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A third to me is the brief shots of the (real) shark moving forward to pull the water skier down and her moving around underwater.

The shot of the shark almost getting the unconscious Mike as they pull him into the boat is amazing. (No, I don't give a shit that you can see the hydraulic in the shark's mouth :laugh:)

I've wondered the same thing. There's nothing particularly wrong with the actor's performance so I'm inclined to guess that they felt that one endangered son was enough to make it high stakes for Brody.

Should've been the lead off title for the format.

I could see the first half boring people (though I think there's enough to keep the movie interesting) but once the kids' boats get out on the water, the movie isn't boring. Also, you are correct and your wife is wrong. :)

I think the shark looks crappier in the third and fourth movies because they're cheaper movies so they literally spent less money on the sharks. Also, I think both of the movies are brighter than the first two. Someone with more technical knowledge than me can correct me or back me up but I...

Ha! The scene Tino mentioned is easily the best scene in the movie and legitimately creepy. The score, while certainly not up to John WIlliams, is still pretty good. Lou Gossett saying "You talking about some damn shark's mother?" makes me laugh. The scene with Overman trying to lock the...

There's a few good things about Jaws III but yeah, the biggest reason that I will frequently end up watching it when it's on AMC is because it's silly.

When I was young, I liked Jaws 2 and III more than the original because they've both got more action and more people getting eaten by a shark.

I've probably said it before but at least Jaws III is a good bad movie so you can have some fun laughing at it. The Revenge is just a bad movie.

And today is the 35th anniversary of Jaws III.

Which used the original script.

As someone who is a vegetarian and believes in protecting wildlife (even the gross or creepy crap out there), the real world reaction is the only bad thing that I can think of relating to Jaws.

And today is the 43rd anniversary of Jaws. How good is this trailer? "It is as if god created the devil and gave him... jaws."

I'll be seeing The Meg but I have to say that the shot in the Jurassic World trailer with the dinosaur swimming in a big wave towards surfers is the best 'shark' moment I've seen since Jaws.

Yeah, that's a good scene and it's nice seeing Amity and some of the people from the first movie again too.

I have developed a weird love for Jaws 3. It's terrible but, like an Ed Wood movie, I find it to be fascinatingly bad. And like you, it's the first one I can remember seeing so nostalgia is probably at play. I will say though that Jaws 3 has a couple of good things about it- the score is...

What do you mean? This doesn't look real to you?! Oh.

Eh, I think most of the shots work but showing it more undeniably does show more of the seams and mistakes. Some wonderfully crazy fan cut together all the shots of the shark in Jaws 2 in this video: The one that I think gives it away is at 3:01 where the shark is between Brody's boat and the...

Also, there's a quick but effective shot of the shark moving up towards her as she's struggling to get up on her boat. I probably said it earlier in this thread but one of the really good moves that Jaws 2 made was showing the shark a fair amount. Not showing the shark much until the end of the...

Yeah, Marge's death was the one that always freaked me out as a kid. It's probably because she gets swallowed in one gulp.

Today is the 40th anniversary of the release of Jaws 2.

That was fun. The Super 8 film and the wardrobe really help give the look of the movie a 70's charm. Those kids were pretty smart for getting production value out of the fire trucks, etc. at the beginning. Also, their shark looks nearly as good as the one in Jaws: The Revenge.

Yeah, that's where I first saw Grizzly. Even though it shamelessly lifts from Jaws, it's a pretty decent example of the 'nature run amok' genre that followed Jaws. I think the Blu-ray is limited to 3,000 copies from screenarchives.com.

I don't want to slam Alves without reading exactly what he said (I read the Jaws 2 book but don't recall that passage) but if he's trying to take credit beyond second unit directing, I'd chalk it up to an old guy who knows that was the best movie he worked on and is just trying to get more of...

I think it's fair to assume that Joe Alves directed the shot from the beach that is used in the movie where you see Alex struggling out of the water with the blood shooting up. Like you said though, that's normal second unit stuff. It's not like Spielberg didn't come to work on the days that...

I've seen Jaws in the theater probably almost 10 times throughout the years now (impressive since I was born after it came out and I live in suburban Pennsylvania) but I have never seen Jaws 2 in theaters.

I'm of the age that that's how I first saw it too. I got the laserdisc when I was in high school and it was a revelation for my Jaws-loving ass.

Yeah, I remember hearing about that when I was a little kid and it's stuck with me all these years. To the point that every time I see Jaws The Revenge, I'm uncomfortable when that poor kid is onscreen.

Yeah but it's not like anyone else is a three dimensional character in the movie either. If there's any characters that are more well rounded or if the audience has any investment in them, it stems entirely from them being in previous movies.