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Summary: This movie is the second Bomb! [He He He]- Jimmy D.
Review: This movie, Directed By masterer Steven Spielberg is one of the best Spielberg films ever! It is based upon The bestselling novel by Peter Benchley [THE BEAST]. It is about a shark who is being territorial and is attcaking people of a small summer resort community. A young girl goes for a midnight swim in the ocean, and never returns to the surface again. Police Chief Martin Brody [Roy Schieder] belives that there is a shark around, but the town Fathers try to hide the attack up and call it a [boat accident]. Then on the fourth of July they all soon find out that there is a shark around and they hirer a fisherman [Robert Shaw] to kill it! Filled with non stop suspence, and horro I give this 4 stars! END
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Summary: Suspenseful Spielberg
Review: "Jaws" is literally the original blockbuster movie. Spielberg did a good job in building the suspense by not overtly showing the shark in the first half of the movie, only its victims (or remnants of them). In this regard it is as good or better than any Hitchcock movie. There is no big message in the movie, no big concept. It's pure entertainment.As a one-time surfer in Hawaii, I remember being creeped out for a week or two after seeing the movie. All the actors did a tremendous job. Roy Scheider (police chief), Richard Dreyfuss (shark expert) and Robert Shaw (boat owner) are stand outs, but the supporting actors, such as Murray Hamilton (mayor) are good, too. Famous for the line "You're gonna need a bigger boat" and the cello-based score that only requires 2 notes to define it. The reasonably-priced DVD has the widescreen movie, a good "making of" documentary, deleted scenes and out-takes, and some other minor extras. The movie is currently #83 on the IMDB list.
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Summary: Jaws
Review: When director Steven Spielberg set out to create the motion picture "Jaws", he had no idea how much trouble the film would cause him nor just how incredible, exciting, and important it would eventually become. The film ventures into the world of Amity Island, which is feverishly awaiting its July 4th holiday weekend to create quite a business for the town. But when a flesh-eating Great White shark enters the town's beaches, it is up to the town sherriff (Roy Scheider in perhaps his best performance outside of "The French Connection"), a geeky graduate scientist (the always admirable Richard Dreyfuss), and the town fish gamer (played by Robert Shaw, the film's best performance by far) to save the day. Spielberg plays the tension like a sneaky household cat ready to pounce on a silly toy. He knows exactly when his temptations will take over and when he will strike, but the audience is left to guess in fear as the shark terrorizes the small island. What makes "Jaws" so great is not just the fine soundtrack by John Williams, the special effects and the lovable shark machine "Bruce", but the fact that it allows the childish fears in all of us to creep up on us and still make the hair on our necks tingle. Spielberg would later create even more popular and elaborate masterpieces such as "E.T" and "Saving Private Ryan", but for those who truly enjoy film and its impact on an audience, "Jaws" can certainly bite with the best of them.
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Summary: THE ALL-TIME SHOCKER
Review: I`ve seen this over and over... It simply never outstays its welcome. The thrills are still at potent as in 1975. Yup, they did make sequels and Deep Blue Sea; but it can never be like this....Thanks to the genius of Spielberg, Verna Fields and a GOOD screenplay by Garl Gootlieb and author Peter Bencheley this is both drama, horror and suspense on a high level. JAWS is indeed high art. Scheider, Gary, Duvall, Hamilton and Dreyfuss ALL excell in their roles.
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Summary: horrifying and quite interesting
Review: funny at times
moving
scary as hell
saw this as a kid many times on tv
glad I saw it
truly a shocking horror movie
that shark is truly terrifying
glad I got this on dvd
the extras are fabulous too
I could watch this one again and again and not not be scared
it really boiled my blood the first time I saw it
especially the scene where Quint gets devoured by the shark
OUch that really has to hurt
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Summary: Awesome and unbeatable
Review: This film is the heart of all new ideas for movies, the movie is basically a large shark which has inhabited an area where sharks are not usually found. The shark begins to attack people off the coast of amity island, the victims include a dog, a late teenager and a young child. This violent is much more violent that you would expect for a PG and contains scenes of gore, language, and will be scary for younger children. I loved this film beginning to end, after the first shark attack i knew this was going to be a classic!!!
*****
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Summary: An overview of the Jaws films
Review: Jaws is simply the greatest monster movie, and it is also a great film on many levels, and considering its worldwide notoriety, I wont go off on that tangent.
Jaws 2 is simply a low grade remake.
I have the distinct pleasure in saying that I have seen all the Jaws movies at the theater, some of them on opening day. As a fan of sharks and movies, its an addition I suppose considering that I have also rented everything at Blockbuster that has a shark on the cover or in the title. My expertise on the genre is admittedly self proclaimed, but if I get some business cards stating as such, maybe my following review with have greater credence.
Jaws 3 is a very bad movie. Starting with the writing, production, acting, horrific 3D effects and most notably, a waste of a big shark gone amuck in Sea World. The hope that the shark will take control of the park is the only redeeming value of the story, but that is dashed. Why didnt the shark eat at least 4 of those show waterskiers? Because it is a very bad movie. The shark is right behind them when they fall, but they get out of the water just in time. The opportunity to turn the Jaws movies into a dynasty was destroyed here. Let the shark feed and live in a controlled habitat. Up until 2004, there had never been a great white shark held in captivity for more than two weeks. This movie could have served as a platform for shark observation and debauchery. This movie could have allowed the importance of shark preservation to be its theme, while showing numerous attacks of workers accidently falling into the water, the shark occassionally breaking out or maybe the brakes fail on a tour bus and it flies into the lagoon. Now thats entertainment with numerous possiblities. But noooo!
Jaws 4 on the other hand at the very least has good people eating scenes. Granted this shark has issues and the motivation of the shark to seek revenge against the Brody family is laughable, it does at least provide laughs. And I suppose some food for thought, sharks are people too. It also provides Micheal Caine falling for Mrs. Brody, proving there is life after the unfortanate loss of Chief (shark killer) Brody, as well as letting us witness the grown Brody kid get eaten. The special effects are better than Jaws 3, and the attacks are more frequent. Shark movies need to have shark attacks, and Jaws 4 delivers. I give this 5 stars as only a comparison to Jaws 3, when compared to Jaws it gets ZERO.
Sure its disappointing that the shark gets blown up in the original film, but this is argueably the only movie that is better than the book.
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Summary: Jaws
Review: From all the hype surrounding this cult classic, I thought this would be the scariest movie ever. Boy, was I wrong! Sure, it's entertaining enough, but in a more "shark in the water!" than a genuine scare-your-pants-off way. Not to say I did NOT enjoy it, but I've seen much more "I'm never gonna go to sleep again" movies. Jaws is indeed a classic ~ but not a horror classic in my opinion.
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Summary: Missing scenes???
Review: Love the movie, always have. But noticed many deleted scenes in the 25th anniversary edition. The locals clashing in the sea going after what they thought was Jaws. Quint upsetting the clarinet player. Those two are the most noticable. I did find that there in the deleted scenes part of the bonus materials. But it doesn't do any good there.
The major part of the story is still there. Just hate to see the movie cut up like that decades after it's been released. I know when I saw it on a television channel it had those scenes. Just thought I'd let everyone know.
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Summary: Still scary in the silver anniversary
Review: The movie that spawned the term "blockbuster"! Bruce the Shark continues to thrill after a quarter century. Who can forget the opening, with John Williams' chilling score (which generations still hum at grim moments in life), the immortal lines "we're gonna need a bigger boat," Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw singing despite being scared to death, Robert Shaw's immortal monologue about the sinking of the Indianapolis (which inspired a young viewer to try to get a pardon for the Indianapolis' scapegoat captain)....the gore, the great moment when Brody blasts the beast to kingdom come. If you remember being ten and afraid to take a bath (yeah, fruity admits it) then this great collection, with its added attractions, isn't one to miss.
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