BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Nov 10 - 07:45 PM

That was one of the most horrible incidents that's ever happened in maritime history.

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Amergin
Date: 04 Nov 10 - 08:49 PM

I have a very hard time in the water by myself...thanks to this movie...it could be fresh water or salt....I think it is because if there are other people with me swimming, then the chance of me getting bit goes down...

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: olddude
Date: 04 Nov 10 - 08:54 PM

Another line is when the engine is smoking from trying to drag the shark and the captain says ... OK you get your wish .. were heading back in ... and the police chief says "Thank Christ"

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Ed T
Date: 04 Nov 10 - 10:52 PM

Jaws changed Bill Clintons life:)

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 05:45 AM

I am too old [early 40s] to have been scared by Jaws. The Picture Of Dorian Gray was the film that scared me most in childhood. Have seen it several times since and can't think why. As Lady Macbeth remarked, "'Tis the eye of childhood fears a painted devil".

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 05:46 AM

I meant of course that I was in early 40s when Jaws came out. I am now late 70s, dammit!

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: daylia
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 08:43 AM

Yes it did. Saw Jaws at the theatre, came home, dove in the pool for a moonlit swim -- and went into labour shortly thereafter.

My firstborn arrived early the next morning.

Changed my life, indeed    =]

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 04:00 PM

I may be the only person who didn't see it when it came out, and actually only saw it recently on TV, and not the whole movie, either, Just the last half hour. I read the book, though, but it didn't scare me. I did see a lot of movies back in the 50's and 60's that involved man-eating plants, and as a result, I'm very wary of vines. I just don't trust them.

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: olddude
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 04:45 PM

Naw I saw it in my 20's when it first came out in the theater ... Still watch it on TV and probably would each time it is on .. Sad we lost the two great actors from that film huh ... I always enjoyed both of them in their career

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 05:23 PM

I've always vowed to be very polite to a Shark, should I meet one.

I'm as scared as hell of big American trucks though, especially when you can see them behind you,in the mirror...

Uh Oh!!!

3 Down - 3 Across ;0)

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 06:41 PM

RangerSteve - "I may be the only person who didn't see it when it came out..."

You're not. ;-) I didn't either.

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 08:30 PM

FFS how could a film featuring a plastic shark change anything ?

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: olddude
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 08:38 PM

Well Dave to this very day I have a deep seated fear of Plastic water bottles :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 09:57 PM

Dave, I would suggest that like many books and movies, those who have no problem with suspension of disbelief have found great entertainment and real terror in movies like "Jaws." Others will simply be literal and write such off as nonsense, silly, and/or a waste of time.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 10:01 PM

Plastic with metal and hydraulics!!

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Nov 10 - 12:16 AM

There were definitely some very frightening scenes in that movie. I found the first scene with the woman swimming at night really horrifying when I finally did see it, many years after the movie came out.

There was a much less known movie about 2 scuba divers, a married couple, who get lost at sea off Australia when they are inadvertently left behind while diving by their tour boat. I think it was called "Open Water", and it was really harrowing. One did not walk out of the theatre after that one feeling too good at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 06 Nov 10 - 04:45 AM

Well actually I enjoyed the film very much but fail to see how it could change ANYTHING.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 06 Nov 10 - 05:39 AM

From Dan: "Well Dave to this very day I have a deep seated fear of Plastic water bottles :-)"

One of the reasons why I *love* Mudcat! LOL
Brilliant, Dan!! x :0)

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: eddie1
Date: 06 Nov 10 - 06:34 AM

Don't know if I can ever come back to mudcat again! I saw "Jaws" when it first came out and umpteen times on television and remained relatively unmoved. A non-swimmer anyway, I never saw too many great whites around Edinburgh or indeed Reading where I now live.

This morning I read this whole thread and now have a nightmare that if I ever go near water, Richie Black will be waiting with his new set of false teeth to bite my bum!

I might never sit on the loo again!

Eddie

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 06 Nov 10 - 09:39 AM

To my my mind there's a much scarier, and grislier, shark scene in the Leonardo de Caprio film, 'The Beach'. If I remember correctly some western backpacker types set up a community on a remote beach by the Andaman Sea (?). Well, an island off Thailand anyway. One of the group goes swimming, in a beautiful clear lagoon, one day and a shark takes a huge bite out of him. He bleeds so spectacularly that I almost passed out! Also, if I remember correctly, he is far from any medical help, the wound becomes infected and he dies in agony. Altogether much more realistic and horrible than anything in Jaws.

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Nov 10 - 10:56 AM

"Beetlejuice" changed my life. It was the first movie I ever saw with Winona Ryder in it. ;-) Everything was different after that.

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 06 Nov 10 - 11:06 AM

Well, well. All this time I thought Winona Ryder was a country singer. But this video straightened me out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEEfW7NzN8k

You ought to enjoy it, LH>

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: GUEST,seth from Olympia
Date: 06 Nov 10 - 11:10 AM

As my mum didin't hesitate to tell me ( and anyone else) I didn't handle the rougher scenes in "Bambi" with any particular grace, nor "The Wizard of OZ"...didin't see Jaws until much later

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Slag
Date: 06 Nov 10 - 07:49 PM

Forbidden Planet when I was 7 or 8! That hatch raising up after the steel stairsteps bent under the weight of the "Monster from the Id" climbed them! I thought I would never sleep again!

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Nov 10 - 12:37 AM

Thanks, leeneia! She's got the most wonderful eyes and facial structure.

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: DougR
Date: 07 Nov 10 - 01:14 AM

No.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 07 Nov 10 - 01:41 AM

Bob Hope comedy called The Ghost Breakers [ntbcw the much later Ghostbusters!] gave me a horrible time in 1940 when I was 8!

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Nov 10 - 11:13 AM

"Forbidden Planet" would have been damn scary back when it first came out! I recently saw it for the first time...on Youtube. Pretty good movie for its time...although the silly flirtatious interplay between the male and female characters seems ridiculous from today's social perspective.

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Allan C.
Date: 08 Nov 10 - 06:03 AM

A few years after seeing the film I went surf fishing from the shore beside a small jetty. When the wind was right I could almost cast to a nook near the tip of the jetty where I felt certain I would get a strike. In order to gain the few feet necessary, I waded into the rolling surf. The sun had already gone down by then and darkness was quickly approaching. I was finally able to make the cast I was wanting; but suddenly realized that I was chest deep in the darkening water. Frightened? Yep! I had visions of sharks lurking just yards away. I quickly reeled in and carefully made my way to shore, being sure to not splash unnecessarily ...

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 08 Nov 10 - 07:03 AM

I was at the end of my pregnancy and thought I would go to see Jaws hoping that it would start off my labour, I was already a week over but no it didn't work so it didn't change that part of my life and I was still waiting another week later.

But as scarey movies go Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane was the most scariest thing I'd ever seen. Her eyes could be so evil and looked so grotesque in her childish curls and ribbons I thought was pretty disturbing and then such a good twist to the ending of the story with 'sister' Joan Crawford. I will never forget Joan Crawford's budgie served up on a plate, brilliantly evil.

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Nov 10 - 10:46 AM

My Rog and I have neither one seen it. We've seen snippets here and there, but we both DO remember the SNL parody and thought it was damn funny.

Another funny thing which came out of it was when my kids were younger, one of them had a long stick with a shark's head on the end with a mechanism which enabled them to open and close its jaws, thus using it to pick up stuff OR "menace" each other. We had a lot of fun with the silly thing.

A friend who grew up on Cape Cod can't believe I never saw it. It was big in her community.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 08 Nov 10 - 12:49 PM

Allan, I was in South Carolina a few years ago, and we spent the day playing in the surf off of Myrtle Beach. That evening, after dinner, we went for a stroll on the pier there where a number of people were fishing. One man was gutting his catch and tossing the fish parts into the water, which was slightly illuminated in the light from the pier. There, about twenty feet below and maybe 100 yards from the beach, there was a variety of sharks in various sizes feeding on this stuff, big shapes that emerged from the depth, broke surface to feed, then disappeared.
Gave me a fresh view on my beach activities the next day, for sure.

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 08 Nov 10 - 08:24 PM

I've never seen it.

I've never been able to distance myself from violence or anger in movies or TV. It's not as bad as it used to be, but I still don't watch it willingly.

My husband loves the silly Tremors movies, and I can't stand to watch even them.

If I had children, I would never let them watch stuff like that.

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Slag
Date: 08 Nov 10 - 10:00 PM

The scariest part? "That's some bad hat, Harry."

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 09 Nov 10 - 07:45 AM

Since 'Jaws', it seems as soon as there is something new and worthwhile seeing the movie industry seems to be hell-bent on bringing out umpteen sequels whether it is a scary movie or animation or just a good family film. Jurassic Park was another, Shrek and or they re-make it 3D. The trilogy of Star Wars was great because it had to carry through but then they made a prequel. I wish it had just been left alone, the latest thing I hear is that Star Wars is to be in 3D, the fighter aircraft scene is great for the time as it is. In a way, what came after Jaws put me off ever wanting to see sequels ever again or at least going to the cinema to see one.

Subject: RE: BS: Did 'Jaws' change your life?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 09 Nov 10 - 08:39 AM

Patsy,

Its just business. In a movie like that the most expensive things are brand recognition and creating the system underlying the special effects. Once that is done sequels are cheaper and make more money with less capital.