Jaws (Universal 100th Anniversary DigiBook Edition) [Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy + UltraViolet]

YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BETTER MEDIUM..., 2 Sep 2012 JAWS THE BLU RAY "What we have here is a perfect movie, all it does is entertain, terrify adults and give little kids nightmares all night long..." Like most people from my generation, I have a strange but very personal history with this movie. When it first came out I was not able to see it, I think I was thought to be too young. (The Poster did after all warn that this movie might be a bit too intense for little kids). My older brother saw it when it first came out and being a kid who lived inside his own head most of the time; he was able to remember every single line in the movie. I come from the Bogside in Derry of Northern Ireland and I had absolutely no idea what a shark was, no concept at all - my brother Paddy, told me it was like a goldfish that was grey, that it was about the size of a bus and that it had rows of teeth the size of steak knives, oh yeah, and it also could bite a man clear in half below the waist - Yikes!. One Halloween's night, a very stormy night if I recall correctly, in a friend's house, we sat, three friends and I, (all of us thought too young to see the film), under the kitchen table in the dark with a candle, and line by line, doing incredibly accurate impersonations of all the characters, the sound effects, the music, the screams from the onlooking bathers as people were eaten alive, my bother created out of the darkness of our overactive imaginations the entire 2hour plus movie and we were rooted to the spot and terrified beyond belief for every minute of that tale. When the shark was about to attack my brother did the two note music and that just built the tension even more than his vivid depictions of the mayhem off Amity. When I finally saw the movie for the first time it was as a double bill with Jaws 2, - How lucky was I!!! - (which I think is still a pretty decent sequel but could have been better if Spielberg had a hand in it). Needless to say, Jaws blew me out of my seat and when I had my first glimpse of what a grey goldfish the size of a bus with knives for teeth looked like up close on the big screen I told myself never ever to set foot in the ocean. When Ben Gardener made his unexpected appearance from the jagged hole, I shot clear out of my seat as my heart jumped right out of my shrieking lungs; the timing, o boy, the timing of that appearance was sheer brilliance and from that moment on, whenever there was water on screen, even a slither of it, I was all bunched up in tension with my eyes darting all over just to make sure that monster was not about to suddenly pop from out of the screen to chomp on me. As a kid from a slum, when I first saw the Chief's car driving along the beach road at the beginning of the movie I turned to my friend watching with me and told him that one day I would get out of the ghetto and live in a place just like Amity Island and strangely enough, I happen to live now in the very place where the underwater shots of the real shark attacking the cage was shot - Port Lincoln South Australia - a place that looks quite a lot like ole Amity - Weird or what, right? I loved the movie and still consider it to be one of the most perfect movies ever made, great, mind blowing opening, and great pace, characters you care about, funny, frightening, and suspenseful with a great ending that makes you want to jump up and down on your chair and cheer. I later read the novel in school, the version without the steamy affair between Hooper and Ellen Brody, and I loved that too. I went on to read Jaws 2 by Hank Searle and that was even better than the sequel movie, (I recommend it). Over the years I have watched Jaws a number of times in different mediums, the last time being the DVD 2 Disc Edition and I have to say it is still one of my favourite films. I have ordered it on Blu Ray and although it has still to arrive, I know it will be money well spent because Spielberg has had a hand in the restoration and if there is anything evident about this man when it comes to movies it is he is a perfectionist so I know I am going to have my socks blown off when I finally get to see my favourite film in HD for the first time. I am already planning a Jaws fest with my eldest daughter, Storm, who also loves Jaws, she has yet to see Jaws 2, and so it is going to be great to watch the first one on Blu Ray and the second one on DVD. I have also ordered the Jaws Novels, 1 & 2, and the Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb; maybe I should try and get a poster too! I would like to say thank-you to all the people involved in the making of this movie and to those responsible for bringing it on to Blu Ray because even when we first watched it on video and DVD we all knew the makers were going to need a bigger boat to do this movie justice. There I got in the best line in the movie. Great novel, great story, great actors, Roy, Richard & Robert, great screenplay, great cinematography, and brilliant directing from a guy young enough not to know the difference between courage and stupidity. Can't wait to get back in the water... UPDATE... Just received the blu ray and watched it immediately and I suppose the question on everyone's lips is does this transfer deserve me updating from the 30th Anniversary 2 Disc DVD Edition and the answer is YES-INDEEDYDOODY, YOU CAN BET YOUR GRANDPA'S BACK MOLARS AND YOUR GRANDMA'S PRETTY GREY HAIR - That is if he still has them and she isn't as bald and wispy as a China Man's chin - The images are crisp on this baby now, I noticed things I had never noticed before and I loved that fact, the colours are glorious, the night time water shots are stunning, the blue skies oh so blue, the aqua waters crystal, the sheen of sweat on skin so clear you can see the pores on Chief Brody forehead, all of it wonderfully upgraded. This movie looks even better than it did when it first screened, and let's not forget, this is a 36 year old movie we are talking about. The underwater shots of the shark are especially good and one has to include the eeriness of the SS Indianapolis scene with the whales singing to each other in the background; which brings me to the sound, oh dear me, the sound, when that shark is on its way and the music tells you so, the sound in 7.1 is spine tingling, the hairs on your neck stand up, absolutely brilliant. And as for the extras, well, we still get all the extras from the 30th Anniversary Edition, including the great Making Of, which ran at 1 hour and 40 minutes and I thought when I first saw that that it was brilliant, I loved all the behind the scenes information; however, the Blu Ray goes even further with another feature length doco called The Shark is Still Working. I thought it would be just more rehash from The Making Of; but oh how wrong I was - this doco alone is worth the upgrade, we get to see a lot more behind the scenes as well as getting to hear some current directors talk about how much of an impact this movie made on them and their careers; wonderful stuff. So, as good as the DVD was; this Blu Ray treatment blows the DVD clear out of the water, it is most definitely worth the upgrade, it will be the best $20 you will ever spend on a movie and it is a movie that you can now introduce to the younger generation and do it some justice this time round. Buy it, buy it now, tell all your friends to buy it, if you haven't got the money, go rob a bank, take hostages at gunpoint, do whatever you must do to own this amazing movie in this format; even go tell that old git down the road none of us can stand to go out and buy himself a copy today. "Show me the way to go home; I'm tired and I want to go to bed; well, I had a little drink about an hour ago and it's gone right to my head, no matter where I roam, through land or sea or foam; you will always hear me singing a song; show me the way to go home..." Jaws has just arrived. Finally, she's home! Shalom

Movies like Jaws are difficult to review. Everyone’s seen it. So what’s new to add? The movie had flaws, like any other, but the overall product was phenomenal. Our 1970s-based belief was suspended while we sat in crowded theaters, munching nervously on popcorn, and so we easily overlooked oddities, such as how the mechanical shark bent like a rubber toy when it landed on on the stern of the Orca. And I used to say to myself, “No shark jumps onto a boat like that.” Of course, twenty years later, while watching the Discovery Channel, I witnessed sharks jumping onto rock formations to gobble up seals, so what’d I know? The generations of people who did not grow up with Jaws (1975) can’t understand how the movie grappled this country into submission. People became terrified of swimming, and if they did go swimming, there was always some joker, standing along the shore (or the edge of the public swimming pool), humming the theme, “Dum-dum. . .dum-dum. . .” Fishermen took to the seas and began killing sharks by the thousands--the real "Jaws the Revenge," as it were. And this movie made me, as a child, so scared of sharks that I was afraid to take a shower. I knew that something was hiding in the drain. Of course, that “thing” eventually became Stephen King’s It, but that was over ten years later. During my formative years, being in water meant being susceptible to Jaws (a.k.a. “Bruce the Shark”). Jaws created mass hysteria that hadn’t been seen since the Exorcist (1973). As a child, I was so thankful for the scenes in Jaws that didn’t have the shark. The appearance of the shark was like a roller coaster ride for me. I closed my eyes and waited for it to be over—and didn’t fully comprehend the movie until I was a teenager. Those scenes of Brody shopping for art supplies—and spilling the jar of brushes—were so appreciated. They were stress relief. I don’t get that from movies anymore. I get bored with horror stories and skip to the good parts. This movie had wonderful tension. Normally in movies, the chief of police is a boring, cliched bad-ass. Martin Brody was a policeman that I actually admire. He wasn’t oppressing the citizens of Amity Island, and during the shark hunt, the Amity fisherman treated him as unnecessary, illustrating his powerlessness. He didn’t have the authority that one normally expects from a cop, perhaps because Brody wasn’t corrupt. Brody is the kind of law enforcer I wish we had in the world. He was a good man who cared more for the citizenry than he did for his job (especially apparent in Jaws 2). Brody became a (pun intended) “fish out of water.” The moment he left the mainland, he was out of his element. We didn’t see a bad-ass cop who was going to shoot a bunch of criminals, a la Dirty Harry, and never make us fear for his life. In Brody, we saw someone with whom we could identify, fear for. Much of the tension on the boat, The Orca, had to do with the class rivalry between Hooper and Quint. It was “old-school knowhow” versus “college-educated savvy.” Brody was caught in the middle. Now, in the highly readable novel by Peter Benchley, the tension was quite different. In the book, Hooper slept with Ellen, Brody’s wife. So, all while hunting the shark, Brody had to contend with feelings of jealousy over Hooper. It was a brilliant way to further isolate our brave police chief. Matt Hooper was the antagonist as well as the specialist needed to stop the shark. I’m glad that director Steven Spielberg cut this plot twist out, though, which wouldn’t have worked well in the movie. It worked in the book, for sure, and the dinner conversation between Hooper and Ellen was deeply erotic. Really, what I love about the movie Jaws is the way it gave us truly understandable plot complications. We can all “get” why the town wanted to keep the beaches open. It’s not a villainous motivation. When a shark kills tourists, the tourist industry goes away, and the town starves. The town feeds on tourists, so to speak, and that shark came along and snatched their source of nourishment. This was a movie without cut 'n' dry bad guys. The shark wasn't evil. The mayor wasn't evil. The only people who did anything intentionally malicious were those kids who swam around with rubber dorsal fins strapped to their backs, scaring tourists. And those were KIDS pulling that prank, so no real evil there. Jaws is so powerful a movie that even the nonsensical ending worked. If for some reason you have never watched Jaws, you might balk at how the shark meets its comeuppance. But I think that you will overall see the quality that went into this film. Jaws is one of those movies that inspired so much awe from this country that--like Star Wars--it deserves to be called great. But is it really a five-star movie? Even if it's not, it is.

🦈 Jaws — Still the Greatest Summer Movie Ever Made Simply put: Jaws is the best. Nearly 50 years later, it remains unmatched in suspense, storytelling, and pure cinematic impact. This isn’t just a shark movie—it’s a masterclass in tension. Steven Spielberg’s genius lies in what you "don’t" see. The limited shark appearances make every ripple in the water terrifying, while John Williams’ iconic score is basically a warning siren for your nerves. Two notes. Instant dread. The performances are legendary. Roy Scheider’s everyman police chief, Richard Dreyfuss’s science-minded oceanographer, and Robert Shaw’s unforgettable Quint (especially the chilling USS *Indianapolis* monologue) elevate the film into something timeless. The chemistry feels real, the fear feels earned, and the stakes feel personal. Jaws also changed filmmaking forever—it created the summer blockbuster and proved that atmosphere, character, and pacing matter more than flashy effects. Beaches were never the same, and honestly…neither were we. ⭐ **Rating:** 10/10 🎬 **Verdict:** Perfect suspense. Perfect score. Perfect cast. 🦈 **Final thought:** If you hear the music, it’s already too late. And it terrified me for most of my life!

Great movie than an still awesome

Jaws is a classic movie.

Even after all these years since Jaws was released, it's still exciting and horrible at the same time. I enjoyed the take-back to watching a classic.

Jaws is one of my fav movies of all time. the fact that Universal is restoring it from the film's original negative is beyond awesome. For anybody who loves Jaws, then this blu ray is amust buy. And of course if you have a BD player. This blu ray is set to come with a boat load of bonus material (including some of my personal favorites The Shark is Still Working and the Making of Jaws.)I am furious that they only included the 1 hour and 40 minute version of The Shark is Still Working instead of the 3 hour version. I think universal wants to make a lot of dough so they keep holding back the longer better version of the shark is still working. But you know who am I to say they won't in the future, hopefully they do. Anyway, since they restored the film I think everyone should check out the Jaws the restoration 9 minute documentary in which they give an in depth process on the restoration of Jaws. Many people will want this blu ray so I pre ordered mine yesterday. This "New" "Cleaner" version of Jaws is supposed to be enhanced by the HD blu ray and have a 7.1 mono mix. Now isn't that exciting. This new Jaws be like watching a fresh new print so crystal clear it will be like picture for today's movie standards. Now, don't get me wrong Jaws could never have been a movie approved in this day and age because the special effects weren't that great compared to today's CGI crap. That is what makes Jaws a great classic. It was made in an age where there was no CGI and that's what made movies wholesome and great to watch back in the day. But, anyway, Jaws has held up all these years because it tapped into people's fears and made them scared of the water and sharks. It really was known to be the title that was first called "The Summer Blockbuster." The actors also give amazing performances and put all there hard efforts in to this film and making you believe that there is a dangerous shark that is out there killing people and the shark has to be killed. Hollywood better not ruin this movie by doing a remake because you cannot remake Jaws and have a good outcome on the people. People have been inspired by this movie to study sharks, go into the movie business, and even become film makers because of this one great, scary, and glorious classic movie. I kow I'll be awaiting this awesome new blu ray release and even spending hours in my chair watching all the bonus material and the movie too.

Alfred Hitchcock once said "blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints." Think for a minute about arguably the most famous females in Hitchcock's films: Marion Crane in Psycho and Madeline Elster in Vertigo. They're both blonde, and they both suffer terrible fates. Steven Spielberg was obviously influenced by these two films, and the proof lies in the fact that his first victim in Jaws is also a blonde young woman. This is the most Hitchcock-esque of Spielberg's films, and arguably it's also his best motion picture. Famously, it is often acclaimed and sometimes blamed, along with Star Wars, as the death of ambitious American filmmaking. Is this the case? Or did Spielberg and George Lucas see to re-invent ambitious American filmmaking in the form of a summer blockbuster? Although there are a handful of great blockbuster films, Jaws is arguably the greatest. It is greatly supported by its three lead actors, it showcases some of the finest editing in a motion picture, and it has a score that, according to Spielberg, is the reason for half the film's success. Based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name, a shark is violently harassing Amity Island, and kills two people before the mayor of the town decides to do anything about it (he claims he doesn't want to close the beach on the Fourth of July weekend). Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), the chief of police, is appalled that the beaches weren't closed immediately after the first victim. His luck turns when a Marine biologist called Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) shows up to investigate. A great white shark is identified as the underwater devil, and when it has its share of a third victim, the mayor finally gives in: he closes the beaches and allows for an expedition to kill the shark, which is undergone by Brody, Hooper, and a professional shark hunter called Quint (Robert Shaw). Some of the power of Jaws lies in the relationship between the three men: Quint is stuck up and proud, while Hooper takes many pre-cautions and will hardly crack a joke. Their personalities clash, and had it not been for Brody simply being there, the shark might have killed both of them. Brody is the man standing in between them, the one that holds everything together. And what also makes this trio work is the character acting, as this has perhaps the strongest acting of any of Spielberg's films. It would also help that Jaws has a really strong screenplay. It is not Sunset Blvd. to be sure, but it has perhaps the most accomplished dialogue and character dynamics of any blockbuster film. Every character that needs to be strong is strong, and Spielberg's direction is intense and heightens an already great experience. And the pacing is excellent, clearly the best in a blockbuster film. There is almost no delay, and the first two attacks come swiftly and then almost evaporate. It shows off what a phenomenal director Spielberg was, and it shames all blockbusters made today. Another lift from Hitchcock is the dolly zoom effect. In Vertigo, it is used to show Scottie's acrophobia. In Jaws, it is used almost as brilliantly: when another shark attack occurs in the broad daylight, the effect is utilized in a close-up on Brody's face for reasons of fear after a wonderfully suspenseful buildup. (Disney would also use this in The Lion King for the stampede sequence.) The third lift from Hitchcock is the scene in which we see the shark for the first time: up until about the last 20 minutes or so, Spielberg only shows the shark's point of view or a few fins. But when all is calm and Brody is making a joke aboard the boat, the shark appears for about a split second in all of its glory, prompting the film's most famous line: "You're gonna need a bigger boat." And for the benefit, this is continued until the climax, where the shark is exploited and we already know how much of a threat it is. The facts are these: the shooting schedule was only supposed to be 55 days, and filming concluded after 159 days. Imagine what editor Verna Fields had to deal with, having so much footage to put together into a two-hour motion picture. Her work was honored with an Oscar for Best Film Editing, and that is a sign of where the Academy made the right decision. Then we have the score, and this is (at least the argument I'd make) the film's most valuable aspect: this was the first of many amazing scores that John Williams would write (the long list includes Star Wars, Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and Return of the Jedi). To say it's one of his three best scores is the equivalent of calling Hamlet one of Shakespeare's three best plays: an honor that is not to be taken lightly. The dissonance in the main theme of a minor second (E and F) creates as much disturbance as the shrilling strings in the music that supports the shower murder in Psycho. And the interval is played on exactly the right instruments (basses and cellos, if I'm correct, and as the music intensifies, it is also played on violins, violas, and at the end, trumpets). Often times, Spielberg is criticized for sentimentality. There is no such thing as sentimentality in Jaws, and one of the reasons is because this is not a fantasy. In the trailer, one of the taglines is "none of man's fantasies can compare with the reality of Jaws." In this film, there is no sugary treatment, and that's what separates it from the rest of Spielberg's works: it is the epitome of his action/adventure films, and it is his best film because it plays out like the most real adventure of all time. Still the question stands, though: did Jaws and Star Wars destroy great American filmmaking? I would say no, particularly in the case of the former. And the main reason is because all of the elements of the film, especially in the screenplay, are handled with such care, and a good screenplay is seldom seen in today's blockbusters. Both films shed light on a new opportunity for filmmakers, but most of the care is in the action: it can be frivolous and big, but there must be something justifying it. In the cases of Jaws and Star Wars, there was absolutely more than one thing justifying action and visual effects.

What can you say about Jaws !, superb horror/thriller film, full of jumps & edge of your seat suspense from start to finish in 4K UHD WOW!!!! One of those magnificent 'Reference' 4K films, unbelivable quality of graphics & sound 10/10 the legendary film on it's own in 4K UHD with the correct home set up 100/10

Una macchina narrativa perfetta nel mantenere la suspense dall'inizio alla fine alternando momenti di calma apparente e momenti di concitata azione violenta. La paura e l'orrore nascono dal fatto che episodi del genere sono avvenuti ed avvengono. Eccezionali i tre attori principali e ottimo il resto del cast. Magistrale la fotografia, gli effetti speciali, e la colonna sonora con una musica che scandice e a volte anticipa l'azione con tempismo perfetto . La qualità del dvd è tecnicamente ineccepibile sia per il video quanto per l'audio. Notevole il doppiaggio italiano originale dell'epoca. Il film ha avuto un buon numero di sequel, ma nessuna in grado di rivaleggiare con l'originale.

is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town. Murray Hamilton plays the mayor, and Lorraine Gary portrays Brody's wife. The screenplay is credited to Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography. Shot mostly on location at Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, Jaws was the first major motion picture to be shot on the ocean and consequently had a troubled production, going over budget and schedule. As the art department's mechanical sharks often malfunctioned, Spielberg decided to mostly suggest the shark's presence, employing an ominous and minimalist theme created by composer John Williams to indicate its impending appearances. Spielberg and others have compared this suggestive approach to that of director Alfred Hitchcock. Universal Pictures' release of the film to over 450 screens was an exceptionally wide release for a major studio picture at the time, and it was accompanied by an extensive marketing campaign that heavily emphasized television spots and tie-in merchandise. Regarded as a watershed moment in motion picture history, Jaws was the prototypical summer blockbuster, and won several awards for its music and editing. It was the highest-grossing film of all time until the release of Star Wars two years later; both films were pivotal in establishing the modern Hollywood business model, which pursues high box-office returns from action and adventure films with simple high-concept premises, released during the summer in thousands of theaters and advertised heavily. Jaws was followed by three sequels (none of which involved Spielberg or Benchley) and many imitative thrillers. In 2001, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The 4k transfer is brilliant and watched with a proper sound system really adds to the experience. As for the film the first of many Blockbuster from Spielberg and started what would become the Summer season of big films.

Les doublages sont ceux de l’époque, une version remasterisee a remplacé celle ci dans les années 2000, et gâchait tout le plaisir. On retrouve enfin les doublages français avec lesquels on a grandi ❤️

Good film