“Jaws” is the latest blockbuster blast-from-the-past getting another go-round in multiplexes. Just recently, “E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial,” another Spielberg masterpiece, played in IMAX theaters. “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” also recently returned to IMAX. Even last winter’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is coming back for one more spin this weekend with extra footage.
Kristian Salinas, former director of the Houston LGBTQ film festival QFest, caught “Jaws” when he was a toddler, then saw it again when it was re-released in 1979. Like so many kids back then, he was obsessed. “I would beg my parents [saying], “I want to see it again and again and again,” he says. “I had the ‘Jaws’ coloring book. Back then, they used to do this really big coloring book that was probably, like, three feet tall. It’s almost the same size as you.
However, as we’ve seen over and over again , Hollywood rarely makes blockbusters like “Jaws” anymore. Cerny certainly thinks so. “I think what people forget the most about ‘Jaws’ — and studios at the time were trying to copy that success — is that ‘Jaws’ is about three dudes on a boat,” he says.
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