Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" forever altered the commercial filmmaking landscape 50 years ago when it became the highest grossing movie in Hollywood history. His film held the box office crown for a whole two years until George Lucas' "Star Wars" exploded into theaters and affirmed that the motion picture industry was now a blockbuster-driven realm.

This is still true a half-century later, but there have been aesthetic shifts along the way. For instance, back then we lived with a different constellation of movie stars. Sure, there were still impossibly handsome leading men (e.g. Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and Burt Reynolds), but audiences would often line up to see movies featuring regular-looking guys portraying underdogs who were battling a stacked-deck system. They looked like the loca

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