On this date, the movie "Jaws," was released. This is the only movie that my dad wanted to go to a movie theater to see. I don't believe he ever went to a movie since WWII.
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On this date, the movie "Jaws," was released. This is the only movie that my dad wanted to go to a movie theater to see. I don't believe he ever went to a movie since WWII.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-h.../jaws-released
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It's one of the first movies I can remember going to see (at the M-F Drive In in Milton-Freewater, OR-about a mile from where I'm sitting now, and unlike most drive-ins, has been in continuous operation all these years). That and Godspell.
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Wow! That just sent me into the Wayback Machine.Originally Posted by Sea Fury
As for Jaws. Its definitely one of my desert island movies. It does not matter at what point the movie is playing. When I come across it channel surfing I always watch it to the end. Without fail.
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Loved Jaws. Not only was it well done but it literally scared the entire country out of the oceans.
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I was 13 and I don't think a movie has ever made me jump out of my seat like this one did! That under water sceen with the head scared the $#@! out of me!
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Saw it when I was 15 and to this day I'm still less comfortable in the ocean because of that movie.
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ESPECIALLY when swimming within a few miles of where some great whites were spotted, e.g. Chatham MA, summer of 2011.
What's strange about my take on the film, I guess, is that even when I was little it didn't actually scare me much-I've always kind of seen it more as an adventure movie than a horror movie. Exciting, great characters, but only one or two good jolts. And that's actually why I love it to this day. Great story, great characters, fun, exciting, an adventure.
As for going out in the water-I've never been able to swim, anyway, so I don't venture out much. Even when I do wade out a little ways, I've always been more worried about, say, stepping on a sea urchin or some old rusty piece of debris, or getting stung by a jellyfish or something, than being attacked by a shark. But the whole reason something like Jaws works is that you can't see everything, so your imagination is left to wonder what lurks where you can't see it....god bless that malfunctioning mechanical shark that forced Steven Spielberg to shoot it that way!
Have we ever done a scariest movie poll?
I had finally wangled a date with a girl I was head over heels for...went to see Jaws and that scene cost me my Man Card that night. I must have jumped a foot out of my seat.
And they are back at Chatham today.
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One of my favorite movies of all time.
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I was 10 and saw Jaws for the first time in Princeton, NJ
That scene scared the crap outta me too. I remember covering my eyes and hearing other people screaming in the theater.
Now you see worse clips on the 6:00 news.
Fast Fwd 15 years & I was running that theater
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Great line from the movie. That Robert Shaw was such a good actor.
It's amazing, Spielberg was like 27 when they started production.
Yet, he was smart enough to pass on Charlton Heston wanting to be Brody
I remember seeing a documentary on the making of Jaws and someone mentioned that Mr Shaw was more or less hammered the entire time
I recall him starring in a movie called Swashbuckler or something like that almost immediately after Jaws but I think it was a bomb.
He died not long after.
Referencing the Caddyshack thread and useless sequels, years later and different actors:
How would you ever muster the courage to try and get off the island?
I was vacationing in Florida with my parents when the movie came out. I remember a couple walking along the beach, they had obviously been drinking and he was playing around pretending there were sharks in the water. I hadn't even seen the movie yet but wouldn't go in the water over my knees and decided to hang out by the pool instead.
Jaws pretty much ruined the ocean for me.I've snorkeled in Mexico and Hawaii but almost hyper-ventilate from the panic that comes over me.
It's a great movie!
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I have that documentary with my DVD of the film. It's pretty much true, although I think it was actually Richard Dreyfus (to whom Mr. Shaw was supposedly unremittingly cruel at times) who said that Shaw was actually a very decent fellow when he was sober. The trouble was, he wasn't sober all that much.
One also gets the impression that Dreyfus was sort of admitting that he was a little too young and believed his own hype a little too much at the time to know how to deal with it.
The other notable movies Shaw was famous for were "Black Sunday" and "The Deep." Actors such as Shaw, Franciscus and McQueen will always be some of the greatest actors that left us early.
And The Battle of Britain (which I love for obvious reasons), The Sting, Robin and Marian (one of my favorites), From Russia With Love....
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