Titanic | Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet | MORE THAN A POPULAR ROMANTIC MOVIE...

Titanic | Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet | TITANIC finally gets the special collector's edition treatment it deserves and is loaded with over 3 hours of footage.

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Titanic

	Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet Paramount, 1998 average customer review:based on 2119 reviews view larger image
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When 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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MORE THAN A POPULAR ROMANTIC MOVIE...

Everyone knows this film for being a multi-million-dollar epic as well as a definitive love story (with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet); less mentioned (but more of the film's actual concern) is its uplifting portrayal of a woman's liberation out of repression, set within a real historical time and setting used to create a symbolic fable.

The point is hammered home in its scene of the young Rose viewing a little girl folding her napkin on her lap (a girl she remembers in horror as herself) and its final scene of the elderly Rose happily drifting off with photos of her full life around her. The Jack in her life (even if fleeting) has given her wings. Looking at this being the main theme of the story, the film is not a tragedy but a triumph in a woman finding herself (through Jack) and living a full life without letting others dictate who she will become.

On this level, even as its deceptive surface emphasizes its tragic love story, it's a masterpiece that Joseph Campbell would have venerated using a real-life tragic event to tell a positive, life-affirming story of a woman finding herself utilizing the iconography of Freudian dream symbolism.

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TITANIC finally gets the special collector's edition treatment it deserves and is loaded with over 3 hours of footage.

I admit... I've watched the film TITANIC three times in the theater and hunted city after city for the TITANIC soundtrack for that one Celine Dion song.

Afterall, this movie was hyped as a mega blockbuster that would later become a winner of 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture.

I also waited in line with almost a hundred other fans to get the VHS release but when the first DVD release came out, I didn't buy it.

I was a bit dismayed by the lack of special features and the fact that the film was divided into two discs.

Knowing that popular DVD's tend to be re-released in different incarnations with a "deluxe this" or "premium that" , TITANIC has finally returned as a Special Collectior's Edition.

The Special Collector's Edition does not disappoint as it is loaded with over 3 hours of special features.

Included in this special version are cast and crew commentaries by director James Cameron, Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart, Lewis Abernathy, Jon Landau and Rae Sanchini. Historical commentary by Doon Lynch and Ken Marschall.

To my disappointment, the movie again is split up into two discs Thus you will need to get up from your seat to change the DVD when you get close to the two hour mark.

But fortunately, DVD space is utiltized well with the inclusion of branching technology, so when ever you want to know how certain scenes were made, you have an option to watch the behind-the-scenes featurettes while watching the movie.

The DVD looks great and audiophiles should be pleased to learn that Dolby Digital 5.1 ES and also 6.1 DTS ES is available.

Disc 2 includes the alternate ending titled "Brock's Epiphany" which is based on the original script. Which I'm glad that Jim Cameron edited out of the final verison. Also, included on this disc is the music video of Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On". But I'm a bit surprised how dated the music video looks.

On Disc 3, this disc features all the TITANIC goodies with 45 minutes of never-before-seen deleted scenes with optional commentary. This was actually very interesting to watch and listen to why James Cameron removed those scenes. Included also was the FOX special "Breaking New Ground", press kit featurettes, 1912 newsreel which was more of taking footage of the actors in costume and making it look like footage from 1912.

Construction timelapse, deep dive presentation, video matics, video effects breakdowns, still galleries and so much more.

In closing, I admit that I was originally dismayed that the movie was split into two disc's but with the addition of the behind-the-scene brancing featurettes with the film, I can understand why.

The number of TITANIC footage on this Special Collector's Edition is simply amazing.

If you are a big fan of this TITANIC film, this DVD Special Collector's Edition is definitely a must-buy!

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Amazing Titanic edition!

This three disc special edition is a great set for all collectors to have. The special features on this edition are amazing and to see how James Cameron was able to make the movie look like you were on the Titanic itself back in 1912 is outstanding. Even the fine details that they put into the set is excellent. Along with that, the acting was done well by all the actors which showed this dramatic event which occured 96 years ago. This movie allows people to see the true events which occurred on that cold night on April 15, 1912 and helps to remind everyone of the tragedy of the amazing ship Titanic.

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Modern day classic by a modern day film genius

I was one of the few who knew this was going to be good.
The hype before the film came out was mostly negative. Plagued by delays the film quickly became the most expensive film ever made. But I was steadfast on seeing it, because I liked all of James Cameron's films, and I was certain to go see this one regardless of what the story was.

And then the film came out and it was great. May not have been the best picture of the year, but it is one of the few films that have won best picture that weren't the best pictures of their year, that I believed earned the title because of the struggle the filmmakers went through to make this movie.

Now, watching and listening to James Cameron's commentary, ten years after the film's release, I like it even more, for he explains in this feature length commentary, how things he was doing in Titanic were revolutionary, but have now become the norm. The green screen compositing to transition from one sceen to the next, used ad-nausea in Speed Racer was pioneered in Titanic. The computer generated extensions of backgrounds and sets that were used in films such as Garden State was in the infancy stage when Cameron used it on this film. Cameron is big on research, and you can tell by the detail he goes into the story and each character that appears on the screen. His very insightful and thorough commentary and I strongly recommend it for anybody who wants to be a filmmaker.

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