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I'm not saying "Titanic" is a great film, although I enjoyed it (at least half of it) for what it was - a ship disaster movie with a fictional romance tacked on. (Personally, "The Poseidon Adventure" is still my favorite of the genre.)

Not sure how "Titanic" relates to "The Terminator" in any way, much less how it is a "remake" - that opinion is just so far out of left field that I'll leave it alone. Going into "Titanic", I never expected dialogue worthy of Shakespeare, nor did I expect the film to engender deep thought, nor to reveal the meaning of life. I just don't think it deserved the high number of 1/10 votes that it received on the imdb, that's all. Take a look on the user ratings for the movie and you'll see what I mean. There are very few films that genuinely deserve such a terrible rating, much less a 1/10 rating from nearly 10% of total voters. I mean, if you vote "Titanic" a 1/10, how do you rate "Gigli"? There was obviously a huge backlash against "Titanic".

As for the original Star Wars, it has not aged well and benefits in the ratings from nostalgia, but it's rank on the list is fair. It's obviously better than the sequels though, which also show up on the list.

And what can I say about LOTR? To me the final film (which ironically won all the Oscars) is pure dreck and the worst of the bunch. It's interminably long, repetitve, and has four false endings. What's worse than the length though - it's boring as hell. I nearly fell asleep.

How can such a noisy, action-packed cgi-fest be so boring? I found Sergio Leone's "Once Upon A Time in the West", which opens with no music, almost no dialogue, no computer effects - but instead with 15 minutes of 3 gunmen waiting for a train (there's even a prolonged shot of one guy trying to blow a fly off his face that lasts nearly two minutes!) - less boring than the tedious elaborate scenes of tens of thousands of bizarre creatures battling each other in LOTR.

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