I just got "Jaws" from the library dvd collection...

[Wetzelbill]

A stroke of luck that it was in. Not much of a film, I don't think this Spielberg character will ever go anywhere, but at least I can honor Roy Scheider by watching it.

Yeah, I'm never swimming again.

[DS1]

1. Jaws is great

[qb]

2. Public libraries are awesome. Mine has all kinds of great DVDs

including TV shows like Queer As Folk, Six Feet Under, and Desperate Housewives. I rarely spend money on video rentals.

[LostinVA]

3. Same here

[Wetzelbill]

8. I get all kinds of stuff from there

and what I can't get, I get from Blockbuster and Blockbuster online. I almost have too much stuff to watch sometimes. The library is good though, I got the first two seasons of Veronica Mars there, and the third is coming. I just got the first two seasons of Sex and The City too. Which makes me question myself a little, but I figured I'd check it out, lol. Also, the library is awesome for children's stuff. Like I've gotten some Charlie Brown shit that was good, The Secret of Nimh, The Fox and The Hound, and they have sme good Scooby-Doo stuff as well.

[noonwitch]

4. You can swim in the Great Lakes (well, not today, but in the summer)

Hundreds of miles of sandy beaches, nice people who really need tourist dollars (at least in Michigan), and no sharks.

[MrCoffee]

5. i LOVE my library's DVD collection

of course, i'm 1100th on the list for No Country for Old Men, but they do have 100+ copies, so it shouldn't be too long.

I browse the online catalog, place the hold, and they deliver it to my local branch. It's a sweet hookup.

[Wetzelbill]

7. that's exactly what I do too

I used to do it in Seattle when I lived there as well, you're right, they have a great system too.

I'm going to bite the bullet and buy No Country. It has to be done. :)

[Forkboy]

6. I saw that at the drive in with my dad when it came out.

And he took me to the beach the next day. My dad is like that. We had watched the original version of The Thing one night. I slept right by the door, and when he locked it for the night he laughed and said, "Not that this'll stop the Thing if he wants in." Thanks dad. :)

If you like Roy Scheider (and everyone should) look for the movies Sorcerer , a William Freidkin remake of the Wages of Fear, a real 'tough guy' movie, and The Good War, where he playes the commander of an Italian POW camp in Texas right at the end of the war. Both are superb movies.

Jaws is one of the best movies ever, period. The first half is almost horror, and the second half is pure adventure, and it works perfectly on both levels.

"Quit playin' with yourself Hooper and drive the boat." :rofl:

[Wetzelbill]

9. It is masterful

That's a good way to put it, first half horror, second half adventure. The score, totally classic. You just hear those few notes and you automatically know it's the Jaws theme.

[Forkboy]

14. John Williams nailed it.

One of the most memorable scores in movie history, and deservedly so. It shows how much a good score can add to a movie. The is one of those rare movies that deserves the title "classic" all around.

[TK421]

10. "You been countin' money your whole life"

"It's your charter...your charter...it's MY vessel"!

[Forkboy]

13. "We're headin' in, Brody!"

"Thank Christ!"

The movie never gets old. :)

[AlCzervik]

11. i have the 25th anniversary edition so i watched the "Making of" and i saw how they

filmed the first attack when Chrissie gets it and even after seeing how they did it still scares me.

[Forkboy]

16. Is that the one where they talk about the scene with Quint....

Where he talks about being on the USS Indianapolis? They said they filmed that scene twice. Once with a sober Robert Shaw and once with a totally blitzed Robert Shaw. They went with the cocked version, and you can see it in his eyes during that scene (which still gives me goosebumps..."I'll never put on a lifejacket again").

I honestly can't think of a single bad thing to say about this movie, and it's the only example I can think of where the movie is much better than the book. I've seen the movie close to 50 times now and I never get tired of it.

If you watch closely there's also three scenes where you'll see a shooting star in the sky in the background, something Spielberg has used more than once.

[alphafemale]

26. I've noticed the shooting star thing in Speilberg movies. nt

[Ptah]

12. "Never swimming again."

I think on some level Jaws the movie is one of the reasons
I live in a desert.

Which branch?

Woods for me.

:hi:

[Wetzelbill]

19. oh yeah, Woods all the way

Hey I'm going to pm you something in a little bit. I have to step out right now.

[Crazy Dave]

15. I liked Jaws but the sequels...

...and every other shark movie after it sucked.

[Wetzelbill]

20. I liked the second one

The others I liked as a kid, but wouldn't be my thing now. Become too much of a film snob, lol.

Are you trying to say "Spring Break: Shark Attack" wasn't a classic? For shame!

The only other great shark moment ever happened when Fonzie jumped one. And that was so bad that it became a staple of smartass lexicon.

[Crazy Dave]

21. Don't ask me why but....

You just made me remember the SNL "Landshark" skit.

"Candygram!"

"Candygram, my foot!" You're the shark, and you know it!"

You're right, they weren't all bad.

[DainBramaged]

17. We need a bigger boat

I wonder if they'll be saying that generations from now? Or we'll get tired of saying it?

[Ptah]

18. Never get out of the boat.

CHEF
"It's a tiger, a fucking tiger !

CHIEF
"Let's go !"

CHEF
"Never get outta boat..."

CHIEF
"What happened, how many is it ?"

CHEF
"A fucking tiger, fucking tiger... I don't wanna take this goddamn shit
man... I didn't come here for this, I don't fucking need this. All I wanted
to do is fucking cook, I just wanted to learn to fucking cook. Allright, It's
allright, it's gonna be all right... never get outta boat... Hi tiger, hi
tiger..."

[edbermac]

22. They could never remake that today.

They'd use CGI with a boat on a FX sound stage instead of a real boat at sea and completely ruin it.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

29. and they'd have to have the screaming, in your face shot cgi shot of the shark

they ruin every movie these days with these camera antics. you know, the one where the special effect flies into close-up and fills the screen and usually makes some loud noise. (think the t-rexs in king kong)

why would they do that, from a story point of view? there's no one there in this imaginary space.
it's the cgi equipment of mugging for the camera.

sometimes less is more. having the shark indicated by barrels in 'jaws' added to the mood, and made the moments when you actually see a shark more drmatic, rather than showing the shark at all times, which is what the michael bay school of film would do now

[Sacajawea]

23. I saw it with my Dad when he was living on St. Croix (USVI) and I nearly jumped into his lap when

the shark first appeared! My dad (bless him) was totally unfazed - didn't bat an eyelash. He continued scuba diving off St. Croix and Buck Island for years and years.

[Thurston Howell III]

24. That doesn't scare me! I like to swim the SF Bay.

Only in the summer though. Great whites don't scare me! Yeah sure.

[alphafemale]

25. Not much of a film. You're not going swimming again.

OK.

:rofl:

Whatever you say.

:hi:

[krispos42]

27. Oh, tattoo. I had it removed

Brody: <pointing at Quint's tattoo scar> What's that one?

Quint: Oh, tattoo. I had it removed.

Hooper: Let me quess. Mother! <laughs>

Quint: U.S.S. Indianapolis.

<Hooper and Brody's faces drop>

Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?

Brody: What happened?

Quint: 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. Boatswain'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.

Chills.

[Wetzelbill]

28. That's some of the best dialogue ever

Robert Shaw wrote the bulk of it. He rewrote the rewrite of the original dialogue and made it fit just how he wanted it. Listening to that story, those other two just start getting uncomfortable. Man, that's grizzled.

[lost-in-nj]

30. we're gonna need a bigger boat.....

one of the best quotable movies....


Jesus H Christ, when I was a boy, every little squirt wanted to be a harpooner or a sword fisherman. What d'ya have there - a portable shower or a monkey cage?
Hooper: Anti-Shark cage.
Quint: Anti-shark cage. You go inside the cage?

Quint: Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark.

Quint: Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again.



lost

[NNadir]

31. That movie is a running joke in my family.

We've seen the movie 233 times.

We are all anxiously awaiting the release of "Jaws 987."

[pokerfan]

32. Anti-shark cage?!

http://www.youtube.com/v/qvE8-jC8KsY