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Summary: "Smile you son of a...."
Review: I saw this film for the first time with friends when we rented it and watched it during an all night horror marathon. I loved the movie instantly and knew i had to have it in my collection. Chrissy, an Amity Island teen is killed by an unknown force while skinny dipping one night. The next day, her date from the previous night reports her murder- and remains to police sherrif Martin Brody. He and others are baffled on just how she was killed and assume it was a "boating accident" until a young boy is killed by the same force in a crowd of swimmers. Chaos ensues as resident fishermen wage a war on the killer of Amity island. The once peaceful island soon becomes a battle ground to find the killer. Brody calls in an expert to tell him and his greedy superiors who insist the beach should stay open for money what it is killing people. Matt Hooper from the oceanagraphic institute arrives and comes to the direct conclusion that it is a Great white shark. The hunt for the shark settles down after the fishermen think they caught it but after the real shark kills another man and sends Brody's son Mike into shock, Brody takes up an offer from captain Quint, a crazy shark killer who was on a ship that was attacked by 5 sharks at once and survived. The mayor finally gains some common sense and closes the beaches off for the hunt to begin. Now it's Brody, Hooper, and Quint against a shark that isn't showing any signs of giving up. This was the first real summer blockbuster ever and started that trend. Like most of Spielberg's films, this was based on a fear of his and was an adaption of a bestselling novel. Jaws has it all and had 3 sequels. 2 is just as good as one but 3 and 4 need a lot of plot development. But watch this movie. Who knows, if you are ever against a shark on a sunken boat with an oxygen tank and a shotgun, watching this can help you survive. Worst case scenario of course.
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Summary: they don't get better than this
Review: i have to say that when this movie was first made they thought it was gonna be a flop. BUT BOY WERE THEY WRONG. this happened to be one of the best movies ever made. and jaws 2 was pretty good too. but than after that they started going down hill.
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Summary: "You're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat!"
Review: What can I say? I'm speechless! No doubt one of the top 10 greatest movies of all time! I still till this day will not go in the ocean. Highly recommended!
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Summary: What can I say...IT ROCKS!!!!
Review: It's the best movie in history.
Plot: Cheif Brody, a lazy cop who expects no shooting no nothing at all, who's afraid of the water, comes to face a killer shark after it already killed a girl, devoured a boy, tried to oblitcherate a man, and tore off some guy's head. Cheif Brody calls in Matt Hooper, a sensational character, to help him out. He can't do anything about it but they call in Quint, who's already volunteered to hunt the shark. Together, they travel across the waters of Amity to hunt down the shark and kill it once and for all.DVD: As anyone knows, they really screwed up with the bons features. (Sign a petition for a better one at the Jaws wbsite.)
You get trailers, the making of the film, storyboards and so on. Quality: Overall, they should've done better on the bonus features, but who cares because this movie is a classic will reamin a callic and will always be a classic.
It's the greatest movie ever. Characters: The Characters are great, Hoopers awesome! Quint is the best actor I've ever seen in a movie and Brody was sensational. My recomendations: Tremors, Tremors 2 aftershock, Jaws 2, Jurassic Park, the lost world, The Patriot, and many more that would take to long to list. Overall: Overall the movie is great, the bonus features are mediokre. Buy don't rent. You'll never regret it.
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Summary: A great DVD with bite!!!
Review: This is a great DVD with bite!!! Lots of great extras,and a great widescreen presentation of the classic film!!! The first and best of the Jaws series!!! Two thumbs up!!! Five star movie,five star DVD!!! A+
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Summary: Why this movie is so good
Review: A beautiful dvd version of both the image and the sound clarifies what's great about the film. Jaws hit like a bomb in 1975 because it's the perfect fusion of old-style Hollywood suspense story-telling (with Hitchcock's Birds and Psycho being important models - e.g. the opening scene with the nightswimming gal combines elements of Psycho's shower scene with Tippi Hedren's "trapped in the upstairs bedroom" scene from the Birds) and all the new ideas flowing in from Altman and others. The overlapping dialogue in and apparently loose framing of various early town and pier scenes really anchors the whole tale in (something like) reality, and it's pure Altman. Great. The other tellingly (then) new Hollywood thing is just how much of Jaws was shot on location (which is usefully clarified by the "Making of" extra). Where Hitchcock would have shot, say, the beach scenes in a studio.... here the Easy Rider ethos of just getting out on location rules. And yet DP Bill Butler and Spielberg get control over the frame and color, e.g., while shooting from the water-line a hundred yards off-shore, that Hitchcock would have been proud of. Genius. And finally, obviously there's *that* score by John Williams. Jaws was a film that changed the game in Hollywood but not always in good ways or for the right reasons - I've heard Alan Rudolph say (with some plausibility) that Jaws killed off dialogue in American movies: that Jaws "ate the words". This dvd clarifies that for all its regrettable influence, Jaws itself is nearly perfect, and will for all sorts of good reasons be watched and studied for as long as people still like to watch films or aspire to make films themselves.
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Summary: That Darn Rubber Shark
Review: Unfortunately Jaws has not aged that well, thanks to a prop that looks like a great big hunk of painted gum with teeth. Even Speilberg has pretty much said in interviews that the shark pained him and working on the beast was a nightmare. He is rumoured to even have consulted with ILM on a CGI make-over for a new edition of the movie. Thank God that the shark does not actually appear in close-up until the end of the film and when it is on the screen it is only there for a few moments and the actors manage to perform circles around it so that we are never fully concerned about the quality of the giant swimming condom. If it wasn't for them, this would be B-Movie hokum for sure and the Berg would probably just be any other director looking to making it big. No, even the film transcends its central eight ton human killing prophylactic to bring us a story that is just so much more about the people and their social issues than the monster on the loose. Let's face it - Brody is a depressing lazy ass cop who is pretty inept in every department except for that Last Shot. Quinn IS certifiable and Hooper is a ladies man with an inferiority complex. When you put them together in a boat for days out at sea then there is going to be plenty of half-witted power playing to keep us all tuned in... but let's back up a bit. Even before they get together for that second part of the film, back on shore the town of Amity has its own problems. Girls get beaming drunk and go swimming as if it is a good thang to do! Their lovers take twenty minutes to get undressed and usually just collapse into a sleep in the process. Hell, I want to go to Amity! The local doctor squirms at the sight of blood. The town mayor is a defunct corrupt fifties swinger who is mostly surrounded by ambulance chasers. Brody's deputy is far from bright and the local gang of fishermen have just appeared out of the movie Deliverance with boxes on TNT - sixty men to a five foot boat too! Amity is Sharkville for good reason. Then we have a marine biologist who knows more about pathology than the Doc and who thinks it is a great idea to take a dip in the water at night with a big shark swimming around. Brody's kids even sit in boats two inches away from the water during the height of the attacks. Man have they got it commin'! The inbred population of Amity have an IQ of a dead slug on fire. When you couple the dummies stupidity with a monster on the loose you got yourself heaps of suspense! How could anything not go wrong! Yes the Berg pretty much got it right on all counts. Jaws is essentially akin to throwing a cat into a room full of rats and watching the mayhem that will ensue. Here the Berg gives the rats' great dialogue to play with and shoots the whole sequence of events from quite savoury angles. Which all ends up with... A fantastic summer blockbuster movie about a town called "Stupid" being eaten up a "dangerous rubber johnny"!!
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Summary: Do you feel up for a swim?
Review: IN the mid 70's, every man woman and child who lived next to a beach and went in it every day suddenly thought about what lurked in the misty waters. Jaws is such a horrifinly real movie that there is no argue to why it was such a big success and still is. It takes a good movie to clear the coeans for pretty much close to a year and even beyond. In a small mcommunity town bodies are being discovered on the beach pointing to shark attacks. Nothing is said because the 4th of July weekend is coming and buisness with surly die if talk or a giant shark is rumored, so its kept under wraps by the mayor and sheriff. Still bodies continue to pile up and a reward is offered for who ever can bring in the shark. So this takes 3 mean on a trip into the sea to come face to face with the shark that has haunted the town. Now its man against nature in this all out fun ride. Very good adaption from the book and it will surly make you think about swiming before you step into teh ocean again. Did for swimming what Psycho did for showers and TCM did for meat eating. Very good movie.
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Summary: I saw this in the theatre in 1975!
Review: On Fordham Road in the Bronx this film was shown in 1975, and I was there.
So why on earth would I want to spend money and watch this over and over and over again when its on TV every day of the week, and Sundays too! Do you have a life??
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Summary: Steven Spielberg's first big hit scores high!
Review: In 1974, Steven Spielberg was basically an unknown director who had just directed his first motion picture, THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS. The movie came out on April 5th, 1974 and received glorious reviews but failed at the box-office, earning $7 million domestically. The producers of THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS were disappointed at the box-office, but they knew that Steven Spielberg was a director to watch. Meanwhile, a script of the novel JAWS by Peter Benchley was being written and the producers of THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS got an advance copy. Steven Spielberg, while visiting the producers at their offices, noticed the script of JAWS on their desk. Thinking that the script was about dental work, Spielberg was not interested, but brought the script with him. After reading the script, Steven Spielberg flipped out for it and called the producers to inform them that he was interested in directing the movie. The problem was that there was already another director attached to the project. So, Steven said that if the director would drop out, he would direct it. After the release of THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS, Steven got the call from the producers saying that he was hired to direct JAWS. The three male lead roles were handed out to Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw. Principal photography on JAWS began on May 2nd, 1974 at Martha's Vineyard. The cast and crew had many difficulties during the shooting, especially the budget, which was of $9 million at the beginning, but by the end of the shooting, it was of $12 million. Universal Pictures almost cut the production many times, but the shooting was fininshed by the end of the summer of 1974. The movie had it's first screening in March of 1975 and it was getting some big buzz. Many of the cast thought that the movie would fail commercially, but they were proven wrong when JAWS opened in June of 1975 and quickly becoming the highest-grossing movie of all-time by making $261,2 million domestically. JAWS was also the first movie to pass the $100 million mark. After JAWS was released, Steven Spielberg became the most popular director in Hollywood and started production on his next picture, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. In March of 1976, JAWS was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture. Though it did not win the Best Picture Award, it won three awards. Through the years, JAWS has stayed has one of the biggest success in movie history and proved itself to be an american movie classic. In 2000, JAWS was released on DVD with loads of extra features and became one of the most popular DVD's of all-time.
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