Titanic: Q2 Extended Edition

"The Col. Hutty Method of Review"

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A/V Quality: 10
Visual Editing: 10
Audio Editing: 10
Narrative/Improvement: 7
Enjoyment: 8

"The More Common Type of Review"

I hadn't watched Titanic since I saw it in theaters back in 97. I had been wanting to see the new BD transfer and Q2's Extended Edition was a perfect excuse to check it out. I liked it much more this time around (I kinda hated it back then). I hadn't watched the deleted scenes by themselves and Q2 integrated them perfectly. There were only a few times I could say "Yeah that was one of them". So kudos to Q2 for maintaining the quality.

The 1080 MKV looked and sounded great! Haven't watched the BD of original Titanic so I can't compare, but this was beautiful.

Is the story better? No, it's still a bit boring and I'd much prefer to see a version of this movie closer to "A Night To Remember". But if you're a Titanic fan you'll enjoy it.

Oh and I watched the alternate ending. Wow, I'm glad Cameron didn't use that one.

Excellent work! I highly recommend checking this out.

The same praise and criticism that I gave ADM's "Titanic (1997) White Star Line Edition" applies here, so I'll quote it:

"Titanic (1997) is one of my favorite movies of all time, and while I enjoyed experiencing it in it's completed, uncut form, I also came to the conclusion that the theatrical version is a virtually perfect cut of the film and that many of the deleted scenes were cut for a reason. Some scenes were great, like "I'll be the first", Rose's extended meltdown, Jack walking Rose to First Class, and many of the sinking scenes. But the other scenes, like Lizzy arguing with Brock in the present day after Rose first puts on the diamond, Rose wanting to be a moving picture actress, and Jack fighting Lovejoy in the sinking First Class dining room were horrible and brought the narrative and my enjoyment of the movie down. And the alternate ending? Forget about it! That scene would have killed the film. The only thing I liked about that scene was when Old Rose saw a shooting star, it connected to earlier in the movie in the Jack walking Rose to First Class where they see a shooting star and Jack says "My pops says a shooting star is a soul going to Heaven", which sets up Old Rose's death and her reuniting with Jack in Titanic heaven."

The difference here is the superior video quality, set in gorgeous blu-ray high definition. With all due respect to ADM, if I were to watch a 4 hr Titanic '97, this would be the version I'd watch.

I always wanted to see a extended cut of Titanic, but this is the closest one.

I love the editing of this movie, in one scene, we see Jack screaming for help, then cuts to Molly Brown takes control, another we see Jack and Rose kissed in the boiler room, then cuts to the wireless operator telling the Californian to shut up, and others.

The only downside is that around 3:31:05, the audio briefly faded for a fraction of a second, right before Lewis says "We've never found anything on Jack. There's no record of him at all."