earlybird
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.