Well it’s
finally here. Jaws has finally received the BluRay treatment and it got the
works
. Now I love this movie, I used to watch the movie and rewind it
and then watch it again as a child. I used to annoy the hell out of my parents
and then we would go on Vacation and I would flat out refuse to go swimming because
I didn’t want the Shark to get me.
The problem there is we were at a manmade
lake and there was no chance in hell that there would be a shark in the water.
That was before I watched the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week and learned about
the Bull Shark that can swim in fresh water and despite the fact that it is far
smaller than the Great White it is far more vicious.
I actually
want to talk about Shark Week which now considered the longest running Cable
Television event with 25 years on Cable. That reminds me of how old I am
because I remember when Shark Week premiered when I was in the 2nd
Grade and it really sucked. The reason I say that it sucked is because it was a
week of all the same programing which was mostly the National Geographic
special on the subject and Jaws the True Story which all were available at the
local video store.
Well someone
at the Discovery Channel agreed with me and now I can’t stop watching it…Actually
I DVR it and watch it when I am available. I think that Shark Week improved
over the years because of the advances in not only Science, Shark Research, and
Technology but also the advances in filmmaking where we get high quality
footage of sharks but we get to see Sharks do amazing feats like the infamous
Air Jaws footage form the early 2000s.
Shark Week
has gained such popularity that I feel that Universal released the BluRay on
Shark Week because of the brilliant Marketing as a matter of fact I feel that
Jaws’ BluRay was the sponsor of Shark Week because every commercial break after
you saw the VW Bug commercial you saw adds for the Jaws BluRay.
Now on to
the BluRay
I don’t feel
the need to review the movie because I feel that everyone has already seen the
flick, what I am here for is to review the special features.
Now for
those of us that had Jaws on Laserdisc we have seen the making of Jaws documentary
that is featured on the BluRay. There is also a good featurette that follows
the restoration and conversion of the feature for the BluRay release and on
that note I have to say that the conversion and Restoration is outstanding, The
image on the film is crystal clear and you can see things in the background
that you could never see before especially in the fact that it is in the
anamorphic wide screen ratio.
The restored
feature film is clearly the star of this BluRay release but the award for
supporting actor goes to the long awaited release of the Shark is Still Working
Documentary.
I have been
hearing about this documentary for quite a while but it had not received a
release yet and now it is released as a special feature on this release of
Jaws.
The Shark is
Still Working is a in depth documentary of the legacy of Jaws from its
inception to the modern day with the fans and the expos as well as trips to
Martha’s Vineyard that we all would know as Amity Island doing profiles of the
locals who were immortalized as characters in the movie.
The documentary
is narrated by Roy Scheider before his death in 2008 and also features
interviews with Peter Benchley who also passed away in 2006.
Other
interviews featured in the documentary are filmmakers like Kevin Smith and others whose careers were
inspired by the film.
This BluRay
is definitely a Buy
5 Dead
Bodies
2 Breasts
1 Beast
2 Gallons of
Blood
1 Shark
Midnight
Swimmer Fu
Little Boy
Fu
Quint Fu
Jaws Fu
5 Stars
Check it out
