Once in a lifetime....

Rating: 10/10 (25 July 1999)

I was 12 years old when I first went to see Jaws. I was fascinated by the Movie Poster. The poster was much more effective as a Painting than if it was a scene still from the movie. The music....Dum Dum Dum Dum....John Williams must have reached deep within his worst fears to come up with such a theme. I must admit, that I have seen the movie eight times in the Theater and at least thirty-seven times on video. Why would someone who is thirty-four years old, happily married, satisfied with his career, sociable, in other words "normal", if that is still considered normal these days, still infatuated with a movie he first saw as a child? Once in our lifetime, we see something, hear something, believe something, feel something, that we just will never forget. We tuck the moment into our brains and it becomes a part of who we are for the rest of our lives. There is no getting away from it. That is what Jaws is for me.
The characters, the shocking moments, the camera angles, the music, the story...... No other movie has even come close in it's genre. Now I watch the movie through adult eyes and I understand it on an adult level. A further appreciation develops on a whole new level. The only question left is: WHEN WILL IT BE RELEASED ON DVD!!!!!