eli@uw-june (Eli Messinger) (07/24/83)
I wandered into a screening of this film at one of our local muliti- screen theaters (after having seen Psycho II), and found a pair of genuine-cardboard framed 3-D glasses underneath the seat. All in all I'd say I got my money's worth (a no-dollar investment), and wasted approximately two hours of time. Jaws 3-D smelled up the movie theater like the warmed over "three-quel" that it is. To say that Jaws-3D is loosely based on a >title< by Peter Benchely (sp?) might be giving the new writers more credit than they deserve. The film crawls along with the pace and excitement of a rock under water, and man- ages almost that amount of drama and tension. The few "action" sequences (read that: simulated shark gorings) are about as stimulating as used dental floss. Of course everyone who goes to see it does so for the not-so-fabulous 3-D effects. Unfortunately this didn't sustain my interest for more than four or five minutes. Not that the 3-D is bad... it's certainly compar- able to Friday the 13th Part 3 (hey, why not "Rocky 3-D?")... it's just that it's not used for much of anything. Even the fake great-white shark from Jaws seems to have gotten a fairly poor looking stand-in for the close-ups. About the only thing this film has going for it (besides the ending, when it's over and you can leave the theater) are some very poorly matted underwater scenes that could induce laughter in anyone who is still paying attention. I'm glad I knew better than to go to the theater to intentionally see this film. You should too. ... uw-beaver!eli
andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) (07/25/83)
So uw-june!eli finished viewing the movie that he/she paid for, then
committed petty larceny by sneaking into the adjoining theater to watch
another movie without bothering to purchase a ticket, and then had the
gall to brag about it to thousands of netnews readers, and pan the
movie to boot.
Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this?
"uw-june" is a site at the University of Washington. The most
charitable assumption I can make is that this is a student who hasn't
yet developed a sense of right and wrong.
-- Andrew Klossner (decvax!teklabs!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP]
(andrew.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]