Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Jaws was in the first batch of DVDs I ever got. I remember thinking 'wow, this never gets old'
It was a lovely print too.
It was a lovely print too.
In praise of Jaws.
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Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I was too young to see the film when it came out so I read the novel instead. Even that scared the shit out of me, I wouldn't even put my head under water when in the bathtub.
:edit: I wrote the same shit already. Getting old...
My Dad took me to a late showing when I was six.
Plain fear is all I felt all night.
Saw Jaws on acid. One of my many small claims to fame.
Steel Icarus
an attempt was made
I've probably said it before on urban but when I was nine I was left outside a Radio Rentals or Rumbelows in Lincoln while my grandparents went shopping (my choice and I was checked up on regularly) and I watched the whole film without audio. It must have had an impact as upon my return home I wrote a poem which drew plaudits from family and teachers alike.
Great film, got a special edition DVD of it including a documentary and also a Blu-ray version.
Great film, got a special edition DVD of it including a documentary and also a Blu-ray version.
Steel Icarus
an attempt was made
Couple of years later I read the book and was bewildered by the weird subplot involving the (planned?) affair between Ellen Brody and Matt Hooper, and the fact she's fretting over making gazpacho soup. Ever since, whenever I've heard "gazpacho" - admittedly not all that often - Richard Dreyfuss' face has popped into my head.
krtek a houby
Saoirse don Phalaistín!
I was too young to see the film when it came out so I read the novel instead. Even that scared the shit out of me, I wouldn't even put my head under water when in the bathtub.
:edit: I wrote the same shit already. Getting old...
Am still freaked that so many people had sharks in the bathtub, back then.
my dad got me the book to read before I saw the film. Was 12 yo at the time and my teacher called my parents about 'inappropriate' literature 
my dad told him to piss off and told me to be more sneaky 
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
Reno
The In Kraut
I still don't know how we survived the 70s.
deeyo
hurled unheard to this world.
went searching for my favourite scene, the one where quint taunts hooper for his aluminium cage:
found out that shaw had sung spanish ladies before - in buccaneers, back in 56.
(this version, however, is by an entirely different robert s. bit confusing.)
also found this lovely documentary on mr shaw, interviews with his widow, children & gaelic-speaking grandchildren & neighbours from tourmakeady.
found out that shaw had sung spanish ladies before - in buccaneers, back in 56.
(this version, however, is by an entirely different robert s. bit confusing.)
also found this lovely documentary on mr shaw, interviews with his widow, children & gaelic-speaking grandchildren & neighbours from tourmakeady.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Jaws was the first movie to scare me witless. I cycled to see it, meeting a friend at the cinema, I must have been quite young. Anyhow the da na da na da na music was doom filled and afterwards I cycled home, with my pitiful lamp, terrified of the dark and oddly scared of the cows whose breathing I could hear from their fields behind the hedges.
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
Da na, da na, da na
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Yeah that's a good documentary, watched it recently
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
So I was seven when it came out. Didn’t see it obvs. But I did get two goldfish. One, like everyone else then, I called Jaws. But I’d vaguely heard about about another film and presumed was similar. So I called the other fish Deep Throat.
I think it was 2004 before I realised why my parents friends had always laughed so much when I showed them my pets…
I think it was 2004 before I realised why my parents friends had always laughed so much when I showed them my pets…
krtek a houby
Saoirse don Phalaistín!
Remember when it came out but being kind of young, wasn't allowed see it for quite some time. Was allowed see Close Encounters, when it was released. Probably Spielberg's best films, those two.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Of course you are!
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Similarly after Bobby Moore died there was a documentary celebrating him in which his wife Tina mentioned that he was fastidious in his bathing habits, and that before he got out of the tub he would always start drying himself, bit by bit, with a towel before getting out, so that he never dripped on the floor.
It stuck in my mind to the point that every bath and shower from that point on - and I mean for years - I could never not think about that, never not picture Bobby furiously buffing a hairy leg before popping it out onto the floor. I only managed to shake it off a couple of years back, but now that I've mentioned it again it's going to come back, isn't it?
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WouldBe
Dislicksick
You need to get a giant air blade attached to the side of the bath so you can 'crawl' through it as you get out.Similarly after Bobby Moore died there was a documentary celebrating him in which his wife Tina mentioned that he was fastidious in his bathing habits, and that before he got out of the tub he would always start drying himself, bit by bit, with a towel before getting out, so that he never dripped on the floor.
It stuck in my mind to the point that every bath and shower from that point on - and I mean for years - I could never not think about that, or pucture Bobby furiously buffing a hairy leg before popping it out onto the floor. I only managed to shake it off a couple of years back, but now that I've mentioned it again it's going to come back, isn't it?
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Or I could just take a regular hair dryer into the bathroom on a long extension leadYou need to get a giant air blade attached to the side of the bath so you can 'crawl' through it as you get out.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
You could but I wouldn't advise it.Or I could just take a regular hair dryer into the bathroom on a long extension lead
I still watch it every couple of years or so. and go on a Wikipedia Odyssey reading about various shark species. amazing creatures but I would still not want to be in the water with a great white, oceanic white tip or tiger shark.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
It's okay, I'll wear gum boots and put shower caps over my handsYou could but I wouldn't advise it.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I have just discovered that Jaws is based on..... Ibsen.
It's Enemy of the People. In a town that's financially dependent on tourists who come for the water, something in the water is killing people. The protagonist wants to do something about it, but the town leaders want to hush it up.
It's Enemy of the People. In a town that's financially dependent on tourists who come for the water, something in the water is killing people. The protagonist wants to do something about it, but the town leaders want to hush it up.
