Titanic has already been re-released in 3D, but this forthcoming re-release (2.10.23) is being presented in high-frame-rate format, presumably 48 fps. Smoother, more fluid action. That might be interesting to see.
Never forget that that last August the IndieWire gang ranked Titanic as the eighth best ’90s film, and that David Ehrlich, IndieWire‘s hardnosed, often contrarian senior critic, said the following: “Titanic is as personal and cohesive as any film a fraction of its size. Each character, from the card-playing Swedes on the docks of Southampton all the way up to Jack and Rose themselves, is endowed with a lifeforce all their own, enough so that it feels like a family reunion 84 years in the making when you see their ghosts crowding around the first class staircase in that immortal final shot.”
Owen Gleiberman in 2012: “Once the ship scrapes up against that iceberg, Jim Cameron‘s filmmaking turns humanly brilliant, as the prospect of sudden death unmasks — in the most touching and shocking ways — who each and everyone on board really is. Jack’s death scene in the water has the shuddery majesty of the greatest silent films, because it’s a moment that touches how vulnerable and precious life really is. To watch Titanic again is to do nothing less than enter a movie and come out the other side, with one’s spirit feeling just a little bit larger.”
I still say that playing Celine Dion‘s “My Heart Will Go On” over the closing credits was a terrible thing. It added a pop schlock feeling to a film thaty had ended on a beautifully solemn and even transcendent note. And the CG needs a George Lucas-style upgrade.