Shelf Life: Titanic
After Cinematical’s new “Movies I Will Never See” series elicited a strong variety of reactions - both positive and negative - from readers, it occurred to us that there’s a huge, untapped reservoir of existing films that we have actually seen, and it would probably be at least as interesting, if not more so, to go back and see how well they held up in the years since their release. These may be acclaimed classics that audiences simply haven’t revisited on a regular basis, or condemned failures that might deserve a second look; but setting a statute of limitations of five years or more old (meaning before ‘04), we’re going back to see how good are the bad movies, and how bad are the good ones - in other words testing their shelf life.
With James Cameron’s Avatar looming large on the horizon, and the “event movie” filmmaker lauding his latest as no less than a worthy successor to the Highest-Grossing Movie of All Time, it seemed appropriate to see if Titanic was not only worth the hype that surrounded its original release, but to indicate whether it promised enough true and lasting greatness to entice fanboys and casual filmgoers alike to trust in the director as he debuts his next effort.
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