June 20, 1975 Jaws opens in theaters

[rick64]

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/t...breaking-terrifying-movie-jaws-opens-theaters

 

[UK 82]

Family vacation to Florida kept us out of the ocean thanks to that film.

 

[TCPUKChamps]

 

[Blueisbest]

Skipped out from high school early and went downtown to the old United Artist/Penthouse movie theater (now the sight of the Louisville Palace) and watched Jaws. I had already read the book, but the movie scared the crap out of 16-year-old me.

 

[BC_Wader]

Definitely in my Top 10 movies. Robert Shaw was born to play Quint. The USS Indianapolis speech still gives me goosebumps.

 

[shockdaddy19]

Without question, in my top 10 favorites ever. I watched a documentary on the filming of it and it's wild how many challenges they had producing it. Just an incredible movie, and it has aged well.

 

[rick64]

The USS Indianapolis monologue by Robert Shaw is awesome. He was an amazing actor.

 

[Blue-ish]

I enlisted in the USN in September of 1975 and had never seen Jaws. In the final week of boot camp the graduating class is given the priviledge of viewing a movie. Yes, they showed us Jaws.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

 

[christophero]

A top 10 movie for me as well. I never saw it on the big screen until a few years ago. It is definitely a movie that is better on the big screen.

 

[DreadLox]

The shooting star scene when they're on the water at dusk.

 

[J_Dee]

A top 10 movie for me as well. I never saw it on the big screen until a few years ago. It is definitely a movie that is better on the big screen.

Definitely. I don't know how in the hell I missed every single Jaws movie as a kid (HBO was my third parent), but I didn't see Jaws until a few years ago, at Cinemark in Richmond. And it was great.

Edit: "A few years ago" was, according to my ticket stub, 2015. Time flies.

 

[Catman100]

7 year old me was amazed at that movie.
Parents would be cancelled today if they took kids to it at age 7.
A top ten movie of all time for me.

 

[UKwizard]

The first 2/3s of the movie is a great film. It is a masterclass at building tension and dread. The final 3rd pushes it to a masterpiece with every shot and line being iconic.

Slow ahead? I can go slow ahead. Come down here and chum some of this ****.......

 

[christophero]

You have city hands Mr Hooper.

 

[KyCatFan1]

I use to like going out as far in the ocean as I could while touching the bottom. Each wave would lift you up. These movies along with real shark attacks keep me a lot closer to shore. Found out a shark (small one) attacked someone (bit their hand) when I was at Daytona Beach a while back and I was out in the water a lot that day. Had something hard hit my leg one time in like chest deep water and I immediately felt like Richard Pryor in The Toy. Probably was just seaweed but I wasn't going to find out.