Titanic 4K Ultra HD [Blu-ray] [Region Free]

Love this movie .I watch it often.

Love this set It's loaded with extras and you'll spend several hours enjoying it.

For the product itself, that is, the DVD, it was perfect, BOTH of them! I ordered a used one, and it took too long so I ordered a new one. They both came, and so far I've played only the used one! That a DVD is good is not much of an issue. The bigger issue is the movie, that is, the story. I got interested in the movie because of some YouTube videos of James Cameron going to the wreck of the Titanic and elsewhere to the bottom of the ocean, especially the Challenger Deep, about 7 miles down, the deepest part of the ocean. Then I decided to watch his movie 'Titanic' again! Well, the movie had enough in it on the actual ship, the weaknesses in its design, and the mistakes in its operation. Okay, got that, but it took only maybe 10% of the time of the movie. Next the movie was a story about the strong class differences between first and third class. Okay, the first class eats rare lamb with mint sauce for lunch and caviar with champagne for dinner! Next, get to see something of the style and mannerisms of rich/royal people then. The few times I've been in a yacht club dinning room, the style and mannerisms are still in force. Next the movie is a love story between a surprisingly bright third class boy, Jack, and a gorgeous but scared, confused, and frustrated first class girl, Rose, already engaged to a son, Cal, of the wealthy owner of a Pittsburgh steel company. The first class sex role differences are really strong: The men are concerned with business and politics as it affects business, and the women are wildly over dressed, cared for, and limited to narrow, empty versions of social small talk and gossip. Rose is afraid, terrified, of the "inertia" of her life that is pushing her beyond her control into the emptiness of the first class female roles. In particular she is terrified of the power of her future husband Cal. He's actually a pretty nice guy, adores Rose, but has zero insight into her fears and other emotions. If she would just go along with the established wife's role, then he wouldn't need insight. She didn't have to be afraid: She COULD have played the empty role some times and done interesting things other times. And the story had a woman who punctured the role, Molly Brown, a new-rich woman from the US West, Rose could have used as an example and/or tutor. So, in a peak moment of fear and frustration, Rose decides to jump off the back of the ship. As she is outside the railing ready to jump, Jack sees her and talks her back. They have a friendship. He has some, not a lot, of good insight into Rose's problems, and that comforts her. They have a fast love affair. She decides that when the ship reaches NY, she will exit the ship with Jack. The ship sinks, and Jack dies of the cold water. Rose lives from being on top of some floating wood and being picked up by the rescue efforts pulled in by wireless SOS calls a little before the ship sank. Cal also lives, on the rescue ship looks for Rose. She sees him, ignores him, and he doesn't see her. She was REALLY afraid of the rich life style! Cal was really slow on the uptake! With her love affair with the boy, she was REALLY eager to give up financial security and jump into poverty. The love affair was a bit of a strain to believe, but I've seen some women that were that mixed up! But the costumes, sets, music, acting, directing, computer animation are all so good it is very good story telling!

If you are a Titanic fan, you must have this DVD set. Order it, and then clear your schedule for a weekend because you won't be leaving the house for a while. Here are some of the highlights: The cast and crew commentary is certainly varied, with producers Jon Landau and Rae Sanchini commenting throughout and then Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart, various supporting characters and even extras and stunt people chiming in with behind the scenes stories. Interesting to find out about the scene where Jack and Rose are taking their first daylight walk on the deck and Jack confronts Rose by asking her if she loves Cal. That wasn't in the original script and was only added at the insistence of Kate and Leo that there be something more than hearts and flowers in the Jack - Rose relationship. The historical commentary with Don Lynch & Ken Marschall was fun. Cal and Rose may be arguing on screen - but Don and Ken are talking about the historically accurate White Start Line ashtrays on the dresser. Of course, sometimes we are back on a set they've already dissected, so they are reduced to watching the movie and saying things like "I love that line!", just like any fan. Motor-mouth James Cameron gets his own directors track where he tries to give background on every shot: "This is on the set, and then now we cut to models with CGI water; now this is back on the set with green screen and now we're in the tank with models and the boats in the background are CGI, and now we're..." It may be more than most can take for the length of this movie. Still, Jim actually gives more historical background that Don and Ken - he obviously knows his stuff and is very passionate. Breaking New Ground - The Making Of Titanic Tv Special is a good behind the scenes feature, particularly for people who want some of the backstage story but won't be taking the time to get into the commentaries and "pods" where much of this is explored in even more detail. Titanic Crew Video is a hoot - one of the AD's took home video footage of the shoot and then edited it together with some of the movie scenes (along with a few shots from Poseidon Adventure and other old films) for comic effect. Low brow - but funny. (I particularly liked the shot of Titanic pulling out of the harbor with a big "Sink Me" Post-It digitally slapped on to the stern.) Then, of course, there's always The Movie: I realize that there are a lot of people who disagree about this - but I think Titanic is an incredible screenplay. Yes, some of the dialog is inane, and yes, Cal does everything but twirl his moustache (if he had one). But screenplays are not built on dialog. (Case in point - Star Wars. Some of the worst dialog ever written - but still a compelling and entertaining movie.) Screenplays are about structure and visual storytelling. And it's here that Titanic excels. The first problem in writing a screenplay of the Titanic story is this: how do you get beyond the tragic numbers (1500 people dead) make people care about these long forgotten people? Enter Rose, Cal, and Jack - a cross-class love triangle. Their story will show the audience the ship as well as the social structure of the day. (And you can't understand Titanic without grasping the social underpinnings.) The second issue the screenwriter has to overcome is the Apollo 13 problem: everyone already knows how the tale ends. Enter Brock and his modern-day crew. What I love about the opening of Titanic is that you are expecting to see this 1912 story with Kate and Leo, but for the first 20 minutes you are firmly in the present. This tells the audience that, like Brock the treasure hunter, they don't know this story the way they think they do. They need Rose to take them back to Titanic and paint the triumph and tragedy of the great ship. The film is visually audacious - the angles are dramatic and unimaginable. Where previous Titanic movies have shot scenes tightly to disguise the fact that the real ship isn't there - Cameron boldly goes for big helicopter views. Even the close shots have deep detailed backgrounds. Finally, the themes of the film acted out by the characters, are the drawn from the lessons of Titanic as well. Rose begins the story corseted into a beautiful, but narrow existence with limited possibilities. She leaves all that behind in the North Atlantic, and embarks on a life with no security - but unlimited possibilities. On a larger scale, Titanic was that beautiful but strictly controlled society. But, passengers and crew found out that you can't control everything, and the grand world broke apart and sank into chaos. Two years after these events, The Great War would scuttle most of the upper classes of Europe and kill or wound 30 million more. At the same time the rights of workers, women, and minorities were ascendant, so that today it is hard to imagine living under the Edwardian social conventions. Titanic foreshadowed the violent demise of the old order. We can roll our eyes at their arrogance, but we also can't help but be a little nostalgic for the lovely world they created. This exquisite DVD set will be treasured by anyone who wants to immerse themselves in the craft of the actors and technicians, or in the great ship itself.

I've had a top-notch 3D-capable home theater system for almost five years. Quite honestly I haven't bothered with calibrating the 3D settings of my 75" TV until recently because so few movies have been released in which 3D adds to the viewing experience. Most use it as a gimmick. The colors get washed out; the 3D effect is either meaningless or grossly overdone... and that's in the theater presentations! This is particularly true of post-filming 3D conversions, which is what most are. Enter Avatar, the gold standard for 3D movies. It was created with 3D in mind and is flawless in that regard. There are also some great animated movies that work in 3D. But are there enough live-action titles to make it worth your while to bother with the format? Well, you can add one to that list: Titanic. Even though it is a 2D conversion, Titanic in 3D impresses. It proves that picking the right story, and making the right 3D setting decisions, can result in a stunning viewer experience. The dramatic vistas benefit from the effect, and 3D depth is used appropriately. Colors still look great IF your TV 3D settings are properly set. I won't go into geeky technical details. You can get all that elsewhere. Suffice it to say that I'm glad I bought this Blu-ray product. I would however like to add my 2-cents about 3D in general. If you haven't already invested in a home theater system and plan on watching 3D, I urge you to go big. A 55" screen would be the minimum I would suggest because it takes a large image to immerse you into the 3D effect. Also read about your TV settings. They will need to be very different for 3D than they are for regular 2D viewing. You can find details about your model TV on forums like AVSforum.com. Of course professional calibration will give you the best results, but you can still vastly improve on the factory menu settings by doing some searching online. Finally, keep in mind that your home 3D experience will only be as good as your glasses and other components will deliver. Do your homework and you'll find good deals on stuff that delivers great results.

Great movie!

I have just gotten this on DVD after having the VHS tape. The DVD adds a lot to the movie's rich look. I've always thought that the movie was miscast. I can never see Bill Paxton without remembering the scene in the movie where he was such a piece of crap character and got so scared he peed on himself. He just isn't a good actor. I've seen him in several movies and he just isn't a good actor. Sounds too fake no matter what he says. If he hadn't been a good friend of Camerons I don't think he'd have been cast. I also don't care for the casting of Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack. If they were going to use Kate Winslett who does a really good job, then they should have cast a man who was bigger than she is. In their scenes together her head is larger than his. She is apparently a big woman. And, he looks like a 15 year old kid. In the first parts of the movie her makeup, especially her lipstick, is very distracting. High class women in that period of time did not wear dark lipstick or any lipstick at all. She is actually a pretty woman but the makeup is garish. The first time I saw this movie on VHS I was very disappointed in everything about it. But, it look better on DVD and is more enjoyable. The fact that they hint that she and Cal have already been sleeping together just isn't believable. A well bred girl who was trying to marry money would never have given away samples so to speak. They certainly made Cal despicable. His only saving grace was that he did apparently love Rose or was obsessed with her. Other than that he was painted as the worst cad imaginable. I saw no purpose in the last scene where the old Rose throws the diamond into the sea. She apparently needed money badly so why didn't she sell it in order to get a new start. Things like that can be handled discreetly. The diamond had no real significance regarding the romance she had with Jack. Didn't make sense for her to hold on to it for all those years then throw it into the sea. The least she could have done after he had arranged for her visit back to the Titanic site and listened to her story would have been to maybe slip it into his pocket before she left the ship. Now,, THAT would have been a good ending. I liked the part at the end where she believes she is meeting Jack on the stairs again. Through out all their scenes together Kate simply carries DiCaprio along with her. She is a tremendous actress. I was glad to see how her love and passion for him made her go back into the bowels of that sinking ship to rescue him. I believed her - that she was doing it. Anyway, it's a good movie of it's type. Of course, I've seen many movies about Titanic and the sinking of it. This sinking may be a bit prolonged. It seemed to last on the screen as long as it did in real life. That was the best Molly Brown I've even seen in a Titanic movie. What an actress she is. If you haven't seen it - and I can't believe that there is anyone who hasn't, then get it and look at it.

I recall feeling so strongly positive towards only two other films in my life, after seeing them initially, and those moments were after seeing "Apocalypse Now" back in 1980 and "Close Encounters" back in 1977. "Titanic" became the third and like the previous two, it has remained a definite top ten for me at the very least. While I did not care for the "Redux" version of Apocalypse Now, or the various versions of CE3K, DVD's for purchase which contain all the good parts of both, are available and this particular Titanic DVD adds TONS of extra goodies, making it a must buy for any fan or even semi-fan of the film. And at a great Amazon price. In fact, I did buy this DVD and sent it off as a gift to my sister, who loves the movie as much as me. For all of its hype, awards, and budget (over $200 million), in many ways, this is a very "personal" film from director James Cameron (Terminator 2, The Abyss, Aliens, etc.), and never do the eye-popping special effects (of which there are plenty) get in the way of the very special adventure and exquisite and deep "love story" being told. That utterly and unashamedly romantic aspect, despite what some may think of such a blockbuster "disaster" movie, is at the heart of "Titanic," and it is as powerful, convincing, and passionate, as the actual FX representation of the sinking of the ship, which only begins halfway through the movie itself. Both halves however, stand on their own, and neither is less compelling and involving for the viewer. Add the two together, and what you've basically got is over three hours of absolutely spellbinding entertainment. To see "Titanic" in a way, is not so much like watching a movie, as it is to "experience" the best that cinema can possibly offer. I will not attempt to summarize the plot here (ship sails, ship sinks, okay?), to list various technical aspects of the production, nor even dwell on the historical event this fictional film uses as a backdrop for the story it tells. Such information can be found elsewhere. And what has been said since its release by fans, has not already been said? My only purpose is to present my astonishment in this work, how like the original Apocalypse Now and Close Encounters (and a few other top ten films on my list including 2001, The Apartment, The Music Man, etc.), this is basically just a perfect Hollywood film, frame to frame, and scene to scene. And to encourage anyone who loves this movie to buy this extra-packed DVD goodie. Throughout, director Cameron's techniques seem flawless. It really does seem as if every piece of film, every scene, was carefully shot and edited in as exacting, interesting, accurate, involving, and exhilarating manner as possible. In addition, James Horner's brilliant music (in many different styles to boot) gives virtually every scene, regardless of the content, extra depth, feeling, and romance. Not to mention the great title tune hit, "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion. The theme of the song reverberates throughout the film and I'd strongly suggest buying the film's soundtrack as well. The movie is fascinating and completely involving from start to finish and even its three hour plus length is something almost unnoticed. The characters, the suspense, the beauty of the cinematography and sets, the great acting by the leads, and the lavish and achingly romantic triumphs and tragic story themes explored throughout are all first rate. And they only bring to mind just a few adjectives I can only think of when recommending with five stars (though it deserves ten) this masterpiece, "extraordinary," "spectacular," "breathtaking," and simply unforgettable. Despite it all, this movie does one other thing which makes it deserve my highest praise. It brings back memories of my aging, sick mom (RIP), this being the last movie I saw with her in a theater. And my main memory of that is that at the end, both of us clapped out loud, and cried. Finally, perhaps the most astonishing thing about the film however, is the power and almost cosmic taste Cameron gives to what amounts to a simple, old-fashioned (and done before), "love story." Imparting a positive, life-affirming, almost logical/rational attitude on the whole concept of romantic love itself, which is something sorely lacking in so many "modern" movies, the film often takes on an almost surreal tone on passion and desire many times throughout. None of it however, comes off in any way as "preachy" or sugary-sweet and phony. True love and its mysterious veneration for the mundane and ordinary, is treated with reverence, understanding, and subtlety by Cameron in virtually every moment. I have a feeling it will be many more years before we see such cinematic gold like this again from the studio system. And this took the combined power and money of two studios to even produce. However, I do hope that if and when Hollywood (as it inevitably must) tries something like this again, it will remember that the real power behind this particular film, has less to do with the fantastic effects or the obvious money spent to pull this off on screen, and more to do with the story and explicit/hidden, almost philosophical meanings and implications. "Titanic" is, in the highest sense of the word, not merely great entertainment throughout, but great ART. This is a treasured gem, more valuable in spirit than the heart-shaped, priceless blue diamond "Rose" leaves with "Jack" in the end, somewhere at the bottom of the ocean. For its main message is clear. True love is invaluable and "goes on." Perhaps even (wishing my mom luck in reconnecting with her own Jack, and my father in any afterlife), truly forever. A transcendent classic, and an undeniable must-buy for any fan of the movie with a still-functioning DVD player and "soul."