ByronOrlok wrote:
There's just one single scene in the whole movie that doesn't work -- the wide-angle profile shot of big ol' rubber-and-steel Bruce leaping onto the deck of the Orca. It's genuinely awful, and one can easily imagine Spielberg and Verna Fields agonizing over it in the editing room:

VF: God, that thing looks like crap.
SS: I know, I know -- just like all these other phoney-looking shark shots we had to cut! Can't we lose this one too?
VF: I wish! But we don't have any other coverage that looks any better. We GOTTA get that damn shark on deck somehow...maybe if we cut it down as short as possible...
SS: "Less is more", yeah, yeah...try it...
VF: Okay, just a sec.... here goes...what do you think?
SS: My career is over.
VF: Yeah, still looks like crap.



The film was so effective and captivating, nobody cared if they even thought much about this in the first place.

If we're talking the "fakeness" of the shark, for me it's one moment where the rubber shark in closeup seems to "bump itself" on the bottom of the tank while underwater

But you know something? I'll take the real 3-D prop shark over CGI any day (DEEP BLUE SEA - yeah, right). That's ANY day . Did I make myself clear? Annnnyy day!!! image