Friday, July 21, 2006

Ghosts of the Abyss


One good thing about the movie "Titanic", besides the special effects, was the fact that the ship became an obsession for director James Cameron. So in 2001, Cameron and a crew went on a mini submarine and with remote robot IMAX 3-D cameras went to the bottom of the ocean abd actually went in the Titanic. This movie is truly wonderful. You travel through the hallways, you go into a first class cabin(there's a water vase intact there and a hat just as the person left it 90 years ago). You go to the engine room to the firemen's quarters. These scenes are intertwined with shots from the movie so you can see how it looked then and how it looks now underwater. This is one amazing movie. I saw it on my 34" inch tv, but watching this on 3-D Imax had to be one of the great trips ever. It's playing on Starz this month.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

suena super interesante. ese tipo tiene una obsesión con ese barco, pero que cool que la tenga porque ha buscado las maneras más brutales y tecnológicas para mostrarnos imágenes brutales del crucero más famoso de todos los tiempos.

Anonymous said...

I had the chance to watch Ghosts of the Abyss a couple of years ago. It is a very nice movie. But, surprisingly, its IMAX version, with 3D and all, adds very little to it. I was a bit disappointed.

Anonymous said...

me stuvo raro pensar qeu te gustara "TITANIc" (a mi si me gusto, pero mas por la obsesion que a mi me dio en una epoca con todo lo relacionado al principio del siglo XX, como mi abuelo se pasaba contandome historias de esas epocas y mas tenia scrapbooks llenos de recortes de periodicos y revistas d ela epoca...maldita sea la mudanza!!! por ahi se perdio todo, tesosos irrecuperables...)

bueno, pero ahora que veo que es sobre un documental, pues ya. se suponia que cuando abrieron los cines de plaza (los de border's) una sala era para peliculas/docs en imax....la fiebre intelectual no duro nadita y lamentablemente esta peli ni sono aca...intentare verla en la tele, gracias por el dato, asi seguire afirmando mi fascinacion por cosas viejas (y tragedias, but of course!)