Jaws

Ah...jaws. What else is there to say about Jaws? I'm afraid that I saw Jaws when I was far too young, around the same time I saw Pulp Fiction. Earlier then 10, but after 5. I was mildly traumatized by this film, although I have since grown out of the stage where I was hearing the theme song whenever my toes touched water...whether that was in an ocean, lake, or...pool, I'm sad to say. I like how the movie is a bit of a disaster film, but it was actually amusing at parts. And not dark comedy, but real, genuine comedy. I've always liked the reference to the Indianapolis. Of course I didn't understand the reference until I asked my father one day, who is reservoir of odd facts.
On an amusing note, while channel surfing one day, I came across a movie on the Syfy channel called, I believe, "Super Shark". The film is about a group of scientists living on an underwater research facility. They are trying to cure brain cancer by researching different effects on shark brains. Eventually, what they end up doing is increasing the size of the sharks brains, and begin making increasingly more intelligent sharks. As I watched the film, I really believe that it was influenced by "Jaws". There are very similiar scenes, one of which is when a man gets bitten in half by a shark after sliding down a broken catwalk. The sharks in essence turn on all the researchers, and begin attacking the facility. Even at the end, theres only 2 men left out of all 6 researchers, and it ends with them floating on a few pieces of scrap from the facility, slowly swimming back to shore, and talking. Sort of like deja vu, right?
In fact, SyFy just released a trailer for a 'brand new' film called "Dinoshark".

Here is the link, I suggest taking a minute and a half to watch this...um... ..."stellar" example of quality cinema.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBt0mg9_wQc&playnext_from=TL&videos=qT2ITpztu0Q&playnext=1

But you can see where the "Jaws" inspiration came from.