Fans vote JAWS 2 best JAWS movie?
As with most movie franchises, fans and critics usually agree that the first movie in a series is the best. There are exceptions to the rule - see Stars Wars and The Godfather. However, Steven Spielberg’s shark thriller classic JAWS (1975) has been the gold standard in this lore…. that is until now.
Seeing how all four JAWS movies rank and rate according to Rotten Tomoates (image below), JAWS (1975) is snout and tails ahead of it’s sequels. JAWS 2 scores a respectable 61% fresh with both Jaws 3-D and Jaws The Revenge failing to score above 11%, indicating a perceived huge drop in quality as the franchise went on.
Earlier this month, we ran a Twitter poll asking you to name the worst JAWS movie. With nearly two thousand votes in 24 hours (3 weeks in JAWS time), the end result was both totally expected and very suprising. See results below.
As the results show, unsurprisingly Jaws The Revenge was named worst JAWS movie with 57.1% of the vote; Jaws 3-D came in second worstJ. However, the real shock was JAWS 2 scoring lowest percentage - just 1.1%vof the vote. So does this mean that by being voted least worst, JAWS 2 is actually the best Jaws movie????
Many followers like Margaret (above) showed their dismay for those who voted for JAWS as the worst in the series. Wanting to ‘have a chat’ with the 5% was one of the more gentle suggestions in how to deal with this particular shark problem.
Polled the wrong one?
Jaws 2 sees Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
Jaws 2 is certainly a solid first sequel. Seriously, how do you follow the greatest movie ever made? But can it genuinely be considered to be better than the original? Essentially a teen slasher movie set on water, Jaws 2 definitely delivers on it’s promise of more shark but this sadly means less suspense and even less Brody (and zero Hooper).
We think there may be another, simpler explanation. Comments in the poll appear to reveal that some voters ‘polled the wrong one’ and hot JAWS by mistake. So this is what happens. It indicates the non-frenzied polling of a large following - possibly fingerslippus or a hastyclickus.
However, like Mayor Vaughn’s hush fund, there are quite a few votes unaccounted for so the real truth may never be known for sure - and we all wanna be sure, ok? Sadly, we cannot perform a late night autopsy on a poll and besides, no-one wants to risk seeing the news that Jaws 2 is the best Jaws movie spill out all over the internet. Do they?
Words by Ross Williams
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