Jaws @ 50 in 2025 ... Just When You Thought it was Safe to Go Back in the Water? 🌊🏊🦈

I went and saw the 50th anniversary screening of JAWS last Tuesday in a D-Box cinema.

Which is a cinema that basically has a massage chair that vibrates your body to the movie scene on the screen, which has 3 settings or off.

This added something different to the screening, since the last time I saw this movie at the cinema was when it first came out in the 70s when I was about 11 or 12.

This movie sure had a big impact on keeping me out of the ocean as a teenager ... and even now to be honest.

I was listening to a rather recent SpectreVision podcast called 'The Spiel' where the host of the podcast was talking to Laurent Bouzereau about his new doco called 'Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story' and I was thinking it's a shame I grew up having such a fear of sharks.

SpectreVision Podcasts

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025)

And then I saw this news story below about an experienced surfer who was around my age taken by a shark near Sydney this weekend, and I thought to myself that should just about do me for the rest of my life as far as staying out of deep water goes.

A 57-year-old man has died after being bitten
 by what police are describing as a large shark on
Sydney's Northern Beaches on Saturday morning

Of course, seeing Mick Fanning almost getting mauled in the surf didn't help my fear of sharks either -

Mick Fanning wearing a #7 while being
attacked by a shark on July 19, 2015

Back to the Future 2

Did Back to the Future 2 Predict Mick Fanning's Shark Attack?-)

Lea Thompson in 'Jaws 3-D'

Jaws 3?