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Come watch JAWS documentary THE SHARK IS STILL WORKING at the Alamo next Monday with Quint and producer J. Michael Roddy!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. The kind folks at the Alamo Drafthouse asked me to host the upcoming screening of The Shark Is Still Working at the Alamo Drafthouse with producer J. Michael Roddy in attendance.
For whatever reason they seem to think I like Jaws or something.
I get asked constantly about this movie, the most in-depth documentary on the making and impact of JAWS and I usually have to tell the poor Jaws fans that they just gotta cross their fingers and hope the flick plays a festival near them.
This time I get to say something different. If you’re in Austin the film screens this upcoming Monday, August 2nd at 7pm, Alamo Ritz.
CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS!!!
I thought I was the biggest Jaws nerd in the world until I met Michael Roddy. So for your money you not only get to see the documentary (which is still looking for distribution), but you get to see two Jaws uber-nerds discuss one of the best films of all time.
Hope to see some of ya’ there! This is an opportunity not to pass up! I’ll also be at the Alamo Jaws screening Tuesday! Any chance to see my favorite movie on the big screen!
-Quint
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Fact.
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...that came up with this one?
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just like 2009 was the year of LAND OF THE LOST and 2008 was the year of SPEED RACER.
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Seriously - I love JAWS, and the documentary sounds glorious, but I absolutely loathe the writers on this site with the passion of a thousand suns. Quint blathering on introducing this great movie, using this great movie to promote this site = no ticket sold to me.
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This documentary is close to 2.5 hours long. It feels like twice that. The producers seriously need to cut huge segments out. Who cares about the barn where the artist painted the poster?
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I mean, he poops in every TB. No offence dude, I'm sure you're a nice guy but the joke's wearing thin.
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...where they name the movie after the very last line in the film to try and give the story the cheap feeling of "coming full circle"."And after all these years... the shark is still working."[credits]
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This documentary is the film version of a cocktease. It's narrator, Roy Sceider, has been dead for two and a half years yet still no distributor. Just throw it on Dvd and sell it on eBay and get it over with.
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Would ya, please?
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Never even heard the name till about a month ago and thankfully won't have to hear it ever again about 24 hours after it's released.
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I spelled Roy Scheider's name incorrectly in my first post.....the guy is a legend and one of my heroes. Sorry Roy, RIP.
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...after I've bought some batteries.
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On my wife's voice recorder
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Jul 30, 2010 4:56:23 PM CDT
2010: Another Year of Yawn Inducing AICN TB Trolling
by le vicious fishus
Thanks, SCOTTPILGRIMFAN.
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I have seen you guys post about this a long time ago. And I have been waiting for a while for it to come out on DVD already. And now, you're telling us that it's still being shown in theaters?! WTF?!
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There are other states outside of Texas. Also, why not put it on Youtube?
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What Universal need o do is but this fucking film and put it on the inevitable Jaws blu ray. that would be awesome ! Still the original DVD documentary is about 2 hrs i think and was pretty comprehensive.
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Is that just me or..? The schtick is getting old.
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Jul 30, 2010 5:56:51 PM CDT
Yeah this documentary was made for the 30th anniversary
by indycollector
of Jaws. We are now at the 35th anniversary.
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..when's this doco going to get a DVD release?
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let's watch a goddamn DVD release of the fucking film.
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where is the caddyshack doc?
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cinemaniac1979 is right. go to the bathroom beforehand and for god sakes bring lots of caffeine. It may be 2.5 hrs but feels like 4, with possibly half the entertainment value of the original movie. Not saying its bad, but only the most die hard Jaws fans will find it engaging
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This is AWESOME!!!!
The Ballad Of Bruce The Shark (or Jaws: The Song)
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http://tinyurl.com/2vwtbyx
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Seriously!
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Cool tune.
And I longingly await the Scott Pilgrim doc we'll be watching 35 years from now. -
I haven't seen this yet, granted. But Dangerous Days is a tough act to follow.
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And it has been SHORTENED. I believe it was the first screening of the shorter version and I talked to one of the producers, who happens to live here in Denver. It is jam-packed with interesting material and because of that slightly overwhelming, but it is a JAWS fan's dream come true (which I most definitely am) and I can't recommend it highly enough. So ignore the above posts.
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The stuff they cut out will be on the DVD...IF Universal ever pulls-head-out-of-ass in our lifetime.
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I need to upgrade.
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Big fan...
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But I live in Pennsylvania. Oh well, maybe it'll be on the Blu-Ray or something.
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Jul 31, 2010 3:03:09 AM CDT
Universal really should buy this and package it with Jaws
by mr nicholas
as a special edition Blu Ray.
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you know, there may be those inevitible, annoying legalities are are tying up things so that we, the fans, can finally have a nice DVD/BluRay version of this documentary
and who knows what the legalities are....maybe every single estate of anyone featured in the documentary now dead wants a cut of the pie I have no idea (and if so they are overrating the piece anyway... it might actually undersell projections-- after all its a 35 year old film and many of the people who were in the film are gone now)
but thats my guess....
unless the studio is hanging on for the 40 th anniversary
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Hey Capone! Can we get this film in Chicago please? Pretty please?
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Yeah I assumed part of the distribution problem was getting rights to photos, music, likenesses etc etc. But I think there is a DVD release of this project available.
However, at 2.5 hours I wonder if it would work in a movie theatre? For example, my guess is that Michael Moore's "documentaries" come in at around 2 hours, give or take. Perhaps TSISW is too lengthy for a theatrical release in its current form, unless it was screened at documentary film festivals like Hot Docs in Toronto.
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The theatrical cut is not 2.5 hours. It's a lean, mean 120 minutes, and it plays beautifully.
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What's the scoop on this thing. Why hasn't it been released on BluRay/DVD yet? That's the market where it will be successful.
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Jul 31, 2010 2:52:12 PM CDT
How many times are we gonna listen the same fucking thing?
by chien_sale
Oh yea the shark was not working.
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its a small budget "genre" series it got a nice kick-ass documentary made independently and released widely on dvd. and there's Jaws, a movie that is a big ass wide release, major studio picture. something thats considered a true classic and the documentary is having trouble finding distribution? thats just weird. they should just try and release it to dvd on its own.
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If not, why bother?
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From what the producer told me it's simply down to Universal - the many film clips from JAWS would cost the producers literally thousands of dollars for every few seconds if they wanted to find another distributor, and that's just not feasible for them, so they really can only wait for Universal to release it whenever they decide it's worth it. It is mind-boggling the studio doesn't see the profit they could make when so many people love JAWS, but what can you do? The producer I talked to basically said they had hired an entertainment law firm to handle it and that was all they could do. I got the feeling they were all completely worn out and demoralized by the situation and ready to move on. I guess the moral of the story is that you cannot make a "fan" documentary and hope that the rights to the footage will be released. I'm sure they thought Universal would be thrilled to distribute it, and it makes sense. It's too bad because these guys did a fantastic job and got practically every interview they wanted, including The Beard himself. (The only person that wouldn't sit down with them was strangely enough Teddy Grossman, the stuntman and the guy killed in the estuary scene)
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Seriously.
A movie about a shark eating people. The source material was there from the book but under any other filmmaker it could have been a syfy(?) movie.
They took a book about a man eating shark, what could have EASILY been a B movie, and made one of the greatest masterpieces of cinema.
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And it was still 2.5 hours. Really a great doc, but only for the Jaws die-hards. There is some stuff in there that's kind of fun, but totally pointless (like a bit about a real shark in Martha's Vineyard... interesting, I guess, but had NOTHING to do with the film itself). And way too much about Jaws-Fest. However, you have to respect how thorough these guys were in getting every possible interview (including Scheider before he passed) and approaching it from every possible angle. Here's hoping we do get that DVD. Let's go Universal!
As for Roddy- gotta love his passion for Jaws but comes off as a bit of an egomaniac. At least to us "little people".... -
Honestly, if the goddamned Biography channel here in the UK could screen a 2 hour "story of Jaws" special last week AND USE FOOTAGE FROM The Shark is Still Working, why the FUCK can it not get released?
As a lifelong Jaws fan this pisses me off almost as much as the fact it never gets shown on the big screen in Scotland.
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I'm in Scotland too, just knowing this thing gets a screening once or twice a month somewhere in the States is so goddamn frustrating! Not as frustrating as the whole Jaws Blu ray fiasco. If Jaws isn't on Blu ray in 5 years for it's 40th B-Day, I might just have to destroy Universal, who's with me!? In the meantime, Jaws fans, enjoy this song about this fine film itself... I give you, The Ballad Of Bruce The Shark (or Jaws: The Song) http://tinyurl.com/2vwtbyx
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that the makers of this were able to get all of these fantastic interviews and behind-the-scenes footage I've never seen anywhere else before, yet they can't get the rights to actually get the doc out there? Methinks the entire thing of waiting it out is a ploy on Universal/Spielberg's part to marry it to the eventual blu-ray... and if they don't, if we get the same ole shit recycled (even though that stuff was good as well, I get more of a comprehensive 'Dangerous Days' vibe from this), it will be fucking sad. Since this is five years old, I'm sure they can do an extra 30 minute, more up-to-date 'reminiscences' feature on the BD as well. All classic movies need this kind of comprehensive treatment, by the way, the kind that is not just BTS, but also measures impact on society, other filmmakers, what's happened since, etc.
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This movie really is one of the greatest ever made, hands down. It is so primal and goes so deep into our fears, frustrations, limitations, and puts us against each other and against nature in a way that I don't think any other film ever has... AND it's hugely entertaining. I think movies like this, The Godfather, Star Wars, The Exorcist, etc., are the perfect marriage between art and entertainment. It's what Nolan tries very hard to do but I feel that he sometimes falls just short because his films take themselves a bit too seriously... or they sometimes come across as self-conscious about the fact that they're trying to marry art and entertainment. However, Inception had some moments of great, unexpected and welcome humor, and seems like a pretty perfect movie-going experience... I have to see it again and really, only time will tell, but I do think the film is an amazing feat. He's the only game in town as far as I'm concerned when it comes to getting us back to that 70's art/pop aesthetic... genre movies that you can both dig on an artistic level as well as just sit back and enjoy purely as great, escapist entertainment.
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Man, that guy had an amazing run in the 70s and 80s. Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders, ET, Temple of Doom, the guy was unstoppable.
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This new movie has me thinking... What other Jaws documentaries are out there and worth watching? I've come up with a few: (1) "In The Teeth of Jaws" (50 mins; rare BBC TV production); (2) "The Making of Jaws" (125 mins; 30th Year DVD Extra); (3) "Jaws: The Inside Story" (90 mins; The Biography Channel); (4) "The Shark is Still Working"... I saw #3 earlier this year on the Bio channel, and it was excellent. Will this new one add anything beyond famous fans gushing about how Jaws changed their lives and formed their careers? Personally, I enjoy the cast interviews, how-it-was-made bits, and stories about the production.
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The fact that Jaws is still not on Blu or the fact that this doc is also still not available?This is the kind of bullshit that makes being a movie fan frustrating as fuck.
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Hey Guys,
Thank you for the comments. We are truly doing our best to get this released. These screenings are helping the cause. We appreciate your support and trust that you know how much it will mean to us to get this into your hands.
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