Posted on 06/01/2014 10:49:14 AM PDT by Eddie01
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The beginning scene was shocking, but I was referring to acting. The manner in which Robert Shaw delivered his USS Indianapolis lines was what I was referring to. Most other actors would have overdone it for dramatic effect. Shaw managed to do the scene with a wry smile concealing obvious pain. Masterful acting.
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Dealing with creditkarma.com commercials at the moment - Brody with wine bottle at night (opening hunt scene) just starting.
You got that right. And some 30 years later, is it safe to say that E.T. sucked? I never did understand why that movie did so well.
But Jaws was perfection. I think it's a good thing the mechanical shark broke down so much during production because it made the movie that much scarier to only see it a few times.
I never cared much for special effects and the gratuitous drawn-out "action scenes" that dominate so many movies these days. For me, if you don't have a good plot, clever dialogue and appropriate music (soundtrack), you have nothing. No matter how many millions you spend on whiz-bang effects.
I saw that movie in 1975 and it wasn't until around 1982 that I was able to wade out into the ocean over my waist again.
Then he gets eaten by the star of the story.
That was a joke. Bigger boat etc.
Went to my favorite appliance salesman to replace a warranted fridge.
He had a sony tv. 70 something inches. 3D was $7000 but was close out priced for $3000. He was playing a Egypt travel documentary in 2D and you could read the British graffiti from the 1800s scrawled into the rock and not see a pixel with your eyes 3” from the screen. Amazing. I’d like to check out 3d programming on it.
Hooper? I would have cut that too.
got it. loved it.
I’m going to be conservative and say I’ve watched that movie 30 times. The only other movie I have watched as many times is “The GOdfather”
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Mr. Vaughn, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, a.. a eating machine. It is really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks.
Saw the movie when it first came out...
I think it was Drefuess who has his hand dangling over the side of the boat when the shark suddenly jumps up out of the water...
It happens so fast and so sudden that I clapped my hands together in fright...
unfortunately I was holding a bag of popcorn between my hands and when I clapped my hands the contents went flying up in the air and out for rows...
cries and gasps of “Oh” from scared patrons being rained on with popcorn “sharks” added to the experience..
my husband mumbled that he was never going to buy me popcorn ever again...
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“The drinking scene in the boat, where Cllint recounts the story of The Indianapolis”
That’s ‘Quint’.
Now that we’re already off topic, I have to say the best movies I like to watch over and over are The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, and Pinnochio.
Coincidentally, I have watched Jaws several times over the last few months as well. It just makes for such a good story to watch with a couple beers and simply kicking back. It’s even better when the kids come into the room and say, “what are you watching? It looks cool. Lemme sit down.” I love to show off things from my past and watch the new ones really get into it.
One of the great aspects of the movie is that it conceivably could have happened...as opposed to some subsequent horror knockoffs in which alligators busted up through sidewalks or orcas blew up castles.
Yes, I was hoping no one would notice……...
The character of Quint was inspired by the remarkable real life Frank Mundus, who caught a 3427 pound great white on rod and reel and a 4500 pound great white with a harpoon.
The greatness of Jaws came in the editing room. Spielberg was intending to make a different movie than what we saw. But he had trouble with the mechanical shark, weather, filming on water, etc. He ran out of budget and time and didn't know if he had enough film to make a movie. But he assembled a movie in the editing room. Even he admits now that what he was intending to do would not have been as good as what's got released.
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