Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

The Titanic Yup, most of this three-hour movie takes place on a giant ship. It sounds kind of boring when you put it that way, doesn't it? But it's not boring at all, since a) this is a James Camer...

Dramatic FlashbackTitanic doesn't do anything super funky or exciting in terms of narrative. The film tells the story of the ship's sinking mostly via Rose's flashbacks.There's a "present day" stor...

Romance, Drama, Action, TragedyThis is a big film, so Cameron is able to cram quite a few genres into the story. There's love and romance, of course, since the central plot is the love story betwee...

Well, the Titanic is the name of the ship that's at the center of the plot, so yeah, the meaning of the title is straightforward enough. Also, since the movie was such a gargantuan undertaking in t...

Well, the bad news is that the ending is super-sad.We knew from the start that the ship was going to sink—that's just historical fact, folks—but then we lose Jack, too. We spend three hours wat...

PG-13A lot of stuff in Titanic is G or PG—and there's really not that much swearing, when you compare it to most other contemporary films. Lewis and Fabrizio have some of the more colorful langua...