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Skinny-Dipping Kills: The 25th Anniversary Jaws Write-Off
Hola mi seasick amigos, and welcome to the Chinaman's review of Jaws that's part of the Jaws 25th Anniversary Write-off. Asked here by Captain Mike_Bracken, to join him and his fellow cannibal homeboys aboard The Orca, I am here to give you an un-unique review of the best film to ever have a great... Read full review »
Steven Spielberg's Jaws: The 25th Anniversary Write-Off
Jaws: MCA/Universal Pictures
Rating: USA: PG-13
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Jaws: Why Beach Attendance Went Down in the Summer of '75
Once upon a time, a man named Peter Benchley wrote a little novel about a seaside town terrorized one summer by a 35-foot great-white shark. A little-known director by the name of Steven Spielberg picked up the script and begged the studio to let him film it.
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Jaws Anniversary Collector's Edition; Dolby 5.1 Surround DVD
From the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley Steven Spielberg directed this thrill ride of terror. During the height of beach season the Massachusetts resort town of Amity Island is terrorized one summer by surprise attacks from a great white shark. Three unlikely partners team up to hunt down the rogue and destroy it: the new chief of police from New York Roy Scheider a young university- educated oceanographer Richard Dreyfuss and a crusty old-time fisherman Robert Shaw. The film shoot was notoriously difficult for the young Spielberg who had directed only one feature film before JAWS. The mechanical shark seldom operated correctly and Spielberg was frequently forced to create the idea of terror without actually showing the shark. However after the film premiered it went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time--surpassing THE GODFATHER and becoming the first film to gross more than a hundred million dollars. Composer John Williams created the score to JAWS which has since become a well-known theme of impending doom. Ron and Valerie Taylor were responsible for filming live sharks in Australia; their sequences were later mixed with footage of the mechanical shark.
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Jaws [VHS]
Release Date: 1992-03-01, Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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Jaws [VHS]
In the vastly overrated 1998 book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, author Peter Biskind puts the blame for Hollywood's blockbuster mentality at least partially on Steven Spielberg's box-office success with this adaptation of Peter Benchley's bestselling novel. But you can't blame Spielberg for making a terrific movie, which Jaws definitely is. The story of a Long Island town whose summer tourist business is suddenly threatened by great-white-shark attacks on humans bypasses the potboiler trappings of Benchley's book and goes straight for the jugular with beautifully crafted, crowd-pleasing sequences of action and suspense supported by a trio of terrific performances by Roy Scheider (as the local sheriff), Richard Dreyfuss (as a shark specialist), and particularly Robert Shaw (as the old fisherman who offers to hunt the shark down). The sequences on Shaw's boat--as the three of them realize that in fact the shark is hunting them--are what entertaining moviemaking is all about. --Marshall Fine
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| Stars | Roy Scheider | |
| Available Formats | VHS | |
| Actors | Lorraine Gary | |
| Directors | Steven Spielberg | |
| UPC | 096896600134 | |
| Genre | Horror/Suspense | |
| Subgenre | Recommended • High Seas • Blockbuster • Animals • Killers • Sharks • Essential Cinema • Classic • Thriller | |
| MPAA Rating | PG (MPAA) | |
| Release Date | 1975 | |
| Running Time | 2hr 4min | |
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| Original Language | English | |
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| Screenwriter | Carl Gottlieb | |
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| (09/01/2000, p.98, George Kiritopoulos): "...This fishy thriller is still Steven Spielberg's best movie..." | ||
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| "You're gonna need a bigger boat."--Chief Brody (Roy Scheider, who ad-libbed the line) to Quint (Robert Shaw) | ||
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