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Fletch said:
If the only legacy that movie has was the shot of the murder dentist from Brooklyn Nine Nine shooting himself in the head with a shoulder laser, it's time and money well spent.
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I will say, the actual filmmaking of it was incredibly efficient. Like, a professional made this bad movie, that much was clear. And man the cast was STACKED with wasted talent. Just actors cashing checks all over the place. Thomas Jane was clearly trying to find something to challenge himself with in there. Sterling K. Brown, too, just taking every line of dialogue and trying to do SOMETHING with it. I'm pretty sure Theon Greyjoy only had three lines in the whole film. I swear sometimes people jump on these movies just so they can say they got killed by a fan favorite movie monster.
 
Ru1977 said:
I'm sure that's the case for some, yeah. No one can beat Bill Paxton though!
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Other actors look to jump in so they can say they were killed by the monster; producers actively recruited Bill Paxton so they could say they killed Bill Paxton with their movie monster. Paxton stands alone. He's an anchor being.
 
There are many wonderful Bill Paxton moments in so many movies, but the one I think about the most is when he goes, I feel, full Paxton as he describes Jamie Lee Curtis to Arnold in True Lies.
 
50 YEARS AGO TODAY ...

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Jaws, the book and the film, were so huge and had such an immense cultural impact that people were afraid to go back in the water. No joke. In the middle of June beaches on both coasts were empty. That hit the economies of beach resort towns hard. Even in the midwest (where I'm from originally) someone reported seeing a shark in Lake Michigan. It turned out there was a shark but it was dead. Some prankster threw a shark carcass overboard from a boat. "Funny as a crutch" as we used to say back in the day.

Jaws also ushered in what we now refer to to as The Summer Blockbuster Era. The lines to get a ticket were out the door, down the street and around the block. I was 16 at the time and my friends and I decided to brave the crowds. I read Peter Benchley's book about a year before and I knew I had to see that movie. And what a great, great movie it was. It really was worth waiting in line for. The iconic score, suspenseful storytelling and memorable scenes have made Jaws of the most beloved and celebrated films of all time. I remember thinking that Spielberg guy might go places. Two years later, Spielberg teamed up with composer John Williams again for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He did indeed go places.

So I think I'll watch Jaws again tonight. It's been awhile. And I'll remember this day, fifty years ago, when folks were afraid to go back in the water.
 
SDcomics said:
50 YEARS AGO TODAY ...

Pfaj3f4.jpg


Jaws, the book and the film, were so huge and had such an immense cultural impact that people were afraid to go back in the water. No joke. In the middle of June beaches on both coasts were empty. That hit the economies of beach resort towns hard. Even in the midwest (where I'm from originally) someone reported seeing a shark in Lake Michigan. It turned out there was a shark but it was dead. Some prankster threw a shark carcass overboard from a boat. "Funny as a crutch" as we used to say back in the day.

Jaws also ushered in what we now refer to to as The Summer Blockbuster Era. The lines to get a ticket were out the door, down the street and around the block. I was 16 at the time and my friends and I decided to brave the crowds. I read Peter Benchley's book about a year before and I knew I had to see that movie. And what a great, great movie it was. It really was worth waiting in line for. The iconic score, suspenseful storytelling and memorable scenes have made Jaws of the most beloved and celebrated films of all time. I remember thinking that Spielberg guy might go places. Two years later, Spielberg teamed up with composer John Williams again for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He did indeed go places.

So I think I'll watch Jaws again tonight. It's been awhile. And I'll remember this day, fifty years ago, when folks were afraid to go back in the water.
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My dad let me watch Jaws a little too young, and we used to go down to Cape Cod (not the nice part) in the summer so it felt like we were actually going to Amity, and somehow to this day I have thalassophobia AND grew up wanting to go into marine biology (turns out I didn't want to be a scientist; I wanted to grow up to write stories about sea monsters, but at least I got to do one of those things professionally).

I can basically quote Jaws word for word. Won't have time to watch it tonight, but I did buy the anniversary Lego set earlly today as a bit of an overpriced treat to celebrate the 50th.
 
Ru1977 said:
Same, except it was my mom. Jaws and The Thing were our go-to movies when I was growing up.
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True story: John Carpenter's The Thing and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner both came out on the same day. June 25th, 1982. I remember that very clearly. I saw Blade Runner at the Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard and later that day I walked a few blocks to the old Pacific Theater on Hollywood and Vine and saw The Thing. Best sci-fi day ever.

And ... two weeks to the day before that, Poltergeist and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan both premiered. June 4th, 1982. And I saw them both on the same day as well.

1982 was the best geek year for movies ever.
 
My mom showed me Jaws when I was nine or 10. We had this blue linoleum tile throughout the house. I was petrified that Jaws would jump through the water-colored tile to get me.

Jaws is a banger, and I still probably wouldn't put it in a list of my five favorite Spielberg movies. What a career.
 
I get that. It's really hard for me to think he ever beat Jaws. He has come really close many many times, and he's an incredible filmmaker, no question. I love the majority of his work, and there's a lot tied to Jaws for me that has nothing to do with the movie itself, along with behind the scenes stories and such, but I still feel it's his best.
 
I can see an argument for anyone having a different favorite Spielberg movie. Jaws just happens to live rent free in my head at all times. Someone says something truly stupid at work? I start singing "farewell, and adieu, to you fair Spanish ladies..." I probably make a "you go in the cage, cage goes in the water" joke once a week.

Most vivid dream I had as a kid that I can still recall to this day was Jaws jumping out of a swimming pool to snag my brother. Like I woke up from a dream traumatized.

Running gag with a D&D group I DM for - "why do you put so many creepy monsters in deep water in this game if you're afraid of the ocean."
"It's called you guys get to experience my therapy, strap in."
 
Never seen Jaws, but I did appreciate the Jaws popcorn bucket with articulated maw at AMC last night.

I saw Elio - fun time. A few beats I didn't love, but on the whole worth seeing. The opening "cameo" cracked me up.
 
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