Original Jaws in 3D

[Phillip Campey]

Just returned from seeing Jaws in 3D, it’s showing for one week only, if your a fan I can highly recommend it.

[Brian Fretwell]

I can only hope it looked better than "Jaws 3-D" the third Jaws film which was billed as that at the time and made in a terrible cheap 3D system which left it with a dim and very grainy picture where I saw it. I have the dedicated 3D glasses from that in front of me as I type this though the nose of the shark printed at the bridge of the glasses has succumbed to age and broken off.

[Phillip Campey]

Brian the 3D was incredible, to my surprise it really did enhance the film. It felt like you were in the water especially the shark cage sequence.

[Douglas Meltzer]

I haven't seen the 1975 Jaws in 3D yet, however I've found that a number of the conversions of older films are incredibly well done. Seeing Terminator 2, Jurassic Park and The Wizard of Oz in Imax/3D were great immersive moviegoing experiences.

[Graham Ritchie]

Over the last weekend I sent a message to our local "Reading Cinema" through there Facebook page, asking about them getting "JAWS" on 3D. They did get back to me saying it was not on there schedule. I replied that I had read that the conversion was "very good" and that ET was also in the works.

They again got back to me saying, that having both would be great, and that they are going to pass this onto head office, so here is hoping

I finished by sending them this poster they did seem very positive about the idea and told me to keep an eye out on there Facebook page

So anyone else here on the forum that lives in the US please go and see it, and get back to us ASAP about it....it really is a must see movie, but even more so in 3D what I have read about it so far.

PS No word on a blu-ray release but if Universal let it happen I will be getting it, that's for sure.

[Edward Nicielnik]

Showing at Imax

https://imaxmelbourne.com.au/movie/j...xperience-1975

[Maurice Leakey]

I can only hope it looked better than "Jaws 3-D" the third Jaws film which was billed as that at the time and made in a terrible cheap 3D system which left it with a dim and very grainy picture where I saw it.

At the Classic in Taunton we had great trouble with the flimsy gadget which had to fix in front of the lens. A chap had called in some weeks before to accurately measure our throw and each gadget was tailored for the cinema who would be using using it.

There were no instructions on lacing, the first day we ran three shows which were not in 3D and nobody complained to management! We had to keep the side masking in and the top masking down which made the screen look very small, and the gadget decreased our light quite severely. Even when we sorted out the problem the rest of the week didn't really improve the projection.

The gadget? Two long rods which contained various optics at certain angles which clipped on the front of our usual lens. (We were now single projector running from a tower).

[Ed Gordon]

Digitally projected 3D with Active Shutter glasses has to be seen to be believed. The old methods (anaglyph, polarized) were horrible, and assured the short life span of 3D in all previous encarnations. Unfortunately 3D TV's has no longer being made. Your only option is to buy a digital projector. I got mine for about $1500 a few years ago. The Active Shutter glasses from Epson have a list price of about $100 per pair, but you can get 3rd party glasses for as little as $35 a pair. Here is a review of the 3D version of the original Jaws which is playing in a limited run in theaters.

[Rik Jackman]

I've just checked and it's a pretty much every cinema in my area so looking forward to seeing this

[Osi Osgood]

Wife, pizza, kids, films, God, and not necessarily in that order!

[Graham Ritchie]

I was thinking today since I first watched "JAWS" on its release at the cinema, I still cover my eyes at that severed head bit, now the years may have passed, but even on DVD/Blu-ray I still can't look at that bit, as my "brain" has been wired to make me jump ever since 1975 so how can I deal with it on 3D?

mmmmm shut my eyes might be the only option, I will say this, 3D or not 3D, there is no way I can watch that severed head scene, and I do mean "no" way..

[Phillip Campey]

Graham it’s still not lost it’s impact, my mate who I went with to see it still jumped when the head popped out and when the shark smashed into the cage. He’d seen the film about 20 times before.

[Ed Gordon]

The Scariest Moment in ‘Jaws’ is Still Pure Nightmare Fuel


Published 5 years ago on June 20, 2017
By
John Squires

Exactly 42 years ago, Jaws gave rise to the summer blockbuster as we know it. And with it came countless fears and deep-seated nightmares that still persist to this day.

Why are so many people so afraid of sharks, despite the deep sea predators actually posing very little threat to humans? Much of that credit, for better or worse, must be given to Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, which has been keeping people out of the water for four decades now.

An adaptation of Peter Benchley’s same-named novel, released just one year prior, Jaws wrote the book on summer blockbusters as well as shark attack films. With the tale of a Great White terrorizing the fictional Amity Island, Spielberg crafted a horror film that may very well be the best one ever made.

Everything you could ever want from a horror movie is found in Jaws, driven by such incredible storytelling, character work and acting that it’s so much more than a “scary movie.” It’s arguably not even the shark itself that has kept horror fans coming back again and again over the years… but holy shit is that shark still terrifying after all these years.

Jaws is loaded with truly nightmarish scenes, including two jump scares that no horror film may ever match. I’m referring to the shocking appearance of Ben Gardner’s severed head during a late night dive and, of course, the shark breaching the surface while Martin Brody is chumming the waters.

But what’s the scariest moment in the entire film? If you’re asking me, it’s one that is much more subtle than the aforementioned jump scares. And it’s one of the film’s many moments that benefited from, oddly enough, the mechanical shark being the most reluctant actor in horror history.

Infamously, Jaws took a less-is-more approach to many of its early shark appearances out of necessity more than anything else; it’s not until the 1-hour mark that we actually catch a good glimpse of the shark for the first time. That glimpse comes courtesy of the “estuary attack” scene, wherein an unlucky boater has his leg chomped clean off by the razor-toothed menace.

At first, we see the shark approach the man from a birds-eye-view angle. The shark is completely turned on its side and is only faintly visible underneath the surface of the water, before eventually lunging its head out to give us a much better look. But it’s the initial glimpse of the shark that’s the true nightmare fuel, as it’s an exercise in restraint that makes one thing crystal clear: it’s often what we don’t quite see in horror movies that is the scariest.

When I tweeted about this particular scene just last night, many of my followers chimed in with some great insights…

• “This scene shows just enough to send your imagination into overdrive. A perfect one-frame lesson in restraint.” – @BluGilliand
• “To this day, it’s this scene that still freaks me out.” – @ArenaBrothers
• “Yeah this is probably the most shocking scene. Just the silhouette of the shark in the water is creepy. Less is more in my book.” – @BeeWilsonBeeman
• “The most frightening shot of the film. And the leg dropping to the ocean floor is disturbingly realistic looking.” – @KyleWarner3000

In a film so loaded with terrifying moments, it may seem impossible to pick just one to hold up as the scariest of the scary. But to this day, I’m not so sure that I’ve ever seen a moment in a horror movie that defines the overused term “nightmare fuel” as well as this one from Jaws. Even over 40 years after its original release, a more bone-chilling movie moment has arguably never been brought to the screen.

And that’s the power of Jaws: the most timelessly terrifying movie of them all.

Source: https://bloody-disgusting.com/editor...ightmare-fuel/

[Melvin England]

After reading this topic, guess where I was yesterday afternoon ?

Correct!

Oh boy! What a transformation ! It was a really strange feeling of deja vue. I've seen the film plenty of times, familiar with every scene, familiar with a lot of the dialogue, but experiencing it for the first time in 3D was sort of like watching it for the first time. However THIS time, as I AM familiar with it, I found my eyes wandering more into the background...... watching what the other people were doing at the beach party in the opening scene, for example, because this time they were just a few feet in front of you. Same with the daytime beach scene, noticing more what somebody 15' away in the background was doing because they were much much more prominent when depth is added to the picture. The fact that is was on a huge screen for a change also really helped.

Needless to say..... highly recommended! A must !

Thank you Phillip for bringing this to our attention in the first place. This is one that might have slipped through my net otherwise.


Now...... Roll on 3D Titanic, The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, The Towering Inferno.

(was that "roll on" or "dream on" ?)

[Phillip Campey]

So pleased you enjoyed it as much as I did Melvin. I have Titanic 3D on Blu-ray, I think they did a short release at the cinema as well.