Jaws 3-D (1983)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Very best movie i ever watch

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

It's WORSE. Watched during Discovery's Shark Week 2018 for the first time, and it was awful. There was something about how they filmed it for 3D that makes it visually odd when not in 3D (I'm assuming it looks better in 3D but I obviously don't know for sure). In any case, don't waste your time.

Everyone's made fun of the awful special effects in this movie. To be fair, I didn't watch it with glasses but I've heard that it's not much better if you do. What makes it worse is that these aren't the kind of bad special effects that you have to look for. They hold on them so you can have the ultimate 3-D experience. But because it's not in 3-D they just come across as gimmicky and annoying. And there's a lot of scenes like that. Most of the movie is just bad 3-D. These flaws are enough to distract you from other, more conventional flaws. For one thing, the story is bland, and I mean bland. Jaws gets trapped in Sea World in Orlando, Florida. And before I go any further I just have to dwell on how dumb that marketing trick was. Is that really the coverage you want? On top of that, the characters are all stock. Almost none of them have any personality at all. There's no reason to care about any of these people. The bottom line is that Jaws 3-D is just a mix of awful special effects with a really lazy, uninteresting script thrown in as filler. Any resemblance of tension or suspense that was seen I the first movie is gone. Instead, it's just a hallowed out shell.

If you can handle this concept, this film may just turn out to be a fun, little rainy afternoon popcorn flick. I mean, it's filmed in 3-D for starters. If you're going to sit there and critique the cheesy effects and expect them to be on par with the original Jaws, then prepare yourself to be drastically let down. It's flawed, but a fun film. Better than Jaws 4 in my opinion.

I actually find this plot to be very unique. Neither of the other two JAWS sequels are so distinguishable. They take place in open water and the shark destroys some boats. This one is in a whole different environment... Sea World. People are saying this plot is ridiculous except it's really not because having a live great white shark in captivity is every aquarium's dream. Sure the shark bashes through steel mechanized gates but is that really such a far leap from pulling apart an entire pier or pulling down those yellow barrels like the shark did in the first movie? Unfortunately everything positive I could say about this movie stops there.While the look of the mechanical shark improves with each sequel this one did a terrible job at showing it properly. Also there's a scene where the baby great white is attacking a sunken ship to try getting to some people but it's clearly a guy ramming a toy shark into a miniature ship prop. The baby also hardly ever moves its tail for some reason so it looks like its just drifting in the water. The effects have their moments but they're mostly cheesy and laughable.The acting is uninspired and none of the characters are really memorable. There were times where I was like "oh yeah... THAT guy exists..."Every time I saw the shark fin rise to the surface and heard that iconic music playing it felt like the director was just saying "Oh! I get to make a JAWS movie! That means we need lots of these shots!" There was no tension to those shots like there was in JAWS and even a little in JAWS 2.It's bad but I've seen worse. The only reason I gave it a 4/10 instead of a 2/10 is because I didn't take the film very seriously so I got some good laughs out of it.