From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, August 4, 2003 at 3:50:27 PM UTC-7, DBatty2 wrote:   
   > Yesterday, while on a vacation trip that took me to Washington, D.C.,    
   > I lived out a fantasy that has been tormenting me for quite a few years.    
   > For the first time since 1976 or so, I saw Jaws in a beautiful wide    
   > screen theater--the AFI Silver Institute in Silver Spring, Maryland.    
   > Although they apologized for the print, it looked great. The sound was    
   > less than optimal, but acceptable.   
   > I have been wondering for a long time why this movie has not been    
   > re-released, since, more than Star Wars or the Godfather movies or    
   > several others I could name, it really needs the big screen. Now I'm    
   > more curious than ever. It is simply impossible to compare seeing this    
   > on a tv screen, no matter how big, to seeing it a theater. In the    
   > theater you realize that, like Moby Dick (to which it obviously owes a    
   > lot--Ahab, Starbuck, Stubbs = Quint, Brody, Hooper), it is really about    
   > the sea. The water is everywhere and is beautifully evocative, and the    
   > silence of the sea is used to set off Williams' score and the violent    
   > action. The blue of the sea is also mirrored in the denim shirts worn    
   > by Shaw and Dreyfuss, and above all in Shaw's extraordinary blue eyes.   
   > When the movie came out I found the first 50 minutes cheaply    
   > exploitative. I still did, but not so much; they do set up a good    
   > atmosphere of terror. Once those guys go out on that boat, though, it    
   > is, in my opinion, the greatest adventure movie ever made. Nothing can    
   > match the experience of seeing it the first time, but it deserves a wide    
   > re-release so that the younger generation will really KNOW what all the    
   > fuss was about.   
   > David Kaiser   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EoB9J3xO4g&t=52s   
      
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