Titanic Movie Reviews

It took some 300 hundred people, 60 weeks, 279,000 frames and $18 million more (initially costing some $200 million) for director James Cameron to sink the Titanic all over again. Not to say, his earlier Titanic (1997) did not have its fair share of numbers to deal with: a movie stretching to 194 minutes; a movie bagging 11 Oscars that year. The fact that James Cameron managed to blend steamy romance with mind-blowing depiction of disaster

Watching Titanic on the big screen again, I felt a surge of nostalgia sweep through me. Great movies have a timeless quality to them, and Titanic is nothing if not a great movie. Set against a historical event whose outcome we already knew (the ship sinks!), James Cameron delivered an irresistible love story between free-spirited steerage-class passenger Jack Dawson, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and Kate Winslet's Rose DeWitt Bukater

When James Cameron announced his intention to re-release Titanic in 3D, it met with mixed reactions. While most were curious to discover Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater and their doomed romance in an enhanced dimension, there were many who were wary of whether technology would tamper with a timeless tale. Which is what was on my mind when I sat in a dark auditorium at INOX (Forum) on a rainy Thursday evening, yellow-rimmed 3D glasses