The colossal melodrama that made James Cameron king of the world 15 years in the past is again – and solely the snobbish or the obtuse may deny its ambition, verve and leisure firepower. The place Julian Fellowes is at the moment emphasising the category mosaic on tv, Cameron made Titanic the backdrop for a wildly over-the-top weepie romance.
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio now look foetally younger because the poor little wealthy lady and the odd man who sees her inside craving. In the meantime, on the soundtrack, keening Irish music offers strategy to Céline Dion’s thumping energy ballad. 3D offers a brand new perspective to the voyagers plunging away from us down the deck, turned up 90 levels right into a sheer picket cliff-face. Cameron’s macho pleasure on the techno-engineering disaster is palpable.
