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I had never noticed that until this most recent viewing!

I really like the way you’ve called attention to this angle on the film. I wasn’t thinking about it that way when I first saw it in 1997, but as I was rewatching it the other week, that framing of the theme really stood out to me as I watched it, but I was having a hard time putting that thought...

That’s certainly the implication the SPR filmmakers seem to intend the audience to make. One could charitably call it a misdirect (a less charitable interpretation would be to consider it a cheat).

Old Rose is 101. Jack was older than Rose when they met. It’s perfectly reasonable for the audience to begin the film allowing for the possibility that he survived the Titanic sinking and simply died of old age before she did.

That shot has always looked dodgy to me, going back to 97.

Like Spielberg with the original Jurassic Park, Cameron did a brilliant job of blending the practical and the CGI. Even when a purely CGI shot shows up that doesn’t quite hold to today’s standards, the world building and sense of immersion is so complete that it all just works. It was a towering...

Three of those use the same technology - RealD 3D is a circular polarized format, and that’s used in the RealD version. “Dine-in RealD” is the same thing - it just means that the theater has food service (dining) available. AMC Prime uses RealD. IMAX with Laser and Dolby Cinema both use a...

Stick up his butt? I find it interesting that the HTF mission statement mentions that one of our core values as a group is that we are supportive of filmmakers getting to present their movies the way they want them to be seen, but when that way is 3D, all of a sudden, we conveniently forget...

The IMAX laser projectors are 4K but that doesn’t mean everything shown on them is actually in 4K, the same way we can have UHD TVs at home and still watch DVDs on them. Because there’s almost no market for 4K 3D DCPs, the DCP spec hasn’t been updated to support them, and studios don’t spend...

The official DCP specs provide for only 2K resolution for 3D content. However, IMAX and Dolby Cinemas use their own proprietary equipment and DCP formats and can display 3D in 4K - if, and it’s a big if - the studio has gone to the trouble to actually create a 4K 3D master. That’s only...

Probably working out contractual and scheduling details regarding the premium formats, which remain with Avatar and which go to Titanic.

Theaters typically do not announce all of their showtimes until much closer to release date - in my area, showtimes come out Wednesday for the new week beginning the following day (Thursday). If it is a film they have a contractual obligation to release advance sales for, they will typically...

I saw Titanic I think seven times during its original run. It was great to go back and see the audience actually grow. That sort of thing really doesn’t happen anymore and I think we’d all be better off if it did. I think we lose out when the only movies that make an impact are one that can be...

The promise of a movie at the end of the week was enough to keep me in line! :D

I first saw it at the Syosset theater on Long Island which was the last single screen theater in the area. They had a huge, deeply curved screen that never failed to impress. When I was growing up, my mom would try to take me and my brothers to a movie every Friday if we behaved during the...