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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 7, 2018 20:20:38 GMT
dirtypillows That story reminds me of when I took my nephew to see it on the big screen for the first time. It was a midnight show, I'd say the theater was about half full (St. Louisans aren't a big movie-going bunch), and based on the demographics I knew a lot of the teenagers in the audience might have been seeing it for the first time. When Bruce makes his infamous appearance and Brody sees him for the first time, once the initial surprise from the first timers had died down, a young girl somewhere in front of me simply said "OH...MY...GOD!" It was really gratifying to see it having the same affect on viewers that it had nearly forty years earlier. Yes! I love that. |
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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 7, 2018 20:23:56 GMT
So cool! Thanks for that. Just looked it up! What a cool gift for a fearless, fun-loving kid! Or your pet. The one with the screeching cat is hilarious. |
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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 7, 2018 20:33:50 GMT
Yes, Toasted Cheese. Ben Gardner. I thought about putting him in, but then I didn't. Maybe I should have. I got to see JAWS on the big screen for the first time, summer of 2010. The theater was PACKED, I am very happy to be able to say this. So, that scene you brought up, with Hooper looking into the hole in the boat, and the head pops out... There was one person, an older lady, who yelped out. I guess she had never seen the movie before. But to have exactly one person in a crowd yell out and jump like she did was perfection. Everybody in the audience laughed - good-naturedly, of course - at her reaction. It was so great. The whole thing was a wonderfully satisfying experience. Pleased that you had a chance to finally see it at the cinema, even as a retro screening. These I find, are becoming more popular now as well. Even some of the local multiplexes are screening the occasional golden oldies.
My folks were too rigid and we had an opportunity to see Jaws at the cinema at the time of release, but they steadfastly refused to go. I would have been about 8. There were only 2 cinemas in the town we were visiting and the other one was showing a John Wayne movie. It was very unmemorable and it only made things worse when they showed the trailer for Jaws before the movie. Now, if only the other cinema had been showing a movie that had a restricted age rating on it, Jaws would have been the only other option, because kids could go to see that. If that was the case though, knowing my folks, I bet they would have decided not to go at all. Not only did they have their heads buried in the sand, it was stuck up their asses as well. Oh, the self-entitlements I had when I was a child. 
I ended up seeing Jaws 2 before the first and I think it was around 1980 when the did a re-release of Jaws, that I had a chance to see it at the cinema. By then, it appeared old hat and I wasn't as excited about it. Of course, now I know it for the classic that it is.
Your folks took you to see "Rooster Cogburn", instead of JAWS? That's horrible! I would definitely bring that one up to your folks the next time you see them, Toasted Cheese!  Though, you did afford me a whole new opportunity as I just now visualized Katharine Hepburn meeting her demise, Quint-style... "Oh, you old poop! Aaaaack!" Ha! Ha! |
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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 7, 2018 20:36:42 GMT
Yes. This. And to have this be the opening scene that Spielberg has given us! What an exhilarating rollercoaster ride of a movie! In my mind, JAWS is the perfect summer movie. JAWS, opened up a new era of cinema going experiences and while there have been some excellent and mainstream blockbusters since, it still holds a special place for it's awesome and reverential presentation, even if its style can appear a bit dated in parts. Really though, it is only the mid 70's era that gives it a dated look and perhaps the mechanics\effects behind what we see of the shark, and that is now also part of its charm and appeal, well for me anyway. It represented an era that I look back at with a golden fondness. Me, too! |
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Aug 7, 2018 20:42:42 GMT
Pleased that you had a chance to finally see it at the cinema, even as a retro screening. These I find, are becoming more popular now as well. Even some of the local multiplexes are screening the occasional golden oldies.
My folks were too rigid and we had an opportunity to see Jaws at the cinema at the time of release, but they steadfastly refused to go. I would have been about 8. There were only 2 cinemas in the town we were visiting and the other one was showing a John Wayne movie. It was very unmemorable and it only made things worse when they showed the trailer for Jaws before the movie. Now, if only the other cinema had been showing a movie that had a restricted age rating on it, Jaws would have been the only other option, because kids could go to see that. If that was the case though, knowing my folks, I bet they would have decided not to go at all. Not only did they have their heads buried in the sand, it was stuck up their asses as well. Oh, the self-entitlements I had when I was a child.
I ended up seeing Jaws 2 before the first and I think it was around 1980 when the did a re-release of Jaws, that I had a chance to see it at the cinema. By then, it appeared old hat and I wasn't as excited about it. Of course, now I know it for the classic that it is.
Your folks took you to see "Rooster Cogburn", instead of JAWS? That's horrible! I would definitely bring that one up to your folks the next time you see them, Toasted Cheese! Though, you did afford me a whole new opportunity as I just now visualized Katharine Hepburn meeting her demise, Quint-style... "Oh, you old poop! Aaaaack!" Ha! Ha! It was actually a film called Brannigan, about a Chicago cop in London.
I have often told my folks if I have only but one regret, it is because we didn't go to see Jaws when we had the opportunity. My dad makes humor of it too now. The other regret I haven't mentioned, is that they wouldn't let me see Grizzly either. Most of my school chums had already seen both and I could only imagine what the films were like, when they were talking about parts of them. 🐻 |
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Post by Raimo47 on Aug 7, 2018 21:07:30 GMT
Quint. His death was probably most painful and he knew what was going to happen to him.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Aug 10, 2018 11:09:54 GMT
Estuary guy, how we see the shark for the very first time, sneaking up on him from behind...how can you not gasp during this scene?  |
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Aug 16, 2018 2:22:42 GMT
Estuary guy, how we see the shark for the very first time, sneaking up on him from behind...how can you not gasp during this scene? That is one freaky scene, with the image of the shark looming underneath the boat. |
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Post by dirtypillows on Jul 13, 2019 2:06:18 GMT
hey hey ho ho
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 13, 2019 2:14:52 GMT
Alex Kitner
It is so quick and unexpected and in broad daylight around a bunch of people having fun.
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