Review of Titanic 3D

Just like many boyfriends throughout the world, I have a girlfriend whom is in love with Leonardo DiCaprio and the whole love story of Titanic. However, I always enjoyed the movie when it was on TV and I've always wanted to experience more of James Cameron's work on the big screen. Before I get started on this review I am going to state that Titanic is one from my list of five classic movies I want to see in the cinema. These five films being Back to The Future (seen remastered on the 25th Anniversary), Jurassic Park (seen on re-release in 2011), Titanic (obviously seen the 3D re-release), Star Wars Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back and Saving Private Ryan. Also I am not actually going to review the film itself, purely because it has been out so long that anyone who wants to see it, will have seen it by now. I am just reviewing the 3D conversion and the cinematic experience.

Firstly, this film is brilliant in the cinema, the atmosphere enhances the whole experience, the music, the sheer size of Titanic, the crushing forces of the water is magnetized. You feel a lot more involved than you do when you're just watching it on the TV at home. Now the 3D conversion of this film has been done fairly well, obviously the film was never made with 3D in mind, so there's no eye popping scenes with items flying out of the screen (but the scene where the guy falls and hits off the propeller is still highly amusing, and looks great in 3D), so the 3D in this film has been coordinated in order to make the things on screen look more real. This is most obvious in scenes between just two people (Jack and Rose for example), the 3D clearly defines the distance between the two people. Apart from that there isn't much else I can say about the 3D, apart from that it emphasizes the size of the ship, especially when it is sinking.

However, everything that is positive about the film I sore today, is the film itself. The 3D conversion may have made it look good, but for all I know, it probably looked brilliant in the cinemas when it first came out. A 3D conversion wasn't necessary, it was purely a way to make more money out of the film. It was bound to get a re-release anyway because of the 100 Year Anniversary of the sinking, so James Cameron decided to make it 3D like everything else coming out at the moment. Nothing decent ever seems to come out of converting a film into 3D, the only reason we go to see 3D re-releases is because we like the films they're bringing back out.

So in conclusion, it's a good film, one of those films you have to see before you die, the 3D makes it look slightly better, but it's not necessary (they probably would have made just as much just releasing it as it was). I sore the first showing of it at my local cinema, and it wasn't even half full, so it's debatable how successful this re-release will be. As a film, I rate Titanic an 8/10, it's a classic, a bit long (I was knackered by the end of it), but a really good piece of film work; but as a 3D conversion, I would only give it a 4/10 at the most.