Showed The Dino Too Soon!!

Rating: 8/10 (15 August 2006)

How did Jaws hold the tension and suspense? Because Spielberg held off showing the shark until halfway through the film (partly because the damn thing wouldn't work). The opening scene with the girl being dragged all over the water and slamming her into a buoy was scary as hell because you couldn't see the shark. I'm 44 and I remember it to this day! All you saw was the girl being ripped to shreds! IMO, that was the scariest scene in the movie! Tell me, when you went swimming in the ocean, didn't it bother you that you couldn't see what was swimming around your feet, just like the girl couldn't?
The same goes for JP. If Spielberg were smart, he would have held off showing the dinosaurs until the T-Rex attack. Can you imagine how scary and cool that would have been if you hadn't seen the creatures, and almost halfway through the movie, you're sitting there in the dark theater, you hear the approaching booming footsteps of the T-Rex and then ROAR, there it is! The first dinosaur that you see is the one that will rip you to pieces, instead of the cute, "oooh, look at the dinosaur" scene that was in the first 15 minutes of the movie?
What you see is much scarier than what you don't see. And the trick that your mind can play on you is sometimes petrifying!