You're gonna need a bigger boat

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So I just watched Jaws for the second time in my life. First time I watched it when I was very little and it's pretty unusual that of all the scenes in the movie, the one that really struck me and stayed with me didn't have to do anything with the shark. The shark was cool and all but it's the scene when they show each other scars that really influenced me as a kid. So whenever somebody showed me a scar, I always remembered Jaws and I wanted to get a scar of my own :D I have one now but that's a different story... Anyway, I watched Jaws today and I liked everything about it. The strong characters really carry the plot. What makes the movie scary is the absence of the monster for the most part. When I saw the outline of the shark circling the boat and bumping into it, it's outline was more menacing than any CGI monster that I've seen in movies recently. When you watch CGI, no matter how good it looks, you can easily tell it's not even there. Here you can clearly see that something huge is really moving under the boat. Actually the scariest scene for me was one in which we didn't even see it at all. We could only tell by the two floating yellow barrels closing towards the boat that shark is charging at it and of course by the awesome unnerving music theme by John Williams. The film does culminate with the huge animatronic puppet that looks laughably fake today but scared the world in the past. I felt like the movie aged very well until this scene. How do you like Jaws? Did it scare you in the past? Have you seen it recently? I've heard many people were afraid to go swimming because of Jaws.