dabrasha wrote:The book is better.

Spielberg ignored the Hooper-Mrs. Brody affair because he doesn't know anything or care about adult situations.

I've always thought the Hooper/Brody affair was extraneous, and that it had no place in the movie. The two of them talking about chicken pussy at dinner and all. Seems to me Benchley was the one didn't know about adult relationships.

sparky wrote:

dabrasha wrote:The book is better.

Are you sure?

I remember the book as good trashy pulp. It's been 20+ years since I read it though...

iembalm wrote:

dabrasha wrote:The book is better.

Spielberg ignored the Hooper-Mrs. Brody affair because he doesn't know anything or care about adult situations.

I've always thought the Hooper/Brody affair was extraneous, and that it had no place in the movie. The two of them talking about chicken pussy at dinner and all. Seems to me Benchley was the one didn't know about adult relationships.

I recall Mrs. Brody being a really sexy displaced New Yorker. I'm not gonna defend Benchley, but the book made me want to see the full movie, and when I finally saw a non-TV version I was let down.

I thought the TV version cut out all the sex. All they cut out was nice shots of the naked girl at the opening, and "bitch" at the end of Brody's famous shooting line...

Read the book/saw the movie. NC on both.

elisha wiesner wrote:i love jaws.

it was filmed where i live. growing up i could see the wreckage of the boat form my bedroom window. the doctor who delivered me is in it. there are some other locals in the movie as well. i still see chief brodys truck driving around. in the summer they usually play it at the theatre so i've probably seen it 5 or 6 times.

That's awesome.

The closest I could come to that is that some of the live shark footage for Jaws was filmed in Pt. Lincoln, which is in South Australia.

Richard wrote:he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes; like a doll's eyes.

until the teeth sink in and they rrrooollllll baaack wwwhhhhiiiiiiitttte.

NOT CRAP.


Once, my old friend Andy and I stir fried shark and noodles and watched this.

the scene where O.G. retells the tale of the sunken military ship in sharky waters is better than a lot of whole movies I've seen. It may be more startle-y than scary, but I still get a great rush from this film.


bumble has a great story w/r/t this movie.

dabrasha wrote:The book is better.

Spielberg ignored the Hooper-Mrs. Brody affair because he doesn't know anything or care about adult situations.

Movie is better than the book -- and Spielberg doesn't know anything about adult situations.

Book was pretty pulpy and the affair was definitely baggage. Save for the part where Hooper is fucking Mrs. Brody and he's so into his own performance that she has to remindshim that "I'm here too, you know." That's pretty funny.

My god how could anyone not like this film. It's just amazing, the music, the dynamics between the 3 of them and it's quotes galore.. come on sort it out - don't like Jaws FFsake..

kerble wrote:

Richard wrote:he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes; like a doll's eyes.

until the teeth sink in and they rrrooollllll baaack wwwhhhhiiiiiiitttte.

NOT CRAP.


Once, my old friend Andy and I stir fried shark and noodles and watched this.

the scene where O.G. retells the tale of the sunken military ship in sharky waters is better than a lot of whole movies I've seen. It may be more startle-y than scary, but I still get a great rush from this film.


bumble has a great story w/r/t this movie.

The Indianapolis, even scarier cause it really happened!

Not Crap.

Not Crap - No waffle

placeholder wrote:I just got around to watching Jaws for the first time.

It isn't scary, suspenseful, or entertaining; it's just dull. For the life of me, I don't understand why it is lauded as a classic horror movie.

Duel proves that Spielberg was, at one point, capable of making a good movie, but Jaws was just tedious.

Jaws is CRAP. No waffles.

Wow. You are so off the mark here, it's silly.

Jaws is an American Classic. No doubt about it. Between this and Duel - best two movies that little twerp ever made.

Jaws is not crap. No waffles. The cast is perfect.

iembalm wrote:Seems to me Benchley was the one didn't know about adult relationships.

Benchley's a hump. I tried to read that p.o.s. book about a giant squid, and the only thing he really seemed to know anything about was the price of each piece of real estate on the coast and the cost of each car, boat and hooker that showed up in the book.

He's fucking terrible.