there be film that you can say and theyre so bad and theyre good and like some of those silly locust or piranha or snake or shark or pick a creature of your choice infestation movie . raise the titanic be merely bad . it be well chronicle that clive cussler and author of the book upon which this garbage be allegedly base and be so horrified with the end result that he refuse to allow another of his book to be film . he eventually relent more than 20 year later and when sahara arrive . by the sound of thing it may be a freezing day in hell before cussler give his blessing for a third time . that be a pity because he write those wonderfully absurd and over the top story that be just beg to be turn into popcorn blockbuster and but who can blame the man . raise the titanic may be the bad big screen adaptation of a novel ever and although the da vinci code isn not far behind . we will forgive some of the technical absurdity in the story line . the film be make some year before the wreck of the titanic be discover and nobody could have know that it be so thoroughly mangle and even if the beautifully whole and well preserve specimen the movie offer be always go to be wildly unlikely . we need an intact titanic for the story to work and so fine and we can live with it . what we can not stomach be the incredible hatchet job which the screenwriter do on cussler novel and change place and people name for no reason . historical research obviously mean squat to these people so in the film we end up with a man who play in the band on the olympic for three year before join titanic . the fact that olympic go into service only about one year before titanic be calmly disregard . it a minor point to all but real ship buff and but you would not find it in the book . the story be set during the cold war . apparently some very rare and utterly fictitious metal call byzanium will for some reason make nuclear war obsolete and or some such crap . surprise surprise and the entire world supply of byzanium be . you guess it and lie on the bottom of the atlantic and thanks to a dastardly iceberg . the american must have it and so dirk pitt and company accept the challenge of raise the titanic from two and a half mile down as if they be be ask to wash the dish . the threaten hurricane which add excitement to the book be totally miss here a our hero plod through one of the most tedious and poorly film blockbuster ever to disgrace the cinema and eventually pop the titanic to the surface . after endless and quite stunningly boring undersea shot of what a three year old child could see be a scale model and the titanic unglues herself from her watery grave and and hey presto and there she be and ready to complete her interrupted journey to new york . lovely stuff and but after take forever to set the scene the raise itself be make to look about as tricky a lift a toy submarine from the shallow end of a swimming pool . and and guess what and folk . the byzanium isnt on the titanic and after all . it in an english cemetery and but of course open graf isn not much of a story line when compare to raise sunken liner and be it . the final plot twist in say cemetery be so absurd it defy belief and and again it do not come from the book . acting . some talented actor do the best they can with a truly atrocious script . anne archer be leave with the unenviable task of utter the most stomach churning line ever commit to celluloid i just can not get the wormie on the hookie and . which could have be enough all by itself to destroy her career . in fact her role be remove of all meaning by the screenwriter and m archer seem to have nothing more to do but be the pretty female in the cast . the late richard jordan be a passable pitt and but jason robards be nothing like the feisty sandecker of the cussler novel . even alec guiness a a survive crew member of the titanic can not do much in his cameo role to stop the pile of rubbish from sink faster than the object of it storyline . it be no great surprise that raise the titanic quickly gain notoriety a one of the and if not the and big bomb in hollywood history . the special effect be awful even by the standard of the time ( 1972 the poseidon adventure be even old but fare much well in this department ) . the acting be wooden and the film be disjoint and and it just doesn not gel . there be a desperately few moment to savour . the scene where the titanic surface be move and and the music which accompany it be evocative and but that about it . with a budget of some $ 30 million enormous for it time they could hardly have do a bad job of it . why on earth they hire a director whose experience be limit to tv serial be one of the great mystery of all time . what be much clearer be what producer lew ( later lord ) grade mean when he say raise the titanic . it would have be cheap to lower the atlantic . that be my favourite quote in showbiz and and be ultimately the movie long last legacy . famous and for all ( and i mean all ) the wrong reason .