I watched this after learning about OceanGate's missing sub the Titan which resulted in a fatal catastrophic implosion. After watching James Cameron's documentary it's more apparent that the CEO's hubris including him bragging about how it was impossible for the sub to fail. Sadly, everyone on board his sub paid the price, classic ego. Cameron in his dive to Challenger Deep obsessed about every SINGLE DETAIL. This is the kind of attention to detail and seriousness required for such a dangerous venture.

I watched this after learning about OceanGate's missing sub the Titan which resulted in a fatal catastrophic implosion. After watching James Cameron's documentary it's more apparent that the CEO's hubris including him bragging about how it was impossible for the sub to fail. Sadly, everyone on board his sub paid the price, classic ego. Cameron in his dive to Challenger Deep obsessed about every SINGLE DETAIL. This is the kind of attention to detail and seriousness required for such a dangerous venture.

An aging filmmaker with a wife and five kids wants to explore, alone, the deepest depth of the ocean. Predictably (at least for those familiar with lazy writing), everything goes wrong and he breaks rules he himself set, so even more things break. Somehow he survives to tell the tale and discovers a preposterous number of new species.

There's something about James Cameron, as a person, that always makes me feel a little uneasy. He has oodles of talent, creativity, and drive, and has the power and money to make his many dreams and ambitions come true. And his passions are both ambitious and worthy. He has an awful lot to contribute to the world, in the fields of cinema, exploration, science, and ecology. He is a man who gets things done.

But somehow he just doesn't seem very nice. He doesn't exude much warmth or kindness. He seems slightly dangerous and unpredictable. Which is a shame. I'd like to like him as much as I respect and admire him. But there's just something...off...about him. But hey, I have Asperger's Syndrome so what do I know? People think I'm "off" too.

However, despite him making me feel discomforted, I still find him a fascinating individual, and his deepsea adventures are of great interest to me. I've seen a couple of other documentaries following his exploits and this was on a par with them in terms of interest factor and general excitingness. But, as another reviewer mentioned, the final underwater scenes were a little disappointing. I still look forward to his next project. I hope there's a documentary of it, but get the feeling that he'd rather be left alone and not have a camera in his face. Perhaps that's the discord that bothers me: he'd rather have his adventures alone, but needs to document them in order to justify (and finance) them, requiring the intrusive presence of a camera crew, who he probably views as parasites. Or I may be completely wrong. Who knows?