Jaws - IMAX release!

[Technics 1210]

This movie in my opinion deserves a thread of its own.

Completely changed the movie industry (Kick started the summer blockbuster tradition). The score alone won an oscar, using only 3 notes, (E, F, F#), and John Williams ushered in the phenomena, music as manipulation, and Jaws is responsible for crashing the travel industry economy at the time because people were afraid to go into the water, last but not least, cemented Spielberg’s legendary status.

Quinton Tarintino has voted Jaws the greatest movie of all time.

https://www.cinemablend.com/intervi...als-his-pick-for-the-greatest-movie-ever-made

So why I am I tell you all of this?

Jaws will be back on cinema screens, only this time remastered for the IMAX experience! Every frame has been digitally remastered (8 minutes per frame) and the iconic score reproduced in 7 channels, when I say reproduced, I mean re-recorded by John Williams!

Released in September, this is an experience I do not want to miss!

Here’s the Jaws IMAX trailer - the trailer alone is sending shivers down my spine!

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[JaDed]

Imo Jaws was better than ET.. which too had some anniversary recently but didn’t age well.

Saw Jaws Imax trailer recently in theater and its worth giving it a shot.

Some interesting things about Jaws:

The mechanical sharks remain mostly underwater or sometimes not even there due to mechanical failures which while frustrating the crew created an opportunity for Steven to make the movie even more suspenseful.

There is a reason why Hollywood from 1970-2000 made big budget entertaining movie It’s also because of these small aspects to film making which made movie experience more thrilling and real compared to the ontheface CGI we are dished out nowadays.

 

[KingKhanWC]

Looks incredible.

A rare movie you can watch over and over.

The shark in Jaws was great but also all characters and cast.

To this day no other Shark movie comes close. 47 metres deep is worth watch.

 

[Technics 1210]

Imo Jaws was better than ET.. which too had some anniversary recently but didn’t age well.

Saw Jaws Imax trailer recently in theater and its worth giving it a shot.

Some interesting things about Jaws:

The mechanical sharks remain mostly underwater or sometimes not even there due to mechanical failures which while frustrating the crew created an opportunity for Steven to make the movie even more suspenseful.

There is a reason why Hollywood from 1970-2000 made big budget entertaining movie It’s also because of these small aspects to film making which made movie experience more thrilling and real compared to the ontheface CGI we are dished out nowadays.

Yeah agree, I found ET to be overrated, but as far as Jaws, it was destiny.

And you are right about CGI, back in the days before CGI, directors needed dialogue or screenplay to fill in the gaps, now a days, CGI fills in the blanks.

As for Jaws, the mechanical shark (named Bruce) was such a failure that it only appeared twice in the move, and in order to fill in the gaps, Spielberg used the score with underwater filming. The rest is history. Spielberg said himself that the score is 50% of the movie.

 

[PakLFC]

Not kidding when I say have seen this film at least a 100 times! This is the film that made Steven Spielberg in to the biggest movie maker ever. Not a single moment in this film bores the viewer but you know the interesting thing is the fake shark only has about 6 minutes of coverage. The haunting Music of the film greatly adds to the success of this incredible film. I hope they never make a remake of this classic.

 

[James]

Think it was a masterstroke that Spielberg largely replaced the unreliable mechanical shark with a first person view from underwater handheld cameras, and applied the brilliant music from John Williams to these scenes to build a tense and pressurised atmosphere.

The less you see a threat, the more mysterious and frightening it becomes.

Also a good bit of social commentary on seasonal capitalism and the tourism industry.

A classic film.

 

[KingKhanWC]

Think it was a masterstroke that Spielberg largely replaced the unreliable mechanical shark with a first person view from underwater handheld cameras, and applied the brilliant music from John Williams to these scenes to build a tense and pressurised atmosphere.

The less you see a threat, the more mysterious and frightening it becomes.

Also a good bit of social commentary on seasonal capitalism and the tourism industry.

A classic film.

This music made the movie imo. Even now if you put this on the beach loudly, people will run out of the water lol.

 

[James]

This music made the movie imo. Even now if you put this on the beach loudly, people will run out of the water lol.

Every scene where the shark is sniffing out the tourists underneath the surface of the water is still very chilling! The music always starts off quiet and stalking, and gets faster and louder and more threatening until it crescendos for a shark attack.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Spieilberg made some great movies but this still ranks highest. Shame about the plastic shark scenes but he was working with the techonology of the times. Jurassic Park took it to another level.

 

[Robert]

“The one with the musical fish. He plays a tune before he attacks.”

- Derry Girls