Please List Your One favorite movie.

[The Fake Shemp]

And Jaws gets a lot of heat for being a dumb summer blockbuster, but it's fucking Citizen Kane compared to what Hollywood churns out these days.  It is fun and exciting and scary and adventurous.  But it's also got great characters that are extremely well written.  You really could dissect the movie as a character epic wrapped in the surroundings of an extraordinary event, and that's what I love about it.  The movie is really about Brody, his life and his journey, not the fucking shark.

Also, here you have an adaptation that pees over the source material.  Peter Benchley is a decent pulp writer at best, but a good marine biologist.  The novel is a bunch of Desperate Housewives crap with a killer shark.  Spielberg got that movie transformed into something much, much better.

[Cheebs]

No one ever bashed Jaws here FoC.

You said Jurassic Park is Spielberg's best. Jaws and Jurassic Park aren't even comparable.

[FlameOfCallandor]

No one ever bashed Jaws here FoC.

You said Jurassic Park is Spielberg's best. Jaws and Jurassic Park aren't even comparable.

Its my favorite spielberg movie. And Jaws is just as much a Summer blockbuster as JP.


Look, I like Jaws. Alot. But to sit there and claim that JP has NO substance and then turn around and saw Jaws is some Holy movie is just stupid.

[Cheebs]

No one ever bashed Jaws here FoC.

You said Jurassic Park is Spielberg's best. Jaws and Jurassic Park aren't even comparable.

Its my favorite spielberg movie. And Jaws is just as much a Summer blockbuster as JP.

Jaws is a GOOD one. Jurassic Park is souless shit.

[Flannel Boy]

What genre is your screenplay Willco?

[The Fake Shemp]

Jaws is in a stratosphere Jurassic Park can't touch.  Just because both feature large animals that eat people don't make the similar.  Jurassic Park is nowhere near the character-based movie that Jaws is.  Jaws is better written, better acted and a much better movie.

[The Fake Shemp]

What genre is your screenplay Willco?

The one anonymous Hollywood director wants to take a peek at?  It's a big, dumb Hollywood summer blockbuster

Really, my next few ideas are a lot smaller, but I had this idea floating around for awhile.  My only fear is that I've sat on it for too long, because if this screenplay has a shot - it's now or never.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Lets see what Rotten Tomatoes says about Jurrasic Park.


Why, it has a 87%. That means that 87% of movie critics think it is a good movie. Surely they arent lying. Hmm. Me thinks evilbore doesnt know shit.

[The Fake Shemp]

Jurassic Park is a fun, entertaining movie.  If you think it's better than Jaws or as good, you should drop out of film school.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Jurassic Park is a fun, entertaining movie.  If you think it's better than Jaws or as good, you should drop out of film school.

 

We should all have similar tastes and proclaim chinatown as an awesome movie!!

[bud]

One of my all-time favourite movies is definately Fight Club, one of the most rewatchable movies ever imo.

[Flannel Boy]

I like movies like Jurassic Park and Jaws for what they are: silly entertaining popcorn flicks. Though I may be selling Jaws a bit short here.

[The Fake Shemp]

No, but there are certain things you can't deny.  Jaws is just a much better film, screenplay and acting-wise.  I'm sure any of your class professors would agree.

Jurassic Park is good.  It's fun.  I loved it when I was younger, because for Christ's sake, it had realistic looking dinosaurs.  The movie's effects still hold up, and while T2 paved the way, it was Jurassic Park that ushered in the CG era (matte paintings and stop motion be gone!).

For Christ's repetitive sake, Jaws was nominated for Oscar for Best Picture.  That should pretty much end this discussion.

[FlameOfCallandor]

For Christ's sake, Jaws was nominated for Oscar for Best Picture.  That should pretty much end this discussion.

So was Star Wars, but I still get shit for liking that movie

[The Fake Shemp]

Star Wars was a phenomenon at the time.  It had the goddamn score playing on the radio.  Any exclusion from the Oscars would be like excluding The Sixth Sense when that hit gold, because some movies become bigger than the awards.  That's what happened with Star Wars.  Not that it had any shot.

Star Wars is a pretty fun ride, but I don't think there's any comparison to Jaws.  Jaws is so well acted, whereas Star Wars is not.  Jaws has a superior screenplay.  Jaws has better effects too!

[FlameOfCallandor]

Star Wars was a phenomenon at the time.  It had the goddamn score playing on the radio.  Any exclusion from the Oscars would be like excluding The Sixth Sense when that hit gold, because some movies become bigger than the awards.  That's what happened with Star Wars.  Not that it had any shot.

Star Wars is a pretty fun ride, but I don't think there's any comparison to Jaws.  Jaws is so well acted, whereas Star Wars is not.  Jaws has a superior screenplay.  Jaws has better effects too!

That shark looked so real! 

Don't get me wrong, Jaws is great.

[The Fake Shemp]

That was mostly a jab at the shitty, fake-o-rama CG effects that Lucas has inserted into the movie.

Spielberg knew that the robotic shark was limited in its range, so he used it accordingly.  It's used to great effect; the movie still terrorizes kids.

People were literally afraid to go in the water.  That wasn't just a tagline - it was the fucking truth.

[FlameOfCallandor]

That was mostly a jab at the shitty, fake-o-rama CG effects that Lucas has inserted into the movie.

Spielberg knew that the robotic shark was limited in its range, so he used it accordingly.  It's used to great effect; the movie still terrorizes kids.

People were literally afraid to go in the water.  That wasn't just a tagline - it was the fucking truth.

 

And kids to this day pick up sticks and make lightsaber noises.

[The Fake Shemp]

Please, as if that's comparable.  An animated line with sound effects that kids loved or a movie that used its effects to seriously frighten people from swimming for the entirety of the 70s.

Yeah, real obvious which one won out here!

[FlameOfCallandor]

Please, as if that's comparable.  An animated line with sound effects that kids loved or a movie that used its effects to seriously frighten people from swimming for the entirety of the 70s.

Yeah, real obvious which one won out here!

Yea I still see people frightened to go into water because of Jaws. you might have a point there.

[Mupepe]

I'll go so far as to say that it's more of a feat to actually scare someone than it is to make kids think something is cool.

[FlameOfCallandor]

I'll go so far as to say that it's more of a feat to actually scare someone than it is to make kids think something is cool.

Except 30 years later no ones is scared and people still recognize a lightsaber sound.

[The Fake Shemp]

That's because it's been around for thirty years.  Jaws is so much apart of pop culture, after being relentlessly parodied and mocked on every cartoon, sketch show, movie and TV show, that it's lost a lot of its weight.  As has The Exorcist.

If it were to be released today, it'd still scare the shit out of people.  As would The Exorcist.

[Mandark]

L.A. Confidential.

I don't think anything that comes out in the future could replace it for me, if only because I won't see that hypothetical movie when I'm still in my putty-like teens.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Oh man L.A. Confidential is amazing. I love it.

[Cheebs]

Star Wars was a phenomenon at the time.  It had the goddamn score playing on the radio.  Any exclusion from the Oscars would be like excluding The Sixth Sense when that hit gold, because some movies become bigger than the awards.  That's what happened with Star Wars.  Not that it had any shot.

Exactly. That happens when a film often becomes gigantic but it does not make them "high art". Same thing happened with Blazing Saddles.

[Tauntaun]

All I gotta say is... 

[FlameOfCallandor]

 

He has a point. Evilbore doesnt have a Jaws, Sixth sense, chinatown or 2001 emot.

[Phoenix Dark]

The first time I saw Jaws I was afraid to swim in public recreation pools. For a long time I wouldn't go in water, and even today you'll never find me within a mile of a beach (Michigan FTW!).

Today I like the movie even more because I notice things I didn't as a kid. The subtle yet brilliant scene with a drunk Martin and his son, imitating his daddy.

Martin: Give me a kiss
Son: Why?
Martin: Because I need it

I love that scene. Or, the scene with them telling their various horror stories about sea based injuries lol. And like Willco said, the characters in the movie are extremely well written and flushed out. Robert Shaw is amazing in the movie, from his first to last scene. The same with Richard Dreyfuss; can you imagine just how horrible and cliched 90% of other directors would use a "smart" character like that?

BRET RATNER JAWS REMAKE:

Richard Dreyfuss, played by the Mac guy: Um let me see, according to my calculations we -
Robert Shaw, played by Vin Diesel: Shut the fuck up smart man, I'm takin a piss
Richard Dreyfuss, played by the Mac guy: Look, don't be mad because my education pisses...all over yours!
Robert Shaw, played by Vin Diesel: That's what the Vietcong said to me before I ripped out their insides *cue laughter*
 

I LOVE Jurassic Park; I think it's perfectly paced and entertaining from start to finish. But to compare it to Jaws would be ignorant. Jaws scared the shit out of me an hour before the shark was even seen. That's brilliance on Spielberg's part in my opinion; he knew what he had to work with (half of a mechanical shark), and he used it to the max while barely showing it.

[Solo]

I think 2001 is a piece of crap, but that's just me, Solo.

Indeed it is!

[whiteACID]

Full Metal Jacket

[Error Macro]

Ghostbusters

[TVC15]

Lets see what Rotten Tomatoes says about Jurrasic Park.


Why, it has a 87%. That means that 87% of movie critics think it is a good movie. Surely they arent lying. Hmm. Me thinks evilbore doesnt know shit.

The Chinatown that you HATE SO MUCH has 100% at Rottentomatoes, you useless cigarillo.

Also, Will, when are you gonna be on IM again?

[The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment]

When will people learn that most critics these days are blowhard film school dropouts pandering to the masses?