Looking for the latest trend at the movie theaters?
It’s not just 3-D but re-releases of popular titles in 3-D. Disney is leading the way with 3-D upgrades of several popular animated titles, including last weekend’s release of Beauty and the Beast in 3-D. Also to follow this year is a 3-D release of Pixar’s Finding Nemo.
Fans will also get to venture to a galaxy far, far away in 3-D when the upgraded Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace hits theaters next month.
Director James Cameron’s Titanic, which ruled the world as the most successful film ever when it was released in 1997, returns April 6, and Pixar’s Finding Nemo from 2003 follows on Sept. 14.
As usual, Cameron is enthusiastic about the new technology and his use of it. “Even the scene where (Kate Winslet’s) mother puts her corset on her. In 3-D its mesmerizing,” says Cameron. “It brings the rest of the movie up to the big sweeping thing you remember. The intimacy is accented.”
It should, considering the price tag. To convert the film required a crew of 300 people and an investment of $18 million.
Cameron says he has been pushing for the Titanic 3D re-release for about five years, specially timed for the 100th anniversary of the vessel’s doomed voyage and the 15th anniversary of his own film’s release.
“Titanic has moved to that latter stage of its life cycle where it’s just seen on video, and it doesn’t work the same way,” Cameron says. “When you see the movie in the theater, it leaves you wrung out emotionally. We’re promising people a special experience even if they know the film. They are still going to get something new.”
Do. Not. Give. A. Crap.
However… I can think of a scene in Titanic that I might find more mesmerizing in 3D than Rose’s mom putting a corset on her.
AndyMac, I was thinking the same thing.
I may see it in 3D. I saw Once in theater when it originally came out. It wasn’t that bad of a movie.
It wasn’t until that song was played non-stop that you wanted it to die.