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- First reviewJuly 26, 2008
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Another movie redux
PostedApril 24, 2012
tanis118
from southeast Michigan
Age:25 to 34
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:monthly
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Special Effects
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Art Direction
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Story
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Camerawork
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Seeing "Titanic" again, 15 years after it came out, was definitely a nostalgic experience. The original 2D version was good, and they worked really hard to make a good 3D version; not just slapping stuff into the foreground or background but giving a true sense of all three dimensions.
Unfortunately, this does little to help the first half of the movie, about Jack & Rose, which is mostly dialogue-driven, and while the sumptuous sets stand out a little more in 3D, they don't benefit tremendously from the re-release. It's the second half, the disaster sequence, which explodes into real life. When that poor soul falls from the aft railing, nicks one of the massive bronze screws, and tumbles lifelessly down to the water, it's enough to make one wince. As the stern section is pulled vertical and people begin sliding down the deck like bowling balls, the horror is amplified.
This changed the nature of the movie for me. Instead of being a love story set against a famous disaster, it became a story of what a terrible fall comes after pride of the worst kind. In light of the "Costa Concordia" disaster, it makes one think about greedy corporations more concerned about press and uncluttered promenade decks than cautious voyages through ice and a second row of lifeboats. When you learn that "Titanic" foundered because those who built her didn't understand the necessity of controlling the temperature of the steel during smelting and thus allowed impurities to form, you then look 100 years into the future and see ships that grow taller without concern for the hydrodynamic stability of the vessel, or crews that aren't required to spend time in disaster simulations, as airline crews are required. You watch the movie and see the bloody, incomprehensible conclusion of a voyage driven by a bottom line, not by concern for human welfare, and then you pick up a newspaper and wonder if we aren't making the same mistakes all over again.
Pros well paced, great story, great actors
Cons may be too dramatic
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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RiffTrax strikes again!
PostedNovember 5, 2010
tanis118
from southeast Michigan
I swear, me and my party were laughing so hard during the beginning of the film that we were too weak and exhausted to do much more than chuckle at the end. But the riffers kept it funny from start to finish.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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The Snooze Files
PostedJuly 26, 2008
tanis118
from southeast Michigan
This was, quite simply, an awful movie. The biggest issue is that there was nothing about this movie that was essentially "X-Files." This story could have been told just as easily without Mulder & Scully. Also, fans of the show will find themselves wondering how Mulder, last seen hiding and under sentence of death from the alien-controlled "shadow government," has managed to survive untouched in the years since the series' end. And the same motif of Scully the Disbeliever vs. Mulder the Believer makes no sense in light of all the evidence she saw over the years, which brought about a gradual transformation in her character; it's as if she forgot everything she saw--from the alien fetus at Ft. Detrick and the murder of Deep Throat in Season 1's "The Ernlenmeyer Flask" to the death of reborn alien "supersoldier" Knowle Rohrer in Season 9's "The Truth"--and is choosing to pretend as if none of it ever happened. It's like watching an argument between them which should have occurred in Season 1. It feels like Chris Carter hit the reset button and asked us to forget everything we've seen.
The biggest offense is the small scale of the story. Bringing Mulder back to the FBI (albeit temporarily) and pulling Scully out of her work should have been done for something truly groundbreaking. Instead, it was an a minor story, no more groundbreaking than a standard "monster-of-the-week" episode. If they brought these two back, it should have been to stop the alien invasion for good. Because, like it or not, the Mythology is what the fans watched the show for--to uncover the pieces one by one. The movie should have brought us back to that world, not to a standard police case with a psychic twist.
The biggest offense is the small scale of the story. Bringing Mulder back to the FBI (albeit temporarily) and pulling Scully out of her work should have been done for something truly groundbreaking. Instead, it was an a minor story, no more groundbreaking than a standard "monster-of-the-week" episode. If they brought these two back, it should have been to stop the alien invasion for good. Because, like it or not, the Mythology is what the fans watched the show for--to uncover the pieces one by one. The movie should have brought us back to that world, not to a standard police case with a psychic twist.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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