Titanic 3D

The RMS Titanic as seen in the movie

It's been fifteen years since James Cameron's Titanic made moviegoers fall in love with Jack and Rose with exception of this movie reviewer. I only seen it once back then but I remember people I know got to watch it more than ten times. It also won most of the coveted awards during the Academy awards that year but not the best performance in an actor/actress for Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet for their respective roles as Jack and Rose. The movie got the Best Picture award that year.

The movie released in 3D was a timely commemoration of RMS Titanic's Centennial Year from it's maiden voyage and tragedy. Even before the movie's first release back in '97, I was already interested in the Titanic. I first got interested in the Titanic after reading my favorite paperback novelist, Clive Cussler when he wrote his third Dirk Pitt adventure, Raise The Titanic! in 1976. Although the novel was fiction, the accuracy of the Titanic's resting place noted in the novel was accurately close to its rediscovery in 1985.

Back to the movie, although it was based on the events that took place as one of the nightmarish sea disasters in history, James Cameron's Titanic is still considered fiction. Fans may be disappointed to see that there is no real passengers by the name of Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater, the movie's main characters. But there are real life characters in the movie such as  Thomas Andrews; the builder of Titanic, Edward Smith; Titanic's captain, John Jacob Astor IV; the richest passenger on board, Molly Brown(Kathy Baker); one of the characters whose exploits of were not included in the movie, Wallace Hartley the ship's band leader and a lot more.

There are scenes that are historically accurate in the movies. There are two scenes from the historical documents and the famous quote, "Not even God can sink this ship". There are also issues about the Titanic that also raised some concerns. Besides that it was not christened and that there were negligent crew who failed to look out for the incoming iceberg too late and the lack of life boats, Titanic ignored the radio warning of icebergs from the passing ship SS Californian. The logic of saving women and children first into the lifeboats is not always the solution. After being rescued by RMS Carpathia, the tragedy left many children orphaned. Either the family live as one unit or they might as well be all dead than be separated if there are limited life boats. This was evaluated by maritime experts for possible tragedies that may happen in the future.

The main reason for me to see to this movie is not only because I was invited but more on the historical aspect of it. In the next few days after the re-release in 3D, Titanic will commemorate its centennial year of its maiden voyage and tragedy. As for the 3D, it was not as different when I first watched back in '97 but the 3D made a more fluid feeling of the special effects that was used in the movie. During the advance screening where I was invited, I heard someone cried during the tragic moments. My thoughts of the movie is a perspective of a second time viewer but it would be good for those who will watch it for the first time since there is a newer generation of viewers since it was shown fifteen years ago. Hopefully, it could also make a box office hit as it was back in 1997. Titanic in 3D opens April 7 in 3D cinemas.

ABOARD WITH THE KING OF THE WORLD AND ROSE IN “TITANIC” 3D

Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet

Return to the deep as 20^th Century fox brings back “Titanic” in 3D to the big screen on a global theatrical release on April coinciding with its 100^th anniversary since sailing.

Opening April 7^th in the Phils., the most celebrated film in history is presented to an untapped new generation of audience in 3D format. 

            James Cameron who pioneered the first and only truly immersive 3D in “Avatar” brings back timeless “Titanic” in its full glory with enhanced, never-before-seen experience re-mastered in digital 3D.  Starring today’s most admired and accomplished actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, “Titanic” first released in 1997 is an epic romance and disaster film.  A fictionalized story of what was then believed to be unsinkable, “Titanic” is the voyage of the most luxurious ship ever built, the RMS Titanic where Jack (DiCaprio) and Rose (Winslet) fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage.  

            Amid the thick crowd of well-wishers before the ship’s sail, Rose and Jack would soon meet that would change their lives forever.  Rose, a 17-year-old belonging to the upper class American society is suffocating under the rigid expectations of her class suddenly finds herself drawn to the free-spirited steerage passenger Jack.   Rose and Jack's forbidden love begins a powerful mystery that ultimately echoes across the years into the present. Nothing on earth is going to come between them -- not even something as unimaginable as the sinking of Titanic.

            Prepare to board when “TITANIC”  3D sets sail once again worldwide on April 7 (Saturday) from 20^th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros. (in Phils.).

“TITANIC 3D” TRAILER MAIDEN VOYAGE ON NOV. 17

Kate Winslet and Leo DiCaprio in Titanic 3D

A cautionary epic action-romance based on historical facts, James Cameron’s “Titanic” sets sail once again in Philippine cinemas on April 7 (Saturday) in 3D starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.  First released in 1997, “Titanic” has remained the 2^nd highest-grossing film of all time.  

“Titanic” starts its maiden voyage with an agora of British nobility, American industrialists, New York’s and Philadelphia’s best and hopeful poor emigrants in a gilded era where star-crossed lovers Rose Dewitt Bukater (Winslet) and Jack Dawson (DiCaprio) met aboard the ill-fated passenger ship.  

            The largest and most luxurious moving machine ever built, Titanic is the pride of the White Star Line and at the time. Touted as the ship of dreams, Titanic carried over 1, 500 people to their death at the waters of North Atlantic when it hit an iceberg early morning of April 15, 1912. On board “Titanic,” the journey also sees ambitious fortune hunter (Bill Paxton) who is determined to plumb the treasures of this once-stately ship, only to bring to the surface a story left untold.  Amidst the thick crowd of well-wishers before the ship’s sail, Rose and Jack would soon meet that would change their lives forever.  Rose, a 17-year-old belonging to the upper class American society is suffocating under the rigid expectations of her time suddenly finds herself drawn to the free-spirited steerage passenger Jack.   Rose and Jack's forbidden love begins a powerful mystery that ultimately echoes across the years into the present. Nothing on earth is going to come between them -- not even something as unimaginable as the sinking of Titanic.

            Also on board the massive, marvelous Titanic are Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), heir to a huge fortune and Rose's fiancé and Ruth DeWitt Bukater (Frances Fisher), Rose's socially driven mother. Oscar® winner Kathy Bates is featured as the ship's most colorful real-life passenger, Molly Brown. Other historic figures include Captain E.J. Smith (Bernard Hill), White Star Line's managing director J. Bruce Ismay (Jonathan Hyde), and master shipbuilder and primary architect of Titanic, Thomas Andrews (Victor Garber). Also in this devastating hand of fate dealt to the passengers of Titanic are an Italian emigrant named Fabrizio De Rossi (Danny Nucci), Jack's poor but determined best friend; and Spicer Lovejoy (David Warner), Cal Hockley's ruthlessly loyal valet. 

            From 20^th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and Lightstorm Entertainment, “Titanic” will be available in 3D and 2D digital screens to be distributed by Warner Bros. in the Philippines.

            “Titanic 3D” trailer will have its maiden release on 20^th Century Fox (Philippines) Facebook page and www.Clickthecity.com on November 17 (Thursday).  

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