IDIOTS!!!!

I never thought it was a bad movie. I liked how it was made, loved the music; I think the actors/actress. The lines, the ship...you name it was perfect. I'm even hearing the theme in my head. I loved how the ship was raised in the movie. Wish it could have happened for real, but they sure made it look like it had been for real. Just like in "The Poseidon Adventure," I nearly thought that the ship had been really capsized. Mrs. L.

Long Live Linarcos "Order Full Ahead Captain."
Still in love with Fred Sadoff

I will not hear a bad word about this film. As a die hard Titanic afficianado and incurable fantasist, there's something child like about the film. I mean this in the most polite sense of the word. The sheer dreamlike nature of the whole incident, from the terrible maritime tragedy to the reverie like image of seeing Titanic towed into New York Harbour. I love the performances in it, because they're so earnest. From the late great Richard Jordan as Dirk Pitt to classics such as Jason Robards and Alec Guinness. The scene with Guinness and the White Star pennant always leaves me with a lump in my throat as does the wonderfully evocative score by John Barry. I simply do not have enough superlatives to describe the film.
Everytime I see it, I'm reminded how that great ship is detriorating with every second and soon will only be alive in the tales imparted by survivirs and artefacts recovered. I would love to have seen soem sort of recovery of Titanic taking place as there is no more famous ship in all the world.

Man, at the time the book was written there were still a good few survivors of the disaster left alive. Couldn't they have consulted at least one to ask if the ship went down in one piece? It is so far-fetched, but it is an enjoyable movie.

I read the book back in 1977. I enjoyed it.

Then the movie was released. Despite being in the Navy, I managed to check it out. I enjoyed the film. I enjoyed so much that it was almost a shame when the RMS Titanic was found.

I've since seen the film. The special effects, by today's standards, might be laughable to some. Some of us, especially Navy veterans would find amusement in the sight of some old Gearing class destroyers (which have all been stricken from the active Navy by the early 1980's) manned by Sailors in compliance with the old grooming standards (i.e., beards and longer hair styles) and the old utility blues (which have been dumped out of our seabags since @1982).

The scenes of the RMS Titanic rising from her watery grave in the middle of a virtual tug-of-war between the Americans and the Soviets rank with the scenes of King Kong climbing the Empire State Building clutching Fay Wray.

The bottom line is that "Raise the Titanic" is not a history lesson, a study of current events or a film about the Navy Regs.

IT'S SIMPLY ENTERTAINMENT!!!

This film was made and released five years before Dr. Robert Ballard found the ship. They did not know it's condition at the time and until 1985 the whole world thought the ship was in one piece, not two. Also this is based on the excellent 1976 Clive Cussler novel and follows it closely. So to answer the sarcastic arguements of a previous message, they used what information they had at the time with what special effects they had at the time.
Imagine if they remade it now with teh CGI they have. It would be a jaw-dropping experience, although obviously inacurate to the new discoveries over the last twenty years.

The problem here is that this is a "techie" film and has a MAJOR cult following.....Not some goddamned Disney matinee (Though Barry's score is awfully like '79's "The Black Hole" - not to mention several Bond films, but it that a "BAD" thing??? - Hell no!)
Some malignant dwarf comments on how "jaw dropping" the film would be if it were done in CGI.........Sure it would, it'd look like a mindless video game - just like EVERYTHING else done in that medium....
I first saw this over 20 years ago and have loved it ever since.......Did I ever watch that bloated, big budgeted abortion "Titanic"?.....That, in my opinion is crap.......This film is fun and never lets up....Is there a law that says it has to be believable? - there is NOT!
It was made for entertainment purposes and succeeds at it's goal - from my POV anyway.
Granted Selby's rather stiff, maybe Collins removed too much of those red cells during Dark Shadows....who knows.Guinness is wonderful - as always...Jason Robards is, well, Jason Robards, and always fun!
Get over it people! Can't you enjoy a film for what it is? Nothing anyone can say will sway my opinion on this film......and, that as they say, is that!

I'll say it's a bad movie, not because it's not realistic (that is just nit-picking), but because it's boooooooooooring. Imagine making a Bond movie or an Indy movie and then the producers say "take out all the action scenes, we don't need them"... what are you left with? Nothing but a shell of a good story with butchered characters and just plain dull to boot. I'll be filming a review of this soon.

"Well I didn't expect a kind-of Spanish Inquisition!" - Monty Python

It's a fun film.