If you’ve heard of the historic sinking of the USS Indianapolis, there’s a good chance you first learned of the event from Robert Shaw’s stirring monologue in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Jaws, and now decades later, we get another, and vastly longer, retelling of the story by director Mario Van Peebles. Why any studio thought the…
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Jaws: The Revenge (1987) – Review
No movie series epitomizes the Hollywood sequel machine and the “Law of Diminishing Returns” more than the Jaws series.
Jaws 3-D (1983) – Review
After Jaws 2 hit theatres and was the highest-grossing sequel up to that point in time, producers David Brown and Richard Zanuck were interested in making the third installment a send-up of the previous two films, entitled Jaws 3, People 0.
Jaws 2 (1978) – Review
The effect of Spielberg’s shark movie cannot be overstated, not since Norman Bates ruined showers for millions of people has a film kept so many people out of the water, so the idea of a sequel to this mega-blockbuster seems natural by today’s standards, but sequels were not the norm at this point in history.
Jaws (1975) – Review
The impact of Steven Spielberg’s 1975 shark film cannot be understated; not only did it basically create a genre, we’ve been seeing countless shark movies ever since, but it is also responsible for the industry turning the summer from being a filmic dumping ground to the place to hold their tent-pole productions.