I also respect your opinion, but I disagree. The Titanic sinking isn't the seminal event in that movie, it's the climax (although not the critical point.) And while D-Day is the seminal event of SPR, the rest of the movie-making is not worthy of that set-up. The story outside of the first 15 minutes of SPR isn't bad, but it's nothing special, full of holes, and overall a very average war movie. Titanic is a below average story with a 22 year-old Leonardo DiCaprio and great special effects. To be fair, Kate and Leo had incredible chemistry, he owes a fair bit of the Leo phenomenon of the late '90s to that chemistry.
And I was speaking about overall film quality in regards to whether or not these movies should have won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Both are movies worth watching for a variety of reasons, neither were the best films of their respective years.
Don't read this post, ClemmonsDevil - it has more details so Spoiler Alert!
And that is why I never saw Titanic. I knew how it ended - ship hits iceberg, ship sinks, people die, some survive.
I have, however, seen The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
Dinner was an appetizer of crispy pork belly with a main of seared scallops and I ate outside in a t-shirt! I mean, I wore pants too. But short sleeves!