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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 338329" data-attributes="member: 5079">Last night, I watched JAWS 2 because ... well, why not.&nbsp; Unlike my annual viewing of JAWS, I only get around to the sequel maybe every 5 or 6 years.&nbsp; And then I remember why I seldom watch it: it&#039;s&nbsp; lousy.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s really like 3 movies, of varying degrees of entertainment.&nbsp; The film works best as a revisit to Amity.&nbsp; JAWS has a clear sense of time and place; Spielberg made Amity seem like a real place filled with real people.&nbsp; I kind of wish there was a mid-70s TV show set in this town, midway between Mayberry and Peyton Place (no shark needed!)&nbsp; JAWS 2 is a nice chance to see this town and its inhabitants again.&nbsp; I assume JAWS 2 was heavily targeted at teenagers, because a good chunk of the film is taken up by the town&#039;s high schoolers.&nbsp; This part of the movie is fine.&nbsp; I&#039;d rather have spent more time with the obtuse mayor or the clueless deputy, but the teens aren&#039;t too vexing.&nbsp; &nbsp; The movie seems to be at least partially structured like an 80s slasher film, minus the horniness.&nbsp; And there we get to the worst part of the movie: everything involving the shark is abysmal.&nbsp; The shark is preposterously fake looking, but the filmmakers lacked Spielberg&#039;s restraint.&nbsp; Any pretense of an apex predator on the hunt is gone; this is Jason Voorhees as a fish.&nbsp; Credulity isn&#039;t strained, it&#039;s smashed and stepped on.&nbsp; Even John William&#039;s score feels like someone doing a parody of a John Williams score.Earlier in the summer, I saw the original JURASSIC PARK on the big-ish screen; an outdoor showing on the beach in July.&nbsp; It hasn&#039;t aged as well as the original JAWS.&nbsp; The CGI dinosaurs held up impressively well, but I was surprised at how dull long stretches of the movie were.&nbsp;&nbsp; Without the grounding of being established in a place that felt real and relatable (i,.e., Amity), there was nothing but an hour of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo before the action started.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 338329, member: 5079"] Last night, I watched JAWS 2 because ... well, why not. Unlike my annual viewing of JAWS, I only get around to the sequel maybe every 5 or 6 years. And then I remember why I seldom watch it: it's lousy. It's really like 3 movies, of varying degrees of entertainment. The film works best as a revisit to Amity. JAWS has a clear sense of time and place; Spielberg made Amity seem like a real place filled with real people. I kind of wish there was a mid-70s TV show set in this town, midway between Mayberry and Peyton Place (no shark needed!) JAWS 2 is a nice chance to see this town and its inhabitants again. I assume JAWS 2 was heavily targeted at teenagers, because a good chunk of the film is taken up by the town's high schoolers. This part of the movie is fine. I'd rather have spent more time with the obtuse mayor or the clueless deputy, but the teens aren't too vexing. The movie seems to be at least partially structured like an 80s slasher film, minus the horniness. And there we get to the worst part of the movie: everything involving the shark is abysmal. The shark is preposterously fake looking, but the filmmakers lacked Spielberg's restraint. Any pretense of an apex predator on the hunt is gone; this is Jason Voorhees as a fish. Credulity isn't strained, it's smashed and stepped on. Even John William's score feels like someone doing a parody of a John Williams score. Earlier in the summer, I saw the original JURASSIC PARK on the big-ish screen; an outdoor showing on the beach in July. It hasn't aged as well as the original JAWS. The CGI dinosaurs held up impressively well, but I was surprised at how [I]dull [/I]long stretches of the movie were. Without the grounding of being established in a place that felt real and relatable (i,.e., Amity), there was nothing but an hour of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo before the action started. [/QUOTE]

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