agracer said:
bagger05 said:
The way they killed the shark was cool but ridiculous and contrived.
I love Jaws but I think they could've executed it better.
Book is fantastic and shark is not blown up like the movie. Also, Hooper dies in the book.
Also, all of you talking about sharks and scared to go into the water after seeing the movie the first time in theaters need to check out Malibu Artist on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsykMfh4KIAf_B8Wnx7hzNA
The number of sharks and how close they come to swimmers, surfers and fishermen than just swim away is astonishing. Like, they are all over the place and we never see them.
I was snorkeling in the Cayman Islands with my dad and my brother when I was a teenager in the 80s - crystal-clear water, parrot fish, triggerfish, even a couple of sea turtles. My dad was a very experienced snorkeler / scuba diver and had gone down to the reef below us for a closer look at one point, and as he dove down, there was a hammerhead about 15 feet away that we hadn't seen because his back was blocking it. That thing was maybe 10-12 feet long, came within about 10 feet of us, and then turned and just swam away. My dad missed the whole thing and thought we were lying when he came back out and we were both totally freaked out.
While I learned in the years after that hammerheads almost never attack people, it was still this sudden very chilling realization that this giant thing was in the water and we didn't even see it until it was that close. Very humbling experience of who runs the ocean (not us).
