|
Tangent Warning
I liked Titanic, but mostly because I am a Titanic freak, and I loved the verisimilitude of the ship and the sets and everything down to the dishes, and the way the sinking happened. It all LOOKED exactly like it would have.
But I had no feeling for fictional characters and their stupid class-barrier romance and their fake deaths.
Conversely, A Night to Remember, an earlier film about the same events, filmed on a barge with a four dollar budget (comparatively speaking), moves me to tears when the Titanic sinks and the stories of real people are involved. Of course, the sinking was directed more like a tear-jerker than an action flick, but I found that much more fitting. Too bad the sensibilities of one couldn't be combined with the art direction of the other. Together, they make one helluva good Titantic film.
Still would not be as good as Toy Story 3.
|