Posted on 06/18/2010 4:31:56 AM PDT by C19fan
She obviously wasn't the actress killed in the original Jaws movie as her screen credits only list Jaws2.
Yeah, I know what you were trying to say...I can't even get past the previews on Transformers...never saw it...never will...
When I was in Italy a couple of years ago, I saw a poster outside a video store for "Not Another Teen Movie." The title translated as "Not Another American Comedy."
hehe...agreed. I couldn't get past 5 minutes of that movie....even with Meghan Fox.
Spielberg’s best movie was “Duel.”
‘Jaws’ was, and remains, a great movie. It is movie entertainment at its best.
‘Jaws’ is another one of those movies - - one of the original ones, in fact - - that when you are scrolling through a zillion cable channels and stop on it, there you stay. Other, more recent surf-stoppers are:
‘The Fugitive’
‘The Bourne (anything)’
‘US Marshalls’
‘Independence day’
‘Enemy of the State’
Like ‘Jaws’, when your TV settles on any of these movies for half-a-minute, there you will stay, watching and enjoying the movie for the twentieth time.
That was "Swimming Chrissie", Denise Cheshire", still in the business as of 2002, with some strange (to me) parts. Hey, you gotta eat.
Kinda odd, cannot find a pic of her on the usually reliable movie sites.
I’d have to contest the claim that Jaws and Star Wars brought conservative values back to movies.
As one person pointed out earlier, Jaws basically condemned beachfronts and was fairly cynical overall regarding that bit, and apparently either Spielberg or Chrichton based the mayor’s actions to Watergate.
And as far as Star Wars, George Lucas apparently made that movie as a way of trying to push that we’re the villains, and the Vietcong were our moral superiors. It was as much depressing, cynical left-wing propaganda as Billy Jack and Three Days of the Condor were. If anything, I’d argue Star Wars was one of the WORST successes of left-wing propaganda in Hollywood since you couldn’t see it coming until it was far too late.
In fact, if any films brought back conservative values, it’s probably Rocky, which DID promote the concept of the American dream, and also depicted Communists as bad guys.
Yeah, and even Star Wars was made to protest the Vietnam War and promote our enemies, the Vietcong, and manipulate countless Americans into doing so, so it’s really Rocky that damaged the 70s cynical leftist Hollywood hold.
"Alright, ROCK-O!!!! Alright, Sly!"
Jaws was a great movie....Roy Scheider the main reason....
one of the BEST movies ever made was “The Year of Living Dangerously”....it had everything....the drama...the politics...the love story...the intrigue...and throw in Mel and Sigorney and Linda Hunt....
Jaws did to Sharks what The China Syndrome did to Nuclear Power Plants.
Lucas brought that on. Close Encounters and E.T. weren’t roller coaster rides.
Star Wars made after American involvement in Vietnam was over.
opened 35 years ago this week......
try 45
Actually, it was made during Vietnam, if one counts the leadup to Vietnamization. In fact, Lucas specifically indicated, both in various interviews AND the 1973 draft that he based it on Watergate and Nixon nearly becoming President. And get this, even back in 1973, he specifically modeled the heroes after the Vietcong and the NVA. It was certainly released after Vietnam ended, though.
Any Rebels Vs Evil Empire story can be metaphorically shoehorned into something like Vietnam. No one who saw the film at the time came away with that impression.
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