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Jaws
By Steven Spielberg
Hyped 8/20/2008 1:29:02 PM
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Last Rated: 2/8/2009 8:41:12 PM by nassauroyal and has been rated 5 time(s)
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Egan080's Review and Opinion:
Before Titanic...
Before Jurassic Park...
Before Star Wars....
...There was Jaws.
The current Batman flick The Dark Knight has more than outgrossed Steven Spielberg's first really big hit from 1975, but this tense, scary, and well-made man-vs.-great white shark movie was the grand-daddy of the big summer blockbusters, raking in a then-amazing $100,000,000 in the box office.
Starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss, Jaws is a Hollywood rarity: an adaptation of a novel that's actually better than its literary source. (Good thing that Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel, was one of the screenplay's writers!)
Though far from perfect - you can tell "Bruce" the mechanical shark is fake in one of his rare close ups - and its ending is a bit too precious, this is the only one of the Jaws film quartet that doesn't leave you asking why the hell you plunked down $20 for a DVD or even $4.99 for a rental. It is a wonderful mix of horror, adventure, and even character studies of human nature,
The film, by the way, raised composer John Williams' rep as the go-to guy for film scores. His music for Jaws, with its two note shark motif, earned him one of the seven Oscars he has won over the years, and Spielberg would later recommend him for one of his best-known (and best-loved) commissions - the symphonic score to Star Wars (1977).
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Visual Aspects 76.67% |
Though perhaps the movie's visuals are no longer state-of-the art, they still stand the test of time. Better than some CGI-reliant movies, even. |
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Auditory Aspects 100.00% |
The sound effects are pretty good for a film of the 1970s. There's even a strange dinosaur growl added in at the end just for shock value. Good sound |
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Cinematography 100.00% |
The cinematography is perhaps one of the best things in Jaws, which was a tough movie to shoot because much of it involved location shooting at sea. |
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Plot/story 83.33% |
While not totally original, Jaws manages to scare and surprise viewers even though it's a familiar man vs monster tale. |
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Character 90.00% |
Unlike its sequels, Jaws is full of believable people who behave like real humans. |
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Acting 100.00% |
Top notch cast. This is one of Spielberg's actor-focused works, and the performances are all great. |
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General 90.00% |
okay, so the shark looks mechanical in some shots, but even though this is not a new flick, it is one of the best of its kind. |
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Synopsis:
As summer approaches, and with it the annual invasion by the "summer dinks" (tourists), the small beach town of Amity is terrorized by the appearance in its waters of a terrifying force of nature....a great white shark.
When a young woman goes missing while going for a moonlight skinny dip in the Atlantic Ocean, Police Chief Martin Brody (Scheider) investigates, only to find that the girl did not drown or get run over by a boat.
But when he turns in his official report that a shark killed the girl, the town poobahs want to cover it up and keep the beaches open.
Bad move, because several other people, including a 10-year-old boy, are attacked by the shark., and even the poobahs have to concede that something must be done. They do, in a way, but it's not till Brody teams up with shark expert Matt Hooper (Dreyfuss) and crusty sea captain Quint (Shaw) that Amity stands a chance to survive the onslaught of the white shark's toothy jaws.
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