I just watched "Jaws" for the first time

08/10/2010 | me

[BuckeyeTexan]

I know. Big Deal. Who cares? Why post a vanity about it? I don't know.

Jaws came out when I was five years old. I just watched it for the first time. I had heard that the special effects weren't that great. So I never bothered watching it. It was actually pretty decent.

I don't know about Jaws 2 - 4. Should I bother?

Did you know that Spielberg was worried Jaws would be a big failure?

[patriot08]

I liked Hitch’s movies, but you gotta admit when a 26 or 27 year old comes up with a horror phenomenon that wins 3 Oscars, and became the highest grossing film of all time,
(Jaws grossed more than $7 million, and was the top grosser for the following five weeks.[43] During its run in theaters, the film became the first to reach more than $100 million in U.S. box office receipts.[39][44] Jaws eventually grossed more than $470 million worldwide ($1.9 billion in 2010 dollars[45]) and was the highest grossing box office film until Star Wars debuted two years later.[46][47]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(franchise)#Box_office)
that’s GOT to cause some jealousy from the old master.
All I’m saying is the old gentleman could have handled it more gracefully.

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[al_c]

Turns out, what you DON’T see makes the movie so great.

Exactly! That's what made the first Alien movie so much better than the following ones.

[lowbridge]

When Jaws came out in 1975, I was too young to see it (6 years old). I also wasnt yet the moviegoing fanatic I would become in just a couple years. But in 1978, I saw Jaws 2 when it came out, and then in 1979 they rereleased Jaws in the movie theaters and then I got to see it.