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Summary: Jaw-dropping brilliance.
Review: Great film in which all the component parts come together to form one of the best thrillers of all time - the music, the directing, the writing, the performances - with special mention for comic acting genius Richard Dreyfuss and a masterful, larger-than-life Robert Shaw. This was, remember, before the days of Discovery Channel, when sharks still relatively little-studied animals. This may help explain the least impressive support performance in the film â€" the model shark â€" which by today’s technical sta ndards comes across as a bit limp (in one scene the shark drags a person under water but his jaws are nowhere near the victim â€" what did it use, his fins??). But don’t let that put you off, this is a 5-star film, everything else in this movie’s so well done that the shark thing pales into insignificance. One of my favourite movies of all time.
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Summary: Okay...Just a bit overrated...
Review: Okay, okay...Jaws, in my opinion, is an okay movie. The plot is fairly interesting, but I've seen a lot of movies and shows about giant animals wreaking havoc so...yeah. ^^;But the reason I dislike this movie is because I'm a shark fan. I adore sharks and just about any other animal that can kill you...*sweatdropps*...Yeah. So the serious "shark bashing" I saw in his movie sort of made me mad. ^^ Especially since great white sharks are one of my favorite animals. And everyone said, "Shark attack! Get out of the water!" way too much...x.x... Pros ~
Interesting plot
The shark looked pretty neat Cons ~
Everyone said "Shark attack! Get out of the water!" too much
Way too much shark bashing...
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Summary: The movie that sparked the summer blockbuster phenomenon
Review: 28 years ago this summer, an almost-unknown director named Steven Spielberg, at the ripe old age of 25, released a film that caused a stampede at the box office and single-handedly started the phenomenon of the summer blockbuster with "legs", the movie you had to see again and again and again. Even after all this time, the ominous opening music from "Jaws" still sends a delicious tingle down the spine. Spielberg's genius lay in turning Peter Benchley's mediocre novel into a well-acted, well-directed, terrifying classic horror movie. He omitted all the boring side dramas that cluttered up the book and stuck to the bare bones; i.e., the primeval battle between man and a monster fish packing two hundred teeth and an attitude. "Jaws" has more than a little in common with "Moby Dick", especially in Quint's fatal error in making his battle with the shark a personal vendetta, as Ahab did in his hunt for the white whale. Just as the whale does in "Moby Dick", the shark turns the tables on its hunters and begins hunting them. We see all of Quint's hubris brought low from the time he swaggers onto the deck of his own boat, monarch of all he surveys, until he ends up being relentlessly chewed up and swallowed by his nemesis. Spielberg brings all this to us in vivid detail and reminds us that, after all, sharks will be sharks. Spielberg has a gift for humorous touches as well, and he's a master at contrast. I still crack up over the scene where the two boys scared the bejesus out of several hundred people in fake shark outfits; the laughter turns to horrified gasps immediately in the next scene, in which a hysterical girl points out the real shark only a few hundred feet upstream, ready to chow down on an unsuspecting guy in a rowboat. The scene with the boneheaded mayor goggle-eyed in outrage at a defaced beach poster, blind to the reality of the threat out in the water, is a howler. And the scene in which Quint smashes the boat's radio with a stick, effectively cutting off their communication with the outside world, is a masterpiece; the dawning terror in Quint's eyes, when he realizes that it's just them alone with the shark, and he finally realizes what an unequal contest it is, underlines all the folly of setting himself up against a power so much stronger than he is, that he can't hope to understand it, let alone defeat it. So how has this film stood up over the past quarter-century? Leave the mechanics of the shark's workings out of it; sure, they can do it better now with better technology. The film still delivers on its premise; it's still one helluva horror movie.
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Summary: The greatest film ever
Review: What I can say about Jaws is wow. The best film ever.The situation is that a shark is swiming around the waters of Amity island and has killed a teenaged girl and a little boy. Chief Brody demanded the beaches closed. But the mayor would not let him saying Amity needs money. On the 4th of July there was another shark attack. So chief Brody went hunting for the shark. If I had 3 hands I would give Jaws 3 thumbs up.
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Summary: An Over-hyped and Predicable Farce!
Review: Jaws is one of the most over-rated films of all time! I first saw it in the theatre in 1975 during it's frenzy. I felt the acting was over-done especially the corny part where the mother slaps and scolds Roy Scheider about her boy being dead! Of course, "that music" queued the audience on when the shark was coming to take it's next victim. I felt cheated by the simple mindless plot. I sympathized more with the mechanical shark than the actors. Richard Dreyfuss' comical relief made this movie watchable. Spielberg has since proven that he's capable of making fine films!
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Summary: Visceral Terror!!!
Review: "Don't go into the water!" Thus is one of the lines in this classic film with Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, and others, in what has to be the best terror film of modern times. Not in the slasher sense, but in the visceral sense, as this is all too real, and it still plays out on certain beaches of the world every year. Of course now we have to watch out for crocodiles and their ilk, but overall, this is one of the best. So hold on to your seat, and get the popcorn popping, and belt in for quite a ride. You won't be disappointed!!!!
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Summary: Spielberg's Monster Shark!
Review: There probably hasn't been a single movie in the last 30 years that has changed the psyche of moviegoers more than JAWS. As I recall, people literally did not want to go back into the water! Speilberg tapped into this fear and tapped into it rather well. As someone who had a certain fear of water, watching this movie on the big screen as a kid, you bet I was horrified! Today, JAWS still remains a classic. To those who say that the shark looks fake and that a CGI one would've looked superior, well, I wish they would stop looking at movies through CGI-colored glasses. Personally, I think Speilberg's Great White (though mechanical in close-ups) was truly interesting. It had a certainly personality. IMO, many computer-animated creatures today are rather uninspired creations. Besides, JAWS is much more than just about a shark. The story of greed at the expense of human life is truly interesting to see. It also boasts some great characters as well, namely, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and especially Robert Shaw as Quint, the old shark hunter with a Captain Ahab syndrome. And what can I say that hasn't been said already about John Williams now timeless score. It's just magnificent! Yes, JAWS does contain its fair share of frights, but Speilberg was wise in inserting genuine moments of humor as well to relieve that certain tension. A movie shouldn't be all fright, all of the time. Certainly, that scene with Chief Brody at the dinner table with his young son copying his every move was both humorous and quite touching. It gave the movie heart. JAWS was the first movie to crack the one hundred million dollar mark. Today, many movies seem to crack that mark with ease. Yet, many of them are nowhere near as good as JAWS. Has the movie-going public been dumbed-down as to watch anything and make profits for these lesser movies? With all of this success, there was a downside. JAWS did to sharks what another great monster movie, KING KONG did to gorillas - it gave these poor creatures a bad image and thus many were slaughtered. Like I said, this movie really changed the psyche of people, in terms of fear of the water and a huge dislike for sharks.
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Summary: "Somebody Do Something!"
Review: This famous movie entertained millions in the summer of 1975 by using a theme that worked in the past: fear from a danger that is overcome. America was just getting over the oil and gasoline shortage of 1974. Could there be another threat from an unsuspected source? Unlike the monster movies from the 1930s, which had people threatened by Frankenstein (a symbol of the Great Depression?) or Dracula (a symbol for a European dictator?), people here are threatened by a natural occurrence. The action of the mayor is very believable: never mind the shark, keep those tourists visiting and spending. More people die each weekend in auto accidents than from being "injured while swimming". (Remember Asbury Park in the summer of 1949?) It also recall those western movies from the 1930s where a dedicated group of men defeated an enemy and saved the settlers. About 80 minutes into the picture there is a lull when the sailors reminisce about their past. I guess they do this to allow viewers to take a short break. The shark reappears, and is tagged with more barrels (to increase the tension). Why didn't Quint take along an exploding spear head to kill this shark? Then the picture would be over too soon! You can read the scientific book that was used for some of the story in "Jaws". There are also books that tell about the true story of the attacks on the Jersey Shore in 1916. Read them, and follow the advice when in the ocean. Ever see a sign banning dogs from the beach? That's because they attract sharks when they go swimming in the water! If the sign says "No Swimming - Dangerous Undertow" that really means "SHARKS".
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Summary: The best shark movie ever made.
Review: "Jaws" is the best shark movie ever made and it is my absolute favorite movie of the 1970s. It is also a big hit at the box office in 1975. A police chief (Roy Scheider), a sailor (Robert Shaw), and a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) ride on the boat, called the Orca, to kill the giant great white shark, that had eaten some people on the beach in Amity Island. The fact is that this movie is rated PG. It should have been rated PG-13 because of the violence in it and it is not a movie for younger kids to watch. But, it is a cinematic masterpiece. I have "Jaws" on DVD and I am happy to own it. A must-own for your DVD player.
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Summary: The best film ever made
Review: I find this film to be one of if not thee best film ever! From Cheif Brodys insurcuraties of the sea to the mayor's lack of responsability. I espically love the tension between quinn brody and hooper when looking for the shark. two a turn at falling out and teaming up. A classic.
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