I just checked, yep, Jaws (1975) is still the daddy. | Thread profile

UPDATED Sun Jun 15 2008 12:51:30 A man eating shark is terrorising the holiday island of Amity . Police chief Martin Brody , shark hunter Quint and marine biologist Matt Hooper set sail in the hope of killing the great white monster. Jaws is responsible for many things, it's responsible for propelling director Steven Spielberg's career into the stratosphere, it was ...

UPDATED Thu Jun 12 2008 21:22:27 A man eating shark is terrorising the holiday island of Amity . Police chief Martin Brody , shark hunter Quint and marine biologist Matt Hooper set sail in the hope of killing the great white monster. Jaws is responsible for many things, it's responsible for propelling director Steven Spielberg's career into the stratosphere, it was ...

The shark was fake. The movie was an improvement over Benchley's novel, though. "Stone-cold sober I find myself absolutely fascinating!" ---Katharine Hepburn

but i was 11 when i read it, so............ . When you get knocked out, Mr. Corbett, I'll throw some champagne on you.

UPDATED Thu Jun 12 2008 19:55:54 Nice review. I would say it this way: It is an incredible film when you first watch it and when you first watch it as a kid . . and when you first watch it on the big screen But reviewing it as an adult: Spielberg's direction and whoever edited for him--offers a very rinky-dink, episodic and choppy film to my eyes. It struggles with ...

Lee Marvin was approached to play Quint, but begged off saying he would rather go fishing. It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

Edited accordingly When you get knocked out, Mr. Corbett, I'll throw some champagne on you.

After a beach party, you see a pretty girl who has swum out and treading water in a calm sea on a lovely moonlit night. She laughs and beckons her drunken boyfriend on the beach to join her. Suddenly we hear the ominous music, the girl is yanked down and released. We see the horror and surprise on her face and she looks to the beach where her boyfriend, too drunk to stand, is ...

UPDATED Fri Jun 13 2008 18:56:07 STILL the scariest one of them all- the opening scene: After a beach party, you see a pretty girl who has swum out and treading water in a calm sea on a lovely moonlit night. She laughs and beckons her drunken boyfriend on the beach to join her. Suddenly we hear the ominous music, the girl is yanked down and released. We see the horror and ...

I heartily agree that those sequences really caught something--very deftly planned--combination of cinematography, music, pacing. . The whole 'seaside community life' of the U.S. coast was also very well expressed in that film, as well as our modern relationship with the ocean, and our subconscious fear of it. No other film had ever tapped into that fear. When it hit the ...