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Title: Jaws
Post by: davidpt40 on April 05, 2003, 11:32:54 PM: Could there be a better movie? I first saw JAWS when I was three or four years old. The end scene with the shark racing towards Chief Brody would terrify me every time I saw it.

JAWS was on tonight on AMC, and I couldnt help but marvel at how wonderful a storyline it had. Its not totally unrealistic, and I believe that helps make it an enjoyable movie to watch.

I have seen this movie perhaps 50 times, and I truely think it has helped shape me into the person I am today. I have always had a fascination with fish, and am now studying biology at the University of Louisville with a goal of becomming a marine biologist.

If I recall correctly, the original Jaws movie stirred up such anti-shark sentiment that people were chartering fishing boats and going out to 'hunt' sharks in the late 70s/early 80s.

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Hooper, tie me on another barrel!
Title: Jaws
Post by: rpm on April 05, 2003, 11:50:24 PM: Better? Not Sure, but Alien definitely scarier. "Thought" it would be a good idea to drop acid before watching the premier.
Title: Jaws
Post by: majic on April 05, 2003, 11:55:14 PM: OMG! That musta be messed up.
Title: Jaws
Post by: rpm on April 06, 2003, 12:16:03 AM: You have NO idea!:eek:
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Post by: Sandman on April 06, 2003, 12:39:53 AM: I thought it was a great movie when it came out... scared the sheet outta me. Today, that mechanical shark just looks silly.
Title: Re: Jaws
Post by: squelch_19 on April 06, 2003, 12:52:11 AM: Quote
Originally posted by davidpt40
Could there be a better movie?

Convoy. You remember the Rubber Duck.

Stoner film from Hell.
Title: Convoy
Post by: rpm on April 06, 2003, 01:20:02 AM: I was forced to watch that movie 60 nights in a row. We showed films on the Mess Deck and I was a messcook that Patrol. Convoy and Mr.Billion was the double feature. I still wake up in a cold sweat...
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Post by: Sandman on April 06, 2003, 01:22:14 AM: What boat, RPM?
Title: Jaws
Post by: rpm on April 06, 2003, 03:30:12 AM: USCGC Boutwell WHEC-719 "The Aleutian Chain Gang"
She's with Task Group Tarawa in Persian Gulf right now.

Find out more here (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/dot/whec-719.htm)
Title: Jaws
Post by: Sandman on April 06, 2003, 03:32:47 AM: Quote
Originally posted by rpm371
USCGC Boutwell WHEC-719 "The Aleutian Chain Gang"
She's with Task Group Tarawa in Persian Gulf right now.

Ah... USCG... got it. I was USN.
Title: Jaws
Post by: hawk220 on April 06, 2003, 03:36:02 AM: Jaws came out when I was 11 and I saw it in the theater.. scared the holy hell out of me, I remember news reports of empty beaches and resorts cause the whole country was freaked out and didn't want to go in the water.
Title: Jaws
Post by: Sandman on April 06, 2003, 03:36:50 AM: Hell... remember the barf bags they used to hand out at the Exorcist?
Title: Jaws
Post by: rpm on April 06, 2003, 03:41:16 AM: I tried to join The Navy, but they would not let me in because I could not swim, so I joined the Coast Guard. If the ship sank, I could wade back to shore.:D
Title: Re: Re: Jaws
Post by: VAQ on April 06, 2003, 10:11:18 AM: I took a young lady to see Jaws when it came out (first date no less). Worked rather well for some reason.
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Originally posted by squelch_19
Stoner film from Hell.

Eraserhead (1977)
Title: Re: Re: Re: Jaws
Post by: Horn on April 06, 2003, 10:43:21 AM: Quote
Originally posted by VAQ
I took a young lady to see Jaws when it came out (first date no less). Worked rather well for some reason.

Eraserhead (1977)

Heh, lived at the beach then. GF with whom I saw the movie was the prime mover on many backpacking trips afterwards. She seemed to lose all interest in the surf and sand..... ;)

100% w/ ya on Eraserhead.

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Title: Jaws
Post by: SunKing on April 06, 2003, 02:36:28 PM: I remeber still back when Alien was in the theater. I was child sitting with my hands over my face, had nightmares for months.

To this day I still have aquaphobia. Not sure if its from the JAWS movies but I can't even jetski in Folsom Lake without having thoughts of some huge shark fin surfacing along side me. At that point I get all squirrly, wipeout and have a panic attack swimming back to my ski... not cool.
Title: Jaws
Post by: -tronski- on April 06, 2003, 02:42:01 PM: We're gonna need a bigger boat...

Tronsky
Title: Re: Jaws
Post by: Habu on April 06, 2003, 07:16:04 PM: Quote
Originally posted by davidpt40
Could there be a better movie? I first saw JAWS when I was three or four years old. The end scene with the shark racing towards Chief Brody would terrify me every time I saw it.

JAWS was on tonight on AMC, and I couldnt help but marvel at how wonderful a storyline it had. Its not totally unrealistic, and I believe that helps make it an enjoyable movie to watch.
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It is based on a true story about a great white shard that got lost in the gulf stream and ended up terrorising some costal towns in the New York area near the turn of the century. The shark even swam up a fresh water river and killed some people who were swimming like 15 miles away from the ocean.
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Post by: Sandman on April 06, 2003, 07:18:46 PM: Be sure to read the book. It's even better.
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Post by: RightF00T on April 06, 2003, 10:12:27 PM: I remember the JAWS theme going through my head everytime I jumped in the pool. Ruined a few summers.:(

This summer though...I'm swimming in the deep end! :D
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Post by: rpm on April 06, 2003, 11:38:27 PM: And without JAWS we would not have the opening scene for Airplane! :D
Title: Jaws
Post by: NUKE on April 06, 2003, 11:43:47 PM: Quote
Originally posted by rpm371
And without JAWS we would not have the opening scene for Airplane! :D

LOL.....Airplane and AirplaneII great movies! :)

"I want a trench dug around the entire base..... fill it with gasoline"

"I want to know what every one of those lights do"
Title: I picked a Bad Day to Quit Sniffing Glue
Post by: rpm on April 06, 2003, 11:52:18 PM: Yes, I'm serious. And don't call me Shirley!
Title: Jaws
Post by: udet on April 07, 2003, 12:03:05 AM: IMO , Alien is the best Sci-Fi movie(s) ever made. Haven't seen part 4 yet. Part 2 is my favourite.I saw it first time when I was little and was scared sheetless.