Quote - He made a lot with titanic because it was like pron for teen-age girls back in the archaic days before broadband.  Just because you had a hit yesterday doesn't mean you are going to have one today.

I dunno - I actually enjoyed the hell out of Titanic, though considered DiCaprio to be a minor annoyance.

I liked it because they actually went out of their way to make it as accurate as possible, and did one hell of a great job in re-creating the Edwardian/Gilded-Age atmosphere of the time. They also managed to present the most common-sense outcomes of the various officers and real-life folks that were portrayed. They could've added a few bits here and there - the Californian seeing flares in the distance but doing nothing about it, the Carpathia hearing the SOS and moving balls-to-the-wall to try and get there, etc... But, given the constraints, it was actually pretty good, and the best effort I've seen at cinematic accuracy concerning the events.

(Hell, even the stupid-assed sex scene had a kernel of accuracy - the real Titanic actually was carrying an early-model car in its cargo holds).