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THE SHARK IS STILL WORKING doc celebrates the best movie ever: JAWS!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here... Now the year 2005 is the 30th Anniversary of my favorite film of all time, JAWS. I've just confirmed my travel for the totally geeky, but too cool celebration of JAWS love in Martha's Vineyard (where the film was shot) called JAWSFEST. That happens this June and tons of people involved with the movie will be there. Everybody from actors to production designers to Peter Benchley! It'll be a blast. Check the official website out here to see what all's going on!
What's also cool is I hear there will be a screening of the rough edit of this new documentary on the impact of JAWS called THE SHARK IS STILL WORKING.
Roy Scheider, who played Chief Brody, has agreed to not only take part in the doc, but he's also the Associate Producer. Now the filmmakers are off to LA to arrange chats with Greg Nicotero of KNB EFX, who is a massive JAWS fanatic, Carl Gottlieb (writer of the screenplay for JAWS), Kevin Smith and other people either involved in the films or influenced by them.
Here's a note from James-Michael Roddy, one of the producers and the bastard that owns Quint's harpoon gun. I will fucking kill him one day and put that gun in its rightful place... my house... Here's what he has to say about the doc:
We are making this documentary as a testament to our favorite film. For thirty years - JAWS has inspired so many to pursue their dreams. From some of today's most talented Directors to leaders in the field of Shark research and Marine Biology, the movie has become a constant source of entertainment, inspiration and one of the greatest production stories ever. Our documentary focuses on the thirty years since the film was made, and how it changed the Industry, and continues to be a timeless classic. Star Trek has a fan-base that is served. Star wars as well. JAWS is very popular and crosses so many demographics. We want to celebrate the film, as well as recognize some of the many great fan films that have been made and the fan pilgrimages to Martha’s Vineyard.
So far, we have been met with nothing but positive support and endorsement. From Production Designer Joe Alves to Star Roy Scheider, we have been met with warmth and appreciation. Some of the other scheduled interviews include Carl Gottlieb, Greg Nicotero, Bill Butler, Kevin Smith, Jeff Kramer as well as Islanders and fans of the film series. Our next round of interviews will be conducted in California May 6th – May 12th.
A complete List of our Interviewees is available on the website.
We are hoping to schedule Steven Spielberg, which would be the Great White Interview in our Sea of Finaticism.
-- James-Michael Roddy
You can visit the official website here where you'll also see the awesome 1:1 scale Bruce head that Greg Nicotero and the KNB boys are constructing for Jawsfest!
Being the JAWS fanatic that I am, I can't wait to check out this doc, especially with the list of people they're getting for interviews. It'll be the JAWS equivalent of the EMPIRE OF DREAMS doc on the STAR WARS DVDs, a great mixture of those involved in the production and those in the industry that loved it. What do you folks think?
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That's a scary shark. And a perfect movie.
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Apr 30, 2005 11:07:20 PM CDT
It's still incredible how Spielberg pulled this off.
by performingmonkey
And such a great cast of Scheider, Shaw and Dreyfuss. There's no denying it scared the shit out of people in 1975, a couple of moments in the movie are still total freak-outs (if you know the movie, you know which moments I mean). This is Spielberg's equivalent of 'A New Hope' - total balls-out filmmaking with his directing talent and sheer determination in overdrive. Well...forget the 'New Hope' thing because Lucas was always better as an ideas man, as the Indy movies prove, but this was Spielberg at his freshest (i.e. when he hadn't become the 'hit and miss' guy that he now is). Is it his best movie? I'm sure a lot of people think so. I still rate E.T. and Raiders above it, although after I've seen the new Jaws DVD I might think otherwise. Whatever, I'll always remember being 8 years old and Jaws making me frightened to go near water. A movie that can damage people psychologically for life is a good thing IMO! Pure excellence.
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sucks the sequels were utter crap.. UNLIKE other film series out there....
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This is when cinema did a massive pivot, somewhat for the worst. Films became "SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS" and studios started churning out demographic crap. But, its safe to say we will always have the Spielbergs, Scorseses, and so on to change cinema every now and again. Plus, boys and girls, it's all about the movies.
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...somebody needs to do another one of these screenings with a big screen in a lake where you can sit in an innertube and watch Jaws.
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"Open wide, baby!!"
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It's no E.T.
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1. One of the greatest movies ever. Period. 2. Scheider went to my high school alma mater. 3. James Toney just put it on John Ruiz.
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scheider's jimmy ain't workin, that's fo' sho'.. but he wears his sunglasses at night.
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Really don
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That short mockumentary on the making of Jaws. I've only seen the trailer, but it seemed funny as hell! Anyhow, I'll be picking up the new DVD that will be released soon. If this one's out, I'll buy it too. Seems a nice addition to me.
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I don't feel that there can be any more information about this film than what has been told in the dozen other documentaries made about it.
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May 01, 2005 2:52:06 AM CDT
Is this like Trekkers & Starwoids or Ringers?, for Jaws? I was a
by orionsangels
It was fun! Till a Quint lookalike harpooned one of the bruce sharks, sad
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May 01, 2005 2:53:45 AM CDT
This DVD has tons of information, like the material they used to
by orionsangels
It's pretty exciting
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May 01, 2005 2:56:27 AM CDT
jaws is a good example of how luck plays a big part in how good
by blackstormy
Read Easy Riders Raging Bulls. They explain how speilberg was mostly interested in getting the shark right. There was some problem and they had to suspend shooting for awhile so it gave the three leads a chance to rehearse more and iron out their scenes. If they hadn't done this then their performances would have been really flat most likely. In my opinion its the great chemistry between the leads that makes the movie. If it was just special effects the movie would have been forgotten.
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May 01, 2005 3:00:04 AM CDT
Kevin Smith is such a whore. What a joke. I'm going to invite hi
by grabthars_hammer
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May 01, 2005 3:03:58 AM CDT
HAHAHA People go to cons dressed as Brody or Quint? I'm going
by grabthars_hammer
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Not quite sure what you mean by two halves, but the turn for me has always started with the Quint voice-over after Brody got Larry Vaughn to sign the order to hire Quint to kill the shark ("My kids were on that beach, too!"). The voice-over bridges Brody walking out of the hospital and the scene in Quint's shack. I don't know if that's what you were looking for, but since I was a kid that was the scene I looked forward to. I love the whole movie, but Brody, Quint and Hooper on the boat is the true success of that film.
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May 01, 2005 4:29:12 AM CDT
That's true. Brody, Quint and Hooper on the boat, is like anothe
by orionsangels
The first part of the film deals with the terror of the shark and tragic consequences of do nothing about it. The second part is about hunting one man eating shark and how three very different egotistical men, deal with each other on a phscyological level in the vastness of that ocean. John Williams music helps of course, hehe
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May 01, 2005 4:29:49 AM CDT
But nothing will ever compare to the CRACKED magazine parody of
by kenshiro_kane
Fuck Alfred E. Neuman. Sylvester P. Smythe, the Cracked magazine janitor, owns his gap-toothed ass. See for yourself: http://www.cpcug.org/user/deverett/cracked/html/regular_cracked_for_1975_7.html
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That's a brilliant shot... I saw those exact shark jaws on ebay about a year ago... and I was too poor to do anything about it... Damn! "Here lies the body of Mary Lee. She died at the age of a hundred and three. For fifteen years she kept her virginity. Not a bad record for this vicinity."
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May 01, 2005 7:44:23 AM CDT
"perfectly framed between the shark's jaws mounted on the wall.
by moviemaniac-7
I remember seeing Jaws for the first time and I must have been about 10 years old or so. I liked it, but that one shot made the movie for me. I didn't know crap about movies and framing then (but do I now?), but loved that shot and it's still high upon my favourite shot-list ever.
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You could make the case that there's more than one "turning point" in Jaws; after Brody's son narrowly misses becoming chum, & Brody is looking out at the ocean; the gauntlet has been thrown down - its no longer a "law enforcement" issue, its personal. Which dovetails nicely into the next scene at the hospital with the mayor & Quint's voice over. For me, film making seldom gets better than this - three great actors ( Robert Shaw, btw is a fucking god, & his Indianapolis scene alone should have got him a stinking oscar), a master director not yet hamstrung by his own fame & acquired directing tics, one of the less fruity & more powerful John Williams scores... This is what great film making should be, & seldom is. Jaws vs ET? Is that a joke? As another man-god, Samuel L Jackson once said "they aint in the same ballpark, they aint even the same fucking sport!"
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I was too scared to get in the bathtub after seeing
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May 01, 2005 8:54:17 AM CDT
Has anyone ever heard John Williams admit to where he first hear
by hypeendshere
Igor Stravinsky. The Rite of Spring: Dance of the Adolescents. And every time someone says how great the score is, it annoys me.
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.....is a perfect shot. Brillinat visual forshadowing that Spielbergs used again in Jurassic park with the camera lingering on T-Rex fossil. Another great shot is when Brody complains about throwing out the chum again and he whines to Quint about Hooper taking a turn. After the deadpan response by Quint," Hooper drives the boat, chief." there is a Brody eye view of Quint staring down at him from the crow's nest, empahizing his authority over the landlubber Brody. My fav of the movie is when the shark takes off with the piece of dock and you see the dock turn around to go after the guy in the water. There is that wonderful instant when the dock is turing around and you hear it yawning on it's moorings as it makes the turn. It was amazing what Spielberg did without showing anything. Great post Quint, I would ove to go to that fest.
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We're gonna need a bigger talkback...
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but you guys are definitely right when it comes to senor speilbergo's ability to scare without showing anything. funny how every modern filmaker credits this as an influence but goes ahead and shows the monster anyway.
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You made the right call there...is there some irony in your story that Speilberg went on to have a go at Peter Pan? And, HypeEndsHere, I hadn't heard that about Williams & Stravinsky. At least A) Williams copped to the borrow and B) Stravinsky was a bloody genius...anything to lead Williams to a worthwhile score. A great score? Well, a score that fit the film pretty tight.
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PERFECT, just like The Quiet Man, The SEarchers and King Kong.
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I loved that shot of Quint dominating the frame as well. Another one of my favorites is Quint at dusk on the pulpit of the boat with his harpoon, with the biggest fucking smile on his face, waiting for the shark to return.
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Don't listen to these fools
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King Kong
Aliens
The Deer Hunter
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Great call. The scene right before that when Quint has is sights on the approaching shark, Hooper furiuously trying to tie the keg to the harpoon line, while Brody is begging Quint to just kill it is also fantastic. That scene still gets the heart racing--no matter how many times I put in the DVD.
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Oh definitely. What i love about that scene is it's more of an adventure than thriller (cause at that momet no one is exactly in danger), and the film totally knows it. So Williams does this exilerating up-tempo score. It's such a total gear shift from anything else that takes place on the boat, but since it's just as (or arguably more) exciting than most of the life-or-death moments, it fits right in place.
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Exactly right. Brody is even seen smiling in this scene as all of them are caught up in the thrill of the hunt. This is in direct contrast to when they finally lower Hooper into the cage in a last ditch effort to kill the shark with the posion he has brought on board. The shark has pounded them so mercilessly that--even Quint has lost all his bravado. Also love the shot of Quint standing next to the two lofe perservers with water slowly dripping off them. Finally, I believe it may be Quint who has one of filmdom's first "talk to the hand" moments as Brody is ranting about him being certifiable after he smashes their radio to shit.
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May 01, 2005 5:29:42 PM CDT
there are very few films that i find perfect, but i have to say
by hypeendshere
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Steven Spielberg will be revealed as a hack when Jan De Bont's MEG: THE MOTION PICTURE produced by Nick Nunziata (the next Bruckheimer, I'm telling you) hits screens in summer 2006. I mean, the shark is really big. It can eat boats and dinosaurs. You can't beat that kind of spectacle. MEG is a tentpole release. Tentpoles didn't even exist in 1975.
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I always took that smile as a smug "Fucking college kid, I told ya so" smile at Hooper's expense after he put the tracking device on the barrel.
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...that I went to South Africa to make a documentary on the Great Whites. Wanted to even SWIM with the Sharks. The world famous legendary pros there (some of these guys are just as cool and colourful as the 3 main Jaws characters too) couldn't or wouldn't let me do it with them though. Did it with Tiger Sharks though, yeeaah! I just hope my movie will be just as good as Spielberg's. Though it won't be realistically, just hope it's still bloody great though. Now if I can only find the 'play' button on Final Cut Pro.
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Hmmm... touched a nerve have we?
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Quint, I have to say buddy I've lost a little respect for you. Greatest movie of all time? Hardly. While I respect everyone for having their own choice of what the greatest movie is, (Mine is Star Wars, followed closely by return of the king or Garden State.) I can't belive you picked jaws. It's a fun movie and all, but without John's music, the shark would just be so damn stupid.
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Nope. Just full-on tentpole Jurassic Sharks. With the steady hand of Jan "The Haunting" De Bont behind the camera, you can be sure Spielberg's flick will look like a student film in comparison. MEG FEVER: CATCH IT!
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May 01, 2005 9:32:01 PM CDT
that was one of the funniest posts in a long time, sorkin
by hypeendshere
god, i hope it was intended
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but my question is are you dissing my choice as favorite movies, (which was the joke) or my dis of jaws?
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May 01, 2005 9:38:27 PM CDT
I love that reaction by Brody when he sees the shark after chuck
by iamjacksuserid
I also like the moment after the shark attack on the beach and Brody's son almost gets it. That zoom into the water with the wonderful Williams music. It's like the ocean is different at that moment. You can't trust it. It wants to kill you.
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May 01, 2005 9:42:24 PM CDT
saying Jaws is not the greatest ever and then going on to say yo
by hypeendshere
i find SW and Jaws to be pretty much on the same level. and when i think of greatness i tend to go back to Kane or Duck Soup. but yeah, everyone's got their own greatest. didn't mean any offense.
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and it was great to be there when they first showed up on screen. My favorite shot was the reaction by Brody when the Kintner kid got ate up - when the camera pulled back at the same time the zoom moved forward. And, talk about beginner's luck - those real shots of shooting stars above Brody's head and the rocking boat?
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The shark sucked. Actually to me, the shark was scary as fuck. But the shark wasn't the movie. It was the acting and dialogue (including Quint's monologue about the Indianapolis, delivered while shitfaced I might add, God bless him). Not the FX or gore. If that's what you think makes a great movie, rent Deep Blue Sea.
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None taken, I just wasn't quite sure what you thought was funny. I never said FX or gore makes it a great movie, I'm saying without that music, the shark wouldn't have the perosnality that it does. as for the acting and dialogue, it's fine, making it a good movie, mabye even a great movie. But greatest? come on.
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This movie is my number one favorite. It is a brilliant horror film, adventure film, and the best man vs. nature movie ever committed to film.
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Saw it last year at the Seal Beach Bay Theatre (http://www.baytheatre.com) and somehow convinced a group of about 30 other people to go see it. Plus there were a whole bunch of people there not in our group. Funny thing was, everybody was reacting to the movie as though it was the first time they'd seen it although I'm sure the vast majority of attendees had seen it at least once before if not many times. Even though the movie was 29 years old everyone was still squirming, screaming, grabbing the arm of the person next to them. And it just looked great in the theater. Plus it's a great, salty seafaring epic. Robert Shaw is really into his character, he truly lived it. Speaking of great moments in the film there's something strangely eery (in a great cinematic way) when Mrs. Kintner confronts Brody.
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You definately have an interesting point as far as John William's Jaws score sounding like Igor Stravinsk'y The Rite of Spring. There is no doubt that it obviously influenced what he did. That being said, what Williams ended up writing IS perfect for the movie. It really couldn't be better. Period. Batman is just a version of Zorro, and Bob Kane freely admitted to that fact. Is Indiana Jones original? Not if you've seen The Secret of the Incas. It is impossible not to be influenced by what you have heard or seen.
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Jaws is perfect IMO. I still can't go into natural bodies of water. No thank you. And it is 100% that movies' fault. I watched Jaws on acid once........ ONCE.
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And now they are coming out with a Jaws game where you have to hunt people around Amnity and the like. 27 points of dismemberment on the human models and hopefully no super jumping shark moments like in Jaws 4.
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How the hell does the shark not only figure out where the wife was going, but actually got to the Bahamas faster than a plane. Since when is shark travel the fastest way to go.
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great scenes named already, but the shot that made me think "holy shit" has got to be the guy pulled off the side of the red rowing boat, first you see an outline of the shark, then you see the full mother as it pulls the guy down with the menacing scream.
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He's gotta be THE most overrated person in Hollywood.
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Jan De Bont is a better director then Steven Spielberg, who has the big nose, if you know what I mean.
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...is a better director than Speilberg? He's not even better than Robert Wise (a master film maker), whose original version of The Haunting is a goddamn masterpiece that Speilberg, at least, learnt from. Le Bont's "version" of The Haunting not only managed to leave a big steaming pile on the memory of Shirley Jackson ( who is still a better writer DEAD than Le Bont is, presumably, alive), it was an another in the long line of cinematic grave robberies that brought us rancid tripe disguised as a movie. Its like saying Paul Lynde could have done Raging Bull better than Robert Deniro. I'll take Speilberg's worst over a hack like Le Bont's so called best each & every time. And I hope that reference to Speilberg having "the big nose" isn't some sort of swipe at his being a jew, cause that would be a new low around here.
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I thought an appearance from Bryan would've been a lock! He's easily the most vocal high-profile fan of Jaws out there (sorry Quint, even more high-profile than your good self). Hell, the guy's PRODUCTION COMPANY (Bad Hat Harry) is named for a line culled from the damn thing!!
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Sorkin for his "hey look at me, I'm 12 years old" stance of JAWS being ordinary and GARDEN STATE being his fravorite film (get picked on a bit in the food court, eh?). You can always tell when somebody is 12 because they off-handedly dismiss acknowledged classics as "meh" while endorsing CATCH THAT KID or some such shit. Not to say everyone loves JAWS but Sorkins language and his "overrated" comment paint a picture of child who has zero understanding of the film, it's impact, it's place in history, and it's sharkifying awesomness. Or Mementofresh with his exceedingly lame Top Ten Worst Ex-Planeteers. How do you even know any Planeteer chimed in? Nobody said anything. It was all on topic. Th MEG post was on topic because Nunz is hyping it as better than JAWS because the shark is, ya know, bigger. Do you think it's just Planeteers who think MEG and Nick's movie are incredibly stupid, wasteful, a doomed to fail? Are they the only ones who think the book is sub-human retardation?? Do you read anything else on the net besides MD and CHUD?? Come now. Don't be a homo. Grow up, post your lil comments, and don't let your fear of Sideshow Bill ruin your life. And ON topic, JAWS is the greatest film every made. Period. It is everything to everyone, Shakespearean and classic in form and execution. Quint has that right. There are very few moments of real honesty and truth on this site but that is one.
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May 02, 2005 10:41:46 AM CDT
Meg, watch Kane. if you still think Jaws is the greatest film e
by hypeendshere
Mature. and then watch Kane again.
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May 02, 2005 11:34:50 AM CDT
Why are you people argeing on what great film is the best ever m
by i dunno
Citizen Kane was about a man who had achieved, materially, everything anyone could hope for but longed for his youth and innocence. Jaws was about a man who achieved everything spiritually, having survived seemingly insurmountable odds against nature and destroyed himself because he considered himself 'the one that got away' and hunted sharks for a living, finally succumbing to a shark, that could have been a kind of demon, sent to settle unfinished business. So they're both great movies, so shut the hell up.
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but Jaws is about as satisfying as a pixie stick. i love pixie stix. but we're a culture rotting the teeth out of our head. we need to put Jaws in its proper place.
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May 02, 2005 1:23:50 PM CDT
"Steven Spielberg, who has the big nose, if you know what I mean
by docpazuzu
If you're going to be an anti-semite, Cool Abdul, at least have the courage of your convictions and drop the "clever" innuendos. Douchebag.
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Ok, just because I'm twelve and your thirteen doesn't mean you have to bitch at me. Second, Hyperspace whatever is right, While I don't personally think it is, it is much easier to argue that Kane is the greatest movie. As for dissing on garden state, I never said it was the greatest movie, I just liked it a lot. Not to mention it was the most underappreciated movie of last year, right above Saved.
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My favourite scene in Jaws came apparent to me about five years ago when I watched it on DVD. The tender moment between Brody and his youngest son at the dinner table (apres dinner) and Brody is exhausted and a little drunk I think. Brody sinks his head into his hands, his son mirrors the action... Brody sees his son playing copy-cat and we go into a back and forth between Father and son mimicking each other, then Brody makes a mean face at his son and his son mimicks it by looking mean back and flashes his teeth at his father. Right then there's a moment where Brody looks at him, stops and the game is over. It's a moment where Brody (and we as an audience) is pulled away from the horror of the 'Killer Shark Situation' and finds solice in his Family Life. When he see's his son make the face of a monster, the look on Schnieder's face is priceless when he realizes then and there that the shark threat and the safety of his family are now conjoined into a singular cause. But then again, what the fuck do I know?
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That's what I ment
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http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0450459/Ss/0450459/iid_900495.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0450459 ... OH MAN! Fuck the shitty-ass boat in JAWS. Remember when Jaws, that rubbery piece of ass, swims onto the boat and terrifies the crew? Could he terrify a helicopter? I think not. MEG can. How often do you see fish attacking helicopters? Have you ever seen it in a major tentpole motion picture event of the summer? No. Jan De Bont is the man to bring us this excitement. MEG: Summer 2006. JAWS is history.
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May 02, 2005 2:04:26 PM CDT
So, now we hate CHUDs? They give so much and ask so little!!
by nadine_cross
Please tell me the real title is not "Meg: The Motion Picture". As opposed to what? The Broadway play?
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May 02, 2005 2:26:34 PM CDT
"they need to get rid of the part where he is in meg's stomach -
by blackpeter
Don't fuck with a classic, dude. That's the part of the film I'm looking forward to the most.
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Because I wouldn't put it past uber-producer Nick Nunziata to somehow get JAN DE BONT'S MEG: THE MOTION PICTURE: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL on stage within two years of next summer's tentpole release. Craig Bierko to star as Jonah. The inside of the shark's stomach will provide a wonderful opportunity for a haunting, echoing solo. Think PHANTOM OF THE OPERA meets DEEP BLUE SEA. Prepare for an onslaught on the Billboard charts of JAN DE BONT'S MEG: THE MOTION PICTURE: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL: ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING: MUSIC AND LYRICS BY THE LUCKY NIGHTSTICKS.
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But a Ralph Snart movie would be better (www.marchansenstuff.com/fansite/)
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wrote a really terrific book about the filming of Jaws. Its like a journal and equally as fscinating as that journal about the filming of Empire Strikes Back. And just as hard to find. Pick it up, if you find it. Its good.
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That's the European hazelnut spread, right?
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May 02, 2005 3:33:53 PM CDT
Just because there are other well written characters doesn't mea
by i dunno
Who else would you say is the main character? Brody, who used to hate the water but now hates it slightly less, or Hooper, who loves sharks but tries to kill one and immediatly fucks it up? Take from it whatever you like but I happen to think that it's Quint's story. Oh and sorry for the typo in my other post, I'm worse than Hitler.
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ex-scorched planet dudes invading AICN talkbacks?? Is nothing sacred? Yeah we understand you don't like CHUD, but you're still racist, homophobic, taint-lickers...so piss off!
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Which franchise more fucked up the integrity of the original? Jaws or Rocky?
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take that Roger Ebert
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Maybe somebody else has said this, but I think the dynamic of the three guys on the boat is important to keeping the second half suspenseful and funny. Each man is separate and at a disadvantage against the other two in some way: Brody hates the ocean and is on a boat with two sea experts (Quint, Hooper); Hooper is a rich kid on the boat with two working class/middle-class men (Brody, Quint -- and Quint hassles Hooper quite a bit about being rich); Quint is mentally unbalanced (remember: he destroys the radio near the end) on the boat with two sane guys (Brody, Hooper). So each man is an outsider to the other two in a different way. Tension, laughs arise naturally -- plus some bonding when they come together (singing songs below decks, at the end with the final two, etc.)
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May 03, 2005 3:07:00 AM CDT
"Brody pulls back the curtain in the hospital with that utterly
by rastar
I agree with this, but for me the moment when the film's tone shifts is just after the attack in the lagoon, when Brody's son is almost killed. Scheider looks up after dragging Sean onto the beach (love the shot of his legs as a way to show that he still has them!) and stares out to sea, as the camera does a slow zoom through the pylons and out to the open horizon. These shots, without any dialogue, convey so many things going on in Brody's mind - his fear of the sea, but the inevitable confrontation that must follow... This is one of the most pivotal moments in "Jaws" for me...
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"How often do you see fish attacking helicopters?"
Well, there is that one Internet hoax picture:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/shark.asp
Was that the inspiration for MEG?
Anyways, I love this thread. It has given me new insights into this great movie. Can't wait to see it in the theater again in a couple months. Anybody who is a true Spielberg fan knows that is the only way to watch the movie. Spielberg was very reluctant to have any of his movies released to home video one VCRs came in vogue because that is not how they were meant to be watched. -
That movie was no Jaws, but the remote control sharks they built for it are one of the coolest movie toys I've ever seen! I want one and I wanna head for the beach!
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I wish them no suffering, but they are killing my brothers in Palestine. Steven Spielberg is not directly involved in this admittedly.
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This is talkback about a great movie, not a place for you to dribble out your bigotry. Any American could make a pretty good case for hating the living shit out of arabs, for very obvious reasons, but THIS IS A CINEMA TALKBACK ABOUT JAWS, YOU TOOL. Unless you see the shark as part of some zionist symbolism, or that Jaws is anti-arab, then please keep your goddamn personal war against sanity to yourself. Steve Speilberg is a filmmaker, not a settlement builder.
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Let me ask you this then: by your own logic, wouldn't it then be justified for anyone who has ethnic/religious ties to people in other countries who have been targeted in terrorist attacks to dislike all arabs or muslims? You one-dimensional, prejudiced asshole.
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I do too. They are mean and hatefull and cruel to cosplay fans. But this is one of the more lively TBs in eons. Even a lot of on topic-posting. Until the greasy hand of Harry shuts it down it looks like there is now once again hope for fun, insightful, and hilarious TBs and not just morGoth posting his hobbit-on-hobbit Cleveland Steamer sex fantasies, or shouts from Nordling to stop the fighting because it hurts like when daddy hit mommy that one Christmas Eve. Cheers, douchebags. As for KANE, I can respect it but it's as entertaining to me (and many others) as watching paint dry. I dig the story and the emotional undercurrents and all that but as I said it's a movie I respect rather than enjoy. JAWS is both. JAWS is the first movie I remember seeing. I saw at a drive-in in 1975. It's bee no turning back ever since. Enjoyment has to count for something. KANE is stuffed-shirts. JAWS is for men. You can make a sound argument for a number of films being the greatest of all time (not one of them GARDEN STATE, as twee as listening to Belle & Sebastian in the bowels of hell) and I suspect JAWS and KANE whould get an almost equal amount of arguments. I also bet GODFATHER would get more than either of those in terms of popular opinion.
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May 03, 2005 9:13:14 AM CDT
You want a shark attacking a helicopter? Look no further than g
by hypeendshere
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ESPECIALLY THAT CUNTYFACED BOY FONDLER JIZZMASTERCUMBUCKET AND THAT QUEER TRANNY FUCKER KOTEX DOUCHEBAG OR WHATEVER SHIT HES CALLING HIMSELF THESE DAYS. AS FOR THAT DOUCHEBAG NUNZIATA DID HE EVER PAY THAT GUY HIS $1900 BACK? MEG MY BALLS, A GIANT PREHISTORIC SHARK MISSES THE POINT LIKE MAKING KONG AS BIG AS THE FUCKING MOON. AND SPIELBERG CAN BLOW ME TOO. I'LL NEVER FORGIVE THE BEARDY FUCK FOR RAPING MY CHILDHOOD WITH THAT FLINTSTONE SHIT ON TOAST.
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I don't even know how many times I've seen it, because I can pop it in the DVD player and be entertained by it over and over again. But Citizen Kane, well that is a movie to study in film class, I watched my DVD, then I watched it with commentary. Then I put in back in the box, where it remains. And, umm..Garden State, well, whatever, to each his/her own. Now Jaws 4, yes it is uber-ridiculous but still much better than Jaws 3, with or without the 3-D.
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*L* right.
Dont' know about Jaws being best flick, but the "Indianapolis" monologue is the most riveting screen storytelling ever. You can't look away till he's done. Bravo, Robert.
And Peter Benchley had to create all this even before Spielberg got involved. Spielberg is an interpreter, not much of a creator. -
He claimed it as his favorite film of all time. HUGE DIFFERENCE. While I can definitely agree that KANE can get the nod for greatest film of all time, I can think of hundreds more films that I enjoy more than KANE and JAWS being one them. While KANE I certainly love and appreciate, I could watch a JAWS marathon much in the same way I can watch A CHRISTMAS STORY marathon every Christmas eve on TNT or TBS (whichever shows it), but you'd be hard pressed to find my ass on a couch for 24 straight hours watching CITIZEN KANE.
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May 03, 2005 4:17:50 PM CDT
according to the title of the article, Jaws is the best movie ev
by hypeendshere
as for watching Kane once in film class and once with the commentary, that doesn't indicate Citizen Kane's failings, just your own. and i don't mean that in a harsh way. it's really just easier to watch a basketball game over a chess match. but once you understand the rules of chess, then the choice is obvious
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You'll get the best of both worlds. Which is what JAWS is. and you're right, Quint did title it greatest film ever, and I have seen KANE numerous times as well, I just don't revisit it nearly as often as many other movies, which are not even able to mentioned in the same sentence as an Orson Welles movie, but it's definitely got greater replay value. And since we're on the subject of a sports analogy, a great basketball game or a great football game can be viewed over and over and you can still get the excitement, however, watching the same chess game will lose its appeal when you know exactly how it plays out.
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