'Jaws' turns 40: Five reasons it wouldn't work today

Toronto Sun ^ | May 31, 2015 | Steve Tilley

[TalBlack]

There is no problem with the audience.

An audience falls under the spell of a TRUE teller of tales and will gladly go where he takes them.

The author doesn't seem to realize that the problem today lies with the teller of the tale. If he is a mere technician then no he won't know how to structure his story to bring his audience along.

[Alex Murphy]

Throw in that they can create horrors that are much more scary than sharks these days.

Such as two-headed sharks....

[Alex Murphy]

9. Sharks/zombies don’t eat zombies/sharks.

We need to talk....

[Oratam]

...and the mayor stood to benefit from a real estate developmemt deal. Glad they left that out, too.

[jmcenanly]

Greenpeace and allied organizations would be picketing the movie as being biased against sharks, and promoting the hunting of same, despite what happened to Quint.

[Hatteras]

I saw that OCEARCH alert but I'm thinking there was some kind of tracking error. Not that Mary Lee or other large sharks have never ventured that far into the Chesapeake and it's tributaries... but in this case, Mary Lee pinged in the bay as far north as Tilghman Island just south of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and then, just 36 minutes later, pinged off the southern New Jersey coast...

But I do have a couple of friends who are heading up for a Bay Bridge swim in a couple of weeks and the alert didn't quite sit well with them. :-)

[left that other site]

CGI has ruined the Superhero genre, Sci-Fi, monster and horror Flicks AND Disney.

I hate CGI.

I would rather watch Star Trek TOS than any of the new Star Treks.

I would rather watch the First (unadulterated” Star wars than any of the Junky “Pre-quels”.

I would rather watch the first “Superman” than the more recent ones.

I would rather watch “Snow White and the seven Dwarves” than “Frozen”.

I love the art of Special Effects and stunt work that made Classic movies so magical.

I hate that every movie that has come out recently is all visual noice.

But that’s just me. I guess I’m just old fashioned, and ymmv.

[Borges]

I saw this comment on social media. Sigh.

“This stupid f** movie has created an irrational fear in the global population of a beautiful apex oceanic predator that rarely feeds on humans. This fear is lending itself to the demolition of sharks for shark fin soup, to the point that the oceanic ecosystem (which produces 70% of your oxygen) is being disrupted.
There is zero guarantee that the new oceanic balance after sharks are eliminated will produce the same amount of O2. So, f** this movie and celebrating it.”

[Oatka]

But sharks have gone from being a primal menace to a punchline.

As in:

or, as a Barracuda get into the act:

"Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda"

where in James Fra

or, coming out this July: "Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf"

And let's not forget the forgettable 1981 ripoff

wherein "James Franciscus tries to save hundreds of swimmers in a coastal resort after a Great White Shark starts terrorizing the area."

[b9]

THANK YOU