I know that the movie Jaws is a classic, but!!!

[Monster Dave]

flip!

12-14ft Great White emerges behind guy in kayak.

What part of this picture does NOT say "ooooooooh S#*@!!!"

(did I disguise that enough to avoid an infraction for language??)

 

[ralphee]

What part of this picture does NOT say "ooooooooh S#*@!!!"

(did I disguise that enough to avoid an infraction for language??)

Yeah, and thats gotta be what? Maybe 12 feet? Thats a big fish, and a very small boat!
On the other hand, could be a couple of kids with a cardboard fin :lol

Lee

 

[Weequay]

Lee, you've commented on this thread twice and not once added to it, instead choosing to attack my writing (yes I know it's not the best) and I'm guessing the dude who started it. I think that makes you a troll. Worse than that, the fact you are a premium member and yet so obviously don't care about the quality of this community speaks volumes of you. In the short time I've been in the uk I heard many things about Birmingham. You confirm most of them. Shouldn't you be spray painting walls.

Hi Chaank, just to say your writing is absolutley perfect. I think he was talking about the use of paragraphs as this makes longer posts easier to read.

I would like to tell you Birmingham isnt as bad as you have heard, but im afraid it really is! lol :lol

weequay

 

[Weequay]

I'd imagine that propnoob's a bit young - but I can definitely understand walking away from Jaws unimpressed. If you're looking for a straight-up horror film, you'd be sorely disappointed in the picture, as the "eating machine" Dreyfuss's Hooper talks up is nowhere to be seen (The Beard himself fully cops to there being not enough shark in Jaws - and he says it probably would have be a great deal more of an exploitative "B" grade film had anyone connected to the production thought the rubber shark wasn't going to get laughed off the screen - they had to make things mysterious and keep the shark hidden because it hardly ever worked and looked like a poo when it did), and there's very little gore or horror. The film functions best when viewed with the idea that it is an intense man-against-nature/man-against-self drama.

And while the central performances are quite good (this is, and will always be, Richard Dreyfuss's Finest Hour), tertiary perfomances are sort of rangy. Lorraine Gary is a histrionic annoyance as Brody's wife, and a lot of the roles are filled with people who just showed up and said lines.

Additionally, this is a film that suffers from people talking it up as if it was/is one of the Single Greatest Films in the History of Cinema. It's not. It's a low budget (accidental) character piece made from a goofy beach-read bestseller. The aspirations here were not High Art. This whole, "every aspect of making a film was damn near an art form in itself" thing is not quite reality. The Seventies were a time when the most cheap and exploitative schlock imaginable made money on the Drive-In circuit - which was the actual impetus for Jaws as a film in the first place. No one expected the pic to be the juggernaut it was.

I am forty years old. I saw Jaws in 1981. The same year I saw ALIEN. One of those films has stayed with me my entire life. One of them is not as amazing as you remember it to be. I'll give you a hint - JAWS is not as amazing as you remember it to be.

That said - the Indianapolis scene is one of the best things ever.

We can all acknowledge the debt modern cinema owes to Jaws (for good and ill), and its place in history is assured - but it's a film that can't help but suffer under the weight of reputation and its advancing age.

This is easily the most sensible post in this entire thread.

Its easy to jump on a bandwagon and bash a poster that goes against the grain but I can totally see why someone would watch Jaws and think 'what the hell was all the fuss about'.

 

[blipper]

More scary shark moments - all 100% genuine real deal! No pixels! Flagg - you might get a creepy kick out of these:

I find that first one really chilling - gives me that 'someone walking on my grave' feeling.

 

[Probe Droid]

Don't spread that last pic around or the Sci-Fi Channel will make a movie out of it. I can't think of anything but Shargull Attack!. Someone come up with a better name.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

More scary shark moments - all 100% genuine real deal! No pixels! Flagg - you might get a creepy kick out of these:

Well, seeing as people throw bait to sharks from boats, whenever a shark sees a boat, of course it will expect to be fed - which in my very humble opinion is the most IDIOTIC thing any human could possibly condition sharks to think. Reckless, stupid and idiotic... and you see this picture and you see the shark thinking: "Feed me the hell already!"

Seagullshark. Nasty bite... ear pinching noise... ****ing birds with teeth.

 

[crabra comander]

SyFY'S Seagullshark,


By the time he's crapped on your head, you're already dead!!!

 

[gyoung2993]

I have always loved that movie due to the fact,in that time ,the shark was unpredictible and suprising ,even as a low budget ,which became over budgeted,I might add as well... the hunt ,the chase ,and those getting chased and attacked ,is so much of a better dialogue than films today,to some...not all films ....some have gotten so predictible as there were boring,jaws had a real life aspect to it ,and sharks are man eaters.....what I mean by that ,is think about this for a moment,most people think or believe sharks are not maneaters, however ponder on this for a moment, any animal on this planet is a food chain to survive, now when an animal gets to starving (especially a shark ) its instictive belief is to find a food source and SURVIVE......now with that being said ,if a sharks hungry ,he will eat..if you are in his sites or in his path he will eat....that basically the concept ,I saw as real as it gets....sharks attack and they will hit you with such brutal force and drag you under.....the way this movie portrayed....and to this day...it is a strong motion picture compared to other shark movies, not looking for folks to disagree or agree with me ,however just my opinion, I loved the film.....its not animated ,alot of art went into JAWS........

 

[Chaank]

Hi Chaank, just to say your writing is absolutley perfect. I think he was talking about the use of paragraphs as this makes longer posts easier to read.

I would like to tell you Birmingham isnt as bad as you have heard, but im afraid it really is! lol :lol

weequay

Cheers Weequay :thumbsup. Your one of the good ones and probably right. I've never really been the best at writing but never turn my nose at friendly criticism.

I'm sure it's not that bad but every town has at least one self important finger pointer. It's always easier to rip on people or break stuff than add something positive. I guess that's good in a way. Lets the thinkers stand out.

 

[phantomjedi]

It was great to see Jaws back on the big screen. The last time I saw it there was on release when I was six years old - scared the hell out of me. I was even a bit edgy about watching it when it premiered on ITV here back in 1981, but have watched it many times since.

It has aged really well, even the shark. Can't wait for the Blu-Ray.

 

[lionback]

OOOoow, this hurts my eyes!!! Jaws is class and the actors are the best cast you will get, Robert Shaw is a classic... Quint rules the deep man!!!.

its a snap shot of the seventys and yes now you could over do everything but that score with those actors is pure CLASS....

hay man you need to get your eyes tested lol. whats your best film then??? I need to watch it to get a feel for you rating films..

 

[Simpson77]

It looks so crappy now, and the acting is awful!!!, shark looks good, but wow how movies have changed!!!!

BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:angry

 

[Timmythekid]

You know, it would be really cool if somehow Speilberg could go back to Jaws and maybe do some digital additions to the film. Maybe even some new scenes that just weren't possible before. You know, how he always wanted it to appear, but didn't have the budget to really....wait, why are you looking at me like that?

 

[connormwood]

I agree with how movies have changed but, i loved some of the acting. I have watched the movie 100 times and love it more after every watch, but thats my opinion.

 

[Michael Bergeron]

I agree with how movies have changed but, i loved some of the acting. I have watched the movie 100 times and love it more after every watch, but thats my opinion.

Don't worry. It's the right one. :lol

 

[Boogeyman13]

You know, I finally watched this film for the first time all the way through with the recent Blu-ray release. I went into it with absolutely no expectations... and left thinking that it's a pretty solid film. For what it is and what it's trying to do, it's a fun movie. I don't know if it's the greatest film ever put to celluloid, but it holds up pretty well. And the creature effects, while not a lot, are pretty impressive, especially given the context. Definitely don't regret buying this film.

 

[CTF]

Yeah, the acting in JAWS is ****... get the **** out of here, man.

Seriously, you're crazy.

 

[Chief Brody]

This is easily the most sensible post in this entire thread.

Its easy to jump on a bandwagon and bash a poster that goes against the grain but I can totally see why someone would watch Jaws and think 'what the hell was all the fuss about'.

I am 48 and I saw it the year it first run....you will never, ever understand why that film is great if you weren't living in that time. I can understand why anyone other than those who saw it first run would say what is the fuss all about.

Because every film after Jaws that has been made learned from it...but you "had to be there" to see it and appreciate it...

It's like when television had only 3 channels...there's no way that people today can understand what it was like for there to only be 3 channels and the entire nation was largely watching the same thing...when you talked about it at work the next day everybody knew what you were talking about because they saw it to.

Unless you were a fisherman, most of us didn't know what a shark was until Jaws...we had no idea there fish with teeth like that...and it was horrifying because it was real.

Unless you were alive and old enough to have memories in 1975 you will never understand fully the greatness of Jaws.

 

[Chief Brody]

I also have to add that Universal did a great job on the Blu-Ray...they restored it beautifully...it looks like I remember seeing in 1975 on a huge 150 foot wide screen.