I couldn't go through a month of 70's movies without dedicating one of the days to Jaws. Spielberg's 1975 masterpiece about a great white shark terrorizing the people of Amity Island on 4th of July weekend became one of the biggest hits of the 1970's and is still the gold-standard of shark films. I'll keep this short and I'm not going to bother to go into the plot with this one because...well, it's Jaws. It's great, you've probably seen it and if not, find it and watch it. Unlike so many of the shark movies that would follow over the decades Jaws really isn't driven by carnage and kills, but rather by tension and memorable characters. Even though the mechanical shark does look a bit dated today, the performances of Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss, combined with an iconic John Williams theme help maintain Jaws' status as a 'must-see' film more than 40 years after it's initial release.
5 out of 5
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