My wife hates JAWS

Jerry Maguire wrote:

So, I just decided to show my children 8,9,12... jaws.

Well my wife has never seen it either.

Kids loved it... my wife of 9 years hated it.

Divorce ? Or no?

1) I saw JAWS at age 10, and for me it was too soon...scared the crap out of me.

2) It hasn't held up that well. If you have no nostalgia attached to that movie and you see it now and don't like it, in my opinion, that's a big nothing. So no, divorce is not warranted.

Saw it in theater when I was 9- begged my parents and loved it. Made me want to be Matt Hooper and I even got as far as my junior year of college as a marine science major before switching to straight biology. Became scuba certified in high school in early 80s and must have put in 2k dives over the years.

It’s probably the one movie I’ve seen the most often- I probably watch it once every 2 years.

Perfect film. I think it holds up well. The magic in the movie is that during production they had a hard time getting the mechanical shark to work so ended up scrapping showing it to the audience until the final 3rd of the film- your imagination does the damage the first 2/3rd.

Robert Shaw’s Indianapolis monologue is one of the all time great scenes in cinematic history IMO.

So respectfully disagree with the wife.

Jerry Maguire wrote:

So, I just decided to show my children 8,9,12... jaws.

Well my wife has never seen it either.

Kids loved it... my wife of 9 years hated it.

Divorce ? Or no?

Saw Jaws at 9...lived at the beach

Lined up for hours to see it.

Have seen it 20-30 times..

Sorry I would divorce her

Better luck next time.

Anti-semite

Jerry Maguire wrote:

So, I just decided to show my children 8,9,12... jaws.

Well my wife has never seen it either.

Kids loved it... my wife of 9 years hated it.

Divorce ? Or no?

Need picts before I can answer.

(Of your wife not you or your kids you perv.)

uhmmmm wrote:

Jerry Maguire wrote:

So, I just decided to show my children 8,9,12... jaws.

Well my wife has never seen it either.

Kids loved it... my wife of 9 years hated it.

Divorce ? Or no?

Need picts before I can answer.

(Of your wife not you or your kids you perv.)

Hahaha!

I spent my summers on the beaches off Long Island and was admittedly scared of swimming after Jaws.

Jaws is still one of my favorite films and I agree that Shaw's monologue and that whole scene is one of the best.

"Show me the way to go home"

Does she enjoy Anthony Jeselnik's "Shark Party"?

earlybird wrote:

The magic in the movie is that during production they had a hard time getting the mechanical shark to work so ended up scrapping showing it to the audience until the final 3rd of the film- your imagination does the damage the first 2/3rd.

I've never seen Jaws. You're telling me the whole movie is seriously about a mechanical shark?

1975- before CGI

Once the shark does make an appearance , it’s pretty realistic up to the scene when it eats Quint.

earlybird wrote:

1975- before CGI

Once the shark does make an appearance , it’s pretty realistic up to the scene when it eats Quint.

So what backstory does the movie give to explain the existence of a random robot shark swimming around?

robot shark? wrote:

earlybird wrote:

The magic in the movie is that during production they had a hard time getting the mechanical shark to work so ended up scrapping showing it to the audience until the final 3rd of the film- your imagination does the damage the first 2/3rd.

I've never seen Jaws. You're telling me the whole movie is seriously about a mechanical shark?

We were told the movie was a documentary before seeing it when we were 9 or 10.

So thinking it was all true it scared the living crap out of us.

If we thought it was a documentary on robotic sharks it would have been cool rather than scary.

Future brother in law was affected worse, refused to swim in even a fresh water lake.

Jerry Maguire wrote:

So, I just decided to show my children 8,9,12... jaws.

Well my wife has never seen it either.

Kids loved it... my wife of 9 years hated it.

Divorce ? Or no?

The trolling is just not as funny as it could be.

robot shark? wrote:

earlybird wrote:

1975- before CGI

Once the shark does make an appearance , it’s pretty realistic up to the scene when it eats Quint.

So what backstory does the movie give to explain the existence of a random robot shark swimming around?

You are either a brilliant troll or the stupidest person alive.

Yep. Shaw's monologue is the best thing about that movie.

robot shark? wrote:

earlybird wrote:

The magic in the movie is that during production they had a hard time getting the mechanical shark to work so ended up scrapping showing it to the audience until the final 3rd of the film- your imagination does the damage the first 2/3rd.

I've never seen Jaws. You're telling me the whole movie is seriously about a mechanical shark?

Spoiler alert? Come on!!

R Dreyfuss was obnoxious in his role as Matt Hopper.

Other than that, good, mid brow entertainment

It's "Hooper," but whatever. "Jaws" is the best proof that "the book is always better than the movie" is a lie. The book is incredibly poorly written.

The Unkle wrote:

R Dreyfuss was obnoxious in his role as Matt Hopper.

Other than that, good, mid brow entertainment

The Godfather being even a better example.

A great movie from an okay book.

And yes, I misspelled Hooper.