"That's a twenty footer." "Twenty-five." replied Quint. 'They're going to need a bigger boat'. In 1975 the first film to have a real effect on a young Ows was Jaws. I liked to fish and liked the sea and I had read the book long before the highest-grossing film in history at the time came to town on a wave of 'hysterical' media stories of it literally keeping people out of the water (I also have a very personal link to Jaws 2...something I've mentioned before [that post
The sad irony is that Jaws is being played out for real in Western Australia: with Ben Linden the fifth person killed by a shark off WA's coast in less than a year: the latest victim of Brutus; "If something is in the four to five metre vicinity and it's a white shark - which is the description we've got from witnesses - you make the assumption that it could be the same shark."
Watched Jaws again recently, still a good film. Actually went to the Premiere with my then girlfriend - nothing impresses a 15 year old girl* more than a strong arm around them when the whole audience is screaming at the scene where the body appears in the hole in the boat!
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Jaws 2 was good but the others were not (is the best I can say)
Yes, I went to see Jaws 3D in 1982/3 (in Canada) and was really pissed off! Luckily a steak dinner, a night boozing and Tim Horton doughnuts and coffee on the way home at 4 a.m made up for it :-)
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