Jaws 2

[Amasov]

FWIW, that's from Jaws 3(D). A bigger piece of crap that that model hovering towards the glass.

So you're aware of there being a Jaws 3, but not 2? :P

Also, John Williams returns to score the movie - something I tend to forget about whenever I see it.

The closing music, in my opinion, is one of his best pieces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9mkqsKBCkA&playnext_from=TL&videos=z9xNcM5VY6o
If anyone's interested to hear.

 

[Harvey]

It's not as good as the first film, but I don't think many people are going to argue that. I think it is a decent movie. It's certainly the only other Jaws movie even worth thinking about.

+It brings back most of the surviving characters/actors from the first film, including Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, and Murray Hamilton. It's a shame Dreyfuss isn't in the film, but at least they bring up his character's absence.

+John Williams' score is great. Possibly, it's better than his score to the original Jaws.

+The producers, David Brown and Richard Zanuck, returned, and when they vanished from the series in Jaws 3-D it didn't do the series any favors.

+The two screenwriters brought experience from the first film. Gottlieb had re-written Jaws, and Sackler had written Quint's monologue about the Indianapolis.

 

[Amasov]

Jaws 3 had potential but my father in law's best friend worked on the movie and said the director was drunk for the entire shoot, so it was doomed from the get go apparently.

That's a shame to hear that considering the director of 3 is Joe Alves, who was the production designer on the first two and served as second unit director of Jaws 2.

 

[Anwar]

It would've worked out better as the comedy it was originally. It was sure funny enough as is.

 

[Teelie]

I like it well enough. How do you do a sequel to a giant shark eating people that's blown up in the first without it feeling like a total re-hash? Jaws 2 did as best a job possible of not repeating itself. Jaws 3 was just trash and rightly stricken from the canon. Jaws 4, while debatable in quality at least tried.

 

[Amasov]

I like it well enough. How do you do a sequel to a giant shark eating people that's blown up in the first without it feeling like a total re-hash? Jaws 2 did as best a job possible of not repeating itself. Jaws 3 was just trash and rightly stricken from the canon. Jaws 4, while debatable in quality at least tried.

In total agreement. Friends think I'm crazy, but I find Jaws: The Revenge to be much better than Jaws 3. High praise when you look at just how horrid 3 really is. The Revenge was at least entertaining, especially when you look at how unrealistic the shark looked.

 

[Trekker4747]

The Revenge is okay but still shitty. (The Shark was after Brody's family for nearly a whole generation.... Really?!)

Jaws 3D is just horrid, even more so given that it's never been given a 3D release in the home market. (Because, you know, the 3D in it was so awesome no TV today, or since it was released, could do it justice.) And two is feh. Most forgetable. All three movies seemed to mostly forget why the first one was good, Oscar-worthy and chilling.

Here's a hint:

It wasn't because the shark ate people.

I mean seriously:

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That's just crap. And it was supposed to top a powerful moment like this:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nrvMNf-HEg[/yt]

 

[Amasov]

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Gene makes a great point, why are they still living on that island?!

 

[DarthPipes]

I watched that scene recently with Quint's story and it was excellent. Spielberg stated it was his favorite scene in the movie and it's easy to understand why.

 

[Teelie]

Quint's scene is one of the best scenes in the entire franchise, if not the entire franchise and stands well on its own outside of the Jaws/giant man eating shark movies.

 

[Trekker4747]

Quint's sene is awesome, one of the best scenes in cinema. Even Deryfus said that his reaction/expression was genuine. I can watch that scene over and over and be captivated. It's like watching grandpa talk about life in the war. Superb scene, including the Shantee they sing afterwards and the scar-comparissons earlier. It was in that scene the three men bonded and Quint saw Hooper as something more than a rich know-it-all and respected him. Powerful scene and something you don't commonly see in Summer monster/asction-dramas these days.

 

[DarthPipes]

It's capped off by Quint's great line "I'll never wear a life preserver again."

 

[FPAlpha]

I also like that the film didn't borrow too much from its predecessor in that the shark is shown A LOT. The shark served more as a presence in the first movie just before it's finally revealed near the end.

See that's why Jaws (the original movie) is just so damn good... all the horror is inside our head. We know how a shark looks like and we know they are very dangerous animals so we pictured all kinds of gruesome details.

I don't subscribe to modern day filmmaking where very last detail has to be shown.. leave something to the imagination.

The same principle applied to Alien.. we rarely see it but when we do it's scary as hell.

Jaws 2 was just a lame ripoff without the class of the original as it's almost always the case with sequels.

 

[Amasov]

I also like that the film didn't borrow too much from its predecessor in that the shark is shown A LOT. The shark served more as a presence in the first movie just before it's finally revealed near the end.

See that's why Jaws (the original movie) is just so damn good... all the horror is inside our head. We know how a shark looks like and we know they are very dangerous animals so we pictured all kinds of gruesome details.

I don't subscribe to modern day filmmaking where very last detail has to be shown.. leave something to the imagination.

The same principle applied to Alien.. we rarely see it but when we do it's scary as hell.

Jaws 2 was just a lame ripoff without the class of the original as it's almost always the case with sequels.

You know what other film did that rather successfully, and feel free to laugh, but Larry Cohen's 1974 movie, It's Alive.

While the movie is fairly campy with an outrageous premise about an infant born with fangs and claws that kills, you never really get a good look at it - probably due to the fact that we'd see how fake the puppet looked, but it gave the film a level of tension that wouldn't be there if we were given a full on look at it.

On the Jaws 2 DVD, there's a great 60 minute documentary on the making of the film. The director, Jeannot Schwarz (sp?) talked in great detail about whether they should show the shark or not.

Originally, it was suggested to never show the shark, but he felt that the shark should be shown a lot because that scene when the shark is first revealed in the original film, it's already happened. They couldn't duplicate that. Have to say, I agree. So, what did they do? They scarred the shark early in the film by having half of its face burned, "scareface the shark," as put by Carl Gottlieb.

Jaws 2 is one of my favorite sequels. As it was said before, it was as good as a it could be as a followup, but beyond this, it should not have continued. They tried a few different things and did a good job of it.

You would expect, given the premise, for it to almost duplicate the original, and while certain elements from the first film are carried over, but it stands on its own.

 

[Trekker4747]

I also like that the film didn't borrow too much from its predecessor in that the shark is shown A LOT. The shark served more as a presence in the first movie just before it's finally revealed near the end.

See that's why Jaws (the original movie) is just so damn good... all the horror is inside our head. We know how a shark looks like and we know they are very dangerous animals so we pictured all kinds of gruesome details.

I don't subscribe to modern day filmmaking where very last detail has to be shown.. leave something to the imagination.

The same principle applied to Alien.. we rarely see it but when we do it's scary as hell.

Jaws 2 was just a lame ripoff without the class of the original as it's almost always the case with sequels.

The same principles were also, to a degree, used in the first "Tremeors" movies where the graboids are undergound and save for a couple key scenes we never see them we just see the chaos and terror they cause.

 

[Angel4576]

The second movie's definitely watchable. The lack of Dreyfuss and Shaw relegate it from 'classic' status but one thing's for sure, it's far, far better than the two movies that followed it.

 

[Gary 7 of 9]

I like Jaws 2. I've always enjoyed it. Its an appropriate followup to Jaws.

 

[Keith1701]

Okay but not as good as the original .

I agree

 

[Joel_Kirk]

One of the reasons I liked it was because of a little crush on Ann Dusenberry who played Tina Wilcox.

Other that that, I thought it was a good follow-up to the first film; it would have been cool to have Dreyfuss return, but Schneider did pretty good with a passable script.

I may have to watch it again sometime...

 

[Greg Cox]

JAWS 2 is competently done, but suffers horrendously by comparison with the original. Its main problem being that three great characters, played by three great actors, are largely replaced by a posse of bland and not very interesting teenagers . . . .