Jaws was followed by three sequels (none of which involved Spielberg or Benchley) and many imitative thrillers. When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police (Roy Scheider), a young marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a grizzled shark hunter (Robert Shaw) embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again.

There's also a slew of deleted scenes and outtakes, featurettes (including the new restoration featurette), storyboards, photos, trailers and more. What’s especially nice, though, is that the sound quality between the many layers of the track sound to be the same in terms of quality. Extras have been ported over from previous Laserdisc and DVD special editions, and are presented in SD. When the shark was about to attack my brother did the two note music and that just built the tension even more than his vivid depictions of the mayhem off Amity.Lots of noteworthy interview snippets wraps up this epic 10 part documentary compiled over the course of thirty years. Detail levels are excellent, and the movie looks properly filmic, with a discreet level of film grain.

It gave rise to the notion of the “Summer Blockbuster”, but don't let this put you off, it's absolutely nothing like anything you're likely to see from the likes of Michael Bay. Internal List of Criterion Titles List of Licensors Calendar Blu-ray and DVD Region Map External Fan Sites The Criterion Cast Criterion Contraption Specialty Labels The Criterion Collection Arrow (UK) Arrow (US) Indicator Masters of Cinema British Film Institute (BFI) Second Run Anti-Worlds Shout Factory! When I finally saw the movie for the first time it was as a double bill with Jaws 2, - How lucky was I!Fields only provided short glimpses of the mechanical prop, which in effect allows the mind run wild, filling in the gaps and creating fear purely from our own imagination. T. the Extra-Terrestrial,' which evolved into a distinctively refined aesthetic in ' Schindler's List' and 'Munich' — but it's one hell of a prelude of things to come from such a young filmmaker. Forget Jaws, I avoided any movie with sharks in, was wary of movies set on the ocean, and it was only the fact that my first DVD player came with a free copy of Deep Blue Sea that made me give shark movies another chance. Yes, I suspect noise reduction has been applied to remove film grain, if only mildly; you can still make out grain faintly in areas, and it does get a little heavier in some darker sequences.