Duh Duh... Duh Duh... Duh Duh Duh Duh Duh Duh Duh Duh Duh Duh... JAWS!
I think that there are a lot of people that find it difficult to be scared by films that are so dated that the graphics just look like red paint on a piece of plastic but still, we will give it a go.
This is a Spielberg film so I shall try not to do it any discredit or show it any disrespect. I can imagine what the effect would have been on the audience when this film was released. Firstly, the music is awesome, the idea to just have two notes a semi tone apart for the theme of the villain was genius and probably one of the easiest things to score out. Secondly, there are some fantastic moments when you have to think that if you were growing up in that time, you would probably have been screaming when the guy had loads of blood spurting from his stomach and other places. I can see the effect that it would have had on people and i'm kinda gutted that i wasn't old enough to watch it when it was first released.
The thing that makes watching it hard for me is how obviously plastic the shark is. I think that the shark probably would have looked more real if it had been shot in black and white just because you wouldn't be able to see so clearly the definite plastic look that surrounds the shark.
I loved how the shark explodes at the end. It's not like they just shot it, it actually blows up from the interior out and the entire shot is of the sea surrounding them all covered in bits of shark and lots of red paint which is kinda cool. Spielberg clearly had had enough of this pathetic dying that most actors did around that time and just decided to blow the character to smithereens.
You may be wondering why i haven't mentioned any of the actors? The truth is that i wasn't that impressed by them. They did their job but they didn't blow me away and at the same time they didn't bore me either. I haven't remembered their names and I could look them up on IMDB but I see no point as i am likely to retain their names afterwards.
I could watch this film over and over again though, just for the ending.
I think that there are a lot of people that find it difficult to be scared by films that are so dated that the graphics just look like red paint on a piece of plastic but still, we will give it a go.
This is a Spielberg film so I shall try not to do it any discredit or show it any disrespect. I can imagine what the effect would have been on the audience when this film was released. Firstly, the music is awesome, the idea to just have two notes a semi tone apart for the theme of the villain was genius and probably one of the easiest things to score out. Secondly, there are some fantastic moments when you have to think that if you were growing up in that time, you would probably have been screaming when the guy had loads of blood spurting from his stomach and other places. I can see the effect that it would have had on people and i'm kinda gutted that i wasn't old enough to watch it when it was first released.
The thing that makes watching it hard for me is how obviously plastic the shark is. I think that the shark probably would have looked more real if it had been shot in black and white just because you wouldn't be able to see so clearly the definite plastic look that surrounds the shark.I loved how the shark explodes at the end. It's not like they just shot it, it actually blows up from the interior out and the entire shot is of the sea surrounding them all covered in bits of shark and lots of red paint which is kinda cool. Spielberg clearly had had enough of this pathetic dying that most actors did around that time and just decided to blow the character to smithereens.
You may be wondering why i haven't mentioned any of the actors? The truth is that i wasn't that impressed by them. They did their job but they didn't blow me away and at the same time they didn't bore me either. I haven't remembered their names and I could look them up on IMDB but I see no point as i am likely to retain their names afterwards.
I could watch this film over and over again though, just for the ending.
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