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on Nov 18 2009 01:26 AM True, the t.v. movie doesn't have the hugeness of the Cameron flic, but what the two-parter has is something Cameron's movie DESPERATELY needed; a GOOD WRITER!!! The two parter succeeded, here, where Cameron's version failed, HUGE! Dialogue like "Well I'll be G.D'd!" when she sees the drawing of herself she never thought she'd see again, is proof that Cameron did not connect with his characters on any real level. ANd "This is It!" when the ship is about to go under for the last time...making it sound more like they were at the fair and the roller coaster was taking its last downward ride before everyone got out. Had he asked himself the question, "What would I do in this situation?" or been able to imagine himself there, then maybe the writing would have been better. It could hardly have been worse! The endings of both movies could be compared, likewise, with Cameron's movie being bigger, no doubt, but the saying 'Less is More' would have served him well. In the two parter, there were collages of images that offered the full impact of what it might have been like, that horrible night. Scenes of Marilu Henner and Catherine Zeta Jones staring, in stunned horror, for seconds. A scene of a distraught Ismay. A child, reaching for his mother and crying. In Cameron's movie, you had a woman doing a backward Luge down a sinking ship, with her bloomers showing. One guy, falling off the end of the ship, tripping off the propellor and doing a summersault into the water. I gave it a 8.5 for degree of difficulty. In a word; OVER-KILL, with the depth of the tragedy getting lost in the over the top special effects, which were used to conceal the fact that Cameron has little to offer as a writer, in a REAL story. Give me good writing any day, and I'll take the ride along with the cast, no matter who they are. (Reply to this) |
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