Blessed with the tagline “This time it’s really really personal”, Jaws 19 is the “holofilm” playing at Hill Valley’s Holomax cinema as Marty McFly wanders through the dubiously futuristic version of 2015 imagined in 1989 by the makers of Back to the Future Part II. As a meta joke about Hollywood’s then blossoming addiction to sequels, this gag held up pretty well for decades.
Luckily, the DeLorean never time-travelled to the real-world 2025, when the calendar markers might have proven a touch confusing. Cinemas are showing the original Jaws? We must be in 1975.
Re-releases have always been with us. The first film I remember seeing in a cinema was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and, unless I’ve totally lost track of t
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