Jaws (40 Years Later)

[CoriSCapnSkip]

Great movie, great music. Both Spielberg and Williams had done their directing/music thing before (Williams more than Spielberg), but this one absolutely vaulted both of them to another level or three in moviedom. And for good reason. It was all masterfully done. Not many scores, you can just hum two notes, and it's immediately identifiable to the public at large.

Cleverly referenced in the Stephen King movie, Cujo.

 

[Holly Gibney]

This has got to be the best way to watch Jaws - a cinema screen on the banks of a lake, with the audience all floating in the water in rubber rings, at night! I would go to that in a heartbeat, if it was on anywhere near where I lived...

This is surely the best way to watch Jaws | The Independent

I first saw Jaws round about 1990 - I would have been about 12 at the time - and it terrified me in a way that no other film has ever equalled. Thank you, Messrs Spielberg and Benchley - I love a good scare!

 

[Holly Gibney]

While we are on the subject - what are your opinions of the sequels? I watched them all equally when I was a child and didn't really discriminate between them at all - they scared me equally, so I liked them equally! However, a couple of years ago I saw Jaws 3 for the first time in 20 years, and I was so disappointed. It seemed comically bad, with a poor script and unbelievable action. Jaws 2 was on TV a few months ago and I enjoyed it. Not quite up to the standard of the original, but a good, well-crafted and well-written suspense film.

 

[GNTLGNT]

While we are on the subject - what are your opinions of the sequels? I watched them all equally when I was a child and didn't really discriminate between them at all - they scared me equally, so I liked them equally! However, a couple of years ago I saw Jaws 3 for the first time in 20 years, and I was so disappointed. It seemed comically bad, with a poor script and unbelievable action. Jaws 2 was on TV a few months ago and I enjoyed it. Not quite up to the standard of the original, but a good, well-crafted and well-written suspense film.

....the original was the best....the originality and scare value were left at the curb in the sequels.....it just became "how many damn ways and times can we kill a friggin' shark???".....

 

[Tery]

I first saw Jaws round about 1990 - I would have been about 12 at the time - and it terrified me in a way that no other film has ever equalled. Thank you, Messrs Spielberg and Benchley - I love a good scare!

I saw it the summer it came out. Had no particular desire to but my BFF wanted to and she was paying, so... scared me spitless! I remember sitting on the theater seat with my feet pulled up from the first attack onward. It's still one of my favorite movies, Top Five. If it's on TV, I will stop and watch. Can't help myself. It's just so brilliant. And the music! The Jaws theme is iconic, sure, but I love the music that accompanies that first shooting of the barrel and chase. Wow.

So, yeah. I like Jaws.

 

[skimom2]

My dad took we three older kids (9, 7, 4) to see it the summer it opened. Scary and gross and completely wonderful! Mom had no idea...until we went on a family vacation to Corpus Christi and not one of us would get in the water--lol. All that way (from San Antonio to the Gulf of Mexico) and three freaked out kids would have none of it

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

Fond recollections of "Don't go near the water," and "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water." Jaws probably did damage tourism the way Bambi damaged hunting.