Jaws Remake, I can't believe what I just Read

I just watched Jaws the other day.

Utterly perfect.

May anyone who wants to remake it be eaten by a large mechanical shark.
 
Wow@the over hysterical response. I mean, it's an alright film (it is NOT perfect, no film is) but are people still doing the whole "surprised they'd remake this" thing? Get with the times, people. Nothing is sacred in Hollywood.
 
a perfect film is one were the script, direction, acting and music all come together to make a film that is 'bottled lightening'. Jaws is one of those films.
 
We completely understand that nothing is sacred in Hollywood. We completely understand that they'd remake Jaws even though it is as close to perfect as any film can come.

We just think that anyone who would remake Jaws is a cretin.
 
I think there's an over-reaction here.

If it's made, it will be the thick end of 40 years after the original...that's fine particularly for a story which requires fairly sophisticated special effects which are bound to date. The first King Kong remake was after 43 years...not that it was especially good but the timing was reasonable.
 
Because as others have pointed out it's a perfect film. And it's important to have some understanding of an art form like cinema as it is to have an understanding of litrature.

My eighteen year old was just as appalled as me when I told him. He doesn't want to see rehashed inferior versions of films that he recognises as classics. He wants to see films that take cinema forward (and I don't mean stuff like Avatar).

My sixteen year old has Gone with the Wind in her all time top ten and Wuthering Heights as one of her top ten books. And actually I do think you have to be a moron to reject films just because they weren't made last year.

Although it's said a lot on RAB, I blame the parents. :o
Why aren't they sitting and watching great films with their children?
Then these money mogul philistines might have to start earning their money rather than ripping off everybody else's genius.
 
A remake will probbaly have the ridiculous CGI effects like the wolves in The Day After Tommorow!...as often is said on here best leave a classic as it is ! you cant tamper with perfection!
 
Would people be getting so upset if they had announced a new JAWS sequel? Well really that's what they're talkinmg about, isn't it? They're not going to set the film in a 1970's timeframe are they. It'll be modern day America and while it may follow roughly the same storyline you bet there'll be enough of a departure to make it a new film in it's own right. And even if they call it JAWS.... Star Tek did the same last year and that wasn't too bad.

Anyway, name me one 'remake' which by it's very production has detracted from or damaged the repuation of the original? Spielberg's JAWS is and will always be a classic no matter how many crappy sequels or ill-conceived remakes they do. In the mean time seeing a shark eat some Americans at the cinema sounRAB pretty damned good.
 
The only improvement that could be made to this film is maybe some cgi wizardry on the scene where the shark lunges up onto the back of the boat and attacks Quint.

Other than that, everything about this film is perfect.

Who's Hopper? :D
 
Supercilious claptrap.

The problem with lofty principles is that they're exactly that - lofty and never down to earth. The same movies and moguls that you're so keen to rubbish are the ones keeping the movie industry alive. It's business first and foremost and without it you wouldn't be watching anything - or hadn't you quite grasped that?

And as for blaming the parents... the idea that parents and children can schedule their entertainment together and agree on what "great" movies to watch is downright weird.
 
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