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With the exception of "2001". I have owned more video incarnations of this than any other film. Although hard to locate, there is a DVD with a DTS 5.1 option which brings out that last iota of richness and detail from the score and sound track. The film makers wisely dropped the novel's Hooper/Mrs. Brody affair and concentrated on the action. Though riddled with continuity problems, the pacing and editing of "Jaws" still carries you right along, no matter how many times you have seen it. And Quint's soliliquy about the U.S.S. Indianapolis, which stops the film for a moment, is one of th4e finest pieces of acting in all of cinema. Novelist Peter Benchley has a bit part as a TV commentator. Murray Hamilton is wonderful as the mayor. Followed by three ever more dismal sequels.
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was a great actor. His movies weren't always good ones but he made them better than they would have been otherwise. When he was in a superior movie like "JAWS" or "FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE" his scenes were almost always show-stoppers.As for "JAWS" - the first time I saw it was aboard a Navy ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It is still probably the scariest movie I have ever seen. Now, having seen it many times, the scene where Sheriff Brody is throwing bait over the side and is surprised by the shark still gives me the willies.
The sequels stunk, especially the final one. What a dog.
I liked Robert Shaw in "the Deep."
thet the scene you mention you mention scared even the film editor, who saw it dozens of times.
The original is one of the few films I can watch more than once.
Believe what your ears say - not hearsay.
I get this feeling whenever I look in the rear view mirror and an 18-wheeler has those big tiger teeth on the radiator. Gives me a momentary-WTF!
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Gimme cheese grits or gimme death.
This is one of my favorite films. The first film I ever saw, back in grade school. I remember when the cable salesman came to our house when I was in grade school trying to sell H.B.O. (that is all there was at that time), and he selling point was Jaws. I think I watched it five times that month. I still watch it whenever it is on cable. And I own the D.V.D.The D.V.D. made me realize what an accomplishment Jaws was, not only technically, but also by Spielberg. How there were shots that he wanted to accomplish, but which were impossible, so he improvised, and accomplished his shot.
Jaws has become the template for so many thriller/horror films. The performances are outstanding. One of those desert island films (assuming your desert island has electricity, and is in either rfresh water, or in the artic).
4 was dismal like you said, and 3 is just shameful. Another great acting scene, alongside the USS Indy, is Nicholson's 'privacy while typing' explanation to Duvall in the big room in The Shining. It's priceless and funny, in a dark way I guess. And of course- "Stop swinging the bat Wendy......Wendyyyyyyy" Think i'm gonna start a favorite character thread.
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