Amber: “I’ve never seen or used a phone on the wall like that!” “Ooh, a typewriter!” “Have you ever seen one?” Jay: “Not in person.” GEEZ, I feel sooooo old now!
I sometimes think 65 is not that old, then I remember I was born in 56 and my father in 1908. When he was young he saw a reunion of very old "ram rod straight" civil war soldiers. Yeah, I am old
Movie is almost 50 years old. People still underestimate it. I actually think it gets better with age because we are so caught up in our digital world and everything is CGI we forgot to appreciate movies like this. That‘s why reaction channels are taking off. People discovering the old stuff was actually pretty awesome.
When they started off saying that they couldn’t imagine a movie from the ‘70s being scary, I thought, “Just you wait!” Then they couldn’t catch their breaths after the very first scene! Spielberg strikes again.
4:42 - Jay: "this is going to make me not want to go back and swim in the ocean..." - the exact phrase uttered by an entire generation when this movie hit theaters.
How about after seeing the "original" Psycho" movie with actor Anthony Perkins? Who wanted to take a shower at home alone after that one!!! But that is a really really older movie, more of my generation, I'm in my 70's.
Fun story about the kid the shark ate at the beach! About 20 odd years later the woman that plays his mom in the film went into a fast food place and just happened to see a picture taken from Jaws of the little boy that got eaten! She commented "Why do you have that picture up? I played his Mom in the film Jaws!" The waitress got the manager who happened to be the little boy in the film they hadn't seen each other since making Jaws!
Actually, it was a sea-food restaurant and right there on the menu was the "Alex Kintner" sandwich. The lady, Lee Fiero, remarked that she played Alex's mother. The waiter rushes back into the kitchen; out comes Jeffrey Voorhees, all grown up! He owned the restaurant.
I love watching movies with you guys! My late husband and I loved to watch movies together and until I found you guys, I had no one to share them with! Thank you so much for being there!
Quint’s monologue about the USS Indianapolis was an actual historical event. Robert Shaw’s delivery makes for one of the most impactful scenes in film history! This will always be one of my favorite films!
It was in fact as true to fact as fact itself!! My dad was in the Philippines and later in Japan during WWII. I won't go into what little I know that he witnessed, there or in Japan itself. Not here. I will say that he was in the Philippines RIGHT after Bataan (a day or two) and what he observed, bothered him till his death.
I will say that I do NOT agree with things, behaviors by soldiers, that I've seen in documentaries during WWII AND SINCE THEN! By either combatant!! Women are not to be raped! Girls (innocents) are not to be subjected to ANY degredation!!! Neither are males or boys!!! Howb any government can condone or try to cover up what their soldiers did during a battle or a war is beyond decen
Originally in the script it was only supposed to be a blip of reference to the USS Indianapolis, Robert Shaw re-wrote the entire thing, sitting on the beach between scenes. It's one of the all-time greatest monologue's....James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams is another. Goosebumps on both every time.
Everything about this movie was iconic. Quint’s “Indianapolis” speech, that haunting score, the iconic “we’re gonna need a bigger boat” quote. Still holds up today.
Also, Quint's story about the Indianapolis was originally suppose to be a prequel (Jaws II), but Spielberg was committed to Star Wars at the time and fell through.
The speech delivered by Quint about the USS Indianapolis tragedy is a true story, an actual historical fact. It really happened! His story relating the incident is one of the most epic monologues in cinematic history, and is the key to his character and his obsession with killing sharks. He smashed the radio not only because he was determined to personally secure the bounty and reward for killing the shark, which is strictly a secondary consideration for him, but rather because he wanted revenge (or perhaps redemption) for his horrific experience, which he can only achieve by destroying the man-eating shark himself…
Yes it is true, though the amount of sailers killed is insanely exaggerated. The best estimate was sharks killed between 50 and 150, not the 800 or so intimated in the movie. ( The rest were killed from dehydration, exposure, wounds when the ship went down, ect. )
When this movie came out in 1975, going to the theater was still an "event". You couldn't buy your ticket beforehand and the lines to get in could be wrapped around the block. But you were with your friends, so the wait didn't matter. When you took your seat with your popcorn and soda,you could feel the excitement. The whole audience participated in the film. We all screamed at the same places and cheered when the shark met his end. The music can still get to me to this day and you will still hear the phrase, "You're going to need a bigger boat." to this day. Good choice, guys! Thanks for the memories!
Before the pandemic, moviegoing was still an event especially since theaters were starting to coordinate their release dates worldwide. Back during the 70s, different states could have different releases.
The story Quint told about the sailors on the USS Indianapolis, is a true story. The effects in this movie still hold up after all this time! The music alone still triggers that visceral fear response. In 1975 people I knew actually went to therapy because of this movie!
When the movie ended, I remember everyone walking out of the theater, totally silent and absolutely exhausted, and the anti-shark fear was very real for a couple years afterwards!
I was around 8 and I saw scared to sit on the toilet after this movie, everyone in my family laughed at how I thought a giant shark could bite my butt on the toilet. The shark fear was SUPER REAL!
@@egrffin8534 I was six when I came out sitting in the first or second row of a theatre with my 10 yr old brother he screamed like a girl when the head popped out I laughed at him.
This is one of those few movies where you can know exactly what happens, and what the ending is, because you've watched it many times, and you're STILL on the edge of your seat when you rewatch it. THAT is a sign of a well made movie.
This is the best Shark movie ever made. No movie about sharks has been as good as this movie. Not even the sequels were as good. The Shallows was a pretty good Shark movie.
Only wish a little of Quint's " Indianapolis" speech was left in this reaction because it's one of the most acclaimed monologues in cinema history. And, yeah, people still get in boats like the Orca (both for pleasure boating and commercial fishing).
It is one of the great monologues and very well-known. One that isn't well-known is Jean Claude Van Damme's monologue in JCVD. I never knew the guy had it in him.....
"You're gonna need a bigger boat" has become such an iconic line that's entered the culture and in fact Roy Scheider improvised it and they kept it in!
This film was released in June of 1975, but had been ready to go for months. The reason it was held back was to time it with the start of summer--which ratcheted up the freak-out factor and made everyone want to see it.
This is arguably the most perfect movie ever made. It is also the first "blockbuster" movie, where everyone flocked to the theaters to see one movie over the summer.
I was sitting in the movie theatre holding a full bucket of popcorn on my lap when that head popped up out of the water, my body jumped up… my hands flew up to cover my eyes…the bucket of popcorn I’d been holding flew up into the air and popcorn rained down on everyone sitting near me. I will never forget that scene!!!
I saw it with my parents in 1975 aged 11. Our local cinema was a converted theatre with classic curving 'Upper Circle'. When old Ben's head pops out, popcorn did indeed go airborne, pouring over the edge of the upper seating onto the heads of those below in the lower circle.
I don't think anyone was really ready for this. Spielberg made us avoid sharks and look for aliens. I love you guys, love your channels. Keep up the good work.
47 years after it came out, this movie still packs a wallop. And everything about the production is amazing: photography, effects, writing, acting, and of course, the score. I saw this in the theater when I was 13 years old and people were screaming like the shark was in the damn lobby.
@@MsAppassionata That would be me. Hell I was nervous to even use the TOILET for fear Jaws would come swimming up the pipe and eat my ass. (but then again, I was SEVEN and shouldn't have been allowed to watch it in the first place....)
The First Summer Blockbuster. Before this movie, film studios treated the summer film season like a time to show B-movies, re-releases, and indie-type films. Jaws changed all that. It's a masterpiece in letting you "imagine" what you're scared of, rather than actually seeing it fully. Great reaction!
It was also a time for "summer love/sex movies". Uh,,, kids have s?x child developed, UH OH!! And in a very few cases, it's a love child and everyone is happy. BUT in a number of cases it was just sex and no one was happy. Different era different morals. Different ideas of the outcome.
When Amber said, "I'm only going in (the ocean) up to my ankles." Then at the end, "I'm never going to get in the water again!" That is exactly how everyone in North America felt that year! I was a kid at the time, but recall not wanting to go to a beach ever again. Luckily it faded away in time. But, that movie was so powerful like none other. Great watching it with you.
Not just North America. I'm from the UK and we were all terrified too. My friends and siblings were all kids when we saw it and we all had the same fear, individually, that Jaws was going to come up out of the toilet and bite our bums 😂😂😂 For some reason I also thought he would burst through my kitchen floor because I knew the water pipes ran under it and sharks swim in water🤣
They tapped into that fear of the water when marketing the sequel. Jaws 2 came down to one simple line: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water."
I watched it on a bootleg video, then my dad took me to the beach the next weekend! In the Mediterranean. Good thing we didn’t realize it was a great white breeding area at that point...
Three things: I didn’t go swimming for years after watching Jaws. Wouldn’t even swim in the pool bc I was afraid a shark might come out of the drain! Second, the story of the USS Indianapolis was a true story. That was a great touch Spielberg threw into the movie. Lastly, look closely towards the end of the film. There’s at least two meteors caught flying through the sky. Great pick as always. Can’t wait to see more!🔥🤙
About the Indianapolis, bingo, and when they ask the reason why he’s (Quint) crazy at the end? Oh, idk, 30 years of being a sea captain hunting sharks (jawbones everywhere in his cabin), drinking his own homemade rotgut, AND being a sailor on the Indianapolis, the better question is how would he NOT be ‘certifiable’. Oh course, Quint is also part Capt Ahab from Moby Dick too.
I was too young to see Jaws in the theater, but my sister went. She wouldn't go in the water for 5 DECADES after watching Jaws. Not even in the crystal blue water of the Caribbean where you can see to the bottom. I was so glad that my mom wouldn't let me go to that movie, especially since we live next to Virginia Beach! And yes, we get sharks there.
That jump scare where you see the shark through the hole in the boat was REEEEEEEEEEALY scary in the theater when I saw this in its first run. The entire theater reacted just like Amber did.
@@robsquadmoviereactions When the head dropped into view in the boat, my friend Diane somehow grabbed my thumb and bit it. Everyone in the theater was screaming!
This is the first movie reaction I have watched from you guys. I always enjoy watching your music reactions. As I started watching this, I just thought to myself "I like these people". It probably sounds odd because it's "just the internet" but seeing you two is like seeing friends. It's really comforting to see how well you two get along.
@@robsquadmoviereactions If E.T. & Close Encounters of the Third Kind aren't on the list, please add them. Also, E! True Hollywood Story covered behind the scenes of Jaws. It's actually rather funny.
Robert Shaws monologue, and his amazing manner and acting skill, was the best movie moment I’ve ever seen. And there are many great movie moments. I always remember every word of this one. He was AN ACTOR.
@@aisaxonawiat6484 "Hundreds of sharks were drawn to the wreck by the noise of the explosions and the scent of blood in the water. After picking off the dead and wounded, they began attacking survivors. The number of deaths attributed to sharks ranges from a few dozen to 150." That's from wikipedia. And that is a vastly different number than Quint's, "So, 1,100 men went into the water... ...316 men come out. The sharks took the rest June the 29th, 1945." By Quint's account nearly 800 men were eaten by sharks. Another thing to point out (also on the wiki page for the USS Indianapolis), "Some 300 of the 1,195 crewmen aboard went down with the ship. With few lifeboats and many without life jackets, the remainder of the crew was set adrift." The only accurate parts to Quint's story, were the date, the fact that that ship did deliver the bomb, and how many survivors got rescued.
I can understand why you cut out Quint's story for the reaction, but that is actually a very pertinent story, both historically and for insight into why he's so obsessed with killing sharks. In case you weren't paying attention, it's a true story of the U.S.S. Indianapolis. They delivered the first Atomic bomb to Tinian Island, under the utmost secrecy. As they were returning, the ship was torpedoed by a Japanese warship. Since their mission was so secret, they weren't reported missing for several days... by which time hundreds of the crew has been eaten by sharks. So Quint had spent days floating in the water, listening to the screams of his shipmates as they were eaten by sharks... 😱
what's really amazing about the story is the sharks are only one aspect of the nightmare they went through. What he didn't mention is some of them were burnt or injured in the sinking, some got doused in engine oil or gas, the only protection from the sun they had is what they could contrive from what they were wearing and the debris they randomly found, they had next to no food or fresh water, and add to all that nonstop exposure to salt water
There is a movie on Netflix right now called U.S.S. Indianapolis: Men of Courage. It depicts what it was like for the men of that ill-fated ship. Very good movie, but some of the shark scenes were unrealistic.
I saw this in the theater with my dad in 1975 and I’ll never forget how scared I was when the guys head popped out of the hole in the boat! It still gets me to this day. I really got a kick out of watching you both jump when you saw it for the first time!
I was born and raised on Martha’s Vineyard, the island in Massachusetts where the movie was filmed. It’s always a fun little nostalgia trip for me to watch this movie and see all the towns and beaches from my childhood
This was the scariest movie to me when it came out . I still think about sharks every time I go swimming in the ocean 😂 Amber your so tender hearted , Jay your so funny 😆 hugs to both of you🙋🏻♀️
I was 14 when this came out. To this day, I've never been in a theater where everyone screamed in unison multiple times during the film. Terrifying, but so much fun and such a great movie.
Well done. This movie scared the sh*t out of all us in the day. Imagine watching this on the big screen in a dark movie theater. I had been scuba diving for years when I first saw this, and it took me years afterward to do it again. Jaws was the movie for which the term “Summer Blockbuster“ was coined.
My wife watched this for the very first time a few nights ago. I didn't know how she'd react to it, but surprisingly she was into it! By the time Brody blew "Bruce's" head off she was yelling: "Just keep shooting!" A great movie that still holds up. ❤👍
The "jump scare" is masterfully done and I really appreciated both your reactions! When my parents originally watched this in the theatre, my mom screamed and involuntarily squeezed her large Coke, dousing the stranger sitting next to her with soda.
**me snickering when Amber started the reaction by saying that she didn’t think a movie from the ‘70’s could have good enough special effects to scare her! I have 2 words for you (ha ha): Steven Spielberg. Great reaction! Thanks for doing it!
I love watching young people react to Jaws, The Exorcist, Alien and The Thing for exactly those reasons, then see them get blown away by it all. The art of practical effects is not something they have experience with. Everything today is cgi.
Jaws (1975): "You'll never go in the water again." This movie made everyone think of sharks differently. It also made them think twice about going swimming in the sea, which is precisely why this tagline earned a spot on our list.
I’m 18 and my parents showed me this movie and many other iconic “oldies” (Back to The Future 1-3, Rocky, Its a wonderful life, The Godfather 1-3, ect) and out of them all, Jaws made me rethink everything about the ocean and has me in fear to this day. It genuinely changed how I look at the ocean and now I have a genuine petrifying fear of deep water. Crazy what an amazing movie can do
I was 9 when this movie came out living in northern Wisconsin, over 15,000 lakes. I wouldn’t go swimming and was even afraid of taking a bath till I was 12! 100% fact. This movie defined my psyche!!
Yeah - the barrel allows the men on the boat to track where the shark is - but they also prevent the shark from diving deeper. The bigger and stronger the shark, the more barrels it takes.
My gf and I saw Jaws in the theater again about 4 or 5 years ago and we were so amazed at how well it still holds up! I hadn't seen it in forever and I was pleasantly surprised at how good this movie was. A real classic!
No way. We saw it too in the theater two years ago. I've seen it dozens of times and have only my second time in the theater. First time was when I was eight when it came out.
one of the greatest movie quotes ever: "you're gonna need a bigger boat ". The barrel is full of air - supposed to limit the sharks' ability to go under water and stay under water which will tire out the shark and make it easier to catch/kill the shark.
I saw this at the drive-in when I was a kid. The 2 boys playing the shark break were brothers in real life. The younger brother is now the sheriff in the town where they filmed it. The Indianapolis that Quint was on was a cruiser in WWII that took the A-Bombs to their launch points. It was sunk, and sharks tore apart the survivors.
Spielbergs 'close encounters" Has to be on the list same actor in that one. He was brilliant.. Never evee looked at a bowl of mash potatoes the same way.
Hardly! The only other big film he was in was 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' two years after this. As for 'Stand By Me', he has about 5 lines in it bookended.
@@rnw2739 Richard Dreyfus was a prolific actor for three decades and was a favorite of Spielberg. He’s an Academy Award and Golden Globe winner. Of course very few movies are Jaws “big.” Close Encounters was huge. But Dreyfus was in many of the era’s widely popular and enduring movies-American Graffiti, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Goodbye Girl, What About Bob?, Tin Men, Always, Once Around, Nuts and the aforementioned Mr. Holland’s Opus. These may or may not be your cup of tea, but Richard Dreyfus was one of the most recognizable and consistent actors for a helluva long time.
@juliedaggett5880 Of all his films apart from 'Jaws', I would cite 'The Goodbye Girl' and 'Always' as exceptionally good ones. Most of his films are forgettable. He obviously wasn't that great at choosing his work - he turned down 'Jaws' don't forget, on first offering from Spielberg!
@GjpgrD Bollocks. His most notable films were all early ones, Stand by Me was nothing more than a cameo and his legacy will eternally be 'Jaws' - despite being the least memorable of the trio.
“Jaws” was filmed in Massachusetts on an island called Martha’s Vineyard. Also, the beer that Quint drinks and crushes the can is a New England regional beer called Narragansett. They have a brewery in Providence, RI. One of their advertising campaigns features Quint with the slogan, “Honor the Man! Crush the Can!” If you go on the brewery that have all sorts of Quint related merchandise.
Many of the locations seen in the movie are still there today on Martha's Vineyard....they even have 'Jaws Fest' on the anniversary every year on date of the release of the film, June 20th (and many people, including many of the extras that were in the film - that still live there on the island - do tend to show up from time to time).
I used to love going to Martha’s Vineyard in the summers with my family when I was young. They have the best fried clams there that I’ve ever tasted in my entire life. So big and meaty. Same in P town. Yum. I used to love going to Mad Martha’s ice cream shop while I was in the Vineyard. Great memories.
The music from this movie was iconic. John Williams wrote the music. He is known for Jaws, Star Wars, Superman, Indiana Jones, E.T., Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan and three Harry Potter instalments.
I was 10 years old when I went to watch Jaws the first BLOCKBUSTER. The theater had 3 screens . Two of the screens were used for Jaws, but the line was still 2 blocks long. They could not get the shark to work for the first part of the movie. They used suspense so when the shark finally show up it scared everyone in the audience.
My mom showed me this movie when I was very young. She had hoped to scare me, but instead made me a lifelong shark and movie lover! This is a GREAT movie and the story of making it is even better than the actual movie! It's been an obsession ever since my first viewing.
@@robsquadmoviereactions there are documentaries around. You could probably find them on RUclips. There was also a 40th Anniversary Blu-ray with an over hour long documentary as well. I highly recommend it.
@@robsquadmoviereactions There is a 2 hour documentary on the Blu-ray edition which is called The Shark Is Still Working really good insight into the making of it and how it almost never got finished.
Saw this in the theater when it was released in 1975. I was 15 years old, and it scared the bejezus out of me. This movie was a national sensation and the biggest blockbuster of its time (along with Star Wars of course). The special effects were fantastic. For most scenes they used a mechanical life size shark (affectionately named "Bruce") that ran on tracks on the seafloor off Martha's Vineyard ( the island off Cape Cod where it was filmed, "Amity Island" is a fictitious name) that was equipped with all the hydraulics to make it's movements lifelike. Real footage of real Great Whites were used in much of the scenes with the shark cage and the shark attacking it - filmed off the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The news reporter on the beach (in the 4th of July scene) was a cameo by Peter Benchley, the author of "Jaws." The barrels are to exhaust the shark and keep it close to the surface so they can kill it easier
Poor old Bruce ran into problems. They originally intended there to be a lot more footage of the shark but when Bruce couldnt perform they had to work around it. Turned out to be a blessing in disguise because the lack of visuals allowed peoples imaginations to fill the gap and terrify themselves even more.
Fun fact: The scene where the boy's mother slaps the Chief? The actress had never done a stage slap before, so she really smacked him. Scheider stayed in character and the take made the final cut.
Great reactions! Peter Benchley, who has a cameo in the movie as the newsman on the beach, wrote the slim little novel titled Jaws that was a big hit with readers in 1974. Like the works of Michael Crichton, it was perfect for screen adaptation and Spielberg did a fantastic job! This is a real classic and I enjoyed seeing you experience it like we all did back then for the first time. Now let me save you some precious hours of your future - this was the last great Jaws film. The success of the first movie had execs wanting more money and sequels were spawned, each one worse than the one before. And while this original Jaws is considered one of the best movies ever made, they milked the “franchise” they created until the final one is a joke and considered one of the worst movies of all time. Don’t bother watching any more Jaws flicks and keep the magic of this first great film in your hearts!
Jaws 2 wasn't terrible. Obviously not as good as the original, but it had some genuinely frightening scenes and did a good job of building tension. But yeah, the 3rd and 4th movies were complete garbage.
Jay and Amber, imagine seeing it in a theater at 13 years old! The scariest part for me was the head coming out from the hole in the ship! They built 3 robotic sharks for this movie, i believe they only had to use one . Amazing job, as it looked so real in the movie!
Some of the most iconic recognizable music in movie history. When I was a kid we lived a mile From the beach and my mom would not let me see this movie (I was about 10) because she thought I would never go in the ocean. She was probably right.
One of the best parts of this movie is the tremendous suspense it created, magnified by John Williams' brilliant score. You literally do not see the shark until halfway through the movie in that scene with the kids in the bay. It was because they couldn't get the mechanical shark to function, but Spielberg made it work for him. Jaws 2 was pretty good, but it had one of the best tag lines in its advertisement - "Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water."
When we first got HBO in the early 80s, this movie was playing. My little brother and I watched it every time it was on (it was before on demand viewing). My dad would say ‘quit watching that GD movie’ when we didn’t come to dinner - no pause back then. We did not want to stop watching even though we had seen it multiple times. 😂
A whole generation of people were afraid to go into the water after seeing this movie. I saw it with my mother & sister. The theatre was crowded so we waited for everyone to leave before going out to the parking lot. When we went outside, everyone had left. It was a giant sea of blacktop. We started to cross it to our car and we felt like the shark was going to come up through to blacktop and eat us! We looked at each other and laughed-how silly-right? Still so scared we ran to our car, laughing but still scared silly! Haven't been able to swim in the ocean since and I only live an hour away from it! Great reaction!
as soon as you said something like digital effects are so important to scary movies. I knew we were in for a ride. Everyone underestimates the power of a strong story and great practical effects.
Some fun facts; - A large part of the terror that this film invokes stems from the fact that you hardly see the actual shark throughout the movie. This is attributed largely to the fact that there were major problems with the mechanical shark (nicknamed 'Bruce' (also the name of Steven Spielberg's lawyer...)). The audience's imagination filled in the blanks, and made the movie that much scarier... A related note; Alfred Hitchcock once stared in an interview that if you show a scene of two people sitting at a table, talking about baseball, and an explosion happens, the audience will jump.Show the same scene, but start with showing a bomb with a timer counting down, and pull back to show the two people talking about baseball. The audience will spend the next few minutes yelling at the screen "Don't talk about baseball! There's a bomb under the table!" You, as the audience, being aware of a danger the characters are not heightens the suspense. - As others have pointed out, this movie is considered to be the original 'Summer Blockbuster'. It is not Steven Spielbergs' first movie, though...That distinction belongs to 'Duel' (1971), or possibly a segment of the pilot episode of 'Rod Serling's Night Gallery' (1969). - As spectacular as it was, it has been proven (via 'Mythbusters') that a bullet to a scuba tank will not cause it to explode (Still, a satisfying ending, though...). Obligatory Movie recommendations (because, why not?); - Flash Gordon (1980) - If for no other reason, the soundtrack was provided by Queen... - That Thing You Do! (1996) - You may not have heard of this one, but trust me, I believe you'll like it...
I saw this, when it came out, in the theater. And every part you found scary, everyone else did at the time. The girl being pulled through the water at the beginning, is one of the scariest openings I have ever seen. Very Alfred Hitchcock up to a point.
The music is written by John Williams. He also wrote the themes for, Close encounters, hook, and just about all the movie Stephen has done. They have a real bond together.
I absolutely 💙 *Mr. John Williams* ! He is the most prolific & talented movie soundtrack composer of all time! JAWS•CLOSE ENCOUNTERS•STAR WARS•SUPERMAN•INDIANA JONES•E.T.•BORN ON THE 4TH OF JULY•HOME ALONE•HOOK•JFK•JURRASIC PARK•SCHINDLER'S LIST•SAVING PRIVATE RYAN•THE PATRIOT•A.I.•HARRY POTTER•MINORITY REPORT•WAR OF THE WORLDS• and more!!
Yep - back in the 70's - before so much reliance on CGI - the direction, the music, the acting - changed the sea for a whole generation! Awesome job by the teams involved and well deserving of the awards received !
I usually don't comment on reaction videos bc the reactions seem fake or uninterested but you guys have such a great energy and chemistry together and I loved it, I'm subscribing now :)
The actor playing the mayor who wants the beaches kept open played the role of "Mr. Robinson" in the 1967 film "The Graduate"--which is definitely on your list of must-sees.
One of the greatest adventure films of all time. Steven Spielberg was very young when he directed this, and for most of the shooting, the mechanical shark they called Bruce didn't work. So they couldn't show it very often, which made the shark that much more scary. Really glad you did this one; it's one of my favorites!
To see a similar movie about "messing with someone's babies," they need to check out Orca, with Richard Harris (who later played Dumbledore in Harry Potter). Orca is the name of Quint's boat, btw. I think this is because sharks fear orcas. For a great early Spielberg TV movie, Duel is well worth reacting to
This was such an iconic movie, and watching you watch it for the first time after so many years -- wow!! Your reactions were so genuine and so heartfelt. I loved it.
How the three actors in this movie were chosen is genius! They acted so well together! They say that Quint played by Robert Shaw, a great actor in his time, ad libbed many of his lines!! Great, great movie! Especially the line, “ here’s to swimming with bow-legged women.” A true classic! Amber I saw this when I was 15 and right before I went to see my grandparents in Florida, didn’t swim in the ocean for a long time!!!
No way a movie this old can be scary and jumpy?.... clearly "The Exorcist" has to be next. Great reaction and a great movie. I'm a big fan of Jaws. Definitely check out The Exorcist next....still horrifying to this day.
Noooooooo!! Do not watch the E movie! I promise it will haunt you forever. It haunted me forever! My cray big sister took me to see it at 11!! 11 years old and I slept with Mom until the 9th grade because of it. Couldn't sleep in the dark until the late 90s! Nnooooooo! Plus that govener in Jaws is like Abbott in Texas opening up everything waaayyyyy to early. Saying it's ok. Go swimming! Lol
I watched the Exorcist, alone, when I was 12 year old......I was traumatized for the rest of my childhood! I could easily watch any of the usual "monster" movies, but anything devil related freaked me the f*ck out! 😝Satanic movies still freak me out. "The power of Christ compels you...."!!!! 👹
Poltergeist is a great entry level horror film. I'd recommend that one before The Exorcist. Rosemary's Baby is another or all of Alfred Hitchcock's entire catalog for mastery in suspense.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Jaws is one of my favourite movies of all time. I would recommend you check out 'The Karate Kid' - 'Back to the Future' & ' Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark '
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Amber: “I’ve never seen or used a phone on the wall like that!” “Ooh, a typewriter!” “Have you ever seen one?” Jay: “Not in person.” GEEZ, I feel sooooo old now!
I know what you mean! I feel like packing a bag and handing myself into a museum as an ancient human artifact
I felt the same way...oh my God ! I am past vintage, I'm an antique!🤣
I sometimes think 65 is not that old, then I remember I was born in 56 and my father in 1908. When he was young he saw a reunion of very old "ram rod straight" civil war soldiers. Yeah, I am old
🤣I'll bring the shovels- bury me now at 58 with the typewriter bewilderment~😖🛌
You had whiteout for typewriters then in the 70's you typewriter tapes that had white out built into them.
Movie is almost 50 years old. People still underestimate it. I actually think it gets better with age because we are so caught up in our digital world and everything is CGI we forgot to appreciate movies like this. That‘s why reaction channels are taking off. People discovering the old stuff was actually pretty awesome.
Spot on
When they started off saying that they couldn’t imagine a movie from the ‘70s being scary, I thought, “Just you wait!” Then they couldn’t catch their breaths after the very first scene! Spielberg strikes again.
Also how much of an impact a film can make when the main star doesn't work for most of the film
And not showing Bruce until the last 3rd of the movie really ratchets up the suspense.
@@lawrencejoy2256 the days when directors understood suspense. Those were the days
4:42 - Jay: "this is going to make me not want to go back and swim in the ocean..." - the exact phrase uttered by an entire generation when this movie hit theaters.
And then Jaws 2 came. " Just when you thought you could go back into the ocean..."
And then #3 comes out and I swore to never go to sea world 😆
And are still saying!! 🦈
How about after seeing the "original" Psycho" movie with actor Anthony Perkins? Who wanted to take a shower at home alone after that one!!! But that is a really really older movie, more of my generation, I'm in my 70's.
Heck yes, Jaws destroyed beach tourism for an entire generation. Lol
Fun story about the kid the shark ate at the beach! About 20 odd years later the woman that plays his mom in the film went into a fast food place and just happened to see a picture taken from Jaws of the little boy that got eaten! She commented "Why do you have that picture up? I played his Mom in the film Jaws!" The waitress got the manager who happened to be the little boy in the film they hadn't seen each other since making Jaws!
Quint and Hooper hated each other
Actually, it was a sea-food restaurant and right there on the menu was the "Alex Kintner" sandwich. The lady, Lee Fiero, remarked that she played Alex's mother. The waiter rushes back into the kitchen; out comes Jeffrey Voorhees, all grown up! He owned the restaurant.
I love watching movies with you guys! My late husband and I loved to watch movies together and until I found you guys, I had no one to share them with! Thank you so much for being there!
Watch an American werewolf in london. Its also a horror classic.
Quint’s monologue about the USS Indianapolis was an actual historical event. Robert Shaw’s delivery makes for one of the most impactful scenes in film history! This will always be one of my favorite films!
That scene was so gripping that I remember being horrified when I found out it was a true story.
It was in fact as true to fact as fact itself!! My dad was in the Philippines and later in Japan during WWII. I won't go into what little I know that he witnessed, there or in Japan itself. Not here. I will say that he was in the Philippines RIGHT after Bataan (a day or two) and what he observed, bothered him till his death.
I will say that I do NOT agree with things, behaviors by soldiers, that I've seen in documentaries during WWII AND SINCE THEN! By either combatant!! Women are not to be raped! Girls (innocents) are not to be subjected to ANY degredation!!! Neither are males or boys!!! Howb any government can condone or try to cover up what their soldiers did during a battle or a war is beyond decen
Originally in the script it was only supposed to be a blip of reference to the USS Indianapolis, Robert Shaw re-wrote the entire thing, sitting on the beach between scenes. It's one of the all-time greatest monologue's....James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams is another. Goosebumps on both every time.
What are you talking about? Cry somewhere else
Everything about this movie was iconic. Quint’s “Indianapolis” speech, that haunting score, the iconic “we’re gonna need a bigger boat” quote. Still holds up today.
"That's some bad hat Harry" which led to the creation of Bad Hat Harry productions makers of The Usual Suspects and House.
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actually he never said “we’re gonna need a bigger boat”. The quote is “your gonna need a bigger boat”. Welcome to the Mandela Effect.
Also, Quint's story about the Indianapolis was originally suppose to be a prequel (Jaws II), but Spielberg was committed to Star Wars at the time and fell through.
The Indianapolis speech allows the watcher/listener to envision the terror
"24 hours? What's that gonna do? Just make the shark skip a meal?" is one of the best reaction lines I've heard in a while. XD
For me it's tied with:
Is that a Megaladon?
It's a Take Me Home!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
yeah, intermittent fasting ;)
The speech delivered by Quint about the USS Indianapolis tragedy is a true story, an actual historical fact. It really happened! His story relating the incident is one of the most epic monologues in cinematic history, and is the key to his character and his obsession with killing sharks. He smashed the radio not only because he was determined to personally secure the bounty and reward for killing the shark, which is strictly a secondary consideration for him, but rather because he wanted revenge (or perhaps redemption) for his horrific experience, which he can only achieve by destroying the man-eating shark himself…
Yes it is true, though the amount of sailers killed is insanely exaggerated. The best estimate was sharks killed between 50 and 150, not the 800 or so intimated in the movie. ( The rest were killed from dehydration, exposure, wounds when the ship went down, ect. )
But they were eaten after they died
He had the date wrong
@@SergioArellano-yd7ik no not all.
When this movie came out in 1975, going to the theater was still an "event". You couldn't buy your ticket beforehand and the lines to get in could be wrapped around the block. But you were with your friends, so the wait didn't matter. When you took your seat with your popcorn and soda,you could feel the excitement. The whole audience participated in the film. We all screamed at the same places and cheered when the shark met his end. The music can still get to me to this day and you will still hear the phrase, "You're going to need a bigger boat." to this day. Good choice, guys! Thanks for the memories!
What about, "smile you son of a bitch"!, grand finale
What you mean the wait didn't matter? Nobody wants to stay in line whether it's with friends or not
@Penelope Sighs Not all audiences appreciated the limit. Many want the freedom to choose where they want to consume the content.
Before the pandemic, moviegoing was still an event especially since theaters were starting to coordinate their release dates worldwide. Back during the 70s, different states could have different releases.
Those were the days my friend.
The story Quint told about the sailors on the USS Indianapolis, is a true story.
The effects in this movie still hold up after all this time! The music alone still triggers that visceral fear response. In 1975 people I knew actually went to therapy because of this movie!
i may go to therapy for annoying reaction videos :P
But those were Tiger Sharks not Great Whites.
@@WoodDragon64 Does it really matter what kind of shark just chewed your leg off???
@@ffjsb If you are getting your leg chewed off then no, it doesn't matter.
Fun fact, Robert Shaw was hammered when he told the story, you can tell by looking at his eyes. He was such a great actor.
When the movie ended, I remember everyone walking out of the theater, totally silent and absolutely exhausted, and the anti-shark fear was very real for a couple years afterwards!
I was around 8 and I saw scared to sit on the toilet after this movie, everyone in my family laughed at how I thought a giant shark could bite my butt on the toilet. The shark fear was SUPER REAL!
@@robertbendinelli9843 As a kid watching Jaws I was afraid of the same thing.!
Peter Benchley eventually regretted ever having written that book. It did so much harm to sharks as a species in people's eyes.
@@egrffin8534 I was six when I came out sitting in the first or second row of a theatre with my 10 yr old brother he screamed like a girl when the head popped out I laughed at him.
It's when I switched from baths to showers. I'm not getting in that water!
This is one of those few movies where you can know exactly what happens, and what the ending is, because you've watched it many times, and you're STILL on the edge of your seat when you rewatch it. THAT is a sign of a well made movie.
This is the best Shark movie ever made. No movie about sharks has been as good as this movie. Not even the sequels were as good. The Shallows was a pretty good Shark movie.
Great description
I agree I still get scared when the shark comes out of the water. Lol
I liked Deep Blue Sea
I'd say it goes
jaws
Meg
Deep blue sea
The reef
Only wish a little of Quint's " Indianapolis" speech was left in this reaction because it's one of the most acclaimed monologues in cinema history. And, yeah, people still get in boats like the Orca (both for pleasure boating and commercial fishing).
The USS Indianapolis story is a true story.
We have a gravestone in the city cemetery of a sailor from the USS Indianapolis, no body of course.
it's "famous", not infamous. It's dialogue, not a bank robber. Lol
Possibly the best scene in the whole movie.
It is one of the great monologues and very well-known. One that isn't well-known is Jean Claude Van Damme's monologue in JCVD. I never knew the guy had it in him.....
"You're gonna need a bigger boat" has become such an iconic line that's entered the culture and in fact Roy Scheider improvised it and they kept it in!
Funny. My go-to line from this movie is "wanna get drunk and fool around?"
This film was released in June of 1975, but had been ready to go for months. The reason it was held back was to time it with the start of summer--which ratcheted up the freak-out factor and made everyone want to see it.
This is arguably the most perfect movie ever made. It is also the first "blockbuster" movie, where everyone flocked to the theaters to see one movie over the summer.
I was sitting in the movie theatre holding a full bucket of popcorn on my lap when that head popped up out of the water, my body jumped up… my hands flew up to cover my eyes…the bucket of popcorn I’d been holding flew up into the air and popcorn rained down on everyone sitting near me. I will never forget that scene!!!
Funny stuff. Looks like our reactors had the same response.
I about busted my head.. me and neighbor both leaned hard and hit heads!!!
I saw it with my parents in 1975 aged 11. Our local cinema was a converted theatre with classic curving 'Upper Circle'. When old Ben's head pops out, popcorn did indeed go airborne, pouring over the edge of the upper seating onto the heads of those below in the lower circle.
@@mark-nm4tc LOL…oops!
John William’s iconic score won a well deserved Academy Award .
You know what's a LOT of fun? Knowing when the "moments" are coming and watching you two freak out when they happen! Classic. Love it! Thanks!
My thoughts exactly!
I also love how they make it seem like it's a deep ocean, but Martha's Vineyard is really just very shallow.
AT the theater on the huge screen it was so REAL I was14 in 1975
"I underestimated this movie." Truer words have rarely been spoken.
I don't think anyone was really ready for this. Spielberg made us avoid sharks and look for aliens. I love you guys, love your channels. Keep up the good work.
I just wanted to see what you would say when he delivered the classic line..”you’re gonna need a bigger boat”
And check every house for potential raptor entry points.
Yes if spielburg taught us anything: et = good sharks = bad!!!
47 years after it came out, this movie still packs a wallop. And everything about the production is amazing: photography, effects, writing, acting, and of course, the score. I saw this in the theater when I was 13 years old and people were screaming like the shark was in the damn lobby.
Wow, I was also 13 when this movie came-out---and my name is also Elaine!! How wild is that? HOWDY!!
@@catwhisperer9489 😂
🤣🤣True! And I had nightmares nowhere near the beach~
I heard that there were people who were even afraid to take a bath after seeing this film. 😂😂😂 How ridiculous is that?
@@MsAppassionata That would be me. Hell I was nervous to even use the TOILET for fear Jaws would come swimming up the pipe and eat my ass. (but then again, I was SEVEN and shouldn't have been allowed to watch it in the first place....)
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”, one of the most famous quotes in cinema history.
1000% agree with that comment!
The end too, "smile you son on a bitch"!, lol
@@60sbaby456 That was a great line too!
"24 hours! What's that going to do? Just make the shark skip a meal?" Amber had me bursting out laughing.
She's hilarious!
Well even sharks might want to watch their figure. Eating Americans all the time would be very fattening!
Not even 10 mins and watching you two is just priceless!!! Just wait, you’ll both never forget the music when the shark is coming lol
The First Summer Blockbuster.
Before this movie, film studios treated the summer film season like a time to show B-movies, re-releases, and indie-type films.
Jaws changed all that.
It's a masterpiece in letting you "imagine" what you're scared of, rather than actually seeing it fully.
Great reaction!
It was also a time for "summer love/sex movies". Uh,,, kids have s?x child developed, UH OH!! And in a very few cases, it's a love child and everyone is happy. BUT in a number of cases it was just sex and no one was happy. Different era different morals. Different ideas of the outcome.
When Amber said, "I'm only going in (the ocean) up to my ankles." Then at the end, "I'm never going to get in the water again!" That is exactly how everyone in North America felt that year! I was a kid at the time, but recall not wanting to go to a beach ever again. Luckily it faded away in time. But, that movie was so powerful like none other. Great watching it with you.
Not just North America. I'm from the UK and we were all terrified too. My friends and siblings were all kids when we saw it and we all had the same fear, individually, that Jaws was going to come up out of the toilet and bite our bums 😂😂😂 For some reason I also thought he would burst through my kitchen floor because I knew the water pipes ran under it and sharks swim in water🤣
They tapped into that fear of the water when marketing the sequel. Jaws 2 came down to one simple line: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water."
Both Dreyfus and Spielberg, said they will NOT swim in the ocean, even to this day. Dreyfus said "we are MARKED men".
I watched it on a bootleg video, then my dad took me to the beach the next weekend! In the Mediterranean. Good thing we didn’t realize it was a great white breeding area at that point...
Meanwhile, my buds and I were back to swimming in the same waters we harvested shark from the next day!
One of the most famous lines from older movies, “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
It's actually "YOU're gonna need a bigger boat."
Chief Brody still does not feel like a member of the crew.
And it was ad-libbed
Three things: I didn’t go swimming for years after watching Jaws. Wouldn’t even swim in the pool bc I was afraid a shark might come out of the drain! Second, the story of the USS Indianapolis was a true story. That was a great touch Spielberg threw into the movie. Lastly, look closely towards the end of the film. There’s at least two meteors caught flying through the sky. Great pick as always. Can’t wait to see more!🔥🤙
Not a problem for me I can't swim so I avoid the water over my chest high.
Every Steven Spielberg movie has at least one shooting star 🙂
About the Indianapolis, bingo, and when they ask the reason why he’s (Quint) crazy at the end? Oh, idk, 30 years of being a sea captain hunting sharks (jawbones everywhere in his cabin), drinking his own homemade rotgut, AND being a sailor on the Indianapolis, the better question is how would he NOT be ‘certifiable’.
Oh course, Quint is also part Capt Ahab from Moby Dick too.
I was too young to see Jaws in the theater, but my sister went. She wouldn't go in the water for 5 DECADES after watching Jaws. Not even in the crystal blue water of the Caribbean where you can see to the bottom. I was so glad that my mom wouldn't let me go to that movie, especially since we live next to Virginia Beach! And yes, we get sharks there.
@@Mark_McC Good point!
That jump scare where you see the shark through the hole in the boat was REEEEEEEEEEALY scary in the theater when I saw this in its first run. The entire theater reacted just like Amber did.
I could imagine everyone screamed also 😂
@@robsquadmoviereactions When the head dropped into view in the boat, my friend Diane somehow grabbed my thumb and bit it. Everyone in the theater was screaming!
This is the first movie reaction I have watched from you guys. I always enjoy watching your music reactions.
As I started watching this, I just thought to myself "I like these people". It probably sounds odd because it's "just the internet" but seeing you two is like seeing friends. It's really comforting to see how well you two get along.
That really makes us feel good. Thanks for that, and for being here with us.
@@robsquadmoviereactions If E.T. & Close Encounters of the Third Kind aren't on the list, please add them. Also, E! True Hollywood Story covered behind the scenes of Jaws. It's actually rather funny.
LOL!! Amber: "I'm wondering how scared I'm gonna get?" First scene Amber is freakin' out 🤣😂
Robert Shaws monologue, and his amazing manner and acting skill, was the best movie moment I’ve ever seen. And there are many great movie moments. I always remember every word of this one. He was AN ACTOR.
It felt kinda disrespectful that they skipped right over it without any mention, especially as the Indianapolis is a true story
@@yesmisskitten Except for the sharks killing so many men, that part is an exaggeration.
He was apparently drunk during one of the takes of that monologue, too. Imagine being THAT good of an actor that that’s how good you are, drunk!
@@blacksheep_edge1412 ......lol😂.... how so????
@@aisaxonawiat6484 "Hundreds of sharks were drawn to the wreck by the noise of the explosions and the scent of blood in the water. After picking off the dead and wounded, they began attacking survivors. The number of deaths attributed to sharks ranges from a few dozen to 150." That's from wikipedia. And that is a vastly different number than Quint's, "So, 1,100 men went into the water...
...316 men come out.
The sharks took the rest June the 29th, 1945." By Quint's account nearly 800 men were eaten by sharks. Another thing to point out (also on the wiki page for the USS Indianapolis), "Some 300 of the 1,195 crewmen aboard went down with the ship. With few lifeboats and many without life jackets, the remainder of the crew was set adrift." The only accurate parts to Quint's story, were the date, the fact that that ship did deliver the bomb, and how many survivors got rescued.
I can understand why you cut out Quint's story for the reaction, but that is actually a very pertinent story, both historically and for insight into why he's so obsessed with killing sharks.
In case you weren't paying attention, it's a true story of the U.S.S. Indianapolis. They delivered the first Atomic bomb to Tinian Island, under the utmost secrecy. As they were returning, the ship was torpedoed by a Japanese warship. Since their mission was so secret, they weren't reported missing for several days... by which time hundreds of the crew has been eaten by sharks.
So Quint had spent days floating in the water, listening to the screams of his shipmates as they were eaten by sharks... 😱
what's really amazing about the story is the sharks are only one aspect of the nightmare they went through. What he didn't mention is some of them were burnt or injured in the sinking, some got doused in engine oil or gas, the only protection from the sun they had is what they could contrive from what they were wearing and the debris they randomly found, they had next to no food or fresh water, and add to all that nonstop exposure to salt water
but in reality they were not great white sharks. mainly black tip and/or white tip
Cutting out scenes doesn’t promote a reaction video.
The U S S Indianapolis story is my all time favorite movie scene, such mood in that
There is a movie on Netflix right now called U.S.S. Indianapolis: Men of Courage. It depicts what it was like for the men of that ill-fated ship. Very good movie, but some of the shark scenes were unrealistic.
I saw this in the theater with my dad in 1975 and I’ll never forget how scared I was when the guys head popped out of the hole in the boat! It still gets me to this day. I really got a kick out of watching you both jump when you saw it for the first time!
same here, i was 7
I was born and raised on Martha’s Vineyard, the island in Massachusetts where the movie was filmed. It’s always a fun little nostalgia trip for me to watch this movie and see all the towns and beaches from my childhood
This was the scariest movie to me when it came out . I still think about sharks every time I go swimming in the ocean 😂 Amber your so tender hearted , Jay your so funny 😆 hugs to both of you🙋🏻♀️
Oceans...don't forget bull sharks can live in fresh water.
@@lawrencejoy2256 Oh I know there’s more than great white in the water that would take a bite out of you🤫
@@jeanstrickland2445 my in-laws were living in Italy when it came out...said the marketing maybe scared people more than the movie...
I was 14 when this came out. To this day, I've never been in a theater where everyone screamed in unison multiple times during the film. Terrifying, but so much fun and such a great movie.
Well done. This movie scared the sh*t out of all us in the day. Imagine watching this on the big screen in a dark movie theater. I had been scuba diving for years when I first saw this, and it took me years afterward to do it again. Jaws was the movie for which the term “Summer Blockbuster“ was coined.
My wife watched this for the very first time a few nights ago. I didn't know how she'd react to it, but surprisingly she was into it! By the time Brody blew "Bruce's" head off she was yelling: "Just keep shooting!" A great movie that still holds up. ❤👍
The "jump scare" is masterfully done and I really appreciated both your reactions! When my parents originally watched this in the theatre, my mom screamed and involuntarily squeezed her large Coke, dousing the stranger sitting next to her with soda.
**me snickering when Amber started the reaction by saying that she didn’t think a movie from the ‘70’s could have good enough special effects to scare her!
I have 2 words for you (ha ha):
Steven Spielberg.
Great reaction! Thanks for doing it!
Two more words to add, John Williams. His music for this film is so iconic. And for the next 50 years remains iconic and memorable.
@@blacksheep_edge1412 YES!!!
I love watching young people react to Jaws, The Exorcist, Alien and The Thing for exactly those reasons, then see them get blown away by it all. The art of practical effects is not something they have experience with. Everything today is cgi.
well what mostly scares people are sound effects anyway
@@blacksheep_edge1412 Two notes... and you have a villain.
We ALL know those two notes.
Jaws (1975): "You'll never go in the water again." This movie made everyone think of sharks differently. It also made them think twice about going swimming in the sea, which is precisely why this tagline earned a spot on our list.
I’m 18 and my parents showed me this movie and many other iconic “oldies” (Back to The Future 1-3, Rocky, Its a wonderful life, The Godfather 1-3, ect) and out of them all, Jaws made me rethink everything about the ocean and has me in fear to this day. It genuinely changed how I look at the ocean and now I have a genuine petrifying fear of deep water. Crazy what an amazing movie can do
I was 9 when this movie came out living in northern Wisconsin, over 15,000 lakes. I wouldn’t go swimming and was even afraid of taking a bath till I was 12! 100% fact. This movie defined my psyche!!
The music was composed by the absolute legend John Williams! Star Wars, Superman, ET, Raiders, close encounters!!! The man was a genius
Raiders of the Lost Ark!! Another classic they should react to!!
IS a genius - still IS a genius. It will be a _staggering_ loss to the movies when he passes away (he's currently 90 years old).
Yeah - the barrel allows the men on the boat to track where the shark is - but they also prevent the shark from diving deeper. The bigger and stronger the shark, the more barrels it takes.
My gf and I saw Jaws in the theater again about 4 or 5 years ago and we were so amazed at how well it still holds up! I hadn't seen it in forever and I was pleasantly surprised at how good this movie was. A real classic!
No way. We saw it too in the theater two years ago. I've seen it dozens of times and have only my second time in the theater. First time was when I was eight when it came out.
Amber: What’s that gonna do? Make the shark skip a meal?
😂 priceless!
one of the greatest movie quotes ever: "you're gonna need a bigger boat ". The barrel is full of air - supposed to limit the sharks' ability to go under water and stay under water which will tire out the shark and make it easier to catch/kill the shark.
I saw this at the drive-in when I was a kid. The 2 boys playing the shark break were brothers in real life. The younger brother is now the sheriff in the town where they filmed it. The Indianapolis that Quint was on was a cruiser in WWII that took the A-Bombs to their launch points. It was sunk, and sharks tore apart the survivors.
it was a battleship
@@michaelmulherin9952 It was a heavy cruiser. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)
Spielbergs 'close encounters" Has to be on the list same actor in that one. He was brilliant.. Never evee looked at a bowl of mash potatoes the same way.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the supper...
Richard Dreyfus was in SO many big movies at that time. HIGHLY recommend “Stand by Me.” Also can’t go wrong with “Mr Holland’s Opus.”
Hardly! The only other big film he was in was 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' two years after this. As for 'Stand By Me', he has about 5 lines in it bookended.
@@rnw2739 Richard Dreyfus was a prolific actor for three decades and was a favorite of Spielberg. He’s an Academy Award and Golden Globe winner. Of course very few movies are Jaws “big.” Close Encounters was huge. But Dreyfus was in many of the era’s widely popular and enduring movies-American Graffiti, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Goodbye Girl, What About Bob?, Tin Men, Always, Once Around, Nuts and the aforementioned Mr. Holland’s Opus. These may or may not be your cup of tea, but Richard Dreyfus was one of the most recognizable and consistent actors for a helluva long time.
@juliedaggett5880 Of all his films apart from 'Jaws', I would cite 'The Goodbye Girl' and 'Always' as exceptionally good ones. Most of his films are forgettable. He obviously wasn't that great at choosing his work - he turned down 'Jaws' don't forget, on first offering from Spielberg!
@@rnw2739I call B.S. on that! Few of his films are forgettable & nearly all of the "forgettable" ones have been in his later years.
@GjpgrD Bollocks. His most notable films were all early ones, Stand by Me was nothing more than a cameo and his legacy will eternally be 'Jaws' - despite being the least memorable of the trio.
“Jaws” was filmed in Massachusetts on an island called Martha’s Vineyard. Also, the beer that Quint drinks and crushes the can is a New England regional beer called Narragansett. They have a brewery in Providence, RI. One of their advertising campaigns features Quint with the slogan, “Honor the Man! Crush the Can!” If you go on the brewery that have all sorts of Quint related merchandise.
Many of the locations seen in the movie are still there today on Martha's Vineyard....they even have 'Jaws Fest' on the anniversary every year on date of the release of the film, June 20th (and many people, including many of the extras that were in the film - that still live there on the island - do tend to show up from time to time).
This is a fun tour of filming locations. ruclips.net/video/qwEperBZnJM/видео.html
I used to love going to Martha’s Vineyard in the summers with my family when I was young. They have the best fried clams there that I’ve ever tasted in my entire life. So big and meaty. Same in P town. Yum. I used to love going to Mad Martha’s ice cream shop while I was in the Vineyard. Great memories.
" here's to Swimmin , with bow legged Women. "
I’m from Pawtucket right on Providence line.
The music from this movie was iconic. John Williams wrote the music. He is known for Jaws, Star Wars, Superman, Indiana Jones, E.T., Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan and three Harry Potter instalments.
The masterpiece of visual, suspense, and heart is what made this movie so iconic. It made a generation of people afraid of the water.
This movie freaked me out as a kid to the point I wouldn't swim in a lake or even a swimming pool for awhile. I didn't even want to take a bath.
I love the "most replayed" parts on these 😂😂😂😂😂
I was 10 years old when I went to watch Jaws the first BLOCKBUSTER. The theater had 3 screens . Two of the screens were used for Jaws, but the line was still 2 blocks long. They could not get the shark to work for the first part of the movie. They used suspense so when the shark finally show up it scared everyone in the audience.
"Only 24 hours? What s that gonna do? Make him skip a meal?" Ha! That was great Amber!
"You're going to need a Bigger Boat!!" One of the most iconic lines in movies, ever!
And that “deer in the headlights” look on Roy Scheider’s face!
Remember...no CGI.... all real effects, models etc. Simply amazing stuff.
This movie traumatized a whole generation that grew up in the 70's. I was 7 when my dad took me and the neighbor to see it. Thanks dad!
The shark is coming music is super classic. Even many years after the movie, when folks first got cell phones the shark music was a popular ring tone.
My mom showed me this movie when I was very young. She had hoped to scare me, but instead made me a lifelong shark and movie lover! This is a GREAT movie and the story of making it is even better than the actual movie! It's been an obsession ever since my first viewing.
Would love to go see how they made this!
@@robsquadmoviereactions there are documentaries around. You could probably find them on RUclips. There was also a 40th Anniversary Blu-ray with an over hour long documentary as well. I highly recommend it.
@@robsquadmoviereactions There is a 2 hour documentary on the Blu-ray edition which is called The Shark Is Still Working really good insight into the making of it and how it almost never got finished.
We saw this in a movie theater when it first came out. The death of the girl at the start of the film almost made us walk out, it was so traumatic.
“Lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a dolls eyes” one of the best monologues ever.
Saw this in the theater when it was released in 1975. I was 15 years old, and it scared the bejezus out of me. This movie was a national sensation and the biggest blockbuster of its time (along with Star Wars of course). The special effects were fantastic. For most scenes they used a mechanical life size shark (affectionately named "Bruce") that ran on tracks on the seafloor off Martha's Vineyard ( the island off Cape Cod where it was filmed, "Amity Island" is a fictitious name) that was equipped with all the hydraulics to make it's movements lifelike. Real footage of real Great Whites were used in much of the scenes with the shark cage and the shark attacking it - filmed off the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The news reporter on the beach (in the 4th of July scene) was a cameo by Peter Benchley, the author of "Jaws." The barrels are to exhaust the shark and keep it close to the surface so they can kill it easier
Poor old Bruce ran into problems. They originally intended there to be a lot more footage of the shark but when Bruce couldnt perform they had to work around it. Turned out to be a blessing in disguise because the lack of visuals allowed peoples imaginations to fill the gap and terrify themselves even more.
Fun fact: The scene where the boy's mother slaps the Chief? The actress had never done a stage slap before, so she really smacked him. Scheider stayed in character and the take made the final cut.
Great reactions!
Peter Benchley, who has a cameo in the movie as the newsman on the beach, wrote the slim little novel titled Jaws that was a big hit with readers in 1974. Like the works of Michael Crichton, it was perfect for screen adaptation and Spielberg did a fantastic job! This is a real classic and I enjoyed seeing you experience it like we all did back then for the first time.
Now let me save you some precious hours of your future - this was the last great Jaws film. The success of the first movie had execs wanting more money and sequels were spawned, each one worse than the one before. And while this original Jaws is considered one of the best movies ever made, they milked the “franchise” they created until the final one is a joke and considered one of the worst movies of all time. Don’t bother watching any more Jaws flicks and keep the magic of this first great film in your hearts!
Jaws 2 wasn't terrible. Obviously not as good as the original, but it had some genuinely frightening scenes and did a good job of building tension. But yeah, the 3rd and 4th movies were complete garbage.
This is the only great jaws film.
Jay and Amber, imagine seeing it in a theater at 13 years old! The scariest part for me was the head coming out from the hole in the ship!
They built 3 robotic sharks for this movie, i believe they only had to use one . Amazing job, as it looked so real in the movie!
Same for me! The scariest part was the head. And I was 12! But over all I wasn't scared.
Some of the most iconic recognizable music in movie history.
When I was a kid we lived a mile From the beach and my mom would not let me see this movie (I was about 10) because she thought I would never go in the ocean. She was probably right.
One of the best parts of this movie is the tremendous suspense it created, magnified by John Williams' brilliant score. You literally do not see the shark until halfway through the movie in that scene with the kids in the bay. It was because they couldn't get the mechanical shark to function, but Spielberg made it work for him.
Jaws 2 was pretty good, but it had one of the best tag lines in its advertisement - "Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water."
I forgot that line,a true classic!
"This is a very ill-behaved shark."
Best line in the video! :)
That scene when Hooper goes underwater and investigates a wrecked boat. Nobody was ready for that! Sent my heart into arrhythmia. Same goes for my Dad
That actually is where i screamed and turned off the movie the first time I watched it lol. Now....well i can actually watch the full movie lol
Loving these 70/80s movie reviews.
Thank you!
Yes!!!
@@robsquadmoviereactions to this day,those few notes send a chill up my spine!
When this movie came out it scared me so much I didn't go in the ocean for two years. This movie was a MEGA block buster!
People still don't go in because of this movie!
When we first got HBO in the early 80s, this movie was playing. My little brother and I watched it every time it was on (it was before on demand viewing). My dad would say ‘quit watching that GD movie’ when we didn’t come to dinner - no pause back then. We did not want to stop watching even though we had seen it multiple times. 😂
A whole generation of people were afraid to go into the water after seeing this movie. I saw it with my mother & sister. The theatre was crowded so we waited for everyone to leave before going out to the parking lot. When we went outside, everyone had left. It was a giant sea of blacktop. We started to cross it to our car and we felt like the shark was going to come up through to blacktop and eat us! We looked at each other and laughed-how silly-right? Still so scared we ran to our car, laughing but still scared silly! Haven't been able to swim in the ocean since and I only live an hour away from it! Great reaction!
"Not the little boy". Jay says. Jaws says: " Hey, we Sharks love snacks too". The head scene gets everyone when they first see it, LOVE IT!!!!!
as soon as you said something like digital effects are so important to scary movies. I knew we were in for a ride. Everyone underestimates the power of a strong story and great practical effects.
And here's the Thing about that...
@@edwardthorne9875 good one! They should totally react to "The Thing". Rob Bottin's best
Jaws is my absolute favorite movie of all time. I'm glad I randomly stumbled across this video haha. That was great
You two have me rolling with your reactions to the “scary” parts. Amber, you’re killing me.
At 19:22 I was laughing so hard at their reaction!!!
Some fun facts;
- A large part of the terror that this film invokes stems from the fact that you hardly see the actual shark throughout the movie. This is attributed largely to the fact that there were major problems with the mechanical shark (nicknamed 'Bruce' (also the name of Steven Spielberg's lawyer...)). The audience's imagination filled in the blanks, and made the movie that much scarier... A related note; Alfred Hitchcock once stared in an interview that if you show a scene of two people sitting at a table, talking about baseball, and an explosion happens, the audience will jump.Show the same scene, but start with showing a bomb with a timer counting down, and pull back to show the two people talking about baseball. The audience will spend the next few minutes yelling at the screen "Don't talk about baseball! There's a bomb under the table!" You, as the audience, being aware of a danger the characters are not heightens the suspense.
- As others have pointed out, this movie is considered to be the original 'Summer Blockbuster'. It is not Steven Spielbergs' first movie, though...That distinction belongs to 'Duel' (1971), or possibly a segment of the pilot episode of 'Rod Serling's Night Gallery' (1969).
- As spectacular as it was, it has been proven (via 'Mythbusters') that a bullet to a scuba tank will not cause it to explode (Still, a satisfying ending, though...).
Obligatory Movie recommendations (because, why not?);
- Flash Gordon (1980) - If for no other reason, the soundtrack was provided by Queen...
- That Thing You Do! (1996) - You may not have heard of this one, but trust me, I believe you'll like it...
Hitchcock used that plotline of a bomb that the audience knew about but the characters did not to great effect in his 1936 film Sabotage.
I saw this, when it came out, in the theater. And every part you found scary, everyone else did at the time. The girl being pulled through the water at the beginning, is one of the scariest openings I have ever seen. Very Alfred Hitchcock up to a point.
True. It's like the shower scene but with a lot more water 🥶
"You're going to need a bigger boat" is one of Hollywood's most iconic lines, And I've read that Roy Scheider ad-libed it on the spot.
The music is written by John Williams. He also wrote the themes for, Close encounters, hook, and just about all the movie Stephen has done. They have a real bond together.
And every Star Wars movie
Fun fact that foreboding theme can be played by playing the lowest octave E and F on a piano.
Williams also did the Harry Potter soundtrack.
I absolutely 💙 *Mr. John Williams* ! He is the most prolific & talented movie soundtrack composer of all time! JAWS•CLOSE ENCOUNTERS•STAR WARS•SUPERMAN•INDIANA JONES•E.T.•BORN ON THE 4TH OF JULY•HOME ALONE•HOOK•JFK•JURRASIC PARK•SCHINDLER'S LIST•SAVING PRIVATE RYAN•THE PATRIOT•A.I.•HARRY POTTER•MINORITY REPORT•WAR OF THE WORLDS• and more!!
Yep - back in the 70's - before so much reliance on CGI - the direction, the music, the acting - changed the sea for a whole generation!
Awesome job by the teams involved and well deserving of the awards received !
I absolutely love this movie. I saw it in the theater when I was 6 years old, with my parents. Fun fact: Spielberg directed this when he was only 26.
I watched JAWS as a kid when it came out. TRAUMATIZED ME FOR LIFE. WILL NOT GO IN WATER.
And Ben Gardner's head coming out the boat never disappoints.
The music tied to the shark's movements has become iconic and is often used when someone wants to represent something scary.
I usually don't comment on reaction videos bc the reactions seem fake or uninterested but you guys have such a great energy and chemistry together and I loved it, I'm subscribing now :)
The actor playing the mayor who wants the beaches kept open played the role of "Mr. Robinson" in the 1967 film "The Graduate"--which is definitely on your list of must-sees.
Also Richard dryfuss had his first movie role, a cameo, in The Graduate
Richard Dreyfuss is way cool he played in the movie Mr Holland's opus also love that movie
Yes, my favorite role of Murray Hamilton! And The Graduate is a definite must see!
The Graduate is a top 10 film for sure. You must see it. Pure gold.
The biggest "Crime" in Jaws .... Murray Hamilton's ( the Mayor ) JACKETS!
Quint is showing signs of PTSD from his Japan shark experience. Nobody caught that.
One of the greatest adventure films of all time. Steven Spielberg was very young when he directed this, and for most of the shooting, the mechanical shark they called Bruce didn't work. So they couldn't show it very often, which made the shark that much more scary. Really glad you did this one; it's one of my favorites!
To see a similar movie about "messing with someone's babies," they need to check out Orca, with Richard Harris (who later played Dumbledore in Harry Potter). Orca is the name of Quint's boat, btw. I think this is because sharks fear orcas.
For a great early Spielberg TV movie, Duel is well worth reacting to
@@LA_HA omg.....I forgot about Orca! I'll have to see if I can watch it sometime!
This was such an iconic movie, and watching you watch it for the first time after so many years -- wow!! Your reactions were so genuine and so heartfelt. I loved it.
How the three actors in this movie were chosen is genius! They acted so well together! They say that Quint played by Robert Shaw, a great actor in his time, ad libbed many of his lines!! Great, great movie! Especially the line, “ here’s to swimming with bow-legged women.” A true classic! Amber I saw this when I was 15 and right before I went to see my grandparents in Florida, didn’t swim in the ocean for a long time!!!
I saw it when I was 15 too
The split second where you see the shark's fin for the first time. Absolutely masterful filmmaking.
You two are delightful! I love watching your reactions! I’m 70 and this movie keeps me out of the ocean to this day!
No way a movie this old can be scary and jumpy?.... clearly "The Exorcist" has to be next. Great reaction and a great movie. I'm a big fan of Jaws. Definitely check out The Exorcist next....still horrifying to this day.
Noooooooo!! Do not watch the E movie! I promise it will haunt you forever. It haunted me forever! My cray big sister took me to see it at 11!! 11 years old and I slept with Mom until the 9th grade because of it. Couldn't sleep in the dark until the late 90s! Nnooooooo! Plus that govener in Jaws is like Abbott in Texas opening up everything waaayyyyy to early. Saying it's ok. Go swimming! Lol
Oh, I could never get through the Exorcist. Not even to this day. It was too much for me, and I always liked scary movies.
It still makes me jump and I’ve seen it several times!
I watched the Exorcist, alone, when I was 12 year old......I was traumatized for the rest of my childhood!
I could easily watch any of the usual "monster" movies, but anything devil related freaked me the f*ck out! 😝Satanic movies still freak me out.
"The power of Christ compels you...."!!!! 👹
Poltergeist is a great entry level horror film. I'd recommend that one before The Exorcist. Rosemary's Baby is another or all of Alfred Hitchcock's entire catalog for mastery in suspense.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Jaws is one of my favourite movies of all time.
I would recommend you check out 'The Karate Kid' - 'Back to the Future' & ' Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark '
”Is it supposed to be scary though? It’s about a shark!”😂 A wee bit scary eh?