In an era where any marketable or recognizable brand is never truly over, the number of movies that can genuinely be dubbed safe from sequels, reboots, remakes, re-imaginings, requels, and all the rest of growing slimmer by the day. On the surface, you would have thought James Cameron’s Titanic would have been among them, but The Asylum had other ideas.
The studio that gained fame and notoriety in equal measure for its “mockbusters” that live right on the line of copyright infringement has never met a property it couldn’t rip off in one way or another, so the only surprise surrounding Titanic II was that it didn’t release until 13 years after Cameron had delivered his critical, commercial, and awards season bonanza.
The plot is exactly what you think it is, with the 100th anniversary of the ill-fated voyage that went down in the history books leading to the titular vessel setting sail on its maiden crossing. Wouldn’t you know it, a tsunami appears out of nowhere and launches an iceberg right into the ship’s trajectory to plunge the crew and passengers into a near-identical nightmare scenario.
Nobody was expecting cinematic greatness from Titanic II, and it absolutely delivered on that front by way of being utterly dreadful. Not to join dots that may not necessarily be there, but you can’t help but wonder if the recent Titan submersible tragedy has played a part in the film rising from the depths on streaming, with FlixPatrol outing it as one of the top-viewed features on Prime Video.
It sounds morbid, but let’s not forget Cameron’s classic also experienced a notable uptick in popularity very recently, too.
Published: Jul 2, 2023 02:11 am