Is it fair to say kids these days would find Jaws boring?

What I wonder is, can younger people process a movie via character and performance or does such stuff bore them?


Now a days, these kids, they bring everything. Radar, sonar, electric toothbrushes.
Jesus-H Christ. Hey chief! Best drop another chum marker.

I think Jaws is great the whole way, but I'll admit usually I like to watch from when the three guys go out to the ocean onward.

THE THING really owes most of its appeal to its score and sound effects. Maybe the best use of both in a film. Could be that the new kids on the block were reading subtitles and not listening to the movie. It's very sound oriented. 


It's not what I call a "super interesting film". I think it is interesting, but I can see where someone wouldn't be enthralled with it. 

Now JAWS is a film that has about everything, especially the necessary humor. There is a generation that has no sense of humor, though, or laughs at things that I don't understand what is funny about. They speak a different language. Someone decided the American English language is for people who need to be eliminated from the books. 

Some of them would, other would not.

Sometimes, yes. But not necessarily. I think a lot of people engage with pop culture that is of their generation.

My favorite scariest scary movies are "The Innocents" (1961), "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974), "The Omen" (1976), "Rosemary's Baby" (1968), "Night of the Demon" (1957), "Jaws" (1975), "Halloween" (1978), "The Possession of Joel Delaney" (1972), "The Witches" (1966) and "The Howling Man" episode from "The Twilight Zone" (YIKES!) So, half of those were made before I was born.

I don't find any of the Universal horror movies from the 30s to be scary. Though they are fun. I don't find the SAW movies or any of that French grue to be scary in the least. They are merely bloody and unpleasant.

I guess it depends as I want to know ones definition of "boring" because I have a feeling many use that term improperly. like some might call a movie "boring" if it's average (or maybe slightly under average) or so. when I call a movie boring I genuinely mean it as in it's like watching paint dry to where my interest is pretty much zero as I typically can't finish movies I find truly boring (then I default to my usual 2/10 score). as a general rule for me... boring is pretty much the worst crime a movie can commit since it's the opposite of what a movie should be, which is... interesting/entertaining. (NOTE: basically 2/10's are my typical boring score. I reserve 1/10's for movies I greatly dislike which is not far from non-existent) ; because I think some people have no variance, or not much variance, in their judgement of movies as there might be a very thin line for some people who might think a movie is pretty strong to crap with little to no inbetween etc.

with that said... I can't see many people finding 'Jaws' boring. maybe average or so, but not truly boring. to take my best guess, in terms of the younger crowd since the OP mentioned them specifically... if you took say a bunch of teenagers (or thereabouts) and had them watch Jaws for the first time I would imagine the majority would have a opinion of the movie that's no worse than average. or if you split people into three simple groups...

-Red (clearly more negative (1-4/10))
-Yellow (about average to maybe a mild positive (5-6/10))
-Green (clearly more positive (7-10/10))

I would be surprised if most were not in the Yellow or Green categories. but I would be interested to see how close the Yellow and Green categories would turn out on which would be ahead and by how much.

sure, you would probably get some people who are genuinely bored but you can't please everyone as I think even the most universally liked movies probably have a few people here and there who might think it's below average or worse.

p.s. for the record... I used to like Jaws but as of a re-watch in Apr 2015 I no longer care for it as it's pretty average for me now (i.e. 5/10). as for The Thing (1982)... it's not bad, as it's decent enough for a viewing, but has no re-watch appeal for me. hence, it's also pretty average. who knows, maybe ill give Jaws another chance down the road but probably not for the foreseeable future.

No I don’t think that’s fair.

I don't think they would find it boring.

The ones I saw were "High Tension", "Inside" and "Martyrs". I guess they are equally brutal. They work the viewer over. I don't know why there was this emerging of gruesome horror films out of France. I will say that the films are not at all badly made and all three of them had interesting plots.