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Titanic Special Edition
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I recently heard the James Cameron is releasing a special ed dvd later this year featuring an extra 58mins of footage. I just wondered how many of you would want to buy?
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I'll buy the new version, provided the price isn't ridiculous. Hopefully it will bring the Californian into the story, which was the biggest omission from the current version. (Watch "A Night To Remember" to understand that).
i know it got slated, but it was still incredibly powerful in the last half hour i think - i remember the whole cinema being utterly silent at the end - and not many films have that impact these days.
Iain
Christ, I don't harbour the hatred some have for this film, I think it's completely average, but it dragged in the first place. How can they possibly restore 58 minutes? I hear another cash cow being milked vigorously.
I will buy this set. Quite surprised its took so long for it to come out.
ps. found a 27MB .mov version (not much clearer though)
pps. warning - contains comedy decapitation.
If the 58 minutes are about the other guests on the ship it might be a good thing, 58 more minutes of people dying would be far too much, youd be so sad by the end you'd wanna top yourself!
Paddy
Another example (stupid one like) is the Spice Girls. They were huge back in the late 90's and now people just don't seem to like them at all when there mentioned. Its like they got so big people turned on them.
Anyone get what I mean.
Hey, I ADORE kate winslet. Thats my reason for buying this special edition. I have a love/hate relationship with this film. I know it can be rpetty terrible but I end up watching it al the time. Not sure about an extra 58 mins but I'd be interested to see makings of.
Erm, a multi-million dollar film with massive special effects, featuring Leonardo Di Caprio, about an incredibly famously historical incident.
If you change the word 'phenomenon' with 'success', I think i've explained it.
fact is, despite everything, titanic was far from being a turkey.
Iain
it wasn't really a love conquers all type story tho' - the whole point of leo and late's characters were simply to make it easier to feel for the loss of life at the end - you can't get that emotion simply from sheers numbers of lives lost, but draw the audience into the lives of these two in particular, and you can.
[/pretentious film critic]
Iain
With a big ship sinking.
as an audience we were brought right in to care about these two characters, which is why we could beome so emotionally involved with the tragedy of the huge loss of life at the end.
Iain
Fortunate for this film as neither were very immpressive.