Jaws Movie
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The Nation's No.1 Best-Selling Book now the Screen's Super-Thriller
Amity Island had everything. Clear skies. Gentle surf. Warm water. People flocked there every summer. It was the perfect feeding ground.
The terrifying motion picture from the terrifying No. 1 best seller.
When beaches open this summer, you will be taken by Jaws.
She was the first.
Do you like fish? Well, he likes you too...
Don't go in the water
See it before you go swimming.
You'll never go in the water again!
Martin Brody is the new police chief of Amity, an island resort town somewhere in New England. He has a wife named Ellen, and two sons named Michael and Sean. On a Summer morning, Brody is called to the beach, where the mangled body of Summer vacationer Chrissie Watkins has washed ashore. The medical examiner tells Brody that it could have been a shark that killed Watkins. Mayor Larry Vaughn, who is desperate to not lose the money that will be brought in by 4th of July tourists, wants Brody to say Watkins's death was caused by a motorboat propeller instead of a shark, because the thought of a shark in Amity's waters would drive tourists away from Amity. It looks like Vaughn is a mayor who puts money ahead of people's lives. Shark expert Matt Hooper believes Watkins was killed by a shark. Hooper is proven right a few days later, when Alex Kintner is killed by the shark that killed Watkins. Looking for the quickest solution, Vaughn tells all of the local fishermen to let him know if they see the shark. A shark hunter named Quint offers to find the shark and kill it, but Vaughn thinks Quint's price of $10,000 is too high. When a tiger shark is killed and hauled in by a couple of boaters, Vaughn hastily says that the shark crisis is over, but Hooper says the shark that's been killing people a huge great white shark is still in Amity's waters, but Vaughn leaves the beaches opened because all he cares about is the 4th of July tourist money. On the 4th of July, Vaughn encourages people to swim at the beach, and Hooper is proven right again when the shark kills a man, biting the man's leg off. Michael, who was in the water at the time of the attack, is taken to the hospital, where he's treated for shock after watching the shark kill the guy. Brody asks Vaughn to hire Quint to find the shark. Because his own kids were at that beach too, Vaughn agrees to hire Quint to find the shark. Quint, Hooper, and Brody are sent out to sea in Quint's boat, the Orca, ready to do whatever it takes to find the shark.
| Roy Scheider | Police Chief Martin Brody |
| Robert Shaw | Quint |
| Richard Dreyfuss | Matt Hooper |
| Lorraine Gary | Ellen Brody |
| Murray Hamilton | Mayor Larry Vaughn |
| Carl Gottlieb | Ben Meadows |
| Jeffrey Kramer | Deputy Leonard 'Lenny' Hendricks |
| Susan Backlinie | Christine 'Chrissie' Watkins |
| Jonathan Filley | Tom Cassidy |
| Chris Rebello | Michael 'Mike' Brody |
| Jay Mello | Sean Brody |
| Lee Fierro | Mrs. Kintner |
| Jeffrey Voorhees | Alex M. Kintner |
| Craig Kingsbury | Ben Gardner |
| Dr. Robert Nevin | Medical Examiner |
| Steven Spielberg |
8.30 out of 10 (86052 votes)
Visitor Reviews
A memorable Spielberg film
posted on 15 Aug 2009Jaws was a huge success in the Box Office, 2 years before Star Wars past it's record.The story is about a regular beach that's never had any serious accidents. Every 4th of July tourists of all kinds would come here.Little do they know is that there's a shark among the waters.A 25 footer weighing 3 tons. It's an ultimate killing machine in the waters. Those who are swimming in the ocean won't be so lucky.After 3 attacks, the city mayor demanded a shark hunt. The ones who volunteer are a police lifeguard, a shark expert, and Quint an expert in fishing. These 3 unlikely characters will be spending the next few days at sea trying to hunt down the shark and kill it.Jaws will change the way you think of Great White sharks, and it may give you the fear of swimming in the ocean. It's a worthy thriller movie with a lot of good stuff you'd expect from Spielberg.It's worth seeing by renting or buying it or borrowing it from a friend.
Look out for the grey fin
posted on 12 Aug 2009It's so terifying that when I first saw it I wouldn't go near the beach for what seemed like years after. The scenes, (especially the opening one) are outstanding and the music score by John Williams helps to build the suspense well. The finale is one of the most memorable in film history.
An Eye For Profit
posted on 06 Aug 2009Spielberg didn't get to be so successful by being bad...nobody does. But he did achieve success by deriving all of his imagery from even lesser sources and convincing audiences they were seeing something new. The lower the overhead cost, the greater the net profit, and this is where he first raked it in.There's nothing complex here. He simply uses the eye of "Creature from the Black Lagoon", and gives Amity and its birdbrain inhabitants the mechanics and IQ of so many 50s monster flicks. This is relatively good compared to the rest of his catalog, because the narrative is held together by someone else - here, the writer - who simply usurps the "Moby Dick" story...right down to the "Farewell and adieu..."...Shaw's Quint as Ahab. The absurdity works because of the Williams score which is straight out of the "Psycho" playbook; also the rubber shark ("Bruce") was uncooperative half of the time; it surely saved this by forcing Spielberg to show less of the creature. He had to tighten the tension in other ways. Although this is cheap and simple, that's what makes it ideal for commercial consumption. Just don't call it art - that began and pretty much ended with "Duel".
Not to be confused with its pathetic sequels
posted on 03 Aug 2009Not to be confused with any of the pathetic sequels, JAWS, the original JAWS that scared the entire U.S. out of the ocean, the JAWS that turned Hollywood's attention toward this new kid Spielberg, the JAWS that influenced Horror movies for the next three decades . . . yeah that JAWS.
That JAWS was an incredible film. How quickly people forget. Take the shark completely out of the film and the movie stands on it's own with strong performances, incredible cinematography, award winning editing and directing that you could teach a film class with. Quint's story in the boat still brings chills to anyone who hears it. So don't confuse it with all the other lame plastic shark films . . . JAWS was brilliant. 10 out of 10.(I don't give those away easily) And if you don't believe me . . . take the challenge. Rent it, turn the sound up, and watch it from beginning to end! I promise you, you'll be surprised!
Will never lose bite
posted on 31 Jul 2009Following on from his success with Duel and Sugarland Express, Steven Speilberg took Peter Benchley's legendary bestseller and crafted one of the most effective thrillers in the history of the cinema. Not to mention, one of the best and most popular films of all-time.For those who still may not yet be familar with the story, the action starts off at the picturesque island of Amity. Cheif Brody (Roy Scheider ) is the new cheif of police and finds himself dealing with something that Amity has not encountered up till now - a shark attack. His attempt to close the beaches is rejected by the mayor (Murray Hamilton) and it isn't long before another innocent beachgoer winds up as a victim.
Brody calls out for the help of an oceanographer, Matt Hopper (Richard Dreyfuss), and later the colourful shark fisherman, Quint (Robert Shaw).
The three of them set out to sea in order to destroy the terror and it isn't long before they come face to face with a three-ton great-white shark. The problem is though - who's the hunted here?Digtially remastered for its 25th Anniversary, Jaws has lost none of its stunning power or suspense. Its a film that's guarnatted to frighten and fascinate viewers no matter times they've seen it or seen something familar.
And once you remember and know by-heart the thrills and shocks, Speilberg's directorial genius becomes even more apparent. The ensemble cast of Jaws is something else. Scheider, Dreyfuss and Shaw are an acting threesome made in heaven whilist those based at land, such as Hamilton and Lorraine Gary, and many other of the suffering locals stand out strongly. To sum it up everything is awe-inspiring. The cast, the shark, the script, the directing, the techniques, the music and everything else. Jaws is a forever unrivalled cinematic masterpiece.
Shaw Festival
posted on 31 Jul 2009Back in The Day, this was a revelation. Today, the shark is downright laughable, and so we're left with only one big reason to see the movie: Robert Shaw. His performance, most visible in the USS Indianapolis speech, is simply charmed. The Captain Ahab routine -- which Spielberg captures beautifully with a silhouette of Shaw atop the mast -- could have easily seduced greedier actors into chewing the scenery (along with the shark).
Scare audiences of all ages, till today
posted on 28 Jul 2009JAWS is a captivating film who opened the many doors to rip-offs, sequels, Italian remakes and many other shark films out there. It is scary as hell, though not the scariest film I've ever seen, that would be THE EXORCIST and THE SHINING, but modern day horror fans are used to terrible gory remakes and slashers, so people aren't so scared out of them today (expect for those who understand cinema) and JAWS is a classic that even to these people we've mentioned before, slasher fanatics, still find this motion picture scary.The atmospheric shark attacks and the beautiful musical soundtrack by John Williams, alongside the brilliant script by Peter Benchley (who wrote the novel JAWS which the film was based on) and direction by Steven Spielberg, makes JAWS the movie that has been for years, a bloody good scary film!
Art film/buddy flick weighed down by the filmmakers' bloodlust...
posted on 13 Jul 2009Shark attacks off an East Coast retreat equal bloody massacres in the water. All the shark killings in the first hour of Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" have the same mentality of the slasher movies that became vogue sometime in the late '70s. But this is what sold tickets--and made Peter Benchley's source novel a huge bestseller--yet the carnage isn't so much scary as it is depressing, and Spielberg displays no remorse for the victims (he's too anxious to show severed limbs). Sheriff Roy Scheider, scientist Richard Dreyfuss and bounty hunter Robert Shaw sail out to capture the shark, and the machismo and male-camaraderie turn the film into something headier: a character study with art-film flourishes (and indeed, some of those shots from the fishing vessel are beautifully done). It's a gripping, compelling film without being a lot of fun. Dreyfuss' brainy nerd gets laughs, though his nonchalant sarcasm is overplayed (and his final act re-emergence is a crowd-pleasing though dunderheaded move); Scheider is a terrific Everyman who isn't afraid to sink into the background; and Shaw is dead-on in his bloodthirsty portrayal of a hunter obsessed. **1/2 from ****
A perfect film
posted on 25 Jun 2009It's almost impossible to give an objective review of this film – a cultural phenomenon, the first modern Hollywood blockbuster, the movie that propelled Steven Spielberg to iconic status and was the progenitor of that horrible cinematic trend known as 'franchising.' Nonetheless, as I watched it yet again last Sunday, I realized I had never actually reviewed this film, and as I spend enough time poring over bad and mediocre films, it would be a nice change to review a good – nay, a great – one.Set in the resort community of Amity, Jaws follows the story of what happens to the town when a shark comes hunting and threatens their precious summer economy. Of course there's much more than that going on; it's also the personal story of Sheriff Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) a man living on an island who's afraid of the water, and those who help him pursue the shark: oceanographer Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and the colorful, cantankerous shark hunter Quint (Robert Shaw).Spielberg sets up the film economically and effortlessly, sketching Amity with exactly the right details, rendering it familiar to us in an instant. From the Boy Scout water badge tests to the man badgering the chief about painting a red zone on the curb in front of his house, Amity is suburban anywhere, circa 1975, a small, quiet town of normal people whom Spielberg breathes to life with swift but textured strokes. Standing out amongst them is Mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton), whose interest in preserving the town's economy nearly leads it to ruin; but rather than render the mayor a one-dimensional villain, Spielberg gives him a moment of stark humanity in a scene in the hospital where he is so unnerved by a shark attack a few hours earlier that he absent-mindedly starts to smoke. He turns to Brody and hisses in a wavering voice, "Martin, my kids were out there in that water too." While Hooper joins the proceedings relatively early (in a hilarious scene where every fisherman in the northeast is launching their boat to try and nab the $3K reward on the shark) and is saddled with the lion's share of educating the audience about sharks (the exposition is seamlessly worked into three conversations between Hooper and Brody), Spielberg is wise to save Quint until the second half of the picture. Although he makes a brief cameo earlier (scratching his nails on a chalkboard to gain everyone's attention – how's that for an entrance?), once Quint is on board full time the movie really kicks into high gear. His disdain for Hooper's easy life and modern gear aside, Quint is like a character straight out of Hemmingway, and Shaw fleshes him out to perfection. In the hands of another director and actor, Quint probably would have been easy to dislike, but here, he steals the show from the other two men, and again, much like the mayor, he is given his scene of humanity, where he discloses that he was a crew member of the USS Indianapolis, the ship that was torpedoed by the Japanese on a highly secret mission to deliver the atom bomb.Spielberg masterfully follows the heroic plot arc in this movie. The hero's simple village is threatened by an external force it cannot understand or defeat; outsiders are brought in, even while the hero must face his own inner fears and 'grow up' to conquer them. Quint is the transitional hero here, an outsider in the community (even though he resides in Amity), whose anti-social nature and unwillingness to compromise permanently exclude him from the village; we know as soon as his boat is ruined that he will die, for now he has no home, no place to live (can we really picture Quint sitting at the Brody dinner table as Hooper did?).Of course it's not just the brilliantly executed structure of Jaws that makes it so great; the performances are all spot-on, terrific; all three of the main actors shine here, and even tiny bit parts are played perfectly. Spielberg also uses terror more effectively here than he ever has since; while apparently the mechanical shark wouldn't work and he had to disguise it in filming and editing, not seeing the menace for most of the film heightens the suspense and terror far more than revealing it would have.This film is Spielberg firing on all cylinders, every piece in place, a masterpiece from start to finish. It's rare that you encounter a perfect film, and that's a phrase I don't even like to use; but it certainly fits Jaws, which is as flawless a piece of movie-making as you will ever encounter. It's a good bet most of you have seen it (it is thirty-one years old, after all), but if you haven't seen it in a while, maybe it's time to get reacquainted with a classic once more.
Ahhh! Shark in the pond.
posted on 19 Jun 2009Jaws was boring, but was a good film, especially when the Great White started coming up to the beach and eating people for lunch and other places! But the film had stupid dialog like after Brody says 'the kids must be in the yard.' Ellen says 'when you're in Amity you say they're in the yahd!' how stupid! Plot: Chrissie Watkins and boyfriend Tom Cassidy go swimming at three in the morning, Tom passes out and Chrissie goes in the water by herself, she is attacked by a great white shark, and more and more people are eaten by the shark at the beach, and many close calls. Brody must go hunt the shark down with a scientist who studies sharks, and a man who like to hang shark jaws on his boat to presumably scare sharks away. And it's with the three to convince the mayor to let them go hunt down the 25 murderous, man-eating, shark and save the town of Amity! the shark is pretty convincing, the death scenes are basically things that could happen, and with a bucket of blood this film is a film to buy of the internet or rent it from a video store.I'm glad i got the thirty anniversary edition packed with extra-extra features! 7/10 stars!
A chilling account of what happens when a shark strikes
posted on 13 Jun 2009I saw this movie on telly when I was quite young, and from then on it gave me an obsession with Steven Spielberg and sharks. Since then my obsessive nature with anything to do with sharks has died down, but I still love Spielberg and his work. This film started the whole summer blockbuster and along with it started the whole hook thing where the first few minutes of a film leave you hooked and wanting to see more. Those first few minutes had me on the edge of my seat with my heart pounding. I later found out it was so convincing, because Susan Backlinie who played the helpless victim Chrissie was being yanked too hard on her feet by the divers underneath and those were real grimaces of pain. Roy Schneider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw make a perfect trio and the film really starts to focus on these 3 characters and really starts to get thrilling as they leave land to kill the dreaded 25-footer. What follows is a fascinating portrayal of the 3 different ways these men handle what is before them. Roy Schneider's classic line 'You're gonna need a bigger boat' has been ripped off time and time again most recently with Godzilla 'We're gonna neeed bigger guns' A classic chilling film masterpiece from beginning to end. This does for water, namely oceans but large swimming pools can have the same effect what Psycho did for motels and showers. If you haven't seen it yet, what are you doing get off your butt and rent it now!!
A Monster of the big screen
posted on 04 Jun 2009I think the beauty in this film lies in the way the shark does not appear for at least 3 quarters of the film - it is the music which frightens the life (and continues to) out of the audience.The Central 3 performances and the chemisrty between them is just fantastic, with loadsa tension and comedy and bitterness from the fabulous Robert Shaw toward dreyfuss! LOL I loved the relationship between the chief and the sea and also the utter quotability of the film1 "We're gonna need a bigger boat!" I will give this a ten because it still has the ability to shock and make me laugh and the music is timeless...the performances great and the shark a great monster of the big screen!!!
Changed the way we view movies
posted on 01 Jun 2009Jaws is my favorite movie of all time. I loved it as a kid mainly because it had a shark in it and i was in love with them. hahaha. as i have gotten older i have been able to completely appreciate what this movie means to the industry. the first movie as a summer blockbuster, it single handedly gave us the birth of multi-plexs like loews or amc. it broke the 100 million mark, shattering records at the time. people that i know that are younger than i and don't really appreciate what movies were like before cgi complain how the shark looks fake and stupid, but i like that. it gives the movie a sense of "how did they do that?" that mystic feeling. and being in 1975 there was no cgi so.. this movie has completely changed movie making and marketing in the US and beyond. i am not saying that star wars wouldn't have done it, but jaws gets the recognition for being first. it is a classic movie with a great story, script, characters, emotions, and history. definitely one of the best movies ever made. and one of few movies viewers can say the movie is better than the book.
I lived on the water.
posted on 26 May 2009This movie really had an impact on my life! I use to live in Duxbury as a young child at the time my father decided to take me and my little brother to see. We heard the scary music and when the shark came around..my brother and I were under the seats of the movie patrons in front of us screaming and crying while my father laughed away thinking it was the greatest time in his life. Anyways...I use to love the water living in Duxbury Massachusetts...I still do! But I had to overcome the fear of the water thru the years and acquired a great interest in sharks. It made me more smart of our oceanic surroundings in New England. I've visited Martha's Vineyard for the JawsFest of 05 and was able to get up close to different points of interest of the movie. I'm 35 years old today....5 at the time of the release of the movie. Even though the movie was quite a scare for me in the younger years...it brings back good memories of growing up near the water with my little brother...the good ones. I love the beach, the water and boating and fishing.This movie did change the way many people look at the ocean now and how much time they spend at the beaches actually "swimming". So it sent people away from the beaches to get involved in other outdoor activities.But anyways...James Cameron is now producing a remake! Here is the website to view his teaser! http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2705402
the movie that terrified a generation
posted on 20 May 2009This film really had an effect on the public consciousness. Not many films hold a "universal" terror. Steven Spielberg's film is a masterly piece of story telling -- after seeing it on numerous occasions it now has a slightly comforting quality to it - because it is so enjoyably put together.The cast are 100% watchable with Roy Scheider as Brodie,Richard Dreyfuss as the playful Hooper (Love that cup gag) and lastly Robert Shaw as the Ahab like Quint. There is moment after moment when you could congratulate Mr.Spielberg on his brilliant direction -- my favourite moment is where Quint ignores Brodie and Hooper's conversation as he firstly secures himself into his chair on the Orca and secondly where again he notices the fishing wire is delicately pulled-- great film acting by Shaw and superb direction by Steven Spielberg.One more of my favourite moments is Quint's tale of the USS Indianapolis written I believe by John Milius and Robert Shaw himself.(Just as scary as Spielberg's frightening jolts!)
The most thrilling film I have ever seen
posted on 14 May 2009Peter Benchley's vision of his bestseller novel about what lurks beneath is a true masterpiece of cinema horror. Steven Spielberg was definately the best choice for this film (I feel this is the film that got Spielberg known as a director) because the best genre Spielberg is in is the action film.
And this film looks at the dangerous world of sharks and how a small fishing village called Amity beach is terroroized by a great white (that is called by Robert Shaw's quint as a beast, who will swallow you whole). The first part looks at the village and how itr is oblivious to stop it until it has taken 4 lives. Only then do the town sherrif (Rob Schneider is great), a Icthyologist or fish major (Richard Dreyfuss is terrific as this guy), and the hunter (Shaw plays Quint in one of the most memorable roles in history) go to get the animal, which is the second part. Well constructed bubble gum thriller turns into a masterpiece of cinema that gives new word to "water".
Favorite line: Quint- "You go in the cage, cage go in the water, shark in the water." Brilliant. A++
It's not just 'the best shark film!'
posted on 14 May 2009Seeing people call Jaws `the best shark film ever made' is like calling Princess Di `the best-looking parent of Prince William!' It's factual, but it's certainly darning it with faint praise! (And, other than its sub-par sequels, WERE there any other `shark' movies???)That aside, Jaws is one of those films that started out fairly high in my estimation and continues to climb as years go by. I was actually a tad disappointed when I finally got to see it at the theatre as a 12-year-old. This was simply because it had been the most-hyped movie of all time, up till then. I don't know WHAT I was expecting, but certainly more than a motion picture could ever provide!Later, I admitted that it was a quite good film. After college cinema class, I had to admit that it was especially well-made. As an adult, I came to consider it one of my favorite films. Finally, today, I can look back and call it one of Hollywood's finer moments. I would rate Jaws among the best 3-4 films made since 1970, and, as a recent reviewer called it, `the grand-daddy' of the action/adventure genre. (It was also the first true summer blockbuster!)So much more than a tale of a man-eating shark, Jaws captures the small-town, tourist economy that thrives on visitors. The fictitious Amity is perfectly depicted and Mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) is the perfect representative of this mindset. Not a bad guy, just a harried local official, mindful that the community's lifeblood depends on the brief beach season, he is out of his element when that same blood begins gushing up on the pristine white beaches. I won't go into deep details; others have already covered the key points. The then-unknown cast sparkles, the script is magnificent-especially the tremendous USS Indianapolis scene, which adds SO MUCH to the depth of the characters and also reinforces the peril that they are about to face, and the cinematography is outstanding. The live shark footage from Australia, combined with a few limited close-ups of `Bruce,' is a deft touch. Of course, John Williams' music helps make it what it is, too.Little human touches, like the youngest Brody boy imitating his father's every movement at the kitchen table, make the film much more than an everyday horror/adventure flick. Another favorite moment that always makes me chuckle out loud is when Michael (Chris Rebello) is in his new rowboat. Brody (Roy Schneider) harshly orders him out of the boat. Mrs. Brody (Lorraine Gary) scolds Brody for his actions (actually making him change his mind), only to see the painting in the book he was holding, of a shark ramming its snout through a wooden rowboat & scream `Did you HEAR your father? Get OUT of that boat!' :o)There's even a built-in trivia question: `What's ironic about the title?' Answer: `It's about a shark and sharks HAVE no jaws!' Food for thought…er…excuse me…poor choice of words, there, under the circumstances! ;o)This is a must-see, if anyone has somehow missed it.
It's a very good movie, but there are a few things that bother me about it.
posted on 11 May 2009I don't know if it is pure coincidence or if they did it on purpose, but it's a fact that only a couple of days after we got the news that two people in the USA had been attacked by a shark in a couple of days time, this movie was shown on one of our national television channels (I don't really believe this was just pure coincidence, since they can't get any better 'publicity' for such a movie). And it has to be said: this movie may well be thirty years old, but it's still capable of scaring the hell out of people.The story of "Jaws" is actually a quite simple one. When a girl dies in the ocean near a peaceful community on Amity Island, it's immediately believed to be a shark attack. But because the mayor doesn't want to spoil an entire summer by scaring the many tourists away, he is able to have it called a boating accident, much to the new police chief Martin Brody's frustration. He's convinced that more people will die if they don't do anything against this ferocious predator and soon enough he's proved right when a boy is killed by the shark. Together with a scientist and an old fisherman, he goes after the giant white shark to get rid of it for once and for all...This movie may well be one of the most famous movies of the seventies, but that doesn't mean that it is perfect. As long as you don't see the shark this is really a terrifying movie, but from the moment on that they show that giant rubber 'thing', it loses quite a lot of its power. You just know that this isn't correct, because it just is too gigantic and it doesn't react like a real shark. And I'm not even talking about the fact that it attacks boats, what I'm talking about are some 'small' details like not closing its eyes when attacking or not changing the position of the mouth. Normally a shark opens its mouth further when it gets closer, showing a lot more of its gums. This shark however is lifeless as it attacks.However, the movie has a lot of good things to offer as well. The acting for instance is really good. Roy Scheider does a good job as police chief Brody, but in my opinion it was Robert Shaw who was the best with his role of Quint, the fearless boat captain. Also very good is the music. I believe there is absolutely nobody who doesn't know what it is like and if you ask ten people to hum it, nine out of ten will be able to do it. And let's be honest, if it wasn't for the music, most scenes wouldn't even be scary. It's the music that creates the atmosphere of tension and terror when there is in fact nothing to be seen in the movie. But it works perfectly and that's all that matters.Overall this is a good movie, but if it hadn't been from the hand of Steven Spielberg, I'm pretty sure this would have been an awful one. It was probably his very first really great movie and he proved with this one that he was able to make a very good movie out of a concept that begs to become a failure. Many others have tried to copy its success with two sequels, but also with other 'shark' movies and not one of them was able to get to the same level of fear. However, when you are at least a little bit interested in sharks, you know that what is shown in it isn't correct. Many people only feared sharks after seeing this movie and that's too bad, because this marvelous creatures really aren't the mindless terror / killing machines that this movie made of them. I like the fact that the movie is one of the best in the genre, but I wish it had been a bit closer to reality. That's why I give it a 7/10.
This movie has made me watch out for sharks everytime I go swimming!
posted on 08 May 2009My favourite movie of all time. It's got everything from humour to terror, and the music by John Williams is just awesome. This is the movie that has made the biggest impression on me. This movie gave me shark-fear! This movie has made me watch out for sharks every time I go swimming! I just love the movie! See it... before you go swimming......
Breathtaking and scary
posted on 21 Aug 2009This is the best horror film ever, and it did deserve its win for best picture back in 1975. It sucks how Some people don't like Jaws because of Jaws 4: The revenge which was considered the worst film ever made. Starts off as a women that gets eaten by a shark and then the brody family has to deal with the shark and later on the beach gets closed and the entire town gets scared and then 3 people have to face the shark and then it gets graphic violence and scary and thrilling and they all have to figure out how to get the shark, later on it gets sad and then more entertaining. Rated PG for Intense violence, Gore, Disturbing images, Profanity and for some Terror. **** out of **** but only recommended for horror fans, Or Steven Spielberg fans.