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Author Topic: JAWS Geoff Jones Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 579 From: Broomfield, CO, USA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 06-05-2011 04:42 PM                        CINEMA: Landmark's Esquire, Denver Colorado AUDITORIUM: 1 (downstairs) FORMAT: 35mm Scope/ Original Mono. PRINT: A- (just a few minor scratches) PRESENTATION: Sound and picture were great. Comments from the peanut gallery were annoying. Landmark needs to do a better job of shutting people up. I've seen JAWS in the theatre about a dozen times over the past couple of decades, and it never fails to impress on the big screen. I hope I still have the chance to take my kids to see it when they are old enough.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-05-2011 06:18 PM                     I recently handled a 35mm print that had SRD and was not mono. Judging from amplifier activity, it looked like full 5.1  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 06-05-2011 10:08 PM                     I've heard it on 35mm in both mono and 5.1 I loved the mono mix, but the 5.1 really brings the music out. Even though the 5.1 mix has some new effects created, the music is so good that I preferred the 5.1. AJG  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 06-05-2011 10:24 PM                    How was the color? Any idea if it was an original print or a reprint?  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-07-2011 08:40 PM                        JAWS seems to be getting a lot of attention lately. I've been seeing ads around the Net for the audiobook version-- which I bought since it's one of my favorite books. I listened to the book over the past week or so, and then last night I watched the DVD. It makes the story seem to move lightning-fast as compared with the book! My favorite parts of the movie are Quint's smartass remarks ("I see you brought your rubbers!"), and Hooper's arguments with the mayor ("You're going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you in the ass!")  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-07-2011 08:49 PM                     That was a fun summer of 1975 when "Jaw'd" came out-Spielberg introduced to us, 'the summer blockbuster movie'. I didn't run the movie until the following spring at a 2nd run theatre. True though, wonder if it was the original Eastman release (since this wasn't an IB release), or a reprint.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 06-07-2011 11:06 PM                     "Here lies the body of Mary Lee. Died at the age of a hundred and three. For fifteen years she kept here virginity. Not a bad record for this vicinity."  |  IP: Logged Geoff Jones Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 579 From: Broomfield, CO, USA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 06-08-2011 12:27 AM                        The color on the print I saw was good. A few scenes felt a little "muddier" than i had remembered from other screenings over the past few years. I have seen (heard) JAWS in 5.1 in the theatre once or twice out in the SF Bay area, but I think this was mono. My completely amateur guess is that this print was 5-10 years old, from before the 5.1 release.  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 06-08-2011 05:06 AM                     And shot in really real anamorphic, too! A comparison to Super 35/video origination and/or DI would be an eye opener.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 06-08-2011 08:58 AM                     Original release British prints were dye-transfer Technicolor. Original release American prints were Eastmancolor. I got to see an original release British print a while back, and wow, it looked good.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-08-2011 12:24 PM                        "Amity MEANS friendship."  |  IP: Logged Victor Liorentas Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: london ontario canada Registered: May 2009 posted 06-08-2011 01:22 PM                     If you don't get it right square,I blow your ass out the little round window on the side!Come on chief this ain't no boy scout picnic, see you got your rubbers!  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-09-2011 09:04 AM                        Corrected quotes from Quint: quote: ~ Front - bow, back - stern. Ya get it wrong, squirt, I'll throw your ass out the little round window in the side.~ ~ Break it up, will ya, Chief. Daylight's wasting...Come on, Chief. This isn't no Boy Scout picnic. See you got your rubbers! Ha, ha, ha.~  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 06-09-2011 10:49 AM                        "JOWLS" scary pig movie. Louis  |  IP: Logged Jonathan M. Crist Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 531 From: Hershey, PA, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 06-10-2011 10:50 PM                     The thing I remember most about Jaws is that it is really two separate movies: the first half which takes place on land and the second half out on the water on Quint's boat. The dividing point of the two halfs of Jaws is almost exactly half way through the movie in Reel 4. In order to fit the seven reels onto two hour long reels it was necessary for me to split Reel 4. The point where I chose to divide Reel 4 was the last scene on land with the second hour long reel starting with the boat leaving the harbor heading out to sea.  |  IP: Logged

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