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Jaws: Classic Film, Crummy Science
Scientific American ^
| September 18, 2020
| Cristine Russell
Posted on 09/18/2020 3:28:04 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: twyn1
Whoops — meant to say - one movie that went entirely the other way was “The Moonspinners: ... great book - horrid movie!
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posted on
09/18/2020 4:40:55 PM PDT
by
twyn1
To: Capt. Tom
I was in college when Jaws came out and I stood in line for almost an hour to get in. When the opening scenes started and the young skinny-dipping woman was being dragged through the water screaming her head off, I was this close to walking out! If I hadn't waited in line so long, I probably would have. Funny thing is my campus was located on the Atlantic ocean and I don't think I went back into the water the whole rest of the time I was there.
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posted on
09/18/2020 4:41:58 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Come unto me all you who are burdened and heavy laden - for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.)
To: Capt. Tom
Why are you driving traffic to Scientific American?
You are a troll.
To: Capt. Tom
When Jaws came out, “relatively little was known about the white shark. We know a lot more now about white shark ecology, distribution and natural history,” says Skomal.
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Now we know Great White Sharks are mostly peaceful. Except if you splash the water. Or there’s any blood in the water. Or the shark is hungry. Or it’s nighttime. Or very bright and sunny.
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posted on
09/18/2020 4:45:40 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Yeah, like the horny Matt Hooper/Brody’s wife bits.
/thank God
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posted on
09/18/2020 4:46:26 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
To: twyn1
(one other was “The Moonspinners” by Mary Stewart but I doubt anyone here, other than me, has ever read that book :P ) It is on my book shelf.
Never saw the movie, guess I should.
But yes the book is usually far superior to the movie.
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posted on
09/18/2020 4:47:46 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
To: doorgunner69
ha.
Apparently we were all mortified by that subplot.
:D
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posted on
09/18/2020 4:48:21 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
To: Capt. Tom
The hysteria over shark attacks in Yellowstone is far far overblown as well.
To: Capt. Tom
To: Salamander
Reading books from the seventies, they seem to be full of really unpleasant people having meaningless sex.
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posted on
09/18/2020 4:51:21 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
To: Cold Heart
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posted on
09/18/2020 4:52:04 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
To: Rummyfan
He was good in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
:)
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posted on
09/18/2020 4:52:29 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
To: dangus
“You’re going to need a moderately larger boat” just doesn’t trip off the tongue.
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posted on
09/18/2020 4:53:22 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
To: twyn1
Yep - it’s one of the few books I’ve read where the movie was WAY better than the book.
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Funny. I had the same reaction when I saw Forest Gump. Later went back and read the book and thought it was “meh”. Thought they actually reworked a much better story in the movie version.
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posted on
09/18/2020 4:53:42 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
To: Hot Tabasco
I’m waiting for them to dissect the science behind “Gargoyles”.
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posted on
09/18/2020 4:54:33 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
There are shark attacks in Yellowstone national park?
Who knew??
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posted on
09/18/2020 4:55:32 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
To: Rummyfan
"Personally I feel that any movie that features Richard Dreyfuss dying is a good movie" Then you have just to to see Piranha 3D.
The first person killed off is good ole' Dicky Dreyfuss!
To: Salamander
Don’t get too close to the geysers. They’re like mini sharknados!
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Looking For Mr Goodbar, comes to mind.
Once is Not Enough is another.
No idea why my friend kept giving me that crap to read.
However, the one that *really* traumatized me for life was Go Ask Alice.
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posted on
09/18/2020 4:57:12 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
To: Born to Conserve
Who does the Hitler...I mean History Channel endorse?
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posted on
09/18/2020 4:58:01 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
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