Posted on 08/10/2010 10:43:20 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
I believe you have stolen a line from Lazamataz ...as many of us do.
I remember jerking my feet off the floor in the theatre when we went to see Jaws.
I spent a couple years in the Marshall Islands when I was a kid.
Sharks are like cougars without a conscience.
You should see Benji or Herbie the Bug.
Amazing!
I was in high school when that movie came out. I took my nephew because I got stuck watching him on a Saturday afternoon. He was 9 or 10. He's still scared of swimming in the ocean to this day. He hates me for it, and so does his mother.
ESPECIALLY, if comparing those two films to the crap that has come out of Hollywood that last 1-2 years - nothing but crap.
The Batman sequel from 2007 was perhaps the only sequel better than the original, with the exception of Godfather II. That movie is Coppola's masterpiece, IMHO. Of course, Coppola ruined it with Godfather III - a film he probably should have been stripped of citizenship just for making.
I saw those. They were great. I don’t know why I didn’t see Jaws until tonight. I think you had to see it as a new release in the theater to get the full effect. It wasn’t even remotely scary to me. It did have some good suspense. I’ve always wanted to go cage diving with the great whites. I don’t know how I feel about that now ...
Yes, II was the better movie. If there is such a thing as “better than Godfather.”
Absolutley agree that II was Coppola’s masterpiece, and also agree that Hollywood has produced non-stop crap for some time now. This is why I call Godfathers 1 and 2 a lost art. I honestly believe that these movies could not be made again today, not by anyone.
They are as classic as certain classic literature. They are simply irreplaceable art.
As a true fan of movies, I have been very dissapointed lately, the only good movie I have seen recently was “The Book of Eli”. I was very surprised to see a story of this quality and subject matter.
The DeNiro scenes of Godfather II are the exact scenes that my mind envisions whenever I think of this film. I don’t know what it is about those scenes, but what is found there, in my opinion, is the finest filmaking ever produced by mankind.
Agreed. Yuck. I can't think of any movie I've recommended to a friend in the last couple of years.
LOL.
For action it’s best on the big screen.
We have a 60” so I can watch action and it is just terrific.
I have a friend, who has a media room and this thing will take your breath away.
The floor is free floating and on hydraulics. It’s synchronized with the sound system and trust me, watching Top Gun, Avatar, Backdraft and other action movies is very, very intense.
You definitely feel as if you are part of the action.
I wish I could explain it but it has to be experienced.
Now if I can come up with $75 grand....
LOL, he lets us come over and watch whatever we want so I don’t have to spend the money.
The only movie that I have ever enjoyed as much as the book was “The Silence of the Lambs”. I have not had the opportunity to read “The Firm”, though I did enjoy that movie very much.
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The opening scene is without a doubt the scariest I’ve ever seen- and without any blood, gore or monsters.
A lovely girl is treading water on a still moonlit night, calling for her young lover on the beach to join her.
He doesn’t hear. He has fallen into a drunken sleep.
Suddenly she is yanked under the dark water and is released.
She has a look of shock and wonderment on her face.
Again and again she is yanked under and released.
Then she is pulled across the water by something underneath.
The still air is penetrated by her water logged screams.
Then she is gone.
The moonlight reflects across the water and all is silent except for a distant bouy bell- as if nothing had ever happened.
Jaws is a masterful, visceral and realistic science-fiction suspense/horror-disaster film that taps into the most primal of human fears - what unseen creature lurks below the dark surface of the water beyond the beach?
John Williams masterful musical score is one of the best ever.
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In Jaws 4, the shark roars like Godzilla or a Lion or something
Its the worst movie ever made.
In Amity, Long Island, Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) still lives with her son, Sean (Mitchell Anderson), who is a police deputy. Ellen’s husband, Martin — the former chief of police — died several years ago of a heart attack; Ellen is convinced his heart condition was caused by fear of the great white sharks he battled in the 1970s. One night just before Christmas, while on patrol in the harbor, Sean is ambushed by a great white shark disguised as a piece of driftwood. Ellen is devastated at her youngest son’s death. Her eldest son, Michael (Lance Guest) arrives with his family — wife Carla (Karen Young) and daughter Thea (Judith Barsi) — arrive from the Bahamas, where he studies conch migration as a marine biologist. Ellen orders him to change careers as she no longer wants any of her family to have anything to do with the ocean. Instead Michael persuades her to come with them back to the Bahamas for Christmas. He promises that the ocean water is too warm for great white sharks, a species that Ellen is convinced has a vendetta against the Brodys.
On the plane to the Bahamas, Ellen meets Hoagie (Michael Caine), a relaxed pilot with a gambling problem. They begin a flirtation. Michael and his colleague, Jake (Mario van Peebles) attach radio transmitters to conch shells. Carla makes ugly iron sculptures for the local government. Meanwhile, the shark that killed Sean has followed the family from Amity to the Bahamas. Ellen senses its presence, and the shark attacks the boat Michael uses as his headquarters. Michael elects not to tell anyone of his encounter with the shark but he and Jake decide to track the shark with their equipment. They put a radio tag on the shark but are not able to follow it through the ocean depths.
Assuming the shark has left the area, Michael goes back down to study conch shells again. The shark appears out of nowhere and attacks Michael’s submersible craft. Michael escapes into a sunken ship but the shark follows him. He barely escapes but insists on going down to look for the shark the next day. It’s nowhere to be seen, as it has instead decided to attack the dedication ceremony for Carla’s sculpture. It eats a woman who had taken Thea out on a banana boat. Thea makes it back to shore safely but Ellen steals Jake’s boat and heads out to sea to confront the shark herself.
Michael, Jake and Hoagie go after Ellen in Hoagie’s plane. Hoagie tells them about Ellen’s psychic visions of the shark’s arrival. They buzz Ellen’s boat just in time to prevent the shark from leaping out of the water and killing her. Hoagie crash lands the plane and, although at first it looks like the shark eats Hoagie, all make it to the boat safely. Jake and Michael realize they can use the radio tag and a big flashlight to shock the shark if it swims too close. Jake goes out on the gunwale to torment the shark with his magical invention but the shark leaps out of the water with a roar and snatches Jake into its jaws, breaking the gunwale.
Ellen takes control of the ship’s wheel. Michael uses Jake’s magical invention to force the shark to roar like a tiger and leap from the water. Ellen rams the shark, impaling it on the broken gunwale, as she fantasizes about the shark attacking her loved ones and Martin’s valiant stand against the first killer shark (even though she was not present to see it). The boat breaks in two and sinks. Jake resurfaces alive and with surprisingly minor bite wounds — the shark had released him when it realized he wasn’t a Brody.
NO.
Jaws was the best by far!
We’re going to need a bigger DVR...
Oh, I forgot about that one. Yes, Silence of the Lambs was well done too.
Have you seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?
The movie was assured of making money because of the popularity of the book. Any cheap flick under that title at that time would have made money, which is all Paramount wanted to do.
Coppola made it what it was, and he proved with II, that it was no fluke.
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