It's a lot like the ending scene in "Titanic" (1997), as the camera moves through the downed ship and we go back in time to see it in its heyday. A very romanticized rebirth, so to speak. That's the spirit of "Ghosts of the Abyss", but this time, James Cameron journeys to the actual wreckage with really expensive cameras and, using documentary footage and old photos, gives an idea of the decadence that used to adorn the now-decayed metalwork. And all of this in a concise sixty minutes.
But this is actually a fraction of the overall movie, because Cameron expresses it like a stagey Discovery Channel special. Lots of running time is spent on a crew we barely know, drama over a trapped camera robot, even the news of the World Trade Center attacks as they happened. Don't get me wrong, if I'm part of that crew, I'd want that included in the movie, too. But trivia has it that this 60-minute film was culled from *nine hundred hours* of footage, and I would much rather see more of the ship.
But this is actually a fraction of the overall movie, because Cameron expresses it like a stagey Discovery Channel special. Lots of running time is spent on a crew we barely know, drama over a trapped camera robot, even the news of the World Trade Center attacks as they happened. Don't get me wrong, if I'm part of that crew, I'd want that included in the movie, too. But trivia has it that this 60-minute film was culled from *nine hundred hours* of footage, and I would much rather see more of the ship.