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I bought it a few years ago in the Walmart $5 bin. It was the first time I'd seen it in years.

I noticed the same things but was amazed how well the story, special effects and film stood up. A true American Classic.

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Growing up we had Beta, VHS, and DVD copies of the movie.

The one time I was blown away by the film was when it was on one of the premium DirecTV channels in HD a couple of years ago. Some of the scenes are filmed beautifully.

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"Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know... you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. Well, we didn't know... 'cause our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent, huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like 'ol squares in battle like uh, you see on a calendar, like the Battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark goes to the nearest man and then he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah... then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces. Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks there were... maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, Bosun's Mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended him into a raft. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. At noon on the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper... anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb."

The USS Indianapolis went down on July 30. Quint was a fucking poser, stolen valor POS.  

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I have a sign that was on Quint's shack,maybe I should put it up in the EE for the cost of a box of .22? Grossman Zendar Shark Seekers is a tip of the hat to the stunt coordinator and underwater stunt man.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/mossie500/A454C935-6388-444B-AB52-EAD5DC950C57.jpg


  My summer house is in "Amity",Brody's Blazer still lives there,halfassed phone pic of it driving by
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/mossie500/blurgh/F7B6B67D-6DA4-43BF-AE8C-C1B822E539B1.jpg


We go kayaking on the SHARK IN THE POND!!! pond
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/mossie500/BF3F5266-29DF-4317-BE43-9282F251828D-5152-0000042ADD7F1837_zps0d746961.jpg

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I lost my virginity while watching Jaws

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I have a sign that was on Quint's shack,maybe I should put it up in the EE for the cost of a box of .22? Grossman Zendar Shark Seekers is a tip of the hat to the stunt coordinator and underwater stunt man.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/mossie500/A454C935-6388-444B-AB52-EAD5DC950C57.jpg


  My summer house is in "Amity",Brody's Blazer still lives there,halfassed phone pic of it driving by
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/mossie500/blurgh/F7B6B67D-6DA4-43BF-AE8C-C1B822E539B1.jpg


We go kayaking on the SHARK IN THE POND!!! pond

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/mossie500/BF3F5266-29DF-4317-BE43-9282F251828D-5152-0000042ADD7F1837_zps0d746961.jpg

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 Yes,the grey seals had an enormous population boom and with them of course come the predators. The beaches have been closed a couple times due to sightings but I am 100% fine never seeing one.

http://cdn.capecod.com/wp-content/uploads/Shark-Attack-3.jpg

There is a shark tracker but I am mostly  an ignorance is bliss kind of guy. I won't go surf in early morning or evening,if I see seals I get out of the water  but really don't want to get wound up about them...I know there are some out there. I do think it's only a matter of time before there is a fatal attack on MV,Nantucket or Cape Cod,there are just too many sharks and too many people in the water though. A guy got bit on the feet on Cape Cod and some incredibly stupid women kayaked out to where they saw a seal get taken and their boat got sampled. There were pics taken of a guy getting cased by one but he made it to the beach before it decided to bite
http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/US/ap_shark_kayaker_thg_120709_wmain.jpg

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It's just a movie. They made up the story the night before while drinking heavily. At least they got the year right.
 

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Roy Schieder used his own Garand for the climactic scene. Speilberg told him go go home and get his gun.

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I wonder where that rifle is now?
 

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It's just a movie. They made up the story the night before while drinking heavily. At least they got the year right.
 

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Had the shark actually worked as they had envisioned it, the movie would have not been character driven as it was, it would have been a full on monster movie, as it was supposed to be.

For those that didn't read the book, when the naked swimmer chick gets attacked in the beginning, its a lot different than in the movie. The first attack takes her leg off in a quick strike that pulls her under for a very brief moment. The second one is a full on torso hit where the shark breaches the water with the girl's lower torso in its mouth, when it hits the water, it bites down, severing off the upper torso and one arm, and eating the rest. So overall, the attack filmed properly (which they initially intended to do) would have looked a lot like the airborne breaching attacks Great Whites do against seals in South Africa and few other places in the world.

Judging by how terrifying The Reef was, despite the simplicity of its story and lack of budget, and how cool Deep Blue Sea was despite atrocious acting and over-the-top CGI, I for one would love for Spielberg to re-imagine the Jaws saga with modern robotics and a touch of CGI. They don't need to redo the original movie, but the basic premise of a large predatorial great white hunting an area is terrifying.

FYI, if you liked Jaws you really need to watch The Reef. For best results, watch it a couple days before you go to the beach.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UD2gbjB3vw

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Had the shark actually worked as they had envisioned it, the movie would have not been character driven as it was, it would have been a full on monster movie, as it was supposed to be.

For those that didn't read the book, when the naked swimmer chick gets attacked in the beginning, its a lot different than in the movie. The first attack takes her leg off in a quick strike that pulls her under for a very brief moment. The second one is a full on torso hit where the shark breaches the water with the girl's lower torso in its mouth, when it hits the water, it bites down, severing off the upper torso and one arm, and eating the rest. So overall, the attack filmed properly (which they initially intended to do) would have looked a lot like the airborne breaching attacks Great Whites do against seals in South Africa and few other places in the world.

Judging by how terrifying The Reef was, despite the simplicity of its story and lack of budget, and how cool Deep Blue Sea was despite atrocious acting and over-the-top CGI, I for one would love for Spielberg to re-imagine the Jaws saga with modern robotics and a touch of CGI. They don't need to redo the original movie, but the basic premise of a large predatorial great white hunting an area is terrifying.

FYI, if you liked Jaws you really need to watch The Reef. For best results, watch it a couple days before you go to the beach.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UD2gbjB3vw

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http://www.pmslweb.com/the-blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/33-would-you-watch-Jaws-like-this-640x330.jpg

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I watched the making of it a while back.  In one of the scenes with the shark cage they used a midget in a scaled down cage with a real shark swimming around it in order to make the shark look bigger.  I thought that was pretty funny.

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Did anyone see the making of JAWS, that was very interesting, almost as good as the movie itself

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I lost my virginity while watching Jaws

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 Yes,the grey seals had an enormous population boom and with them of course come the predators. The beaches have been closed a couple times due to sightings but I am 100% fine never seeing one.

http://cdn.capecod.com/wp-content/uploads/Shark-Attack-3.jpg

There is a shark tracker but I am mostly  an ignorance is bliss kind of guy. I won't go surf in early morning or evening,if I see seals I get out of the water  but really don't want to get wound up about them...I know there are some out there. I do think it's only a matter of time before there is a fatal attack on MV,Nantucket or Cape Cod,there are just too many sharks and too many people in the water though. A guy got bit on the feet on Cape Cod and some incredibly stupid women kayaked out to where they saw a seal get taken and their boat got sampled. There were pics taken of a guy getting cased by one but he made it to the beach before it decided to bite
http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/US/ap_shark_kayaker_thg_120709_wmain.jpg

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Did anyone see the making of JAWS, that was very interesting, almost as good as the movie itself

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I have that, and also a book "The Jaws log"-mentions a few other details, including the difficulty in getting the big tiger shark the fishermen catch.