50th anniversary of Jaws

RIP Chrissie

I'm sorry, OP. I must disagree with you on Lorraine Gary. Talk about your nepo careers. Her husband was a big shot and she was a god awful actress.

An Oscar...? HAHAHAHA.

I saw it here. The trailer had been showing the previous months and it was brilliant. They just showed the image with *that* music under it and finally Coming This Summer. It was an eagerly anticipated movie.

As has been stated here many times, it’s so much better than the book. The shark is front and center in the film and we have none of the bad subplots.

Scarier than a million Exorcists. I could stay away from demonically possessed children.

But Mom and Dad loved vacationing at the beach.

“Everyone in the water!”

I was young when it was released and was afraid to even swim in a lake or pond after seeing it.

Everyone has that first movie that scared the bejeezus out of them. This was mine. And I BEGGED my parents to let me watch it when it was first aired on TV.

It's a great movie, but fuck you Bruce. Fuck you.

I fell in love with Robert Shaw in this. His Indianapolis monologue is one of the best things ever put on film.

Holy mackerel, I watched Jaws and Jaws 2 back to back on Tubi yesterday. Was shocked to see OP’s thread as they’re both still fresh on my mind. Had no idea it was the 50th anniversary (must be why Tubi just added them).

With so much home entertainment to choose from today, it’s hard for films and TV shows to keep my undivided attention. But with Jaws I was locked in. It’s such a great film with a perfect cast.

I was born over a decade after the movie came out so I spent my life watching films with more advanced special effects before I ever watched Jaws, and til this day that shark remains terrifying. This is one of those movies that makes me envy everyone in 1975 who got to experience the thrill and hype and anticipation then finally watched one of the most epic flicks in an air conditioned theater with some popcorn to beat the summer heat.

My all time favorite movie. Saw it when I was five at home and loved it. The part with Charlie and his buddy and the holiday roast and the busted jetty is what had my heart pounding!

A whaaaaaat?

I don't think that's funny at all.

Fantastic movie, has not aged at all. I was 11 when it came out and it was such an intense experience to be in a dark theater, especially the scenes in the hull of the boat where it felt like you were IN the boat with them.

Lee Fiero should have been nominated. Her one small scene changes the entire movie and it's an interesting moment because Scheider tried to close the beach but the Mayor wouldn't let him, yet the mother thought it was his fault.

To me, there may be better movies that were released in the summer (Nashville, the same year, for one) but Jaws will always be the quintessential “summer movie.”

My two friends were 14 and 13 when the movie was made on Martha's Vineyard, and they showed up every day to watch it being filmed (the lived on MV all summer long). A few times, they were used as 'extras' on the beach scenes. The 14 year old went on to study films (he's a film archivist now) because watching 'Jaws' being made left such an impression on him. He always said, 'Who knew I was watching one of the greatest movies of all time being made ?'

When we get them silly bastards down in that rock pile, it'll be some fun, they'll wish their fathers had never met their mothers. When they start takin' their bottoms out and slamming into them rocks, boy!

It’s a great movie and that story about The Indianapolis terrified me. I thought there was no way it could be real, but it IS REAL!

And I still scream “GO! SWIM!” When the shark attacks Richard Dreyfus in that shark cage. Scared the shit out of me.

Without Jaws there would be no...