JAWS GOT ME! First Time Watching

[@blatherama]

The face emerging from the boat is, to this day, one of the greatest jump-scares ever. And Quint's (Robert Shaw) monologue about the Indianapolis is still one of the best performances I've ever seen.

[@placebo5466]

Quints monologue is the scariest part of the movie.

[@Mr.Ekshin]

@@placebo5466 - The one about swimmin with bow-legged women?

[@TenTonNuke]

And it almost didn't happen. Spielberg had to film it after the movie was finished in his editor's pool using milk to make the water cloudy.

[@MGEnforcer]

@@placebo5466 And he was drunk for the entire scene..

[@ZacCostilla]

Absolutely

[@petermonteleone8153]

Quint's story about the USS Indianapolis is one of the greatest monologues in movie history IMHO.

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Chills every time I hear it..

[@32446]

He did some of it drunk and then refilmed some of it.

[@shawnbingley5433]

John Milius wrote that scene..just that one scene..

[@kingcosworth2643]

Absolutely

[@padfolio]

More sailors died from exposure and dehydration than shark attacks. Still, it was estimated that about 150 died from sharks.

[@coldflamebluedragon196]

The story of the USS Indianapolis recounted by Robert Shaw was historically accurate

[@curtismartin2866]

And not yet declassified at the time of the film.

[@Big_Bag_of_Pus]

Except for the dates, for some unknown reason.

[@robinreiley1828]

Shaw had been drinking since the night before, when he told the story of the Indianapolis. He performed it in one take. One of the Great soliloquies in modern film

[@curtismartin2866]

@@robinreiley1828 I really wish Spielberg would bookend his career with "Quint". They did make a movie about the USS Indianapolis , but apparently it sucked.

[@robinreiley1828]

@@curtismartin2866 The Indianapolis movie only did the bare minimum in telling the story. Over 800 men were eaten by sharks. A lot of mistakes were made that allowed those men to die, and they pinned it all on the Captain. There was a lot more story to tell, including each of those sailors stories. Many of the survivors collaborated on a book that told of their experiences, and none of that was really used

[@jeffsherk7056]

If you could go back in time to 1975 and see this movie in a very crowded theater, as I did, you wouldn't believe the collective screams. That's an experience one cannot forget.

[@2127EShelby]

I remember going to Jaws at Cinema 70 in Fargo when it came out. A family of 6 with little kids came in late and sat in the front row... the first epic death, they rushed out of the theatre!

[@nigelwitgunn3406]

I was an usher at the Odion Highland in Toronto at the time, we would hang out at the back just to watch the popcorn fly, fortunately we didn't have to clean up.

[@Ryan_Christopher]

I saw it not just “during elementary school” but IN literal school. Perhaps in 2nd Grade, perhaps for English Composition class, between ‘81-‘84. We had no idea what were getting into, only that we had two hours outside our hot classrooms and inside the air-conditioned “Audio-Visual Room.”

[@robinreiley1828]

So many movies were meant to be seen "On the Big Screen" . I just commented yesterday that "Apocalypse Now" is not the same when you watch it on a TV or on your phone. Experiencing it with an audience in the dark also adds to the effect

[@allanm2064]

@jeffsherk7056 i commend you! I was born in 88 so I missed the release date! That is SO cool you got to experience it!

[@geraldbatts575]

The "Killer Shark" reporter on the beach on 4th of July was Peter Benchley the author of the novel Jaws.

[@seancrowe3353]

That's a cool fact

[@OverlandOne]

He also wrote The Deep, made into a film starring Jackie Bassett and Nick Nolte. Great movie also.

[@stevehutnikoff5964]

He also worked as a news writer at a TV station in NYC while writing Jaws.

[@195511SM]

i was stationed over in Hawaii, when 'Jaws' premiered. I stood in line for over 3 hrs before getting into the theater. And although I was over there for just over a year.....surrounded by the beautiful ocean......i've never been swimming in the ocean again.

[@holddowna]

Omgosh!!!!

[@danmcdonald3723]

There's a great story about Lee Fierro, who played Mrs. Kintner in "Jaws", as she went to eat at a restaurant. As she looked at the menu, she noticed that they served an "Alex Kintner Sandwich". She commented to the server that she had played the mother of Kintner in the movie years earlier. A few moments later, the owner of the restaurant, Jeffrey Voorhees, ran out to meet her. Voorhees was the boy who played Alex. They hadn't seen each other since the filming. (Love your reactions, Ames!!) 💖

[@RichardM1366]

Sadly she died from COVID-19 😢

[@docsavage8640]

@RichardM1366 she was 91. Let's not pretend every natural death from old age was Covid.

[@philmullineaux5405]

Speilberg only had a few movies of note before this. Sugarland Express, and death car, which was Jaws with a car. Then he did this and Close Encounters, and his fame was set! Hooper did some huge movies, Close Encounters, Mr Hollands opus, American Graffiti and the riot, what about Bob, and Let it Ride. Chief was in a huge 80s movie, Blue Thunder, and Quint was in a Bond film Dr no, Battle of the Bulge, Force ten from Navarrone, The Sting, The Deep.

[@daviddavid2890]

​@philmullineaux5405 From Russia with love was the bond film. He was the best bad guy of the Connery era Bond movies for me

[@wendydarling5790]

@philmullineaux5405 "Hooper" was also in one of my favorites, The Goodbye Girl. At the time, he was the youngest best actor Oscar winner (30). And "Chief" was also great as Bob Fosse in the great All That Jazz.

[@scottdarden3091]

I just knew when you said I'm a really hard person to jump scare, that the face in the boat hull would get you 😂 it got everyone in the theater when it came out 😊

[@holddowna]

I’m glad I got a jump! Feels good to hear it gets everyone! That’s the brilliance of film making right there!!! The mis direct was great. I never saw that coming

[@SliderFury1]

One of the best jump scares of all time. And it wasn't even the shark 😂

[@SciTrekMan]

@@holddowna After my friend and I saw this in the theatre, we went back to see it five or six times (I was about 17 at the time). We always sat behind some kids/teens whom we could tell hadn’t see it yet. At all the scary scenes, we’d scream bloody murder and scare the crap out of them all! Sometime even during non-scary scenes! What a blast!

[@vodengc520]

​@@holddowna I'm just now getting around to this reaction, and I gotta admit, I snorted a little at 3:03, lol.

[@Jack_Rn]

The head in the boat scene was the final shot filmed (in a swimming pool) - added when Spielberg thought he could get just one more scare out of this movie.

[@SeeMore-ki7mq]

I love it when people say I don't jump scare easily just before watching this movie!!! and I'm like 'Really'?

[@modblender7535]

I'm always amazed that there are STILL people out there who have not seen these huge watershed movies that have become such a part of culture.

[@holddowna]

I know! I have seen lots of movies but I haven’t seen a lot of classics!!!

[@przemekkozlowski7835]

When I was a kid, I watched TV on cable and a lot of channels would have a movie time at 8 pm. They would show all the classics and also a lot of crappy movies. So I got to watch most of the classics at least once a year. I no longer have cable TV so if I want to see an older movie, I have to hunt if on a streaming services or order the Blu-ray.

[@johnnygonzalez1344]

Quint running his fingers down the chalkboard...one of the best character introductions ever.

[@vilefly]

A gritty man, indeed.

[@jennifermichelleswanson3797]

I don't think that without the fingernails down the chalkboard would have done his character any justice.

[@ZacCostilla]

The mechanical shark was notorious for having bad reliability on set, so they couldn’t use it on several of the scenes they wanted to. It was the composer use came up with that “DUH-Duh” to add enough tension to let the viewer’s imagination do the rest and fill in the gaps. Pure genius!!!

[@lyndoncmp5751]

I believe by the end of filming they managed to get every planned scene with the shark done, plus a couple in addition not even intended initially.

[@yxeaviationphotog]

The shark not working was the best thing to happen to the film as not seeing it added to the tension.

[@shainewhite2781]

Nice! It made $470 million dollars ($1.6 billion dollars today) against a $13 million dollar budget. Nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture, but won for Best Original Score, Best Film Editing and Best Sound Editing

[@fixfalcon2628]

Quint's monologue while they're drinking on the boat is so fantastic. If you watch Hooper, his demeanor changes COMPLETELY once he hears Quint mention the U.S.S Indianapolis. He knows exactly what he's going to say.

[@Stogie2112]

"Anyway, we delivered the Bomb." -- Best line in the film.

[@Jpew2007]

“Yeah but what kind of shark?”

[@monacaravetta]

@@Jpew2007 "Tiger shark"......."A What??" lol

[@cixelsyd40]

Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark.

[@Jpew2007]

“Martin, can you do that?”

[@Stogie2112]

"I can do anything. I'm the Chief of Police."

[@JuandeFucaU]

most people know the Indianapolis story really happened but so did the Mary Ellen Moffat story..... a truly heartbreaking incident.

[@c1ph3rpunk]

This movie absolutely terrified me in the theater then. It really is a masterpiece of suspense and HOLY CRAP THAT SHARK IS HUGE!!!

[@holddowna]

Hahah!!!! Thanks so much for watching!

[@codyfletcher7218]

Funny you brought up Finding Nemo, they named the Great White ‘Bruce’ in homage to Jaws, as the animatronic shark’s nickname on set was ‘Bruce’.

[@arrow1414]

Quint's accent is a Irish and New England accent. Robert Shaw, who plays Quint copied the accent from two guys he observed in Martha's Vinyard, a community in Massachusetts. The USS Indianapolis story Quint told is based on a real WWII tragedy.

[@boki1693]

Quint is based off of a real Montauk Long Island shark fisherman who was famous in the 50'sw and 60's.

[@robjaimes8830]

@@boki1693he also spent some time around Craig Kingsbury, the guy who greeted Richard Dreyfuss at the dock when he first arrived…and the guy who scared the piss out of everyone later with his dead head emerging from the boat hull. 🤣

[@Lewis9700]

23:30 - It's bloody because Sharks are attracted to the scent of blood

[@Lewis9700]

How did you get so many concussions?

[@johnmc3862]

He had Irish roots also. 😊

[@henrytjernlund]

Perfect reaction. Thank you.

[@e.l.norton]

This movie invented the summer blockbuster phenomenon, for better or worse. This was the first. Star Wars was the second a few years later.

[@tehawesomeface1337]

I discovered the vicarious thrill of watching reaction videos in 1975 with ‘Jaws’. The first time I saw it, the moment the severed head popped out of the boat, I felt my entire row jump back as every single person in the theater reacted. I went to see the film a few more times, this time I turned around as the jump scare took place. It was amazing to see the entire theater jump back and scream! I bought tickets for friends and classmates to see the film with me, just so I can see and hear them scream! Heh, heh, heh. After seeing this film so many times, I noticed an ‘optical illusion’ with the popping head. If you slow it down, the shadow on Ben Gardner’s severed head gives the illusion of shark teeth! The effect is the subconscious image of a shark with jaws open lunging at you! Jaws author Peter Benchley makes a cameo as the ‘Clark Kent-looking reporter on the beach.

[@gordonhaire9206]

I saw it in the theater also. The most impressive audience jump scare of any movie I've ever seen.

[@thunderstruck5484]

Saw many times at the theater, ole Ben Gardner scaring the crap outta people for 47 years, thanks!

[@TRWilley]

Something that I saw recently in an analysis of Jaws was how Quint's death echoes his descriptions of deaths from the USS Indianapolis - so his entire life was a hunt to take revenge on sharks, but he still ended up dying just like his shipmates. The irony...

[@RetroView66]

I saw JAWS in the theater when it came out and I was seven. Taught me everything about audience reactions. I can still hear the screams from the head-in-the-boat. "A what?" is one of the biggest laugh lines I've still ever heard.

[@russ091368]

Same here...7 yrs old in '75. Lifelong memory.

[@RonnieStanley-tc6vi]

"Here's to swimmin with bowlegged women." Best toast ever!😂😂😂😂 I saw this movie on the second release of the movie in theaters. It was probably 1980-81. We saw it at a drive-in. We lived in Virginia Beach. We vacationed in Hatteras Island. This movie affected me for life.

[@Col_Fragg]

Who was was waiting for Ames to get Jump Scared by the dead fisherman?

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

Uhmmmm 🤔 All of us?

[@jeffsherk7056]

@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 Waiting for Ames to get jump-scared is sort of the whole point, isn't it?

[@brianjay9811]

After seeing this as a teen, I was so traumatized that just in driving away, the lights from the cars behind me freaked me out, due to how they seemed like shark eyes coming for my car. Next, I had to tend to a neighbor's swimming pool, situated in a darkened back yard. After fetching a bottle of chlorine, I was actually petrified to go near the water. Crazy, but understandable after watching such a powerful Spielberg movie...

[@nEthing4Her]

I saw this in a small-town theater in 1975. I was fourteen lol. Scared the HELL outta us all. That jump scare with Ben's head had some people fleeing the theater. I had already read the book by the time I saw it but that was an added fright. Pretty much everyone's soda and popcorn went everywhere, lol. Fun fact, the reporter at 18:06 is a cameo by Peter Benchey - the novel's author.

[@holddowna]

Omg I woulda hated being on clean up duty!!

[@randallbollinger9625]

I watched Jaws when I was 10 years old in 1978. I haven’t been past shin deep in the ocean since. I don’t even like swimming in fresh water if I can’t see the bottom. We all watch Jaws reactions for the Ben Gardner jump scare 🤣

[@bertelliott1456]

Great reaction Ames! There's a funny story in one of the documentaries about the making of Jaws. During filming the first scene with the girl swimming, Spielberg had the idea to have her start reciting the Lord's prayer while holding onto the buoy. There were about 15 Catholics in the crew and camera operators and none of them could remember the Lord's prayer correctly.

[@StayFractalesque]

Posers gonna pose..

[@tiarnanquinn5403]

I had to Google it to be sure but the 'lords prayer' just the 'our father'. And other then the last line as soon as I said the first line the rest poured out the way only music can indoctrinate.

[@Armyaunt73]

This was filmed about an hour from my house in Martha's Vineyard. The water was so cold that the mechanical shark kept breaking, so that's why they used the fin & came up with the iconic music to make up for not seeing the whole shark. This was the 1st "Blockbuster" & they just hoped the fin/music would work. It's my favorite movie

[@mattiasandersson8693]

Wasn’t the mechanichal issues due to them testing it in fresh water, and not in salt water where the filming took place?

[@Ryan_Christopher]

@@mattiasandersson8693That puppet was gonna break no matter what kind of water they tested it in. No good large animatronics until Jurassic Park came-out.

[@spudanky]

Less of a jump scare movie, more of a consistent psychological mind screw.

[@joehoy9242]

But Spielberg being Spielberg, he throws one of the most effective jumpscares in cinematic history smack-bang in the middle just for shits and giggles...

[@mattdarcy6975]

I grew up in Miami, Florida and was 10 years old when I saw this movie at a Sunday afternoon matinee. Up to that point, I had been a beach urchin and totally unafraid of anything in the water. After that Sunday, I didn’t go back in the water for 11 years. When I finally did I was snorkeling off a cay in the Caribbean when a 6 foot white tip came cruising along to have a look at me. I left the water and haven’t been back since. 😊

[@paulcollinsyoga]

This didnt just have a huge pop-culture influence in terms of moviemaking, it also spawned an entire generation of kids who were literally scared shitless at the mere thought of sharks, like myself. I was 8 in 1977 when a friend invited me with his family to watch this. To this day I wish my parents had said no to that idea. I could not look at water, lakes, rivers, pools, you name it, without thinking about sharks for years afterwards. I thought it was just me but in the intervening years I have come to realise the impact that movie had on my generation. The author of the book later regretted writing it due to the harm it caused sharks. This was supposed to be about a ROGUE shark, not EVERY shark. I finally confronted my fear of sharks off the coast of Hermanus, South Africa when I went down in a cage with great whites. Beautiful and terrifying creatures. Great movie. Great reaction. To me the character development is what makes the film. Quint, Hooper and Brody have one of the great buddy character arcs in cinema.

[@holddowna]

Awww man! Woulda been so scary!!I love these guys!

[@randallsanchez3161]

I was terrified that Jaws would come out of the deep end of the pool and get me when I was a kid. Much later I became a scuba diver to help overcome that fear. And yet even today 40+years later, if my friends want to screw with me they would sing the Jaws theme as I was getting ready for a dive and watch me be paranoid in the water.

[@davidgibson9405]

I also thought that a shark would magically appear in our pool to get me! I also had a wariness of my bathtub.@@randallsanchez3161

[@jwsel]

Nice to see my parents weren’t the only ones whose judgment lapsed when it came to Jaws. Mine took me to see it when I was five.

[@buzbom1]

25:32 I had the honor of meeting 11 of those survivors in 2004 at an Indiana air show. They were having a meet n greet raising awareness to the memorial in the city and a book they had out. A great bunch of older tough dudes shaking hands and taking pics with everyone. Watching this scene means so much more since I met those guys, and the similar stories they were telling that day. To this day Richard Dreyfuss still tears up talking about the great time he had and the friendship he had with the late Robert Shaw. Shaw was around 47-48 in this scene, he died 3 years later at just 51.

[@nathancline4000]

Crazy when you think about the lives of that generation. raised in the Great Depression, sent off to war at around 18, and those that survived have lived through some of the fastest evolving human nature in history.

[@noone1704]

This movie still looks good today and man that epic jumpscare 😂! Great reaction!

[@johnmcclean343]

Midnight swimmer gal just passed away this week....she will be framed in this scene in movie history. Your channel is the BEST ! LOVE YOUR COMMENTARY

[@user-EricWatson55]

This film put the fear of sharks into almost everybody back in the '70s.

[@ronjones-6977]

Good! We dove for abalone off Tamales Point, CA back then and great whites were not uncommon. We felt it was fair for EVERYONE to enjoy them.

[@tomw324]

Love how Quint and Hooper start out as antagonists on the boat but then come to respect each other because of their shared knowledge of seamanship and sharks. The Chief ends up being the outsider landlubber. But then he is the guy who kills the shark in the end. He might not be a seaman but he's a pretty good shoot with an M1 Garand.

[@kenkonwick6660]

As a point of interest, the Quint monolog is 95% true. Actually happened

[@PJ818]

There's some debate over how many men were killed by sharks vs. exposure and drowning, but absolutely true.

[@kenkonwick6660]

@PJ818 true, but many exposure victims were taken by sharks after they passed

[@ElizStewart80]

As far as I know the only definitive inaccuracy is the date (vessel went down on July 30th, rescue was August 2nd).

[@mjmullady]

I honestly have watched this movie over 30 times and it never gets old. The cinematography is perfect and the music and performances are so so good. Just a perfect movie for me

[@jasongreathouse6661]

Definitely Spielberg’s best it launched his career and started the blockbuster. I love your videos very much.

[@arraymac227]

That head coming out of the boat was the biggest jump scare back in the original run.

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

On the opening 4th of July scene is a reporter. That character was portrayed by Peter Benchley. He wrote the book, "Jaws" and he also worked on the screenplay for the film. Great reaction, as always. Be safe..

[@holddowna]

Thanks for watching!!!!!

[@stevehutnikoff5964]

He also actually worked in TV news as a writer in NYC.

[@English_MoFo]

Oh shit she actually replied to someone 😂

[@OverlandOne]

I saw this in the theatre right before I took a trip to Bermuda. Walking out into the ocean at low tide at night, with a pretty girl I met there, turned scary when a fog rolled in from nowhere. She got scared because she did not know which way the beach was, and, she reminded me that most shark attacks happen in 3 ft. of water. (She had seen the movie too.) We were in 3 feet of water. She began yelling. I told her to be quiet and then i heard faint music coming from off to my right. I assumed this was from a party in a beach house and held her hand and dragged her toward the music. We found the beach 10 minutes later and all was well, but I blamed this movie for making us scared. It is an awesome film. The book is better in some ways, written by Peter Benchley, who also wrote The Deep which was also made into an excellent film.

[@bighuge1060]

I had a feeling your resistance to jumps scares would be tested by Ben Gardner's head popping out of the hull. It's one of the best timed jump scares in cinema history. You can't even prepare for it by listening to the score beforehand because it happens a fraction of a second before the start of the new measure.

[@holddowna]

It’s crazy! It’s absolute brilliance

[@bighuge1060]

@@holddowna It truly is. I saw this in a New Jersey shore cinema when it opened while the family was on vacation. I finished the paperback on the way down to Bayville, NJ. In the book, the first victim's body is described in horrific detail (even the revelation of it) so when the movie presented a tamed down version of the scene, I relaxed. I was entirely off guard when the head popped out especially since only the boat was discovered in the novel. You can only imagine the experience of having an entire movie theatre jump during that scene. The next day the whole family was swimming and crabbing in the bay.

[@JediMindTrix420]

@@bighuge1060 it's wild how much different the book is compared to the movie.I prefer the movie but the book felt like a new story to be uncovered in the Jaws universe.I'm about to read One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Just to see how much it contrast's to the movie.

[@BigIronEnjoyer]

I first saw this movie when I was 3 years old. I couldn't stand watching other horror movies until I was a teenager, but Jaws... Jaws had the opposite effect on me as what everyone talks about, it made me love sharks. Been my favorite animal ever since. That's nothing though. When Brody is looking at the pictures in the book of shark attack victims, one of those is of Rodney Fox. In 1963 Fox was participating in a spear fishing competition when he was attacked and dang near bitten in half by a Great White. By some miracle he lived, and afterward he dove into studying the creatures. He invented the shark cage we see Hooper use, pioneered underwater filming of sharks, studied them, became one of the world's foremost experts on them, and also one of the leading voices for their conservation.

[@firstelderd]

Quint was always my favourite character, and he has the best lines. Both of his monologues are the best

[@holddowna]

He’s amazing

[@Tigermania]

The kid who had the "He made me do it!" also had a great line.

[@marcmainville7873]

The "he made me do it" kid actually went on to become the police chief on Martha's Vineyard.

[@zedwpd]

see him in "The Entertainer" @@holddowna

[@davidanderson1639]

There’s an urban legend that during the filming of the opening sequence the actress broke her ribs due to the stage hands pulling on the harness she was attached to. Several years back, I got to meet Susan Backlinie who played Chrissie Watkins & I asked her if this was true. She said that due to her training as a stunt person, she was able to position herself in order to prevent injury & had heard the urban legend. Anyway, during our brief conversation, she confirmed that she didn’t get injured during filming. Fun Fact: the actor who played Alex Kitner (Jeff Voorhees) lives on Martha’s Vineyard & owns a restaurant. Back in 1999, Lee Ferro who played his screen mother in Jaws visited the restaurant purely by chance & noticed that there was an ‘Alex Kitner Sandwich’ listed in the menu. Ferro then told the staff that the sandwich was named after her son in Jaws….only for the manager, Voorhees , to come out & see her for the first time since they had filmed Jaws. Also, the scene in the pond where the man looses a leg was originally much more violent. The POV shot as the camera passes Micheal, originally had the man in the sharks mouth, he then grabbed Michael whilst blood came out of his mouth. It’s worth noting that the hand / arm covered in crabs is actually that of Spielberg’s assistant; she was partially buried for the shot.

[@hbron112]

A wonderful reaction! :08 Hard to jump scare 16:45 OMG!!! saw this movie opening week at the Cinerama Dome. The "face" jump scare stopped the screaming audience's collective heart! I experienced the collective terror of the ocean for many summers after that!

[@holddowna]

That woulda been UNBELIEVABLE! There was spooky stuff happening in my house so it added to the spooks! My most memorable moment was MI:1 with Tom Cruise in theatres when he was hanging trying to get the Knox list and not drip the sweat on the floor! This thou, would been such a great moment!

[@sdboutet]

This was the first PG movie I saw in the theaters back in '75 as a 14 year old (without my parents or other adults). My cousin and I went, and we were scared $#itless. Had trouble swimming in our pool at night after seeing it! But I saw it three times. It was held over in our theater for 15 weeks and it consistently continued to draw huge crowds in our 600 seat, single screen theater, throughout the run.

[@cropdustcaptain3059]

Hi Ames, nice to see you do my favourite film after your epic Band of Brothers reactions. It was nice to see you again. 1. Congrats on calling the manner of the shark's death so early! 2. The dog is actually Pippet, and I refuse to believe he's dead 3. Knocking on doors is, in fact, scary. lol Have a good weekend!

[@timlois]

Awe, I thought the dog's name was Tippet too. Which as a fly fisherman, I always thought was the coolest name.

[@caseymoe816]

Always thought the dog’s name was Pippin, because of the popular Broadway musical that was big in the early ‘70s. Guess I was wrong. Also “Pipit” makes a return to film in The Meg movies-albeit as a Yorkie, but a hilarious homage to Jaws. And his name in The Meg is actually Pippin. So there.

[@RocketToTheMoose]

I assumed it was Pippin, as in the Lord of the Rings character. @@caseymoe816

[@johnsmith-es7zk]

It always made me laugh that this film made people scared of sharks but they hated seeing the dog die. The truth is that dogs kill many times more people than sharks do. In fact dogs are the third highest killers of humans worldwide which is way above sharks.

[@bitcrafter]

The music was the beauty of this movie. Outside of some incredible cinematic shots, like the zoom in on Brodie sitting on the beach, the shark was not cooperative during filming. Named Bruce, he would break down constantly so Steven had a ton of shots he couldn't use. How do you make a shark movie and not show the shark? That was the problem, which they solved creatively by using the music to build tension, and the absence of the shark but you know it's there, made it that much more terrifying.

[@JangTheKim]

One of the best jump scares in all of cinema. Such a fantastic movie. But I’m sure it was worse because of the knock and ghost for you lol. 😊

[@bobsebring2819]

IMO It's the scariest movie ever made for the fact that a huge shark is a real possibility. It's about the fear of the unknown. It's not about it being scary for the shock value, rather it's about being haunted. The movie really makes you think. People were really scared when the movie first came out. Beach attendance had dropped. The movie had preyed upon the imagination of the public. Jaws was a phenomenon till Star Wars debut three years later.

[@ussfirefighter]

Of all of the movie reaction videos out there, yours are, by far, the best. Your reactions are so genuine and your post movie analysis is spot on. Please keep doing what you're doing!

[@j.j.h.atemycereal]

I think this is a perfect movie. Everything just works; the script, the score, the acting. Yes, Robert Shaw is incredible, but shout out to Roy Scheider. You can see on his face, he just wants to keep people safe and EVERYONE (the mayor, the town council, the crazy towns folk) seem to just make his job harder. Then they throw a SHARK on top of it al! Lorraine Gary is also the best 70s mom!

[@regould221]

The scene with the chief and his young son wasn't scripted. They were sitting around between scenes and the little kid just started making the faces. So Spielberg rolled camera on it and used in in the film.

[@asterix7842]

It's my favorite scene of the movie. Early in his career, Spielberg was known for giving his actors wide latitude to improvise. The famous line "You're going to need a bigger boat" was ad-libbed.

[@regould221]

@asterix7842 the line was ad-libbed but he didn't create the line. The film crew had been saying it to Speilberg when they were trying to get all the film gear onto the camera boat.

[@asterix7842]

@@regould221 Interesting.

[@ange1098]

Saw this as a 9 year old back in 1975 in a packed theatre over here in 🇬🇧 how lucky I was .

[@RCanadian]

I was 14 yo when I saw this in the theatre.

[@skyhawksailor8736]

Most Americans had no clue about the USS Indianapolis until this movie. Quint's Monologue made a lot of people find out the truth about the USS Indianapolis, one of the saddest events in US Navy history.

[@holddowna]

I had no idea!

[@Stogie2112]

Today, even more people know nothing about the Indianapolis. The farther in time we move away from WWII, the less people know about those events.

[@skyhawksailor8736]

@@holddowna I loved your reactions, especially the door knock. The head floating in the hole, my wife, a US Marine let out such a scream and jump when we were watching it with our children.

[@elkhunter6746]

I remember watching this movie in the theater when I was 8 years old. I still love it.

[@dbrockway84]

So David Webster(Band of Brothers )wrote a novel about sharks years before Peter Benchly wrote Jaws. No one would publish it until after Jaws was released. It was released posthumously.

[@tehawesomeface1337]

That is sad. I wished they could have mentioned that in the ending of Band of Brothers in the telling of David Webster’s fate.

[@dbrockway84]

@@tehawesomeface1337 it may be in one of the books

[@lyndoncmp5751]

I have that book in my collection.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

It's not a novel though. It's information on sharks. He was quite knowledgeable, for the times.

[@motherlode4073]

I am glad that you have not been spoiled by modern CGI special effects - by which I mean you are able to stay 'inside' the film and not let the clunkiness of the shark special effect snap you out. Incidentally, at the time it was considered an astonishing achievement, but more impressively still Steven Spielberg decided that the special effects, advanced as they were, were not good enough to rely upon and so he serendipitously decided to exploit things like the shark's POV, scene set ups, and of course the music, to build the tension before releasing it with the simple shots of people splashing about in red-dyed water or being pulled by underwater harnesses. That is why we still watch it.

[@USCFlash]

"Amity" as you know, means friendship!!!! So hop on in the water!!!!!

[@CigarMick]

I was 8 years old when this movie hit the theaters. I saw it when I was 10. I remember seeing it and it scared the living shit out of me. It scared me so bad I could not sleep with covers on my bed because having covers on me made me think I was in the water and I would have nightmares. I eventually got over it and as I grew I learned to respect the predators in the sea and on land instead of outright fear them.

[@richardlicht7927]

It was funny when you said at the beginning about your ability to not react to jump scares. We all knew that head was gonna get you.

[@christopherhamlet734]

There again, the great John Williams comes through is the best character of the movie with his wonderful music🎼💫❣️

[@ejtappan1802]

I was 13 when this came out. My friends and I stood in line for a couple of hours on opening night. I had already read the book, so I thought I was ready for the movie... HAH! No. Not at all, lol.

[@GlassJAw413]

You were right on the basic concept for the barrels being attached to the sharks. Large fish and sharks need to move constantly to be able to get enough water through their gills to breathe, so if you were to slow the shark down enough it would end up suffocating.

[@zmarko]

My mom was watching this on tv around 1980 (or so), and 8 year old me wanted to watch it. She said no, but i insisted (as all 8 year olds do). It scared the ever-loving shit out of me. 🤣

[@StayFractalesque]

Funny how the film is about beaches being shut down in vacation season.. ..this film did more damage to the ocean vacation industry than the films world even comes close..

[@astronomyguru9562]

I saw this movie a couple of months before our family took a vacation in Florida, and I refused to go into the Atlantic Ocean. All because of this movie. I swear I could hear John Williams‘s music just standing on the beach looking out into the water

[@andrewsawyer1375]

This movie doesn't get old. Quint's monolog just kills you. Hard to believe he was drunk doing that scene. All pretty much a true story.

[@holddowna]

Wow!!

[@bighuge1060]

Just to expand on that a little, there were also takes where he redid it sober and supposedly you could tell which is which in the scene by looking at the condition of his eyes in each shot. If I remember the story correctly, after he did it drunk, he had asked how bad it was so even inebriated, he could sense he was off a bit of the time.

[@andrewsawyer1375]

@@bighuge1060 they also had to carry him

[@bighuge1060]

@@andrewsawyer1375 Wow, that I didn't know. I think his words the next day were, "How much of a fool did I make of myself" or words to that effect. The one drunk performance that, if done sober, was masterful was Barry Fitzgerald in The Quiet Man. I hope I can see a performance of the play Shaw's son wrote about the making of that movie.

[@alaska_uk1303]

Always cracks me up how most reactors to this film are ok with a few people getting eaten but "NOT THE DOOOOGGGG"

[@dolnick7]

What gets me is how fresh this movie still seems. Of course Quint's monologue rates as one of the greatest scenes in all of cinema. And I love the scene where Roy Scheider's character is saying goodbye to he wife on the doc. It's all about their love and concern for each other but their dialogue is about something else entirely. A great lesson for all writers.

[@holddowna]

So many great aspects of this film! Thanks for watching!

[@nathanruggles]

Ames: "Tippet! I'll never forgive you, Steven!" None of us do, Ames. Nevertheless, we all still love this movie.

[@solitaryjeff]

the iconic scene where they're on the boat talking about scars (the USS Indianapolis) and you see a shooting star in the background, the shooting star was real, no CGI in the 70's.

[@b3rger825]

Great reaction! I used to love Jaws as a horror/thriller, but I've come to appreciate the deeper layers of the film. Chief Brody's character is fantastic. His humanity juxtaposed to the Mayor's cold business mind. The way he faces his fear of water and sharks to hunt the shark as a sort of redemption for not closing the beach. There's a great moment where Hooper and Quint are comparing battles scars, and Brody starts to lift up his shirt as if he's going to enter the contest, but then he stops himself. It hints at some past trauma that triggers his fear of the ocean, but also shows his character: he's not there for bravado, he's there for redemption.

[@AnimeAftermath]

TRUE STORY: My dad was a teenager when this movie first came out. He told me a couple of funny stories: 1. Just as the man's head came out of the boat, he was taking a drink of Coca-Cola. It scared him so badly he ended up dumping the whole cup of Coke over his head, drenching himself. 2. He also said that when the shark exploded at the end the crowd went INSANE. People were cheering, throwing popcorn up in the air, jumping up and down like their team had just won the Super Bowl. All these years later, this movie STILL has that power. What a masterpiece.

[@PoopFrogg1]

30:10 most disturbing death in any movie for me that…genius choice of no music and being so up close and personal with the moment. We’ve seen Quint be the “Tough Guy” up to this point of the movie so to see him screaming like that hits hard

[@leonel8831]

Robert Shaw's monologue is a masterpiece!

[@Enthymene]

16:44 this was the moment I was waiting for as soon as you said you weren't prone to jumpscares, because this is one of the most technically proficient jumpscares I've ever seen. It's a concerted effort of the lighting, the framing of the shot, the momentary distraction of Hooper catching the falling tooth, and MOST importantly the orchestra sting from John Williams, which comes not when the head appears, but when you REALIZE you're looking at a severed head. My partner and I refer to Spielberg, Cameron and others as "technicians" because they're capable of doing this kind of thing well, whatever else their films may lack.

[@jackmessick2869]

Best jump scare ever. And Quint's introduction is best entrance ever. And John Williams is a genius. This is also the original "Summer Blockbuster."

[@danielreid3476]

Easily one of my top ten favorite movies of all time! I never get tired of watching it!

[@chameleonvr4]

Hey Gorgeous! Shout out from the U. S Marine Corps! 16:44 Don't worry this scene gets everyone! Yeah this movie is truly a masterpiece and definitely belongs in the top 100. Did you know the original shark sank to the bottom of the ocean a few times? They made another one! Also, that's a true story of the USS Indianapolis. But in the movie he says June 29th it happened. But the history books has it written on a different day. USS Indianapolis, U.S. Navy heavy cruiser that was sunk by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945. Anyways, love your reactions. Keep them up! ❤🤍💙💛

[@encrypter46]

Don't miss "The Bad Seed" , the original from 1956. No one is reacting to it. I doubt that anyone who's seen it has ever forgotten it.

[@bfdidc6604]

All three of the main characters in this film are in other good movies: Roy Scheider (The French Connection, Sorcerer, Marathon Man, Naked Lunch, 2010), Richard Dreyfuss (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Moon Over Parador, Tin Men), and Robert Shaw (The Sting, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, From Russia With Love).

[@holddowna]

I MUST WATCH THESE!

[@marwood1969]

One of the very best movies ever made. It's truly a masterclass in acting and storytelling. The direction, the acting, the pacing, the music; all just brilliant. No other movie in history had as much real world impact as this did. I almost never went in the sea as a kid because of this and millions of other people were the same. What's even more amazing is that it was partly because it was so difficult to make that it came out the way it did. Spielberg famously had to keep changing the storyboard as he went because the shark kept breaking down.

[@izzonj]

So much of the tension in the movie is created by the music and the anticipation it creates. I had already seen this when my family was vacationing on Cape Cod. There was a drive in showing Jaws across the road from our motel. One night, my brother and I climbed a sand dune and watched the movie from over the fences. Without any sound, it was like watching a pretty boring undersea documentary, but we could hear the screams coming from the cars, lol

[@revjohnlee]

I saw this one in the theater on it's opening day in San Antonio. My family was heading to the beach for 2 weeks the next day. Uncle Gerald said it was a bad idea. He was right!

[@klat2baraada579]

Re: 'The Indianapolis' story. One of my favorite movie scenes ever. When I was in the theater back in 1975, I can tell you there wasn't a peep among the crowd when Quint (Robbert Shaw) was telling the story. You could have heard a pin drop. . I'm a history buff; particularly WWII, and I can tell you Quint is wrong about one thing: No distress call was ever sent by The Indianapolis, not because the mission was so secret, but because the torpedo took out the ship's electrical system, so there was no power for the radio. While the ship did deliver the Hiroshima bomb, and that mission was 'super-duper-ultra-top-secret', the ship's crew had no idea what they delivered to Tinian Island; only that it was something "top secret". AND, they were done with that mission and were on to their next assignment. They would have had no information to give the Japanese if they had been captured. However, telling the story the way he did makes the whole thing sound all the more menacing.

[@geraldherrmann787]

Actually, the most dangerous situation in reality is when Brody and Hooper swim right into the dead carcass pieces in the very last minute of the movie, lol.

[@boqndimitrov8693]

the opening scene will never lose its power. 🦈🦈🦈

[@holddowna]

It’s so good

[@asterix7842]

Great reaction to a great movie. This is the movie that made people afraid to go in the water. I wouldn't be too worried about them, though. About 100 people per year are killed by sharks worldwide, but about 100 million sharks are killed each year by humans, so I think sharks have more to fear from us than we do from them. The mechanical sharks they used for filming (nicknamed Bruce, after Spielberg's lawyer) kept malfunctioning in the water. That's why you don't really see them for the first half of the movie, cementing Spielberg's reputation as a master of suspense. The shark that "ate" Quint had jaws and teeth made of foam rubber, to not hurt the actor. The famous line, "You're going to need a bigger boat", was ad-libbed. Early in his career, Spielberg was known for encouraging his actors to improvise. Richard Dreyfuss (Hooper) was recommended to Spielberg by Spielberg's friend George Lucas who had worked with him on American Graffiti. He initially turned down the role but eventually agreed to do it. He later had nothing but praise for Spielberg, who was still relatively unknown at the time. Another great Spielberg movie with Dreyfuss is Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). If you liked Robert Shaw (Quint), he's in The Sting (1973), with Robert Redford and Paul Newman.

[@dunringill1747]

Nice reaction. The Ben Gardner sunken boat jump scare scene was even more effective at theaters back in 1975.

[@davidcastillo6777]

I was almost 9 when this came out, I lived 25 minutes from the Texas Gulf Coast, we went to the beach and no one and I mean no one was swimming. Great show.

[@cable54-guy15]

That scene when they’re leaving to hunt the shark from Quint’s. Seeing the boat going out to sea through the shark jaws hanging in the window is such a great shot!

[@TTM9691]

That was a very fun reaction to Jaws! I even learned stuff.....from major organs being nutrient-rich ...... to the idea that perhaps I felt carsick because I had so many concussions as a kid! (thanks for that! lol) Super excited for you to see the movie Spielberg followed up "Jaws" with: "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind", my favorite of all his films, by far. (also my favorite score from John Williams). happy new year, Ames!!! And thanks!!!!

[@shooter7a]

The greatest "movie" ever made. Just perfection.

[@mikes3827]

Ames, I had the privilege of being an 8-year-old who went in my neighbor's station wagon to the now-defunct outdoor drive-in movie theater in rural Cornish, Maine, to see my first drive-in movie: Jaws. Saw it in the summer of 75, and while I didn't have nightmares afterward, I also didn't go into the deeper ocean until I was well into my teens. Scared the shit outta me, but I'll forever be grateful to see one of the greatest, most iconic movies of all-time as my first-ever drive-in experience. :)