"...that was one of the secrets of Spielberg, that he was wise enough not to show us his monster right away." Not only a good film technique, but sound dating advice as well.
it wasn't even him in the first place. it was the editor that edited it together like that thinking bruce the shark looked too phony. he doesn't get credit for it though
Yeah and the where Alex kitner gets eaten, his original plan was to have to whole head come out of the water and bite down, and he decided that might be too gruesome. The end result of those big black fins spinning around was so more gritty and artistic. He is a damn genius
False he told the production company that if he was going to direct it, that he said he wouldn't show the shark for an hour until to the film. Not until they started working on the film.when they realized the mechanical shark did not work for every scene.
As a sophmore in high school our biology teacher took the entire class to go see Jaws. It was a great field trip that got us out of school for the last half of the day.....THANKS Mr. Spicer wherever you are!
My freshman teacher took our class to see Ordinary People. I'm not sure why, but it was fun to see plus it was it was playing in another town, so we got almost the whole day off.
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@@haveanicedave1551 Because the movie is about teenage suicide and the stresses of growing up ... your teacher was probably trying to make an impression on you about the dangers, the signals and the ultimate tragedy of those kinds of decisions. Good movie ... I can't hear Pachelbel Canon without thinking of that movie ... that and those old AA commercials. 😂 I miss the 80s
I was six years old when I saw this with my parents. I was screaming so much at that scene, my mom had to take me out into the lobby 'til I cooled off. When the head popped out, I remember ducking down and _literally crawling down the aisle of seats,_ on the sticky floor, trying to get out of there! Ah, fun memories. 😂
@@omnipop4936 😆I think i was around 12 or 13 when i first saw it in the cinema. The head scene scared the hell out of most people the first time they saw it including me. literally jumped out of my seat!
I probably never missed an episode of Siskel and Ebert. These guys taught me how to critically analyze and really watch a film. I learned a lot from them.
I miss the days when I looked to Siskel & Ebert to give me the lowdown on the movies I should watch. Most often, it was advice well served. Miss you guys. We all get old and we all die.
sadly thiers not alota great critics, but ironically i think you may find red letter media the best and closest you can get, each has thier own taste and they are all somewhat of ok actors and writers so you get to hear pretty good opinions when its not a over the top parody review that they also do a example etc ua-cam.com/video/Rm09nLK-Pg8/v-deo.html
Spielberg admits to adding that scene just for a cheap shock to get the audience to scream. It worked! :) But I'm still waiting, 40 years later, for someone to try and rationally explain how Ben Gardner is missing an eyeball.
That scene turned my pubs white. I never even thought about the eyeball thing. Good question it doesn't make sense. jaws was a head taker off er not a surgical strike to the eye. There is no rational explanation it just worked for the scene.
I watched this 16 times at the theater. They re-ran it a few years ago at a local theater, I saw it the 17th time, at the theater with my son, this time.
So true. The seventies eighties and nineties were the best decades for movies. All three of those decades brought out Revolutions in movies and what they can be and it's never been the same sense. Or at least there hasn't been as many new Concepts added to movies as there were during those three decades. I was a weird kid but my absolute favorite show is Siskel and Ebert because my absolute favorite thing was movies and it breaks my heart but they're both gone cuz if they are both still alive they would still be watching movies and give them their thumbs up thumbs down. All my kids were born after the year 2000 and none of them will ever know how important was when you saw a commercial for movie and you saw that it had a "two thumbs up"
@@cameronrobinson3933 ... yup, I'm right there with ya... incredible time and an amazing era for cinema.. very lucky to have been a child of the '70s and teenager of the'80s.. watching Siskel and Ebert was a religious experience.
Well, I agree with your query.. Better?.. Not sure about better.. However, the advent of the 70’s auteur movement was very different.. And it’s held in very high regard.. But I’m like you, the golden era was great in its own right..
Me, too- one of their recommendations back then steered me to a first-effort feature film by 2 guys named Joel & Ethan Coen- 'BLOOD SIMPLE'... now it's 40 years later & I still give it a yearly rewatch!
I remember the exact moment when the shark's head popped out of the water. I was so spooked that I jerked my arm about two feet in the air, dumping popcorn all over the guy sitting next to me. When I apologized, he said "I'm just glad you weren't holding a Coke".
Siskel really nails it here. Spielberg brings us into a whole new and exciting world with many of his films like this, and yet it’s just our normal world in which these incredible things and adventures happen. That’s extremely clever, and partly why it resonates deep.
The movie was great. I worked at a theatre that summer in wildwood nj. Could not stop watching it. Going to see ir on big screen this weekend with my family. It changed my life.
I saw this movie in 1975 when I was a young teenager in a huge theater and it scared the crap outta me. I'm still affected today. I can't go into a body of water to this day without thinking of Jaws.
In fairness, it wasn't all Steven. Bruce, the star of the movie, was not the most co-operative member of the cast. So Steven was forced to work around the tempermental fish and it worked almost by accident.
Yeah. Imagine if he went back to "fix" the movie the way he wanted and had the shark appear in every scene! Of course, something similar happened with Lucas. He didn't expect the Emperor's minion, Darth Vader to be a fan favorite in _Star Wars,_ and by chance had him survive the destruction of the Death Star. After which it was said how brilliant it was to keep a villain around for more than one movie! He forget that and killed off Darth Maul in _The Phantom Menace._
It was my birthday party and after feeding hot dogs to my German Shepard, throwing cake and smashing a piñata, mom piled me and 5 of my 6th grade buddies in the station wagon for what was the awesomest movie any of us had seen! My parents ran a tight ship. But that day, we lived!
I went to see Jaws when it came out in 1975 I was 8. People who werent around back then can have no idea just how big an event Jaws was when it hit the cinemas, I think only Star Wars in 1977 came close.It traumatised me and to this day I still struggle going in the ocean and try to avoid it if I can.
The shark never appeared in the first hour because it kept breaking down and they had to adjust the script! This was one of the best movies ever made and the score was A+ and helped make this great movie what it was...
I agree with you. I always looked forward to "Siskel & Ebert At the Movies" at 1:05 a.m. on Saturday mornings as a kid (if I could make it that long before falling asleep that is). It was never the same when Gene Siskel died and although I like Richard Roeper, there never seemed to be the same love/hate relationship between he and Ebert that existed between Siskel & Ebert; which is one of the things that made the show so great.
....."Best. Movie. Ever. Made."........You've got to be kidding, dude apparently you have not seen very many movies. I can think of numerous movies that are way better than this overrated POS.......Blade Runner, Chinatown, Being John Malkovich, American Beauty, Scent Of A Woman, Blue Velvet, Sessions, Diner, Searching For Bobby Fischer, Red Rock West, The Last Detail, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Last Seduction, Dead Poets Society, Shawshank Redemption, Crimes and Misdemeanors, A Fish Called Wanda, Bliss, Being There, Bitter Moon and Donnie Brasco.
it was a standing joke line throughout filming that crew and actors said and Schneider repeated - he ad libbed it in a sense - but it wasn't improvised (or created) on the spot
1975 and the year I was born, the first summer blockbuster and my all time favourite film, top drawer acting and directing, one of the best of all time.
This review must have been done for the movie re-release in '79. That's when I saw it for the first time in the cinema. An amazing night at the movies to say the least!
Got to hand it to Spielberg! This film gave me some jolts. The opening gave me chills. That poor girl swimming and getting bit. It was horrific! One of the first blockbusters! RIP Siskel and Ebert- I wish someone would revive this show with new hosts. I miss seeing weekly film previews and reviews. This show was good for the movie business because giving people a sample piques their interest.
Watched this awesome flick 6 times back to back at the cinema. Note: after the first 3 times paying with nothing more but change, this manager dude said you agan? Tell ya what you can watch it for free until you get your fill of it....
I saw Jaws at The Glen theatre in downtown Glen Ellen, Il in 1975. I was 10 years old and it scared the hell out of me. To this day I fear sharks in ocean waters. I recall the theatre being dark when the light from the screen illuminated the crowd during the best scene, and seeing the crowd reaction.That’s what a great movie can do.
Actually "Bruce" the mechanical shark had a lot of mechanical problems in the beginning otherwise it would have been shown more. So Spielberg used Hitchcock techniques
Such a keen comment at the end by Siskel. It's no accident that the modern summer blockbuster movie which in many respects began with "Jaws" happened when American suburbia began to mature and fully become the mainstream culture. It's a shared cultural experience in a society with fewer and fewer of them. It's why the comic book superhero movies of today are so big as well. It's a way for people to temporarily imagine themselves above and beyond their staid normality without threatening or challenging them in any significant way.
I saw Jaws in the theater and it did scare the stuffing out of me. I grew up on the beach and went body surfing and tubing in the ocean all the time...until Jaws. Haven’t been in the ocean past my knees since then!
I wonder if Spielberg would have edited the film the same way (I'm not suggesting he wouldn't) if the mechanical shark had been working properly early on in the filming. I've never read a direct quote from him about this and I'm curious to know if there were one or two earlier shots of the shark planned.
@Bold One He would've made a much worse movie, if he'd had CGI. The reason Jaws is great is that we don't see the shark much. The unseen terror becomes more terrifying because we can't see it. And that was due to the happenstance that the mechanical shark wouldn't work properly. It turned a simple horror movie into a classic suspense movie. Thank god CGI wasn't available.
Saw it new in 75. Was outside the theater holding the ticket for over 2 hours waiting to get in. The numbers on the ticket were almost gone when I got to the counter. When I got home that night after watching it, I was in the kitchen by the sink and we had a very large custom glass window that stuck out from the house and looked over the back yard . I swear I remember looking out that window (it was late-night) and was thinking at any time that Shark was going to come busting through . The scene where the boat is going down and brody is inside and trying to get out and the shark comes busting through haunted me for years. and Many times it has been posted about people jumping out of their seats and running out of the Movie. I saw that many times in person.
...ty!, Roger Ebert -"audience LEVITATED" (i thought I was the ONLY person who ever ROSE out of his seat - while still with my hands on the arms! ...The Exorcist )
You know what disturbed me the most? The girl in the beginning of the movie swimming in the ocean at night, no less. You could feel the fear building, especially when he shot the scene beneath her body in the water. And when the shark first attacks, her reaction is haunting with that confused, terrified look on her face. Just a brutal, jarring scene without ever really seeing severed limbs or guts spilling out in the ocean.
I both saw the film Jaws and read the book while I was attending the U.S. Navy Submarine School in Groton, Connecticut. For me, it was one of the few times where I enjoyed the movie just as much as the book.
Saw this on opening night in 1975, and loved it so much I saw it another 40 times that summer. I was about 14 at the time and the matinees were just $1 back then.
The fact of the shark showing up 1 hour into the movie was due to mechanical problems with the shark. Spielberg took a problem and turned it into cinematic gold.
There have been many horrific movie scenes, but for me, nothing matches the doomed young woman swimming alone. I didn't even watch it in the theatre, and the scene's power is still startling.
Man am I GLAD I didn't see this BEFORE seeing the movie! First night. Stood in a massive line at the former West Goshen theater and lived up that first hour in anticipation! 😳
Very similar to the laugh and scream effect was when the two men one night put the hunk of meat on a hook and chained it to the dock. They threw it into the ocean and shortly Jaws grabs it. Destroys the dock and floats it away from shore. It pulls Bernie into the water. Every one is laughing. Then... the dock stops moving. It turns and starts too get pulled back to shore. The one man left on the shore is yelling, SWIM! Don’t look back! SWIM. Scary as F**k!
It was Charlie. The other moron was shouting, "Take my word for it. SWIM CHARLIE, SWIM." It's of my favorite scenes in the entire film. Charlie, the moron, when he's pulled from the water, says, "Can we go home NOW?" HAHAHAHAHA
Steven Spielberg was genius for waiting so long to reveal the "monster." This idea works really well because it gives the audience a chance to get involved in the story and start to feel comfortable. Then, when the monster shows its face, we are just as startled/scared as the character.
Gene Siskel gives a brilliant summary of the reasons so many people love Spielberg films. Also,Siskel gave Jaws only 3 stars when it came out,although you wouldn't know it from his subsequent raves of it.
Read the book by Peter Benchley. Two big differences between the book and the movie: 1) Hooper bangs Brodie's wife and Brodie knows which makes for some tension on the boat 2) Hooper gets eat in the cage, he does not survive.
No this isnt the 1st time we "see" the shark, but this is the 1st time we are actually introduced to the shark in a big way. Where we see & feel the magnitude of the situation, hence Brody's reaction & of course than famous line
I've always wondered why none of the articles or references I see about the appearance of the shark seems to remember the scene in the pond. A terrifying moment in the film, with an amazing aerial shot of the shark shown underwater, mouth open as it attacks the man thrown from the row boat.
I thought Harrison looked good for his age and just because guys like him and Stallone are old doesn't mean they should just roll over and die, if Harrison has another Indy left in him and Stallone has another Rocky or Rambo then I am glad to see my childhood heroes back on the big screen again for one more wild ride because after that we will never see them on the big screen again..I know Stallone is done with Rocky and Rambo but Harrison has expressed intrest in another Indy so I hope he does.
What truly amazes me watching these old reviews, is the way Messr. Siskel and Ebert describe film-going audiences decades ago. Fear of "Jaws", disgust of "The Thing", perhaps too much horror in "Alien". How people have changed. I wonder if anyone would be phased by a Fallout-style nuclear war.
I saw this movie when it came out, I was in high school. The lines were unbelievable, but worth the wait. I have Jaws as well as Duel on dvd, both are just classic Speilberg. :)
It's probably the biggest misconception of all time that this scene is the first time you see the shark. NO. IT. IS. NOT. You see the shark in the estuary attack scene.
Robert Shaw deserved an Oscar for this performance.
+TELEVISIONARCHIVES This also deserved best picture and best editing
TELEVISIONARCHIVES Absolutely. He was epic. Just watching him shove that toothpick way back into his mouth..he oozes character.
Dayum Right
YES HE DID!!!! I believe, IMO, the 'Indianapolis scene' is the greatest scene in the history of cinema.
Ridiculous he didn't even get a nomination.
"...that was one of the secrets of Spielberg, that he was wise enough not to show us his monster right away." Not only a good film technique, but sound dating advice as well.
He only did that because the mechanical shark never worked, so he had very little to show.
it wasn't even him in the first place. it was the editor that edited it together like that thinking bruce the shark looked too phony. he doesn't get credit for it though
Yeah and the where Alex kitner gets eaten, his original plan was to have to whole head come out of the water and bite down, and he decided that might be too gruesome. The end result of those big black fins spinning around was so more gritty and artistic. He is a damn genius
False he told the production company that if he was going to direct it, that he said he wouldn't show the shark for an hour until to the film. Not until they started working on the film.when they realized the mechanical shark did not work for every scene.
everybody just skips over your joke...the best part of your statement IMO lol
As a sophmore in high school our biology teacher took the entire class to go see Jaws. It was a great field trip that got us out of school for the last half of the day.....THANKS Mr. Spicer wherever you are!
My freshman teacher took our class to see Ordinary People. I'm not sure why, but it was fun to see plus it was it was playing in another town, so we got almost the whole day off.
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Our movie field trip was "A Man for All Seasons", and we were first grade. The 60s'
@@haveanicedave1551 Because the movie is about teenage suicide and the stresses of growing up ... your teacher was probably trying to make an impression on you about the dangers, the signals and the ultimate tragedy of those kinds of decisions. Good movie ... I can't hear Pachelbel Canon without thinking of that movie ... that and those old AA commercials. 😂 I miss the 80s
My Government teacher took us to see All The President’s Men. Stiil a favorite
The decapitated head scene falling from the hole in the boat is one of the best jump scares ever!
I was six years old when I saw this with my parents. I was screaming so much at that scene, my mom had to take me out into the lobby 'til I cooled off. When the head popped out, I remember ducking down and _literally crawling down the aisle of seats,_ on the sticky floor, trying to get out of there! Ah, fun memories. 😂
@@omnipop4936 😆I think i was around 12 or 13 when i first saw it in the cinema. The head scene scared the hell out of most people the first time they saw it including me. literally jumped out of my seat!
I probably never missed an episode of Siskel and Ebert. These guys taught me how to critically analyze and really watch a film. I learned a lot from them.
Jaws is one of the best movies ever made!
In the top five on my list.
Yes yes yes
One of my all time favorites
good when it came out overrated now !
I miss the days when I looked to Siskel & Ebert to give me the lowdown on the movies I should watch. Most often, it was advice well served. Miss you guys. We all get old and we all die.
steve hale it was sickness that took them both unfortunately.
They got old and died long before their time though. By all rights they should still be reviewing movies today in what would've been only their 70s.
sadly thiers not alota great critics, but ironically i think you may find red letter media the best and closest you can get, each has thier own taste and they are all somewhat of ok actors and writers so you get to hear pretty good opinions when its not a over the top parody review that they also do
a example etc ua-cam.com/video/Rm09nLK-Pg8/v-deo.html
The new movie reviewers are all fake and corrupt. There is nobody left you can trust.
thiers also the nostalgia critic, they are low key enough they tend to be blunt and not worry about money from producers
What makes that scene is not the shark popping out of the water, but Brody’s immediate reaction. The improvised line is a great touch.
I always liked that shot, he springs up to attention so fast that he could've hurt himself!
One of the best scenes in all of film.
That line was actually in the script according to the person who wrote it.
"You're gonna need a bigger boat" has become such an iconinc line, you can practically say it anywhere and people would get the reference immediately.
Not to mention it was unscripted. Scheider ad libbed that line.
Unfortunately, most people misquote it.
@@doowoppingchainsawer How do they misquote it?
@@davidsavage5630 It's often misquoted as "We're gonna need a bigger boat" when it really was "You're gonna need"
I would give ANYTHING to go back and see this with a first-run audience!
It was mindblowing. The movie got a standing ovation at the end.
I got to see Airplane when it first came out. The guy next to me laughed as hard as he could throughout the whole film
I saw it at the theater when I was 8. I kept my feet in the seat most of the movie so the shark wouldn’t get me.
I was 5. I don’t remember much except for people screaming when the boy on the raft is killed. That movie scared the heck out of me lol.
I saw it then tried to go out to dinner afterwards. I was too wound up to eat. One of my all time favorites.
I'll never forget that scene in which Hooper was investigating a wrecked boat and that head popped through. Boy did I jump.
Spielberg admits to adding that scene just for a cheap shock to get the audience to scream. It worked! :) But I'm still waiting, 40 years later, for someone to try and rationally explain how Ben Gardner is missing an eyeball.
That scene turned my pubs white.
I never even thought about the eyeball thing. Good question it doesn't make sense.
jaws was a head taker off er not a surgical strike to the eye. There is no rational explanation it just worked for the scene.
writerconsidered I just figured smaller fish took his eyeball
UA-cam-tied, Well we never saw the shark attack Ben Gardner.
Still scares my mom to this very day.
I watched this 16 times at the theater. They re-ran it a few years ago at a local theater, I saw it the 17th time, at the theater with my son, this time.
Siskel & Ebert didn't know how spoilt they were being critics through the greatest era of American cinema - 70's & 80's.
the 80s was better than the great Studio Era of the 30-60s?
So true. The seventies eighties and nineties were the best decades for movies. All three of those decades brought out Revolutions in movies and what they can be and it's never been the same sense. Or at least there hasn't been as many new Concepts added to movies as there were during those three decades. I was a weird kid but my absolute favorite show is Siskel and Ebert because my absolute favorite thing was movies and it breaks my heart but they're both gone cuz if they are both still alive they would still be watching movies and give them their thumbs up thumbs down. All my kids were born after the year 2000 and none of them will ever know how important was when you saw a commercial for movie and you saw that it had a "two thumbs up"
@@cameronrobinson3933 ... yup, I'm right there with ya... incredible time and an amazing era for cinema.. very lucky to have been a child of the '70s and teenager of the'80s.. watching Siskel and Ebert was a religious experience.
I thought the first decade of 2000's through 2013 was great as well. Now it's just money grabs...m
Well, I agree with your query.. Better?.. Not sure about better.. However, the advent of the 70’s auteur movement was very different.. And it’s held in very high regard..
But I’m like you, the golden era was great in its own right..
Every week I would watch “At the Movies” and then decide what movie I was going to see that week. Miss these guys.
Me, too- one of their recommendations back then steered me to a first-effort feature film by 2 guys named Joel & Ethan Coen- 'BLOOD SIMPLE'... now it's 40 years later & I still give it a yearly rewatch!
I remember as a kid in 1975 being at the beach in the summer and not seeing 1 person in the water. Will never ever forget that!!
My parents took me to the drive inn when I was 6 to see this and I hid under the dash for 1/2 the night and didn’t sleep for a year. Great memory!!
A travesty that the late, great Robert Shaw was never even nominated!!!
Absolutely agree.
I remember the exact moment when the shark's head popped out of the water. I was so spooked that I jerked my arm about two feet in the air, dumping popcorn all over the guy sitting next to me. When I apologized, he said "I'm just glad you weren't holding a Coke".
I am just reading these comments and I am laughing so hard that I am crying. So funny. Oh. Man.
40+ years later I can still remember moving straight backwards in my seat in the theater when that shark appeared.
Randy Bailin Me too
Siskel really nails it here. Spielberg brings us into a whole new and exciting world with many of his films like this, and yet it’s just our normal world in which these incredible things and adventures happen. That’s extremely clever, and partly why it resonates deep.
The movie was great. I worked at a theatre that summer in wildwood nj. Could not stop watching it. Going to see ir on big screen this weekend with my family. It changed my life.
I saw this movie in 1975 when I was a young teenager in a huge theater and it scared the crap outta me. I'm still affected today. I can't go into a body of water to this day without thinking of Jaws.
The 1975 in the title is the date the film was released, not the date of the review.
Wish i could have seen this baby in the theaters. Top ten all time movie for this guy👍. Born in 78
In fairness, it wasn't all Steven. Bruce, the star of the movie, was not the most co-operative member of the cast. So Steven was forced to work around the tempermental fish and it worked almost by accident.
Yeah. Imagine if he went back to "fix" the movie the way he wanted and had the shark appear in every scene!
Of course, something similar happened with Lucas. He didn't expect the Emperor's minion, Darth Vader to be a fan favorite in _Star Wars,_ and by chance had him survive the destruction of the Death Star. After which it was said how brilliant it was to keep a villain around for more than one movie! He forget that and killed off Darth Maul in _The Phantom Menace._
My left ear enjoyed this
ha yeah!
So did mine! My right ear TOTALLY missed it.
Thank goodness I thought my earphones were broken.
aaronimpactnz No, that's just down to bloody extreme audio compression.
Same lol
I just saw Jaws live with the Philadelphia orchestra. If you haven't seen it with the live music you really should. Its awesome!!!
Haven't had to chance to do Jaws, but I did see Jurassic Park with an orchestra and it was brilliant.
Great cinema died with them. R.I.P. Siskel & Ebert.
Trun it up lol.
40 years ago this summer one of the greatest classics in movie history was made...man I feel old
It was my birthday party and after feeding hot dogs to my German Shepard, throwing cake and smashing a piñata, mom piled me and 5 of my 6th grade buddies in the station wagon for what was the awesomest movie any of us had seen! My parents ran a tight ship. But that day, we lived!
I went to see Jaws when it came out in 1975 I was 8. People who werent around back then can have no idea just how big an event Jaws was when it hit the cinemas, I think only Star Wars in 1977 came close.It traumatised me and to this day I still struggle going in the ocean and try to avoid it if I can.
I was 9 and my experience mirrors yours. Still my favorite all time movie
Jaws played two years straight in the same theater in downtown chicago at the United Artists. 75 to 77. Two years. Lines around the corner.
'Siskel & Ebert give it TWO THUMBS UP.'
One of the most iconic sayings. Takes me back to my childhood.
It was a crazy summer. People were too scared to take showers. One of the greatest movies of all time
The shark never appeared in the first hour because it kept breaking down and they had to adjust the script! This was one of the best movies ever made and the score was A+ and helped make this great movie what it was...
Siskel & Ebert came back to life as my left ear.
+Freddie Volatile Gene Siskel died young from Cancer Roger wasn't as young but he did too same disease
Thank you for posting this video. As a boy, I recall watching for their movie reviews every Saturday.
I agree with you. I always looked forward to "Siskel & Ebert At the Movies" at 1:05 a.m. on Saturday mornings as a kid (if I could make it that long before falling asleep that is). It was never the same when Gene Siskel died and although I like Richard Roeper, there never seemed to be the same love/hate relationship between he and Ebert that existed between Siskel & Ebert; which is one of the things that made the show so great.
Best. Movie. Ever. Made.
Period.
Way overrated, dude.
It's definitely in the conversation
Dude, you are crazy.
....."Best. Movie. Ever. Made."........You've got to be kidding, dude apparently you have not seen very many movies. I can think of numerous movies that are way better than this overrated POS.......Blade Runner, Chinatown, Being John Malkovich, American Beauty, Scent Of A Woman, Blue Velvet, Sessions, Diner, Searching For Bobby Fischer, Red Rock West, The Last Detail, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Last Seduction, Dead Poets Society, Shawshank Redemption, Crimes and Misdemeanors, A Fish Called Wanda, Bliss, Being There, Bitter Moon and Donnie Brasco.
...not one of those are "way better" than JAWS. Get real man.
I saw it with my mother and sister in '75; my sister was so freaked out she had to go out to the lobby for a few minutes.
"You are going to need a bigger boat" was ad-lib.
if it was , that was a good ad lib cause that is a famous line now
it was a standing joke line throughout filming that crew and actors said and Schneider repeated - he ad libbed it in a sense - but it wasn't improvised (or created) on the spot
1975 and the year I was born, the first summer blockbuster and my all time favourite film, top drawer acting and directing, one of the best of all time.
I really miss them both😔
This review must have been done for the movie re-release in '79. That's when I saw it for the first time in the cinema. An amazing night at the movies to say the least!
I think Siskel greatly summed up the appeal of Spielberg in the '70s and '80s: the suburbia factor
Got to hand it to Spielberg!
This film gave me some jolts. The opening gave me chills. That poor girl swimming and getting bit. It was horrific!
One of the first blockbusters!
RIP Siskel and Ebert-
I wish someone would revive this show with new hosts.
I miss seeing weekly film previews and reviews.
This show was good for the movie business because giving people a sample piques their interest.
I got a couple UA-cam people to review movies and streaming shows, like Grace from Beyond the Trailer.
Watched this awesome flick 6 times back to back at the cinema. Note: after the first 3 times paying with nothing more but change, this manager dude said you agan? Tell ya what you can watch it for free until you get your fill of it....
Jaws is my favorite movie of all time and it's very well earned in my opinion!
Jaws is my favourite movie of all time too
This is my favorite movie of all time to this day.
Jaws is my all time favorite movie too
i have to rank Jaws in my top 5 movies of all-time.
IMO, my all-time favorite film, and one of the greatest ever ❤
Jaws is my favourite movie of all time too
I saw Jaws at The Glen theatre in downtown Glen Ellen, Il in 1975. I was 10 years old and it scared the hell out of me. To this day I fear sharks in ocean waters. I recall the theatre being dark when the light from the screen illuminated the crowd during the best scene, and seeing the crowd reaction.That’s what a great movie can do.
Do you like Jaws 2?
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Actually "Bruce" the mechanical shark had a lot of mechanical problems in the beginning otherwise it would have been shown more. So Spielberg used Hitchcock techniques
i was sitting in the theatre with my arms on the armrests when that shark came up. i came halfway out of my seat.
Sheriff Brody's line, "You're gonna need a bigger boat" was ad-libbed by Roy Scheider. It wasn't in the script. 😳 🦈
Such a keen comment at the end by Siskel. It's no accident that the modern summer blockbuster movie which in many respects began with "Jaws" happened when American suburbia began to mature and fully become the mainstream culture. It's a shared cultural experience in a society with fewer and fewer of them. It's why the comic book superhero movies of today are so big as well. It's a way for people to temporarily imagine themselves above and beyond their staid normality without threatening or challenging them in any significant way.
I was waiting for one of them to say, "It STINKS!"
I saw Jaws in the theater and it did scare the stuffing out of me. I grew up on the beach and went body surfing and tubing in the ocean all the time...until Jaws. Haven’t been in the ocean past my knees since then!
I wonder if we'll ever again be able to watch a scary movie in a crowded theater.
That is why I think horror-comedies work as well as straight horrors cause laughter in a horror flick is actually unsettling. Good job AMWIL.
"I remember seeing Jaws in 1975" is a dead giveaway.
Suzy Brewster and I two 16 years olds on our
1st date Capitol drive in
East side San Jose.
Drove my moms 1974 chevy gray Vega.
I wonder if Spielberg would have edited the film the same way (I'm not suggesting he wouldn't) if the mechanical shark had been working properly early on in the filming. I've never read a direct quote from him about this and I'm curious to know if there were one or two earlier shots of the shark planned.
he has said he did plan to show it earlier but it would not work but that he don't reget it because that made the film the great that it is
@Bold One He would've made a much worse movie, if he'd had CGI. The reason Jaws is great is that we don't see the shark much. The unseen terror becomes more terrifying because we can't see it. And that was due to the happenstance that the mechanical shark wouldn't work properly. It turned a simple horror movie into a classic suspense movie. Thank god CGI wasn't available.
Saw it new in 75. Was outside the theater holding the ticket for over 2 hours waiting to get in. The numbers on the ticket were almost gone when I got to the counter. When I got home that night after watching it, I was in the kitchen by the sink and we had a very large custom glass window that stuck out from the house and looked over the back yard . I swear I remember looking out that window (it was late-night) and was thinking at any time that Shark was going to come busting through . The scene where the boat is going down and brody is inside and trying to get out and the shark comes busting through haunted me for years. and Many times it has been posted about people jumping out of their seats and running out of the Movie. I saw that many times in person.
...ty!, Roger Ebert -"audience LEVITATED" (i thought I was the ONLY person who ever ROSE out of his seat - while still with my hands on the arms! ...The Exorcist )
Scariest moment for me is still the head appearing out of the hull of the boat.
You know what disturbed me the most? The girl in the beginning of the movie swimming in the ocean at night, no less. You could feel the fear building, especially when he shot the scene beneath her body in the water. And when the shark first attacks, her reaction is haunting with that confused, terrified look on her face. Just a brutal, jarring scene without ever really seeing severed limbs or guts spilling out in the ocean.
I both saw the film Jaws and read the book while I was attending the U.S. Navy Submarine School in Groton, Connecticut. For me, it was one of the few times where I enjoyed the movie just as much as the book.
0:55-0:58 little did they know how much that great line was gonna impact the world.
Roy improvised it
he didn't plan to not show the shark but it worked in his favor LOL
April Gosa exactly
I miss those days
Saw this on opening night in 1975, and loved it so much I saw it another 40 times that summer. I was about 14 at the time and the matinees were just $1 back then.
Do you like Jaws 2?
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This is actually from an episode in the 1980s, not a review of Jaws.
JAWS already is a masterpiece. Not sure why you hate the pond scene so much.
The fact of the shark showing up 1 hour into the movie was due to mechanical problems with the shark.
Spielberg took a problem and turned it into cinematic gold.
There have been many horrific movie scenes, but for me, nothing matches the doomed young woman swimming alone. I didn't even watch it in the theatre, and the scene's power is still startling.
Man am I GLAD I didn't see this BEFORE seeing the movie! First night. Stood in a massive line at the former West Goshen theater and lived up that first hour in anticipation! 😳
Very similar to the laugh and scream effect was when the two men one night put the hunk of meat on a hook and chained it to the dock. They threw it into the ocean and shortly Jaws grabs it. Destroys the dock and floats it away from shore. It pulls Bernie into the water. Every one is laughing. Then... the dock stops moving. It turns and starts too get pulled back to shore. The one man left on the shore is yelling, SWIM! Don’t look back! SWIM. Scary as F**k!
It was Charlie. The other moron was shouting, "Take my word for it. SWIM CHARLIE, SWIM." It's of my favorite scenes in the entire film. Charlie, the moron, when he's pulled from the water, says, "Can we go home NOW?" HAHAHAHAHA
It's great seeing these old Siskel and Ebert reviews. Great upload!
Steven Spielberg was genius for waiting so long to reveal the "monster." This idea works really well because it gives the audience a chance to get involved in the story and start to feel comfortable. Then, when the monster shows its face, we are just as startled/scared as the character.
I'm impressed I could hear what Siskel was saying out of the left channel, despite the massive MPEG audio artefacts out of the right channel...
Rest In Peace Mr. Ebert and Mr. Siskel.
This movie was great, and always will be great.
▪ Robert Shaw as Quint is what really stands out 43 yrs later. today's Hollywood wouldn't even have a Quint character to much "toxic masculity"▪
I remember my tub of popcorn and soft drink flying up in the air during the Ben Garderer dead head scene.
I’m surprised you still had popcorn and soda that far into the movie. 🍿
@burgerking8475 yes, I couldn't eat or drink much during that movie and much less so after that particular scene.
My family was there (a few miles away) when they were filming in 1974.
That was total madness, I loved every bit of that!
God thus movie was so good because the cast was perfect. Shaw was the heart of the movie, Richard was the brains, and Roy was the soul. It was perfect
I saw this movie as a kid on a family vacation at...Myrtle Beach of all places!! I didn't go near the beach after seeing it, or the motel pool!!
Gene Siskel gives a brilliant summary of the reasons so many people love Spielberg films. Also,Siskel gave Jaws only 3 stars when it came out,although you wouldn't know it from his subsequent raves of it.
Read the book by Peter Benchley. Two big differences between the book and the movie: 1) Hooper bangs Brodie's wife and Brodie knows which makes for some tension on the boat 2) Hooper gets eat in the cage, he does not survive.
No this isnt the 1st time we "see" the shark, but this is the 1st time we are actually introduced to the shark in a big way. Where we see & feel the magnitude of the situation, hence Brody's reaction & of course than famous line
I've always wondered why none of the articles or references I see about the appearance of the shark seems to remember the scene in the pond. A terrifying moment in the film, with an amazing aerial shot of the shark shown underwater, mouth open as it attacks the man thrown from the row boat.
RIP siskel and Ebert..
I thought Harrison looked good for his age and just because guys like him and Stallone are old doesn't mean they should just roll over and die, if Harrison has another Indy left in him and Stallone has another Rocky or Rambo then I am glad to see my childhood heroes back on the big screen again for one more wild ride because after that we will never see them on the big screen again..I know Stallone is done with Rocky and Rambo but Harrison has expressed intrest in another Indy so I hope he does.
Jaws is my favorite shark movie of all time.
What truly amazes me watching these old reviews, is the way Messr. Siskel and Ebert describe film-going audiences decades ago. Fear of "Jaws", disgust of "The Thing", perhaps too much horror in "Alien". How people have changed. I wonder if anyone would be phased by a Fallout-style nuclear war.
you actually see the shark for the first time when it attacks the row boat man and brodys son and friends
I saw this movie when it came out, I was in high school. The lines were unbelievable, but worth the wait. I have Jaws as well as Duel on dvd, both are just classic Speilberg. :)
Completely agree! My no. 1.
It's probably the biggest misconception of all time that this scene is the first time you see the shark. NO. IT. IS. NOT. You see the shark in the estuary attack scene.
CORRECT!!!
Exactly ☝️
But you first time see the shark from the main character point of view. But i get your point
one of my all-time top 10 favs.
Yeah this was pretty intense for a 12 year old, and years later I've seen why !
One of the greatest films after the great film Poseidon Adventure. Movies will never be the same again not like this anyway!!!!!