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Why would James Cameron world-renowned award-winning filmmaker put his very life on the line to dive alone to the deepest place on Earth? What kind of passion and drive and spirit would impel him to risk everything he has achieved to descend to the ocean's darkest and most unknown depths? James Cameron is no ordinary man. Already the world's best known and most successful filmmaker, Cameron is also a passionate ocean explorer, driven by a lifelong dream to be the first man to dive solo to the bottom of the forbidding and mysterious Mariana Trench. As deep as Mount Everest with a lesser Alp stacked on top, the trench is the ultimate last frontier on Earth, and James Cameron was determined to make it there alive - and back. Deepsea Challenge 3D follows the dramatic story of Cameron's personal odyssey as he undertakes an expedition of such historic proportion and risk that it has been compared to putting a man on the moon. Deepsea Challenge 3D will mesmerize viewers of all ages with the thrill of true discovery and the allure of the unknown, of new life forms, and of vistas never before captured on camera - and all right here on planet Earth. (Beyond Home Entertainment)
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This reminded me of those situations where you start telling a story in front of people and then you notice that everyone is listening to you rapt right as you realize with horror that the story isn't actually very good or interesting. So you start flooding it with all sorts of minor details, sub-plots, and jumping out of your seat instead of delaying as much as possible the moment when you close with "...well, that's pretty much it." Here an American billionaire takes a bathyscape into the depths to a place where, simply stated, there is simply nothing. So he tries to litter it with all sorts of "dramatic sequences" with "dramatic music", 3D, self-doubt, constantly naming all of it, and jumping from descriptions of the technical aspects of the entire challenge to descriptions of the importance of discovery in general. And Cameron himself, an unsympathetic pragmatist, is certainly not a good guide.
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