The Drinker Recommends... Jaws

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Jaws 2020: “3 brave women girls kill a giant shark easily and effortlessly. The end”

You're gonna need a bigger drink.

Best scene of the movie: When Hooper asks Quint about the tattoo, and Quint says he was on the Indianapolis. Hooper and Brodie get spooky quiet and Quint tells that story... it's so compelling, quiet, calm, and personal, it's like it's real and you're actually there. One of the best scenes ever made.

Jaws is one of those movies that doesn’t need a sequel. It’s already perfect.

"We're gonna need a bigger boat" Drinker, taking another swig of whiskey: "Nah, it'll be fine."

That Mayor is the very incarnation of "Nah, it'll be fine!"

The practical effects of the shark in JAWS from 1975 still looks better than some of the CGI in recent spin off shark movies.

As a lifelong horror fan I can say that Shaw's monologue about the ship sinking and being stuck in the water with the sharks is one of the most intense, scariest scenes, it really invoked true dread.

In Austin Texas a couple years back this was played on a giant inflatable screen on the lake free to the public, just pull up a kayak, paddle board, inflatable mattress, or whatever floated. Made the movie way more intense in the water at night. People screamed when fresh water fish would nibble at their toes. Epic.

The boat they hunt the Shark with is called “The Orca.” The only predator in the ocean that kills adult White Sharks. Clever 👍

Saw this in the Cinema and everyone stood and clapped at the end. Brilliant.

One of the greatest classic lines ever, right after that incredible look of shock on Brody's face. "You're gonna need a bigger boat!"

Jaws remake: Chief Brody: Sandra Bullock. Hooper: Kirsten Wiig. Quint: Charlize Theron. Budget: $200 million. Box office: 50 million. Studio: "Next time, we'll make them transgender."

One of the most ironic aspects of Jaws is that Quint's monologue about the USS Indianapolis was nearly left on editing floor. Spielberg initially thought the monologue might have been too boring for the film. That monologue is one of the best and most chilling and integral parts of a movie ever made. Having Quint recount the horrors that he and his crew had to endure with shark attacks in the Pacific during World War II really helps to define Quint's character and why he has such a hatred for sharks.

To be completely honest, whenever the shark shows up, I'm way to enveloped in the terror of what's happening onscreen to care about the fact that it doesn't really look real. That's how good the suspense and build up in this movie is.

Quint, hooper & brody are iconic characters in the film industry. Please don't ever remake this masterpiece 😭

Imagine a remake of the Jaws. Strong female characters, including the shark, of course. A lot of forced humor, some Tik Tok inspired dance scenes. And at the end, plot twist, they all hug it out, because the shark was pissed off on the count of some random eco problem, that those strong female characters solve in the last third of the movie.

Back in 1974 when I was a spritely 14-year-old in Western Australia, I joined up with my local Surf Life-Saving club (the volunteer versions of the USA's professional Life-Guards) and spent the weekends and school holidays from November to February (the southern hemisphere's hot season) pulling people from the water when they got out of their depth or caught up in rip currents and one time had to give CPR to one poor fellow who suffered a fatal heart attack while running on the beach. Another of our jobs, when the tower spotted a shark, was to sound the siren and go out in the inflatable outboard motor boat and chase it back out to sea. The people seemed so lax and non-panicked when the shark siren sounded and most of them would wait out in knee-depth watching the action until we gave the all clear. Then came the 1975/1976 season. The season of "Jaws"! There was a distinct drop-off in the number of swimmers and rescues that year. And when the shark siren sounded...remember the story of Jesus walking on the water? Many of our beach goers learned to run on water, turning the clear blue sea into white froth while we sent the boat out. Nobody went knee-deep anymore! Even when we chased the animal out to sea and we sounded the all clear, it was quite some time before anyone decided to be the first brave one to dip a toe in. I have never before or since seen a movie affect the behaviour of the general public in such a way ever again. I doff my hat to Mr Spielberg for making our job just that little bit easier for that season.

Your point of actors now being cookie cutter replicas that seem to come out of a factory rather than normal people who could sell believable roles as real humans is so true it makes me sad.