So I finally saw
Jaws.
Dude. That was
PG
? That was fucking
brutal.
I said I'd never seen it, but I think I'd seen parts near the end, but none of the first hour-and-a-half or so. Which are some of the best parts. Cause you don't see the shark for most of it, and Spielberg does a great job of both not telegraphing the scares and then
not making a big deal out of them,
which only makes it even more effective. I'm sleep-deprived, so towards the latter half of the Orca section, I had a hard time paying attention (it was a constant repetition of see-shark/attach-barrel-to-shark/let-shark-get-away/wait). But it's a pretty great movie, and I don't see how anything'll ever come close to dethroning its status as The Definitive Shark Movie.
And yeah, the head-in-the-boat made me jump. Fucking hell.
Okay, I've spent the last ten minutes thinking about the Great Back to the Future III Conundrum, and... my head hurts. Oh, but also I think I have a solution!
See, if The Doc had
used the fuel line from the Delorean he took with him to the 1800s,
he
would be left with a busted car when Marty left, right?
So
in another hundred years or so,
Marty
would find the car and be unable
to
take it back to the past,
because
it would have a busted fuel line,
thus causing a universe-shattering paradox. Or something.
I don't see how anything'll ever come close to dethroning its status as The Definitive Shark Movie.
I agree. Though I'll always love
Deep Blue Sea
for the Samuel L. Jackson demise. That was sweet.
I agree. Though I'll always love Deep Blue Sea for the Samuel L. Jackson demise. That was sweet.
Totally. That's one of my guilty pleasure movies. It's a slasher movie, with sharks!
Oh, and Hec had that story about how he saw the head-in-the-boat make the entire audience jump out of their seats? Same thing happened with
Deep Blue Sea
and Sam Jackson. Also, I like Michael Rapaport, and Saffron Burrows is hot.
Jaws (which my cable system seems to always be running on some channel at every hour of the day and night) is, 27 years later, still a fucking SCARY-ASS movie.
Though I always root for Quint to be first on the shark's menu. He irritates me.
But Holli,
if he found in in 1986, with a busted fuel line, that would be a pretty easy fix. It was only a problem in 1886 because they didn't have the equipment to repair it.
The first attack scene in
Jaws
with the girl out swimming late at night, and her boyfriend sitting on the shore, still creeps me the fuck out.
Though I'll always love Deep Blue Sea for the Samuel L. Jackson demise. That was sweet.
That movie is just so wonderfully gleeful about offing most of the cast. And unlike Leviathan they offed someone who wasn't the black guy in the last 5 minutes. I mean, Leviathan was a crap movie anyway, but they let Ernie Hudson get that far and then off him as an afterthought? For shame. At least the final death in DBS had some poetic justice attatched to it.
At least the final death in DBS had some poetic justice attatched to it.
I heard
the cast and crew hated Saffron Burrows so much they killed her off to ensure she couldn't be in a sequel.
