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Release Date: 27 April, 2004 Retail Price: $29.99 OUR Price: $26.99 You SAVE: $3.00! Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
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PRETTY GOOD!
I LIKED IT ALOT!I LIKED THE MOVIE"TITANIC",MUCH BETTER,THOUGH!BUT THIS PICKS UP WHERE TITANIC LEFT OF!
James Cameron goes back to "Titanic"
It seems like James Cameron is going to be the David O. Selznick of his generation, by which I mean to indicate that both men had to try and figure out what to do next after they brought to the screen the biggest blockbuster film of all time with "Titanic" and "Gone with the Wind" respectively. Since 1997 Cameron had a hand in creating the television series "Dark Angel," even directing an episode, did a television documentary on an expedition to find the World War II German battleship "Bismarck," and then returned to the bottom of the North Atlantic to revisit the wreck of the "Titanic."
"Ghosts of the Abyss" was originally a 61-minute IMAX documentary in 3D and is now available on DVD as a 92-minute documentary, without the 3D effects. This is not the first documentary to go back to "Titanic," but Cameron has the resources and the drive to make it one of the most interesting. By now the thrill of just seeing these ghostly images from the ocean's floor is starting to wear off, so Cameron has to do something slightly more ambitious that voyage to the bottom of the sea. His advantage are the technological toys he brings with him to the expedition, which includes not only the pair of remote-controlled underwater cameras nicknamed Jake and Elwood in honor of the Blues Brothers, but an array of lights that is suspended over the "Titanic" to illuminate the scene.
Brought along for the ride is Bill Paxton, who know gets to find out for real what it was his character did in the film. Cameron is such an expert on all of this that he leaves the documentary's narration to Paxton, who surves as a surrogate for us common folk on this underwater journey. Through the eyes of the camera we can see the Tiffany cut glass windows in the ship's grand ballroom, the settings the telegraph operators used to send out their distress calls, the entrance to the mast that sailors used to crawl up to the crow's nest, and answer the question of whether the "Unsinkable" Molly Brown had a brass or a wooden bed in her cabin. Then there are all the familiar objects, such as hats and glasses, that amazingly remain where they were left by their owners on the fateful night of April 15, 1912.
As was the case with "Titanic," Cameron uses digital effects to bring the wreckage alive by adding ghostly images of passengers and the way these parts of the ship looked the night it sunk. But as was the case with the maiden voyage of "Titanic," the drama in "Ghosts of the Abyss" comes as a surprise. While exploring the interior of "Titanic" one of Cameron's little robots has a major problem and suddenly we are engaged in an deep sea rescue mission. The question is whether Cameron will risk the second robot to rescue the first, but there is never a doubt as to what the director is going to do. Still, he never could have written a story that would be as fascinating as what happens down there among the ghosts of "Titanic."
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