Trailer Review

"Titantic II, " is coming out this month on DVD. "Titantic II" like in "Titantic?" Well, no. "Titantic," was a really big movie, worldwide total gross: $1 billion, 843 million. "Titantic II, " is a movie made to go straight to DVD, (street date Aug 24). "Titantic" is about the Titanic and "Titantic II" is about -- Well, it is being put out by the Asylum.

"The Asylum" is known as a maker of low budget spoofs, parodies, straight to DVD stuff, and fodder for the Syfy network.

"Titanic 11," stars Bruce Davison and Brooke Burns. I am unfamiliar with their previous work. I did a Google search and learned that they have done previous work. Well, this is a trailer review, not a movie review, or a review of a movie company. So straight to the trailer --

"Official Titanic II Trailer" -- Is this the trailer for a comedy or what? It can't be the trailer for a serious flick. It can't be the trailer for a comedy. If it is, what's funny about this? It could be the trailer for a cheesy Syfy network movie. But this is supposed to be the trailer for a straight to the DVD movie. Based on the trailer, I would send all copies of this flick straight to the DVD disk recycle bin.

The movie "Titanic" was 194 minutes long. That was long. It won 11 Oscars. That's a lot of Oscars. I saw the movie on VHS, it came in two cassettes. The first part was the intro and the love story; the second part was the special effects, the ship sinking and the drowning. The first part sold the flick to the ladies, and did it sell them. Well, it has become a classic chick flick.

The ladies packed the movie houses to see Leonardo DiCaprio, and also Kate Winslet. Thirteen years ago, (1997), when the film was released, those were two hot young actors. DicCaprio was the Justin Bieber of thirteen summers ago. He was the young ladies (the teens, the tweens, and older young ladies too) eye candy, their prince cutie The dudes, who I know, who went to see the flick, were sold on the second part, the cool special effects.

The drowning -- Leonardo DiCaprio character sacrificing himself for Kate Winslet made this a double / triple box of Kleenex sobbing story, and brought the ladies back for repeat showings.

I know a dude who warned dudes not to take their ladies to see this flick, because he said, ladies would expect dudes to make the kind of sacrifice for them that DicCaprio made for Winslet. He said the flick would put bad ideas in their ladies heads and would cause trouble. A lot of dudes must have felt the same away, because most dudes stayed away from the flick.

When I watched it on VHS, I fast forwarded through a lot of the first cassette. I got the impression Cameron was stretching out the story. Finally, I stopped, and ejected the first, and played the second cassette. And yes, I was impressed by the special effects. James Cameron proved himself the king of the sci-fi like effects.

As for the trailer, "Titanic - Official Trailer [1997] -- Titanic was an epic movie filmed on an epic scale. A lot of duckets were spent to make the film, as the trailer shows. The trailer is crammed with excitement, character, narrative and scale. The trailer still sells.