Customer Reviews
A timeles Classic - By: Ian Young, 10 Jul 2008 
A classic. Once you sit down & watch on a wide screen with a good quality DVD. This film is great.
Durr dum. - By: Lancebastion, 12 Jun 2008 Durr dum.
Durr dum.
Durr dum durr dum durrdum durrdum...
ARGHHHH!
Jaws 30th Anniversary 2dvd Special Edition [1975] - By: John K. Parnell, 27 Apr 2008 Jaws 30th Anniversary 2dvd Special Edition [1975]
This is a classic. Its a shame to hear the sad new regarding Roy Scheider. He was a great actor.
The film is just as good today as its was in 1975. The DVD version is great,
Jaws... a solid gold classic for many years to come. - By: Great White, 02 Mar 2008 This is the mother of alll shark movies. Still standing the test of time since it was made, Jaws is a solid gold classic. I have had this on video & DVD many times now, but everytime i see it on TV I always end up watching it. It is a film that has universal appeal (no pun intended). By now everyone should know the story a killer Great White Shark is chowing down on the smalll town inhabitants of the peaceful Amity & the Police Chief Martin Brody must find a way to stop it. Right from those terrifying (Spielberg found the tune silly when John Williams played it for him, later it would become the theme that would strike fear into filmgoers hearts & still do to this day) opening scenes with THAT music immediately instills the fear into you. To tell the truth i have never been swimming in any sea since i saw this movie, purely because like its depicted in this film, you don't know whats under you. This is a gem of a film as it still has the power that it had many years ago & still terrifys the new generation. Spielberg did a wonderful job capturing the magic of Benchley's novel. A lot of people slag off the ending even benchley didn't like the way that Spielberg scripted the shark dying. I say think about this without that scene Scheider would never have had the oppotunity to say that great line "smile you son of a....."
If you haven't seen Jaws then where the hell have you been, you have missed a great film. The shark breaking down during the film was great because then Spielberg gave us the POV of the shark as it's about to attack. If he had of had the shark to begin with it probably would have never worked, thank god he didn't. There's something about the view of the shark that more scary than seeing the shark. Maybe it's cause you know it's going to kill someone, or it could be the fact that Spielberg makes the audience think that for brief moments WE are the shark. The film should have got an Oscar for not only Editing (which it did) but for Roy Scheider for best actor, Richard Dreyfuss as Supporting Actor & Spielberg as best Director because it deserves it. When you do finallly see Jaws, you do jump & if the shark had been seen earlier, i believe that, the scene on the boat would have lost it's shock value. All in alll Jaws boasts some great performances from alll the key players & yes even to "Bruce". This is also the only Jaws film where the shark was believable & not rubber looking like the sequels. I'm not so sure that it would still work if a CGI was intergrated into the film or if they do a remake, the power is behind the eyes & thats exactly where i should stay.
"I think you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up & bite you on the ass"
RIP Roy Scheider - By: Gary Thompson, 11 Feb 2008 Jaws has got to be one of the greatest films ever. Which was followed closely by the not so successful 3 sequals.
Jaws is a film full of great effects, great acting by alll & mainly a great story. In its time it was known as the most scary film of alll. And in my opinion it still is, simply because its a story that could reallly happen.
The great actors include Richard Dreyfuss, the late Robert Shaw & now the late Roy Scheider.
Its a real shame that 2 of the main actors have been taken from us. I hope both of them will be remembered as the movie Jaws has been remembered.... As a Legend.
RIP Roy Scheider (1932-2008) & Robert Shaw (1927-1978).
