John Wilkes Booth

i watched jaws a few years ago. found it pretty boring. i think i was drinking at the time but still... usually good movies still seem good when i'm drunk. even better actually.

Chula Vista

Favorite Jaws scene.

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James

The clip cut off just as that scene gets great!

Exo

Did you know Robert Shaw wrote that speech himself? Probably when he wasn't piss drunk.

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Frownland

I can't say that I have anywhere near the love that Exo has for it, but it's still a great and fun flick. It's worth another watch but I guess it's not for everybody.

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Chula Vista

Jaws seriously freaked the public out after it's initial release. It came out in 1975 just as schools were letting out for the summer. All the major beaches along the New England coastline reported a pretty big drop off in tourists that year.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

James

I didn't. That's seriously impressive. I could have watched a whole movie of those three messing around on the boat. Shark or no shark.

John Wilkes Booth

maybe one day. i think there are a ton of other movies i'd watch before i resort to watching jaws again.

honestly though the main reason i prefer jurassic park is because it caters to my dinosaur obsession. there was plenty of dino action in that film. where as jaws was just some shark that barely appears in the movie from what i remember.

Chula Vista

Spielberg only signed on to do the film if the studio agreed to not show the shark until the movie was at least half over. He wanted to go for a Hitchcock Psycho approach.

Let the suspense build and build before letting go of the reveal.

"We're gonna need a bigger boat"

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

John Wilkes Booth

i liked psycho better. it was more suspenseful to me.

wasn't jaws like 2 1/2 hrs long?