You Gonna Need A Bigger Shelf !! 

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It's gonna be a big seller.

Jaws is 50 years old this week (the 20th).

I got the 50th anniversary Blu-ray.



Comparing the 2015 DVD to the Blu-ray, why does the Blu-ray lacks brightness and color?

1st image is DVD, 2nd image is Blu-ray

Here are some notable reviews from 1975

Gary Arnold, The Washington Post

“Brilliant young director Steven Spielberg has taken the premise of Peter Benchley’s best-selling but rather pedestrian novel ‘Jaws’ — a summer resort community terrorized by the presence of a rogue Great White Shark — and streamlined it into a new classic of cinematic horror and high adventure.”

Pauline Kael, the New Yorker

“‘Jaws’ may be the most cheerfully perverse scare movie ever made, the disasters don’t come on schedule the way they do in most disaster pictures, and your guts never settle down to a timetable.”

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“‘Jaws’ is a great adventure movie of the kind we don’t get very often any more. It’s clean-cut adventure, without the gratuitous violence of so many action pictures. It has the necessary amount of blood and guts to work — but none extra. And it’s one hell of a good story, brilliantly told.”

Vincent Canby, the New York Times

“They have to work very hard just to appear alive, and Mr. Scheider, Mr. Shaw and Mr. Dreyfuss come across with wit and easy self-assurance. It’s not their fault if they are upstaged by the mechanics of the fiction. That, too, is the way ‘Jaws’ was meant to be. Mr. Spielberg has so effectively spaced out the shocks that by the time we reach the spectacular final confrontation between the three men and the great white shark, we totally accept the makebelieve on its own foolishly entertaining terms.”

A.D. Murphy, Variety

“The fast-moving 124-minute film engenders enormous suspense as the shark attacks a succession of people; the creature is not even seen for about 82 minutes, and a subjective camera technique makes his earlier forays excruciatingly terrifying all the more for the invisibility.”

Arthur Knight, the Hollywood Reporter

“But the screenwriters, while never permitting the underlying tension to slacken, find time to bring us closer to their protagonists, so that when the final onslaught begins, our fears and frustrations run as deep as theirs. And in the film’s climactic moments, one forgets everything he or she may have read or heard about synthetic, mechanical sharks used on the production.”

Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times

“It sounds, all of it, like a backhanded compliment for a potent and well-made movie. But while I have no doubt that ‘Jaws’ will make a bloody fortune for Universal and producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown, it is a coarse-grained and exploitive work which depends on excess for its impact. Ashore it is a bore, awkwardly staged and lumpily written.”

Judith Crist, New York magazine

“The moviegoers’ winning streak continues and our reserve of superlatives diminishes — with ‘Jaws,’ a topnotch adventure melodrama that provides us with chills enough for the hottest of summers and hydrophobia (salt-water division) for life.”

Michael Sragow, Boston magazine

“In its first five minutes ‘Jaws’ grabs you somewhere beneath your sternum, and for nearly two hours it doesn’t let you go. [The film] is what ‘The French Connection’ and ‘The Exorcist’ only posed as — a horrific action story redeemed by inspired filmmaking. [It] aims for the gut, but it doesn’t insult the intelligence on the few occasions when it is required.”

Derek Malcolm, the Guardian

“Congratulations then to Spielberg for achieving what was clearly a very testing film technically with such clarity and panache, to Richard Zanuck and David Brown, the producers, for not giving up when it looked as if they ought to, and to Verna Fields, the editor, who seems to me to have helped them make nearly all the right decisions on the final cut. It isn’t the best movie in the world but one consistently has the feeling that it knows its limitations and, instead of trying to transcend them, concentrates instead on getting the basics of good story-telling right.”