If you were to go all the way back to 1997, you would not have been chastized for perhaps thinking that Titanic had replaced the New Testament when it came to ripping good yarns. James Cameron certainly figured it did. He made a bundle off of it too; by September of the following year, the film had "King of the World'd" it's way into a tidy $600,000,000+ dollars in the US alone.
I remember running out to buy the 2-tape VHS the day it came out, just to enjoy the sheer grandure of owning what the hype had labelled one of the best films ever made. I actually remember hearing Sean Connery announce "TITANIC" as the Best Picture in that sonorous baritone of authority that he possesses.
Apparently all the adoration might have gone to James' Cameron's head (perhaps rightfully so...it's not as bad a movie as I once thought, upon reflection). Cameron is now planning to create a documentary that makes the claim that the actual tomb of Jesus Christ has been found here on Earth, thus disproving the Christian claims of Christ's divinity and ascension into heaven (a main tenet of the Church's teaching).
People are not pleased. You can find the full story here...
