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What an incredible movie.

Graphic perfection.

Camera work exceptional.

As an audio engineer, I appreciate all the intense tactical work. To compile and entire audio/visual masterpiece is nothing short of genius.

This freak show is awesome to behold.

1 posted on 06/01/2014 10:49:14 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

The Thing is another one of my cherished horror movies that aged very well. Both it and Jaws terrified me as a kid. The lifeless eyes on that shark.... Shudder.


2 posted on 06/01/2014 10:52:02 AM PDT by drunknsage
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To: Eddie01

Thanks for the invitation. We’ll be right over. You got any beer in the fridge?


3 posted on 06/01/2014 10:52:21 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Eddie01

The drinking scene in the boat, where Cllint recounts the story of The Indianapolis - one of the best scenes in film history, period.


4 posted on 06/01/2014 10:53:36 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Do NOT suffer fools gladlyÂ…and message boards are full contact arenas)
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To: Eddie01

Spielberg peaked with Jaws, it’s been downhill ever since.


5 posted on 06/01/2014 10:54:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Also contains one of the best few minutes of acting ever committed to cellulose. Everyone who’s seen it knows what I’m talking about.


7 posted on 06/01/2014 10:56:10 AM PDT by skeeter
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Funny thing is that the mechanical shark ALWAYS broke down every day, which added to the cost of the production.


10 posted on 06/01/2014 10:58:11 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Eddie01

Watching Jaws My livingroom my 64” Samsung plasma

“I think we need a bigger TV”


15 posted on 06/01/2014 11:00:55 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Eddie01

In the book, Hooper screws Brodie’s wife.


19 posted on 06/01/2014 11:03:28 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Pitch black is the new "transparent.")
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To: Eddie01

How’s the Kintner boy doing so far?


20 posted on 06/01/2014 11:04:50 AM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: Eddie01

I’m going to be conservative and say I’ve watched that movie 30 times. The only other movie I have watched as many times is “The GOdfather”


28 posted on 06/01/2014 11:13:27 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Eddie01

AMC EST


29 posted on 06/01/2014 11:15:42 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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Mr. Vaughn, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, a.. a eating machine. It is really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks.


30 posted on 06/01/2014 11:22:28 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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Saw the movie when it first came out...

I think it was Drefuess who has his hand dangling over the side of the boat when the shark suddenly jumps up out of the water...

It happens so fast and so sudden that I clapped my hands together in fright...

unfortunately I was holding a bag of popcorn between my hands and when I clapped my hands the contents went flying up in the air and out for rows...

cries and gasps of “Oh” from scared patrons being rained on with popcorn “sharks” added to the experience..

my husband mumbled that he was never going to buy me popcorn ever again...

LOL


32 posted on 06/01/2014 11:25:23 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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One of the great aspects of the movie is that it conceivably could have happened...as opposed to some subsequent horror knockoffs in which alligators busted up through sidewalks or orcas blew up castles.


35 posted on 06/01/2014 11:38:18 AM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands (Conservative 2016!! The Dole, H.W. Bush, McCain, Romney experiment has failed.)
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37 posted on 06/01/2014 11:45:58 AM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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I was riding the shore road between Oaks Bluff and Edgartown and saw the location for the final scene. The ship was 75% submerged and was only 10 yards from the beach.


52 posted on 06/01/2014 1:06:37 PM PDT by AU72
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To: Eddie01

Ditto on the audio aspect of the film. One facet of this is Spielberg’s uncanny ability to record overlapping dialog, BOTH streams of which are important to the story and yet avoid cacophony. He does it several times in the film and it always strikes me when I watch it.


56 posted on 06/01/2014 1:33:17 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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