JAWS (1975) Movie Reaction! | First Time Watching This Classic Masterpiece! | Review & Discussion

[@coldflamebluedragon196]

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

[@fettel1988]

And one of the best deliveries in cinema.

[@Vektorix28205]

It is an accurate story, but Robert Shaw got the date wrong. Indianapolis went down at the end of June 1945, not July.

[@KentuckyBrad]

@@Vektorix28205 went down on July 30th, 1945 my friend

[@darthroden]

@@Vektorix28205 Also the number of dead is accurate, more or less, as is the survivors: 316 out of a crew of close to 1,200 men. About 300 of them had been killed by the Japanese torpedoes and sinking itself, and those in the water died from a combination of exposure and from the shark attacks.

[@theawesomeman9821]

​@@Vektorix28205Shaw's a sailor not a historian, so I am willing to overlook his error.

[@nubbin0036]

Just a hell of a movie. The cast is fantastic, especially Robert Shaw as Quint. His monologue about the USS Indianapolis gets me every time.

[@rnw2739]

A superb English actor!

[@GraciasKike]

Facts

[@TheAdventurer1]

Gets mattere too. One of the greatest monologues ever put on film.

[@macross25]

"You're gonna need a bigger boat" was adlibbed by Roy Scheider and left in by Spielberg as it was a perfect fit for the scene.

[@Charles_Gaba]

Quint’s Indianapolis story is accurate and is considered one of the greatest monologues in film history. And don’t feel bad about freaking out over the head popping out-that gets EVERYONE every time even 48 years later.

[@GK-yi4xv]

Shaw was a notorious heavy drinker, and his first attempt at the monologue was done drunk, and he botched it so badly, Spielberg was going to remove the scene from the movie (!) Shaw sobered up, apologized, and asked for a second shot at it. 'And the rest is cinema history'. I do believe they spliced in some of the original 'drunk take', though. I think you can see when he suddenly turns emotional (then suddenly turns back to calm and cool). As for the Indianapolis, I believe it's become fashionable for historians to try to pick apart the original account ("Most probably died of exposure, and/or thirst, not sharks, and their bodies may have been eaten by sharks later")

[@jamesrowles9249]

Yeah, that damn head got us all, lol.

[@Charles_Gaba]

@@GK-yi4xv Yeah, I’ve heard that as well. And the picking apart is stupid-not only does it completely miss the point, it also wouldn’t have made sense for Quint to know every detail about how each sailor died. He was one of those trapped in the ocean, for heaven’s sake-he could hardly have been expected to know whether every single crewmate died of exposure vs being killed by a shark!

[@johnioannou7578]

Spielberg actually couldn't create a good script regarding that scene so he asked his friend John Milius (director of Conan the Barbarian) if he could come up with a good monologue for Quint's story. Milius actually wrote pages and pages for the monologue, but due to it's size it was decided to be trimmed down to what we saw in the movie.

[@blue__eyed__robot]

@@GK-yi4xv Mostly true.. I believe the scene within the movie is actually a cut-up of both takes.

[@robertcartwright4374]

I saw this as a teenager when it came out. On the walk home my friends and I were so keyed up, it was as if a giant shark might lunge at us from every dark alley we crossed!

[@ripley312]

It still blows my mind that Spielberg was only 26 when he directed this masterpiece.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Age 26 in 1974 was age 40 today.

[@rickymoranjr9609]

@ripley312 agreed, plus I'm glad they haven't made a reboot for this flawless masterpiece. they would've ruined it

[@jcp1984again]

@@rickymoranjr9609 , sure but then again, a ton of shark movie shlock has been made instead.

[@johnmason9655]

The greatest ad lib in history about a bigger boat by Roy Scheider.🦈

[@steveclapper5424]

It would be impossible to overstate the impact this movie had.

[@jonniiinferno9098]

and still has...

[@joes6527]

Just as an "FYI", in 1975, when the movie was made, Shaw was asking for $10,000 (American Dollars). Today (August 1, 2023) that would be $56,711.71. And the way Shaw told about the USS Indianapolis was incredible. Fantastic acting!

[@joescott8877]

"He's obsessed with getting a bigger boat." "I don't blame him. Get a yacht!" LOL!

[@shainewhite2781]

Nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture but won for: Best Original Score Best Sound Editing Best Film Editing. It was a box office and critical success making $470 million dollars ($1.2 billion dollars today) against an $11 million dollar budget. Based on the novel of the same name. The tagline reads "The No.1 terrifying bestseller is now the No.1 terrifying motion picture."

[@trhansen3244]

Should have won best picture.

[@karimhicks8376]

That iconic JAWS score won an academy award!

[@HackWilson14]

This movie is arguably my favorite of all time. It can never be replicated due to the use of special effects in modern times. The shark scenes and the water scenes look so real here because they actually filmed in real water and built an animatronic shark while also mixing in footage of real sharks. Now a days, we get special effects and green screens which are always so obviously fake that it takes me out of the film and makes it seem fake. When filmmakers actually film on the ocean with real background ocean noise and real wind, then it feels real and thrilling. You just can’t replicate this stuff with special effects. The best way to use special effects is to mix it in with real stuff.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Yeah, I can't stand seeing fake CGI skies, water and even fire now. It's lazy.

[@bretturner3178]

How many shark movies have there been since? How many even have a chance of being as good?

[@AustinFoss00]

Hearing this girl say Tiger sharks "Don't even eat humans" is kinda morbidly funny considering a video has been trending for 3 days now of a Russian tourist in Egypt being eaten by a Tiger Shark

[@victorfatalys1076]

True, the only sharks that don't eat humans are the Baking Shark, the Whale Shark and the Megamouth Shark; only eat plankton, every single other shark will eat humans when hungry, or "play" with them out of curiosity (usually by biting them...)

[@johnyd1911]

Him calling for his Papa broke my heart... 💔

[@Vfr_]

​@@johnyd1911 with stand by me playing in the background...nightmare til the end

[@DoktorStrangelove]

Saw this at age five in either late ‘75 or early ’76. My dad told my mom, “He’ll be OK.” I was _not_ OK. Dad had to take me to the back of the theater after Hooper went into the water. After the Chief shot the scuba tank and it blew up, he told me to look and see that it was over. I was still a tad worked up.

[@daustin8888]

This movie truly was lightning in a bottle. Can't be replicated or surpassed

[@trhansen3244]

I am hoping they will at least try to remake it but this time with a diverse cast that reflects all the people in the world, all genders and all religions.

[@daustin8888]

@trhansen3244 Even if that method did have a good box office track record, it wouldn't matter. Because Jaws is a movie that can be remade.

[@deathmetal271]

*’t

[@DLB-Paranormal]

@@trhansen3244 But why? It wasn't discriminatory. It was based on a novel and surpassed that in so many ways. It never has to be remade and never should be.

[@DLB-Paranormal]

JAWS is pretty much my favourite film of all time, but I'm still very fond of JAWS 2, as it's the only sequel to the original that's worth a damn.

[@roguechevelle]

I think it holds up because they didn't show the shark too much (do to mechanical issues) so they used other ways to build tension and they had good characters with great moments like you said even taking time to show the moment with the chief with his youngest son. I also liked the moment where his wife was thinking that their boy in the boat was okay then seeing the illustration of the shark destroying a boat starts yelling for him to get out, it feels realistic and a human response. And Quint's monologe is so good, it's also terrifying.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

The shark was kept hidden by design for the first half of the film though. They never intended to use the mechanical shark for the beach attacks. Couldn't in just waist to shoulder deep water anyway. Spielberg was already a suspense director. Watch Duel and Something Evil. Far more of the shark was supposed to be used for the Orca set scenes yes, and it wouldn't work for ages but not for those early scenes. The documentaries cause confusion on this point but the fact is the first scheduled use of the mechanical shark/s wasn't until July 1974, after the beach scenes were already filmed in May and June. The sharks then didn't work properly until September.

[@roquefortfiles]

It holds up because it was a well written script. The decision to only reveal the shark in the third act had nothing to do with it not working. It was in the shooting script. The barrels were not used to substitute for the shark not working. The barrels were used to heighten the suspense. They were in the novel already. Every single planned for shot of the shark was filmed.

[@davidhutchinson5233]

I was just a kid in Ocean City MD in 1975 with my family. EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY was staying out of the ocean that summer it played in the movies.

[@firstpartygamer]

I love Achara's hand gesture when she is scared

[@lukebarber9511]

One of the strangest conversations I ever had in my life was about the film Jaws; I went to Germany as an exchange student, and one evening the students I was sharing a house with started talking about our favorite films. When I mentioned Jaws as one of my favorite films, at one point in the conversation I was talking about the film in German, but then switched over to English to do an impression of Quint's Indianapolis speech, and then switched back to German. Afterwards, there was a kind of stunned silence, and then one of the students asked me "What have you been drinking?"...

[@krishnamurtiism]

Love people’s reactions to this classic film. Loved Robert Shaw’s performance, an underrated actor and very good novelist. I met his son in London and got him to sign one of his dads books.

[@kevinehle6637]

I saw this in the theater when I was 11 years old. My friend's dad invited me to go to the movies with them. I had no idea what Jaws was, so I was shocked by it. I do remember thinking that I live in Wisconsin. I don't have to worry about getting eaten..

[@edgarcia4794]

Jaws being the first of the giant shark movies took a lot of people by surprise that Great whites regularly grew to 17 feet in length so a 25 foot one could easily be believed. At the time my dad co-owned a fishing Trawler out of Oceanside Ca. and people would pay me to take them out to see if they could spot a large Great White. The biggest I ever coaxed to the surface was 17 feet long.

[@Dystopia1111]

In 1937 a local fisherman hauled in a 20-foot great white just offshore from Longboat Key, Florida (Manatee County, just south of Tampa- St. Petersburg). Kinda glad I didn't learn about this until years later, I was on those beaches all the time as a kid.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Back then it was widely thought great white sharks could grow to over 30ft, so 25ft was not thought to be the record size. 20 footers plus were seldom even questioned. Now we know different and 25ft must be around the absolute maximum.

[@edgarcia4794]

@@lyndoncmp5751 When you read what was thought true. For about 90 % of my tours people only thoughts of sharks were from Flipper. Sea Hunt. and James Bond Thunderball so they were all really hoping to see a 25 or 30 foot Great White like you mention.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@@edgarcia4794 Even a 17 footer must have an amazing thrill for your tour group. That's still as long as my living room. I've only seen a replica of that size. In Streaky Bay, South Australia when I backpacked around Australia in the mid 1990s. They have or had a replica of the record rod and reel great white caught by Dion Gilmore there in 1990. The shark was disqualified from the IGFA list because they discovered he used a seal or sea lion as bait and that's against the rules. Cheers.

[@SamuelBlack84]

Rookie numbers compared to a megaladon Supposedly extinct for millions of years, but for the tooth found a couple of hundred years ago dated as being only a few thousand years old

[@alejandroyava]

Actually, Tiger Sharks are known for being one of the few species of sharks that attack humans, in fact, is the second one with more attacks registred behind the Great White. Most of the attacks are non lethal, however.

[@unclemeat7310]

Bull sharks as well, except bull sharks have been known to swim miles up river into brackish water.

[@MrTech226]

There was an attack by a Tiger Shark in Egypt's Red Sea few days ago. Russian tourist was mauled to death by a Tiger Shark. Bystanders in horror recorded his death.

[@jollyrodgers7272]

Most Tiger Shark attacks are NON-lethal?! How can they tell when drownings and/or lost at sea aren't death by shark?

[@njtopcatt]

Tiger sharks ... garbage cans with fins.

[@alejandroyava]

@@jollyrodgers7272 Of all the REGISTRED Tiger shark attacks, most of them were non lethal. Wich means that most of the times that is known that a Tiger Shark attacked a human and was registered, it was non-lethal. Besides, death by sea can come in many forms rather than a shark attack. Drowning, thirst, hunger.

[@TheAerovons]

I saw an ad in the paper in St Louis, it said "SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW TONIGHT" so I went. It was JAWS, before it was released. I have never been to a film where the audience was so involved. They literally stood up and clapped when end credits began.

[@WhatOWhatO]

In a couple of hours we go from 'I feel sorry for sharks' to 'GET HIM IN THE EYEBALLS!'

[@putinscat1208]

One of John Williams well deserved awards for this one.

[@billybereu2010]

Everything John Williams did deserves an Oscar. Every score is an absolute masterpiece

[@putinscat1208]

@@billybereu2010 I disagree. John reuses scores and puts them into new ones. For example, Home Alone + Hook became Harry Potter. Jurassic Park was a very good score, but he was busy winning that year for Schindler's List.

[@apple4935]

The word “genius” is overused in Hollywood. Steven Spielberg is a genius.

[@araani8740]

The OG summer blockbuster!! I got to see a 3D rerelease of Jaws in a packed theatre a while back, so fun! I'd already seen it but there were so many people and kids who were watching it for the first time ever that were screaming at the jumpscares! Its amazing that an almost 50 year old film could resonate with people of all ages, really speaks to the quality of filmmaking.

[@80s_kid]

34:45 Practical effects will always be scarier than CGI, no matter how expensive the CGI is. CGI is great for complementing landscapes or creating moods (background, cityscapes, hellscape, alien planet, etc.) but I don't think complete characters should be made 100% with CGI. To this day, Predator, Alien Xenomorph, Chucky, the terrifying lifeless Arnold puppet head in T1, or the stop motion Terminator at the end of T1 still works for me. (I can't even imagine Gizmo from Gremlins 1-2 as CGI. A good example of this nowadays is Grogu, who was cleverly not created with CGI.)

[@itzbp9949]

I completely agree look how terrible the meg is just awful

[@briansview2886]

Simply not true. GOOD CGI is impeccable TODAY

[@lyndoncmp5751]

still me Even great CGI still has that cartoon look, particularly backgrounds.

[@briansview2886]

@@lyndoncmp5751 no such thing as GREAT CGI that looks like a cartoon. It looks real

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@@briansview2886 Yes there is. Your good/great CGI still looks like a cartoon to me. I can tell its fake, especially the skies, sea, fire, explosions etc. It never looks real.

[@alvargas5095]

Jaws is Spielberg's most popular movie. In my opinion, the greatest movie I've ever seen.

[@androyus]

Oh look, my request during Achara's birthday stream actually came true! She finally watched Jaws 😁🦈

[@grindingdeviance1864]

"Do you guys get the 10 thousand..?" EXCELLENT question! All the times watching this film I never thought about that point!

[@chasehedges6775]

Still a classic and one of Spielbergs best

[@B-a-t-m-a-n]

"I used to hate the water. I can't imagine why." I always took it as though Brody just faced the absolutely most terrifying thing in the ocean and beat it. What is there to be scared of now? Loved your reactions!

[@lee784]

I must of seen this film about a Billion times already 😂but it's still my favourite movie of all time🎉

[@johnyd1911]

Saw it again at a Theater during one of the Anniversary Shows a few years back. To watch a whole nuther generation get the shit scared out of them was priceless.... ❤️

[@jondishmonmusicandstuff2753]

OK so here's a fun fact the reason why the shark looks incredible. It's because sometimes you're looking at real sharks and then they spiced those pictures within the mechanical shark pictures so it was very well made this movie

[@Imagination-In-A-Box]

Was gonna say some of the cage scenes particularly when the shark burst through the cage was real footage and the diver really had to avoid the shark. To be clear it is cut with fake shark footage so it goes from real to fake.

[@galandirofrivendell4740]

@@Imagination-In-A-Box Actually, there was no man in the cage when the real shark attacked. The plan was to have a short man, about 4 feet tall, inside of a smaller cage so that any real sharks swimming nearby would look proportionately larger. However, before the stunt diver could enter the cage, a real shark got tangled in the empty cage. The thrashing of the shark was so thrilling that the footage was kept in the movie, and Hooper's character was allowed to survive, although he dies in the novel. A prime example of serendipity.

[@Imagination-In-A-Box]

@@galandirofrivendell4740 Ah yeah that is the story. Misremembered on my part but yes I remembered parts of it were legit footage of a shark in the cage. Appreciate the correction.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

First shots filmed for Jaws in February 1974 off Dangerous Reef, South Australia by Ron and Valerie Taylor and Rodney Fox. The Taylors were asked to go back in March to film more footage, but they were threatened by local abalone divers to not chum in the sharks. This was shortly after abalone diver Terry Manuel had been killed at Streaky Bay. The Taylors couldn't get more footage in March. They tried again in April but poor weather and no sharks scuppered that. So Spielberg had to be content with what the Taylors had filmed in the February. Source: Valerie Taylor, Great Shark Stories 1978.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@@highcountrydelatite I sorry I didn't quite understand what you meant. A mass scene? Rodney Fox was actually attacked. Three of his friends were attacked as well. I'm sure he knows a fair bit about shark attacks.

[@CasualGamerGameplay]

One time 2 years ago I'm just sitting at home bored out of my mind and randomly decide to look up the schedule of a local movie theater for that weekend and what do i see but that they're showing Jaws so me and a friend of mine who hadn't seen Jaws by then like me instantly got tickets and that weekend went to see it.......we both walked out being unable to describe just how good this movie is because that first time and on the big screen too you need a little bit of time to digest what you've just seen

[@michaelandrew4488]

Jaws had its offical US release 20th June 1975. Still holds up very well .

[@apple4935]

“It’s a good-sized boat, though…” 🤣

[@jeffdetmer4681]

Great reaction ladies. The story of the USS Indianapolis is true. The water dumped on the reel was to keep the rig from getting hot enough to burn through the line. The actress who played Mrs. Kintner (mom of the boy who was killed) many years later she was on vacation in (I think) Seattle. They stopped in a seafood place for lunch and she saw on the menu the Alex Kintner fish sandwich. She told the server that she had played Alex's Mom in the movie and the server went and told the owner. He came out to say hello to her. It was the kid who had played her son. They hadn't seen or spoken to each other since the film wrapped.

[@Packard63]

Great reaction ladies.....some of us enjoyed the initial reaction back in 1975 at the cinema. That was an experience that you never forget.

[@Achara]

I bet it was wild!

[@Packard63]

@@Achara Movie was a PG rating, i was 12 so my dad took me.

[@johnyd1911]

There wasn't massive multiplex theaters back then so they tended to be much bigger. I remember most of my neighborhood seeing it on opening night...

[@baptistekande6000]

@@Achara Hey Achara, big fan of your channel. If you ever get a chance, you and Steph should react to these 3 movies. They are great 90's classics 1. THE BODYGUARD - Starring WHITNEY HOUSTON and KEVIN COSTNER 2. JEWEL OF THE NILE - Starring MICHAEL DOUGLAS 3. LABAMBA - Based on true story [On a famous Mexican American singer cant remember the name] Have great one. Bless 🙏🙏🙏

[@dalehoward3704]

​@@baptistekande6000La Bamba--RICHIE VALENS

[@toastnjam7384]

One of the kids doing the shark prank was recently named police chief on the island where the movie was filmed.

[@stephaniemccracken1324]

The line 'you're gonna need a bigger boat ' was not scripted. Roy Scheider did that off script and it is iconic.

[@adellittle3547]

When Chief Brody says “Ya gonna need a bigger boat” yeah, I’d want a cruise ship. 😆

[@thedarkknight2221]

There are documentaries made about the making of Jaws that are JUST AS ENTERTAINING as the movie itself. From difficulties filming on the actual ocean instead of a giant water tank, to real life clashes between the actors who played Hooper and Quint, to the mechanical shark 🦈 constantly breaking down because of the saltwater. And then they nearly lost a diver to an actual Great White🦈! The scene when the shark is caught and struggling with the cage was real and completely on accident. They had a little person as the stand in for Hooper to give the shark a bigger sense of scale but the shark got tangled up and the diver had to bail out. Thankfully the diver was okay, and they managed to get it one film. It’s why they changed the script from Hooper getting eaten to surviving. But sadly the biggest impact this movie had was that it gave the misconception that all sharks are man eaters. Peter Benchley, the author of the book, said that if he knew what he knew about how sharks are actually beautiful animals that are needed for the ecosystem to thrive he would’ve changed the book. He’s now and advocate for shark conservation. Funny Fact: Steven Spielberg jokingly said that he now is afraid of sharks because he knows they got their bad reputation from Jaws so he is on their list of sworn enemies.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Sharks as man eaters didn't start with Jaws. Jaws tapped into a fear that was already there. When the mayor says "you yell shark and we've got a panic on our hands...." he's right. Sharks were already feared.

[@BillyButcher90]

Well, Peter Benchley is also to blame for sharks getting a bad rep as he himself admitted due to not knowing so much about sharks when he wrote the book

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@@BillyButcher90 Science didnt know much either. The rogue shark thing was a scientific theory at the time. Jaws actually was the thing that lead to more knowledge and understanding. It created mass interest.

[@BillyButcher90]

@@lyndoncmp5751 It actually created so much fear of the sharks to the point of it being hunting season and for more people to stay away from the beaches.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@@BillyButcher90 Sharks were already being hunted well before Jaws. The record rod and reel great white shark was caught in 1959. Quint was based on real life shark fisherman Frank Mundus in the 1960s. The grey nurse shark was nearly wiped out in the 1960s because of spear fishing, as they 'looked' like man eaters. So they were heavily targeted. The numbers of sharks killed specifically because of Jaws is exaggerated and was tiny compared to the REAL dangers that occurred due to the Asian shark finning industry, commercial gill net and long line by-catch and the beach netting programmes. It's these that are responsible for the vast majority of the declining shark populations worldwide. Not Jaws.. Beach netting has been around since the 1930s.

[@williambanks2223]

Several decades after the filming of “Jaws” (1975), Lee Fierro, who played 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 hadn’t seen each other since the original movie shoot.

[@irvxan]

The timing, after what happened in Egypt. 💀

[@muhammadnazrin3390]

Was about to type the same

[@bradlopez5154]

Went to Sharm El Sheikh a month after the December 2010 shark attacks which lead to one woman dying.

[@gmunden1]

The boy isn't an idiot. He was passed out on the beach. She was far enough in the water where no one would hear her, especially with waves crashing against the shoreline.

[@Lewis9700]

18:00 You're very insightful and 100% right. Brody's son was frozen in panic and I believe that's what saved him. Sharks respond to movement. If he tried to swim away, the Shark hunting instincts would've kicked in and he would've gone after him.

[@Muckylittleme]

Yeah very insightful Huffs "capitalism" bathing in all the comforts capitalism has given her obviously privileged life. on a for profit video, on a corporate platform. 🤡

[@AncientDragonGod]

Actually, there's a deleted scene that was filmed of the shark trying to get Sean, but the estuary man was still alive in the shark's mouth and he pushed Sean out of the way to save him kzbin.infoNr537tD9W2Q?feature=share4

[@OneEyedJack1970]

Actuually, the guy it just ate was still sticking out of the shark's mouth and he pushed him out of the way as the shark closed. That's in a deleted scene, I believe.

[@Lewis9700]

​@@Muckylittleme Give it a rest. Capitalism is only about 100x better than socialism

[@Muckylittleme]

@@Lewis9700 I suggest you reread my comment.

[@chandermotwani3493]

The practical effects are so much nicer than VFX. This film as usual is Steven Spielberg's classic 🤘🏻👌🏼🎥🎞🎬

[@RaeCharle5]

Achara & Steph’s facial expressions during this are hilarious 😂

[@spyklej4910]

FYI, Peter Benchley is the reporter on the beach, and shark cage scenes were shot off the coast of Australia, by Ron and Valerie Taylor

[@keithbenson2627]

Don’t ever go into the ocean ! It’s not our domain ! When I first moved to Ca. A Great White Shark got caught in a fishing net under the Vincent Thomas bridge in San Pedro Ca . It was hauled out and put on display !

[@dunringill1747]

You were right. Here's some trivia, including some of what you touched on: 1) "Bruce" the mechanical shark wasn't working most of the time which resulted in a more suspenseful movie. 2) After this movie, Shark hunting increased to such a level that many shark species populations still have not fully recovered. 3) Quint's USS Indianapolis story retells the most massive animal attack in history. 4) "Jaws" was the first movie to be called a Summer Blockbuster. 5) "Jaws (and later, "Gremlins") are both rated PG. They were two key movies to influence the creation of the PG13 rating.

[@Charles_Gaba]

It was actually Gremlins and Temple of Doom which led to PG13. Both came out the summer of ‘84 and parents freaked. Jaws might have been referenced during the debate as well but it had come out 9 years earlier.

[@dunringill1747]

@@Charles_Gaba I thought I heard Jaws (released June 20, 1975) was the spark of the rating controversy but the discussion didn't really go far at first. I could be wrong. You are correct the last two movies sneaking in at PG before the PG13 creation were Temple of Doom (released May 23, 1984) & Gremlins (released June 8, 1984). Yes, parents were really complaining about the rating system by this time period. Gremlins was the most definitely the last movie under controversy. The first movie to receive the PG 13 rating was Red Dawn (released August 10, 1984).

[@Charles_Gaba]

@@dunringill1747 You could be correct-it probably at least got the initial rumblings going, but it took another 9 years for the letter films to be the final straw. I think you’re correct about Red Dawn as well.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Bruce was only intended to be used for the second half of the film out at sea. Bruce needed deep water to be operated. Bruce was never scheduled to be used for the first half of the film for the beach attacks. The shark was hidden there by design. They were filmed early on. May to end June '74. First scheduled use of Bruce wasn't until July. The beach attack scenes were filmed in only 3 to 4ft of water. Impossible to use Bruce. Not only the size of the mechanical shark itself (or themselves as there were three) but the platform and the gimbal arm. Waist deep water is far too shallow. It was when filming moved out to sea in July where it all went wrong. Bruce wouldn't work, weather and tide problems, boats appearing on the horizon etc.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Also the Asian shark finning industry, commercial gill net and long line by-catch and the beach netting programmes have been far more responsible for declining shark populations than Jaws. Shark fishing was already very popular before Jaws. The record IGFA great white shark was in 1959. Quint was partly based on real life Long Island shark fisherman Frank Mundus. The Australian grey nurse shark was decimated in the 1950s and 1960s by spear fishing, simply because they 'looked' like man eaters, despite being fish eaters. Sharks were already having big problems before Jaws. It's just that few cared until Jaws made sharks very fashionable and of greater interest.

[@endlessgrief9930]

I was taken to see this movie in theaters WHEN I WAS 8 YEARS OLD. The head with one eye missing in the hole in the boat ruined my childhood.

[@johnerickson4703]

Let's not forget John Williams' role in this movie. Not just an iconic theme, but for the first part of the movie every time there is a *real* shark attack the theme plays leading up to it. When it's a fake out attack , like the guy in the swim cap and the kids with the fake fin, the theme isn't played. It gets you used to when and when not to expect the shark. You hear the music - there's the shark. No music - no shark. That's what makes the reveal with Brody chumming so much better - no lead up to the shark with the music.

[@antoineporche-rideaux4841]

Fun fact the woman who played of the mother little boy went into a restaurant about twenty years after the movie came out and this guy came out of the back of the restaurant and ran up to her and he happened to be the guy who played her son in this movie and after meeting again they became friends until she passed away

[@michaelriddick7116]

Yeah they had a "Kitner" sandwhich and a bunch of other Jaw's themed items on the menu :) They hadnt seen each other since filming those scenes :) 🥰

[@evertondenver]

That jump scare always work on firt time watchers. 😅

[@dtnetlurker]

John Williams made this film a success. There is no film that I have ever seen in all of film history where music is more important than it is with JAWS. A bold statement yes, but so SO true. It means either a B movie flop without it, or a huge blockbuster with it. John Williams is a true artist the likes of which we may never see again.

[@Enthymene]

I personally think Williams' score (both its presence and absence) is crucial to making things like the floating head jumpscare work.

[@Windupchronic]

In the original script, Hooper dies in the cage when it's attacked. However, the B-roll footage they filmed had an incredible shot of a shark caught in a small scale version of the cage, struggling to get out, thrashing about. The only problem was, the cage was empty at the time. So they changed the ending to have Hooper escape from the cage so they could use that shot.

[@allenslayman4272]

There's a running joke in the movie monster industry " So still just one good shark movie? Every director: "sighs ..yeah"

[@CarloisBuriedAlive]

I love that Brody uses the gun and the tank to kill the shark - the two things that Hooper and Quint criticized each other for bringing onto the boat.

[@les4767]

"It's a big enough boat."....Hee Hee! wait'll they get to the "You're gonna need a bigger boat" line!

[@chadwickvon8019]

Tiger sharks will definitely eat people. Saw a video of Russian guy on vacation get eaten by a tiger shark the other day actually.

[@brendanmatelan2129]

This is my absolute favorite movie. I know it damn near word for word, seen this movie since I was 10 years old, and still love it to this day.

[@jjkcharlie]

Spielberg used the same actress from the first scene in 1941 (which is one of my favorites).

[@ericsteadman6687]

You both did an Awesome job of reacting to Jaws. It’s one of my favorite movies. A classic. So Brilliant from start to finish.

[@Lewis9700]

Quint destroyed the radio, because he wanted to kill the Shark himself. It would've been his greatest conquest. Plus he wanted the $

[@surjitbadhan68]

Robert Shaw great actor. 😊

[@tomcooper8918]

When this movie came out I was in the 7th grade. Everyone was talking about it but my mom would not let me go to the theater because she said I was too young to see it. I finally talked my older sister and her boyfriend into taking me. The line for tickets was seemingly forever. As we made our way into the theater the people who had just watched it were on the way out. One girl on the way out passed out cold. My mother was right! I spent a lot of time with my eyes closed and my hands over my ears. I really enjoyed watching with you girls this time. Thank you!!!

[@zmani4379]

Great reaction - 19:10 "It's a good-sized boat, though" "Yeah, they should be ok" - er, yeah ... that's the ticket ... hehehe

[@jakewaters1546]

I love watching these two reacting!!!

[@mark-nm4tc]

Your reaction to the end was the same as the entire cinema back in '75. The audience all cheered.

[@TheRealZAD]

Its so dope seeing y'all react to this movie. And y'all are right. All these years later and this movie DEFINITELY still holds up.

[@riculfriculfson7243]

20:56. I've watched my father literally lift himself out of his chair TWICE when watching this this scene.

[@ashifaachu6298]

Jaws 1 (1975) is the best shark movie

[@markw592]

4:54 One of the greatest moving shots ever!!

[@Tiisiphone]

A timeless masterwork that aged very well! Thanks for reacting to it. I was a teenager when I saw this movie, and it really scared me.

[@iDanPrakash]

The amount of times I was rewatching this movie the past 3 months, A nice 3 30am Australian time surprise to see pop up 😊

[@blakewalker84120]

27:28 "That's how you lose a leg." The guy in the red boat in the pond says "Hold my beer."

[@richardadams4928]

Sweetheart, reef sharks are not only DEFINITELY not vegetarian, they are often AGGRESSIVELY territorial and potentially VERY dangerous.

[@roboct6]

I watch almost every reaction to this movie because the film is amazing to me. I'm fascinated at how people, across time, are still drawn to this movie. And don't think it's for most of the reasons people will mention. First of all, this is story telling at its absolute finest. Even something as dangerous as a monologue in the middle of film, the very medium of show-not tell, holds us spellbound and riveted to every word Quint utters. It amazes me every time I see it unfold in the story. But what amazes me the most is that almost no reactor notices that this film is the heroes journey. After a brief prologue to underscore the coming problem, the film settles in and follows one character above the rest; a man deathly afraid of the ocean. So much so that he even alters the definition of the word "island" to ease his fear of it. And it is this man, Brody, who is forced to embrace his fear, not because he's the natural hero for the story. But simply because he won't survive otherwise. I think it's this heroes journey that compels people to revist this film again and again.

[@steve8510]

First scene was night time, you can't see blood in the dark or by moonlight, it just blends with the water

[@khurrambaig1867]

That iconic dialogue at 33:10 gives me goosebumps even today 😄 smile you son of a 🤣😁

[@lrjw68]

"Thats a good size boat though." "yah, they should be OK" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Jordashian93]

Perfect time to watch this when the first day of summer is just 10 days away

[@Charles_Gaba]

I believe one of you asked why Quint had Brody pour water on the line-that was to keep it from overheating as it was being pulled off the reel.

[@davidolson2729]

Ole Ben Gardner is still undefeated after these years. Everyone jumps at that scene, even though it makes no sense.

[@mikedignum1868]

Quinn is basically Capt. Ahab. The boy (Alex) that was eaten was originally to show Jaws coming out of the water (mouth open) and taking the kid...Spielberg left it out for some reason.

[@GreatWhiteShark75]

Fact. Jaws was also the FIRST summer blockbuster.

[@EleventhCubFan]

20:57 😂😂😂 Steph’s reaction!

[@jaydisqus3353]

The only jump scare that gets me every time. Every time.

[@kdub7807]

Enjoyed your time on the rollercoaster knows as JAWS, lol. Very entertaining; love it there’s no pretense or roll playing. You ladies meant every squint, peek, gasp scream and look away! I’m definitely staying tuned…👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@ericsteadman6687]

I’ve seen a lot of video’s of people reacting to Jaws on KZbin. Both of you have had the best reactions to all that goes on in the movie. Cheers and best wishes to you always. Great Post.

[@darkjedi447]

1st time on your channel. Great reaction, very fun! Thanks so much for reviewing JAWS. Keep smiling 👍🙂

[@dvnnyphvntom763]

As a beach lifeguard at Rockaway Beach, I can tell you that NYC Parks Department does not play around when it comes to shark sightings. Lifeguards (at least the good ones) will immediately spot a shark or sting ray and keep everyone out until there hasn’t been a sign of marine life for 3 full hours after the last sighting. Some people don’t care and still try to ignore lifeguards, (we dont like those kinds of people), but everyone fails to realize we’re in their home and NO ONE really knows whats in the water at a given moment. P.S. if you cant swim, swim at a pool where you can’t be dragged out to sea.

[@unclemeat7310]

They have you shut the beach down for stingrays? Seems excessive. I surf fish the New Jersey and Delaware frequently from spring through fall. During the summer we frequently land very large rays. I understand Steve Irwin was killed in a freak ray accident but come on.

[@dvnnyphvntom763]

Im sorry i dont make the rules lmao it really just depends on if the Lieutenant thinks its worth the time. If thats ridiculous to you, you dont have to go to Rockaway

[@ghostlee6434]

you're doing like reactors do nowadays and put 2023 sensibilities on something that's over 50 years old!? People with more information and training to a specific things are of course going to be better than with people with little or no knowledge of what was new to them back in the day. An expert swimmer can still be dragged out to sea

[@unclemeat7310]

@@highcountrydelatite would love to

[@geody3001]

"I'll never put on a life jacket again."

[@andyturner3056]

I watched it in the 70s as a child. I was born in 66. This movie scared soooo many people not to go swimming again. Even back when I was young I knew different. Statistics say that it's so unlikely, like flying in a plane and it crashes. I grew up by the sea and although the movie was amazingly scary it never put me off swimming. Back in the 50s they transmitted a broadcast on the radio of HG Well's The War of the Worlds. It was narrated by the late great Orson Wells. Appropriate as they shared the same surname. It scared the crap out of the audience at the time because they thought it was a real news report. Many things are just timed at the right time to create maximum impact. This did not disappoint

[@SeeMore-ki7mq]

I was 14 when i saw this in cinemas and you ladies really took me back. Brilliant reaction.