Original JAWS (1975) - rewatch

[iamwhatiseem]

I believe I have not seen this movie since 1975. I was 10 years old. I might have rented it on VHS when the kids were growing up, but I don't remember it if I did.
At any rate, obviously I had forgotten virtually the entire movie.
Watching it again in 2025 - it has a slooow start. Pretty campy and hokey. The first half of the movie only serves as a time filler to get to the real movie - when the three men are out on the boat trying to kill JAWS. That is the movie.
IMO - it is two movies. The first half which is, like I say, campy/hokey and boring. It just is. It was a different time period when it was made that doesn't really jive with today's audience. But the 2nd half does. Sure the special effects of the mechanical shark is not exactly realistic, but if you can get past that - it is suspenseful and entertaining.

The best line, one that became a line people still say today - "you're going to need a bigger boat"

 

[JoeB131]

Jaws was a great movie.

I remember reading the book before watching the film.

The book is about a lot of unpleasant characters dealing with a shark.

The movie is about people that you like dealing with a shark.

 

[JoeB131]

 

[lg325]

I didn't care for the book. The movie was good but the mechanical shark was too obvious and took away from the movie. But the barrels popping up out of the water made most in the theater jump! A lady friend of mine would not take a bath because of the movie.

 

[1srelluc]

I didn't care for the book. The movie was good but the mechanical shark was too obvious and took away from the movie. But the barrels popping up out of the water made most in the theater jump! A lady friend of mine would not take a bath because of the movie.

 

[Zincwarrior]

First movie I saw alone (8 years old). Mom thought it was a nature film and dropped me off to see it. I STILL won't voluntarily go swimming in anything but a pool. Seriously.

 

[1srelluc]

Shaw should have won an Oscar for that scene alone.

 

[odanny]

USS Indianapolis was the real deal, those sailors left alone to die in an ocean for an entire week. And, of course, the U.S. Navy blamed the Commander for this. I remember at his court martial they brought the Japanese sub commander who sank it in to the trial as a defense witness.

 

[JustAnotherNut]

Shaw should have won an Oscar for that scene alone.

Best part of the whole movie, hands down

Runner up.......'we're gona need a bigger boat'

 

[1srelluc]

USS Indianapolis was the real deal, those sailors left alone to die in an ocean for an entire week. And, of course, the U.S. Navy blamed the Commander for this. I remember at his court martial they brought the Japanese sub commander who sank it in to the trial as a defense witness.

 

[JoeB131]

USS Indianapolis was the real deal, those sailors left alone to die in an ocean for an entire week. And, of course, the U.S. Navy blamed the Commander for this. I remember at his court martial they brought the Japanese sub commander who sank it in to the trial as a defense witness.

Actually, they brought in Capt. Hashimoto in as a prosecution witness, but after his testimony didn't help the prosecution, they mistranslated what he had to say.

 

[odanny]

Actually, they brought in Capt. Hashimoto in as a prosecution witness, but after his testimony didn't help the prosecution, they mistranslated what he had to say.

I could only remember he said that zig zagging would not have made any difference, as I believe McVay was accused of causing this sinking by not doing that, even though I believe he actually was.

At least this court martial would be overturned, a boy from Indiana, I believe, is who initiated this and got this reversal started in the 90's.

 

[Quasar44]

One of the best movies of the 1970s for sure !!!!

Yes the Shark look FAKE AS HELL but the acting and dialogue is good

 

[bluzman61]

I recently watched the movie again for the first time since watching it at a drive-in theater in 1976. It is a tense and sometimes horrific movie, definitely one of the best from the 1970's.

 

[hjmick]

Shaw should have won an Oscar for that scene alone.

Sadly, for a majority of people this monologue is all they know of the fate of the Indianapolis. The whole story is very interesting and very tragic.

I recommend reading a book about it, skip the shitty Nicolas Cage movie...

This one was very good:

 

[lg325]

I didn't care for the book. The movie was good but the mechanical shark was too obvious and took away from the movie. But the barrels popping up out of the water made most in the theater jump! A lady friend of mine would not take a bath because of the movie.

just rewatched on you tube. Still a good popcorn movie.

 

[lg325]

Speaking of large Great Whites, look whats swimming off Nantucket now!
contenderhttps://www.ocearch.org/tracker/

 

[lg325]

MSN

www.msn.com

A good article on the Great White off Nan tucket

 

[DGS49]

An anecdote? I worked for a water treatment company at one time. One day we got a call from Universal Studios theme part in Florida. They were having a problem with the Jaws exhibit/show. The underground gears, chains, and stuff were lubricated with canola oil for environmental reasons, and they were accumulating all sorts of goo on the parts. They needed something to clean the goo out of the water.

My company had just invented a new, skid-mounted clarifier, and we were thrilled to get a chance to use it in a high-visibility venue. So our guys took the clarifier to the pond where the exhibit was, started running it at sundown. The following morning we got a panicked phone call from the Universal folks. The water was crystal clear, and all of the chains, pulleys, etc., were totally visible to anyone looking in the water. We had to figure out how to put dye in the water to make it dark again. Funny, funny.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Sadly, for a majority of people this monologue is all they know of the fate of the Indianapolis. The whole story is very interesting and very tragic.

I recommend reading a book about it, skip the shitty Nicolas Cage movie...

This one was very good:

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I second that. My "Dad" was an ex-Navy aircrewman and he and I watched this together one night and we laughed through the whole thing!