Titanic (10th Anniversary Edition)
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Actor: Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprioBrand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 194 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Titanic (10th Anniversary Edition)
DVD Review: Unforgetable Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Good business I paid for what I wanted and they sent it in that manner! DVD Review: Why This Film Works for Me, Despite Its Flaws
Summary: 3 Stars
Like many people, I thought the love story between Rose and Jack was crass, silly, poorly written, and unrealistic (the First and Third Class passengers never mingled, and class consciousness was so ingrained at the time that a real-life Jack probably would have had serious doubts that any romance with a rich girl would succeed). Perhaps the nadir of the film is when they engage in a spitting match over the deck of the ship! This vulgarity would have been unheard of in a well-bred girl of the 1900s, no matter how the filmmakers would like to believe that a Rose of the early 20th century would behave like a 1990s spoiled teenager popping bubble gum at a shopping mall. In addition, poor Cal is treated like a villain, even though he gives her the Heart of the Ocean, expects only that she acts like a lady, and treats him with respect. We are asked to identify with Rose, however, as if bad manners and the freedom to spit over a deck is admirable. These are 1990s values, not the 1900s.
So why is such a film with glaring inaccuracies so successful and sometimes poignant? The answer lies in the way Cameron strangely mixes in moments of genuine poignancy, loss, and respect for the Titanic dead. Unlike other films, he shows real respect for old people and shows everyone the beautiful young woman lurking beneath an aged crone's face. I cannot remember any other film in which the presumably youth-obsessed audience is asked to remember that elderly Rose Dawson was once a naked, beautiful Kate Winslet. And the ship is treated the same way - he starts the film showing a decayed, ugly, broken down ship and flips back to reveal how beautiful the Titanic was in her youth. Cameron's willingness to capture what it really feels to lose someone through death or through age is what makes the film powerful. Unlike other Hollywood "feel-good" films, Titanic doesn't stint on the tragedy and finds beauty and meaning in death and even ugliness. Even the Jack character shows an appreciation for beauty in ugly things - he draws pictures of an old lady wearing a moth-eaten coat, waiting for her love to show up, and a one-legged prostitute. The fact that the characters value life, no matter how ugly, and understand how precious life is, makes this film more memorable and more powerful.
Some people think the special effects made this movie, but I think it was only part of why it was so successful. It used special effects to capture the loss of a great tragedy, and did this so well people were willing to overlook the more stupider aspects of the screenway.I know I did!
DVD Review: A Near disaster, but It Has Some Redeeming Values
Summary: 2 Stars
Titanic. It's the blockbuster of the 90's. It grossed at least one BILLION (that's a lot of money), and it won as many academy awards as The bible Magnum Opus (hahahahaha!) Ben-Hur and Lord of THe Rings (which i'm not a fan of, but great work done anyway). It's known for it's huge special effects, it's "sweeping" love story, it's budget and grand, it's blockbuster status, well everything. Titanic is a staple for the 90's, as others would say. And ask any teenage girl about it, and they would probably talk with your about it for hours, mainly yacking about how it made her cry. Of course, all of this is basically just wolf in sheeps clothing, but Titanic does quite a bit right.
First off, cynically, it's absolute brilliant marketing. Seriously, look at it. Action packed scenes, ranging from a huge special effects made boat crash, a naked scene for some of the elementary schools kids so they can laugh immaturely at it, a, drippy, sappy love story (based on class racism, totally lame), huge special effects, a soundtrack featuring such stars as Celine Dion, and some acts of violence to show his supposed passion for Rose. ALl of this is brilliant marketing. Teenage girls, pedestrian moviegoers looking for the blockbuster of the summer, you name it, this movie is marketed towards it. All the while ignoring the true disasters of the Titanic.
But however, there is many upsides to this movie, and nothing but upsides. The sets are awesome. I always found the Titanic to be a very beautiful ocean liner, and to see in reimagined in all of the detailed glory is probably the only reason to really watch this movie. And of course, the sinking at the end is incredible to watch. The hull splitting in two and the back side crashing in the ocean is awesome to wach, as it is HUGE. But that's merely window dressing. Rather, I often felt that the love story actually is a hair bit more deeper than one might think.
The love story of Titanic to me reminds me of what infatuation is really like, especially when your young. When your young, you don't think. You simply get infatuated. It makes you feel so high, it makes you float with so much optisim it's ridicolous. Maybe that's why Jack yells "I'm King of THe World!" You get like Jack, you act like your totally in love, but it's really not love. I think a lot of high school kids get like that, and it makes me sick. How so? Being one who has experienced this, for the first time, I thought the exact things (though my lame embrassasing infatuation was more social class than class itself). But as my school years went by, I realized that the infatuation is simply fluff and puts you in a state of denial.
Which is why this film is terrible. While the story is believable as fiction, it's something every single sappy, marketable, hopeless romantic type love. It's a play on people's emotions that I cringe and get mad every time I think about it. Thankfully, I never actually bought this movie during that time, considering at the time I was in that phase. I am glad, because now it's something I kind of look on in embarassment (my lustful thoughts however, I never am sorry about). Simply put, the story is hackeneyed, cliched, and very similar to Disney's princess movies (which are some of the worst movies ever made). Forget trying to even ramble on any further, this is why this movie sucks.
To borrow Shotgun Method (oh no!) thesis (ooh, pretentious!): Strip away the special effects and an awesome , and all we have here is a cliched, hackeneyed, lame love story with two slimy, immature teen actors.
I've rambled enough. It's not the worst movie of all time, but this is a pretty bad, tired and lame movie, built to sucker anybody who has a pechant for Hollywood love (read: unrealistic). Billions served, indeed.
D+
DVD Review: TITANIC 3-DISC
Summary: 4 Stars
I recently bought the 3-disc version of the movie, after reading here that it was a better value.
Well, it's true. The extras were great! The entire script, tons of photo galleries, and three commentaries made it worth going out of my way to find this version. Not to mention the "ships" that appear on screen to lead you to behind the scenes footage. The crews' video is unexpectedly funny.
A few complaints to consider though:
*There are two discs (packed with extras) to the film itself, so expect to have to change to disc two to finish the movie. A little disruptive if you get very involved in the plot line.
*Watching the deleted scenes definitely adds a new level to the film, but there is no way to integrate them into play time. You have to watch them alone, or not at all--they're stranded on disc three.
*I would have loved to have seen a documentary on here. While the Fox special is featured, it would have been nice to seen something from History Channel or Discovery to add a little weight, and not just Fox sponsored material.
This is a great way to see the film if you're like me, and kept watching it for years wondering what the fuss was about. The added extras give new dimension to the movie, and make it the version to own.
DVD Review: I liked it (once I watched it)
Summary: 4 Stars
I remember when "Titanic" hit the box office in 1997. The hype for the movie was so overwhelming and the flap about it was so one-sided that, well, I was put off, and decided that I was not at all interested in seeing it. Then when it came out on DVD my opinion hadn't changed.
So, why did I watch it? An exhibit of artifacts from the Titanic is currently in our local museum, so my wife wanted to watch the movie before we went to see the exhibit. I agreed, plopped down, and watched the show.
As the show progressed I saw some of the things that other people had seen in the show. While I am not a heavy-duty Leonardo DeCaprio fan, I appreciated his character. I also thought that Kate Winslet and the other members of the cast did a great job of depicting the kind of class status that existed around the turn of the century and that was particularly prevalent aboard the most luxurious ocean liner of the day.
The special effects are starting to look a bit dated, but all in all, it was a good show. I liked the historical aspect of it, and especially liked the way the screen writers and director used the perspective of the old woman as the frame of reference for the storyline.
This is a solid show, and now that I've seen it, I'd have to say that I'm glad I saw it. I can also say with a high degree of confidence that if you buy this DVD you will be happy you did.
For those reasons I awarded this DVD 4 stars.
I do need to say, however, that the old B/W film A Night to Remember - Criterion Collection starring Kenneth Moore remains my favorite film that is based on the sinking of the Titanic.
Description of Titanic (10th Anniversary Edition)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Oscar-nominatee Kate Winslet light up the screen as Jack and Rose the young lovers who find one another on the maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" R.M.S. Titanic. But when the doomed luxury liner collides with an iceberg in the frigid North Atlantic their passionate love affair becomes a thrilling race for survival. From acclaimed filmmaker James Cameron comes a tale of forbidden love and courage in the face of disaster that triumphs as a true cinematic masterpiece.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA/BIOGRAPHY UPC:?097361313443 Manufacturer No:?131344When the theatrical release of James Cameron's Titanic was delayed from July to December of 1997, media pundits speculated that Cameron's $200?million disaster epic would cause the director's downfall, signal the end of the blockbuster era, and sink Paramount Studios as quickly as the ill-fated luxury liner had sunk on that fateful night of April?14, 1912. Some studio executives were confident, others horrified, but the clarity of hindsight turned Cameron into an Oscar-winning genius, a shrewd businessman, and one of the most successful directors in the history of motion pictures. Titanic would surpass the $1?billion mark in global box-office receipts (largely due to multiple viewings, the majority by teenage girls), win 11?Academy Awards including best picture and director, produce the best-selling movie soundtrack of all time, and make a global superstar of Leonardo DiCaprio. A bona fide pop-cultural phenomenon, the film has all the ingredients of a blockbuster (romance, passion, luxury, grand scale, a snidely villain, and an epic, life-threatening crisis), but Cameron's alchemy of these ingredients proved more popular than anyone could have predicted. His stroke of genius was to combine absolute authenticity with a pair of fictional lovers whose tragic fate would draw viewers into the heart-wrenching reality of the Titanic disaster. As starving artist Jack Dawson and soon-to-be-married socialite Rose DeWitt Bukater, DiCaprio and Kate Winslet won the hearts of viewers around the world, and their brief but never-forgotten love affair provides the humanity that Cameron needed to turn Titanic into an emotional experience. Present-day framing scenes (featuring Gloria Stuart as the 101-year-old Rose) add additional resonance to the story, and although some viewers proved vehemently immune to Cameron's manipulations, few can deny the production's impressive achievements. Although some of the computer-generated visual effects look artificial, others--such as the sunset silhouette of Titanic during its first evening at sea, or the climactic splitting of the ship's sinking hull--are state-of-the-art marvels. In terms of sets and costumes alone, the film is never less than astounding. More than anything else, however, the film's overwhelming popularity speaks for itself. Titanic is an event film and a monument to Cameron's risk-taking audacity, blending the tragic irony of the Titanic disaster with just enough narrative invention to give the historical event its fullest and most timeless dramatic impact. Titanic is an epic love story on par with Gone with the Wind, and like that earlier box-office phenomenon, it's a film for the ages. --Jeff Shannon
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