Jaws - 40th Anniversary Big Screen

[ssjones]

We went to a local theater last night to see "Jaws" on it's 40th anniversary. Somehow, I missed seeing this in the theaters as a kid. I've seen it on television, but couldn't actually recall seeing the entire movie. Tickets were $1 and the old-style theater was packed. The sound was updated to 7.1 Dolby, so it sounded good. I thought the acting was mediocre and the story line a bit messy (continuity?). But, it was a fun crowd and everyone cheered at the end (no spoilers...).

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/jaws-heading-back-to-theaters-for-40th-anniversary-20150529

 

[ssjones]

I forgot that I heard a rep from Narrangansett Beer last week on a radio show. They are using Quint in their advertising.

 

[huntertrw]

JAWS shark-attack theme

 

[mcitinner1]

I saw "Jaws" with a girl friend when it was new. There's one particular scene when something happens that makes everyone in the theater jump. (EVERYONE)! Someone sitting in front of us jumped so much that the soda they were holding gave us a shower.

 

[ssjones]

I jumped on that scene..

 

[huntertrw]

You're gonna need a bigger boat

 

[mso489]

"Jaws" was probably the first horror film that really reeled me in, so to speak. I was an adult, in my thirties, had been to sea and lived around the coast for several years. I was not an easy scare, but something about the skillful withholding of the "villain" shark, the fact that it didn't appear too often, must have really pushed my adrenaline buttons. Sad to say, North and South Carolina have suffered a series of real shark attacks in the last two weeks, some of them resulting in severe injury. You have to get a bigger boat.
When I was stationed on Midway Island in the Navy -- the Navy isn't there anymore -- a sailor fell off a Sunfish sailboat and was never recovered. There were ten-plus foot tiger sharks in the atoll, feeding mostly off albatross chicks venturing into the water.

 

[seacaptain]

The revised scene is way scarier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yWTToO9TuA

 

[mso489]

When I was on a minesweeper, one day in completely calm water, I could watch a hammer head shark as long as an automobile, cruise back and forth under the ship. Maybe he was waiting for a swim call. Which we never had, but not because of the sharks ... because of the water snakes.

 

[dmcmtk]

"Hooper drives the boat Chief."

 

[thefalcon]

One of my favorite movies, love the ole guy smoking the PIPE, he looks like a real pipe smoker!
Cheers,--Eric

 

[seacaptain]

I have this on DVD. I need to watch it this week.

 

[agnosticpipe]

I read the book before I saw the movie, and in both the book and the movie I felt that for me one of the scariest scenes was in the beginning, with the girl swimming at night. You don't see the shark, but the horror of what the girl was going through was scary to me. Feeling a tug on your leg and when you reach down to see what it was and discovering that your leg was missing, man, I never wanted to go in the water in the dark again! 8O

 

[ssjones]

When I mentioned to the folks with us, that I had read the book. Their response was "book?"....

Peter Benchley does make a camo apperance.

 

[dmcmtk]

Two other interesting books, Fifty Years A Hooker and In the Slick of the Cricket.
http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Years-Hooker-Jeanette-Mundus/dp/141348428X
http://www.amazon.com/In-Slick-Cricket-Russell-Drumm/dp/1888889055
I lived in Montauk for 20 years...

 

[ssjones]

Those sound interesting Dave, the real life Quint.

 

[okiescout]

great review, ssjones.
I have grown up with rattle snakes and copperheads, and snakes just do not bother me. The thought of that girl swimming in the dark has kept me out of salt water that was over 2 feet deep and translucent all the rest of my life :mrgreen: