Jaws

Pros: great acting, good script, suspense builds nicely, soundtrack, effects, cinematography, bonus materials
Cons: how did fashion ever survive the 70's

Once upon a time, a man named Peter Benchley wrote a little novel about a seaside town terrorized one summer by a 35-foot great-white shark. A little-known director by the name of Steven Spielberg picked up the script and begged the studio to let him ...

Pros: Suspense, Acting, Direction, Score
Cons: Only the middle drags a bit

Jaws (1975) was one of the original larger-than-life monster movies and the one that made Steven Spielberg famous.Adapted from Peter Benchley's book of the same name, which was a best selling but, thinly disguised ripoff of ...

Pros: Great direction from Spielberg, fantastic performances from the cast, and a pounding John Williams score are just a few of the reasons that this film is a still a classic 25 years after its release
Cons: none

Jaws: MCA/Universal Pictures
Rating: USA: PG-13

Ahoy Mateys, and welcome to the Jaws 25th Anniversary Write-off. Join me, Captain Mike_Bracken, and my fearless crew of Epinions’ best and brightest aboard The...

Pros: Spielberg, Shaw, Sheider and Dreyfuss
Cons: A touch-dated-at-times but this is also good in the way it brings us back-in-time.

Back in the early 70's my wife and I were traveling cross country, just the two of us, as a young married couple out to see the spectacular wonders our nation held for us. My eight-track tape player wasn't always working well so, while I was driving ...

Pros: Great screenplay by Benchley & Gottlieb. Good acting, fine directing, terrific score by J. Williams
Cons: Its success bred such awful sequels as Jaws 2, but no quibbles about Jaws

Steven Spielberg's second feature film (and one of his most challenging projects), Jaws was THE blockbuster event of 1975. Based on Peter Benchley's novel, this very effective thriller set box office records higher than any previous film....and made ...

Pros: Gripping cinematography, classic horror, unforgettable characters
Cons: Shark a little mechanical? I don't know any, so it's hard to say

Okay, okay, so I'm 27 years old, and there are tons of Classics I haven't seen. I only saw "Goonies" a year ago, after the relentless prodding of my friend Tim, and it's an okay flick. If I would have seen it when I was a pup, I would have liked it...

Pros: The Best Creature Feature Ever
Cons: But not without its flaws, see review

Hola mi seasick amigos, and welcome to the Chinaman's review of Jaws that’s part of the Jaws 25th Anniversary Write-off. Asked here by Captain Mike_Bracken, to join him and his fellow cannibal homeboys aboard The Orca, I am here to give you an...

Pros: Steven Spielberg's talent was fresh and raw; the ensemble acting had perfect chemistry
Cons: The third act's Moby Dick pursuit drags a bit; the success of this movie spawned imitators like Grizzly and Pirahna

The first memory I have of the movie Jaws involves my sixth-grade classmate Chris Conner. Chris was one of the funniest kids I knew back then in the mid-1970s. He had a splatter of pale freckles worthy of Jackson Pollock, a haircut always just...

Pros: Everything about this movie proves Spielberg's Genius.
Cons: None.

Jaws (1975) Directed by Steven Spielberg"Martin, it's all psychological. You yell barracuda, everybody says, "Huh? What?" You yell shark, we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July."  Mayor Vaughn.Is Jaws a ...

Pros: Must-see unforgettable, classic contemporary monster flick from the 70's
Cons: DVD is so lacking missing potential extras

Not the Boss, mind you, but rather the Real American Badass monster of a fish is back 25 years after he first took a bite out of the box office in 1975. Well, he never really left, did he? But it is his 25th birthday and he is back in our minds...

Pros: Dreyfuss, Sheider, Shaw, "Bruce" and one killer music score ...
Cons: Uhm, an irrational, lifelong fear of the ocean ...

Authors note: Be sure to check out my other crewmates aboard this leaky little tub christened "Orca". Hey ZentropaJK, can we get Mike to take off that damn eye patch and peg leg now, I think he's starting to scare...

Pros: One of the greatest horror films of all time.
Cons: Too many airings on TBS and TNT.

A few years ago, I saw a movie called Crazy People starring Dudley Moore. It was about an advertising executive who supposedly went crazy and started writing product slogans that were brutally honest. For example, he wrote this slogan for a...

Pros: You name it!
Cons: The guy wasn't wearing any sneakers!

Generally, I would be loathe to begin a movie review with a spoiler, and in fact, have never done so yet. But if you are one of the half a dozen people in the country who has not seen Steven Spielberg’s spectacular shark epic “Jaws,” then you might want ...

Pros: Touching story of a sheriff and his shark
Cons: Opened the floodgate for Hollywood Blockbusters

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So I did it; I'm a semi-finalist for the new Survivor II show, me and about 27 other epinions members. Turns out to make the final cut you have to write a movie review while floating...

Pros: It was the best of Spielberg
Cons: It is the worst of Spielberg

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With it’s release in 1975, Jaws accomplished two apparently contradictory things: while scaring the ever-lovin píss out of would be beach-goers it started a hysterical hatred of sharks, while at the same time helping...