see it . then i be ask to be a judge at a high school public speaking contest . one of the girl speak about this movie . it be so great and she say . you really felt like you be on the ship . nonsense and i thought . i share my feeling with my fellow judge . one look at me and say and you might be right and but if she like the movie that much maybe she will want to learn more about the real titanic . the movie must have do something right to get her so interested . well and maybe and think i. then it finally appear on pay tv . ok and i thought and i will give it a look see . i do not want to like it and i do not . i love it . what a great movie . where to start . first the directing . my high school public speaking contestant be right . james cameron do a superb job of create an almost you be there type of atmosphere . the gaiety of life aboard the most elegant ship in the world . the nonchalance a news of the iceberg first spread while then the rise sense of panic . you do not just watch it while you really do feel it . then the performance . the lead performance from kate winslet ( a rise ) and leonardo dicaprio ( a jack ) be excellent winslet be the superior and i thought and but both be good . they have their rich girl or poor boy character down to a perfect t i think . in my opinion and though and steal the show be frances fisher a rise mother . she be perfect a the snobby aristocrat and and you could feel the fear and loathe she felt every time she look at jack . then the detail . i be no expert on the sinking of the titanic and but i have a reasonable general knowledge and and this film do a super job of recreate the historical detail accurately and then weave them seamlessly around the fictional romance . very impressive and indeed . then the song . who can watch this movie and not be take with celine dion performance of my heart go on . problem . well and the romance be perhaps too contrived and in the sense that i just do not accept that jack could have move so effortlessly from steerage to first class . ( i know he be invite the first time while but he seem to keep get into first class without be stop until he be there for a while . ) the reality of the separation of the social class be much more realistically portrayed and i thought and when the steerage passenger be go to be leave locked down there after the ship hit the iceberg while the first class folk get to enjoy half empty lifeboat . a minor quibble and though . this be truly an excellent movie . my only regret be not see it in the theatre and where i think it would have be so much more impressive . positive .