I'm watching "Jaws"

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Hold me.

[BikeWriter]

1. Oh no!

:(

[flvegan]

2. If that poster were to scale, that shark

would not only be, like, 40 feet long, but he/she would (at that speed) fly out of the water like Flipper. Oh, and where in the hell are those air bubbles around the face coming from? Did Jaws just pass through some giant underwater air pocket? Plus, were Jaws THAT close, the eyes would likely already be covered. Oh, and a good damn shark dentist is in order. Jaws needs braces.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. Way to suspend your disbelief!

:evilgrin:

[flvegan]

I have to poke fun.

Sharks are in the water, which is why flvegan stays OUT of the water.

There is no Jaws.
There is no Jaws.
There is no Jaws.
There is no Jaws.
There is no Jaws.
There is no Jaws.
There is no Jaws.

[BreweryYardRat]

22. Don't go worrying...

...about great whites, that is. :evilgrin:

Given our location, I'd be more worried about bull sharks.

Bull sharks can and will swim and attack in very shallow water. They can survive and thrive in freshwater-if it's murky, that's preferable. Additionally, male bull sharks have massive amounts of testosterone pumping through them, and both males and females tend to stake out territories.

That being said, your odds of getting bit aren't exactly high. Go swimming! Although I wouldn't recommend following the example of the dude in this picture:

[LeftyMom]

7. "fly out of the water like Flipper"

You do realize they do that, right?

[flvegan]

8. Of course, but getting a couple feet of air is nothing

compared to the frontside 360 through a hoop that Flipper can do. You want aquatic vert, Flipper rules the game.

[petronius]

11. Answers to your questions:

The bubbles came from cavitation - the shark is moving very, very, fast.

Some great whites do fly out of the water like Flipper.

White sharks do not have nictitating membranes (although they do roll their eyes back).

The shark does need braces, but I am not going to be the one to mention it to him...

:P

[edbermac]

3. 'You're gonna need a bigger boat...'

[pokerfan]

30. You have to admit that is one pathetic looking dummy shark

It's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eye.

[SofaKingLiberal]

5. That movie f***ed me up.

As a kid, I was terrified of going onto the ocean after watching Jaws. Every time I go into the ocean now, the idea of getting eaten by a shark in the back of my mind.

[yvr girl]

6. I read it on the beach (Not recommended)

I finished reading a part where someone gets attacked and then I went swimming (in the ocean.) I wanted to see if I could still touch the bottom. I stepped on a jellyfish and FREAKED out. You never saw anyone swim to shore so fast.

[Roon]

10. I was in the ocean thinking about sharks

when a crab pinched me! I freaked out too!!

[momophile]

19. me too. I watched it from behind a chair when I was...

maybe 7 or 8 years old. Been screwed up ever since.

The pisser is, I love swimming and snorkeling. But damn, I hate being eaten by sharks!!!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

9. For me the absolute worst part is the

fingernails across the chalkboard moment.

Jeez, I hate that.

:rofl:

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

20. "You all know me.........

.......you know how I earn livin'."

[Archae]

12. For me, the "jump out of my seat" moment...

Was when that oceanographer played by Richard Dreyfuss was under a wrecked boat, and a guy's head floated into view.

My friends said that I *LEVITATED* off my seat. :rofl:

[Left Is Write]

13. One of my favorite movies.

:)

[LostinVA]

14. It's so unrealistic re: shark behavior that I laugh now

My SO was a Marine Biology major, and loves the movie... it's like her "Rocky Horror" or something.

[Alleycat]

15. One of my Favorites as well

Everytime it is on I just have to watch.

Saw it for the first time when I was 7 or 8. My whole family was on Cape Cod helping my uncle build his house. There were several families all camping out in the unfinished house. While the Dad's worked our Mom's tried to keep the kids busy. Since we were there for about 3 weeks the Mom's were getting sick of entertaining the kids and they really wanted to go shopping. Me and all my cousins ranged in age from 7 to 16. One day they dropped us off in town (Orleans) and told us to go to a movie while they went shopping. (ok they were not bad parents this was back in the 70's) We all went to see JAWS. Not one of us went back in the ocean for the remainder of the vacation.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

16. If it gets too much, you could always watch "Trees"

A Comedic-homage to Steven Spielberg's "JAWS"!

Life is peaceful in the small town of Hazelville until a man-eating Great White Pine makes the Memorial Day campers into a holiday feast. With an ingenious scheme forest ranger Mark Cody (Kevin McCauley), botanist Max Cooper (Philip Gardiner) and Squint the lumberjack (Peter Randazzo) turn the buffet table around on the killer tree. A little bit of horror and a ton of laughs makes TREES hit with the force of an axe!

It's bite is worse than it's bark!

http://www.treesthemovie.com

I've only seen the sequel - The Root Of All Evil but that was great fun.

Jaws is fucking brilliant though. Gruelling, but brilliant.

[devilgrrl]

17. That movie makes me miss Robert Shaw.

Wasn't he a great actor?

[Yavin4]

24. Farewell and Adieu to Ye Fine Spanish Ladies

Farewell and Adieu to Ye Ladies of Spain

[TheCentepedeShoes]

25. Show me the way to go home

(bam, bam bam) I'm drunk and I wanna go to bed.

[pokerfan]

31. Best scene in the movie...

Any one with Robert Shaw. But this one is my favorite:

Martin: What's that one?
Quint: What?
Martin: That one, there, on your arm?
Quint: Ah, well. It's a tattoo. I got that removed.
Hooper: Don't tell me. Don't tell me. Mother. Ha ha ha! What is it?
Quint: Mr. Hooper, that's the U.S.S. Indianapolis.
Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?
Martin: What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian Delady, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know, you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. Well, we didn't know. `Cause our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like `ol squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark nearest man and then he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces. Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, bosom's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He'd a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.


("I'll never put on a lifejacket again." Notice that when the Orca is going down, before they decide to put Mr. Hooper in the water, Quint comes out of the cabin carrying two lifejackets and hands them to Brody and Hooper.)

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. I was afraid to swim in even a swimming pool after that one.

:scared: I be of no use holding you. :hi:

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

21. My favorite movie ever

I have my Todd McFarlane model of "Bruce" eating Quint and the boat on top of my monitor.

[frogmarch]

23. Peter Benchley

was one of my favorite authors. He caught a lot of flack from marine biologists (my brother-in-law included, though they became friends) and ecologists over Jaws, and he spent the rest of his life trying to make up for writing a book that made people afraid of the ocean. Peter Benchley did many positive things for ocean ecology. My b-i-l spoke highly of him. He said he was quiet and gentle, and almost shy. A very nice man.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

26. I went through a phase as a kid where I drew that picture, and scenes like

it, ALL THE FREAKING TIME.

This was just before my phase of drawing Star Wars/TIE fighter/Death Star pics all the time.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

27. Knock, knock

Land Shark

[DerekG]

28. Greatest. Escapist. Film. Ever.

That "The Wizard of Oz," "Star Wars," and "King Kong" secured better positions on the AFI 100 List is a bloody travesty.

Absolutely flawless.

[Beware the Beast Man]

29. That's some bad hat, Harry.

:)