Week 13

     This week in class we got to watch Jaws. I've seen the movie before but its been a while. The last time I watched it I was just a kid. Watching it again was a great refresher for me and it was a different experience watching it as an adult rather than just being a kid. As a kid when you watch movies you don't really understand what is actually going on, you just watch for the action. Watching as an adult you can actually understand the dialogue and understand more of the plot and interactions between characters.

    I think Jaws did a great job at its story telling and plot. It was very engaging and entertaining. I felt very locked into the movie and invested and next thing I knew class was over. Jaws was such an iconic movie for its time and I think one of the main reasons why is because of the special effects, especially the shark itself. It looked very realistic for its time and even still looks realistic. The movie was made in 1975 and the shark looks more realistic than some things created by CGI in more recent movies. If it looks realistic to me now I can only imagine what it looked like back in 1975 when people first saw the movie.  I've always been a fan of practical effects and costumes over CGI. I think that practical effects look more realistic than CGI does. 

     Overall I enjoyed watching Jaws in class and I thought it was very surprising that some people have never seen the movie before. Even if people have never seen the full movie before I bet they have seen clips or scenes from the movie. One of my favorite quotes from the movie is where they are on the boat and the shark comes and he says "Were gonna need a bigger boat." Another one of my favorite scenes was when they finally kill the shark and blow it up.