TITANIC GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS 3D

Cynics beware, James Cameron is riding the Titanic again and this time he’s taking us down in 3D glasses. Surprisingly, this isn’t an Avatar-inspired pocket-liner, it turns out this is the story on the Titanic that he wanted to make first and foremost. Apparently Cameron studied engineering before switching to romance films. Taking us, and a hyperventilating Bill Paxton, down to the bottom of the ocean we experience the enormity and the breathtaking beauty of the ill-fated ship through their eyes. With a team of experts we are given insight into every historic detail, from the biology of the rust, to the lives lost, to the architecture of the ship, to the surviving remains- amazing how a laced up boot has so much meaning attached to it. Cameron even throws in a rescue storyline when a robot camera goes missing. It begins post-Titanic filming in 2001, during the production disaster occurs on September 11. Is Titanic significant any more as a country mourns? Cameron says yes, because like 9/11, the sinking of the Titanic is about tragedy, and about the triumphant human spirit. I can see Cameron’s mind ticking over… Twin Towers 3D. (AH) ***