Have you seen Jaws? (1975 movie)

[NotHardUp1]

I just don't buy that one. Drag.... some young men with jewelry and something else which you can't remember, but were mugging for attention. Your 14 old brain processed wrong.

No, just as I remember it. They were acting effeminate and flamboyant, wearing beads in their hair and pretty flaming.

Our choir director on the tour was gay and out, so gays were nothing new to us, but seeing them flaming was. Not actually show-drag, just intentionally non-binary.

I also remember some acrylic sculptures in the mall, a big lavender donut-ish shape lit to make it glow.

Also remember KKK commericals on the television when we stayed in the dorm at Emory.

 

[backagain]

No, just as I remember it. They were acting effeminate and flamboyant, wearing beads in their hair and pretty flaming.

That is not drag, but I get how your 14 old brain perceived it. Trying to figure out the world through eyes that had no concepts.

 

[NotHardUp1]

That is not drag, but I get how your 14 old brain perceived it. Trying to figure out the world through eyes that had no concepts.

True, but it was intentionally cross-dressing, for effect. I simply cannot remember what they were wearing, but it was intended for shock. That was obvious in 1975.

Also cannot remember if they wore makeup.

 

[Peloso]

Jaws is s perfect movie.

I was 12 when I saw it. I remember there being some controversy over it not being rated R.

Spielberg's choices were brilliant. My favorite shot is when after Brody's increasingly panicked walk/run toward the pond, the film cuts to a shot with the little boy on the beach, the future victims out in the water and the shark slowly submerging between them. Such quiet menace.

 

[lockeroomguy]

I have seen it many times. It never gets old. Earlier this week I watched Jaws and Jaws 2 back to back.

 

[Peloso]

I have seen it many times. It never gets old. Earlier this week I watched Jaws and Jaws 2 back to back.

Hmmm. How would you say they compare?

For me, watching Jaws and then Jaws 2 would be like eating an Omaha steak and then eating an old Slim Jim I found under the couch.

 

[Norri]

Jaws is s perfect movie.

I was 12 when I saw it. I remember there being some controversy over it not being rated R.

Spielberg's choices were brilliant. My favorite shot is when after Brody's increasingly panicked walk/run toward the pond, the film cuts to a shot with the little boy on the beach, the future victims out in the water and the shark slowly submerging between them. Such quiet menace.

I agree Jaws is a perfect movie. In almost every movie I see there is a scene or three that I would have edited out and the few movies I see that I can’t find a scene worth deleting I consider perfect and Jaws easily passes that test.

 

[rareboy]

I think that it was Spielberg at his crispest and most imaginative, tapping into so many levels that American horror cinema hadn't before.

He learned so much from Hitchcock about how to play the audience.

 

[Alistair]

I think that it was Spielberg at his crispest and most imaginative, tapping into so many levels that American horror cinema hadn't before.

He learned so much from Hitchcock about how to play the audience.

I still get a jump scare during the sunken boat scene and I know it’s going to happen every time!

 

[NotHardUp1]

In almost every movie I see there is a scene or three that I would have edited out

Not in the least against long movies, but only when there is an obvious need. Some of the longer ones literally have 30 minutes or even an hour that is bloat.

I think of the movies like "Syriana", "I Heart Huckabee's", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Butthead" or "Australia", and wonder which scenes should be kept in. Those are notable for lack of editing, unlike movies that simply have no reason to live, like "Avatar", most of the slasher and zombie movies, and anythting Dolph Lundgren ever made.

 

[lockeroomguy]

Hmmm. How would you say they compare?

For me, watching Jaws and then Jaws 2 would be like eating an Omaha steak and then eating an old Slim Jim I found under the couch.

Jaws 2 was OK. Jaws was amazing.

 

[62624rd]

like you i read the book . and i had to see the movie when it came out

This week is the 50th anniversary of the release of Steven Spielberg's classic summer blockbuster JAWS. Have you seen it?
I rewatch it every summer. In the 70s I read the book and saw the movie on the day it was released, June 20th, 1975.

It's one of my all time favorite movies.

What's your rating of JAWS 1-10. 10 = great.

 

[Norri]

like you i read the book . and i had to see the movie when it came out

I read the book after I saw the movie and for those who didn’t read the book there was some sex in it as Brody’s wife and the Hooper character had a previous relationship and renewed it in the book. The best thing the screenwriter did was dump the sex and focus on the shark. As I said above there is not a scene in the movie I would edit out but had the movie followed the book I’d be busy editing.

 

[Smartucus99]

Here's a funny take on JAWS, tongue in cheek for sure...

If you watch JAWS backwards it is actually a heart warming story about a shark who gives arms and legs to people who really need them.

 

[Smartucus99]

Funny JAWS take # 2

Having a dog named SHARK at the beach was a big mistake....

 

[NotHardUp1]

I read the book after I saw the movie and for those who didn’t read the book there was some sex in it as Brody’s wife and the Hooper character had a previous relationship and renewed it in the book. The best thing the screenwriter did was dump the sex and focus on the shark. As I said above there is not a scene in the movie I would edit out but had the movie followed the book I’d be busy editing.

Any novel marketed for summer reading on vacation has obligate sex, usually on a beach.

 

[rareboy]

In the hands of a lesser film-maker, sex would have been explicit.

Instead, the hint of sex is part of the frisson with the opening skinny dipping scene. A tanatalizing set-up.

 

[Peloso]

Jaws jump started the whole big studio summer blockbuster trend, it aided and abetted the dreaded pointless sequel syndrome, and gave birth to the trope of heroes spurting out some clever/ funny quip (usually during the final confrontation). "Smile you son of a bitch!" led to "Get away from her you bitch!" and climaxed with "Hasta la vista baby!"

 

[PrinceCory]

I have not see the Jaws movie. Not my kind of movie...unless that shark was in a Klingon Bird Of Prey cruiser in order to save the world.

 

[Peloso]