Great that it can be done, but on this film?
Is there anyone who will rush out and buy it, just to see the rubber shark at the end of the film?
Jaws is back, and the old shark’s gnashers are looking sharper than ever thanks to a painstaking remastering job by Universal’s backroom boffins. The title is being released as part of the studio’s centenary classics program for Blu-ray, which also includes E.T The Extra Terrestrial, The Birds and Frankenstein. The timing couldn …
I bought this over the weekend. I was hung over and just wanted a film otherwise I would have waited until it was cheaper.
But it certainly looks nice and was still fun to watch so I think they did a good job. It's certainly better than Jurassic park's blu-ray release which is kind of ugly, imo.
Why do the disc authorers so often have to put original artwork, stills & photographs in fake frames with borders round the edge - do they really think we don't want to see the detail in the pictures by shrinking them smaller to cater for the crappy 'artistic' border?
No, Mike. Crap fish tales are crap fish tales. I grew up commercial fishing out of Noyo Harbor on the California coast. I've met Great Whites in the wild. They bear absolutely zero resemblance to the critter portrayed in the film. The actors trying to look like fisher-folks are even more of a laugh; not a one of 'em shows any sign of on-the-water working boat experience. It's a sad best-guess, at best. And it fails. Miserably.
As a side-note, "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming!" and "Humanoids From The Deep" don't exactly portray the local Noyo population in their best light ... But I'm still getting residuals for my bit-parts ;-)
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After winning an appeal to verdict of the infamous Oz obscenity trial, Felix Dennis published some magazines including 'Jaws'- the still images of the film had not been copyrighted. He then created Mac User and in the States Mac Warehouse, a hardware and software mail order retailer.
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Me and my fishing buddy watch this film every spring, ahead of Salmon season. Last year we watched it on his boat, at dusk, with my 12 year old in tow. It was epic.
Try this for funL
Every time they say water, take a drink.
Every time they say shark, take a drink.
But don't do them both in the same viewing!
I am guessing those "before" frames are taken from the 35mm print in the vaults which have presumably deteriorated quite badly since they were last taken out to master the VHS/LD/DVD releases.
Quite possibly, given that broadcast sources were already higher definition than broadcast *reception*, the VHS, LD and DVD masters were all taken from a broadcast source master, way back in the 70's or early 80's, explaining the dramatic deterioration in the archived print since it's previous home-video format release. i.e. not 5-10 years worth of deterioration but 20-30 years.
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