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Attention JAWS geeks in LA! Want to see THE SHARK IS STILL WORKING?
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I know a lot of you have been hearing about this enormous JAWS documentary THE SHARK IS STILL WORKING for years now. Sometimes these projects turn out extremely well, but just have trouble getting out there. From what I understand the use of JAWS footage is what's hurting this film's ability to sell because it's so damn expensive, but having seen a longer rough cut I can attest that this is the JAWS documentary to end all JAWS documentaries.
They have everybody from Spielberg to Williams to Scheider (who was a big supporter of the documentary and even recorded a narration for it) to Dreyfuss and everybody else you could want talking about things even I hadn't heard before.
My only issue with the doc was its length and I hear they trimmed a half-hour from it, clocking the film in around the same run-time as JAWS itself, just a hair over 2 hours.
But now the folks behind the film have locked in an official world premiere as part of the Los Angeles United Film Festival. You don't need a badge to get in, just two Lincolns or a Hamilton... $10. Here are the details:
"The Shark is Still Working" Screening: Saturday May 2nd, 2009
9:45 PM AND Midnight
1822 Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
$10 admission.
Click here to buy your tickets!
I don't know what my plans are, but I find myself in LA you can bet I'll be there.
Be sure to check out the official website here
9:45 PM AND Midnight
1822 Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
$10 admission.
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and first
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Thanks, Quint!
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That's redundant! ha!
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... Above water. Get it? Hehe... Um, yeah, okay then.
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I mean, ITS A SHARK!
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Will Smith as Brody. Smile you sommonnabitch! now THAT's what i'm talkin about
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It would be nice to PURCHASE the DVD within the next 20 years. Just pay for the fuckin' JAWS footage and release the damn thing. I'm sick of waiting for this. Another 2 years to wait and I won't give a fuck.
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..a Whaat?..love that guys expression when he says it..
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i'm there
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Sometimes living in Toledo is okay, movie-wise, but this is one opportunity I'll sadly miss.
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....VERY COOL NEWS
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A movie about the MAKING of a movie, that am LONGER than the movie ITSELF? Count me in!!! Me also hoping to see documentaries on "Short Circuit" and "Gremlins 2: The New Batch!"
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Seriously. I bet it's coming.
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...that they put on a 35th anniversary (!) special edition or something. I mean seriously, is it all about how popular Jaws was and how much money it made? How hard it was to get the mechanical shark to look right? We know all this.
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If the movie inspired Eli Roth and Kevin Smith to become filmmakers then fuck JAWS!!! I don't care how great it is there is no forgiving that sin.
My favorite thing about the JAWS docs is Richard Dreyfuss. The guy is so unintentionally hilarious whenever he is interviewed. He's the drunk uncle that corners you at the wedding to talk your ear off. -
We know he would've held back release of the original on DVD until he got done fiddling with it and replaced the original mechanical shark with a cgi version that looks a hundred times shittier.
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You know damn well that the film will conveinatley "malfunction" then a cloaked figure will reveal themselves a to be Tom Hanks and you'll all have to sit through "angels & demons" not falling for it!
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Iam a life long fan of Jaws, and former employee of Cap'n Jakes Amity Boat tours(JAWS THE RIDE)at universal orlando before moving to Los angeles.
(fun little fact,i also hold record for most number of shows performed in a row on the Jaws attraction at universal orlando in a single day)
You can bet i will be there to see this at the 945pm show -
Jeez, we need either the movie remastered and released in theatres, or we need a bluray release NOW!! This was the first movie I ever watched and I watch it all the time. JAWS made me love everything about sharks and the ocean. We need this movie respected with a remaster now.
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Yes it was an important film for the business, but as a FILM it's pretty good...not great. I don't see why all this worshiping is bestowed upon it.
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Deal with it.
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Man, if I was in LA I'd be there!
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Apr 12, 2009 3:44:45 AM CDT
I'm not talkin' 'bout pleasure boatin' or day sailin'. I'm talki
by finding forrestal
...I'm talkin' 'bout sharkin'!
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Although one constant complaint I've been hearing from people who have seen it is that the 'JAWSFest'section is way too long and takes up too much valuable time. I hope the film-makers have taken that to heart and cut that stuff down a bit. But it all on the disc as an extra.
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adapt a book for the screen. You listening, Zack? Heh
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Hands down. Spielberg has never topped it. It is a perfect motion picture. I've seen it over 100 times , my first time was back in the summer of '75, and it is thrilling to this day. If you do NOT worship this movie as simply brilliant, you are dead to me. Go watch a Seth Rogen movie.
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If it's not your kind of movie, I guess I could understand it - but you should at least recognize the brilliant craftsmanship.
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"Yeah, you walk straight forward."[laughing] "They're gonna die."
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Using footage from the actual film is expensive? Why can't Spielberg help them out with this? To him it'd be like lending a friend a dollar.
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Spielberg should re-image this movie now like Lucas did with the old Star Wars films...placing in modern special effects like he wanted to in the first place, but couldn't make the shark work. So the audience in 1975 didn't get a very good movie experience because they had to use their imaginations instead of having a real movie. So Spielberg had to cheat and in doing so made a lesser movie. As modern movies have shown, people want to see elaborate special effects and CGI, not things like the 1975 Jaws....which is probably why this movie flopped at the box-office and almost killed Spielbergs career before making the excellent "1941".
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Wasn't it supposed to be released four years ago to tie in with the 30th anniversary of Jaws? One more year and it will tie in with the 35th anniversary of Jaws.
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The greatest artistic achievement of the 20th century. I truly believe that.
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But i'll take a look a this one
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Apr 12, 2009 1:06:03 PM CDT
Could you maybe skip the film-fests and release the DVD???
by gruntybear
C'mon, guys. I've heard about this documentary for, like, friggen' ever. I don't want to wait the several years it will take to parcel this thing out to the film-fest press; before we get the inevitable DVD. JUST PUT THE THING OUT ALREADY!!!
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I know how this works. They get you to go out of your way to see this documentary, then they symbolically destroy the film in front of you. Then an old space jew with pointy ears that aren't quite so pointy any more hobbles out carrying JJ's film can and asks if you want to see a better movie. Sorry. Pass.
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Is there a missing frame in the coroner's office when Hooper yells about smoking then hold up the appendage and says "This is what happens"? It seems like a weird cut.
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and duel. because everything after was fried shit except for raiders. childlike wonder and preachy historics suuuuuuu uuuuuuuck.
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I hope it's good. I really thought that hour-long doc on the Jaws DVD was fairly comprehensive and interesting, but I'm always up for more insight into Jaws.
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Now it's coming out. Thankyou for the update.
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Look, I know we are all entitled to our own opinions. But in the case of a few movies (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, E.T., Star Wars ANH and ESB, Godfather 1 and 2... etc) no one is entitled to any opinion other than "IT IS GREAT". And this goes for JAWS. IT IS GREAT. It was, is, and always shall be GREAT. So be quiet.
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i never really got the love for jaws
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Jaws changed my life. It makes me long for a time for movies WITHOUT CGI. Thank God Bruce never worked. Could have been a completely different movie...and not the classic it's become. Had the shark been the "star" of the film, instead of all those great characters AROUND the shark...Jaws would not have had the impact on the world that it did.
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i grew up in a beach town and i swear after i saw jaws the first time as a kid i was scared as shit to go in the water.
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Part of it has to do with Jaws. The rest has to do with sand getting in every crack of my body, ugh!
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http://www.youtube.com/user/BrianRazz
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is one hell of a film.Enough said.
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Apr 12, 2009 10:34:11 PM CDT
"When someone yells 'Barracuda!', people go 'Huh, what?'"
by nasty in the pasty
"You yell 'Shark!', and we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth Of July."
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I fear this documentary will inspire one of those idiots "around Kevin Smith" age to reboot, remake, re-envision. I want to be dead before JAWS is re-made.
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but then I read the last sentence and was hit over the head with the sarcasm hammer.
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Let me guess, you're in your 20's and you think "Hostel" is one of the best movies ever made. I'm sorry to insult you, but if you think "Jaws" is "not great", your taste is in your ass.
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Surely he still has some pull in Hollywood and can get the studio to lighten up on the legalities here. If he willingly participated in the documentary, why can't he help them release the DVD already? Seems like this thing has been 5+ year in the making and I'm tired of waiting to see it.
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Fool.
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Apr 13, 2009 1:52:07 AM CDT
Spielberg has a good relationship with Universal - he could help
by juansanchez
for sure.
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I'll buy it.
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LY awful
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JAWS owns all that you survey. Before Star Wars, JAWS created Hollywood Summer Blockbusters as we know it. You owe your pitiful existence to that rubber shark, all 35 feet (two tons) of him. Take a good look at that trailer--those proportions are correct.
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Just get the DVD out, already!
Naysayers should be aware that this doc has been in the making for years, and despite all the bonus features on the anniversary editions of JAWS, this WILL be the be-all-end-all story -
One of the best movies ever period. I hope they never remake it.
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Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
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I look forward to the 25 minute version that ends up as a Special Feature on the next DVD release.
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It's only a matter of time before they remake Jaws...maybe Russell Brand can audition for the part of Quint; he's already fucking with one classic, what's one more? Then maybe he can team up with Crocodile Dundee and remake Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Oh wait, Tom Cruise already wants to remake that with his pal John Travolta...I think The Sting is still up for grabs, anyway...
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"Jaws" for Eli Roth? One demerit for an otherwise perfect film.
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Cool Hand Luke. Luke taking down the guy with the mirrored sunglasses with a bazooka. "I guess we don't have a failure to communicate any more." Also I think Nora Ephron could do an awesome chick-flick Midnight Cowboy. Finally, how about a Godfather reboot where they're all teenagers?
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Re-hash the same stories a million times and make them about as interesting as watching a town council meeting on public access.
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The reason Jaws and Star Wars are so beloved even today, as people like myself can watch them over and over is because they were able to combine a formula in their films that movies don't even attempt these days. Movies like Jaws & Star Wars, had a good story, had real characters the audience could identify with, had a good drama, a touch of humor, and had 'it' moments that are memorable years later. "You're gonna need a bigger boat!!!" that stuff lives on today as you still get goosebumps when you see it on screen. The problem with summer movies since the advent of CGI, is that the director wants to wow with action and special effects first, and doesn't care about a good story or characters that you care about. Spielberg, Lucas, Cameron, Zemeckis, all these guys got it in the late 70's/80's and defined a genre of movies that are essentially guilty pleasures, or 'fun' movies, but still have that bite that can make them stand up to the classics.
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Jaws is pretty much the greatest movie of all time
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Duh.
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Khaaaaaaaann!!
I have 3 copies on dvd. Sad but true.
Best film ever made.
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jaws in theaters...they played at at uni when i was studying film. was great to see it on something other than film. such an amazing film...perfect. made me fall in love with scheider in a purely hetero way
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