What happens when a populist movie wins Best Picture (or hell, is even nominated)? Every Tom and Jill throws in their two cents about how good it truly isn’t. Titanic has always had always a strange relationship with the critics. It’s impossible not to appreciate the technical craft and meticulous detail in the film, and it definitely pushed the bounds of special effects at a time when the solution for every visual wasn’t always a computer button away. But it’s even harder to deny another kind of Kraft in Titanic…the kind that usually comes in a rectangular cardboard box filled with elbow shaped noodles. There’s a reason this movie did so well with the young teenage girls of America: it’s one big soap opera on a boat.