4. Titanic (1997)
Writer/Director/Producer Usually when something or someone is described as being like Marmite it usually means that either IT is a pile of shit or THEY are a complete and utter cunt. The multi-award winning
Titanic really is the Marmite of films though no one just thinks its okay. It is either adored, right down to its festering
Celine Dion songs, by romance-loving fiends or it is loathed and dismissed as gushing (forgive the pun) sentimental fluff. Either way it is impossible to deny that this is epic film-making of the highest order. As an unashamed Northerner, I doth my (flat) cap to James Cameron for following a passion of his and realising it in such glorious grandioso style. The first hour and a half of the three-hour long blockbuster is usually where the naysayers draw their complaints from and for the most part a lot of it is saccharine foreshadowing, but from that moment the unsinkable vessel hits that iceberg this is a disaster movie on such a grand scale it makes
The Poseidon Adventure look like an episode of
Yo Gabba Gabba. Rightly or wrongly, Titanic bogarted almost every
Oscar Statue that year and that cannot be overlooked, Camerons passion project is a momentous cinematic experience and proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is not only King of the sequel but also King of the blockbuster.