Does ' Jaws ' Still Have A Bite ?

Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by Wildest cat from montana, Oct 6, 2019.

  1. dkmonroe

    dkmonroe A completely self-taught idiot

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    Yeah, but the method is insanely contrived. The shark just HAS to swim a football field away from the boat and charge at Brody ONE LAST TIME! :laugh: AND not let the tank slip from its mouth. Brody actually hitting the tank with a bullet is the most realistic think about the whole scenario, and even that's a ... wait for it .....LONG SHOT! :agree:

    But yeah, the cathartic release aspect is good, and it's a great ending if you don't think about it too much.
     
  2. Ghostworld

    Ghostworld Senior Member

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    Jaws was never a “horror movie”. I would never classify it as such.
     
  3. Mainline461

    Mainline461 Forum Resident

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    I was an usher (summer job) in a theater on first run and we knew when to go into the theater and watch the crowd freak/scream. We (the ushers and concession girls) found the biggest reaction was when Hooper shines the flashlight into the hole in the hull of the listing boat and that head floats with it's optic nerve floating around … no, imo it hasn't lost it's bite.
     
  4. Damien DiAngelo

    Damien DiAngelo Forum Resident

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    My Ex showed the original Jaws to my daughter and a few of her friends about 7-10 ish years ago. The kids would have been in their tween years.

    They were not impressed or scared at all. They did more laughing than anything else. Definitely a movie of it's time.
     
  5. Raylinds

    Raylinds Resident Lake Surfer

    I saw Jaws when it was first released in the theater while vacationing at an oceanside cottage, so it definitely had an impact on me at the time. I have not seen it in years, so probably should revisit it.
     
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  6. ralphb

    ralphb "First they came for..."

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    Yep, same here. It's impact has diminished over time due to parodies and rip-offs, although John Sayles "Alligator" is a real hoot.
    Have to admit though, when we saw "Jaws 2", we rooted for the shark.
     
  7. Luvtemps

    Luvtemps Forum Resident

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    Shark movies are dead.
     
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  8. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader Thread Starter

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    God !Wasn't that awful? I don't want to say ' 'Worst Sequel Of All Time ' but it's a contender. What a stinker. You rooted for the shark? I wanted all those kids ( and Brody ) to die .
     
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  9. Peace N. Love

    Peace N. Love Forum Resident

    No, it hasn't lost its bite, at least not for me, because my love of it is not based on how scary/thrilling it is.
     
  10. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader Thread Starter

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    Great scene. The one thing he definitely didn' t want to see and it's unfolding right before his eyes.
     
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  11. ralphb

    ralphb "First they came for..."

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    Yeah, if I recall correctly my buddy and I were pretty vocal about it. We were probably really high.
     
  12. Boy Blue

    Boy Blue Forum Resident

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    My favorite movie of all-time, a complete masterpiece.
    It loses its bite in 480p on small TV screen for sure though. ;)
     
  13. TheSeldomSeenKid

    TheSeldomSeenKid Forum Resident

    Far from dead:

    47 Meters Down
    The Shallows
    The Meg

    And that is just in the past 2 years, although as I mentioned in my prior post, better Movies were 'Deep Blue Sea' and 'Open Water', but YMMV.
     
  14. Efus

    Efus Senior Member

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    Not for nothing, but Bruce Willis just about made a whole film career doing nothing but this.
    Hero wisecracking his way through extreme circumstances.
     
  15. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader Thread Starter

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    Ain't that the truth !
    Over the years my kids would drag me me along to the theatre or rent some 'horror' movie .
    They were inevitably bad. Full of startles but not scary at all. And cut so fast to the eye that it was irritating.
     
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  16. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader Thread Starter

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    ' The Meg' --Good God!
     
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  17. TheSeldomSeenKid

    TheSeldomSeenKid Forum Resident

    I have not seen it, but it was a Major Movie Release(Good or Bad).
     
  18. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader Thread Starter

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    Oh!It was bad. Very bad.
     
  19. TheSeldomSeenKid

    TheSeldomSeenKid Forum Resident

    I think 'The Shallows' was the only recent Shark movie that had Good Reviews, but have not kept up with all of these Movies. I thought 'Deep Blue Sea' was an entertaining Movie and 'Open Water' provided good tension, as a different way to make(Mako?) a Shark Movie.
     
  20. KeninDC

    KeninDC Hazy Cosmic Jive

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    The Meg was unwatchable. I tried. And I like Jason Statham 'cuz my wife says I look like him.

    The Shallows is a decent, simple flick. It has a lovely Blake Lively and a shark that snacks on surfers.
     
  21. timind

    timind phorum rezident

    We were living in Ft. Walton Beach, FL when Jaws was released and saw it in the theater. I remember walking along the beach after dark when someone in the group started going, "dun, dun , dun ,dun" the way it went in the movie. I moved further from the water immediately. One thing I don't remember though, is being afraid to swim in the gulf.

    Haven't seen it in a long time. but for me, the opening scene with the girl night swimming is as frightening as any any movie scene I can think of.
     
  22. TheSeldomSeenKid

    TheSeldomSeenKid Forum Resident

    One of my Main Crushes:love: the past 10 years. I do not buy a lot of Movies, but bought 'Savages' as needed to own one Movie with Blake Lively and that looked like a good one. Lucky Dude from Deadpool, who is married to her.
     
  23. Luke The Drifter

    Luke The Drifter Forum Resident

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    I do not think the fact that we have been desensitized as a society takes anything away from this movie or other horror movies of the past. I suspect if all of the examples cited in this thread had not already been subjected to modern gory cinema, and you showed them JAWS, they would have the same reaction people did in 1975. They certainly would not mock it and call it a comedy.
     
  24. daglesj

    daglesj Forum Resident

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    Fantastic movie still.
     
  25. theoxrox

    theoxrox Forum Resident

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    As far as I'm concerned, Robert Shaw ran away with the movie! His monologue about having been a crewman on the USS Indianapolis at the end of WW II was fascinating, although the date of the ship's sinking was incorrect.
     

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