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Director James Cameron has spun his passion for deep-sea exploration into a series of tricked-out pseudo-documentaries. Unfortunately, they’re more self-aggrandizing love-ins than enlightening scientific investigations. In Ghosts of the Abyss (2003), Cameron probed the wreckage of Titanic, the platform for the 1997 romance that struck Oscar and box-office gold. Here, he, co-director Steven Quale, and a crew of buff young scientists descend some 3500 meters to the Mid-Ocean Ridge hoping to uncover life forms akin to those envisioned on distant planets. (NASA was in on the gig.) Both films are shot/shown in the IMAX 3-D format (yes, you have to wear glasses), and though the experience is mind-boggling, it can also spark blurry optical overload. (48 minutes)
BY TOM MEEK
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