DUers have you watched James Cameron's Titanic documentary

[malaise]

Last edited Tue Apr 10, 2012, 07:38 AM - Edit history (1)

Not only was it fabulous but his commentary at the end was unbelievable.
He said the Titanic was the metaphor for the planet - too big to fail with all the socio-economic and political problems facing humanity while the rich decide that any change in direction would not be tolerated.

He said that what we need to do is realize that the next Titanic is Climate Change and it would be the poor who suffer it most.

[vaberella]

1. Didn't see that when I saw the film. I saw another version of Romeo and Juillet.

I think James Cameron is changing the story to fit the new audience...since Too big to fail was long long after the fim first came out.

I love celebrity spin...ridiculous on it's face.

[ejpoeta]

2. they are talking about a documentary he did.

the movie titanic was not a documentary. i am not sure if this is the one but I googled titanic documentary and here is a blog or article or whatever about it... on nat geo 2 part series... [link:http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2012/04/about-the-titanic-documentary-james-cameron-and-bob-ballard-explore-the-ill-fated-ship.html|

[malaise]

3. Correct

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. The OP is about a documentary Cameron released on the National Geographic channel

Not the film.

[lynne]

4. Yes, watched the documentary and it was fascinating -

- but I turned it off at the end when Cameron began his commentary as it wasn't what I tuned in to watch and I had other things to do. His commentary was a bit over-the-top and quite the stretch, IMO. The documentary itself was quite interesting, though.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. I thought the commentary at the end was really moving as well

It was smartly done, the whole thing.

There are moments when he gets too defensive about the film, even with his own experts, but he does seem to be sincere in his desire to create knowledge about the sinking.

I thought it was well done.