Jaws!

[britbike1]

50 years old and still scaring the peanuts out of M&M's.

 

[DWalt]

Look for the upcoming “Jaws” special on the National Geographic channel on July 10.

 

[crows]

Scaring the peanuts out of M&M's, I love that!
On a side note, what Triumphs do you have?

 

[mike4sigs]

Scaring the peanuts out of M&M's really witty
i hope i can remember to use it some time

 

[oldbrownhat]

Fifty years since the release of Jaws, these photographers are showing a different, less frightening view of great white sharks. ​

BBC article here.​

Yeah, riiiiight...

..."Sharks still need better PR. They're not monsters," says [Kimberley] Jeffries, a conservationist and underwater photographer who shoots for National Geographic and is currently working with Disney on a live-action remake of Finding Nemo.
Her images aim for the true-to-life over the artificially dramatic: great whites seemingly smiling to camera, mindfully cruising with dolphins, just peaceably hanging out with divers...

...An IPSOS poll in 2015 ...found that 51% Americans are terrified of sharks, with 38% scared to swim in the ocean because of them. Being terrified of sharks ran highest in the Northeast followed by those, perplexingly, in the Midwest, a long way from the sea...

Coots took this image in 2016 on his first trip with tiger sharks since losing his leg to one. 'I feel this image shows the full circle of my life,' he says (Credit: Mike Coots)

 

[45Smashemflat]

Pretty sure cows kill more people than sharks, but that’s probably because cows don’t swim in the ocean.

(Sorry about that, I’ll see myself out…)

But seriously, I’m pretty sure that more folks are killed by livestock than sharks annually. But, “Hooves!” Probably isn’t a good movie title.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Robert Shaw's "Indianapolis" scene still moves me to this day.

The right actor for the right role.

 

[Doriangray6]

After seeing Jaws I had to agree with what Bob Hope said after he saw it, "Now the deepest water I'll get into is in a bathtub, in the middle of Kansas."

 

[Venom6]

Baffles me how anyone can be eaten by a shark. Can't they hear the music?

 

[SMSgt]

As many times as I've watched Jaws, that head popping into that hole in the semi-sunk boat still makes me screech like a little girl.

 

['79 Magnum GT]

Me too!!! I was sitting in the back of the theater really close to the wall with my two friends. When that head came out the three of us jumped back in our seats in unison and smashed our heads on that wall. Saw stars for a few minutes after that. I remember going into the theater looking ok but when I came out my hair was all over the place, my shirt became untucked and my left shoe was unbuckled. Never had an experience like that in a theater before. Jaws was quite the experience.

 

[Golphin]

As many times as I've watched Jaws, that head popping into that hole in the semi-sunk boat still makes me screech like a little girl.

I was working as a projectionist when the movie came out. I showed it hundreds of times as it stayed in the theater a long time. That scene caused everyone in the theater to rise up in their seat every time. I remember the first time seeing it like it was yesterday. It was at the preview we did with the employees after we closed on the Thursday night before it came out the next day. It got by far more reaction out of all of us than any other movie we had in the couple of years I worked there.

 

[Rudi]

If you want some good fishing go for sharks. Don't know the rules now, but back when we caught a bunch. I got a 7 foot Blue. On a salmon trip once I caught a real big one, but it spit the hook right at the boat. I think they are protected now.

 

[oldbrownhat]

There was a thread on the Forum back in 2018 about Rory Schneider's revolver troubles.

 

[LVSteve]

The week Jaws came out in the UK, I traveled across the country by train to stay with my aunt, uncle and cousins. It was a train journey that took 2/3 or the day including getting across central London. Anyway, auntie picked me up at the station and said that she had tickets for the whole gang to see Jaws at the movie theatre where she worked. Trouble was we just had time to get her place, throw a couple of sandwiches together for my late lunch and set off to see the movie.

I decided to eat my lunch sitting down watching the movie rather than in the car. This made my fellow moviegoers very uncomfortable, maybe it was the generous helping of tomato ketchup in my sandwiches oozing out. One of my cousins said he hoped I got scared into puking. Mr Popular, I wasn't. Nope, I didn't heave, but I did jump when that head appeared.