Sherparsa
yes, it is certainly flawed due to many reasons, technicalities about how Titanic is actually cut in two pieces and so on included certainly ...but based on my presumptions regarding any movie about the doomed Titanic ship, never expected to like this one really! kinda liked it even more than James Cameron's Titanic actually, which is the most famous and best sold one! :-)the ending 'surprise' was also really good and made the entire movie worth watching despite feeling bored somewhere in the middle ...wouldn't be too much to say this movie's an underrated one and a little bit silly it didn't sell well in its own day! now that a rather good copy of it is on YouTube maybe it'll resurface again ...
bheadher
...but this time I am shaking my head at the really low score this movie received. The movie is an adaptation of a really good book by a great author, meant to be fantasy rather than reality.Even back then, when no one knew the Titanic was actually broken in half, raising it would have been a fantasy. But surprisingly, the movie had a strange hold on your imagination. How could anyone not be stirred emotionally, when Titanic surfaced in the movie. That one scene alone made watching it well worth while...I read another person's comment, that the raising of the most famous ship in history was somehow an insult to the people who lost their lives, but I see it as a respectful tribute to them...The background story is way out there, certainly, but Raise the Titanic is, or should be, a cult classic...rather than the target of ridicule that it has become...
J-bot6
I'm blown away by the number of negative reviews of this film. There are outlandish claims that this was considered a bomb of a movie from the outset. You can always tell when the reviewer wasn't even born when the movie was released.The truth of the matter is that this was a highly-respected film when it came out and was considered one of the more substantial motion pictures of the 1980s. I should know, since I was there and saw this in the theaters. People who don't really understand the context fail to realize that it was eclipsed by The Empire Strikes Back. The second reason for the huge differential between the box office earnings and the budget is that the late 1970s and early 1980s was a time in which motion picture budgets were spiraling upwards. Studios were putting massive amounts of money into their films and the risk was becoming excessive. One of the last big-production films was Die Hard. For the next decade, the majority of films were done on the cheap. Today we're seeing a resurgence of big-budget films. So if a movie doesn't make back its money in the first year, it doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad film.The cinematography, editing, score, acting (for the most part), and visual/special effects in this film are outstanding. I've read some comments on here deriding the effects and all I can say is that anyone who thinks the effects are crap is blind as a bat. I have my share of experience building CGI models of ships like the Titanic for Hollywood productions, so I can speak to the digital side. And I've built my share of practical models as well. The ship in this film is an excellent piece of work and the camera and lighting work suit it perfectly.Just to see if this movie stood the test of time, I sat down and watched it again on a 60" plasma screen. It rocked! All the suspense and tension was right there like back in the day.So if you can put the actual discovery of the Titanic out of your head and just think of this as a parallel universe, you'll very likely enjoy this film.
mikevonbach
What i mean by there are no more Matt Dillon's.The money that was spent to find this ore the time the man power and than the final decision was left up to some type of idealist a boy scout.The film had to many slow spots for me.I gave it a chance after reading some of the other reviews they were positive and many people seemed to enjoy it.BUT I have to be something that this film was not and that is honest.The Russians would have had those guys followed until that stuff came up.And also they take two toothless grave diggers to the exact spot.Now if i was one of the DIGGER guys just out of curiosity i would have come back two days later and dug it up.This film was poorly written.And no real navy guys would trust each other with that kind of secret THE ONE GUY ALREADY SAID THAT HIS ASSOCIATES NAME SOUNDS LIKE THE NAME OF A PIRATE..IN THE REAL WORLD THIS SCENARIO WOULD NEVER WORK THOSE TWO GRAVE DIGGERS WOULD BE LAYING DEAD BY NOW ...(AND YOU KNOW IT) I WISH THE WORLD WAS THE WAY IT'S BEING PORTRAYED IN THIS MOVIE BUT IT IS NOT. SORRY GUYS.
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