I hope they don't remake this
All time classic
shareThe problem is as strong as the writing and characters are in "Jaws" the main reason why people tune in is to see the shark and unfortunately by today's standards the shark looks like shit. Consequently, this will one day be remade, if only to give us a better shark (though everything else in the remake, I dread, will pale by comparison to the original).
shareThats completely wrong. The shark was by far the most authentic one in most shark movies Ive seen. Underwater sequences looked amazingly real (not just the ones with real sharks indeed) compared with anything computer rendered (seems like its too expensive to do authentic underwater rendering. So the sharks always loked like really cheap computer sculptures from the Commodore Amiga era). There was only one mistake Spielberg made .... to show the shark on surface. It still looked amazing, but it was clear at this scene that we are watching a machine instead of a real shark. I presume that was forced by the studios like it was at "It came from outer space" (then the aliens was never seen, but the studio forced the director to show the alien at least once at the movies and this was the most laughable scene of an otherwise scifi classic). They should have chosen to do the scene like it was at the book. That way the shark would have been always part of our own imagination. And that, as we know from Hitchcock, is the place were the real horror is located :) .
Conclusio: No, todays "sharks" wont look even nearly as good as this pratical effect. At least as long as they are just part of underwater scenes. On the surface each and every shark model looks similiar laughable. Practical or computer rendered.