Over time, I ventured back into the ocean, but it will never be the same.

Rating: 9/10 (28 May 2012)

Steven Spielberg's monster of the ocean took over the summer of 1975 and has remained a pop culture staple ever since. Half on land, and half at sea, the film is as much from the horror genre as it is adventure. The concept of filming from water level and from the sharks POV, combined with the infamous score and spot on acting, Jaws is sealed if not fully digested into our memory banks. 35 years later the script still holds my attention and the terror returns with almost every shot of the enemy, both "Bruce" and "Quint", sans the obvious mechanics of the shark and drunken machismo of Robert Shaw. The trio is filled out by Roy Shreider Richard Dreyfus and the voices of common sense and oceanic reason and the tension between actors is only overtaken by the drama of the adventure at sea. Should've gotten a bigger boat!