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Jaws turns 50 years old this month...
Posted on 6/9/25 at 1:46 pm
Posted on 6/9/25 at 1:46 pm
A landmark film in the history of cinema that practically invented the idea of the summer blockbuster movie experience. It was the first motion picture to ever cross the $100 million mark at the domestic box office and launched the career of director Steven Spielberg into the stratosphere.
A commercial and critical hit, Jaws was the #1 movie at the box office that year and went on to be nominated for 4 Academy Awards (including Best Picture). John Williams would win the Oscar for Best Original Score for his iconic soundtrack.
I will always love the line from the original teaser trailer: "...it is as if God created the Devil and gave him....jaws..."
A commercial and critical hit, Jaws was the #1 movie at the box office that year and went on to be nominated for 4 Academy Awards (including Best Picture). John Williams would win the Oscar for Best Original Score for his iconic soundtrack.
I will always love the line from the original teaser trailer: "...it is as if God created the Devil and gave him....jaws..."
This post was edited on 6/9/25 at 1:47 pm
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Posted on 6/9/25 at 1:49 pm to RollTide1987
One of the first movies I saw in the theatre.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 1:53 pm to RollTide1987
It still holds up.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 2:08 pm to RollTide1987
The GOAT movie
Posted on 6/9/25 at 2:38 pm to Seldom Seen
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It still holds up.
I watched Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 3-D, and Jaws:The Revenge last week.
3D being my favorite.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 2:40 pm to RollTide1987
Williams should be given even more credit than he got. The greatest “score” of all time
Posted on 6/9/25 at 2:47 pm to RollTide1987
What a movie. I was probably about 8 or 9 the first time I saw it. I watched it at our camp at Cypremort point. We would always swim off the pier. That summer when ever i jumped in I would swim as fast as i could to that ladder. you know just in case a giant great white was watching me. I even did that in pools for a while as well.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 2:48 pm to JodyPlauche
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Jaws:The Revenge
"Because what shark wouldn't want revenge against the people who killed it." --Roger Ebert
Posted on 6/9/25 at 2:52 pm to JodyPlauche
Wanna see a hilarious bad movie? Check out Cruel Jaws (1995) it’s an Italian Jaws ripoff starring a Hulk Hogan look a like. Seriously if you are into funny bad movies, this one is right up there with the best of the worst.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 3:28 pm to RollTide1987
First part is kinda slow with the mayor and all.. but the moment Quinn shows up and they get to the boat.. it’s about as elite a movie as there is.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 3:51 pm to Lawyered
Will be seeing it in a theater this summer! 
Posted on 6/9/25 at 4:19 pm to RollTide1987
Perfect movie, and in my top 3 anytime watches.
Can we just acknowledge that moment at 2:11 when the orchestra picks up and Quint is all "Gotta get to work." Everyone responding exactly how they would. The blocking leading the cinematography into moments with each character. The urgency in William's score.
Just why I love film. This post was edited on 6/9/25 at 8:01 pm
Posted on 6/9/25 at 5:13 pm to shutterspeed
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Jaws:The Revenge
Posted on 6/9/25 at 5:17 pm to RollTide1987
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practically invented the idea of the summer blockbuster movie
It also predates the invention of the PG-13 rating.
It’s rated PG and definitely has full frontal bush in it.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 6:09 pm to CocomoLSU
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It’s rated PG and definitely has full frontal bush in it.
With the blood, gore, and nudity it would definitely garner an R-rating in 2025.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 6:32 pm to RollTide1987
I watched 3 of them this weekend.. Should have never made 3.. It was terrible to the point of laughable..
My dad took me to see the original in the theater.. I still laugh when the head came out of the sunken boat's hole and my dad jumped and I laughed out loud in theater...
My dad took me to see the original in the theater.. I still laugh when the head came out of the sunken boat's hole and my dad jumped and I laughed out loud in theater...
Posted on 6/9/25 at 7:01 pm to RollTide1987
Unpopular opinion, but I actually like the first half of the film better than the second half in the boat.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 8:39 pm to RollTide1987
GOAT movie.
Not a scene wasted.
It never gets old.
Not a scene wasted.
It never gets old.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 8:41 pm to RollTide1987
JAWS is on the Mount Rushmore of movies including all genres.
Casablanca, Jaws, etc..
Casablanca, Jaws, etc..
Posted on 6/9/25 at 8:48 pm to RollTide1987
Still my favorite movie of all time and always will be.
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