If the movie isn't like this, then I'm not watching it.
My kid wanted to see Inside Out 2. Since it’s hot outside I took her.
It was ok but nowhere as good as the Mario Brothers movie from last year.
JAWS would never catch on today.
Much of what made Jaws feel so real to so many people was something that they couldnt understand or explain but they knew was very real and different from the fiction of other movies.
Back then nearly all of us spent summer at lakes, ponds, and pools swimming with our family and friends. The majority experienced that on a basis that was regular enough that we intimately knew not just the feel of the water but the sounds and smells that went along with each of those different swimming instances.
One thing that didnt change was the underwater sound of feet pounding the surface from a swimmers kick and that was written into the soundtrack.
We could all hear the person trying to get away as they kicked embedded in the music as the shark closed in. Each time we jumped in the water we could hear Bruce closing in on us from behind.
Todays kids spend summers watching TikToc in the basement and most wouldnt connect that rhythmic pounding with anything let and certainly wouldnt experience that feeling of being unprotected and stalked.
“I dont get it. Its just a dumb movie about a fish and the CGI isnt very good.”
I hope it’s a major blockbuster about Hollywood going broke, and No One goes to see it !
Benchley had little to do with the movie becoming what it was. A book “nobody” ever read.
Spielberg had little to do with the phenomena. Virtually unknown behind the scenes guy, we cared about him no more than the kid that made the sandwiches for the lunch on set.
The acting had little to do with anything although Shaw and that one beach mom in the dark bikini were pretty good. Most of it not particularly good really but they were doing the best they could with that terrible writing trying to hang some flesh on a story skeleton of little more than this person gets eaten then the next.
John Williams was entirely responsible for plopping us in the water and making us know that the cold water was the last thing we would feel before those teeth hit us.
Jaws is still relevant and still a very watchable movie... I’ve seen it several dozens of times and that’s what makes it a classic in my books. I’ve seen hundreds of movies once, and then never ever watched them again.
Then there are any movies by the Cohen brothers, Tarantino, Spielberg, Scorsese, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Wilder or Capra that I will watch over and over and over again.
Most of the movies made today are once and done. Recent exceptions... ‘Inception’ a fascinating movie by Christopher Nolan, who also directed ‘Oppenheimer’ (once is enough) and ‘Dunkirk’ (once is enough). And ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and the ‘The Hurt Locker’ both rewatchable by Kathryn Bigelow.
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I went to see the movie a few times in the theater. After a while, I could take my eyes off the screen and watch the audience. When the shark was attacking, people were gripping their armrests and swaying back and forth. A primal fear.
Whatever it is they better be quiet, feature gay sex scenes, warn about global warming, and have no white people.
The scariest part was the shock when that head appears from the boat window underwater.
LOL! Bad idea to go against Spielberg when it comes to chocolate. M&Ms turned down his request to feature E.T. eating them - and he used Reeces Pieces instead - exploding their sales overnight.
They produce nothing I care to see. Further they don’t like people like me and often make crap to shove their beliefs in my face.
“Bad Boys Ride or Die” was excellent. “Twisters” looks good.
My friend, actor and director Nick Searcy, says his son-in-law wrote a great script called “Thelma” which is coming out-—a “Beekeeper” with a 93 year old woman wanting to get the people who scammed her out of money. Says its funny and touching. The lead is played by . . . a 93 year old woman! It also features Richard Roundtree (Shaft) in his final role before death.