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Title: Titanic : Ghosts of the Abyss by Mireille Major ISBN: 0-7868-1899-9 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Titanic in photographs then and now (with now in 3-D)
Comment: Director James Cameron has remained obsessed by the wreck of the Titanic and managed to avoid working on his next real film by putting together the giant-screen 3-D film "Ghosts of the Abyss." Not that you can really blame Cameron for being wary after putting together the biggest money making film of all time (in non-adjusted dollars). But then what did David O. Selzink do after "Gone With the Wind"? ("Duel in the Sun," which was not bad, but what does not suffer in comparison to "GWTW"?). I fully expect the director's cut of "Titanic" to be coming out on DVD next, but in the interim there is "Ghosts of the Abyss" and this book, which provides more than 35 3-D images based on the film. Following Jake the Robot that Cameron sent deep inside Titanic you use your official "Robot Mask" so that you can see the ghosts.
The main perspective of the book is to provide a contrast between period photographs of the Titanic and recent underwater shots taken by Jake. The 3-D effects are okay; the head-on view of the Titanic's bow showing the prow and the rust-shrouded railings around the forecastle deck (page 23) is the only one that really got a reaction from me. The ones with the ghosts are also just okay. The actual photographs are pretty amazing as far as I am concerned, so adding ghosts or even doing them in 3-D are not exactly pluses as far as I am concerned. If this book just did the straight forward compare and contrast of the photographs then and now I would have been just as impressed. Younger readers, for whom a lot of these pictures will be new, are the ones who are going to like this book (and the 3-D pictures) the most.
Rating: 2
Summary: 3-D is a pass.
Comment: Just received my combo of Ghosts: Journey and Ghosts: 3-D. Very disappointed in 3-D. The vast mojority of pics are from old photos we have seen many times before with the attempt to "3-D" them. I bought the book for what the movie 3-D was and came away very disappointed with the content.
Rating: 5
Summary: Abyss is a keeper
Comment: Great book. Just what I hoped it would be....a superb archieve of the movie with it's great never before seen pictures.
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Title: Ghosts of the Abyss: A Journey Into The Heart of the Titanic by Donald Lynch, Don Lynch, Ken Marschall, James Cameron ISBN: 0306812231 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title:Ghosts of the Abyss ASIN: B0001DMQ6C Publisher: Buena Vista Home Vid Pub. Date: 27 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $22.49 |
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Title: Inside the Titanic : A Giant Cut-away Book by Ken Marschall ISBN: 0316557161 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: 882 1/2 Amazing Answers to Your Questions About the Titanic by Hugh Brewster, Laurie Coulter, Ken Marschall ISBN: 0439042968 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title:Titanic - The Complete Story ASIN: B00005UW79 Publisher: A & E Home Video Pub. Date: 26 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $26.06 |
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