Damn, I wonder what would happen if somebody made a really, really, really bad movie that praises Tarantino as the greatest MOVIE maker of all time? I guess he will explode and implode at the same time. Somehow.

I watched "Jaws" back then at age seven and the three became instantly my favorite actors from childhood.

Agreed. The cast cemented it.

Yes! The actor who played the mayor was fantastic, too many overlook as just an obstacle.

I wonder if Murray Hamilton liked playing Mayor Vaughan or Mr. Robinson better?

"Ya think ya seen great performances, chief?"

Thank you! Jaws has the triangular power of Scheider, Shaw and Dreyfuss at their best and each bringing a uniquely different energy out into the open sea to battle one powerful, primeval opponent.

Well yeah..its Robert Shaw

supposedly George Millius wrote Shaws speech about the Indianapolis in the galley.

Sterling Hayden turned it down, he could have been great, but he was 6' 5" so they would've needed a bigger boat.

The music was the only aspect of Star Wars that George Lucas was not disappointed with.

@@johnthecloud yea Williams made Lucas and Speilberg, basically

His score for Jaws 2 is better than the first movie, very underrated.

@doNaldMusk-h28-hfkslP18 I respectfully disagree. Certainly for the first half of Jaws, Williams' music IS the shark. Spielberg had a nightmare with the mechanical shark failing and was forced to use tricks and our imagination to fill in the fact there was no visible shark. The music became very , very famous as a leitmotif for the shark; and John Williams deservedly won the Oscar for best score. The score undoubtedly saved Spielberg's film, and provides 90% of the suspense. Without the music Spielberg would have been in real trouble. And again, in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Williams came up with an utterly amazing score. The famous five note main theme is instantly recognisable, and the score is intensely moving, scary, and wonderful - sometimes all of these things at the same time. Williams lost the Oscar for this score to himself for Star Wars. Missing the dud that is 1941 his next film score with Spielberg was Raiders of the Lost Ark. The music makes the film bigger and better, and the heroic main film is instantly recognisable. Then there is E.T. which again won him the Oscar. This film score is so important to the success of that film with an absolutely soaring main theme. All of these themes were hugely successful and are instantly recognisable as linked to each film, and each of these scores is masterly and makes the films infinitely better.

@doNaldMusk-h28-hfkslP18Speilberg actually said ‘Jaws would have been 50% as successful with the music’. So it did make it.

Peter Benchley's book was more about the boredom, frustration and resentment seething beneath the seemingly tranquil surface of a small-town American holiday resort. The shark was just the catalyst that brings it all to the surface and upends everybody's life. I've always thought that the movie never made as much of that aspect of the story as it might have done.

yeah, too bad nobody cares about your opinion. I have the same problem. Nobody gives a shit what I think. It's like you have to be Tarantino or something, for people to care.

About the same reason Jurassic Park was so good as well. It's about how the characters deal with the situation, the dialogue, subject matter of the dialogue being the technology and the responsibility they have to it, and you barely see any dinosaurs.

I agree but id go even further and say that jaws is the only movie where i see the town as being alive, its like no one is acting in this, almost to the point of having a documentary about everyday lives in this town,but its a movie. Its absolutely genius

Sounds like you're from New York!

@@humphrey307watch the film

Like you're from new yarwk

“How was that?” 😂

I say that at work all the time, and people just look at me quizzically.

Plus it's happening in the ocean, which is not humans' natural habitat, which makes it even scarier.

Never felt any fear while watching Jaws. To me was never effective.

@@MrCarpen7er Well, it's hard to get scared by a shark movie when you're sitting in your living room. Maybe try a change of scenery and go out on the ocean in a boat by yourself at night and watch it? :) Regardless, the movie is good for other reasons besides fear.

@@MrCarpen7er maybe it was before your time. Jaws caused several beaches to lose summer tourism, including in the Great Lakes.

Terrifying. I had the misfortune to see the video of the poor Russian lad in Egypt last year and the fear that Jaws had instilled in me came flooding back - but worse 😕.

Jaws also aged well, given the pandemic actually validated fully what was - for me - the hardest part to believe, which was that incredibly obtuse mayor who refused to close the beaches. Now I watch it and I'm like, "oh yea, that guy. Yup, that's actually how society works, A+ Spielberg."

@@jakestine4753 In the Jaws book, there's a whole plot about the Mayor wanting the beaches open for a more nefarious reason. He owes money to the mob and the mob are counting on the summer houses to be filled up to make money from the tourists.

Sadly, there's very rarely any applause at the end of most cinematic experiences!! The last time I saw it happen was Return of the King! Jaws is my favourite film of all time, I would loved to have been there in the summer of '75 to have seen it in its true glory!! (Slight problem, I was born in the summer of '76!! Lol!!)

@@shaunpenne1840 yea my ultimate dream would be to basically go to 1975 as a teen or kid and erase my memory of the movie and see it like for the first time in the theater with people.

Yes two Gems of the past. The other two that I attended that got great crowd response were Rocky and Alien.

Ironically, this was the most frustration clip as he didn't explain a thing.

Really? Maybe I'm not smoking the right stuff.

Nah he speaks like that movie obsessed fan that's always at the video store.

@@jgrab1 What reasons did he give as to why he thinks Jaws is the best movie ever made?

I'm still trying to understand Jaws is the greatest movie but Steven Spielberg's greatest movie is Temple of Doom.

The actress was saying "it hurts!" for real.

Fair well and a do me fair spanish ladies.. We've all known a Quint or two. Its only the mad bastards you remember. Two or three in a lifetime, if your lucky.

Perfect film...Back to the Future was a perfect movie

​​@@user-rn5xo1br7fNot a big fan of sons going back in time to try and date his mom.

@@jessebailey5962 I'm not sure what movie you watched but a large amount of the tension literally comes from him actively avoiding dating his mom

The whole “Tarantino endorsement” thing always boggled my mind. The first time I noticed it was back in 1994, the year that both Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction were released. Gump went ballistic at the box office throughout the summer, which of course was followed by a backlash. When Pulp Fiction hit the big screen, moviegoing audiences were divided by which one they preferred, resulting in Pulp Fiction versus Forrest Gump. Cool kids liked Pulp Fiction, whereas dorks and old farts liked Forrest Gump. Yeah, it was stupid, but…whatever. It was that way until Tarantino said that he liked Forrest Gump, so suddenly Forrest Gump was Cool.

JAWS is a movie. Raiders of the Lost Ark is a movie. Star Wars is a movie. Fun, popcorn entertainment. The Godfather is a FILM. Once Upon a Time in America is a FILM. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a FILM. Much more serious tones telling serious stories, and crafted like a celluloid Sistine Chapel. JAWS is a movie crafted like a serious film because its director took it seriously and instinctively understood how to elevate a slasher movie to greatness.

⁠ @E.L. Norton oh ok that makes sense

"movie" vs "film" is like "singer" vs "vocalist" The same thing, it just depends on how pretentious you want to get.

I've loved Temple of Doom for 40 years and liked it better that the rest of the franchise.

Watching at the cinema in Banbury in a few weeks can't wait

back when the big theaters were in lockdown, the mom and pop theater in my town showed Jaws Ghostbusters and the 4 Indiana Jones movies. it was a fun couple of weeks in the summer

He ties with his friend Kubrick as the greatest for me. Just from differents point of filmmaking.

Great movie, one of my favorites, but not flawless. The portrayal of Great White sharks is massively inaccurate.

@@ThisIsCanadaEh that has nothing to do with whether the movie is flawless

@@thomasmacisaac1503 It's technically a flaw in the film, no? Again, I love this movie.

I saw it again a few months...you are right, not one bad scene. Movie vs. film? Not sure what he meant. Is a film fancier?

@@ThisIsCanadaEh Do you consider the Tie Fighters making sound in the vacuum of space a flaw in Star Wars?

Made some people afraid to take a bath too 😂

Swimming pools, legs or arms hanging off the bed ! It was that bad ! Im 58, went to HHI a few yrs ago. went out to waist deep and came back in. I know whats in that ocean and I'm good !

To be fair I think people were scared of sharks before this movie, it’s probably the reason it was made but yes it took it to a whole new level.

_knock knock_ "Land shark."

I couldn't swim in pools for a while because of JAWS. 😂

Welcome to Tarantino. He’s a big fan of dramatic repetition.

A movie. A movie. Not a film, a movie.

A film is far more concerned with aesthetics, with how movement, light, and sound will emotionally engage and intellectually stimulate the audience. A movie is more concerned with plot and easy answers. A film attempts to convey or explore something larger than itself. Marvel makes movies. Films are shown at Cannes.

​​@@Melsharpe95that makes sense to me , so what youre saying in a way is that movies are more for pop corn teenagers and films are more for the artsy fartsy crowd.

@@ViziaFilms Movies are fun and films are "important"

The whole country did. 1975 was referred to as the "summer of the shark" because of the public interest and fear inspired by the film. It was a genius mass marketing tactic. Pick a subject that fascinates and terrifies people, and then make it as good as you possibly can.

I didn’t see it until around 1978 or 1979 on HBO at my cousins’ house, but when it was still in the theaters and I was about 4 years old, I remember having vivid nightmares just from hearing my older sister talking about Jaws.

It's a good film that holds up fine, but modern viewers are very rarely going to be floored by it. Solid handiwork but not something mindblowing to people who have watched all the films inspired by it in the decades since.

I remember seeing it on TV as a 6 yr old kid...and I was terrified everytime i got in the bathtub for about a month, like a shark was somehow going to be in the water. 🤣 Then my mom bought me a rubber qreat white shark and a toy boat to play with, after that i didn't want to get out of the tub.

@@radicalstanza3614 For me, more tension and drama were created with a few notes of music than in all of the Marvel movies combined. I seriously doubt many of the movies today will be remembered 50 years from now.

I watch it every July 4th. Sometimes I even drink apricot brandy from a coffee cup while I watch it.

@@steverogers2603 same , with a 30 of Narraganset lager

Do it.

And it will be as good as it always was.

The structure of the film is interesting because it has what you just said, but it also has the traditional 3 act set up with Brody fighting to keep the beaches open by himself, then Hooper comes to town & is an ally for him, & then they go out on the Orca for the hunt.

Director Bryan Singer said Jaws is the perfect mix of "An Enemy of the People" with "Moby Dick."

​@@filmbuff2777- But there's also a switch in the hunt, from they're hunting the shark, to the shark is hunting them.

Plus…Network, Taxi Driver, etc. 👍

I’d extend this to the beginning of the 70s then you have Chinatown, The French Connection, The Exorcist and so on.

Bad news bears Smokey Grease Animal house What are you smoking

@@Mrtellitlikeitis-------------> Pinto: Could I buy some pot from you?

You're spot on. Film is moving pictures as an artistic expression first and foremost. Movie is moving pictures as a spectacle first and foremost.

You’re not supposed to agree with what HIS favorite Spielberg film is lol its HIS favorite

Temple of doom rocks lol

I've recently watched Spielberg's debut, "Duel", and it blew my mind how much he managed to do with such a simple premise. The man is a genius, hands down.

@@Njbear7453 Its the first movie I remember seeing in a theater as a kid so it has a special place in my heart. But I saw this movie when I was 7 years old and eating monkey brains and ripping a guys heart out of his chest was like the best thing I ever saw at that age.

I think it's because his wife yells too much😀

Now it's you, Quentin, and me.

I think it suffered back in the 80's on Home Video because it loses a lot in 4x3 presentation, which was standard. When they finally released the widescreen DVD's, like in 2002 or whenever, it was a whole new experience again, i felt like i did when i was a kid in the theater seeing it.

I love temple of doom, one of the best. You’re not the only one haha

its my favorite Spielberg film too, its Metal and Gnarly, Short Round is a great side kick. People complain about Willy but i think her reactions were mostly justified seeing how she was trapped in a living nighmare horror show. she represents civilized folk

Id say 'wizard of oz' is the most influencial/referenced film ever made. But I'd jaws over it every day of the week

@@joeodonnell921 The wizard of Oz had the advantage of using technicolor on a scale never seen before. It's sort of like Jurassic Park using CGI. The technology alone just blew peoples minds. And both of those movies are epic in their own right. But to me the score to Jaws alone is maybe the most influential movie effect of all time.

It's nowhere near the most influential ever made, it is just one of the more commercially succesfully ones. It doesn't really have anything new.

@@quarantinetheater5612 taking away the technical side, story structure like picking up companions on the journey and someone behind the curtain pulling the strings can kind of be lead back to wizard of Oz. How many times do you watch something and it'll be referenced from "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" "follow the yellow brick road" and plenty more, the films quoted or referenced constantly.

@@joeodonnell921 I’m not saying Oz isn’t up there near the top…I’m saying Jaws actually influenced people’s behavior about going into the ocean. And I’m only referencing its influence on the public. Not on future movie making. The reason why Jaws had the bigger impact IMO is that the subject matter exists in reality. Most of us have been in the ocean…and most of us are terrified of sharks.

Spielberg cast "Grady" from The Shining to be in that scene, and if I remember correctly, he wearing gold and red, like the colors of the rooms in his scenes with Jack Torrance. I still haven't figured it out, but I think there's a symbolic meaning there. In Raiders, Spielberg hired the actor who fist fights Barry Lyndon to be the Nazi who fights Indy around the out of control airplane.

Yup. I feel really fortunate to have been a kid during the Speilberg/Lucas Golden Age. Those movies were my life, lol.

@@DanielHBuchmann Absolutely, I was a 90s kid but was really an 80s kid at heart, raised on vhs movies and feel lucky to had lived in a pre-internet pre-social media world, it pains me that nobody today won't really get to experience what that was like there was just something different in air.

That 3D conversion is incredible, particularly the shots in the water and it makes one realize how varied and dynamic are the camera angles when the film gets to the Orca.

I remember being in summer camp at the pool. Went under and looked into the deep end, and I instantly thought of Jaws !! Impact of that movie of immense !!

I was nine years old when my babysitter took me and my cousin to watch Jaws at the theater. That was the first time I ever seen a movie on the big screen. When I went home, I was scared to get out of my bed because I thought sharks were under, my bed. You are not exaggerating. That movie changed the way people thought about the ocean.

It really did. I was about 13 when I saw JAWS, and I was already a huge shark buff for most of my childhood. Anyway, yeah - I clearly remember many people, many adults being afraid in pools, and even the shower or bath.

Jaws even scared me when I was in the tub

I don’t even go in my pool lmao

Dude I thought I was the only one. Same here I have to open my eyes real fast while taking a shower.

Stop creating identities (titles) for yourself and then crawling inside them to live.

Sharks only kill 6 people a year most times

Baby sharks?

It absolutely is a film. Watch the scene where Quint is introduced closely. The drawing of the shark appears on the blackboard instantly due to an intentional continuity error, and the nails on the chalkboard sound hits the audience's subconscious as a warning, just like the profile of a shark triggers something deep within us. Spielberg does something similar with the spiders in Raiders which appear on Indy's back suddenly, like the shark drawing in Jaws. That's one of many ways Spielberg and other directors like Kubrick 'mark' symbolic elements in their films - with things that look to the casual observer like simple mistakes.

I compare Tarantino movies to the rest. From top to bottom they’re always superior. Everyone tells Quintin he’s the best because he is the best. Everybody isn’t wrong.

Is that a sequel to 1941?

@@trhansen3244 OOPS, I meant 1941.

Seeing JP in the theater in its original run was pretty special. That T-Rex scene, wow.

Ready Player One is another Spielberg masterpiece. Like Jaws, it's a "movie" on top - a simple adventure story, but a "film" down below.