According to Box Office Mojo, Titanic was in theaters until late September 1998. Now, I know that box office isn’t indicative of quality, but that kind of longevity is hard to ignore. 15 weeks! Can you imagine a movie staying at number one for that long nowadays? Let alone, a woman-oriented romance with an original script? In the last decade, only Cameron’s Avatar came close and it fell to #2 in its 8th week. The film spent 15 weeks at #1 at the domestic box office (it lost the top spot in April to Lost in Space). In 1997, when I was eight years old, Titanic was 'The Most Important Love Story of All Time.' I became obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet my parents forbade me from even mentioning the movie, it was that bad. Some viewers love the science and technology of the ship and Cameron’s painstaking recreations. For history buffs, it's the seemingly definitive telling of one of history’s most ironic and tragic events. Titanic is many things to many different people. The success of Titanic has a dash of 'right place, right time.' The landscape of modern blockbusters has changed so much that we can never get a movie like this again.
James Cameron’s shipwreck romance is 20 years old and remains an effective piece of mainstream cinema and perhaps one of the best movies ever made. Titanic is the best Hollywood pop blockbuster of my lifetime, if not ever.
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