Secret Titanic 3D Peek

Thanks to whomever at Paramount for not inviting me to this morning’s screening of eight scenes from James Cameron‘s 3D Titanic. I really, really would have liked to attend given the likelihood that Cameron’s demanding standards will result in an exceptional conversion.

TheWrap‘s Mike Ryan wrote this afternoon that this steroscopic Titanic “looks absolutely stunning…after watching screening after screening of shitty 3D films, it was more than refreshing to see what can be done to a film — even a film not originally filmed in 3D — if the appropriate amount of time and effort are applied.”

The 3D scenes shown: (1) Rose and Cal regarding Titanic from the dock; (2) Jack waiting for Rose at the bottom of grand staircase before dinner; (3) Jack and Rose attending white-tie party; (4) Jack and Rose canoodling on the bow of Titanic; (5) The first sighting of the iceberg; (6) Rose chopping through Jack’s handcuffs with an axe; (7) montage of Titanic passengers facing the fact that they’re about to go down with the ship and drown or freeze to death; and (8) The last portion of Titanic sinking.

Francis Albert Thing

Frank Sinatra crooning by Nick Amado. Music, lyrics and video editing by Jon Kaplan and Al Kaplan (Conan the Barbarian: The Musical, Silence! The Musical).

Actual YouTube comment by “Psychicwhoosh”: “I saw Sinatra and Dean Martin perform this at the Desert Inn in 1960. It was magical. Dean was such a ham. He kept chasing Sinatra ’round? the stage with a needle trying to prick his hand for a blood sample.”

Concentration Camp

Here we go again with the same old horseshit, and people don’t care because they want to see this thing and you can’t stop them, etc. One look at this trailer and you’ve more or less seen the movie, on a certain level. I’m developing a notion that Samuel L. Jackson has read every line in every part in every film he’s ever been in the exact same way. Robert Downey, Jr. has his Tony Stark performance down to a science, but at the same time it feels as if he phoned it in.