One of my friends, Ed Harrell, was the last surviving member of the USS Indianapolis’ Marine Corps detachment. He passed away a couple years ago. RIP Ed and all my other lost shipmates.

"How come this 70s movie is making me jump scare more than modern horror movies?" Filmmaking skills, my friend. Filmmaking skills.

Fun fact: There are sharks that can live hundreds of years 😂 They're called Greenland sharks and the oldest one found was over 400 years old I think

Remarkably, 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…

That shark-fin prank, lol. If you pulled something like that back in the day, you'd almost prefer taking your chances with the shark rather than facing your mom.

The Cam scream was hysterical. Zay didn’t look scared. He looked in shock.

HEADS UP for Ben Gardner😁

The USS INDIANAPOLIS is a real war maritime event that happened in 1945, there are afew films based on the story.

Zay, newer films' jump scares are PLACED into a story. You were scared by Jaws' jump scares because they are CRAFTED to be in a certain spot and there are specific visual and dialogue cues that happen beforehand to make you feel safe. The blood-test in THE THING is a great example. :)

The "You're gonna need a bigger boat" line was improvised on the spot by Roy Schieder

I was in 5th grade when this movie came out in 1975. It scared EVERYBODY. Not many went swimming in the ocean that summer. When Jaws 2 was released in 1978, the tag line for the promo was “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water”.

This movie was the start of "Summer Blockbusters".

I would definitely classify Jaws as horror. It used to be found in that section in most video shops. You have a monster, four kills, severed limbs, a jumpscare with a body and buckets of blood.

I sometimes question what is worse: the mayor's ignorance that led to the boy's death, or the horrible fashion disaster that is his choice in sports jackets.

Now imagine watching this, except on a 20-foot screen in a dark theater. There was popcorn in everyone's hair by the time the lights went up.

The shooting star was real and so perfectly timed. The shark that got caught on top of the cage was also not scripted. It was a real juvenile great white that swam through the scene.

The adventure music was, I think, meant to give us a rare moment of feeling like these guys have the advantage. John Williams is a wizard. His music absolutely saved this film!

Another good reaction, guys. After this movie came out, "Saturday Night Live" would do these skits where a shark would come to a housewife's door and when she opened the door, it would kill her. So, for example, a housewife (usually Gilda Radner) would hear a knock on the door. She'd walk over and call through the door, "Who is it?" A voice on the other side of the door would call back, "Candygram." She'd respond through the door something like, "Who would be sending me a candygram?" It would call back, "Candygram.......land shark" Eventually, she's say, "I'd better find out" and open the door and it would kill her.

The dynamic is so well designed in this film. Even little things, like Quint pronouncing that the shark can't go under with three barrels and then it instantly does - which is quint eating humble pie and and nice leveller that helps the audience root for them as a unit. Although then Quint blows the engine!

I've seen fisherman pull a shark up onto a fishing boat and one of them was decapitated by the tail fin in one swipe. People don't realize the power of a shark, and it's teeth isn't it's only deadly weapon

Robert Shaw, the fisherman, who offered to catch the shark, was an actor actor who played in another famous movie: Battle of the Bulge. It was a WWII movie about the Nazi's assault on the western front.

CAM, THAT SCREAM! 🤣😂

Some species of sharks can live for hundreds of years. Greenland sharks live to at least 272 years dor instance. Most only live 20-30 years in the wild though. A huge chunk of my generation stayed out of the ocean thanks to this movie. 3 years later Piranha made some of us avoid lakes and rivers as well. I was 13 when Jaws came out. Jaws 2 is good. 3 is entertaining and ok. 4 sucks. I also have a huge collection of shark movies thanks to Jaws. Even the *really* bad ones.😂

A bit of clarity, in Tourist towns like this, their entire yearly economy depends on hitting the holidays as hard as they can. And yeah, even a day can ruin a business. Not that I'm siding with the business owners/mayor etc... just to kinda give a bit more of an understanding of how important tourist season is for these seasonal towns. It's similar here in Vermont with Skiing. We get huge volumes of tourism during the winter, and there's businesses that support them throughout those months. However, in the spring/summer that dies down etc... one mild winter can cripple the tourism and in turn, the town/village/city for the next year. Also, the Greenland Shark can live up to 400 years.

Great reaction, that was fun!! This is the movie that changed everything. Prior to Jaws, summer was considered a slow season and the better movies were saved for other times But , I believe the production delays caused them to release this in June The marketing on the film was brilliant. The book Jaws, came out about a year before the film and they timed the release of this film with the release of the paperback version of the book, which everybody had and was talking about , creating a huge buzz, they also did a wide release of the film, which I believe was unusual at the time. I liked the second Jaws, I thought it was suspenseful and fun. The third and fourth were pretty low budget and not worth it.

The reason for the music is that the whole movie changes tone. On a rewatch, you'll see that it starts off as a thriller, and once they go out to sea, it becomes an adventure movie.

Imagine how much more scary that jump scare would have been if you had actually HAD YOUR EYES ON THE SCREEN! Never take your eyes off the screen in a movie like Jaws! 😂😂😂😂😂 Three lessons from the world of cinema: 1.) Never get out of the boat (apocalypse now) 2.) Never trust a Sicilian when death is on the line (princess bride) and 3.) Never take your eyes off the screen! (Jaws reaction, 2023)🤣 (just teasing you guys, it was still hilarious, great reaction.) PS: Cam is completely correct: the sequels are so bad they're funny.

@9:54 it is now believed that some species, like Greenland Sharks, can live over 500 years. You have to remember that it's been almost 50 years since this movie was made. We know a lot more now than we did then. Many studies of ocean wildlife at the time, were more or less in their infancies. But see, even you didn't know that sharks can live hundreds and hundreds of years. So maybe they can live 1000, we just haven't found one yet. The ocean is a big place. Cheers!

I named my first dog, 'Hooper." She was a girl. I loved Matt Hooper. I hated it when Quint died, but there were lots of clues and foreshadowing. I wouldn't have trimmed anything. The reason the Mayor felt he couldn't shut down the town was because the entire town depended upon the summer income for a living. In the meetings, none of the business owners wanted the beaches shut down. They are a seasonal town that makes their only income from the summer tourists. The fourth of July was the biggest money-making time of the year. If you see the ending, you do see them reach the shore. My rating was always 10/10. Like Halloween 1978! Jaws is one of the perfect movies. The mayor did the right thing when he signed to pay Quint to kill the shark and THEY did kill the shark.

Greenland Sharks are actually the longest living vertebrate on our planet with an average lifespan estimated at 250 years but likely surpasses 500 years. 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈

If nobody else told you here's how the barrels work. Sharks, being so ancient they never evolved gill muscles to send oxygen from the water through their bloodstream. They have to keep swimming for the water to flow over their gills.If they stop swimming they die. Attaching the barrels to sharks wears them out. Eventually, they stop swimming and die.

Fun fact: the oldest known shark fossils date back further than the oldest known specimens of tree fossils… yeah sharks are older than trees.

Sharks have no bones EXCEPT the jaws, upper and lower. That's what Capt. Quint had hanging all over his shop was bony shark jaws. Just an interesting tid-bit-- they use shark cartilage to make artificial skin for burn victims and to reinforce badly broken bones until their own real bone can re-grow and heal. It is naturally resistant to infection. Sharks never get infections and that's a good thing considering they get all scared up by other sharks in feeding frenzies and they're just as viscous while making baby sharks. This shark in the story was supposed to be 25 to 30 feet long. At the time of the movie no Great White had been documented to be larger than 20 ft. but just shortly after a 30 footer was found and confirmed and years later they actually found a 38 ft. Great White. Loved your review. Well thought out analyzing.

2:28 - 😂😂😂 4:23 - bruh I’m weak 😂

The shark was named Bruce after Spielberg’s lawyer. Lol, true story.

"How much did the shark pay those kids to be a distraction?" ...BEST commentary EVER! 😆

The "you're gonna need a bigger boat" bit has a great story attached. None of the actors had seen the shark animatronic at that point and when it suddenly appeared like that Roy Scheider's reaction is completely legit.

If Jaws launched Steven Spielberg's career, Schindler's List sent it into orbit (and won him an Oscar). Please watch it ASAP.

"24 hours is like 3 weeks!" Possibly meant money wise. The whole reason this was an issue was that its a summer town. Maybe 1 day in the summer = 3weeks during the rest of the year

This is an early Steven Spielberg film, and in it he captured an actual shooting star in the background. Every film he ever made after this film he included a shooting star cuz he considered it lucky

I was 12 when this movie came out. I had just finished reading the book and was already a little terrified. Saw this in the theaters and to this day, I have never looked at the ocean the same way. Pretty safe to say that this movie traumatized my generation😳

Actually, they're not idiots running into the water. They're running into the water to save their children. Let me guess, you would not run into the water

Re: Shark age. Greenland Sharks are believed to live at least 250 years and may live as long as 500+

That shot of the shark thrashing on top of the cage is an actual great white who got caught in the wires and violently broke free of it. It was such a dramatic moment that they kept it and changed the script.

My parents took me to see this movie when it came out. I was 12. It traumatized me! I was never able to go swimming in the ocean again and I was never able to learn to really snorkel because I was terrified of a shark coming up behind me and biting me in half. All these decades later and this is, at least for me, the scariest movie I've ever seen. I mean, I couldn't go back in the water! Lol

Gen X here. Remember when this was in the theaters. My uncle had a beach house in Huntington Beach, CA. We would spend every weekend there during the summer. I remember many of us cousins were literally too scared to go into the ocean when this movie came out. We were even to scared to go into swimming pools. And we weren’t the only ones. When Jaws 2 came out the tag line on the tv commercial said “Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water”.

"I liked your story! Here's another." That is such a good quote lol

John Milius wrote the dialogue about the USS Indianapolis for Steven Spielberg. I recommend the original Conan the Barbarian. Arnold Schwarzenegger first real movie. By John Millius. He also wrote most of Apocalypse Now. And Steven Spielberg's 1941 action war comedy.

It sometimes irks me that in order to make the movie tighter, Spielberg and Carl Gottlieb decided to leave out the subplot in the novel that informs us that the reason Mayor Vaughn is so terribly desperate to get paying vacationers onto Amity's beaches is because he'd persuaded certain underworld hierarchs to invest rather heavily in the island's interests. He wasn't concerned one jot about the shark because he knew darn well that there were worse predators out there to scare _him._ 😏

Quint. The quintessential dude with no f**ks to give. The head jump scare is one of the best ever. Have you guys seen “Alien?”

The Mayor served his purpose of representing a town too focused on tourism (and with the economics of the 70's, it was no small thing), making highly questionable decisions related to that idea, and eventually getting land-lover Brody locked into boarding the Orca and hunting down the shark. Had this film been a social or political drama, then more time could be spent of the Mayor...but this an action-mystery-thriller, and besides, he really is a secondary character. The same could be said about extending the ending. Watching the surviving victorious heroes swim for the sunset...errr shore was the best ending for this quintessential Summer Blockbuster (one that started and defined the genre). Going back to the Mayor only takes away from the their triumph over a seemingly unstoppable foe.

The author of the book, Peter Benchley, said years later and still says that he deeply regrets writing this story. It started a panic about sharks that has lasted until this very day. Sharks have been hunted as if they were killers, when the vast majority of sharks (even great whites) have little to no interest in humans at all. Benchley thought he was writing a great story, but it turned out to be the worst thing ever to happen to those creatures, a real disaster.

I love that NERF has been transformed into a verb!

An instant classic and the first film to make people legitimately afraid to go in the water.

This is why you will never see me in beaches, lakes or ponds!!! Lol

What turned out making this movie so iconic was alot of the problems they had making the movie especially with the practical effects with the mechanical shark....It kept breaking down and they didn't have the time to keep fixing it so they didn't use it as much as they were originally going to so thats why the effect of NOT seeing it became the psychological effect more powerful than actually seeing the shark .....It turned out the " less is more " effect made the movie even scarier....Now that's frigging luck there....

“You’re going to need a bigger boat!!!!!!!!” 49 YEARS AGO TODAY STEVEN SPIELBERG RELEASED HIS NEW MOVIE ON PETER BENCHLEY FAMOUS NOVEL, JAWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEXT YEAR JAWS WILL BE CELEBRATING 50 YEARS!!!!!!!!!! We saw this in theaters back in 2020, which was awesome!!!!!!! THE FIRST SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys should read the book. When Crissie is swimming she feels something scratch her leg. She reaches down and can feel her warm blood pouring out of where her once leg was. The mama shark has completely taken it off. Then she thrashes her around, as if she's playing with her food much like a cat would before taking her down. WE❤LOVE ❤YOUR ❤CHANNEL 😊

Stopped by to say thx for reaction to Jaws. It’s a classic from 1975. Seeing it as a 10yr old in the theater…. Let’s just say I still sit on beach while grandkids play in the water (making fun of me cause I won’t go in the ocean.). Thx again.

Older movies always seem too slow for younger people, because their attention spans have been fried from the distractions of cellphones and the internet. It's not that the movies are actually slow, because they're not.

Great reaction guys and even though i seen this movie a million times probably, Cam scared the shit out of me with that scream 😂 The movie was set in Amity Island NY. But I believe it was actually filmed in Martha's Vinyard, Massachusetts. I do agree with Cam the others are okay but not nearly as good as original and no Spielberg didn't do the sequels. I also seen this was inspired by the Jersey Shore shark attacks which they believe could have been Bullsharks not great whites.

This was shot in Martha's Vineyard. I grew up in Maine, and went there as a little girl. My sister told me that was where Jaws was filmed, and despite loving to swim I DID NOT swim during that visit. :D

Weird fact that the mechanical shark in this film was nicknamed Bruce by the film makers & that’s why in Finding Nemo the Shark is called Bruce as a nod to jaws

40:58 Ahahahah 😂 I love you 2 so much watching your reactions. Glad you enjoyed Jaws

If you pay close attention, you'll spot a shooting star in nearly every Spielberg film. In this case, it was serendipity that a real meteor was captured.

My mom took me to see this at a reshowing at a drive-in back in '81, I was around 5yrs old. I fell in love with the movie and the shark. As a result I learned all I could about sharks, which lead me to dinosaurs. ❤️ To this day, to me, sharks a adorable and beautiful. You might see what I mean when if you check out vids of people, in the real world, hanging out with, feeding, petting and chilling with various kinds of sharks! If you love this film, btw, I HIGHLY recommend the 30th anniversary documentary of the making of the film. It's as good as the film! Great reaction!

If you guys want to learn about the Indianapolis there is a book titled In Harms Way.

The $3000 bounty would be about $18,000 today. The $10K that Quint asks would be about $60K today.

Cams girly scream when the severd head appeared from the hole in the boat. Hilarious! Fairly new subscriber. You two young men are hilarious to an old guy like me. Love y'all.

Totally stunned you have just gotten to this one, now! 😱 BTW, love you guys!❤

Any time I start to feel like I’ve done anything cool with my pathetic life I remember Steven Spielberg was only 26 when he directed this and it knocks me right back down where I belong.

OMG, Zay, you missed the severed head jump scare. That was a shooting star you saw in the sky. It happens twice in the movie. This was such a scary, suspenseful movie back in 75. I saw it at the theatre when it came out, on vacation, at the beach. To this day I no longer go swimming in the ocean.

I went to Maui and because of seeing this movie I couldn't go in the ocean. I kept freaking out and swimming hella fast to get out if I saw anything underwater

Imagine seeing this film as an 11 year old in theaters in 1975. I never went in the water at a beach 🏖 to this day. Now I love the movie, I have JAWS t shirts, boat shoes , the book…but I’m not going near that water 😂 and you realize it’s like over 30 minutes before we even see Bruce (the mechanical sharks 🦈 on set name) but that damn music is terrifying enough. They said Bruce often would not work and Steven Spielberg had to film around him, or not film him at all in some scenes.

That jump scare got me too 😂

They weren’t idiots they went in the water to save their love ones children’s .

I used to work at a video store, and on Sundays when the store was packed, I would put this movie on. Everyone would stop and watch because that opening scene is so terrifying. My best friend grew up on the island this was filmed on & didn't go into the water for decades after that.

17:30 Jumpscare 😂

It's funny how as technology progressed between the 3 sequels, the worse the shark looked

Greenland sharks live between 250 to 500 years, which is impressive enough to me 😅

Fun fact: The shark was originally supposed to be in the film a lot more, clearly seen. The crew were having all kinds of problems with getting it to work, so Spielberg worked around it by having it mostly hidden and that turned out to be a brilliant idea. Your imagination really works on you throughout the film until you get a good view later.

I think the reason saying why some parts were slow because at the time the editing wasn't very fast pace. But then in 1977 when Star Wars came out, it brought a whole new level of not just special effects and sound, but fast paced editing. Remember my dad telling me that story that on Star Wars saying it was like nothing like i've seen before.

"My kids were on that beach too." - The shark wasn't on the beach. This was the first time I noticed the chief barely ate his meal on the boat while the other two with a lot of 'sea time' had no issues. Just as the shark knocks.

33:30 There's a fan joke that this light makes Jaws a crossover with Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, another Spielberg masterpiece and considered by many to be his best film. Certainly a sci-fi genre-maker, shit's absolutely amazing.

I feel like the 'happy hunting' music is intended to be from the perspective of the shark.

I think it’s a great piece of horror/suspense thriller. It is very character driven. They do a good job at getting you invested. It also has some horrific scenes to be sure. There is a subtle message in there as well about how being a good leader means making decisions that are unpopular and considering the opinions and perspectives of others. Additionally bad leadership can lead to crisis and tragedy.

1. Jaws was the first "Summer Blockbuster". 2. Boy Scouts don't need to do the mile swim to get their merit badge. It's an accomplishment all its own. 3. Lee Fierro/Mrs. Kentner actually slapped Roy Scheider. It took 17 takes. Once was so hard it knocked his glasses off. 4. The jump scare at Ben Gardner's boat was put in on purpose by Spielberg because they were having problems with the shark "Bruce" and his appearance was delayed, and the movie needed something earlier. Works every time.🤣🤣 5. IRL Dreyfuss and Shaw didn't get along, so Spielberg used the animosity to fuel their feud onscreen. 6. The boy that said, "He made me do it' is now the Police Chief of the town where this movie was filmed. 7. Hooper was wrong. The fish that hit the line was "our fish". 8. "You're gonna need a bigger boat" is one of the greatest adlibs in history. It was the first time Roy actually saw Bruce. It was an ongoing trope within the filming due to budgetary problems. 9. Goof: An animal that large couldn't hit the side of the boat as rapidly as it did UNDER WATER. 10. I suspect Quint's story about the Indy gave him PTSD flashbacks and contributed to his behavior after he told the story. 11. I was in the Navy, and we were instructed to go for the eyes when confronting a shark. 12. Aside from the pool used in the Ben Gardner boat scenes, all of the shipboard scenes were filmed entirely at sea, 13. In the book not only does Hooper die but he was also having an affair with Mrs. Brody. 14. JAWS II is the only other one worth watching. It revolves around the Brody kids and their friends. Including the mayor's son. 15 The third one was so bad that Scheider read the script and said NO.

This was the very first summer blockbuster movie. I remember seeing it when I was 14 with my best friend and my younger brother (my mom said I had to take him with us). My brother got popcorn and I got a drink. We were so terrified that we couldn’t eat or drink. My friend asked us “are you going to eat that? Are you going to drink that?” So she got everything while we slid further and further down into our seats trying to hide behind the seats in front of us.😂

The barrel is also supposed to keep the shark close to the surface but doesn't work. This movie should have won best picture. It has everything, the acting, the camaraderie of these men, the story, the shark, the music, the cinematography, the foreshadowing. How Quint is like Captain Ahab; he will not give up! There are a few shooting stars in this movie. My favourite line is "Smile, you son of a BOOM!" I love how the music "Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies" plays often when you see Quint..." That music with the barrel lets you know how easily and merrily the shark swims, no matter how many barrels they shoot into it. This movie came out when I was 12 and traumatized my whole generation. We couldn't swim in pools or have a bath comfortably! I think of Jaws whenever I go swimming to THIS DAY! The trailers for it were genius! I still remember them!

45:05 In Peter Benchley's novel, the oxygen tank is in the shark's mouth because Hooper's lifeless torso was in there. So Hooper did help kill the shark.

I saw this in the theater when it was first released - and I cannot begin to describe the hysteria this caused! Lines around the block! It spawned all kinds of merchandise: T-shirts, blankets, lunch boxes, beach towels, etc. People were actually NOT going into the water at the beaches! This absolutely is the best of the Jaws films. The actors are top of the line. Based on the novel by Peter Benchley, (who does a cameo as the reporter on the beach) it is a sort of twist on the Moby Dick story - where instead of just one man obsessed with catching the shark (whale, in the Melville story), you have the "old school sailor" who is obsessed to the point of insanity, the contemporary marine biologist who uses new methods to try to catch the shark and then there's Brody, who is afraid of water - and he goes along with them. It was nominated for 4 academy awards and won 3: Best Sound, Best Film Editing and Best Original Score (John Williams). It was filmed in Martha's Vineyard, and is considered the 1st "blockbuster" film. Spielberg did not want to be involved in any sequels.

Love you guys.. Love this movie!! One of my all time favs! ❤❤

JAWS is definitely a horror movie. It's for sure a Horror Thriller as a whole because of it's elements all around, I personally like to call it a Horror Adventure movie because that just sounds badass but bottom-line, it should always be celebrated as a horror movie (and just a cinema masterpiece as a whole)

I saw this when it first came out in 1975 and I haven't gone swimming back in the ocean since! That's how much it scared me, lol.

I was first mate on a charter fishing boat in the keys for several years. Back then, you didn't have the engineering that reels have today nor did we have the type of line that we have today. Leader lines, nylon line, all of that was brand new. You absolutely would have to dump water onto a spinning reel to keep it from overheating and not only snapping the line but completely sort of exploding the real itself. That being said, in 1987, I caught a 52 lb cow dolphin (mahi mahi) on an ugly stick and 12 lb test (a bass reel). It took me five and a half hours to get it into the boat and, tore all the muscles in both shoulders. A fish will take a line, dive and then relax. You real in as much line as possible, (What he's wearing is called a fighting belt and gimble. The gimbal rocks in the fighting belt to allow you to move the pole. We also have fighting chairs where you can brace your feet up against them to add leverage.) When a fish is tired, it will actually rest sideways and it's literally impossible to pull a fish up when it is resting sideways. The only time you can get it towards you is when it's nose is faced towards you. They can rest for long periods of time and you have to keep the tension on that line or, you'll lose the fish. Add to that the fact that I didn't think it was worth it to enter the dolphin contest that year, I lost first prize. She was the biggest dolphin brought in that day.

The scene inside the boat when they're comparing scars and Quint tells his story about his ship being torpedoed and sunk, and the following shark attacks really happened. It's a true story. It adds a deep layer to Quint and it elevates the film above what is basically a monster movie.

6:04 Yes, Zay. Anyone will get poisoned from drinking too much saltwater. First, you lose your mind, and then you die. You haven't been drinking out of the ocean, have you?

Y'all should react to the true story of the U.S.S. Indianapolis. There is a video on KZfaq from a survivor, who just died a few years ago at the age of 96.

24hrs IS like three weeks in terms of lost renevenu, when you make 98 % of your yearly proffits in three months.

Solid 10. It being so old but still as scary but unlike most action films it has great character development, real characters, no over sentimental scenes with tacky music, no guys with sixpacks but real people, the anti-hero we can all relate to becoming the real hero by just doing everything to survive, great scenery and camera work and the soundtrack in amazing. This is what you want in a movie.