Yup, I remember tensing up big time when that scene happened. And there was a big gasp in the packed theater.
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Nope, it's the scene where Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) is under water investigating the sunken ship and a dead man's head comes popping up out of nowhere. I literally jumped out of my seat when I saw that for the first time. The scene you're talking about is good too but it didn't scare me half as much as that dead guy's head.

Was it the scene when the shark came onto the sinking boat to eat?
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I agree with all you said. It's the first film I remember seeing in the theater and one scene in particular scared the living s–t out of me at a young age. (You probably know what scene I'm referring to). A nail-biting, jaw-dropping edge of the seat thriller like no other! I still revisit it almost every year.

Yes, definitely. They alternated between shots and the switches were seamless.
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Jurassic Park too.
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He means they used PRACTICAL effects as opposed to DIGITAL effects. Practical is always better.
Terminator 2 is the gold standard of utilising both practical and digital effects. The entirety of the T-800 was practical effects, as in actual dummies, animatronics, stuntmen, while approximately 40% of the T-1000 was CGI.
If T2 were made today, not only would the entirety of the T-1000 be CGI, but most of the T-800 would be as well.
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They used real sharks in certain scenes, yes.

Oh so they used a real shark did they?
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