# Jaws -- on the big screen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jaws-on-the-big-screen/722711 "2015-06-17T00:36:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 61
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jaws-on-the-big-screen/722711/61 "2015-07-13T03:03:58Z")
I saw Jaws a few weeks ago when it was airing on the big screen. My first time seeing it! So glad I got to see it on the big screen. A great doper once said: > [@Close Encounters of the Third Kind really isn't that good](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-really-isnt-that-good/615477/2): > > It’s hard to come up with a comparison, but with some films, seeing them at home on a TV instead of seeing them in a theater is like comparing masturbation to sex. Enjoyable enough, but nowhere near as satisfying. Admittedly that was about Close Encounters, but I think it applies to Jaws, too. I got way more caught up than I thought I would. It’s one of my all-time favorites now. Suspenseful and scary, but it has real emotion, too. Almost wish I’d seen it years ago, but I’m kind of glad I had the chance to see it in theaters for my first time. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jaws-on-the-big-screen/722711)._