Comments on: Jim Cameron Honors Centenary Of Loss Of 1,517 Souls By Re-Releasing ‘Titanic’ In 3D On April 6, 2012

By: Glass

Glass — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:31:51 +0000

Cameron has never been opposed to post-conversion, he just doesn\’t think people do it properly, nor does he think it can look nearly as good as when filmed with 3D cameras. There\’s nothing hypocrticial in what he\’s doing, he\’s also been talking about converting Titanic to 3D for years.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:31:51 +0000

Yesssssssss!!!! So excited 🙂

By: daniel

daniel — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:31:51 +0000

Posting news on The Playlist about Titanic is laying out bait for us to out-pretension eachother. I love Playlist because the news is fresh, the commentary is sharp, and the folks that come here generally are really active in their love for a wide range of film. But I have to say I\’m always embarrassed when this tack is taken: that somehow certain kinds of movies are \’beneath\’ us. Titanic is an extraordinary example of it\’s form; it may be paper-thin, pop entertainment, but it\’s one of the best examples of this that you can find, and just as valid a film as rarefied arthouse fare like \’Last Year at Marienbad.\’ I suspect there are a lot of Playlisters who slam Titanic, but rave about their new DVD of \’Umbrellas of Cherbourg,\’ which is equally well made, and just as audience-pleasing in it\’s design.

I think all we should ever ask is that films are made well; judge them by what they\’re attempting, not by what you wish it would be. I have no trouble with people saying Titanic isn\’t their kind of movie, or they didn\’t think it was well made. But I think that for many of us, the negative response is pure elitism; it\’s nothing to do with the film, and all to do with our self-image. Which is not only weirdly self -limiting for people who propose to love film, but it\’s anti-cinema. If the cinematic experience is about anything, it\’s about forgetting yourself, and giving yourself over to the film you are watching.

By: Mr Anonymous

Mr Anonymous — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:31:51 +0000

Titanic in 3D? Does that even make sense? It\’s a boat!
What\’s 3D about it?

If i want anything in 3D from that movie it should be Kate Winslet\’s perky breasts being shoved right in my face! Other than that, what a joke!

Complete sellout.

By: hmm

hmm — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:31:51 +0000

Actually PM, Cameron has never been completely against conversion. He doesn\’t like the half-assed job of doing it

By: rodie

rodie — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:31:51 +0000

James Cameron makes me want to puke a lot of puke.

By: PM

PM — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:31:51 +0000

@BuntyHoven – Those are called \”yes\” people.

Cameron, what a hypocrite, railing on and on against 3D conversion, but then he realizes that everyone makes a buck and he felt left out. Oh wait, but this is DIFFERENT! HE\’S doing the conversion, which means it will be much better than everyone else\’s conversion, so therefore, it\’s justified and will advance Hollywood into the next stage of mind blowing 3D conversion. So all that ranting before- it wasn\’t against 3D conversion itself, it was against everyone else\’s crappy conversion and not waiting to see how HE does it.

By: BuntyHoven

BuntyHoven — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:31:51 +0000

I wonder if they\’ll have fixed those floating CGI sailors striding about on deck. I remember when it came out, Cameron was bragging how he showed it to some folks early on and they couldn\’t tell the difference between the CGI people and the real actors. Then the movie came out and EVERYONE could spot the weird, robotic CGI people who seemed to walk above the ground in a weirdly unnatural style.

By: Whitney Warren

Whitney Warren — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:31:51 +0000

Titanic came out 14 years ago and James Cameron is still milking it. Until recently, he was still milking Avatar as well. Anyone who goes to see this is living in the past.

He has got to be the greediest man in Hollywood. All those billions of dollars are not enough for him and he is still not satisfied.
You don\’t see Nolan and Abrams milking Batman and Star Trek.

By: mike_m

mike_m — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:31:51 +0000

Well I know what I will be skipping that weekend.

as for:

\”You know we’d have settled for a new print of “The Godfather,” right?\”

2 or 3 years ago new prints of The Godfather and Godfather 2 were playing around the country. I caught them both at NY Film Forum.

By: KT

KT — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:31:51 +0000

I for one have never seen this movie.

And I never will.