TMBTM said:
Vaderisnothayden said:
Oh you mean the ship sinks in Titanic? I didn't know that. ;) I bet some people went into the movie not knowing, actually.

What is smart in Titanic is that the people who search for the Titanic on present day show the sinking of the ship to old Rose with a nice CG animation. So everyone not only knows that the ship will sink (even people who may have never heard about the Titanic) but we see exactely where the water goes, how the ship breaks etc.

That is smart because it adds a sens of danger by the end of the movie. The audience knows exately what will happen, unlike the characters. It is the definition od suspens by Hitchcock. (the famous: If you know the bomb will explode it's suspens, otherwise it's just suprise.)

But what worked in Titanic did not for the PT because Lucas did not take advantage of that "suspens factor".

GL did not take advantage of what the audience already know. In a way it makes sens since it is called EPISODE 1, but by doing this he did not allowed himself to make interesting two layers movies. Movies that could be fun for the young fans who did not see the old trilogy AND also fun for the old fans.

I've been thinking about The Titanic recently, because of Avatar. I was really pissed off about the Oscar success of that film way back and about the whole "I'm the king of the world" thing, and that's come to mind now that Cameron's pissing me off again with this bloody Avatar thing pushing the gimmicky 3d fad.