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director: stephen spielberg
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What can you say about this film that hasn't been said, it is just amazing and it loses nothing even when you're old enough to realize that the shark looks like crap. There is so much in this film to be blown away by, it is a masterpiece of suspense: even though you know Richard Dreyfuss is going to get out of the shark cage alive it still scares the hell out of you. This is the type of summer blockbuster that the studios should start making again, I mean the first hour of the movie is all character you don't get the "action" until the last half hour. The performances are top notch, Roy Scheider hasn't done a better film since (and no, Blue Thunder doesn't count). This film is also a bit of nostalgia for Uncle Johnny since he grew up in a beach community as well. I saw this at the drive-in with "White Line Fever" (a trucker movie with Jan-Michael Vincent) and it scared the short pants off of me and made me hit the bottle and stay out of the water. The extra stuff on the DVD is nothing all that exciting, the deleted scenes were best left deleted, except for a very funny yet extraneous bit with Robert Shaw going to buy piano wire.
The "making of" stuff is pretty good, there's a cheesy trivia game which you have to play just to see Roy Scheider blow up the shark. It's just nice to have a pristine copy of one of my generations classics. Also, I just realized watching this that the scene in "Chasing Amy" where the characters compare cunnilingus wounds is an homage to the scene where Dreyfuss and Shaw are comparing scars... who knew. I love this goddamned movie. |
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reviewed by: JohnLawton |
October 2000 [link] |
recommend
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