Day 1: Titanic

No, no I had't seen this film, the highest grossing film of the 20th century. #badfilmmajor

First thoughts?

·  First of all, I never thought I'd be a sucker for this movie, but now I'm suuuuper teary-eyed. Maybe not the best movie for me to watch first when I'm emotionally vulnerable having been ripped from my Rice family.

·  Kate Winslet is just the most amazing actress ever. For my Modalities of Film class, I had to watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and she co-stars in that with Jim Carrey. SO GOOD! I actually ENJOYED writing my paper on that film. Winslet also stars in Sense and Sensibility, one of my favorite dramas. 

·  Never knew that James Cameron - who directed Titanic - was the same dude who directed Avatar. So, that baller of a director WHO TAUGHT HIMSELF EVERYTHING ABOUT SPECIAL EFFECTS (see his wikipedia page) Again, I'm a bad film major. And again, that's slowly changing. 

Favorite part of the film?

·  Other than the fact that it moved me to tears? The fading special effects. Nowadays, the grand recreations and effects involving the actual Titanic models are no longer as impressive as they might have been in the 1990s, when I should have seen this film. But the fading still is incredibly powerful, and well placed, which is something difficult to achieve in order to keep the film flowing nicely. Maybe I'm talking it up too much, but the fact still stand that that was my favorite effect. T'was seamless.

Least favorite part of the film?

·  Dicaprio could have been a better actor. I felt the fire with Winslet, not with him though. His time is Inception.

And of course, I gladly accepted a link from my buddy to allay my tears...