Honest Trailer Blames JAWS For Terrible Sequels and Hollywood Franchising
Screenjunkies' new Honest Trailer for Steven Spielberg's Jaws name-drops his new movie The BFG as the ostensible reason they're giving this 1975 shark thriller the Honest Trailer treatment now, but there are a couple more reasons the timing works out pretty well. It's almost July 4th (the movie takes place on Fourth of July weekend), and there's also a new shark movie in theaters right now (the Blake Lively film The Shallows, which is silly, but decent overall). In any case, check out their take on Jaws, which makes a fairly salient point about the film's success being largely responsible for the sequels and franchising that dominate our modern box office. (Sequels existed before, sure, but Jaws was an all-out smash hit that defined blockbuster culture.)