Watching JAWS for the FIRST TIME - Movie Reaction
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Fun fact - Spielberg was expecting a grand score for this film, so when John Williams presented him with the main theme, he asked, "That's all you got?" John Williams replied, "That's all you need."
@@CoryGasaway There is. Watch Spielberg's speech when John Williams became a Kennedy Center honoree
The music and the limited screen time of the shark made the movie.
@@jjjones8609 Also creating three main characters in which the audience became invested. Even with lousy special effects and a blah music score, there would still be enjoyment watching those three interact. In the end, everything was firing on all cylinders and this movie has rightfully become a classic.
This poor dude, lol. He thought he was gonna get Sharknado and instead he got a dose of Australian PTSD. 😂😂😱
I suffer from MDD (money deficit disorder ).
"24 hours is like 3 weeks" - They live on an Island community in the North Atlantic.Summer tourism is their total income for the year, and in the North Atlantic the summers are short. So, economically speaking, 1 day is 3 weeks of income to them.
Especially around the 4th of July
I live there and that is painfully true.
24:58 --- Beer cans used to be made of steel and it did take quite a bit of force to crush them. I stopped doing that with aluminum cans when one tore and sliced the side of my hand open.
Yikes!
The aluminum cans in the 70s were quite a bit thicker than today. They got thinner over time to make them cheaper.
The WW2 Shark Attack while sinking
of the USS Indianapolis is a True Story.
When they were filming, the robotic shark kept messing up and they didn't get to put it into the film as much as they had planned on. That actually worked in their favor because not seeing the shark and hearing the music scared the crap out of more people than if they'd seen the shark LOL
You'll be happy to know that in all of moviedom, that jump scare where the head floats at Richard Dryfuss' character through the hole in the boat, that specific jump scare has got to be the single most reliable jump scare of them all. There has yet to be a reactor I've watched or a friend I've been with who didn't jump. It still gets me most times, even now.
It's so unexpected. But in fairness to Spielberg, he does give a heads up with the picture of the shark eating into the hull of the boat.
The reason it works so well is because you're already nervous as hell that the shark might come up behind him. With the thought of the danger in the water all around, you don't expect something coming from inside the boat.
I got a girlfriend with it one time years ago and it was so bad she slammed her head into the wall. I still say that's why she had a brain aneurysm five years later (not life threatening thankfully).
The jump scare wasn't actually part of principal filming. Spielberg added it after seeing early rushes. Good move from the reactions it gets ! It was filmed in the backyard swimming pool of the script editor, Verna Fields. They made the water murky by dumping milk in the water !
According to photos in one of the two making of Jaws paperbacks in the 70s, Meadows (the newspaper editor) was on a smaller boat with others (could have been Brody and Hooper (it's been some time since I owned those paperbacks)) in the daytime. The photos showed Meadows falling overboard during the process of exploring the shark-attacked boat.
In the novel, Meadows had a much larger role and was a friend of Brody's.
Funny fact, Jaws was filmed in April at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The water is freezing during that time of the year, so the mechanical shark kept breaking down. So this was a huge risk to mainly show the fin & play the "duh, duh, duh" music. Jaws was the 1st movie label Summer Blockbuster & obviously the fin & music worked.
I live in Massachusetts & every summer they screen Jaws on the beach at night, I can tell you 1st hand it scares the shit out of you to watch & hear the water right next to you.
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Im afraid that's become a myth. The mechanical shark was not intended to be used for the beach scenes. Those scenes were filmed in May and June 1974. The shark was not intended to be used until July, for the boat scenes. The first half of the film was made more or less on schedule. The shark wouldn't work for the boat based scenes and the shoot carried on through September because of it.
This is all in The Jaws Log and Memories From Martha's Vineyard.
We used the theme music to this movie for our wedding. So I walked down the isle to do-dum-do-dum-du-du-do-do......It was a great surprise for our guests. Also, we go to an event every summer where you float on inner tubes on the water while you watch the movie on a big portable screen. It's so much fun. There are underwater divers that grab your feet. It's a tradition for us to watch this every 4th of July. Great reaction! This started the whole shark genre.
If I ever get married I might steal that. I love it!
@@barbaramcgee8933 It was the perfect thing to get everyone talking and set the mood that this was going to be a fun wedding. And it was. It was also both our 2nd times, so what the heck. This was for us. 😊
Everything about Jaws is very well executed, but it's the characters that make the film. Especially the three leads. Jaws went from being something that traumatized me as a kid to becoming one of my favorite films.
21:45 that shot is fantastic. We dont see the shark clearly yet but Spielberg shows how big the shark is. And we see a blurry image of the shark with his mouth open about to bite that poor man. It's terrifying.
Fun Fact:
The name of the mechanical shark that was used for certain scenes is named Bruce 🦈
Another fact: The movie was almost canceled due to Bruce and his mechanical problems in the water. xD
@@Lucas-Stl and it was due to them problems the shark was hardly seen most of the movie which is ccx what made the movie.
and supposedly named 'Bruce' after Spielberg's lawyer at the time .
I love your reactions and I'm so glad you're getting into 70's and 80's classics. Steven Spielberg is famous for his suspense building jump scares and chase scenes. As you observed in Back to the Future 2 with the "Jaws: 19" and Marty's line, "That shark still looks fake", he likes to poke fun at himself as well. Thank you for being you, sincere and genuine.
Jaws is the perfect thriller/horror blend - it's the terror of a horrific death, but it's paced and built on the suspense and the thrill of it coming; the truth is that it is shown seldomly - and yet it is always the major threat.
It truly terrifies me all these many years later...
It's the power of the imagination and the unknown coming for you...
DUD DUH DUD DUH DUD DUH DUD DUH...
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Great reaction!
They story the Captian told about the USS Indianapolis is a true story. I knew a man who was part of the crew that rescued the survivors. In his 60’s or 70’s he was featured in a paper or on TV, I don’t recall. A man saw his picture and contacted him because he recognized him as the man that pulled him from the water that day. It was pretty intense for both of them. He passed away many many years ago but he was a really interesting man with a life well lived.
Sharks get such a bad reputation from this movie and they're actually an endangered species. Humans kill far more sharks than they kill humans.
When Peter Benchly (the author of Jaws) saw how negatively people reacted to the movie, he changed his position on sharks completely. He became a conservationist and started writing books aimed at educating people about sharks. His last book was aimed at children.
Sharks already had a bad reputation BEFORE this movie. That's why it worked. The fear of sharks was already there.
Alternate names for great whites back then were "white death" and "maneater". Nothing to do with Jaws.
Off Australia, the grey nurse shark was almost wiped out in the 1950s and 1960s. Again, nothing to do with Jaws.
Jaws actually created a lot of interest in sharks, which lead to more knowledge and understanding.
Its the Asian shark fin industry that wiped out hundreds of millions of sharks, not Jaws.
@@lyndoncmp5751 true in a sense, but it's been documented in numerous locations that shark fishing exploded after this movie. And did severe extra damage. It's not even a debate anymore. Jaws absolutely 100% caused massive massive death to sharks in addition to the fishing industry.
@@lyndoncmp5751 BS, shark population had decline mostly from this movie. Yes in other places they kill sharks for food and even for sport even before this movie, but you'd have to be pretty ignorant to not see the problem this movie caused. You never see sharks as good in media, very rarely you do. People seeing sharks that way means they don't care for them. No one cares about the population of sharks because they're "bad and evil". More recently its turning around, but unlike spiders, sharks aren't going to repopulate as fast as we kill them.
@@appleglassjuice11
Shark populations were declining BEFORE Jaws. The game fishing for sharks took off after WW2. By the 1950s game fishing for sharks was a big thing. The all time record rod and reel great white was in 1959. Alf Dean. Nothing to do with Jaws.
Off Australia in the 1950s and 1960s the grey nurse shark suffered a major decline in it's population due to spear fishing. Those sharks looked dangerous so they were wiped out. Again, nothing to do with Jaws.
When Ron and Valerie Taylor turned up in 1971 to film great whites for Blue Water white death they had a hard time finding any and were told the great whites were far fewer in number than before. Locals blamed the game fishing and commercial netters, catching them accidentally (recklessly) as bycatch. Valerie wrote she could see the sharks becoming extinct there before long. Again nothing to do with Jaws. This was all before Jaws was even written as a book.
""you'd have to be pretty ignorant to not see the problem this movie caused""
Of course, Jaws caused some problems for sharks but it was a drop in the bucket compared to the Asian shark finning industry that wiped out hundreds of millions, even billions of them. You should direct your anger at that moreso because that has gone on for decades.
In the long run Jaws has been of benefit to sharks. It lead to a major boom in the interest in sharks and this has lead to far more knowledge and understanding and now people like you and me are on the side of the sharks. Before Jaws few cared at all.
How old are you? Im 50. I saw Jaws at the cinema as a young kid aged 5 when it first came out. I grew up with an interest in sharks and obtained as many books as I could. I was able to obtain older books written before Jaws. They all had the same tone. i.e sharks as the maneater etc. Watch any old black and white movie featuring the sea. Sharks were the villains LONG before Jaws ever came out. I was watching The Most Dangerous Game (1932) the other day. Man falls overboard and is immediately eaten by sharks. This was 43 years before Jaws.
This painting is from 1899:
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11122
This documentary is from 1969. It's all about sharks being a danger and attacking people. Stacks of footage from the 1960s of people butchering sharks.
ruclips.net/video/tGO7utbzvt4/видео.html
I am very well informed thank you very much.
Have a good weekend.
My mom let me watch this when I was 7 and it made me so scared of water, at the time, that I thought a shark would burst up through my bath tub and eat me
Same here, I went at least a week before a bath.
Same. My older sister told me they can come up through the toilet. 😑
I was four and my parents took my brothers and me to a theater. During the cage scene, my mom shoved my head under the seats to stop me from watching, but I could still see the screen.
When I was 11 or 12, we got a VHS of Jaws that we watched all the time. It’s still one of my favorite films.
I watched it when I was 7 and wanted to go to the beach immediately to catch a shark. Not to kill just to catch and let go. I even have watched this movie at the beach at night from the water.
Same!!!
And now you know why it's considered the first summer blockbuster, and it's a classic!
The Meg is also a pretty good shark movie. I hate the vastness of the ocean, so it gives me the heebie-jeebies
This one's a classic from my childhood, my dad and I would watch this and blazing saddles, that one will make you giggle so much lol. Great review as always!
Ten thousand in 1975 is over FIFTY THOUSAND today. probably more than most of the townsfolk make in a year, which is why they balked at paying.
Completely agree about the acting in this film. So natural, real and understated. Just an absolute classic
The fact on how you thought jaws was a shark who can walk on land is hilarious. A great white on land just suffocates or drowns. The ONLY shark who can walk on land is a harmless one to humans: The Epaulette who also live in Australia
Dude, you're Australian if you want a "Jaws on Land"
I highly recommend "Razorback" it's a trip!
Just like this movie the filmmaker holds back on showing its creature fully until the last part.
@@richardrobbin2225 I'm not Australian. I'm a shark nerd and Scottish
Sharks on land typically hang out at singles bars and wear too much cologne. Never accept a drink from one.
26:53 ''You're gonna need a bigger boat.'' You cut it out! That's THE quote from the film! 🤦♂️
Ah yes, the movie that gave everyone and their mother a fear of the water. Me too, but it also kind of kicked off my love of these animals. ❤️🦈❤️ Also, and I might be wrong about the one who started it, but I think that the author of the story of Jaws (Peter Benchley) felt so bad about demonizing these creatures that he started a conservation fund for them. It may’ve been both him and Spielberg, I’m not sure.
Another thing about this movie: The dynamic between Brody, Quinn, and Hooper, I think, is one of the best dynamics I’ve seen in a movie. It’s kind of like different classes in a video game or role playing - Brody is the tough guy (solves problems with his gun instead of taking a more complicated route, like Hooper with the poison), Hooper is the “voice of reason” (he knows the science behind the monster, and would rather kill it humanely), then there’s Quinn (a hunter in every sense of the word, thinks he could take on the biggest shark ever seen and come out without a scratch). They’re only connection in all of this is knowing that that shark has to die, but it works so well.
As far as I've read and know, you are correct. Peter Benchley was not a happy man with the shark slaughter that took place after this. But give him credit for not only one hell of a story, but a hell of an effort to educate.
24 hours for a "summer town" would be like missing 3 weeks of business. Sorta. Also the 10 grand that Quint wanted to get the shark would be close to $50k us dollars now
Jaws is a classic. The first scene you don’t see the shark, don’t see blood but you know what’s happening to her. Legit pain from her. Guys were underneath her pulling her back and forth and they broke her rib…..ouchie. Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfus and Roy Scheider were great actors back in the day. You should check out other movies they did. The robotic shark Spielberg used had problems in the ocean water so they didn’t use it at much which made it scarier. The music was made for the film. Brilliant score and creeps me out. I don’t go beyond the waves anymore because of this movie. The story about the USS Indianapolis are true. Good reaction.
As a movie fan I've read a lot of stories about filmmaking and one thing everyone seems to agree on is that shooting your film on water is a nightmare. So much can go wrong and put you behind schedule and over your budget. Jaws had its share of problems but it was worth it judging by the results- a great movie and it earned a ton of money.
Many people underestimate this movie, especially people that have seen newer shark movies, which go more for the visual. I saw the trailer for 'The Meg' I think it was and was bored when they immediately showed off the size of it, essentially saying 'we got the biggest shark'. People also enter this movie with the question about the body count, which isn't really that high.
But most of them go real quiet when the tension goes up and get especially shocked when the boy gets eaten on camera.
And there is the mayor, that became a trope in on himself.
Oh, I knew The Meg would be absolute trash when it came out. Nothing compares to this film. Quality, not quantity... or how fat it is.
Lol. I was a freshman in high school when this came out. Half of my generation was afraid to go in the water after this movie. Not sure many of us wanted to go into space after Alien either....lol.
This movie spawned my fascination with shark movies....even really bad ones like Sharknado and Sharktopus. Deep Blue Sea is my next favorite shark movie.
Even after so many years, it’s so refreshing to watch this. It’s so honest and real. Every actor does their part to be totally real, relatable characters.
12:22 --- Literally, YES... If you walk straight from that spot up the street you'll come to a pub called "The Wharf". And guess who you'll meet? Jeffery Voorhees who played little Alex in the movie. Jeff still lives on Martha's Vineyard and co-owns the pub.
The actor who played Quint had a drinking problem and was apparently drunk in every scene he is in.
Method acting. He nailed the character regardless.
Robert Shaw is in my favorite movie The Sting and he nailed that part too.
Yeah he died at the young age of 51, three years after Jaws, from a heart attack brought on by his alcoholism. Very sad way to die.
No he certainly wasn't drunk in every scene he was in. He only got drunk during the first take of the USS Indianapolis monologue.
Wrong.
The music not being overpowering ... that once again is the genius of John Williams. Music should be there to enhance a movie not overpower it. In this film, the simplicity of the music (compared to one of Williams' larger film scores like Star Wars) doesn't distract your attention from what all is going on.
The score is magnificent and won an Academy Award. There is so much more to it than merely the shark motif. It's a huge orchestral score. The music at the end while they are swimming in is gorgeous.
Imagine being a small child who'd never seen this and was going to Universal Studios for the first time. Parents took me on the Jaws ride and I had no idea what it was. They sat me next to the side of the boat so I could see the water. Jaws comes out of the water right beside me and scares the crap out of me, cause I don't know this is fake. I was terrified of sharks as a kid because of the Jaws ride. Used to think a shark would eat my arms or legs if they hung over the side of the bed. But now? I love sharks and love the jaws movies. lol And yeah, there are a few of them. Happy shark week!
In the book the mayor owed money to the Mob which was one of his motivations for being this way. Also none of the characters in the book were likable so they re-wrote a lot of their characters for the film.
I'm my god I'm pissing myself laughing "tits and arse!!!" You just got a sub for that 🤣🤣🤣
This was the last movie my grandmother went and saw in theaters, she said it was so terrifying, one of the scariest at the time.
We're so used to shocking horror movies these days we're desensitized to them. Back in 1975, this was one of the scariest movies ever made.
If I ever get a boat.... I'm towing three yellow barrels behind me and put on a look of panic when I pass other boaters...
Jaws and The Poseidon Adventure made us afraid of the ocean. Pirannha made us afraid of the lake. Alien made us afraid of space. Airport made us afraid pf flying. The Towering Inferno afraid of tall buildings. Earthquake made us afraid of the ground. We were just screwed all around....lol.
Catch on to the theme yet? Fear is the easiest way to control people.
All were fantastic movies but Airport (all of them) was always my fav. Love Charlton Heston and George Kennedy as Patroni.
@@cyndisanimaladventures6370 me too
I love your genuine reaction. That scream when they found the boat nearly blew my drums (headphones on)! :)
Australia definitely has some of the animal kingdom's heavy hitters, that's for sure lol Huge great whites, box jellyfish, saltwater crocodiles, funnel web spiders, taipans, and let us not forget the venomous duck-billed platypus 🤘
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The story told about the U.S.S. Indianapolis is true...the oceanic white-tipped shark is said to have been the main species involved.
Jaws: masterpiece. One of my top 20, EASILY.
Jaws 2: not a bad film, actually. No Dreyfuss or Spielberg, but it’s nice to see Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton and an even more on-edge Roy Scheider (who didn’t want to be there.) Pales in comparison though.
Jaws 3D: okay, you….you can stop now.
Jaws the Revenge: all joy is dead now.
I've been watching this movie since I was 7 years old in 1995 but I grew up in Florida in the Tampa Bay area on the west coast. In 2018, probably about 8 months before I moved out of florida, this girl I was seeing and I went to a restaurant named caddy's on treasure Island and they were showing Jaws on two blow-up screens one night and we were literally floating out in the Gulf of Mexico in the water at the beach at night watching this movie. One of the best experiences of my entire life
As we go along:
1. Goof: Chrissies body parts are too far up the beach to have been washed ashore without a large storm over night.
2. Boy Scouts do not need the mile swim for their merit badge. The mile swim is an accomplishment all it's own.
3. IRL Dreyfuss and Shaw didn't get along. Spielberg used the animosity to highlight their differences for the movie.
4. This movie was the very first summer "blockbuster"(released in the same week nation wide).
5. Lee Fierro/Mrs. Kintner actually slapped Roy Schieder. It took 17 takes. One time it was so hard she knocked his glasses off.
6. The jump scare at Ben Gardner's boat works every time. Spielberg wanted something earlier because "Bruce" was giving them a hard time
and it would be awhile before he would make his appearance. That's why it took 100 more days than planed to make the movie.
7. Hooper was right. It was a game fish.
8. "You're gonna need a bigger boat" is one of the greatest ad libs of all time. It was the first time Schieder actually saw Bruce.
9. The story Quint tells about the USS Indianapolis is true.
10. Goof: An animal that large couldn't strike the side of the boat that rapidly under water..
11. I was in the Navy and we were taught to go for the shark's eyes.
12. My take is that Quitnt's behavior was brought on by PTSD after the Indy story.
13. In the book not only does Hooper die in the shark cage but he was having an affair with Mrs. Brody
14. Finally, the only other movie in the series worth watching is JAWS II. It's pretty good. It involves the Brody kids and their friends.
Including the Mayor's daughter.
Another goof: Quint boiling the shark jaws will cause the teeth to fall out
14. I think it's the Mayor's son, not his daughter? (Larry Vaughn, Jr. )
@@RaefonB Watch it for yourself.
@@williamjones6031 I've watched it loads of times. Pretty sure Larry is the Mayor's son and there's no mention of any of the girls being his daughter.
I literally watched that movie for the first time today and the same happened with Titanic last time. That’s why you’re my favorite reactor, we’re connected lol.
Great video by the way 😉
As someone who liked Robert Shaw as Quint, you have to see him in The Sting! He plays a ruthless Depression-era crime boss, but is so charismatic that you can’t take your eyes off of him, even when he’s sharing the screen with super-hotties (and fantastic actors) Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
Likewise as the German Panzer commander in 'Battle of the Bulge' - his performance is so good.
in 1975 Richard Dreyfus (Hooper) and Steven Spielberg worked together on Jaws. in 1977 they together again in the sci-fi Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind.
and again later in "Always" with Holly Hunter & Audrey Hepburn.
@@goodowner5000 YES!
Omfg I was laughing so hard ur reaction to the jump scare… tits and arse!
23:06 - I believe that he thought the tiger shark WAS the rogue shark. And he didn't want to believe it wasn't. When he started sending people into the water, he genuinely thought the danger was over. Because he REFUSED to think otherwise.
As an Aussie you should be proud to know that the underwater film of real great whites and the cage shots were done by Ron and Valerie Taylor our underwater documentary film makers and shark conservationists. They filmed off South Australia for their shark shots, separate to Spielberg's stuff.
Yes. The iconic music (da-dum, da-dum) was created for this movie.
It has been copied and parodied in pop culture ever since. Mostly with regards to anything involving sharks. 🦈 But this movie is it’s origin.
This came out 4 months before I was born so I never got to see it in the theater. Skip ahead to 1983 and Jaws 3D came out. What parents take their 6 year old to see Jaws 3. We never made it through the opening credits. With the 3D glasses when the grouper head floated out through the blood, mouth still moving, I started screaming and didn't stop until we left the theater. The poor theater people felt so bad they gave my mom her money back
Skip ahead 40 years and now the first 3 films, the 4th never happened in my mind, are some of my favorite movies to watch. I know the sequels get a lot of flack but I really love them all.
I feel like such a baby typing this but I've only ever been able to watch Quint getting eaten alive once and that was the first time I ever watched this movie. Sorry to say I paused it this time and skipped lmao it just looks too real!
Thats cause Robert Shaw was really inside Bruces mouth screaming and spitting blood. All Practical!!!
I can’t watch the dr and wife die in tremors either
@@tenshi.kurama that scene is so, so sad to me. they were just building their house…
The reason it still works is because of tension! You rearely see the shark but you anticipate it more frequently. Very smart drama.
Just a classic from Steven Spielberg
There are 4 Jaws films. Sadly, the sequels don’t measure up to the original, according to most viewers, with the sequels getting a lot of hate. Personally, I enjoyed all 4 films. I will say, however, that the 3rd and 4th films could have been a lot better, but I actually loved the 2nd one. Without giving too much away, the 2nd might be my favorite, due to certain details, especially because of how they ‘deal with’ the shark at the very end.
If you do watch it, be sure to keep a look out for Donna Wilkes, one of the best ‘scream queens’ ever. Her performance is off the charts.
another one of the teens is Keith Gordon, who went on to star in DePalma's "Dressed to Kill" and Carpenter's "Christine", who I believe now is a writer/director.
You're a great reaction guy!! U understand that movies will never ever be made like this!!!
Glad to finally see more of your earliest reactions finally making their way over here. 👍 Still waiting for "The Thing," the first 2 Indiana Jones movies, and "Godfather II." A redo of "The Godfather" would also be nice, given you deleted the first 2 parts of your 3-part reaction, but not necessary.
Hey buddy, I love it when youtubers react to classic films, you def got a new subscriber 😎
Jaws is such a favourite of mine and always watch when it on the TV.
The reason we don't see the shark a lot is cos it kept breaking down, Spielberg wanted to show it more at the beginning but it would never work so just had it out of sight which actually worked even better as it better to use your imagination in the attack scenes.
Jaws 2 is quite good, I recommend you have a watch of that but the movies after give a miss 😂👍
I wish you could have experienced this movie as I have. My mother and I both read the novel on the way to the NJ shore and saw the movie when it opened there. Seeing this movie near the sea shore and seeing it in a full house was one of the best theatrical experience I had. The next day my family and I were off Barnegat Bay crabbing and swimming. My mother was unnerved but I went ahead and began writing a sequel to the movie closely mimicking my family vacationing at the NJ shore.
To watch this movie when it was theatrically released in a seashore environment was one of the best experiences of my life. I only wish others who experience this movie later could watch it in the same environment that I did.
If you like Bruce (the shark) you might want to check out "20,00 Leagues Under the Sea." The same artist that developed Bruce developed the giant squid. And unlike with Bruce, he had enough time to give his best work.
I don't blame you for being scared of the water, especially in Australia where there's a ton of Great Whites! That's the one reason everyone in the movie was skeptical at first because man eating Sharks are very rare in the North Atlantic.
Did he say T&A at the jump scare? Lol.
Right, now a few words about the much ignored Jaws 2. I was always of the opinion that the coincidences that were required in order for the movie to star Roy Scheider with the same Mayor (yes, he somehow kept his job) in the same place lack credibility to say the least. Once past all that, accepting of the story and suspending your disbelief, Jaws 2 is a well crafted thriller that rightly draws on the techniques (though not all of them) from the first movie and even, in my opinion, outdoes the first film in certain aspects.
Never would there be a sequel that tried harder than this to be as good as the original. It failed, but not by much I think. Roy Scheider acts his heart out, really sells the events to us because it's difficult to believe something isn't happening when he's reacting to it - he was that good an actor. Jaws 3 and 4 were doomed from the moment they decided not to cast Scheider moving forward. To honour the late great Roy Scheider please react to Jaws 2 (2010 and Blue Thunder while you're at it).
Roy wasn't in 3 or 4 because he flat out refused to do them! He didn't even want to be in Jaws 2 but the studio made him.
The TV reporter on the beach during the Fourth of July is Peter Benchley the author of the book Jaws.
FYI
Dillion is this my favorite movie of all time, so happy you reviewed it!
This has always been my favorite shark movie. I know Sharknado is a thing...errr...but yeah, Jaws even made me look at the great lakes as dangerous when I was young. I always watched for a fin! My uncle liked to play the theme when we were out past sight of land. Good times.
The "24 hours is like three weeks* was a comment on them being strictly a summer business place. If you equate the days of summer tourism to what most people do business in an a whole year, one day would be close to that. however, having said that, she's nuts! How many customers will she have left when the shark start eating more people and no one wants to come back!
17:40 The moment I always wait for! I'm never disappointed!
‘AHHHHHHH T*ITS AND ASS!!’ 🤣🤣🤣
In Australia of 1975 you guys knew how big great whites could get. but for a lot of people who up until that point had only seen sharks that were dolphin sized fish on movies and t.v. it came as a shock when they found out that while 'Bruce' the shark in Jaws was a bit bigger then average at 25' in length he wasn't that much bigger.
25:20 - He won't go flying into the water,, because he locked himself into the chair attached to the boat.
For a coastal town who relies on all their business in just 3 months of Summer it comes out to about a loss of 3 weeks earnings in the yearly total. Hope that helps you understand why she said that.
When I was 9 my father took me and a friend to see this in the theatre. Scared the crap out of me.
Sadly Robert Shaw passed away not even five years after Jaws released. May he rest in peace
It's my favorite movie, heck no - I'm not turning away xD
The mechanical shark (nicknamed ''Bruce'') wasn't realistic enough so Spielberg keep it's use to a minimum. This actually enhanced the suspense.
This was Spielberg's third feature-length film. His feature-length directorial debut was ''Duel'' (1971) and is well worth a look. My dad made me watch it when I was young to teach me of the dangers of road rage. It made me a better, safer driver.
No it was because the shark was often breaking down and not working. So that's why the dock and barrels were used to show when the shark was there.
@@stevenjump8234 Well, a broken-down shark wouldn’t have been very realistic, eh?
Steven Jump,
You are correct about the barrels but incorrect about the dock. The first half of Jaws was filmed without seeing the shark by design. The beach scenes were filmed in May and June 1974 but Bruce was not scheduled to be used in any scenes until July.
The dock scene was filmed in Harthhaven on May 24th, very early on in the shooting schedule. Bruce hadn't even been tested in salt water by then.
The first half of the film went according to schedule in the main with only a few glitches. Non shark related. It was the filming at sea for the Orca scenes where Bruce wouldn't work, taking the production months over schedule.
You did a great video for a movie that has many! Once again, I really enjoyed how much you appreciated the acting, and you pointed out the fact that they would have had a boat to film the boat, etc. Great. I'm subscribing! Hey listen: this was Spielberg's first movie. He followed it up with ANOTHER fantastic blockbuster, the dazzling "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind". It was that one-two punch of "Jaws" and "Close Encounters" that trademarked his style and is what his entire reputation and career is built upon, those two back-to-back hits. I HIGHLY recommend seeing "Close Encounters" as your next Spielberg movie. You, specifically, are really going to like this movie, I have absolutely no doubt. After that, you can do all the other Spielbergs in any order you want: but take the opportunity to see these two movies back-to-back so that you can see how Spielberg built his style and career. I think "Close Encounters" is his best movie, personally.
Really liked the two reaction videos I saw of yours today!!!! Like I said, I subscribed!
after the scientist swims over to the chief at the end, i wouldv been tempted to have quints head and shoulders come floating over to them and put his arm around him heheh
I'm just curious, do you ever go to Bondi Beach? I've watched their RUclips channel and I think it's really cool, I was wondering if you've ever been there.
And quick question, YOU SAW A SHARK ATTACK?!
the 24 hours is like three weeks woman was probably refering to how they say that these kinds of summer tourist towns have to make a years worth of money in a few months of the summer
fun fact peter benchley the author of jaws does have a book with a walking shark
My sister and I LOVE JAWS!!!! Of course back when I was like 5 years old, I hated it and the theme song always gave me the creeps. But by the time I was like 15 or older, I finally faced my fears by watching the movie and now I love it.
Tits and arse lol fantastic,great reaction mate,Jaws is a classic,have subscribed can’t wait for your next reaction 👍
A BIG ordinary shark.....yes...And yes...Great Whites. Are... ferocious. There is nothing wrong about being Australian an scared of Great Whites. I stepped on one in the deep boogie boarding.... And almost had a heart attack. Visions raced in my head and I almost ran across the top of the water. I absolutely love your commentary btw
What’s scarier is jaws is based on a true story.
Jaws is not a true story. It is based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name.
@@marcusd450 the novel was partly based on Benchley's interest in Frank Mundus, a fisherman who supposedly inspired the character of Quint, and also partly on the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916.
JordieRose.
Absolutely correct. Spot on. A combination of the 1916 attacks (though Benchley denied it, he very likely was... even subconsciously) and the 4,500 pound white that Mundus caught in 1964, via harpoon and barrel method.
Cheers.
5:32 --- take a close look at the Mayor's Cadillac... That's about the scale of the shark..
How can an Australian hate the ocean? 🤷🏻♀️ I’ve been dying my whole life to get to Australia just to get in the ocean!!
The comment about 24 hours being like 3 weeks is because in beach/tourist towns in New England, the money made over a specific period in the summer is equal to the amount of money made over the entire rest of the year. It’s a terrible comment but that’s exactly something you’d hear from a local business owner.
1975 wasn't a hundred years ago. It wasn't the Stone Age. Movie technology was fantastic in 1975.
This movie is why a lot of people my parents’ age don’t go into the ocean til this day. Of course growing up in the 90s our graphics are better so we’re not as afraid. I literally know some people who won’t get into the bathtub because of this movie 😂
Great movie based off a great book. The author Peter Benchley is a great story teller. Also penned The Island that the Michael Caine movie is based on.
Great reactions and analysis. Fun to watch.
Tremors is like Jaws on land. Great movie.
He’d love Tremors!
John Williams had a cameo in Star Wars Ep9. He played some kind of tinkering mechanic or something. The props people made stuff from the movies he's done. On his workbench they had a bunch of small metal yellow barrels (representing Jaws). Very cool.
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Wow, that'd awesome! Thank u for the fun fact. Just watched that vid. What a humble man.
Chrissy wasn't swimming in Australia, so she'll be fine. Best. Leo.
T n A hee hee it's time u saw this classic good commentary. Thank you , mate.
There is a Jaws 2 that's a pretty decent sequel - forget 3 & 4 thou!
Yeah. Jaws 2 wasn't bad. Not really good, either.
The 4 movies are the fight of the same family against a shark. 1 and 2 the father, 3 the sons, 4 the mother.