Jaws 3-D

YI JIAN

#21See the shark in the poster? That's Bruce, watching over us from what seems to be shark heaven. We can't quite see his face, but my guess is he's probably weeping. Do sharks cry, Bruce? We're so sorry. Rest in peace, Bruce.. And rest in peace, the Jaws franchise.

Matt Singer1.5

I was rooting for the shark all the way in this one. Fuck these dumb humans.

@Mr. Like🔥🔥🔥1.5

Rotten Tomatoes: 10%Metacritic Metascore: 27IMDB: 3.7Viewing Medium: RedboxRelease Date: 22 July 1983Distributor: Allan Landsburg ProductionsBudget: $20.5MWorldwide Gross: $87.9MShark WeekMike Brody: "White sharks are dangerous. I know 'em. My father, my brother, myself. They're murderers."It's hard for me to admit that this film actually scared me when I first saw it as an 8-year-old, mainly due to the cheapish 3D effect of Overmann's arm lifelessly floating toward the screen when he is killed trying to fix the gate... lol. It's definitely funny to laugh about it in hindsight because now I obviously see it for the total shitshow that it is and just view it in the context of being one of the best-worst films ever made.TRIVIA: According to the book "Roy Scheider: a film biography" (2002) by Diane C. Kachmar, Scheider, who starred in the first two Jaws movies, once said, "Mephistopheles couldn't talk me into doing (it). They knew better than to even ask." Reportedly, Scheider agreed to make Blue Thunder (1983) in order to ensure that he was definitely and contractually unavailable for this film. Scheider had made Jaws 2 (1978) reluctantly due to a contract issue with Universal Pictures, whereby he owed the studio two films after withdrawing from The Deer Hunter (1978). To get out of this situation, he opted to do Jaws 2 (1978), a movie on which he didn't want to work, in exchange for the studio releasing him from his contract.If you were around in 1983 and actually saw this in its incredible 3-D splendor, I am jealous. I'm sure you can be forgiven for wondering why the camera lingers on so many unnecessary shots. Truly, even in 3D, they are nothing to write home about. The sequence where the shark slowly swims towards an underwater viewing station and breaks the glass in the final act is laughably terrible, but then again so is nearly every other sequence in this film, and that's why we L O V E it! Not.TRIVIA: Lea Thompson's feature film debut.In theory, setting the action at an aquatic park should have been a terrific setting for such a film to unfold. Alas, for all of the screaming people falling into the water (which becomes ridiculous after a while), a scant few of them are actually attacked. The effects are scattershot and the film has a real problem deciding on what the shark can or cannot do. It swims backward on multiple occasions (not possible), sometimes it goes absurdly slow while other times at the speed of sound. In one scene, it proves capable of literally swallowing a character whole, while shortly before that it merely is capable of attacking one of the hundreds of water skiing performers or swimmers in the area and instead only thrashes a woman's leg. Come on, man! I'm sure most of us were expecting at least two of those aquatic enthusiasts to bite the dust then. Oh yea, my favorite part was the shark growling or roaring underwater. Incredibly innovative tidbit thrown in by the producers there!TRIVIA: The first major film to use visual effects shots composited on video equipment instead of via optical film printing. Originally, this was to be used for all of the composite shots in the movie, and the vast majority of them were completed via this process by Private Stock Effects. This method proved to be much quicker and more flexible than traditional film printing. However, because the video system being used was of relatively low resolution, the resulting images looked soft. Because the visual effects shots were underwater, this was initially deemed acceptable. However, Producer Alan Landsburg changed his mind at the last minute and ordered the work re-done in the traditional film process by Praxis Film Works. The time crunch meant over two-thirds of the planned composite shots were cut from the movie, many more were simplified to make them easier and quicker to complete via optical printing, and a handful of unfinished shots showing blank greenscreens were left in the finished film. Only three or four video-composited shots remain in the final cut.The screenplay is also incredibly flat. It feels like full sections were left on the cutting room floor. There are a couple of attempts at humor that go splat, while unintentional hilarity starts to become the norm. The characters by and large are idiots and their dialogue will test patience. We may be able to swallow that a shark the size of Montana could easily swim unnoticed into the park during gate repairs, but it strains credibility that more people would not notice it hanging around for days on end thereafter.TRIVIA: The film made $13,422,500 in its first weekend. It held the record for highest-grossing opening for a 3-D film until Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) made $33,417,739.The 3-D effects are ridiculous. They bring to mind an SCTV parody of 3-D films, with exaggerated tricks that add nothing to someone watching this in regular format. Compare this to something like The Creature From The Black Lagoon, or It Came From Outer Space, classic 50's horrors brought to life in the 50s: those films were 3-D, but play perfectly well as flat films while also being produced by people with talent when this film clearly isn't. In fact, had they worked it would have helped save the whole film from being a waste, but they are totally amateurish, below that of a Roger Corman exploitation film from the 50s or 60s. One expects more from a major studio mounting a sequel to a mega-hit.TRIVIA: In a later interview, Dennis Quaid referred to this movie as "I was in Jaws what?"TRIVIA: The only Jaws movie which does not feature any scenes filmed at Martha's Vineyard, known as Amity Island in the franchise.If I were to view this from the lense of this being a B-movie, which it clearly is in retrospect, it would probably garner 4-4.5 stars, but I can't because it tries too hard to be taken seriously. I realize that 3D was in its infancy stages at this point in time back in 83, but man was this terrible. It truly makes the 3D effects in Friday the 13th, part 3, look Oscar-worthy. DIRECTOR: Joe AlvesWRITER: Richard MathesonFILMING LOCATIONS: Orlando, FloridaThe actors offer nothing here. Dennis Quaid and Louis Gosset have shown remarkable talent in some of their work, especially Gossett, who was coming off his Oscar win from "An Officer and a Gentleman," but none of it is on display here. Bess Armstrong and Lea Thompson are both very attractive, but again they don't really add anything, and Thompson seems especially vapid here. Luckily all these actors are in a film so filled with incompetence that the music, effects, editing, and overall storytelling distract from their work.TRIVIA: David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck, producers of the first two films, originally pitched this as a spoof, based on a suggestion by Matty Simmons and John Hughes. Titled "National Lampoon's Jaws 3, People 0", it was about a movie studio trying to make a second sequel to Jaws (1975). It opened with author Peter Benchley being eaten in his pool by a shark, and included a naked Bo Derek and shark-costumed aliens. Joe Dante was attached as director. Steven Spielberg rejected the idea and threatened to walk from his deal with Universal. When Zanuck and Brown learned of the rejection, they quit the studio.All and all, The film is a litany of wasted opportunities and missed chances, but in hindsight, that's why I love it. It's hard to make a mega-produced film this bad, but it succeeds. The producers at Universal should have listened to the original pitch of this being made as a spoof film, which was originally going to be titled "Jaws 3 People 0" because it would have been viewed it such a better light. As bad as it is, there is one major positive about this movie...it is not Jaws: The Revenge.Did you enjoy it? If so, what was your favorite scene?Who was your favorite character?What was your favorite / least favorite aspect?Fact-Checking / TRIVIA Source: IMDbBe well, my friends.