Jaws

[Moonhawk]

I watched this on DVD only the other night. Great movie - and has one of my favourite scenes from any movie - the "USS Indianapolis" scene.

[MrOnTheRopes]

Moonhawk said:

I watched this on DVD only the other night. Great movie - and has one of my favourite scenes from any movie - the "USS Indianapolis" scene.

That scene is superb.

.. and old Ben's eye-socket wires still makes me jump

[Jasandjules]

I despise this film - I question just how many sharks are killed because of people scared by this film. 5 people die a year worldwide from Shark Attacks. More people die from drowning in their own bath in the UK per year FFS.

[McWigglebum4th]

It is probably due a re-imagining

[Smollet]

Jasandjules said:

I despise this film - I question just how many sharks are killed because of people scared by this film. 5 people die a year worldwide from Shark Attacks. More people die from drowning in their own bath in the UK per year FFS.

Sharks were hunted and killed well before the first airing of Jaws. If anything the film may well have drawn attention to the slaughter they've endured over the years and helped in changing people's attitudes towards them.

[mcelliott]

I did find Jaws scary, but as an 8 year old, found Snowbeast (the original) way scarier!

[Quattromaster]

mcelliott said:

I did find Jaws scary, but as an 8 year old, found Snowbeast (the original) way scarier!

Damn, that's me having nightmares tonight, the bit where the beast looks through the window into the building they are all holed up in.

I'm off to hide.

[cologne2792]

Jasandjules said:

I despise this film - I question just how many sharks are killed because of people scared by this film. 5 people die a year worldwide from Shark Attacks. More people die from drowning in their own bath in the UK per year FFS.

Global Shark population is reckoned to be around 1 Billion.
Annual Global Human Deaths from Sharks : 9
Annual Global Shark Deaths from Humans : 100 million

[Bebee]

Saw it with my dad in 75, the head in boat appearing was truly frighting for me as an 9 year old, I also remember a lot of folk smoking in the cinema.

Still a cracking film that I can watch over and over.

[moanthebairns]

cologne2792 said:

Jasandjules said:

I despise this film - I question just how many sharks are killed because of people scared by this film. 5 people die a year worldwide from Shark Attacks. More people die from drowning in their own bath in the UK per year FFS.

Global Shark population is reckoned to be around 1 Billion.
Annual Global Human Deaths from Sharks : 9
Annual Global Shark Deaths from Humans : 100 million

1 billion. Wow. You're gonna need a bigger boat.

[Moonhawk]

McWigglebum4th said:

It is probably due a re-imagining

Yep - who is betting it has more 'action', more teens and more gore.

Considering the subject matter (shark attack) - the original actually has quite a low body count. Five people die in total - and arguably only 4 of those as a direct result of the shark killing them (the "eye guy" on the submerged boat probably drown given he was inside the hull of the boat - the eye injury probably sustained as the boat went down).

It also has a relatively old cast (Shaw was 48, Scheider was 43, Gary was 38 and Drayfus the youngest at 28) which IMO makes it more believable (similar story with Alien). It seems most horror films these days have to have a cookie cutter, eye candy cast barely out of high school - and so it will probably be if they ever remake Jaws.

[Moonhawk]

Jasandjules said:

I despise this film - I question just how many sharks are killed because of people scared by this film.

I'd question that too. I suspect the answer is "not many".

The vast majority of sharks are (and always have been) killed for food:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-2162...

[Frik]

Brilliant film. But Spielberg made two major mistakes: The scariest bit is a third of the way in and there's too much (fake) shark in it. A glimpse of a dorsal fin is far more effective.

[moanthebairns]

Jasandjules said:

I despise this film - I question just how many sharks are killed because of people scared by this film. 5 people die a year worldwide from Shark Attacks. More people die from drowning in their own bath in the UK per year FFS.

To be fair, I don't think many thought after watching jaws "let's go catch us a shark"

I Watched flight of a nnavigator, I never went out speeding in a space ship.

I watched ghostbusters I never went and caught some ghosts

I watched star wars I never went out of a Friday night to topple the rebel alliance.

[Moonhawk]

moanthebairns said:

To be fair, I don't think many thought after watching jaws "let's go catch us a shark"

I Watched flight of a nnavigator, I never went out speeding in a space ship.

I watched ghostbusters I never went and caught some ghosts

I watched star wars I never went out of a Friday night to topple the rebel alliance.

I watched weird science and never once though about getting my computer, one of my sisters barbie dolls..........oh actually.......scratch that, probably not the best example!

[motco]

Jasandjules said:

I despise this film - I question just how many sharks are killed because of people scared by this film. 5 people die a year worldwide from Shark Attacks. More people die from drowning in their own bath in the UK per year FFS.

I blame Mel Gibson!


No, wait - that was 'Braveheart' wasn't it?

[Smollet]

Frik said:

Brilliant film. But Spielberg made two major mistakes: The scariest bit is a third of the way in and there's too much (fake) shark in it. A glimpse of a dorsal fin is far more effective.

Especially if it's strapped to the back of a ten year old kid.

[moanthebairns]

Moonhawk said:

I watched weird science and never once though about getting my computer, one of my sisters barbie dolls..........oh actually.......scratch that, probably not the best example!

I haven't saw that film in years.

[nicanary]

moanthebairns said:

Moonhawk said:

I watched weird science and never once though about getting my computer, one of my sisters barbie dolls..........oh actually.......scratch that, probably not the best example!

I haven't saw that film in years.

"Do you have these panties in leather....rubber.......barbed wire.........??

[Moonhawk]

nicanary said:

"Do you have these panties in leather....rubber.......barbed wire.........??

You could never make that movie today - imagine the uproar