I love Jaws. Such a great film, and it really holds up well.

One of my favorite scenes in that film is one that isn't mentioned much, right after Sheriff Brody's kid is almost killed by the shark in the inlet when the shark takes off the sailor's leg instead. They're in the hospital, and Brody is getting the mayor to sign the voucher paying Quint to go after the shark. At first, the sleazeball, er, mayor, is muttering excuses under his breath and you think "what an asshole," but then he looks at Brody and says, "My kid was on that beach, too," and he's almost redeemed in those few words even before he shakily signs the voucher.

Also, I would like J. J. Abrams to keep making Star Trek movies.

That one.

that's some bad hat, Harry. (I never knew that was where that was from until this last viewing).

I had to look it up.

I would like J. J. Abrams to keep making Star Trek movies

Oh yes. Me three.

I absolutely love Raiders and Jaws. I really like a few other things he did. After Jurassic Park I gave up on Spielberg.

I drunkenly live-tweeted while watching Star Trek a few months ago, and the word I keep using when describing it is "atrocity."

So the idea of watching Abrams do a Spielberg pastiche is like the death of a thousand cuts. I think the only way they could make it less appealing to me is if Sorkin wrote it.

I can forgive Spielberg just about anything because Duel exists in the world. I think it's his first movie, and I'm pretty sure Steven King wrote it (too lazy to look it up). I'm afraid to watch it again, as terrifying as I found it the first time.

I think it's his first movie, and I'm pretty sure Steven King wrote it (too lazy to look it up).

Duel was a made for TV movie and written by Richard Matheson (back in the day when you got MFTV movies like the original Night Stalker and Trilogy of Terror with Karen Black being chased by a nasty fetish doll). He'd done the pilot of Night Gallery before that. His first theatrical feature was The Sugarland Express. Anybody who thinks Spielberg's incapable of downer endings hasn't seen that one.

I drunkenly live-tweeted while watching Star Trek a few months ago, and the word I keep using when describing it is "atrocity."

Sorry, Dana on this I'm sitting with Strega. I just can't get past how deeply stupid that movie was. Pretty (despite the lens flares), and entertaining on first watch, but oh, how stupid.

People didn't like Star Trek? I didn't know there were others! Like when Kirk's mother has a baby on an escaping pod? It just never recovers from there.

Super 8: Why does the alien kidnap all those people?

Oh, I hated the Star Trek reboot as a whole. It was somewhat redeemed by great performances from Quinto, Urban, and of course Nimoy, but the plot made almost no sense and the pace made it feel like someone had beat me to the fast forward button. The surest way to get me into the sequel would be to keep Abrams on valium the whole time he makes it.