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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097361313443
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Running Time: 194 minutes
Sales Rank: 806
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: December 19, 1997
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Product Description:
Leonardo DiCaprio and Oscar-nominatee Kate Winslet light up the screen as Jack and Rose the young lovers who find one another on the maiden voyage of the 'unsinkable' R.M.S. Titanic. But when the doomed luxury liner collides with an iceberg in the frigid North Atlantic their passionate love affair becomes a thrilling race for survival. From acclaimed filmmaker James Cameron comes a tale of forbidden love and courage in the face of disaster that triumphs as a true cinematic masterpiece.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/BIOGRAPHY UPC: 097361313443 Manufacturer No: 131344
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When the theatrical release of James Cameron's Titanic was delayed from July to December of 1997, media pundits speculated that Cameron's $200 million disaster epic would cause the director's downfall, signal the end of the blockbuster era, and sink Paramount Studios as quickly as the ill-fated luxury liner had sunk on that fateful night of April 14, 1912. Some studio executives were confident, others horrified, but the clarity of hindsight turned Cameron into an Oscar-winning genius, a shrewd businessman, and one of the most successful directors in the history of motion pictures. Titanic would surpass the $1 billion mark in global box-office receipts (largely due to multiple viewings, the majority by teenage girls), win 11 Academy Awards including best picture and director, produce the best-selling movie soundtrack of all time, and make a global superstar of Leonardo DiCaprio. A bona fide pop-cultural phenomenon, the film has all the ingredients of a blockbuster (romance, passion, luxury, grand scale, a snidely villain, and an epic, life-threatening crisis), but Cameron's alchemy of these ingredients proved more popular than anyone could have predicted. His stroke of genius was to combine absolute authenticity with a pair of fictional lovers whose tragic fate would draw viewers into the heart-wrenching reality of the Titanic disaster. As starving artist Jack Dawson and soon-to-be-married socialite Rose DeWitt Bukater, DiCaprio and Kate Winslet won the hearts of viewers around the world, and their brief but never-forgotten love affair provides the humanity that Cameron needed to turn Titanic into an emotional experience. Present-day framing scenes (featuring Gloria Stuart as the 101-year-old Rose) add additional resonance to the story, and although some viewers proved vehemently immune to Cameron's manipulations, few can deny the production's impressive achievements. Although some of the computer-generated visual effects look artificial, others--such as the sunset silhouette of Titanic during its first evening at sea, or the climactic splitting of the ship's sinking hull--are state-of-the-art marvels. In terms of sets and costumes alone, the film is never less than astounding. More than anything else, however, the film's overwhelming popularity speaks for itself. Titanic is an event film and a monument to Cameron's risk-taking audacity, blending the tragic irony of the Titanic disaster with just enough narrative invention to give the historical event its fullest and most timeless dramatic impact. Titanic is an epic love story on par with Gone with the Wind, and like that earlier box-office phenomenon, it's a film for the ages. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - TITANIC finally gets the special collector's edition treatment it deserves and is loaded with over 3 hours of footage.
I admit... I've watched the film TITANIC three times in the theater and hunted city after city for the TITANIC soundtrack for that one Celine Dion song.
Afterall, this movie was hyped as a mega blockbuster that would later become a winner of 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture.
I also waited in line with almost a hundred other fans to get the VHS release but when the first DVD release came out, I didn't buy it.
I was a bit dismayed ... Read More
Rating: - Saw it about thirty times in theaters...
and now have it in my dvd collection. It's been over a decade, but Titanic is a timeless masterpiece that never goes out of date. This movie has a little bit of everything in it...action, romance,...you laugh...you cry. Leo and Kate made us care about what happened to them. I think one of the reasons this movie has touched so many people is becauce, quite honestly, we are looking for a love like this...a love this deep...this profound. Am I ready to go back to Titanic?...Always. And I would recommend ... Read More
Rating: - The Greatest movie Ever Made
This is by far the Greatest movie of all time hands down this movie has everything a movie should have the love story is amazing and is also a movie everyone could watch if u dont have this DVD i highly recommend u buy.I personally have all 3 dvd versions of this movie there loaded with very nice extras so if i were u i go for the 3 disc edition..
Rating:  - Hilarious alternate ending
Really, what else needs to be said about Titanic? This edition has some great background material that you'll enjoy including an alternate ending that will have you rolling and pounding on the floor! I'm not sure who ultimately gets the the credit for the one that we all know but from this you can see that the editing room doesn't get near enough credit.
Rating:  - Maudlin
Not everyone who leaves a negative review about this film has an anti-Cameron agenda, and not everyone who leaves a positive review is a naive 13 year-old girl. I am not a kid, but was unable to publish this review without leaving my real name and real address, so phooey to that. Onward...
There are those of us who simply didn't like the movie, who felt it was cloying and suffered from shallow, cliched characterizations. The romance was laughable, as was the obviousness of the "poor folk" ... Read More
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