It could make bank for 7 days during shark week.
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Yes, they would have to use a computer instead of machines for the special effects. Outside of that I think it was a good movie in general.
Throw in that they can create horrors that are much more scary than sharks these days.
All of the reasons why it would not work today are all the reasons it would imho I am sick of cg and no camera shots lasting more than a nano second I could go on but I am going to pop my dvd in of jaws thanks
6. It isn’t based on a comic book franchise.
7. It’s been done before and it isn’t cool enough to reboot the cycle.
8. Killer shark films have jumped the shark.
9. Sharks/zombies don’t eat zombies/sharks.
10. Left Shark at Superbowl 2015 turned sharks into a laughing stock.
Completely disagree with the author.
CGI is ruining movies. I can understand using it for the Marvel and other superhero movies, but for your run of the mill action flick?
nor that he would be married, for a long time, and that the family would eat together at the supper table..
and that there even was a big shark, or any sharks, global warming and all....
Real reason: Some woman (taller than all the men) would have to be the hero. Yawn.
June 13, 1975, I was deep sea fishing out of Ensenada Mexico. One of the kids was running all over the boat, and we were in rough seas. I told my buddy that kid was gonna fall off the boat. About 20 minutes later he did...... I went into rescue mode and dove into the water..... sure seamed I had a lot of time to think about sharks (Jaws) before I hit the water, anyway, I finally hit the water and the little jerk actually saved me.
My #2 movie right behind Lawrence of Arabia.
It would still work. It would just have a hard time getting greenlit.
Every time I watch it it scares the bejeesus out of me again.
The first time when I saw it at the theatre and Roy Scheider was slapping that pole in the water and then the shark suddenly came up it scared me so bad my arm flew up and some of my coke went out of the cup and on the person behind me. :-)
Movie brings back big time 70s nostalgia for me.
I don’t agree with #4. Beaches are still plenty crowded.
And #5 is just plain silly. The whole premise is “why the first big shark movie wouldn’t work today” and then ending it with “because it wouldn’t be the first big shark movie”.
Some writers, I guess, just don’t have that much to write about and have to troll the waters for shreds of a story idea.
Jaw on the other hand was a classic horror film that gradually built up suspense and had you on the edge of your seat the entire time. I think there was maybe 90 seconds of actual "shark" time but that's all you needed to keep people out of the water, myself included, for years.
I was 13 when the movie came out in 1975. I can still remember seeing it with my father. It was the first and only time I saw a movie with him (because he wanted to see it too). It was a hot muggy night and the lines at the theatre were literally wrapped around the building. I never saw anything like it before. This was before multiplexes but this particular theatre had three cinemas and all three of them were showing "Jaws" 45 minutes apart. The other two movies that were supposed to be showing evidently got cancelled. It took us over two hours to get inside.
I think that was when the word "blockbuster" was coined. Jaws was a blockbuster of a movie.
Reason number 6. Overexposure from too many Shark Weeks. Sharks aren’t scary anymore.
