Marcelo Castillo (jazmac4409)

It's relieving to see the Saw series get back on track with the 4th installment. With two relatively lackluster films that came before this movie, Saw 4 returns to the rich plot of the original. This film mystifies and builds suspense similarly to the first one. As typical Saw movies go, this one was filled with many gruesome traps and graphic deaths. Fans of gore will be pleased, and the squeamish will... well, will be squeamish. Besides the pleasant return of a intricate plot, this film also serves to provide a history of Jigsaw's past that put him on the path to a deranged killer. It was satisfying to see what truly made him who he was. You also get to see him in his early stages of attempting his traps... I like how the writers reassured us that he is human by showing us his mistakes on his early traps. In the end, it's hard to delve much into the plot without giving something away. This installment introduces a new angle that Saw fans will enjoy. The ending is powerful and jaw dropping. The gore is plenty, and it's nice to see this franchise return to its roots that it made it immensely popular to begin with.

"A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets" This spectacular epic re-creates the ill-fated maiden voyage of the White Star Line's $7.5 million R.M.S Titanic and the tragic sea disaster of April 15, 1912. Running over three hours and made with the combined contributions of two major studios (20th Century-Fox, Paramount) at a cost of more than $200 million, Titanic ranked as the most expensive film in Hollywood history at the time of its release, and became the most successful. Writer-director James Cameron employed state-of-the-art digital special effects for this production, realized on a monumental scale and spanning eight decades. Inspired by the 1985 discovery of the Titanic in the North Atlantic, the contemporary storyline involves American treasure-seeker Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) retrieving artifacts from the submerged ship. Lovett looks for diamonds but finds a drawing of a young woman, nude except for a necklace. When 102-year-old Rose (Gloria Stuart) reveals she's the person in the portrait, she is summoned to the wreckage site to tell her story of the 56-carat diamond necklace and her experiences of 84 years earlier. The scene then shifts to 1912 Southampton where passengers boarding the Titanic include penniless Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and society girl Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), returning to Philadelphia with her wealthy fiance Cal Hockley (Billy Zane). After the April 10th launch, Rose develops a passionate interest in Jack, and Cal's reaction is vengeful. At midpoint in the film, the Titanic slides against the iceberg and water rushes into the front compartments. Even engulfed, Cal continues to pursue Jack and Rose as the massive liner begins its descent. Cameron launched the project after seeing Robert Ballard's 1987 National Geographic documentary on the wreckage. Blueprints of the real Titanic were followed during construction at Fox's custom-built Rosarito, Mexico studio, where a hydraulics system moved an immense model in a 17-million-gallon water tank. During three weeks aboard the Russian ship Academik Keldysh, underwater sequences were filmed with a 35mm camera in a titanium case mounted on the Russian submersible Mir 1. When the submersible neared the wreck, a video camera inside a remote-operated vehicle was sent into the Titanic's 400-foot bow, bringing back footage of staterooms, furniture and chandeliers. On November 1, 1997, the film had its world premiere at the 10th Tokyo International Film Festival. Review Titanic was an excellent film, but definitely not because of anything Leo or Kate did. They, in my opinion, were just crowd attraction techniques. They could have used anyone for these roles and the movie would have been improved/worsened only slightly. The real reason this movie was excellent was because of Jim Cameron's undying devotion to the project's perfection. He did countless retakes of key scenes, got behind the camera himself many times, and made sure every part of the movie matched the picture in his mind. He even drew the portraits himself! If all directors would put this much into their films, there would be no shortage of quality films, as there have been in past years.