Jaws (Official Thread)

[jbaseball44]

The lack of an official Jaws thread needed to be corrected.

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[rookie116]

One of my favorite movies of all time. C'mon who else has not seen this movie without being at least a bit afraid of the open ocean since?

[jbaseball44]

Saw it when i was a kid and it was pretty scary then, now it's just really cool

[airik625]

Thank you for filling this void in the forum.

Anyways, I loved this movie as a kid, and still love it. (so basically, I agree with Joe)

[jbaseball44]

Haha thanks Eric and no problem

[Throwback]

My favorite movie ever and what I consider to be the pinnacle of film-making. I probably just slaughtered my 'indie cred' but who gives a shit. This movie is cinematic perfection.

[acfrue]

One of the best movies ever, period. I'd bet its Crit's favorite movie....well, Jaws or Deep Blue Sea.

[airik625]

How badass would that be if there was a steelbook DVD of this.

[jbaseball44]

My favorite movie ever and what I consider to be the pinnacle of film-making. I probably just slaughtered my 'indie cred' but who gives a shit. This movie is cinematic perfection.
It isn't my favorite movie ever but it is close.

[jbaseball44]

How badass would that be if there was a steelbook DVD of this.
I'd buy it

[Recovery Room]

One of the best thrillers ever.

I've actually never seen any of the sequels, though. Are they worth it?

[Mitch]

Somehow, I have never seen this film.

I did go on the ride in Disney World when I was younger, and I asked the man if the sharks were real. He said yes, I started crying, and refused to go on it again with the rest of my family when they decided to.

[MIKEY_HORROR]

Awesome movie! Still can't look at the ocean the same way...it is always in the back of my mind!

I first saw this when I was like 6 or 7 and was freaked out to take a bath that night!!

[stayillogical]

One of my all time favorite movies. I am so enthralled every time I watch this. Waiting for my sister to get home from work tonight then putting it on. It's a 4th of July tradition in my house.

"You yell 'shark', we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July."

[TheRealMartian]

Every single thing about Jaws is simply amazing, most being the characters. Quint is like 20% of this movie to me, gotta love him.

[Forever.Zero]

Even to this day, with the amount of times I've seen this movie, it's still able to put a little fear in me.
awesome movie

[Throwback]

My favorite movie ever and what I consider to be the pinnacle of film-making. I probably just slaughtered my 'indie cred' but who gives a shit. This movie is cinematic perfection.
I still stand by this.

[secretsociety92]

This and Duel and two of my favorites from Spielberg.

[matt_rawlings]

Literally a perfect film.


This may be one of the single greatest speaches in film history. Every time it comes up, the room goes silent;
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"Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We'd just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.

Didn't see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin' by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and sometimes that shark he go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away.

Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn't even seem to be livin'... 'til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin' and your hollerin' those sharks come in and... they rip you to pieces.

You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin', Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist.

At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol' fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.

Anyway, we delivered the bomb."

[stayillogical]

Literally a perfect film.


Completely agree.

[takemyhand]

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[pleasedontask]

I'm watching this right now. Scene with them finding the attacked boat. The face appearing always makes me jump.

[Chemical Love]

Has any one ever read the book? I did last summer and I have to say the movie is so much better. And this is one of my all time favorite films.

[needles & pins]

I love this movie. It's been my favorite since I was like 11. (I was a weird kid.)