Up until Avatar last year, Titanic was by far the most successful movie of all time (not adjusted for inflation, naturally), and since James Cameron is all about three dimensions nowadays, we're getting a theatrical 3D rerelease of the film early next year. In order to let the world know about said rerelease, a trailer and poster for Titanic 3D are now online and ready to view.
Time has heightened many of the film's flaws, and the backlash against Titanic was vicious enough that is easy to forget just how impossibly popular the film was after its 1997 debut. This trailer, though, works overtime to push its audience's collective nostalgia-button, and if the sight of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as crazy kids falling in every shade of love doesn't get you, then James Horner's score might just do the trick. And if that doesn't work, Celine Dion and the unabashed melodrama of "My Heart Will Go On" will be the nostalgia iceberg colliding with your vulnerable heart.
Imagine that, but in 3D. And now for the poster, which showcases Jack and Rose in their doomed embrace as the ship sinks beneath them. Some atmospheric stuff provides a visual reminder that yes, this will involve three dimensions.
DiCaprio's hair has always seemed oddly anachronistic. That's late 1990's Tiger Beat dreamboat hair, not the hair of an impoverished, roaming artiste in 1912. Still, I remember young ladies seeing the film more than half a dozen times with a passionate fervor that would make Twilight's fanbase seem restrained, so the dreamy hair must've been a solid choice.
Jack sketches Rose like one of his French girls in 3D on April 6, 2012, when "The World's Most Beloved And Acclaimed Film" re-arrives in theaters.
