This was a great mini series and we both found this version of the Titanic story much better than Cameron's movie. We didn't understand why the movie got all the hype. The TV series had better character development. The actors were better in the TV series as well. The TV series seemed to have more time to develop more story lines as well as just having a love story. I thought that Decaprio was particularly weak. His dialog was poor. Perhaps that was the poor script perhaps. But why did he have to repeat the name "Rose" so often. As for the visuals the TV series was just as good. The only thing that Cameron had really that was better than the TV show was the theme song. Why the public swallowed Cameron's movie so much over the TV series I cannot explain. But then I do not understand the rating that some movies get. Some great movies seem to get no respect and others get high reviews.

There is a very good reason why the list of factual goofs for this TV movie is so long (and despite it's length it is quite incomplete).This was an extremely rushed production to capitalize on the public's Titanic fever while James Cameron's movie was being made. The sets were slapped together in a great hurry and in the final days of shooting extras would be placed to hide spots where the sets had been damaged. As one of the worst examples, on the very last day of shooting on the hydraulically-tilted ship deck two extras were assigned to support one of the ships exhaust vents to keep it from toppling over.Much of the later shooting was done in an aluminum quonset building and adding the mid-summer heat pounding down to that of of the set lights makes for an uncomfortably hot environment.Combining the rush and the heat was the perfect setting for an extremely tense and stressed working environment, to put it politely.I'm just surprised the production turned out as good as it did, all things considered. It's worth a watch and pretty decent as a made-for-TV production, but best treated as a work of fiction to enjoy the story it tells.

It isn't great, but I was impressed by the overall project. It is overlong, with a somewhat corny script and some of the actors don't convince. The rape scene halfway through was very brutal, and perhaps inappropriate. Some people say this is historically inaccurate, but I need to check my history. The performances are good generally with some exceptions (Catherine Zeta Jones is lovely here), the costumes are nice and the special effects for a TV mini series were close to superb. George C.Scott is a brilliant actor, and he was quite good here. Tim Curry, as a villain likewise. Though both men have been better. I wasn't entirely convinced by Ase and Jamie's romance, as it was basically a retread of the James Cameron blockbuster, which also suffers from its length. The music is also good( my music teacher hates the 1997 film's music) and this is the first adaptation when the ship breaks into two, which was nicely done. Not a bad attempt! 7/10 Bethany Cox

It is 1912 and Titanic went from Southampton to New York, but the voyage being a nightmare for the passengers and the crew.This Titanic-film with George C. Scott and Catherine Zeta-Jones is very good. The hole film look very realistic.It is a relationship between a man and a woman and they fall in in love. They have fun on aboard the ship. Between them it will being a struggle with life or death.This Titanic-movie show more than James Camerons Titanic-film was happening around the ship.For Example: The crew aboard California talk to each other how they can contact Titanic and how they see Titanic call back with a Morse Code. This detail didn't James Cameron show in his Titanic-film.