JAWS (1975) Movie Reaction! | First Time Watching This Classic Masterpiece! | Review & Discussion

The story of the USS Indianapolis recounted by Robert Shaw was historically accurate

It still blows my mind that Spielberg was only 26 when he directed this masterpiece.

Just a hell of a movie. The cast is fantastic, especially Robert Shaw as Quint. His monologue about the USS Indianapolis gets me every time.

Several decades after the filming of Jaws, Lee Fierro, who plays Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich". She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago. The owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her - none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They hadn't seen each other since the original movie shoot.

In a couple of hours we go from 'I feel sorry for sharks' to 'GET HIM IN THE EYEBALLS!'

It would be impossible to overstate the impact this movie had.

Quint’s Indianapolis story is accurate and is considered one of the greatest monologues in film history. And don’t feel bad about freaking out over the head popping out—that gets EVERYONE every time even 48 years later.

Several decades after the filming of “Jaws” (1975), Lee Fierro, who played Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an “Alex Kintner Sandwich.” She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago. The owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her – none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They hadn’t seen each other since the original movie shoot.

"You're gonna need a bigger boat" was adlibbed by Roy Scheider and left in by Spielberg as it was a perfect fit for the scene.

Nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture but won for: Best Original Score Best Sound Editing Best Film Editing. It was a box office and critical success making $470 million dollars ($1.2 billion dollars today) against an $11 million dollar budget. Based on the novel of the same name. The tagline reads "The No.1 terrifying bestseller is now the No.1 terrifying motion picture."

This movie is arguably my favorite of all time. It can never be replicated due to the use of special effects in modern times. The shark scenes and the water scenes look so real here because they actually filmed in real water and built an animatronic shark while also mixing in footage of real sharks. Now a days, we get special effects and green screens which are always so obviously fake that it takes me out of the film and makes it seem fake. When filmmakers actually film on the ocean with real background ocean noise and real wind, then it feels real and thrilling. You just can’t replicate this stuff with special effects. The best way to use special effects is to mix it in with real stuff.

"He's obsessed with getting a bigger boat." "I don't blame him. Get a yacht!" LOL!

Jaws being the first of the giant shark movies took a lot of people by surprise that Great whites regularly grew to 17 feet in length so a 25 foot one could easily be believed. At the time my dad co-owned a fishing Trawler out of Oceanside Ca. and people would pay me to take them out to see if they could spot a large Great White. The biggest I ever coaxed to the surface was 17 feet long.

This movie truly was lightning in a bottle. Can't be replicated or surpassed

Oh look, my request during Achara's birthday stream actually came true! She finally watched Jaws 😁🦈

I saw this as a teenager when it came out. On the walk home my friends and I were so keyed up, it was as if a giant shark might lunge at us from every dark alley we crossed!

It's fun watching people experience THE movie that created the "Summer Blockbuster." When you see the meme about "This is a picture of your grandparents standing in line for Star Ward, understand... that had never happened before on that level. That movie was a MONSTER The FIRST monster!

Actually, Tiger Sharks are known for being one of the few species of sharks that attack humans, in fact, is the second one with more attacks registred behind the Great White. Most of the attacks are non lethal, however.

I think it holds up because they didn't show the shark too much (do to mechanical issues) so they used other ways to build tension and they had good characters with great moments like you said even taking time to show the moment with the chief with his youngest son. I also liked the moment where his wife was thinking that their boy in the boat was okay then seeing the illustration of the shark destroying a boat starts yelling for him to get out, it feels realistic and a human response. And Quint's monologe is so good, it's also terrifying.

I saw this in the theater when I was 11 years old. My friend's dad invited me to go to the movies with them. I had no idea what Jaws was, so I was shocked by it. I do remember thinking that I live in Wisconsin. I don't have to worry about getting eaten..