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Originally Posted by CoasterMatt
Jaws 3 was a fine piece of comedy  |
Jaws 3 puts me to sleep. Even the shark scenes move at a snail's pace. And the would-be 3D optical effects are just atrocious. Even the monumentally stupid
Jaws: The Revenge has more entertainment value, even if only as WTF fodder.
There are plenty of cheap-ass shark movies to go around, and I watch most of 'em. They mostly rehash the basic plot of Jaws, or they follow the MEG formula. (There's a giant research facility - someone finds a megalodon tooth that isn't a fossil and hypothesizes about the presence of a surviving meg, invariably, this person brings up the coelecanth - 'We thought IT was extinct, but then we found one!" - someone mentions that sharks don't get cancer, so maybe they are the key to a cure - the meg attacks various big boats, submarines and, of course, the big high tech facility, hero fights shark in a mini-sub. I've seen this story many times now.) These elements are trotted out with clockwork predictability in most of the silly Scyfy (yeesh) Channel movies and direct to DVD extravaganzas.
As it happens, I am writing three (count 'em three) shark stories - none of them takes place at a small town beach resort or a high tech facility. I challenged myself to come up with at least three shark concepts that avoid the cliches. I'm thinking of vanity-publishing them if I get them done. (They take a backseat to the Christmas-themed piece I've been hacking away at for four years now.)
Ah, sharks.