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00:49 Jaws Movie Reaction
38:02 Jaws Movie Review

[@jenmurrayxo]

⭐If this video gets to 7k likes I'll draw a movie from the comments! Leave your movie pick below! 👍

[@80smoviesfan]

Suggestion Arachnophobia

[@RedAnubiZ]

The Raid or DeadAlive / Braindead

[@DarraghC]

The Mission (Jeremy Irons, Robert De Niro, Ray McNally, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn)

[@iginlafan]

The Count of Monte Cristo, newer version. National Treasure as well.

[@Matthew-ATX]

Tootsie (1982) starring Dustin Hoffman

[@milozimben]

The fact that Spielberg was 27 years old when he made this, and that it was only his second feature film (not counting a TV movie and a couple of episodes of Columbo), always blows me away.

[@harveylee51]

@milozimben It is amazing when you consider that ,and even the Colombo episodes he did looked very cinematic ! This is one of my faves and it was the original blockbuster summer movie !

[@slimjimnyc270]

You know Jaws is a great movie when you've seen it several times, and it still scares or make you nervous in all the right places.

[@markwright6496]

Yes

[@Serenity113]

14:12 that jump scare. Scaring people since 1975 😂

[@mikerhodes8454]

My great uncle was a pilot on one of the first float planes (PBYs) to arrive at the Indianapolis sinking. He said that sailors were desperate to get out of the water and onto his plane to be rescued, he hated to tell them there was no more room on the plane and others were coming soon.

[@johncox6321]

What the Navy did to Capt. McVey, the skipper of the Indianapolis after the sinking was criminal... they covered their own asses by throwing him under the bus. For years afterwards, he would get hate mail and death threats over the phone from the next of kin of some of he sailors who died in the sinking...they even brought in the Japanese sub Capt. Who sank the ship to testify against him at his court of inquiry. Even though he was eventually acquitted and exonerated, he committed suicide. As a result of the sinking of the Indianapolis, the Navy spent years from the 1950's through to the 70's and millions of dollars in research to try and find a workable shark repellent or protective device for downed airmen or seamen...to no avail.

[@PungiFungi]

Yes. Jaws was re-released last year in 3D and one of those SJW reviewers were writing about how satisfying it was to see Quint get chewed up because he was a member of the crew of the Indianapolis that delivered the bomb..

[@MrThumbs63]

@@PungiFungi ffs

[@johncox6321]

@@PungiFungi: That's the same reason that the National Air and Space Museum in Washington has to put barriers and plexiglass panels around the Enola Gay, too many anti nuclear nuts keep throwing red paint on the plane; somehow blaming it for the existence of nuclear power and the bomb.

[@WilliamThesummoner-jx7nb]

Shit why he didn't load them on let them sit until another plane arrive ?

[@tofersiefken]

Quint's obsession, which drove him to destroy the radio so that he could defeat the shark by himself, is comparable to Captain Ahab's obsession with the whale in Moby Dick. For him, it was personal because of what he experienced on the USS Indianapolis, which is a true story.

[@TheBTG88]

Indianapolis.

[@tofersiefken]

@@TheBTG88 You are quite right. Thanks.

[@Carandini]

Or Quint didn't want to lose out on $10,000. That's about 50 grand in 2022 clown currency.

[@nathanmead9585]

I always read it as utter terror. Hunting sharks would've been trying to take back some agency after being in the water while hundreds of people around you are getting eaten alive at random; once he realized that the boat and guns and barrels and ropes weren't enough, I imagine he was right back in the waves above the Indianapolis. Pushing the boat until the engine burned out was that sorta brainless flight part of the fight or flight response. And getting eaten alive...well, it's not going to be fun for anyone, but looking down the shark's gullet was probably worse than his personal hell. As I read it, at least.

[@globextradingsystemsllc1740]

and $10K worth of motivation.

[@srpratt1]

"This shark was a total dick!" -- That line made my day!

[@salyx]

The proof that you don’t have to show anything for a movie to be tense and horrifying. I love the late 70s-early 80s Spielberg approach to characters, they’re so -human-.

[@Jayce71]

Well the shark was supposed to be featured a lot more but that whole made for fresh water sinks in salt water thing that made it such a chore. They nicknamed it Flaws because of that. :-p

[@salyx]

@@Jayce71 I know, and I’m glad it didn’t work well.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Jason Allan Im afraid its become an exaggerated myth, perpetuated by Richard Dreyfuss. More of the shark WAS supposed to be seen yes you are right.. but only for the ocean Orca based scenes. That's where Bruce kept breaking. The shark was purposely kept hidden for the beach scenes. The shark was never intended to be used for them. The beach scenes were all filmed on Martha's Vineyard from late May to early July 1974. Bruce was not scheduled to be used in any scenes until mid July when filming went out to sea for the Orca scenes. It was the ocean shoot which drove Jaws way over schedule and over budget. The first half of Jaws was filmed more or less on schedule, with only some slight problems, weather delays etc. The very first shark scene filmed was the pier/pot roast scene. This was filmed in May and no shark was ever supposed to be seen. It was only 3ft deep water anyway. Bruce needed deep water to be used. All the beach scenes were filmed around State Beach in quite shallow water, too shallow for Bruce. The exceptions were the insert shots of Bruce taking the Kintner boy on the raft and the red rowboat guy. These were filmed at the very end of location shooting in the deeper water of Katama Bay, same place the Orca sinking shots were filmed. Bruce was working well then, so they decided to film some insert shots with Bruce. Its now turned into a myth that the shark was supposed to be seen from the beginning but that it never worked. That wasn't the case at all. I blame Dreyfuss 😜 Sure, in the very early storyboards in late 1973 they were going to show more of the shark, but they soon abandoned that idea and chose to keep the shark more hidden, making it a more suspense driven movie instead of a monster movie. This is all in The Jaws Log and Memories From Martha's Vineyard. Besides, if you watch Spielbergs earlier film Duel, you'll see suspense and the unseen truck driver. Spielberg wanted to follow his own blueprint there for Jaws. Cheers 👍.

[@christopherconard2831]

The invisible monster is a great device when used properly. It gives the audience the same feeling as the characters by keeping them as blind as the potential victims.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

"Human" characters = top-shelf '70s filmmaking in general. Characters were meant to be people, not archetypes. Then the (sniff sniff) '80s came around and Hollywood was told by Wall Street that everything they made had to push toy sales or stroke the egos of sellout former hippies with fake BS.

[@conureron3792]

Love Quint’s Indianapolis soliloquy. It requires the audience to visualize it all, and , in doing so, we imagine ourselves in that situation: truly horrific- created with mere words

[@matthewdunham1689]

Well said

[@TrackMaster844]

Right? Even Richard Dreyfus, who’d been on rough terms with Robert Shaw the entire film shoot, was completely caught up in the story and couldn’t take his eyes off of him.

[@antoineporche-rideaux4841]

it's based off a true story

[@andrewsawyer1375]

He was also drunk during that scene. Had to be carried on set.

[@juvandy]

@@andrewsawyer1375 they filmed takes with him both drunk and sober, if I remember correctly, and the final version is a blend of the two. Shaw also rewrote most of his own lines for that scene.

[@gawainethefirst]

Two musical notes, shadows, and innuendo were all Steven Spielberg needed to create one of cinemas most enduring villains.

[@lethaldose2000]

Hey Jen, The story Quint told about the Naval ship sinking at sea and hundreds of men being eaten by Shaeks was actually a true event. It was based on the events from the USS Indianapolis during WW2 Pacific Island battles. The USS Indianapolis story gave Quint a backstory so we could feel for him and understand why he hates sharks so much.

[@gawainethefirst]

And it was completely ad lib.

[@anyone9689]

y except they did get a distress signal out , but it was ignored - according to a documentary i saw

[@michaelccozens]

It is true, although the story is embellished a tad to make the sharks seem more ferocious. They definitely killed a lot of men over about 4 days - somewhere between a few dozen and 150 - but a lot more died of exposure, dehydration, salt poisoning, etc., and the sharks tended to go after the corpses first, followed by the wounded, whose blood drew the predators to them. Of the nearly 900 men who went into the water, 316 made it out, so even over 4 days and with hundreds of sharks drawn to the sinking by the explosion of torpedoes and large amounts of blood in the water, the most extreme estimates would mean the sharks killed about 1 in 4 of those who died after the sinking (though they'd also have eaten a lot of the other bodies). Still, can't imagine how terrifying that must have been.

[@michaelccozens]

@@anyone9689 Very true. It was secretly received by 3 stations, but the commander of one was drunk, the commander of the second had given strict orders not to disturb his sleep, and the head of the third thought it was a Japanese trap. The Navy also had very loose protocols for tracking big ships. It was just assumed they'd be recorded when they arrived at their intended destination at the time expected, and the Indianapolis was mistakenly recorded as having made it to its next port. It was only by sheer chance that a flying boat on patrol happened to spot the survivors, and by then they'd been in the water almost 4 days.

[@anyone9689]

@@michaelccozens thx do you know if anything happened to those commanders ?

[@dipsydoodle7988]

A few years back a sat my nieces down for a movie night to watch Jaws for the first time. Like most people reacting to this movie, they were in their early 20s and had never seen it but heard about it through pop culture all their lives. They both said they couldn’t imagine it being scary before it started, because it’s “old.” First 10 minutes in watching Chrissy get eaten, they both got super quiet. They were just intently absorbed in the movie for the rest of it. I asked them what they thought when it was over and they couldn’t get over how much it freaked them out. The attention to detail in Jaws makes a difference. Everything from how good the shark actually looks to the bits of Quint’s flesh it still has in it’s teeth as it’s chomping on that tank makes this movie an immersive experience and a total classic.

[@NightWolfe500]

This was Steven Spielberg's greatest horror creature feature ever, this had an awesome all star cast Roy Schneider, Richard Dreyfuss and many more

[@scarletibis3158]

Jurassic Park steps into the Ring….

[@scootercaster576]

It was also his first movie

[@BlunderMunchkin]

@@scootercaster576 He made at least one movie, Duel, before this.

[@MaunderMaximum]

@@scootercaster576 Duel and Sugarland Express, both before Jaws.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Scarletibis, Jurassic Park is a dumbed down children's movie compared to Jaws.

[@gutz1981]

"Kick it in the eye." I think by this point in the movie, (and also in the novel it was confirmed when it was the first thing to be bitten off.) Crissy no longer had any legs to kick the shark with.

[@Cheepchipsable]

Well her feet would have been trapped by the shark in the first place.

[@kemmdog4444]

Jonathan Searle, who played one of the children with the cardboard fin in Jaws is now the chief of police in Oak Bluffs, part of Martha's Vineyard where the 1975 Steven Spielberg movie was filmed.

[@joek468]

My favorite trivia copy/pasted directly from IMDb..Several decades after the filming of Jaws (1975), Lee Fierro, who plays Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich". She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago. The owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her - none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They had not seen each other since the original movie shoot.

[@josephscally6270]

Believe it or not, I saw this in a theater when it first came out and that was quite an experience. Thanks Jen for another terrific reaction. Fun Fact: The reporter on the beach was Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws.

[@w1975b]

My mother saw it when she was pregnant with me. I was born July 22, so she was very pregnant at the time.

[@charles2241]

I saw it there too, and it was brutal. It scared an awful lot of people, and whole scores of people didn't want to go into the water anymore. The second time I had seen the movie, I was ready for the head in that boat, but I still jumped. The reason was that as you see the head, there is a BLAST of music, and it's that, clear out of the blue, that carries most of the impact.

[@KARINCLANE]

Hearing you say, “Look at all those tasty kegs”, but in a very nervous voice, I literally laughed out loud. Great reaction video! JAWS is one of my all-time favorite movies.

[@jenmurrayxo]

😂👍

[@winstongordon9694]

@@jenmurrayxo Jen you should check out jaws2 also

[@chrislaustin]

Your in for a real treat on this one, Jaws is my personal favorite movie of all time, and I never grow tired of watching it.

[@michaelhoward142]

HUGE respect for making yourself watch a movie you've avoided your entire life. You certainly earned a Shark Hunter merit badge -- or something along those lines. ;)

[@sbk4me]

Yeah, I thought by the end she was going to tear that purple material apart or pull it over her head....Thanks for your reaction..

[@williamsummerson1204]

Much respect to jen

[@dan_hitchman007]

Another fun fact: Richard Dreyfuss was not told they were going to shove a prop head in his face during the scene where he dives down to inspect Ben Gardner's boat. His reaction was totally real.

[@baileydietrich4768]

Another fun fact about that scene. That scene was shot in the editor (Verna Fields) swimming pool.

[@lethaldose2000]

Richard Dreyfuss: WE gotta go down there and check it out. Jen: NO, NO, NO YOU DON't Jen your reaction to the peril of "Jaws" was so cute, endearing, and awesome. you had some great quotes during the reaction, "Look at those tasty legs", "He came up to show them, I'm here, Im ready to rumble". I'm glad you overcame your lifelong shark fear to make this reaction happen. Keep em coming.

[@thejamppa]

I loved your reaction. Congratulations despite your fears, you managed to watch this film! Funny when I was child people usually told "the shark was so fake" and now reactors can't get over how realistic it looks. Decent practical looks better than good CGI. I wish more films would use practical effects and practical creatures.

[@casesoutherland4175]

Jaws is my absolute favorite movie of all time! I consider it completely flawless! The levels of chills, drama, adventure and even humor are balanced out beautifully! The soundtrack, the cinematography, the special effects, the stories of each character, I love it so much!!

[@jenmurrayxo]

Masterpiece! 👌

[@garymussell6543]

After watching this movie in the theater in 1977 my teenage daughter refused to take a bath or swim in a backyard pool for years. Totally irrational but such was the power of this film. Thanks, Spielberg!

[@trevmac8362]

I was only 10 and i was exactly the same way.. I was terrified to even go in the shower (and that's no lie)

[@jcastromex]

Jen the Fearless! Way to go in overcoming your fear of sharks by watching the ultimate shark movie of all time. Spielberg & Williams are a true dynamic duo with this film. A 25 foot shark (6000 lbs) in the 70s is almost unheard of. Although they do exist, they are a rarity. The purpose of those barrels are to drag the shark to make it slow down while swimming and hopefully weaken it in order to capture or kill it. "Jaws" is considered the 1st summer blockbuster film and it scared the living crap out of EVERYONE into going to the water in beaches, lakes or ponds (even though great whites are found in salt water). It kept me out of the beaches a few years until I overcame the fear. 😆 Soon after "Jaws" hit theaters, other film producers got on the bandwagon to scare the hell out of us with such classics as "Tentacles" (1977 - giant octopus), "Orca"(1977 - killer whale), "Piranha" (1978 - man-eating piranhas), and "Alligator" (1980 - giant alligator). Each of these films are DEFINITELY worth reacting to (especially "Piranha"). Also, check out and react to "Mysterious Island" (1961), "Jason and the Argonauts" (1963) and "Clash of the Titans" (1981). 📽❤

[@chefskiss6179]

Yeah, there was another summer indie flick that also tried to get on that bandwagon... it had some hick farmer kid wanting to hang out with his buddies but then bumps into this old desert vagrant, adventures and jocularity ensue. ;)

[@w1975b]

@@chefskiss6179 Star Wars wasn't horror, though. John Castro said "scare the hell out of us" about the other movies he listed.

[@GF_Baltar]

Jen's Guide to Shark Self-Defense, Chapter One: "Kick 'em in the eye!"

[@shawnthompson2303]

*Assuming he hasn't bitten both your legs off.*

[@chriskell4019]

I watched it first back in 1975, and my best friend and I went to the theater watched it seven times in succession. I've watched it dozens and dozens of times since. It still scares me just as much as the first time almost fifty years ago. A brilliant movie unmatched ever since.

[@lethaldose2000]

Hey Jen. You guys just watched the first Summer movie blockbuster. Before Jaws summer time was considered to be dead time by studio executives. Thinking why would anyone want to watch a 2-hour movie in the dark versus enjoying the summer sun, or a day at the beach, at the park. Master Steven Speilberg changed all that. To you Sir Stephen: I salute you.

[@benschultz1784]

The novel has a bit more nuance to it, with the shark attacks drawing attention to the corruption and mismanagement in Amity Island. Turned out the mayor blew the island's annual budget one year in a casino in Jersey City and had to borrow money to keep the town afloat. A local reporter (in the movie portrayed in the 4th of July scene by author Peter Benchley) uncovers that the mayor is playing down the shark attacks to keep more tourists coming so he can pay off his debt to the Mafia. The main characters aren't as likeable either in the novel. Brody is an abusive alcoholic, Hooper has an affair with Mrs. Brody, and Quint is literally Captain Ahab. Spielberg even said he wanted the shark to win in the end. The Indianapolis sinking was a real event, with the truth about the ship's role in the Manhattan Project only coming to light in 1974. Robert Shaw, having served in the Royal Navy in WWII, wrote most of that monologue himself. It's believed only around 100 were killed by sharks, the rest died to starvation and delirium, so the sharks had a veritable feast. Of the 316 survivors, 315 were alive when Jaws debuted; Captain Charles McVay committed suicide after the Navy court martialed him for dereliction of duty since by the Navy records the Indianapolis was sunk nowhere near her last reported position in the Philippines, and he and the crew refused (under a gag order) to answer why they were in the middle of the Pacific and not using anti-submarine evasive maneuvers.

[@tim_davidson6344]

Additionally in the book, Hooper is killed by the shark while inside the shark cage.

[@TrentRidley]

Jen: "Can you drown a shark?" In a sense, yes. Whilst some shark species can remain stationary and gulp sufficient water in through their mouths and push it over the surface of their gills to ensure sufficient gas exchange (oxygen in, CO2 out), other species cannot. The latter instead have to continue swimming forward, essentially ramming water in through their mouths and over their gills. As such, these species are known as obligate ram ventilators or breathers and great whites (Carcharodon carcharias), the species depicted in Jaws, is one such species. So, if they were able to draw the shark into shallow enough water that it ran aground and was unable to keep swimming, it would have "drowned." True drowning, however, occurs in animals that breath air into lungs. It occurs when fluid is inhalated into the lungs instead, preventing sufficient gas exchange across the surface of the lungs and into/out of the bloodstream. So, in water breathers the problem is too little water to ensure sufficient gas exchange and in air breathers the problem is too much water to ensure sufficient gas exchange. Ultimately the outcome is the same, the organism suffocates. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk, haha.

[@christopherconard2831]

Similar effect if you move a saltwater fish to fresh water or vice versa. Because of the change in density of the water they will either oversaturate or effectively dehydrate despite being submerged.

[@Mviews-hb4ib]

I'm 42 now but when I was 6 I made a plado model of jaws eating the captain on the boat , along with blood sprey and the teacher was that impressed she made me go from class to class showing them lol 😆

[@LoveOldMusic808]

I was a teenager when this movie came out, my friends and I saw this movie opening night... it scared us kids so bad. Living in Hawaii, it took a while for any of us to go back into the water.

[@minnesotajones261]

Great reaction - thanks for posting a LOT of the Indianapolis speech - wasn't in the book, made for the movie, to give Quint a reason he hated sharks. Absolutely riveting. And I just noticed, on your bookshelf you have a hard copy of Jurassic Park - awesome!

[@glenchapman3899]

I was shocked when I looked it up the next day and found out the story is basically true

[@dan_hitchman007]

The stuntwoman, Susan Backlinie, playing the girl, Chrissie, who goes swimming at the film's intro. was actually somewhat injured by the team yanking her around in the water. They found out later there was enough force put on her body that one false move would have killed her.

[@alf6633]

20:56 scene is one of my favorites. 5 minutes of Spielberg at his best. The use of sound, camera closeups, facial reactions, such beautiful film making and story telling. Robert Shaw was perfect.

[@jasoncaldwell5627]

The best lines in the movie are the last two: " I used to hate the water." "I can't imagine why..." If you want a great movie with a more upbeat tone,bi recommend Stranger Than Fiction.

[@johnmason9655]

The Quint monologue was Steven Spielberg's favourite part of the movie. Robert Shaw should have won an Oscar, and was also a brilliant writer . I was lucky enough to see the play in London, the Shark is broken with Ian Shaw playing his dad.🦈

[@TopsyTriceratops]

I assume the "no whistles" is because it causes mass panic. Not only do the tourists crush each other trying to leave, they cause so much splashing that the shark might just attack faster. The reason why sharks like splashing is because it usually means there is something injured in the water like a dying seal or a drowning bird; easy pickings. People ramming each other will spill blood too, another thing sharks use as an indicator that something is weak/ injured and is easy to catch.

[@jeffdetmer4681]

Great reaction Jen. This was my 2nd video with you and I subbed. Looking forward to more. Here is a coincidence for you. Years after the movie was made actress Lee Fierro who played Mrs. Kintner (whose son Alex was eaten) walked into a seafood place out west, and noticed they had a menu item called the Alex Kintner sandwich. She mentioned to the waitress that she had played his mom in the movie. A few minutes later the owner came out and it was Jeffrey Voorhees who played her son. They hadn't seen each other since the movie wrapped.

[@tommarks3726]

Hahaha it's clear you were nervous watching this because you talked non stop. Hahaha. Some people dialogue when nervous. So cute. Love your channel and reaction.

[@shawnbridges8703]

The shark, while super scary, just does what he does. The Mayor however, what a jackwagon. Thanks Jen and have a bonzer weekend!

[@kharma7755]

The mayor is definitely the villain in Jaws..

[@lyndoncmp5751]

The mayor is just the spokesman for the town councillors. Even the medical examiner and newspaper editor covered the shark attack up. Watch how nervous the mayor is in the town hall meeting. He's worried how the business people are going to react. The mayor was not acting alone. He had his own pressures.

[@michaelccozens]

Eh, sorta-kinda on the shark. It is an animal, but this would also be extremely odd behaviour (way outside anything recorded) for a shark, not least because humans don't have anything like the caloric density needed to make hunting them worthwhile.

[@mokane86]

Surely the mayor made the wrong choices, is a 'bad guy', and has blood on his hands. Though he didnt realize he was in a horror movie with an unrealistic creature maintaining unrealistic habbits, and probably would have really thought he was acting for the 'greater good'. I think the Dr is even more immoral for rescinding and changing his findings when it would have been obvious to him it was a shark and not a propeller.

[@shawnbridges8703]

You have valid points to be sure but I still maintain The Mayor is the lead jackwagon. It’s his influence that sways the M.E. and even Martin. Almost everyone makes a few questionable decisions in this movie, but as you point out it is a movie and without horror movie rules you a much shorter and less dramatic experience. On a different note I always wondered about the 10,000 dollars. The mayor stated he doesn’t have the authority without the full council but signs it anyway. Making Quinn’s death very fortunate for both him and the town.

[@PhilChandlerArts]

It's always fun watching other people reaction to seeing this film for the first time. Fun fact, at 15:07 that reporter is actually Peter Benchley, the author who wrote the Jaws novel.

[@paulrees3861]

Jaws deserves its legendary classic status. Brilliant movie.

[@anthonyjolly2066]

The MUSIC is the ultimate co-star in this movie.It seems like people reacted too the sound before they seen the shark.Brilliant directing by Steven Spielberg. Five 👍👍👍👍👍Up

[@GordoFunk555]

Only Spielberg could scare us with a moving piece of a dock in the water. Brilliant!

[@tvdroid22]

This was one of the very few movies I saw in a drive-in theater. When Jaws popped up behind the boat in the chum, man that made us all slam back in the seat!

[@chrislaustin]

The reporter on the beach wearing the glasses with the "shape of a killer shark" line, is actually Peter Benchley, the author of JAWS, which of course this movie was based on.

[@scozz6139]

I was 19 years old when this movie came out, (1975), what an impact it had on nearly everyone. People would always ask, "have you seen Jaws yet"! I swear, millions and millions of people all across the country didn't go in the oceans for years after seeing Jaws! The media even did stories of the lack of beach goers in the years after Jaws, it took quite a long time for many people to get over the fear of it. Some folks never did get over it. In retrospect, I think Jaws had the biggest effect on the masses than any other movie I can think of. Even the Exorcist didn't have the impact that Jaws did imo. No CGI either,...

[@Salta0monte]

Sharks need to keep swimming so water passes through their gills and they can breathe. Unlike other fish, which can pump water through their gills even if they're not moving. That's why taking it to shallow water where it can't swim would kill it.

[@scottrabie]

This is true of some of the more aggressive/dangerous ones, but isn't true for all sharks. Some are ambush predators and lay still for a long time waiting. Look up angelfish sharks, or the large and mostly harmless Nurse sharks. Yo can see videos of them "breathing"

[@DonMachado]

I was 8 years old and my family was visiting friends in Idaho. Their daughter took me to see Jaws one evening. The theater was packed, and when Ben Gardner's head popped out from under the boat, the entire audience shrieked! The tension is was gets you, the anticipation of when the shark will show up next. I've loved Jaws ever since. BTW, the shark's name was Bruce, named after Spielberg's lawyer...

[@wompa70]

This is one of my top three movies of all time. I saw this in the theater. I’m pretty sure it’s my earliest memory. I was FIVE freaking years old.

[@jamesbednar8625]

Awesome review, probably one of TOP 3 have seen concerning this particular movie!!! I was 12 years old when this movie came out and saw it in the theater. This is one of those movies where I am able to remember the audience's reactions. Can remember the theater was jam-packed. Popcorn was flying through the air; people screaming; people fainting; people running for the doors - it was awesome!!!! I grew up in northeast Ohio along the shores of beautiful Lake Erie and - you guessed it - NOBODY was going into the water, even for a FRESH WATER lake. Was like that throughout the rest of the year this movie was being shown. usually watch this movie a few times each year and it never gets old. Keep up the good work.

[@MrGpschmidt]

This is my 2nd fave film of all-time (#1 is IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE) and I'm so glad you FINALLY saw this one Jen - for someone who fears sharks you handled this surprisingly well like a champ. The film never disappoints thanks to a powerhouse cast, fantastic direction by Spielberg (his sophomore feature film), John Williams' iconic score (Spielberg initially scoffed the very first time Williams introduced the infamous 5 chord dread) and yes the special effects team led by Joe Alves (who designed 'Bruce' as he was dubbed by the crew in honor of Spielberg's attorney~!) who all had an arduous shoot that is notoriously legendary and documented. The shark's technical aspects frequently broke down during shooting so Spielberg had to film without it hence creating more dread and fear that actually enhanced the horror and suspense created thruout the film. The film was basically being written on the set daily too. Peter Benchley - who wrote the novel - has a cameo as the journalist on the beach (also that's Spielberg on the radio as the coast guard chatting w/Quint - and pretty sure he's on the beach during the 4th of July when Meaddows (Carl Gottleib who adapted the screenplay) the news publisher is speaking to Brody - with a camera as part of the TV crew. The film has many differences from the book (SPOILER ALERT: a sub-plot involving the Mafia strong-arming the Mayor, Hooper having a fling w/Brody's wife, Hooper being killed by the shark (while Brody 'accidentally' shoots him in the throat while in the jaws of the beast) and the end had the shark pretty much dying of exhaustion (!!!! - yeah when I first read it I was like WTF?!!?!? and had to re-read it 4 x! for it to register!). Roy Scheider med Spielberg at a Hollywood party and when the director told him he had trouble casting the sheriff Scheider said "What about me?!" :D The late great Robert Shaw, who liked to imbibe from time to time to put it mildly, went Method (at 1st) for the Indianopolis soliloquy with disastrous results. He arrived on the set drunk thinking it'd add to his character's drunken state but instead ruined the entire day's shoot and Spielberg called it a day. In the middle of the night Shaw called Spielberg completely sober and apologized for his unprofessional behavior and promised to be ready the next morning to do it clean. He nailed it in one take (he and the others s/gotten an Oscar nomination - as well as Spielberg (all robbed!~) The speech is based on a true story during WWII (yep that really happened and there's several docs & films out on that event (and the speech also has had several fathers contributing - Gottleib/filmmaker John Miliius (a friend of Spielberg's) and even Shaw (who was a well-known and respected playwright in his own right. FYI: there's earlier fore-shadowing w/the scuba tank when Brody is perusing the shark books and a page opens to show a shark with one in its maw (and 2ndly when you caught it w/the tanks being shown on the Orca). This film did what PSYCHO did for showers for going into the water - people in droves avoided beaches for summers on end from the wake of its release (and as you alluded sharks got a bad rap for their behavior; Benchley even regretted it and later on led the cause for preservation and education on the deep sea fish.) The film is coming out again this Labor Day weekend in both 3D & Imax - I'm so going and I urge you too Jen to see it on the biggest screen available! PS: love the bare shoulder - very alluring. Great job overall :D *You can skip the sequels - the first one JAWS 2 is ok at best thanks to reuniting Scheider, Lorraine Gary (Ellen) and Murray Hamilton (Larry Vaughn).

[@chellesama8256]

Quint strapped himself to a chair that's bolted to the deck. It keeps big game fish from pulling people out of the boat while giving them extra leverage to pull the fish in.

[@markjuarez1791]

Great reaction, Jen. You kept wrapping your fingers up in the chords of your earphones, lol. Steven Spielberg said that he owed a lot of the success of JAWS to John Williams. Had it not been for Williams' score, he felt that JAWS would have only been half as successful as it was.

[@jonbolton3376]

Your reaction to the underwater head was priceless. Don't worry, it makes everyone jump, at least the first time, sometimes every time.

[@twelvemonkeys8786]

Great reaction. This shows the genius of Spielberg.. Great acting editing and directing.. A timeless masterpiece 👍🏻

[@kevinrosero9723]

"He does have black eyes." One of many great comments by Jen

[@johnkennethwiseman5460]

Much respect to you Jen, its a classic movie. And you pay so much attention to the background conversation.

[@MarkDemeo]

I've seen this movie too many times to count and I still love it. I've also watched several reactors watch this, and it interests me to see how they react to the scene with Ben Gardner's boat when the head goes by, that moment still makes me jump.

[@logann7942]

Jen, you’re so funny. I love your reactions.

[@kentslocum]

My favorite shark movie is Soul Surfer, and it barely features a shark at all. The reason I like it so much is that it's based on a true story, the shark attack has almost no warning, the shark is caught, and the characters become stronger as a result of the event. Plus, the surfing scenes are absolutely gorgeous.It's the perfect antidote to Jaws--it makes you want to get into the water and conquer your fears!

[@tomstanziola1982]

That story Quint told them about the USS Indianapolis is historical fact. It really happened the way Quint described it, Jen.

[@galandirofrivendell4740]

I've only been in the ocean (Gulf of Mexico) once and was never worried about sharks. The things that worried me about being in the sea were jellyfish and riptides. Didn't want to encounter either.

[@michaelccozens]

Irukandji jellyfish are terrifying. They're tiny, nearly invisible, deadly, and apparently able to live almost anywhere, as that's where they're starting to show up. As far north as Britain, even. Weird doings afoot in the ocean, getting weirder.

[@georgeheilman885]

I never tire of watching this movie, it truly is my all-time favorite and I legitimately cannot tell you how many times I've seen it. It also gave me a lifelong fascination with sharks, as it has with many others. As for the sequels, the second one is pretty decent and worth it for Brody's story and the shark scenes. But the overall presentation doesn't quite have the same impact. Avoid 3 and 4. They are among the worst movies ever made (especially the 4th one) and only serve as something to laugh at if you're in that kind of mood.

[@DavidStebbins]

Michael Caine reacted with the following quote to having starred in Jaws 4, "I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific."

[@georgeheilman885]

A quote that never fails to make me smile.

[@sithlordkaeyl21]

Years ago, I worked with a guy that grew up in the area that they filmed this movie, and he said that every year, people were always terrified to go in the water at the beginning of the swimming season.

[@madchef7532]

Best story I ever read about this was about the lady who played the boys mother, Kintner. She had gone somewhere and went for food, on the menu was a 'Kintner: burger. Turns out, the owner was the young boy who was eaten, they had not seen each other since they filmed the movie

[@80smoviesfan]

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

[@e.d.2096]

Hi Jen, great pick I can't wait to see your reaction! You've been asking for picks, well here's mine again. QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER. right up your alley. Tom Selleck starring in what I think is his best role. A western taking place in Australia,with a little romance thrown in! Hard to beat. By the way, just your type, tall dark and handsome. Love your channel! Here for every reaction!

[@steveleslie2170]

I would like to thank my dad for taking me to see Jaws as an 8 year old...we lived in Yukon and I was scared to even take a bath.

[@dmprdctns]

Love it! The way you jumped when that head appeared... You know... I think Spielberg should watch this episode of yours...... I think he'd be so complimented!! He'd probably hire you as a script consultant, you're always so spot on, calling everything before it happens... I'll give him a call...

[@lethaldose2000]

Hey Jen, I'm so glad that you picked up on the villiany of the town's Mayor. Instead of the welfare of the towns people, all he cares about is the money the town is losing from the scare of the sharkattaccks. He works extremly hard to hide the information that is coming to his attention. Until his kids are exposed to the danger of the open beach.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

The mayor is merely the spokesman for the town councillors. Even the medical examiner and newspaper editor covered the shark attack up. Watch how nervous the mayor is in the town hall meeting. He's worried how the business people are going to react. The mayor was not acting alone. He had his own pressures.

[@jesseviv]

Lol your thumb nail

[@kenpatton8761]

The flashing light that was being attached to the barrel is called a Emergency Strobe Light. I packed one in each survival kit I installed on USAF aircraft. They can be easily seen from altitude which makes for a faster aircrew member recovery after a crash or ditching if they survived the landings…..shoutout to the Aircrew Life Support/Survival Equipment personnel in all of our military branches. Retired USAF MSgt

[@MST3Killa]

There were only two parts of Jaws that ever freaked me out when I first saw it as a kid. The crabs crawling on the first victim and then the kid on the raft, and that was mostly because his mother's reaction was just so well done and I could feel that barely controlled hysterical panic.

[@amarsh73]

Jaws is easily my favorite movie and book. I love experiencing the first time again with you.

[@dgmaffi]

The movie was filmed on Martha's Vineyard which is an island off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Amity was just a generic name they chose for the island.

[@NoKoolAidForMe]

Every time I watch Jaws, I get a craving to watch The Sting! There is something about Robert Shaw that just pulls me in!

[@lethaldose2000]

I used to have to tie a sheepshank knot for my Boy Scout days. It's not easy for sure, but once you get it down it never fails.

[@Subxenox15]

Haha, that's the exact opposite of how Quint wanted to go, he says he'll never wear a life jacket again because he would rather drown than get eaten by a shark 🤣

[@matthewganong1730]

Quint destroyed the radio because of what you said: he has a personal vendetta against sharks. I think he sees this particular shark as his nemesis and is intent on killing it himself. The novel makes it more clear that Quint is based on Captain Ahab from Moby Dick- he dies in the book the same way Ahab does, his leg gets tangled in the harpoon and he and the shark go down together. Quint thinks he’s better than the shark until he sees it go down with three barrels. Then he starts to get scared which is why he decides to draw the shark into shore and burns the engine out. When he looks at the lifejackets he remembers his time on the Indianapolis and that’s when he finally turns to Hooper for help.

[@PedroCastillo_1980]

Amazing masterpiece very classic Jaws directed by Steven Spielberg starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss and the iconic music score by John Williams. The line "You're gonna need a bigger boat" was ranked number 35 in the list of the American Film Institute (AFI) 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes. This film won 3 Oscars including best original music score by John Williams. Thank you Jen great reaction just awesome👍👍

[@normlee6566]

You should read the back story about the making of this movie. Spielberg was just starting his career and firmly believed it would be his first and last film because it was plagued by problems. The biggest issue was the mechanical shark that ate a huge part of the budget but rarely worked, which is why spielberg had to shoot scenes around it and why it got so little screen time.

[@krishnamurtiism]

I always tear up watching this movie knowing how much Richard Dreyfus loved Robert Shaw.

[@thomasbeauchamp3781]

There's an episode of MythBusters where they debunk a lot of things in this movie, like the exploding scuba tank and diving with three barrels. It's a good watch.

[@bekindandrewind1422]

3:26 -- Hi Jen.. While Amity Island doesn't exist, the movie was shot on Martha's Vineyard. (Close to Long Island, NY where I am.)

[@SeanRobertsonCosmicD]

Bit of trivia. The mechanical shark was nicknamed bruce. Pixar paid homage to the shark in Jaws by naming their shark in "Finding Nemo" Bruce.

[@jakehamilton5502]

"They're right in the middle of a sea shanty!"

[@skykn1ght78]

Funny thing was they had tons of problems with the shark and it was broken more than it worked so it forced Spielberg to not show it as much as he wanted but it ended up making the movie better because you couldn’t see it very often. The shark model was named Bruce after Spielberg’s attorney who was ruthless to his opponents. Also, Quint’s story about the USS Indianapolis is true.

[@jaidixit7907]

Alot of fun. One of my Top 10 movies of all time. And, I think, one of Mr. Spielberg's 3 best films.

[@andrewbrendan1579]

When Quint talked about the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the horrible deaths of so many men he was talking about a real event. In the town where I grew up there was a man who operated a summer theater and he was one of the survivors of the U.S.s. Indianapolis. I saw "Jaws" in a movie theater in Evanston, Illinois, and you should have heard the screaming from the audience. I remember Hollywood TV gossip columnist Rona Barrett describing "Jaws" as "...the ultimate horror movie".

[@blacksheep8427]

"Show Me the Way to Go Home" is the song they are singing when the shark attacks the boat during the night. It's not a sea shanty; it's a popular song from the 1920s. "Spanish Ladies" is the song Quint sings earlier, when they're getting ready to go out on the boat. (I'm no expert, but, I looked it up online...) It is now often called a sea shanty, but apparently, it was not originally. It was a popular song pre-dating the period when what we think of as seas shanties came to be. It certainly was sung by sailors, but it doesn't have some of the qualities that typically define shanties (and other "work songs").

[@bostonvair]

In answered to your first question, this was filmed on location at Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts), an island off of Cape Cod. In answer to one of your other early questions, the total number of deaths are 5 people and (presumably) 1 dog. Answer to question 3: "Is that the dude from Close Encounters?" Yes (Richard Dreyfus, who also had a starring role in "American Graffiti" and other films).

[@daz_n]

Never has a headphone cable been fiddled with so much during a reaction... 😂

[@jenmurrayxo]

😂

[@paulrees3861]

Additional fact. The reporter on the beach is Peter Benchley, the author of the Jaws novel.

[@stoicoutrider2788]

Lol I dunno if it was just the lighting, but you looked like were getting FLUSHED towards the end of that movie.

[@Firemarioflower]

1:40 Jen: "Do not go skinny-dipping" 1:43 Boy and Chrissie: "Meh, let's go" *shrugs*

[@DanJackson1977]

RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985) - one of the greatest zombie comedies ever made. Super influential and just really fun.

[@NightWolfe500]

All time classic, especially for Tarman

[@MrTech226]

Jen Interesting fact is that crew nicknamed the Shark as "Bruce" after Steven Spielberg's lawyer, Bruce Ramer. According to Spielberg's spokesman or spokesperson, Marvin Levy, all copies of Bruce the Sharks were destroyed many years after the movie. But last Bruce was found in a junkyard. Last Bruce the Shark went thru 7 months restoration before moved to new home at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.