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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 3, 2019 20:43:44 GMT
Someone on here ruined the movie for me by saying an oxygen tank could not blow up like that.I like this teaser trailer for Jaws 3 (yes, it is very unfair to sharks but such a simple idea and so effective as an ad) What a party pooper.
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Post by amyghost on Oct 3, 2019 20:50:27 GMT
I don't know that I feel it qualifies as a horror film, per se...but it definitely touches the primal fear buttons exquisitely. And I have to admit that, when I first saw it in the theater, the famous scene showing a severed head popping out of a sunken boat hull , was the first time I'd ever heard an entire audience scream in terrified unison all at the same instant!
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 3, 2019 21:12:38 GMT
I do agree with one of those statements.
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 3, 2019 21:19:00 GMT
Ha, good ol Ben Gardner.
"It was Ben Gardner's boat, it was all chewed up. I helped tow it in, you sh-- you should have seen him!"
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Oct 4, 2019 2:54:55 GMT
Never found it scary. Alien (1979) is far more terrifying to me.
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Post by Lebowskidoo π¦ on Oct 4, 2019 11:53:39 GMT
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Post by James on Oct 4, 2019 20:58:55 GMT
Not exactly but itβs a very suspenseful (and great) film.
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Post by MooseNugget on Oct 5, 2019 0:00:37 GMT
I guess it could be seen as a monster movie. It's scarier than other people's take on horror that's for sure.
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 19, 2019 6:36:25 GMT
I agree with this at one level, but I do think JAWS touches on deep, deep, primal fear like no other movie has. I can't even get in Lake MI without panicking. But it's only when I imagine that damn fin that I get all freaked out. And I never go out to where I'm deeper than chest level. Ridiculous, but true. I also had a major JAWS dream last night. It has been a while and it was quite terrifying. The shark was right up on me when the helicopter dropped a safety rope for me and I just hung on while they dragged me to shore. Also had recurring images of Chrissie, which is just awful. I think it's been about two years since I had a Chrissie dream. And curiously enough, it was the soundtrack to JAWS 2 that was playing. Not the original score. I have had several Jaws dreams, but I have given up trying to analyze them. I just think it gets you at a primal level and even see these dreams as quite spiritual. Jaws also had a deep respect for the ocean, even though it was treating one of its inhabitants as an evil monster. There had to be a payoff for the film's sake, but it is what it is and since we all evolved from the ocean, I think that is also very telling too. I would venture to say that my JAWS dreams are either about fear of whatever we cannot see beneath the surface, or about "vagina dentata", which I am only going to half way LOL on because I think it's a very interesting theory that is the very worst part of the female psyche. But I didn't know that you had JAWS dreams. That's interesting. JAWS does have deep respect for the ocean. The first kill is primal and it is by far the most terrifying and it seems to play fair enough. Alex Kintner death has that awesome shark fin rolling over which was just so imaginative and it is the second "best" kill. By the time of Quint's demise, the focus on the shark had somehow shifted (did anybody notice?) and the shark was like some dorky monster. But, like you said, the movie had to give the audience what they wanted.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Oct 20, 2019 2:06:24 GMT
Went to see it on the initial big screen release when I was an impressionable youngster, it was love at first fright, a love that still holds true now I'm in my 50s. Watch it every year without fail and the iconic poster is framed and hangs on my bedroom wall.
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