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Saw JAWS in IMAX last night. If it's showing in your area, don't miss it. Seeing it on the big screen really impressed me with how beautifully shot and masterfully directed it is. It was the first time I had seen it on a big screen since the '70s, and I noticed so many things that I had never noticed before.
Just finished watching ORCA, I can't believe all the bad reviews, Jaws only took out one boat, Orca not only wasted several boats, but he took out a house, he blew up a gasoline storage depot, he chewed a woman's leg off, he ate more people than Jaws. Jaws died, Orca survived and killed all his enemies, thus avenging the death of his pregnant mate.
Orca jumps higher out of the water allowing him to eat more people. Orca knows how to use tools, he pushed an iceberg into a boat and sank it in 30 seconds. Orca is a total winner, Jaws is a loser. The Orca cast has more intellectuals, kinder, gentler people whom understand killer whales and how to get killed by them, so the cast is more environmentally friendly and green. Orca has Will Sampson, the man whom played the Indian Chief in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and he actually talks in this one and lasts a long time, almost thru the entire film before Orca gives him his walking papers.
Clearly, Orca is a superior film, but did we get an Orca 2, an Orca 3....Nooooo, everyone says it's a rip off of Jaws and not good. Why is everyone so racist against killer whales? Why didn't Universal Studios replace the Jaws ride with a new Orca ride? Life is so unfair, not saying Jaws was a bad film, but Orca should get more respect.
Props for the mention of the late Will Sampson, an underrated and very good actor who shouldn't be forgotten. Scleroderma took him from us much too soon. Sampson's breakout role in Cuckoo is the one he'll be remembered for, but I find his limited screen time as Ten Bears in The Outlaw Josey Wales equally compelling.
As a kid, I loved Orca much more than Jaws. In Orca, humans are the villains, and the esteemed Richard Harris excelled at being one. Harris performed his own stunts at great peril in the film. (Was the film's premise far-fetched? Well, isn't that why we go to the movies? Orca isn't a documentary.)
Orca was a box office bomb, but it boasted an impressive cast (Harris, Sampson, Rampling, Wynn) and a sublime score by the legendary Ennio Morricone.
Props for the mention of the late Will Sampson, an underrated and very good actor who shouldn't be forgotten. Scleroderma took him from us much too soon. Sampson's breakout role in Cuckoo is the one he'll be remembered for, but I find his limited screen time as Ten Bears in The Outlaw Josey Wales equally compelling.
As a kid, I loved Orca much more than Jaws. In Orca, humans are the villains, and the esteemed Richard Harris excelled at being one. Harris performed his own stunts at great peril in the film. (Was the film's premise far-fetched? Well, isn't that why we go to the movies? Orca isn't a documentary.)
Orca was a box office bomb, but it boasted an impressive cast (Harris, Sampson, Rampling, Wynn) and a sublime score by the legendary Ennio Morricone.
It wasn't a bomb for lack of publicity. It had a huge advertising budget. I remember the lobby standee for it was huge, as big as the one for "Star Trek," if not bigger. "Jaws" just drove moviegoers away from the water.
Didn't they make like a whole bunch of Orca movies after the original?
No.
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