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rendevous
Posted: October 25th, 2010, 8:43pm Report to Moderator
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The shark looks like junk. It's always looked like junk. It's looked like junk since I started watching the film when I was six years old. But you know what? It looks just good enough for you not to care. Spielberg and co. do the rest.

Jaws has been one of my all time favorite films for as long as I can remember and one of the best from as much of an objective standpoint as I can place myself. Just about as flawless as any other mainstream film that's considered among the greatest.


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I wouldn't say the shark looks like junk.  Keep in mind that, when this movie came out, CGI was still ten years away.  The SFX, here, looks better than the SFX from Deep Blue.


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Then I knew I watching something special. Knowarrameanlike?

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I knew it was something special when we were introduced to Quint. We knew it was a damn masterpiece when we find out Qunt is a modern day Ahab looking for his whale- and his obsession lies within one of the best monologues ever put on film. You know the one.









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I wouldn't say the shark looks like junk.  Keep in mind that, when this movie came out, CGI was still ten years away.  The SFX, here, looks better than the SFX from Deep Blue.


Phil


Now, now, as much as I love JAWS...I will defend Renny Harlin's Deep Blue Sea to the max. I thought that film kicked ass. And, hey, pony up. Sam Jackson's character was a surprise death, wasn't it?



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I loved Sam Jackson's death, but Jaws gets my vote for best shark film.


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I'm going to reserve judgment on "the best shark film" until I have a chance to see Shartkopus. But would that really count as a shark film if it's only half-shark?


I can't live the buttoned-down life like you. I want it all. The dizzying highs, the terrifying lows, the creamy middles. Sure, I may offend some of the blue bloods with my cocky stride and musky odors. Oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called "city fathers," who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards and talk about what's to be done with this Homer Simpson?
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I will defend Jaws on the merits of there being an actual prop, opposed to not.  I find movies, any movie, that relies too much on actors acting against thin air and Chromakey screens to be absolute garbage.  Everything was better when we had actual props and make-up and blood work.  Latex and Animatronics.  At least it was physically on set and could be interacted with.  It lent itself to some form of believability.

I hate that they are now going away with all of the talented SFX guys for C++ programmers who would be better suited at making videogames than creating a really real world atmosphere.  

CGI blows goat nips and porks chickens in the butt... Sorry.
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Quoted from Matt Chisholm
I'm going to reserve judgment on "the best shark film" until I have a chance to see Shartkopus. But would that really count as a shark film if it's only half-shark?


I will beat you....


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Quoted from Matt Chisholm
I'm going to reserve judgment on "the best shark film" until I have a chance to see Shartkopus. But would that really count as a shark film if it's only half-shark?


Just to think, Chris Tukcer's salary for Rush Hour 3 helped the plug to be pulled on MEG.
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I think I had that toy.  I remember playing it.


Playing with toy sharks in your thirties??? Yes, that does explain alot about you.

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Playing with toy sharks in your thirties??? Yes, that does explain alot about you.


Only a fool would play with a real one...


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I saw a "Making of Jaws" documentary on A&E.  The story behind the making of that movie is almost as entertaining as the movie itself.  Spielberg came very close to a complete nervous breakdown during filming, because the shoot went ridiculously overbudget due to the shark never working and the rigors of shooting a movie on the ocean.  They shot it maybe a mile or so off the shore, so every time another ship or sailboat came into view in the background, they had to shut down and wait about twenty minutes for the ship to drift out of shot.  Robert Shaw and Dreyfuss apparently couldn't stand each other and nearly came to blows on several occasions.  On the night they were supposed to shoot the famous USS Indianapolis speech, Shaw was so drunk they had to carry him on board, then he slurred his words so bad they had to reshoot that entire scene the next night.  

Spielberg originally had planned to showcase the shark much earlier in the film, in fact the very first scene.  They couldn't do it because the shark kept malfunctioning.  So, as Roy Scheider put it, Spielberg changed it "from a monster movie to a Hitchcock movie."  He suggested the shark's presence instead of showing it directly.  So when the shark first appears in the "bigger boat" scene, the psychological impact is incredible.

This movie is an example of catching lightning in a bottle during filmmaking.  Perfect script, cast, director and production.  And of course the theme music.  Try and imagine the movie without the shark's theme.  Everything about this film is epic.
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Will you feckers with the animated avatars please stop it.

I was just dreaming about having a nervous breakdown on a beach while a huge big fuck off shark swims by, near sun drenched kids.

Then this bloke who looked like an anchor came up to me telling me not to shut the beach. I kept telling him I need more barrels. Barrels! You barstard anchor man, you. BARRELS. More. Now, ya daft twat.

Er, I think I should be on the "Weirded Out By Summat" site instead.

R1 is about right. Epic. Now there's the word. Also a song by FNM.

R xo

EDIT: I'm in my forties and still play with toys. Mind you, they usually buzz and are very pleasurable. Er, I've been weirded out by my own petard. I'll get my batteries, I mean coat.


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