Titanic [1998]

** HOW GOOD IS THE BLU-RAY DISC TECHNICALLY? The image on my modest 32-inch widescreen is clear but not huge. However, the quality of the rendering in this blockbuster is so good that it is due to the rendering possessing a much wider palette of colours, brightness, and contrast levels, and topped off with great sound mixes. In fact, I thought, at the time, there was a fault with the Blu-Ray device, as it was like comparing chalk and cheese in quality terms when comparing this Blu-ray to the DVD and DVD player I previously used. This film was my first encounter with the Blu-ray format on a second-hand Sony player. This idea that the DVD quality was the reference continued until I realised how superior and different this Blu-ray copy is by possessing these attributes, and how really good it looks even on my standard quality, wide-screen, typical telly. The usage of wooden panels on the set coloured this Blu-ray, and was a more delicate image colour quality than i saw on the DVD edition. The quality of the Blu-ray is held back a bit by my ordinary telly. I have seen my sister's TV, and it is of much better quality, and these discs would be even more improved with a better set. ** ERRORS IN THE STORY SETTINGS? I have met casual viewers of this movie who say that its recreation of the event is full of inaccuracies. And that 'A Night to Remember' is more accurate. They are, I.m.h.o. Both are mostly accurate to each other and to several points. At the time I saw it first, I bought seven books from Amazon about the Titanic and read each at least twice. Overall, its retelling is accurate. *MAJOR ERROR IN THE FILM The major possible error is that the ship would not have been beyond 23 degrees from the horizontal, as its keel would break. This was in a program I watched on Channel 4 a while ago. And this American TV station paid $4k to have the shipyard designers accurately create the Titanic parameters in CAD and test its performance on a computer. * SMALLER ERRORS The other error is that when Jack wins the card game, he boards the R.M.S. Titanic at noon. The last time a person could, in reality, board the ship was actually 11:15. Another small part, some people suggest, is another error in the film's depiction of the film is when the sailor is instructed to turn the ship. He's instructed to turn the ship to the starboard (right), but turns the wheel to the port (left). All ships before 1928 had this somewhat counterintuitive way of steering. Another error is when Officer Will Murdock shoots two people and himself. This wasn't true, although it was due to its sources being bogus. Being based on anti-English propaganda from the Irish in Eire at the time. Another fact that is accurately shown, but others say is not true, is that the sinking in the ocean around the ship has no waves. Amazingly, the earlier part of the sinking was so gradual that it allowed plates to float off tables. The lack of waves was unique in the calm of the ocean. The crew even said they had '...never seen such a flat calm. Like a mill pond.' Jack says he was ice-fishing close to Chippewa Falls (Wisconsin). This was only built in 1917. The Titanic sank in 1912 The flares of ships were not standardised. The colours meant different things, depending on the line of the ship it belonged to. The outrageous idea is that when Jack and Rose go on C deck after having sexual relations, and they interest the men in the crow's nest, Fredrick Fleet and he lose night-sight acuity. And take several more seconds to recognise the faint image of the oncoming iceberg. And that Jack and Rose are the reason the ship hit the iceberg and sank! ** BRIEF BACKGROUND FACTS NOT MENTIONED IN THE FILM, BUT HAVE A BEARING ON THE SINKING OF THE R.M.S. TITANIC The ships in the White Star Line had names ending in 'ic'. Such as Britannic, Olympic, and of course, the Titanic. The R.M.S. is 'Royal Mail Ship', as it involved taking post both to and from the U.S.A. for $50k a year. Titanic's home port was Liverpool, UK and not London, as seen on some items on sale. It was also granted a tax break by the U.K. government, which stipulated that, in the event of a war or conflict, it would be commandeered by the armed forces and used as a troop ship. The wage of a waiter or seaman at the time was £5 a month. The wage of the captain of the Titanic, E. J. Smith, was £300 a year. The musicians on the Titanic committed to memory over 330 pieces of music. This is an equivelent of a master's degree in complexity, a technical topic. There was a coal strike, and the Titanic needed to buy coal from several ships around it. This ship was the last major ship to use coal. All later ships following this used crude oil. The radio wouldn't work. So it was stripped down and rebuilt in 24 hours. The radio was tested and was powerful enough to both reach and receive from Cairo, Egypt. If it had not been fixed, then the wreck would have been a total loss of crew and passengers, with no records of what went on. The reason why the radio was promoted so heavily as a security measure by White Star is that, before this incident and a few years prior, the ship RMS Carmania (1907) was crossing the Atlantic when it struck an iceberg. This time was head-on. Crunching the bow by 17 feet. But their radio called other ships. This saved all the crew and passengers, and no fatalities. This was a reason why the 'unsinkable' ship myth was strengthened. R.M.S. Titanic no longer required more lifeboats. The Titanic was the last ship to use manually powered methods to lower lifeboats. All major ships after this used electric motors to lower lifeboats into the ocean. * SPEED AND DESIGN The fastest ship at the time was Maritainia, as it could reach 27 knots. And its power-to-weight ratio was in its favour. It was smaller than the Titanic. The Titanic could reach 22 knots. The Titanic was a bigger and heavier ship. But slower. The third class of the Titanic was equal to other ships' second class * COAL BUNKER FIRE. However, the remaining main catalyst, not mentioned in the film, of the sinking is that a coal bunker was spontaneously burning and superheating the side of the ship. This extreme heat and very cold ocean water really stressed the ship's hull, which was made of Siemens-Martin formula steel. The stokers let others know of this. But this was common, as coal can spontaneously start burning. Photographs taken of the exterior of the ship while in Northern Ireland show this in the discolouration of the hull on the outside of the related coal hopper. This, retrospectively, is the major reason for the weakened hull to fail in the collision with this ship and the iceberg. Under examination by the ship investigators of the Titanic hull, the actual summation area of the damaged plates spread along the side of the hull, which allowed the ocean water inside the ship to be a total area of only 12 square feet. It's stripped rivets and buckled plates, spread over 300 feet of the ship's skin and not a big gaping hole as previously thought. * SOUTHHAMPTON DEPARTURE INCIDENT When the R.M.S. Titanic's engines started at exactly noon, off in Southampton Harbour, they had so much force that it almost caused the S.S. New York to hit the Titanic. There was a comment that the third-class passengers were locked below by White Star, stopping their progression to the lifeboats. These were actually policies instigated by Ellis Island immigration in New York for the control of the spread of any contagion. And not an inhumanity crime carried out by White Star workers. The film, overall, was the best they could do at its time of creation. The sailor in the crow's nest of the Titanic, Fredrick Fleet, was the first to see the iceberg and said exactly as seen on the screen, "Iceberg right ahead." He survived. And helped with the inquiry into the disaster.. Then had a long career in shipping. He became suicidal in 1964 as he blamed himself for not seeing the iceberg obstacle sooner. This is the so-called curse of the Titanic. * THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE SINKING OF THE R.M.S. TITANIC The Board of Trade investigated the sinking of R.M.S. Titanic. It investigated the Board of Trade itself. The lead investigations by Lord Mersey. Not surprisingly, it found itself not responsible. The then Board of Trade code for shipping linked the lifeboats to the smaller size of shipping and had not caught up with the growth in super-sized shipping. It did not specify the capacity of the ships for each of the passengers and crew. And the Board of Trade largely, and falsely, blamed the ship S.S. Californian's captain, Lord, for the loss of life in the sinking of the Titanic. It was called a whitewash in the press. He, Lord, was a responsible captain and didn't try to move the ship at night in the ice field, and the lack of a 24-hour watch on the radio was the policy of most shipping at the time. Several decades later, there has been much interest in the strange weather phenomena of inverted air temperature causing light to bend beyond the visible horizon. So the ship was much further away than estimated at the time. * THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THE SINKING ON THE WIDER WORLD. The whole story was totally international and one of the first of its cosmopolitan spread. At least 60 languages were spoken on the ship by the passengers. The sheer number of people makes it hard to distribute information to the crew. The chain of command was chaotic. The number of lifeboats was out of sync with the superliners. The number of countries with individual laws and different standards made for gridlock in controlling these issues. The Board of Trade tried to blame individuals when the real culprit was these international out-of-sync laws and standards. ** There are features on the other disk in this set. The two big ones feature a diagnosis of what happened to the ship and how it sank. These were very interesting to view on their own. ** SEEING THE MOVIE IN THE CINEMA I saw this movie in the cinema at its original showing three or four times. The audience was upset at the scenes, and I heard people, both men and women, around me crying. The people who see it now will not admit to this ever taking place! And its effect doesn't make me cry now. I am less moved by this movie now, too. On the hundredth anniversary of the sinking in 2012, I saw the 3D version of Titanic on the big screen. I was the only attendee! The 3D version is good stuff. It's used heavily up to the middle of the film, and less towards the latter parts. I would have thought and expected the sinking in 3D would be spectacular. But it was not applied at this point in the movie. ** IS IT WORTH SEEING THE RECOVERED ARTIFACTS FROM THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC? If you like or love this movie, and if you ever have the time to view the artefacts retrieved from the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic, I recommend you go. My brother wasn't going to see it, but his friends said it's once in a lifetime. So he drove both of us, and I paid for myself and my brother at £17.50 each. To see the retrieved ruins is a privilege and an honour. As it turned out, my brother, who's not keen on the film, touched the 'Big Piece', a 15-ton piece of the hull, for over a minute and was still as if spellbound.

The film is almost perfect - for me (and my wife) just a bit too long, but the CGI and the sinking scenes are amazing and gripping. Leo and Kate? Absolutely spot on even if Kate doesn't look 17, more like 25, and Gloria Stuart is perfect. A word of crirticism for the actual quality of the BluRay - Picture excellent, sound levels fluctuated - very loud sound effects/music, much lower levels for dialogue...then - THE SUBTITLES! I was amazed at how small they are, and being white they didn't always show up well in certain scenes. A poor show for a prestigious film and BluRay release.

Amazing movie

Good bought this for a friend

A good film that you can't help but watch over and over again

Such an excellent movie. Really. You don't get better than this.

Great movie. Well worth a watch. Loved every second of it

Absolutely stunning movie ever in 4 K Glory !. Great story of all time . Best actors ever. Non stop action on the RMS Titanic . I recommend the product and the seller 100%

Recebi um produto diferente do anunciado, porém fui bem atendido, devolvi o produto e eles me enviaram o produto correto. O produto em si chegou sem alterações, de excelente qualidade e conforme anúncio.

1997 vsn of Titanic reissued again in 4K UHD this time U.S Distributor 20th century Fox made a big effort to give the film a new 4k make over Looks incredible 5 5 5 times better upgrade than standard 1980p HD amazon's product info on the new 4k blu-ray set is confusing so heres the truth details Disc 1 is 4K UHD transfer of the 3hr Theatrical cut so you need an actual 4K player for the Disc to work i don't own a 4k player so can't comment on the Picture quality theres is another 2 discs inside the plastic case thou. 2 blu-ray Discs Disc 2 is the standard 1080P 2:35:1 HD transfer of the 3hr Cut this new reissue has been given new 4k restoration supervised by Jim Cameron and i tell you the picture quality does look amazing quality 5 times more sharper than standard 1980P prob' give 9.8/10 PQ it look that amazingly sharp/clear plus excellent colour restoration sound quality is excellent aswell new 7.1 master mix plus 5.1, 2.0 mixes aswell BONUS EXTRAS are the usual Audio commentary tracks carried over from the older dvd release plus Audio setup, scene selection, Language options etc Disc 3 has all the Bonus extras, i mean over 10 hrs worth of bonus extras has all the older dvd extras plus the 2012 Blu-ray reissue bonus extras one of them is the REFLECTIONS OF TITANIC featurette and many others added lots of making of featurettes, over 1hr of Deleted scenes/extended scenes in HD quality plus all the older archive behind the scenes footage in HD quality aswell plus Teaser trailer, many vsns of TITANIC Theatrical trailer's plus Stills Photo Gallery plus TITANIC skits plus a new filmed 2023 retrospective featurette with Jim Cameron, Kate winslet & many others Jim cameron made sure all the extras were carried over so you can spend all day watching so much bonus content all 3 Discs are ABC coded so will play worldwide 5 stars for sure

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.

Transcrissão para o 4K muito boa, pena não ter legendas em português.

Despues de leer comentarios muy positivos sobre la conversión a 3D, me decidí a comprarla para comprobarlo y efectivamente, James Cameron se lució con esta versión de Titanic, parece como si hubiese sido filmada en este formato (igual que la de Jurassic Park 3D), y lo mejor es que utiliza el Aspect Ratio 1.78:1 (lo que significa que llenará toda la pantalla sin las molestas franjas negras, que lamentablemente en su versión de blu-ray normal sí aparecen las franjas por su Aspect Ratio 2.39:1 cinemascope). Sin duda es una experiencia nueva el disfrutar nuevamente este éxito del cine en los 90's su edición 3D, recomendada.