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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