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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jun 6, 2017 16:41:28 GMT
Jaws (1975) = 10/10. Halloween (1978) = 9/10.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Jun 6, 2017 17:10:40 GMT
tie
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Post by sostie on Jun 6, 2017 17:15:48 GMT
Two films that warped my tiny young mind. Two films that show two directors at their best. Two exceptional pieces of film making - two real director films. Halloween just shaded it.
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Post by moviemouth on Jun 6, 2017 17:44:45 GMT
Jaws - 9/10 Halloween - 7.5/10
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Post by Dayodead on Jun 6, 2017 17:47:08 GMT
Both great...Jaws by a tic...
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Jun 6, 2017 18:06:55 GMT
Love them both, but it has to be Jaws.
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Post by JustAVievv on Jun 6, 2017 18:07:11 GMT
Jaws (1975) = 10/10. Halloween (1978) = 9/10. Jaws (1975) 8.83/10. Halloween (1978) 7.91/10. I have said!  |
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Post by movielover on Jun 6, 2017 18:42:00 GMT
Jaws. ...Even though Halloween scared the crap out of me as a kid, Jaws is way more entertaining.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 6, 2017 18:45:40 GMT
Definitely Jaws.
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Post by mslo79 on Jun 6, 2017 19:04:45 GMT
Jaws, but both are overrated.
-Jaws = 5/10 (has a 8.0/10 average)
-Halloween = 5/10 (has a 7.9/10 average. i prefer he 2007 movie which i gave a 6/10. but i do feel the 2007 movie loses a bit of steam late into the movie.)
so both are a Thumbs Down from me at this point but i thought Jaws was solid at one point which makes me lean towards that.
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Post by barkingbaphomet on Jun 6, 2017 19:15:55 GMT
Halloween
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Post by anthonyrocks on Jun 6, 2017 19:35:42 GMT
JAWS
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Jun 6, 2017 20:07:23 GMT
Jaws, but both are overrated. -Jaws = 5/10 (has a 8.0/10 average) -Halloween = 5/10 (has a 7.9/10 average. i prefer he 2007 movie which i gave a 6/10. but i do feel the 2007 movie loses a bit of steam late into the movie.) so both are a Thumbs Down from me at this point but i thought Jaws was solid at one point which makes me lean towards that. |
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Post by moviemouth on Jun 6, 2017 21:00:59 GMT
Jaws, but both are overrated. -Jaws = 5/10 (has a 8.0/10 average) -Halloween = 5/10 (has a 7.9/10 average. i prefer he 2007 movie which i gave a 6/10. but i do feel the 2007 movie loses a bit of steam late into the movie.) so both are a Thumbs Down from me at this point but i thought Jaws was solid at one point which makes me lean towards that. Oh, come on. Overrated just means that he doesn't consider them good but most people do.
That is how most people use the term.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Jun 6, 2017 23:14:43 GMT
Overrated in what way? How? Why? Oh, come on. Overrated just means that he doesn't consider them good but most people do.
That is how most people use the term.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jun 7, 2017 3:01:34 GMT
Was it a tie when you voted? Which would make me think you voted for Halloween. Or do you like and rate them the same? What's your rating for each or both?
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Post by misstique on Jun 7, 2017 7:55:00 GMT
Jaws - no contest!!!
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Post by poelzig on Jun 7, 2017 8:02:06 GMT
Who would win in a fight? Jaws. That's who I voted for.
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Post by miike80 on Jun 7, 2017 8:18:56 GMT
Jaws, it has to be Jaws
But i also love Halloween
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jun 7, 2017 9:30:23 GMT
Ehh apples and oranges.
One is a big budget B movie, the other a low budget B movie.
I might say Halloween owes more to Carpenter directly since he also did the musical score but I can't really rate them side by side.
I would like to dissect Jaws for a moment though.
Jaws is perhaps the turning point in the big studio film industry but not for the blockbuster reason.
In Jaws you have three protagonists: the neurotic Brody, the nerdy Hooper, and the aging psycho alpha male Quint.
Brody appears to be running away from crime in New York, but he also has a fear of water haunting him. By the end of the movie, he is the one who is most assured, Hooper and Quint, the shark experts, become terrified of the shark, not Brody.
After this film, we moved further into beta male territory, and Hooper becomes the template (most noticeable in the 2000s with Harry Potter and Shia LaBouef in Transformers). We moved away from the anglo-saxon protagonist to the jewish one (Star Wars was a further step down the road-with geeky Luke, also a beta male candidate).
I think the film is both overrated and underrated.
Spielberg's contribution is massively overrated. If not for Williams' score, and the acting of the leads, the film would not be what it is. The editor was credited with saving Jaws' footage but somehow it got twisted into Spielberg's genius.
Quint's speech serves as a film within the film. It also throws in a counter culture message: Quint's sailors were abandoned after delivering the A bomb. His hatred of sharks seems misdirected from what should be his hatred of those who sent him to war.
The film led to the popularity of sport hunting great white sharks and while Peter Benchley regretted the impact from his novel on the misunderstood shark, I don't think Spielberg ever showed remorse for that.
The greatest thing about Jaws IMO is the poster derived from the book. That is one creepy piece of art. More terrifying on a psychological level than "the Scream."
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