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7:20 Abby, that'd be about $18,000 today --10 thou today is about 48,000. But as ya saw, Quint really SHOULD have had a bigger boat! 17:08 Abby handled that better than many-Most flat out Scream and jump like 'Roos! Fun watch, ladies..Maybe Toy shouldv'e lent you a stress pillow!
Lee Fierro (1929-2020) Elizabeth Lee Fierro was an American actress and theatre promoter best known for playing Mrs. Kintner in the Jaws film franchise.
Susan got to reprise her role and famous scene for Steven Spielberg's comedy 1941 where, instead of a shark, Crissie encounters a Japanese submarine while skinny dipping off the coast of California.
"Why didn't the dog fetch the stick, Abby?" Toy is so fun. I love her cute anticipatory glances at Abby when she knows 'something bad's about to happen'. This is now my favorite reaction of Abby's. "He has Quint in his teeth." LOL.
The shark's head was filled with Red paint, squid, and kegs of dynamite. They had only one chance to get it right. It went off perfectly. Jaws became the first summer blockbuster in history.
@@toy4871 If the explosion failed the entire movie would have been thrown out and Steven Spielberg would have been in trouble because they had only one head to blow up. Also when the dead shark is sinking to the bottom you can see one of the wires sticking out.
@RichardM1366 😱😱😱 oh my god! I would be so nervous until that moment. I can't imagine having to throw the whole movie away. That one scene determined if we will ever see this movie. 🤯
For me probably the most sublime moment in Jaws is Roy Scheider's (Chief Brody) unrestrained outburst of triumphant glee after dispatching the threat. Great reaction, enjoyed.
Good call. That truly is a brilliant piece of acting on Scheider's part. I have a running list of these types of acting moments that are very subtle and often go unnoticed in how incredible they are. This is a good one to add to the list.
I finally saw it with an audience in a classic film showing, and even though we had all seen it on video, DVD and so on, we still felt every scare and shock of this film. Great reaction!
I'd just like to say how much I enjoy your channel. I only have my children with me half the week and every other weekend, so when im on my own and I see you come up on my feed I feel like im watching something with friends rather than on my own, I hope that doesn't sound to sad lol, but watching something with you guys brightens my day 🙂🏴
@abbywatchesmovies thanks Abby, this is without doubt the strangest life I've ever lived, and watching you guys definitely enriches it. I just have to try and be more like normal spongebob and not share personal stuff whilst trying to board a Spanish galleon! To outrageous for my own good, lol nope actually I'm never going to be like normal spongebob. If you want to watch another war movie, then war horse would be a good one, I'm looking forward to your next reaction 🙂🏴
We accidently stumbled upon the filming of this movie while on a day trip the the vineyard. We saw Quinnt's shack and part of the shark and a few extras. It was pretty cool but had no idea we were watching a classic being born! 😄
Toy teasing Abby, Abby telling Toy Bruce has Quint parts in his teeth. 🤣 Loved your Empire reference Toy "and I thought they smelled bad on the outside" This has been another how not to get attacked by a shark tips with Abby! 🤣 Awesome reaction by both, I loved watching it, thanks for posting ❤
The scene where the chief and his son were making faces at each other wasn't scripted. between takes the kid and the chief just started making faces and Spielberg rolled the camera on it.
I love how everyone is so concerned about Pippit in Jaws, until Alex Kintner gets chomped and they realise not even kids are safe in this one. Other amazing movies from the 70s? Godfather/Godfather 2? Alien? Taxi Driver? The Exorcist? Star Wars? One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? Blazing Saddles? Nah I can't think of any....
May as well add Apocalypse Now, Deliverance and the movie that IMO sort of ushered in the 70's attitude of "We're doing things differently from now on.....", which was 1969's Midnight Cowboy. Talk about the "feel good" movie marathon of the century, lol.
I would add, "Silent Running" (1972), "The Andromeda Strain" (1971), "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975), ""And Justice For All" (1979), "A Boy and His Dog" (1975), "Westworld" (1973), "MASH" (1970), and "Logan's Run" (1976). Also, though a 60's film I would also recommend "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), "The Comic" (1969), and "Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963).
"Close Encounters" was Spielberg's next big blockbuster in '77. Same summer Star Wars came out. Jaws made him world famous, but he did a great TV movie called "Duel" before that. You could see he had a great talent for making suspenseful movies, even then.
I think Abby was about to ask how the shot where Chief Brody appears to be moving towards the camera as the Kitner boy is attacked. It's called a dolly zoom shot. Using a zoom lens, they dolly the entire camera in (or out) while zooming the lens in (or out). It's a great in camera effect. It's also called a Hitchcock shot.
In this shot, the lens is zooming out while the dolly is pushing in. You can tell because the ground behind body gets further away, and this can only happen when the focal length is getting shorter (i.e. going from 100mm to 24mm). I would like to know how many times they had to do this in order to get the speed of the zoom out and the grips to get the speed of the push in just right. You also have to be willing to burn the production time to get this shot, which if they didn't do the dolly zoom would be so much easier and quicker to get in the can. I am so glad Spielberg decided to do this because as we see, decades later people are still blown away by it. This was also a risky move since this was his first big budget, major motion picture he Directed. When he Directed "Duel" before this, it was a made for television movie.
It shouldn't be called the Hitchcock 'shot' technically. The camera technique most definitely yes but the 'shot' where the camera zooms in on a character's face to convey shock, awe etc should be called the Jaws 'shot'.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind!!!! Extended version!!! You WONT be disappointed. Steven Spielberg, Richard Dreyfus, John Williams, Melinda Dillion, Teri Garr. Also, E. T. The Extra Terrestrial is also great!!
Steven Spielberg was 27, if I remember correctly, and relatively new to the movie making business at time in the early to mid 1970s when Jaws was originally made for and released in theaters. He had mad a movie called “The Sugarland Express” and another a film called “Duel”. He may have a few others but those were among his best well known movies before Jaws came out. “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind” is another movie he had out around the same time as Jaws, Duel, and SugarLand Express. Jaws ultimately launched Steven Spielberg’s career as top movie Director taking from a relatively unknown director to being among the most famous if not one most famous in the movie making industry. Jaws was shot on location in Martha’s Vinyard, Massachusetts with most every water scene, except for the scene with Ben Gardener’s damaged and drifting boat and the cage scene, were shot on the open ocean of the coast of Martha’s Vinyard. Shooting in the open ocean is why the Shark routinely would malfunction thus the reason for very few but memorable scenes when you do see the shark. Many have said not seeing the shark and letting your mind run wild with images of what was happening under the water made the film more scary then it would have been if the shark had been seen often. The novel from which the movie is based on depicted the shark as being seen often. Jaws is wildly regarded as the original Summer Blockbuster and at the time of its original release was the top money grossing or making movie. Jaws is regarded as as being masterpiece due its great characters, suspenseful story telling and overall less is more approach, meaning the less you see the shark combined with how you learn about the characters and watch their character build, helps to make the characters and suspense that much more entertaining and or enjoyable.
I know he directed an early episode of Columbo when he was quite young and that impressed a lot of people in town. He quickly got a reputation as something of a boy wonder. A kid barely out of film school who could direct better than guys with 30 years of experience.
Robert Shaw, the actor playing Quint is in another great movie with Robert Redford and Paul Newman called The Sting. Oh and Shaw was also a bad guy in a James Bond movie. Hooper, played by Richard Dreyfus is in many others too. Like Stephen King's Stand By Me, and Mr Holland's Opus, oh and American Graffiti. And Roy Scheider (Police Chief) is in another great movie with Dustin Hoffman, called Marathon Man.
@@RuntotheMovies The red thing that was flashing in the shark expert hand was a tracker to keep the shark from escaping barrels same it was heavier than the other's sharks
Hi Toy & Abby, you're 2 of my favourite Run To The Movies reactors & I loved your reaction to this iconic classic :) it's one of the GOAT movies & Steven Spielberg is one of the GOAT directors! I highly recommend you both react to his underrated/hardly reacted to 1979 comedy '1941' - set in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. It's hilarious and the opening scene parodies the opening scene in Jaws! Speaking of Jaws, yes please continue with the series, it's been said they decline in quality as they go on, but they're Jaws movies nonetheless and they're well worth a watch for the channel. This is my favourite shark movie & coincidentally, the Great White is my favourite shark. + I highly recommend a musical for you to react to: The Blues Brothers (1980) So funny & entertaining. Keep up the fantastic work you do :) Love from the UK
Some of the shark scenes used a real shark, like the cage scene. The story about the USS Indianapolis is true, my father was in the Navy during WWII and told me about a lot of events that happened during that time. I remember watching this in the theater when it came out, I wouldn't even go swimming in a small lake after it came out 🤣. Anyway, loved the review, love you guys, take care and stay safe ❤️
Yes and no. The story stated here that the sharks killed everyone is absurdly false. Most of the sailors died from exposure, existing wounds and dehydration. ThenDoctor for that vessel who survived the ordeal stated that the entire time he saw one shark. Now I'm sure that there were others that he didn't see, as well I'm sure many of the already dead were eaten by sharks, I'm guessing the true number to be between 40 and 80. Not the 800 or so the movie claims.
The other blockbusters of this era were Star Wars and Close Encounters. I strongly recommend Close Encounters if you haven't seen it already. The actor who played Quint was Robert Shaw, who was a legend at the time but at the tail end of his career. He really brought a lot of legitimacy to the film IMO. If you want to see another great movie he was in, check out The Sting. BTW sharks have to keep swimming or else they drown, and this includes when they sleep. They don't have those tiny fins by their gills that waft in water so they breathe by constantly moving. The barrels tire out sharks and eventually drown them.
Robert Shaw was a Bond villain too, in from Russia With Love. I liked him in every movie I ever saw him in. The Sting was a fun movie of his, but so was Swashbuckler, with him and young and slim James Earl Jones.
definitely a great reaction here and this will get me hyped up and ready for shark 🦈 week. that's right around the corner. Oh yeah, shark week is coming and it starts July 7th. A good movie Jaws is, I want to say thank you to the both of you for doing this here.
The boy who died on the floaty and his movie mom met later on in life. She was at a market and saw a sign that said, "Alex Kitner special". She said that she was Alex's mom. And a guy from the back said he was Alex. I just heard this story in an interview somewhere so i have no proof of it happening but it sounds cool. I just wonder what the special was.
The movie was shot on Martha's Vineyard which is a small island off the coast of Massachusetts... (Going by the water, it's not faaaaa from me on Long Island.) --- The actor who played little Alex still lives on Martha's Vineyard.
Would love to see your reactions to Jaws:2 (the town loved the Mayor so much he was re-elected). Also Jaws 3-D (lots of movies did 3-D in the 80’s), takes place at Sea World.
29:15 that's why, in the Navy, they train us to be 90 degrees and six feet away from mooring lines, people have been cut in half by them...on my first submarine we had a mooring line snap, I was on the other side of the sail (the square part that is above the water when we're on the surface) when it happened, but I heard it break, it sounded like a gun shot! A fellow sonar tech was closer to the mooring line but he saw the water come off of it -- they train us to look for that, it means the rope will tighten and then break -- so he instinctively got even further away than six feet, and then he saw it break. He was ok afterward, he put plenty of distance between himself and the mooring line. 😲
The actress who's son was eating by jaws was at a restaurant about 20 years maybe more and there was a guy who came out from the back of the restaurant and ran up 2 her and asked her if she remembered him and she said no , so he told her that he played her son from jaws and they ended up staying friends until her death
Fun fact. Bruce the shark from 'Finding Nemo' was named for what they called the mechanical shark BTS while making the movie. Who in turned was named after Spielberg's lawyer.
And in one of Spielberg's iconic movies, a lawyer gets eaten. BTW there is a photo on the internet of Spielberg laying inside the open mouth of Bruce during a break in the filming.
@@rdkirk3834- yes a TV movie in the US but later on Spielberg shot new additional scenes to extend the movie for its UK theatrical release (which was done a lot at the time over there).
Also, the scene when they are examining Ben Gardner’s beat-up fishing boat, and Hooper pulls a shark tooth the size of a shot glass out of the hole in the hull -- just as Ben Gardner’s mutilated head suddenly appears -- is one of the greatest jump-scares of all time!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - extended version would be awesome and that's also Spielberg. But oh man the 70's had SO many great movies many of which you already saw. Godfather, Star Wars, Deliverance, Alien, Rocky - it might not be the best decade for movies but it held it's own.
The Zoom Dolly is the shot when Chief Brody reacts to the Alex Kintner attack. Still the best film of all time in my opinion. Stands up still, after 50 years.🦈🦈
Been almost a month since my stroke. I was able to walk to the store on crutches today for the first time, but my affected leg still can't support my body weight, I still slur my pronunciation like a stroke victim stereotype, and though I can raise my arm now, and my hands no longer shake so much that I can't dial a cell phone, I still can't hold a fork or spoon. Progress is slow, but I still hope I'll eventually be able to walk without a constant risk of falling, be able to cook for and feed myself, and that I can speak reasonably clearly. Also, even if this as far as I go, I know I have more function than many other patients who've had strokes or other brain injuries, so I mustn't feel sorry for myself. Check back with you in another month or so.
@@abbyygross Thanks, Abby. One more big update: I can support my bodyweight now with my knee bent about 12 degrees. Though that's not enough to be useful (unless I'm going up some insanely short stairs), it shows that my muscles ARE capable of supporting me - I just need to work at making them stronger at angles that are actually useful. It gives me hope for recovery. Meanwhile, I'm going to suggest the musical "Guys and Dolls" for you. It's a cultural staple for musical theater based on the Post Depression Era stories of Damon Runyon which gave rise to the literary term "runyonesque" to describe a certain type of fictional character. The movie has some great songs from the stage show and some written for the movie version including one written specifically for Frank Sinatra. When I was little, my local syndicated TV station used to make a big deal of when they aired it uncut and had to preempt some of their regular programming to make room for it, so I grew up thinking of it as something very special.
I've noticed on some of your suspenseful movies that you will laugh to help you mask your fear while watching. Also, I read or watched (the making of) Jaws videos that this was a very difficult movie to make and had cost overruns and target release delays. So, yeah. Excellent movie and reaction ladies. I heard Jaws2 was a good sequel so maybe follow this up with that. I haven't checked your playlist, but have you seen Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind? That also has Richard Dreyfuss in it. Thanks!
Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, Heavy Metal, American Pop, Tommy, This is Spinal Tap, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, and The Wall. Just some off the top of my head.
@34:34 Blockbusters (the term was used for the first time in regards to movies with Jaws bc ppl were lining up around the block to see it) that came out around that time period of the 70’s would include Star Wars a couple years later and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (also by Spielberg), and perhaps Apocalypse Now. 😎
The original summer blockbuster, No. 1 film of all time for 2 years (till Star Wars), one of the greatest thrillers ever made and the film industry's welcome to Spielberg as the next new storyteller. Peter Benchley, the author of the Best-selling novel co-wrote the screenplay. The build up of the characters in this town, dealings with the threat at hand and the eventual confrontation with the beast is perfect in every way. Roy Scheider (Brody), Robert Shaw (Quint), Richard Dreyfus (Hooper) in the whole 3rd act of the film are all amazing and it's such good chem. The story of the shark is a whole lot of drama in how it works and didn't work through most of the shoot. But nonetheless, that's a good story. John Williams............ We already know know how great his music is. The theme is as unforgettable as it is relentless. Most after seeing this masterpiece ask the question of "How do you make 3 sequels to this classic?" All of them are different from each other and nowhere near as good as the original. You could watch the other ones. But then again, you don't have to.
The tiger shark just happened to be caught when the movie was being filmed and was used, it also for the time was the world record for a tiger shark. Also the size of the great white was picked for the terror factor as until just a few years ago that size was fantasy, no great white known was that big.
Robert Shaw aka Quint was also a Bond bad guy as well as being the bad guy in the classic "Battle of the Bulge" about WW2 and "Force 10 from Navarone" alongside an very very young Harrison Ford.
Fun fact: Richard Dreyfuss reprised his role as Matt Hooper, but in a different movie, Piranha 3D. He wore the same wardrobe from his first scene in Jaws, he was drinking amity beer, and in his radio was that show me the way to go home song he, Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw were singing. He was in the opening scene and died first.
In 1975 (when this movie was released) there were only three fatal shark attacks in the USA and none of them were by a Great White shark. But this movie scared the shit out of the entire globe!
Bad Hat Harry became a production company name that produced such hits as Usual Suspects, Superman Returns and the X-Men movies. No one notices the James Bond easter egg when Dreyfus pulls the license plate out of the shark. 007 Louisiana plate from 1973, the year and setting of Live and Let Die. 31:17 actual shark caught in the rigging during filming.
Wow, it has never occurred to me that the dog could have left the water because he knew. That's an amazing intepretation! A lot of people assume the dog was killed but I refuse to believe it lol
The reason why the interpretation fails is that the dog was small enough to be easily swallowed whole. Also, if the dog did leave the water, why didn't he return to his owner like most dogs would? His owner was looking for him before the death of the boy because he had been eaten which I believe is how the scene is to be interpreted by the floating stick.
@x_trio_3_po333 I totally agree. The owner threw the stick into the water, the dog swam after it. Then he couldn't find his dog. If the dog ran out of the water, I'm I'm sure the owner would of seen the dog run out.
"Jaws" (1975) is considered to be the first modern blockbuster summer movie. Then came Star Wars (1977) , Alien (1979), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Ghostbusters and Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Batman (1989), Jurassic Park (1993), etc.
Try DEEP BLUE SEA (1999), that's another great killer shark flick! That one's got a combination of CGI and practical shark FX, and the animatronic sharks are incredible looking!
There's a deleted scene for the pond sequence, were the shark was suppose to swim with the "boat guy" in its mouth right into Brody's son and the man catches him and holds on to him with blood spewing out of his mouth; but Spielberg said it was to terrific and cut it
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What's your favorite line from the movie?
Favorite line, "Here's to Swimming with Bow Legged Women".
7:20 Abby, that'd be about $18,000 today --10 thou today is about 48,000. But as ya saw, Quint really SHOULD have had a bigger boat! 17:08 Abby handled that better than many-Most flat out Scream and jump like 'Roos! Fun watch, ladies..Maybe Toy shouldv'e lent you a stress pillow!
Chompy chomp 🦈
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3,000 in 1974 = $17,000 today 🙂
RIP Susan Backlinie. She played Crissie, the first victim of the movie. She just passed away last month.
Lee Fierro (1929-2020)
Elizabeth Lee Fierro was an American actress and theatre promoter best known for playing Mrs. Kintner in the Jaws film franchise.
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Susan got to reprise her role and famous scene for Steven Spielberg's comedy 1941 where, instead of a shark, Crissie encounters a Japanese submarine while skinny dipping off the coast of California.
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@@Lethgar_SmithI saw that, Mr. Smith😂😂
"Smile you son of a bitch!" -- one of the greatest lines in cinema history.
''Dillon you son of a bitch !''
''get away from her you bitch'' they really all have something with the beachs
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Glad to see Ben Gardner still scaring the shit out of people after almost fifty years. 😂
Facts my friend
Agreed!! This was the part I used to watch with my hands over my face back when I was 10
Abby what a great reaction, and Toy it was so fun watching you lead Abbey on. This is genuinely one of my favorite reactions out of you guys
thanks so much! this was my fave too!!!
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"Why didn't the dog fetch the stick, Abby?" Toy is so fun. I love her cute anticipatory glances at Abby when she knows 'something bad's about to happen'. This is now my favorite reaction of Abby's. "He has Quint in his teeth." LOL.
The shark's head was filled with Red paint, squid, and kegs of dynamite. They had only one chance to get it right. It went off perfectly. Jaws became the first summer blockbuster in history.
Ick! I never knew it was filled with that. But man can you image just having one shot and it had to be perfect? 😬
@@toy4871 If the explosion failed the entire movie would have been thrown out and Steven Spielberg would have been in trouble because they had only one head to blow up. Also when the dead shark is sinking to the bottom you can see one of the wires sticking out.
@RichardM1366 😱😱😱 oh my god! I would be so nervous until that moment. I can't imagine having to throw the whole movie away. That one scene determined if we will ever see this movie. 🤯
For me probably the most sublime moment in Jaws is Roy Scheider's (Chief Brody) unrestrained outburst of triumphant glee after dispatching the threat. Great reaction, enjoyed.
Good call. That truly is a brilliant piece of acting on Scheider's part. I have a running list of these types of acting moments that are very subtle and often go unnoticed in how incredible they are. This is a good one to add to the list.
Great Abby reaction to this one! Love Toy trying to scare Abby about the dog. LOL!!
thanks so much! this is my fave too!! such a great watch
@@abbyygross Can't wait to see you react to the next one!
No seals were harmed in the making of this movie, although a dolphin was very slightly alarmed.
Fun reaction. I give it my full seal of approval.
The sneaky look to camera from Toy before the shark pops up to Brody.... class lol
I finally saw it with an audience in a classic film showing, and even though we had all seen it on video, DVD and so on, we still felt every scare and shock of this film.
Great reaction!
One Of My All Time Favorite Movie's, Great Reaction Ladies
Toy mouthing the words "Smile you son of a b*tch." I don't know why, but that put a smile on my face.
Pretty much everything she does puts a smile on my face . . . but yeah, that was a good one!
I'd just like to say how much I enjoy your channel. I only have my children with me half the week and every other weekend, so when im on my own and I see you come up on my feed I feel like im watching something with friends rather than on my own, I hope that doesn't sound to sad lol, but watching something with you guys brightens my day 🙂🏴
this makes me so happy to read and is why I love doing this channel so much 🤍
@abbywatchesmovies thanks Abby, this is without doubt the strangest life I've ever lived, and watching you guys definitely enriches it. I just have to try and be more like normal spongebob and not share personal stuff whilst trying to board a Spanish galleon! To outrageous for my own good, lol nope actually I'm never going to be like normal spongebob.
If you want to watch another war movie, then war horse would be a good one, I'm looking forward to your next reaction 🙂🏴
We accidently stumbled upon the filming of this movie while on a day trip the the vineyard. We saw Quinnt's shack and part of the shark and a few extras. It was pretty cool but had no idea we were watching a classic being born! 😄
Watching Toy toy with Abby's anxiety was hilarious to witness 😁
This movie is amazing still in 2024,thanks for review girls
Toy teasing Abby, Abby telling Toy Bruce has Quint parts in his teeth. 🤣
Loved your Empire reference Toy "and I thought they smelled bad on the outside"
This has been another how not to get attacked by a shark tips with Abby! 🤣
Awesome reaction by both, I loved watching it, thanks for posting ❤
Ben Gardner reaction *Supreme* lol I guarantee Spielberg himself watches these online reactions to savour that moment.
The scene where the chief and his son were making faces at each other wasn't scripted. between takes the kid and the chief just started making faces and Spielberg rolled the camera on it.
Toy: "I think he has one of the coolest names."
Me: "Yeah Baby, you know it, back at you..."
Toy: "Chief Brody."
Me: "Aw, hell!"
Great show! ❤
"I can feel your heartbeat from here" 💓
I'd call that a strong reaction.. 😊
Abby is a national treasure with her reactions 😂😂
I love how everyone is so concerned about Pippit in Jaws, until Alex Kintner gets chomped and they realise not even kids are safe in this one.
Other amazing movies from the 70s? Godfather/Godfather 2? Alien? Taxi Driver? The Exorcist? Star Wars? One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? Blazing Saddles?
Nah I can't think of any....
Good suggestions. I would also throw 'Network' in there as well.
May as well add Apocalypse Now, Deliverance and the movie that IMO sort of ushered in the 70's attitude of "We're doing things differently from now on.....", which was 1969's Midnight Cowboy. Talk about the "feel good" movie marathon of the century, lol.
I would add, "Silent Running" (1972), "The Andromeda Strain" (1971), "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975), ""And Justice For All" (1979), "A Boy and His Dog" (1975), "Westworld" (1973), "MASH" (1970), and "Logan's Run" (1976). Also, though a 60's film I would also recommend "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), "The Comic" (1969), and "Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963).
Deliverance, Dirty Harry, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Smokey and the Bandit and the most entertaining war movie ever.... Kelly's Heroes.
“Outlaw Josie Wales”, “Silent Movie”, “Frankenstein Junior”
You should try crocodile movies too - Primeval , lake placid, rogue, dark water. Scarier. Will make you afraid of rivers too 😁
Check out Abby and Hannah's reaction to Lake Placid. It's one of our favorite videos here on the channel. 😸
I suddenly remembered that as soon as i pressed send 😂@RuntotheMovies
"Close Encounters" was Spielberg's next big blockbuster in '77. Same summer Star Wars came out. Jaws made him world famous, but he did a great TV movie called "Duel" before that. You could see he had a great talent for making suspenseful movies, even then.
Close Encounters was nowhere near the blockbuster Jaws was though. Though successful it was expected to gross Jaws level. It didn't.
Yes, I was looking for a mention bc Abby asked. This was Spielberg's 2nd 'major' motion picture. Duel was 1st.
Abby should watch another Spielberg classic from the 70s, Close Encounters of the Thirs Kind. Excellent movie, and also stars Richard Dreyfuss.
Ummmmm Abby ---- I 2nd this here particular notion
some theaters have done outdoor screenings of this, projected on a screen next to a pond or lake, with movie customers floating in inner tubes.
Toy, I think you might have been enjoying Abbv's anxiety a little too much. Good job.😂
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A classic, timeless, masterpiece of a film. My kids and I watch it at least once or twice a year! 👍🏼
"Why aren't you in the water?".... Asks the Politician that's wearing a suit to the beach.
Yeah you first.... lol
He didn't want to get ee-an
the people are still there!
it doesn't matter if they are in the water!
The Mist is a good one ☝🏼😎🌹🌹y’all’s reaction was awesome
I think Abby was about to ask how the shot where Chief Brody appears to be moving towards the camera as the Kitner boy is attacked.
It's called a dolly zoom shot. Using a zoom lens, they dolly the entire camera in (or out) while zooming the lens in (or out). It's a great in camera effect. It's also called a Hitchcock shot.
In this shot, the lens is zooming out while the dolly is pushing in. You can tell because the ground behind body gets further away, and this can only happen when the focal length is getting shorter (i.e. going from 100mm to 24mm). I would like to know how many times they had to do this in order to get the speed of the zoom out and the grips to get the speed of the push in just right. You also have to be willing to burn the production time to get this shot, which if they didn't do the dolly zoom would be so much easier and quicker to get in the can. I am so glad Spielberg decided to do this because as we see, decades later people are still blown away by it. This was also a risky move since this was his first big budget, major motion picture he Directed. When he Directed "Duel" before this, it was a made for television movie.
It shouldn't be called the Hitchcock 'shot' technically. The camera technique most definitely yes but the 'shot' where the camera zooms in on a character's face to convey shock, awe etc should be called the Jaws 'shot'.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind!!!! Extended version!!! You WONT be disappointed. Steven Spielberg, Richard Dreyfus, John Williams, Melinda Dillion, Teri Garr. Also, E. T. The Extra Terrestrial is also great!!
We need a bigger boat !!
The greatest jump scare (Ben Gardners head) claims another victim.
😂😂😂
Toy saying "I'm gonna get ya" when Hooper is in the cage just reminded me of the Family Guy bit - "I'm gonna eat that hairy leg" 🤣
Toy's shark impression at 18:25 will haunt me forever . . .but in a good way :P
This is exactly why BOO, and I stay outta the water🤣🦈🤣great reaction
Steven Spielberg was 27, if I remember correctly, and relatively new to the movie making business at time in the early to mid 1970s when Jaws was originally made for and released in theaters. He had mad a movie called “The Sugarland Express” and another a film called “Duel”. He may have a few others but those were among his best well known movies before Jaws came out. “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind” is another movie he had out around the same time as Jaws, Duel, and SugarLand Express.
Jaws ultimately launched Steven Spielberg’s career as top movie Director taking from a relatively unknown director to being among the most famous if not one most famous in the movie making industry. Jaws was shot on location in Martha’s Vinyard, Massachusetts with most every water scene, except for the scene with Ben Gardener’s damaged and drifting boat and the cage scene, were shot on the open ocean of the coast of Martha’s Vinyard.
Shooting in the open ocean is why the Shark routinely would malfunction thus the reason for very few but memorable scenes when you do see the shark. Many have said not seeing the shark and letting your mind run wild with images of what was happening under the water made the film more scary then it would have been if the shark had been seen often. The novel from which the movie is based on depicted the shark as being seen often.
Jaws is wildly regarded as the original Summer Blockbuster and at the time of its original release was the top money grossing or making movie. Jaws is regarded as as being masterpiece due its great characters, suspenseful story telling and overall less is more approach, meaning the less you see the shark combined with how you learn about the characters and watch their character build, helps to make the characters and suspense that much more entertaining and or enjoyable.
I know he directed an early episode of Columbo when he was quite young and that impressed a lot of people in town. He quickly got a reputation as something of a boy wonder. A kid barely out of film school who could direct better than guys with 30 years of experience.
i think Speilberg did a movie called 1941 with John Candy, John Belushi (ANimal House), Count Dooku, and Dan Ankroyd (Ghostbusters)
Robert Shaw, the actor playing Quint is in another great movie with Robert Redford and Paul Newman called The Sting. Oh and Shaw was also a bad guy in a James Bond movie. Hooper, played by Richard Dreyfus is in many others too. Like Stephen King's Stand By Me, and Mr Holland's Opus, oh and American Graffiti. And Roy Scheider (Police Chief) is in another great movie with Dustin Hoffman, called Marathon Man.
17:00 Was the scene that scarred me for life.
Another fun fact, one of the little boys with the shark fin prank, is now the Police Chief of Marthas Vineyard where this was filmed.
No way! 😸
@@RuntotheMovies The red thing that was flashing in the shark expert hand was a tracker to keep the shark from escaping barrels same it was heavier than the other's sharks
Great Reaction Guys to this iconic classic which started the summer blockbusters
Hi Toy & Abby, you're 2 of my favourite Run To The Movies reactors & I loved your reaction to this iconic classic :) it's one of the GOAT movies & Steven Spielberg is one of the GOAT directors! I highly recommend you both react to his underrated/hardly reacted to 1979 comedy '1941' - set in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. It's hilarious and the opening scene parodies the opening scene in Jaws! Speaking of Jaws, yes please continue with the series, it's been said they decline in quality as they go on, but they're Jaws movies nonetheless and they're well worth a watch for the channel. This is my favourite shark movie & coincidentally, the Great White is my favourite shark. + I highly recommend a musical for you to react to: The Blues Brothers (1980) So funny & entertaining. Keep up the fantastic work you do :) Love from the UK
thanks for such a nice comment!!! glad you enjoyed as much as we did 😊
@abbywatchesmovies You're very welcome. Oh absolutely, it's one of my favourites and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Some of the shark scenes used a real shark, like the cage scene. The story about the USS Indianapolis is true, my father was in the Navy during WWII and told me about a lot of events that happened during that time. I remember watching this in the theater when it came out, I wouldn't even go swimming in a small lake after it came out 🤣. Anyway, loved the review, love you guys, take care and stay safe ❤️
Yes and no. The story stated here that the sharks killed everyone is absurdly false. Most of the sailors died from exposure, existing wounds and dehydration. ThenDoctor for that vessel who survived the ordeal stated that the entire time he saw one shark. Now I'm sure that there were others that he didn't see, as well I'm sure many of the already dead were eaten by sharks, I'm guessing the true number to be between 40 and 80. Not the 800 or so the movie claims.
The other blockbusters of this era were Star Wars and Close Encounters. I strongly recommend Close Encounters if you haven't seen it already.
The actor who played Quint was Robert Shaw, who was a legend at the time but at the tail end of his career. He really brought a lot of legitimacy to the film IMO. If you want to see another great movie he was in, check out The Sting.
BTW sharks have to keep swimming or else they drown, and this includes when they sleep. They don't have those tiny fins by their gills that waft in water so they breathe by constantly moving. The barrels tire out sharks and eventually drown them.
Also, Rocky and King Kong were same era blockbusters
Grease and Superman were also major blockbusters from this period.
Robert Shaw was a Bond villain too, in from Russia With Love. I liked him in every movie I ever saw him in. The Sting was a fun movie of his, but so was Swashbuckler, with him and young and slim James Earl Jones.
I saw Jaws, King Kong, Star Wars, Close Encounters, Grease and Superman all at the cinema in this period, as a young kid. I was 5 when I saw Jaws. 😂
Don't think sharks actually sleep, though.
Saw many times at the theater, all time classic,thanks y’all
definitely a great reaction here and this will get me hyped up and ready for shark 🦈 week. that's right around the corner. Oh yeah, shark week is coming and it starts July 7th. A good movie Jaws is, I want to say thank you to the both of you for doing this here.
Toy's stock went up at least 10 points with her savagery. "Just give me a warning on the dog. "Absolutely not." Brutal and awesome 😂
The boy who died on the floaty and his movie mom met later on in life. She was at a market and saw a sign that said, "Alex Kitner special". She said that she was Alex's mom. And a guy from the back said he was Alex. I just heard this story in an interview somewhere so i have no proof of it happening but it sounds cool. I just wonder what the special was.
I was loving Toy with every sense of me.But you ask for a musical that was amazing
The movie was shot on Martha's Vineyard which is a small island off the coast of Massachusetts... (Going by the water, it's not faaaaa from me on Long Island.) --- The actor who played little Alex still lives on Martha's Vineyard.
Would love to see your reactions to Jaws:2 (the town loved the Mayor so much he was re-elected).
Also Jaws 3-D (lots of movies did 3-D in the 80’s), takes place at Sea World.
29:15 that's why, in the Navy, they train us to be 90 degrees and six feet away from mooring lines, people have been cut in half by them...on my first submarine we had a mooring line snap, I was on the other side of the sail (the square part that is above the water when we're on the surface) when it happened, but I heard it break, it sounded like a gun shot! A fellow sonar tech was closer to the mooring line but he saw the water come off of it -- they train us to look for that, it means the rope will tighten and then break -- so he instinctively got even further away than six feet, and then he saw it break. He was ok afterward, he put plenty of distance between himself and the mooring line. 😲
Holy moly!
The actress who's son was eating by jaws was at a restaurant about 20 years maybe more and there was a guy who came out from the back of the restaurant and ran up 2 her and asked her if she remembered him and she said no , so he told her that he played her son from jaws and they ended up staying friends until her death
If "I can feel your heart from here" isn't a 1991 Roxette super hit, it should be.
TY for putting the true story of the Indianapolis in you're reaction.
Kind of wish I hadn't found out just how diabolical Toy is, I'm dangerously close to breaking my "no simping" rule.
Lmao….”Look it’s a land seal“ 🦭
Great Reaction Ladies 😍
Jaws is always a fun watch. Thanks for watching with us 😊😊😊❤
I knew a guy that was on the USS Indianapolis... he had half a leg... Great guy. He was one of my landlords awhile ago.
Oh wow!
Fun fact. Bruce the shark from 'Finding Nemo' was named for what they called the mechanical shark BTS while making the movie. Who in turned was named after Spielberg's lawyer.
such a cool fact! i love that!
And in one of Spielberg's iconic movies, a lawyer gets eaten. BTW there is a photo on the internet of Spielberg laying inside the open mouth of Bruce during a break in the filming.
Dual was steven's first movie...............Great movie !!!!
Television movie, actually.
@@rdkirk3834- yes a TV movie in the US but later on Spielberg shot new additional scenes to extend the movie for its UK theatrical release (which was done a lot at the time over there).
Also, the scene when they are examining Ben Gardner’s beat-up fishing boat, and Hooper pulls a shark tooth the size of a shot glass out of the hole in the hull -- just as Ben Gardner’s mutilated head suddenly appears -- is one of the greatest jump-scares of all time!
Empire Of The Sun - is a great Spielberg movie !!!! 👍 👍 👍
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - extended version would be awesome and that's also Spielberg. But oh man the 70's had SO many great movies many of which you already saw. Godfather, Star Wars, Deliverance, Alien, Rocky - it might not be the best decade for movies but it held it's own.
The Zoom Dolly is the shot when Chief Brody reacts to the Alex Kintner attack. Still the best film of all time in my opinion. Stands up still, after 50 years.🦈🦈
Been almost a month since my stroke. I was able to walk to the store on crutches today for the first time, but my affected leg still can't support my body weight, I still slur my pronunciation like a stroke victim stereotype, and though I can raise my arm now, and my hands no longer shake so much that I can't dial a cell phone, I still can't hold a fork or spoon. Progress is slow, but I still hope I'll eventually be able to walk without a constant risk of falling, be able to cook for and feed myself, and that I can speak reasonably clearly. Also, even if this as far as I go, I know I have more function than many other patients who've had strokes or other brain injuries, so I mustn't feel sorry for myself. Check back with you in another month or so.
sending you well wishes ❤❤
@@abbyygross Thanks, Abby. One more big update: I can support my bodyweight now with my knee bent about 12 degrees. Though that's not enough to be useful (unless I'm going up some insanely short stairs), it shows that my muscles ARE capable of supporting me - I just need to work at making them stronger at angles that are actually useful. It gives me hope for recovery.
Meanwhile, I'm going to suggest the musical "Guys and Dolls" for you. It's a cultural staple for musical theater based on the Post Depression Era stories of Damon Runyon which gave rise to the literary term "runyonesque" to describe a certain type of fictional character. The movie has some great songs from the stage show and some written for the movie version including one written specifically for Frank Sinatra. When I was little, my local syndicated TV station used to make a big deal of when they aired it uncut and had to preempt some of their regular programming to make room for it, so I grew up thinking of it as something very special.
Happy 4th of July Abby, Toy and yes you too Boo
why this was such a good movie; 4 words, great actors, steven speilberg
Actors, Director, Screenplay, Composer?
"Look! It's a land seal!" 🤣😂🤣
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Great reaction 💯🔥❤️
The Exorcist was an early 70s thriller. Toy will love it.
I've noticed on some of your suspenseful movies that you will laugh to help you mask your fear while watching. Also, I read or watched (the making of) Jaws videos that this was a very difficult movie to make and had cost overruns and target release delays. So, yeah. Excellent movie and reaction ladies. I heard Jaws2 was a good sequel so maybe follow this up with that. I haven't checked your playlist, but have you seen Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind? That also has Richard Dreyfuss in it. Thanks!
Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, Heavy Metal, American Pop, Tommy, This is Spinal Tap, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, and The Wall. Just some off the top of my head.
YES YES YES
"Heavy Metal" (1981) was a very cool animated adult oriented film. I once saw a double feature of that film plus "The Wall" (1982) together.
Toy hogging all the pillows lol
She has pillows of her own
@34:34
Blockbusters (the term was used for the first time in regards to movies with Jaws bc ppl were lining up around the block to see it) that came out around that time period of the 70’s would include Star Wars a couple years later and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (also by Spielberg), and perhaps Apocalypse Now. 😎
Aquatic Money Shot has been added to the nasty file. 🌊💵☄️
Abby is absolutely precious!!!!!!
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Did ya'll notice the shooting/falling star behind chief Brody in the night scene on the boat
Duel" which involves a truck instead of a shark was one of Spielberg's first movies
That Trucker was as relentless as the shark.
@@x_trio_3_po333 yes he was and McCloud was running for his life
I find it very interesting that you have a notepad for your kill list. I did not know you did that but very cool.
Awesome reaction. Thank you, thank you.
RIP Susan Backlinie. She played Crissie, the first victim of the movie
Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, Moulin Rouge… there you go!
The original summer blockbuster, No. 1 film of all time for 2 years (till Star Wars),
one of the greatest thrillers ever made and the film industry's welcome to Spielberg
as the next new storyteller.
Peter Benchley, the author of the Best-selling novel co-wrote the screenplay.
The build up of the characters in this town, dealings with the threat at hand
and the eventual confrontation with the beast is perfect in every way.
Roy Scheider (Brody), Robert Shaw (Quint), Richard Dreyfus (Hooper)
in the whole 3rd act of the film are all amazing and it's such good chem.
The story of the shark is a whole lot of drama in how it works and
didn't work through most of the shoot.
But nonetheless, that's a good story.
John Williams............
We already know know how great his music is.
The theme is as unforgettable as it is relentless.
Most after seeing this masterpiece ask the question of "How do you make
3 sequels to this classic?"
All of them are different from each other and nowhere near as good
as the original.
You could watch the other ones.
But then again, you don't have to.
The tiger shark just happened to be caught when the movie was being filmed and was used, it also for the time was the world record for a tiger shark.
Also the size of the great white was picked for the terror factor as until just a few years ago that size was fantasy, no great white known was that big.
Robert Shaw aka Quint was also a Bond bad guy as well as being the bad guy in the classic "Battle of the Bulge" about WW2 and "Force 10 from Navarone" alongside an very very young Harrison Ford.
Fun fact: Richard Dreyfuss reprised his role as Matt Hooper, but in a different movie, Piranha 3D. He wore the same wardrobe from his first scene in Jaws, he was drinking amity beer, and in his radio was that show me the way to go home song he, Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw were singing. He was in the opening scene and died first.
i gotta check that out! thanks for posting
In 1975 (when this movie was released) there were only three fatal shark attacks in the
USA and none of them were by a Great White shark. But this movie scared the shit out of the entire globe!
Abby if you want to see a musical I recommend Paint Your Wagon a good western musical.
Bad Hat Harry became a production company name that produced such hits as Usual Suspects, Superman Returns and the X-Men movies. No one notices the James Bond easter egg when Dreyfus pulls the license plate out of the shark. 007 Louisiana plate from 1973, the year and setting of Live and Let Die. 31:17 actual shark caught in the rigging during filming.
Wow, it has never occurred to me that the dog could have left the water because he knew. That's an amazing intepretation! A lot of people assume the dog was killed but I refuse to believe it lol
You may be right. There was no blood or dog parts, just the little Kintner boy's bloody raft.
The reason why the interpretation fails is that the dog was small enough to be easily swallowed whole. Also, if the dog did leave the water, why didn't he return to his owner like most dogs would? His owner was looking for him before the death of the boy because he had been eaten which I believe is how the scene is to be interpreted by the floating stick.
@x_trio_3_po333 I totally agree. The owner threw the stick into the water, the dog swam after it. Then he couldn't find his dog. If the dog ran out of the water, I'm I'm sure the owner would of seen the dog run out.
@@deanromanado5850 Unless some chick in a bikini distracted him for a second?
"Jaws" (1975) is considered to be the first modern blockbuster summer movie.
Then came Star Wars (1977) , Alien (1979), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Ghostbusters and Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Batman (1989), Jurassic Park (1993), etc.
Great job ladies this was entertaining!! 😂😂⭐️
Try DEEP BLUE SEA (1999), that's another great killer shark flick! That one's got a combination of CGI and practical shark FX, and the animatronic sharks are incredible looking!
There's a deleted scene for the pond sequence, were the shark was suppose to swim with the "boat guy" in its mouth right into Brody's son and the man catches him and holds on to him with blood spewing out of his mouth; but Spielberg said it was to terrific and cut it
Sounds horrifying!
Take a drink every time Abby says, "Chomp"
you’re wasted and you’re welcome
chomp
@@abbyygross glad I had my bourbon!