Why James Cameron's Titanic Hasn't Aged In 25 Years 

Titanic has become something of memes and hilarity, but make no mistake... watching this in 1997 in theaters was absolutely amazing.

And let's not forget the music by the one and only James Horner . The music he created for Titanic and Braveheart invokes a feeling of something one can't explain .

I don't think I can overstate just how much of a shadow Titanic cast over the worldwide movie scene when it was still new. It was one of those benchmark movies that comes along and sets the standard for any subsequent films that takes a shot at that particular genre, in this case historical dramas. And to this day, you won't be surprised to find people citing it was one of the best 😊

Is impressive how someone that hasn't gone to film school was able to make a movie this big and complex

I'm always drawn to the scene with the mother telling her children a bedtime story in Titanic's final moments. Just a little earlier, we see her reassuring them there will be enough lifeboats when she probably already knew the brevity of the situation.

Cameron's obsessive details is what made the movie seem so realistic. It put you on the Titanic and made me realize the horror passengers must have gone through. I can't imagine having to choose between drowning or freezing to death.

Despite Avatar’s VFX being world-renowned, I still think Titanic is the absolute peak of Cameron’s visual storytelling. That “I’m flying” scene with Jack and Rose is pretty much seared into all our brains at this point. It’s pure movie magic. It’s also incredibly rare for a director to make a spectacle out of love. Directors often make a spectacle out of action, out of horror, out of disasters and destruction. But Cameron made an incredible spectacle out of love. Movies these days are too prudish to try anything like that again, but back in the 80s and 90s the biggest blockbusters were enhanced by beautiful romances and letting the audiences luxuriate in those romances. They really don’t make ‘‘em like they used to 😢

The 4-5 min scene of "iceberg right ahead!" Still sends chills down my spine. Knowing the fate, seeing thrm desperately try to avoid their doom. The speed and terror in the engineers actions. Knowing instantly what a sudden call for full reverse meant.

The 90s were the pinnacle of cinema. Think about it… Titanic, Jurassic Park, Disney Renaissance, Saving Private Ryan, Fight Club, Goodfellas, Forrest Gump, Shawshank Redemption, Schindlers List, Pulp Fiction, The Truman Show, … the list goes on and on!

I’ve been obsessed with this movie and all the stories about the ship and the disaster since 1997. The obsession may never end.

The scene where the man on the outside of the ship tells the other man holding the tea about the iceberg; the way he drops his cup and runs. Goosebumps every time !

PRACTICAL EFFECTS BEFORE CGI That's my motto

This movie is a timeless masterpiece. The attention to detail was incredible! It's still one of my all time favorite movies!

"Titanic" has always been one of those things that has been close to my heart since I was a very little kid. I was born in 1992 and it was the first motion picture that I watched in its entirety. This was in 99'/2000, and I remember my mom promising me the classic two-part VHS tape set if I did good in school (I still remember the plastic wrapping on it with a Sprint sticker). Furthermore, I watched the 2000 movie "Britannic" (horribly inaccurate but watchable), and a PBS/NOVA series called "Lost Liners" (also in 2000). I also watched countless documentaries from the late 90's/early 2000 about ships and maritime disasters. I also read countless books about Titanic and the liners of the past. There is sooo much to love in "Titanic"; everything from the meticulous attention to detail to the lighting and soundtrack. The movie is ethereal in how it delivers its message, and the lighting makes the whole thing heavenly. The scene when Titanic leaves Southhampton is the grandest departure of an object that I've ever seen on film. What's even more interesting is how Cameron decided to make the Titanic itself almost like a living creature in her own rite. Notice all the sounds of the engines, the passengers walking on her decks, and the ship passing through the water. Of course, when the ship sinks, we hear the Titanic groan as the steel is contorted beyond its design limit; the creature is hurting/dying. Another thing is Cameron's use of models and miniatures. As someone who is autistic and loves attention to detail, I finally bought and now in the process of building a 1/350 Titanic model with working lights! In the last couple of years, I have also been creating and wearing Titanic officer's cosplay uniforms and wore some for the 25th anniversary of Titanic being screened here in my hometown of Tallahassee, Florida in IMAX. There is so much I love about this movie! As an aspiring filmmaker, I defiantly look at Titanic as a source of inspiration.

The fact that Titanic is one of the highest grossing movies of all time, still being loved by the audience and still being watched is proof that Titanic is a masterpiece, one of the best movies of all time and the best romance movie of all time, not even other classics such as Gone with the Wind & Casablanca can even beat this movie when it comes to the romance genre.

I’ve seen the movie dozens of times throughout my life and I even saw it again for my first time in theaters for the 25th anniversary release! There’s just something about James Cameron’s attention to detail, visual effects, and characters that appeal to me and I never get sick of watching it!

I was obsessed with this movie as a kid. I had a friend and whenever they would sleepover at my house, I would insist on watching titanic and since it was on VHS, it was split in half. I didn't care for the first half, so we would watch the second cause I loved seeing the ship sink. my friend tells me they were horrified every time lmao

Just being able to see it in theaters this year is an experience I’ll never forget, and by far the perfect way to experience it.

25 years later, and Titanic is still a cinematic masterpiece. Though I don't blame Kate Winslet for finding her own performance to be Cringy now, I think that many of us can easily relate! 😂

Wow, this summed it up perfectly. It’s been my favorite movie since it came out in 1997 when I was just a kid. I can still watch it over and over and I never understood why exactly. But the spectacle combined with the emotion and the history really hit the nail on the head. It makes you feel like you’re witnessing it as it’s happening while you’re watching it… I get that feeling all over again…Every time I watch it, which is rare for a movie to be able to do.

Still probably my favorite movie of all time.

Damn, I had a dream last night that I was watching Titanic and then I woke up and saw this upload. Maybe this is a sign I should watch it today!

I watched this with a friend in a DOLBY theater in 3D. And let me just say, seeing this movie like that for the first time was an experience.

(Edit) was to is. I remember when this movie came out. It is a masterpiece.

It can’t age. It was a well done movie about an historical event.

It's crazy how simple you break this down and many of us understand it yet Hollywood still pumps out crap movies today like they can't learn from this.

I still remember going to see this movie when it first opened. It was a phenomenon.

The sad thing is that a movie like this - with no possibility of turning into a series - would have a hard time getting funding today.

People always joke about Titanic or dismiss it but once they actually sit down with it even today no one can deny the spectacle and technical achievement that it was. Titanic will always be one of the best movies of all time, no other movie will ever compare to the cultural phenomenon that was Titanic in 1997/1998. That movie was a force and it still holds up today.

Camerons attention to detail in order to create the most immersive experiences imaginable is what makes his movies so successful. He literally is the master of 3D cinematography. And Titanic is Camerons greatest achievement. Love it or hate it, the story of Jack and Rose is just timeless and effective as Rhett and Scarlett or Rick and Ilsa. People will be debating whether or not Jack couldve survived on that plank of wood for... ever

There will never be another movie made like this in Hollywood again.

Watch it in 3d. The amount of details with the BluRay release how he fixed the stars is impressive.

I've only seen this movie once when it was still on its original run in theaters.

Great video ;) one of my friends was a stuntman in this movie, I've heard a lot of good stories from the set...

6:37 The 2hours40minutes thing is just a coincidence since the original cut was much longer until they cut out several scenes after the first test screenings. It's also not probable that editors wouldn't base their cuts on the film's quality and suspence, and instead cut it so it can be exactly 2:40h long which audiences hardly would notice.

So many people bag on this movie. Cameron's Titanic is a classic in my opinion and one of my all time favorite movies. I appreciate this channel showing it in a good light.

The golden era of Cameron.

The best thing about 90's block buster movies is directors such as Cameron, Spielberg, Lucas and all the Crew of the movies are not too lazy to get thier hands dirty even the actors. Look how far Schwarzenegger, De Carpio, Weaver etc. is now on the Acting industry. Now almost all movies depends on CGI or Green Screen. Watching the BTS os 90's movies are so amazing and entertaining just as much how the movie is amazing and entertaining too.

One of the greatest things Titanic did was made us believes that the fake underwater shots were real underwater shots, which is double impressive when you consider he purposely mixed real underwater shots of Titanic with the shots of the miniature model and we as audience cannot tell the difference. Any other filmaker would not have been able to have real footage there, and would have faked the entire underwater scenes.

Great all-around movie going experience. Maybe the best ever. The news/entertainment stories before it came out were all about how it would flop, though.

Great video.

I think that Hollywood has since lost the art of the blockbuster.

This video feels like a Love Letter and I am right with you

Bernard Hill as Captain Smith is one of my favorite casting choices in film history.

So glad I was able to watch Titanic for the first time during its re-release in theaters

The money this film made back in the day was incredible. On it's first run it made $1.8 billion in an era of lower ticket prices, less screens and no price gouging through 3D and IMAX tickets. By it's 20th anniversary only two movies had exceeded it's initial gross; Avatar and Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens which had all the advantages that Titanic didn't

I know nothing would top it, but I want a modern Titanic movie. Maybe tell the story but from a crew member, hell they could even throw in an easter egg of Jack and Rose in the background or something.

I saw this opening weekend and again at the 20th anniversary in IMAX 3D like watching a completely different movie

This film was the most impactful I had ever seen and I’ve stayed obsessed ever since

I think Cameron actually managed to remind viewers that this was a real human tragedy. It’s not a movie, it’s a historical event depicted in a way we can empathize with. The first time my younger sister watched it, she just thought it was a love story and the ship sank. She didn’t realize how much the movie would depict tragedy in a heart breaking manner. She sobbed throughout much of the sinking and was really out of sorts when it finished. Human tragedy can unfortunately be made into jokes but you walk away from this movie feeling the grief of loss, knowing that so many lives were destroyed that day.

You hit the nail on the head with the consistent alteration of "Emotion and Spectacle." Cameron knew exactly what he was doing. It was the brilliant narrative put into that disaster event; one notable thing they used in the trailers that someone told me captured his interest (back in 1997) "Why on earth would Billy Zane be pointing a gun and going through freezing water inside a sinking ship???!"

What a movie ❤

historic dramas don't age as much as drama concerning current or future society.

I remember seeing it in 3D in 2012 after seeing it on vhs as a kid and is still a masterpiece by James Cameron and now in 4K and interesting full sized sets

watching Titanic in theaters this year for the 25th anniversary was epic

Very well done. I agree. Gone with the Wind has many of the same attributes. The characters are real.

Seriously, Titanic is just a damn good movie!

Have loved this movie since I was 10 years old

the only parts i can’t get out of my mind is the CGI in this movie that makes the characters look like The Sims for GBA

0:00 me calling my insurance company

Just like this Song. "Every night in my dreams I see you, I feel you, That is how I know you go on Far across the distance And spaces between us You have come to show you go on Near, far, wherever you are I believe that the heart does go on Once more you open the door And you're here in my heart And my heart will go on and on...."

I was obsessed with the actual ship as a kid, then the movie came out. I actually thought I was going to hate it! But, it quickly became my favorite movie of all time and the making of the film fascinates me equally as much as the ship itself. I tell people there's two things I wish I could have seen: Titanic the ship and Titanic the film set.

Love it

J.P. Morgan, who owned the Titantic, took his paintings off the ship just before it left port, and didn't get on.

Fantastic film. But 180 degrees? That would mean the bow started pointing down into the water and then tilted 180, diametrically opposite. I think you mean 90 degrees.

Interesting to contrast it with the Emmerich-style of disaster film. Cameron manages to capture massive amounts of death and loss without really losing the sense of tragedy and succumbing to the spectacle.

Imagine if Rian Johnson directed Titanic, lol. He'd have the titanic avoid the iceberg just to 'subvert' our expectations lol

There was a scene deleted from the film where Molly Brown, played by Kathy Bates, is in a passenger lounge when she asks a waiter for more ice for her drink just as the iceberg goes by outside the window.

Titanic is a masterpiece. James Cameron is a legend.

The last scenen of Titanic was so emotional. Rose dies a peaceful death in her bed after throwing the diamond back in the sea. Then she meets Jack and all the other dead passengers in her after life

With such kean interest bringing his vision to precise life, why hasn't tried animation already? Little mermaid provided lowered love, while swat kats had his type of excellent, hard scifi! Agreed?

Should have waited until April to release this!

It is a 10/10 movie

Cameron’s titanic was well ahead of its time

It had absolutely aged, because it is vastly better than movies coming out nowadays

Cameron is a treasure. Titanic and the Avatar series will be forever remembered

As I viewed the movied the first time, as as I've considered it since, it's a mixture of the good and bad. The good is the telling the tale of the sinking itself, as human beings struggled to deal with impending reality they could not escape. That was often done well. The bad was the romantic tale, with the gigantic diamond and throwing it into the sea decades later and such. Romantic CLAPTRAP! There was, after all, nothing particularly special about the Titanic itself. It had two sister ships that were very similar to Titanic, and of course subsequent decades produced far larger Titanics that were faster and more luxurious. So I suggest it was the tale of human hubris which ran the ship upon the iceberg on it's maiden voyage, and the sinking of the unsikable ship that fascinates. The subsequent search for and exploration of the wreck is an added feature to the tale, which is pictured in interesting ways inn the movie. So I like the movie ---aside from the implausible romantic story, which is a mere distration. I remember seeing "A Night to Remember" on television for the first time in the 1960s. That was an excellent telling of the tale of the Titanic that I thought was very well done, and is still wonderful today.

Best movie ever made

1. Use practical effects 2. Shoot on film

the deleted scenes tell so many more stories that had to be cut.

"impossible to practically recreate a crash of that magnitude" But then again, Nolan did crash a jumbo jet into a hangar

Now, those actors would all just be in a green room! P.S the elderly couple were Isador and Ida Strauss, Ida refused to leave her husband, and they went down with the ship. They owned Macy’s and the staff donated their own money, to install a tribute to them in Macy’s.

Is it just me… or did you got change the video title? And yes, I know many channels do this to increase click rate to try to get more views

It actually looked very dated a few years ago...

And we are getting real emotions ie humanity out of the Navi in Avatar. Were seeing the actors act in the ultimate CGI makeup

This was and still is the best movie made in the decades if not ever.

Wait for the NEW Titanic movie to open, in 3 D smell-o-vision, on April 12th,2112.

“Screw” guy. I know what they called them in the movie, but ships have screws, not propellers.

The line that she felt like she was on a “slave ship” made me cringe then and still makes me cringe now.

Account for inflation, and it is #1 grossing film

wow

I saw avatar 2 it is the best looking cg in the world currently imo

Titanic won the most Oscar in history, as simple as that, the best ever.

Also, reason I'm Too~~~ sick and tired constant Celine Dion!

I'm 36 years old and the feeling I have is remembering when I was 10 and you could put the second VHS in and fast forward exactly 4 minutes and see titties. Good review!

Title: Focuses on Titanic’s stunts. Actual video: Spends most of the time talking about the spectacle & emotion & directing.

Actually the most 90s thing about it was this American expedition happening on a Russian ship, that would never happen today

I miss when James Cameron wasn't obsessed with blue CGI aliens.

Back when they put effort into films instead of pumping out cgi garbage like avatar lol

That old bird just through that f’cking diamond in the ocean. Selfish trollop. She could have given it to her granddaughter.