Hooper magically appears from the depths as the seagulls feast on shark. He asks about Quint, Brody tells him he's dead. They use some debris and barrels to kickboard their way to shore. Seagulls circle.

It has sort of a Casablanca ending with the two men going off together chatting.

The last shot is a far shot of the beach and the men getting to shore.

And that's it.

I love it when a filmmaker knows when to end a movie. There's really no need to show Brody reuniting with his wide or anything else. It's over, they survived.

All in all, I think Jaws is a pretty perfect film. Yeah, the shark is rubber. But what do you want, it was 1975. This was pre-CG.

Don't waste your time on the sequels.

I think the movie had a great script, good director and super cast. The cinematography was wonderful and the editing was quick and effective.

I haven't seen it in awhile and I like to wait a year or so before I watch it again.

Thanks for indulging me while I prattled on.

:)

Heheh, I'll listen for the sinking groan when I next watch Jaws - - in its proper MONO soundtrack.



Thanks for the movie. (My employers don't thank you.)

F***, I thought I paused this thing when I left.

Okay, GC is so my hero for this thread.

About that groan - it's an old dinosaur sound effect. In
Spielberg's acclaimed TV movie Duel, the same sound effect was heard as Stevie realized that in many ways, Jaws was Duel at sea, so he added the dino effect as a tip of the hat. Kinda foreshadowing to his next monster hit as well, I suppose. I'm pretty sure the sound effect is slowed down in Jaws.

The documentary included on the DVD is pretty thorough, but Jaws fans will want to leave room on their shelves for the eventual release of the fan-made The Shark Is Still Working. The guys behind this doc managed to get pretty much every living soul involved with Jaws to talk about its making and the cultural impact it had. They even snagged Roy Scheider to narrate - just in time, tragically.

When I have time, I'll add a few observations to this thread - perhaps the finest that has ever appeared on LoT of anywhere. :D

aww hell...then YOURE the one who should be doing this. Id love to see it again for the 'first time'

I think I sat in the theater mumbling 'oh sh!t' under my breath through many parts of it


:eek: yes, they needed a MUCH bigger boat, something like this maybe

Thanks for the awesome thread, Brad. I'm going to have to watch Jaws again... soon.

Apparently, i can't even mojo Gemini Cricket for this entertaining diversion.


It was sooooo much fun.



What're ya gonna watch next, GC?

I'm watching the documentary now. It's pretty good! Lots of cool background info, lots of Spielberg.

I meant to type "wife". lol I totally Lisa'd right there.
:D


I remember expectations were really high for the sequel. I also remember people being like 'WTF' when it came out. Stills scary but not anywhere in the same league as the first film. When I see it playing somewhere, I'll watch it but mostly to try and figure out which scenes were directed by Spielberg when the producers or the studio asked him to come in and save the film.