The best movie ever made

Rating: 10/10 (28 June 2002)

There was never a movie before, and there has never been a movie since that impacted the psyche of people around the world the way that Jaws did. Till this date you can't help but be a bit apprehensive about entering the crests of an ocean break. You start hearing the deep grumble of the two note score of Jaws approaching. It is a shame that it has been cheapened by being overplayed on TNT.
Jaws is Speilberg's best film by far. He had to push his creative genius to its edge because unlike his films now, he didn't have a bottomless pile of cash to dip into. He made you love his characters. It's also beautifully shot. The shot of Brody sitting on the beach as the Kittner boy is eaten with the camera dollying in and the lens being widened out is used all the time now thanks to this move.
Brody, Hooper, and Quint also give us one of the most interesting mismatches of characters ever to grace the screen. The scene at night in the boat after they've attached the first barrel is the kind of scene that all film makers should be trying to duplicate. The USS Indianapolis monologue is the kind of speech every actor dreams that a writer could plop in their mouth.

In order to truly see if what I say is true, that Jaws is the best film ever, ask yourself this one question. Does anybody look at the ocean the same way they did before 1975.