Even the KIDS 🧒 Sharks Are Brutal 🦈 - Jaws Movie Reaction *Genuine First Time Watching* 

Nearly 50 years later, Ben Gardner’s head popping out STILL gets people every time…

Back in the theater in 1975, everyone jumped when that head popped out of that boat! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Jaws got Steven Spielberg on the iconic directors map. Without Jaws success, he would not have made, Jurassic Park, ET, Saving Private Ryan, nor Shindlers List.

I love how Brody said the mother wasn't wrong saying what she did to him. It's one of my favorite parts of the movie. Even though he easily could've blamed the mayor and would've been justified to do so, he took the "Buck stops here" position. No matter how the decision to keep the beaches open was made he felt it was ultimately his responsibility to protect that boy from harm and he failed to do so.

Steven Spielberg directed this movie when he was 26 if you wanna feel useless for a minute lol

It amazes me that there are still people out there who haven't seen this masterpiece! This is my favorite movie since childhood! Absolute classic!

Ah, the Ben Gardner jump scare never gets old! LOL!

The USS Indianapolis story happened. It was taking components for the atomic bomb and sank when hit by the Japanese. The survivors were stranded in the water and picked off by sharks that were brought around by all of the commotion. Terrifying.

He doesn't want coffee. He wants coffee ice cream.

2024 is the 49th anniversary of JAWS!! I was 10 when I saw this film in 1975. It has stood the test of time. The book by Peter Benchley, is a MUST read. Spielberg knocked it out of the ballpark!!

I learned about the USS Indianapolis story in history class here in Ireland when I was 11 or 12 in the early 1990's. It surprises me that younger Americans are not taught events like this in school! You're the only nation that has used nuclear bombs in war and this was part of the timeline.

The head jump scar is universal! One of the BEST jump scares in cinematic history!! Loved your alls jump scare!!!

"A whaaat?" makes me laugh every time.

I saw this movie at the NJ shore when it opened in 1975and have watched it many times since. However, it feels like I'm watching it for the first time seeing viewers experiencing the movie for the first time. The both of you did not disappoint. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

For the record $3,000 in 1974-75 is about $20,000 today in 2024; $10,000 is $63,000 today. And that's why Quint smashed the radio, he wanted the money.

“Coffee” refers to the flavor of ice cream the little boy wanted his mom to bring him (in the hospital). It was pretty popular back in the 70’s (when flavors were a little simpler than today’s seemingly infinite choices).

You two are fantastic together. Love watching reactions with the two of you 🙂Jaws reportedly invented the term "summer blockbuster". We use it all the time now, this film created it (reportedly took $100 million during its run, in 1975). Quint's "Indianapolis" monologue is a legend in cinema. Not only was Robert Shaw (Quint) a phenomenal actor, he was also a writer. Now, depending on who you hear this from, the story goes he wanted to give a backstory to show why Quint hates sharks so much. So Shaw said he would write the scene. And he did. He performed it, drunk, while Spielberg filmed it. The crew and Spielberg were so mesmerized by the performance, Spielberg didn't say "cut". They only stopped filming because they heard a "clicking" sound. The camera had run out of film.🙂 And the Indianapolis story is based on true events.

The theme for "Jaws" is iconic, building upon the similarly iconic theme from "Psycho." As for the $3000 reward initially offered, that was approximately the price of a new car. The actor playing the newsman on the beach is actually the author of the novel, "Jaws." Beer cans in the 70s had switched from steel to aluminum, but it was a very thick aluminum compared to the tin, barely there aluminum in cans of today. Thus Quint was showing his strength by crushing the can in his hand (difficult for men to do).

Facts: 1) The monologue that Quint gives about the USS Indianapolis, is based on fact. The USS Indianapolis was an actual ship that was torpedoed by the Japanese and no distress signal was sent. A lot of the survivors who made it into the water were killed by sharks. 2) As a result of the shark frenzy this movie caused, a lot of sharks were hunted and killed. To this day both Steven Spielberg and Richard Dreyfus will only go ankle deep in the ocean water. They have both said worry the sharks would be out for revenge. PS.. I would highly recommend watching the making of the movie (Jaws). It’s really interesting.

The next time you go into the ocean, you'll hear that theme in your head and think twice before you're knee deep!

LOL! My man called ol' dude a hobo. "Let's see what the hobo got to say." LOL, I just can't stop laughing. Caught me off guard with that.

I love the story line of the animosity between Quint and Hooper. their different points of view. Quint hated sharks ever since the Indianapolis and was old school as far as hunting them. Hooper loved sharks, part of him wanted to study this one as much as kill it. He had all the modern equipment available, even the means to kill it, all of which Quint resisted out of pride. it was a huge swallowing of pride when Quint asked Hooper what he could do with this stuff.

My fav part of this movie is when quint tells the story of being stuck in the water waiting for rescue

"That's a feast for a shark" Thank You, Someone needed to say it!!!

The reporter on the beach, was Mr. Peter Benchley, the author of JAWS. He also wrote THE ISLAND; THE DEEP; ECTRA.

"Thats a feast for a shark, right there" - Bwahaha!! Good Call.

Coffee ice cream. That's the kid's favorite flavor. The shark is so big, the current from its movements pushed the little boat over, knocking the 3 kids into the water.

The actor who.plays " Mat Hooper " was also in " Close Encounters Of The Third Kind ".

Bruh i got tears laughing at the tense scenes....yalls faces im dying over here 🤣😆

Glad you enjoyed and appreciated such an iconic movie from 1975. Being 9yrs old in the theater, this movie terrified me and the nation. Spielberg, along with John Williams music kept the suspense going. Also, the shark didn’t work 90% of the the time, being a mechanical machine. So Spielberg relied heavily on the barrels to keep the suspense. Thx again. Jaws is a great movie.

Spielberg did a lot of movies in different genres, including several of the greatest movies of all time, including Jaws and The Color Purple (the original version).

I once read somewhere about the difference between horror and terror. Essentially, it boils down to believability. Fear of an unrealistic, or fictional, threat (a vampire, werewolf, zombie, Godzilla, etc.) is horror. Fear of a real, legitimate threat (a shark, tornado, serial killer, etc ) is terror. That's an oversimplification, of course, and there can be some overlap between the two, but that's why Jaws is probably more accurately described as a thriller, rather than horror (although it has some horror elements).

Fun facts: the shark was mechanical and rusted and needed repairs alot, so footage was hard to film, so things like the disappearing barrels were used to show you where the shark was. The producers thought the movie would fail because of that. Actually, not seeing the shark more often became more suspensful, and one reason the movie became a huge hit.

The comment about Brodie's wife laughing at Hoopers jokes... in the novel that the film as based on they ended up having an affair and then Hooper does not survive the shark hunt!

Spielberg also did " Empire Of The Sun " & " Close Encounters Of The Third Kind " among other movies.

The live footage was around the cage when the shark got entangled in lines. It was shot in Australia. There's so much info on this film, look for one about the making of Jaws.

Steven Spielberg's classic horror, that kept a lot of people out of the water, for a movie in the 70's, this would have been even more scare than it is today

Can I request a reaction to An Officer and a Gentleman in honor of Louis Gossett Jr? He passed away today and he was the first black man to win the Oscar for best supporting actor.

Me and gf had a cruise planned. All island places with beaches. I said hey babe watch this movie, it's family fun about the ocean (meanwhile I'm cracking up inside). Yeah, she watches and never went below knee deep anywhere we went. Yes, yes, I'm an ass 😂😂

There was a cut of the movie I saw ONCE in the early 80s where they revealed that Quint used a frozen baby dolphin for shark bait. I have not seen it since, but I swear it existed. In the novel, the Mayor turns out to be involved in organized crime, and they won't let him close the beaches. Decades after the movie was made, Lee Fierro - the actress who played Mrs Kintner - walked into a restaurant on the same island and noticed an 'Alex Kintner sandwich' on the menu. When she mentioned to the server that she had played Mrs Kintner in 'Jaws,' the server went in the back and alerted the restaurant owner, who turned out to be Jeffrey Voorhees, the actor who played Alex Kintner. According to Voorhees, he rushed out into the dining room, up to her table and shouted, "Mom!"

Spielberg didn't write Back To The Future... he was executive producer. His production company Amblin pitched money for tons of family movies in the 80s and 90s. Basically his name helped them at the box office.

There is a book about the making of JAWS, as well as the scenes that were purposely deleted. It's called, 'THE JAWS LOG'. A GOOD READ!!

Fun Facts While the movie is based off a book...they had to go off script because the damn things wouldn't work! They would write the script as they went. The shark was supposed to been seen a lot more, however this movie still is king of horror because it's what you can't see that scares people more. At the 30:01 mark the reporter is Peter Benchley, he wrote the book Jaws This was filmed in Martha's Vineyard and a lot of the people in the mo ie were extras and it was NOT filmed in summer. Jaws the shark was named Bruce there was 3 of them. The name came from Spielberg's lwayer We are gonna need a bigger boat was a adlib that is now famous and used in so many ways Jaws was the 1st Summer Blockbuster They had two Orcas. The one that wasn't set up to sink got sunk and the entire movie was almost lost. The shark that was caught was an actual real dead Tiger Shark and was caught in FL and driven to Martha's Vineyard....it was ripe!!! He Ben Carson head scene was filmed in a pool and added in much later after filming stopped. There is so much more that is just crazy 🤪 that happened. I didn't even get into the actors and other things that happened. If you ever get a chance wat h one of the Making of Jaws or one of the others free on YT. It's worth a watch!

I was ten when this movie came out... and for some reason.. my mother let me go see this. She died four years ago and I'm STILL mad at her. I didn't want to get in the water at a beach for about ten years.

If you want to check out all Spielberg filmography dont forget to watch "Poltergeist" as well, the film that, officially, was never directed by him (only produced) but it was certainly directed by him at least partially. A funny thing about the movie: the tv reporter on the beach is Peter Benchley, the writer of the book.

That scene where quint and them were drinking swapping stories, quint was actually drunk bc he was drinking real liquor and one day they had to stop filming bc he was too messed up but some of the shots were used in the movie.

Jaws was the first summer "blockbuster" and one of the first times in cinema history that a studio spent considerable money on marketing and merchandising for a film. It was the first film to gross over a hundred million dollars in domestic box office receipts, doing so on a roughly nine million dollar budget. It was the all-time box office champion for roughly two years until the release of the original Star Wars movie.

I remember watching this movie with my Dad when I was much much younger 😂😂😂 this shit scared tf outta me!

Stephen Spielberg didn't do 'Carrie'. That was directed by Brian DePalma and written by Stephen King.

This movie was kinda prophetic in one way. Despite how terrible Larry Vaughn handled this shark thing as mayor, as horrible a human as he was (though a little less so in the book as there are major reasons for him wanting the beaches open), he is STILL MAYOR in JAWS 2. In the book, it explains his wife fell very ill and he went in debt to the NYC mob to pay her medical bills. To repay the debt he sold them rental properties cheaply on the island so they could launder money via a legit rental business. No open beaches, no renters, no money = cement shoes for Larry. They even killed the Brody kids' cat and left it on the doorstep as a warning.

Coffee ice cream is pretty big in New England - that's the flavor the kid wanted lol. Great reaction!

I cannot state strong enough how much this movie affected my generation (and older ones). I saw this the year it came out at the drive-in theater with my family, I was seven. It made me scared to even go in our backyard pool! Today I'm 55 and I haven't been back in the ocean past my ankles.

Spielberg didn't do Back to the Future or Carrie. He mentored Zemeckis and pushed for the ok for Back to the Future after Stoltz got fired, but he didn't work on the movie. Carrie was done by a different legendary director, Brian De Palma (did movies like Scarface, Mission Impossible, Blow Out, and The Untouchables)

on Deadliest Catch they bait the traps with fresh dead fish to attract hundreds of crabs

This is my favorite movie of all time.

Thank you for reacting to this movie! It's a classic for a reason! 💜💜💜

The story about the USS Indianapolis is true unfortunately. When you take a fish out of water you're drowning it

I think the kid asked for coffee-flavored ice cream, but I don't know why he'd want that either. I remember this summer. No one was trying to get in the water!

It's the tension builds that make it good too,

If you're interested in another horror film by Stephen Spielberg, I recommend Duel. It was Spielberg's first thriller, a tv movie (back when tv movies tended to be good), about a man on a long commute being chased and threatened by a deranged long haul trucker. Great stuff!

If you think about it, any large apex man-eating predator creates the basis for a potential horror scenario. Especially one that's acting unusually , as was the shark in this movie.

Spielberg's first big splash before Jaws was a TV movie about (a "land shark") an eighteen wheeler chasing a traveler across the southern desert.

I randomly met Spielberg at the market where I sell tie dye that I make. No one noticed him but me. ❤❤❤❤❤

" Carrie " was a horror movie by Stephen King from the 70's

The Captain's Story is about the mission of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS

Because of this movie, the term blockbuster was coined. People were lined up down the block (for blocks) to see it.

JAWS was the first giant shark movie. At the time of this movie sharks on movies and t.v. were these dolphin sized fish like on Flipper or Sea Hunt. The size of Great White sharks surprised a lot of people. My father had a 55' fishing boat out of Oceanside Ca and people would pay me to take them out so they could see a shark this big. Several times I found a 17' long female great white off of San Clemente Island and while she wasn't as big as the mechanacle shark in Jaws she still impressed and scared my clients/charter.

Watch “E.T. The Extra Terrestrial.” It is directed by the same director of “Jaws” and it is lighthearted instead of scary. It has a great storyline and it is also funny.

Past generations filled the beaches in the summer until this movie came out and terrified all. The birth of the pool boom came after it until this day. That’s become cultural. It all changed.

This movie holds the test of time.....great reactions 😂

In a 1975 interview, "Jaws" director Steven Spielberg said that part of his inspiration for "Jaws" was Go-dZi-LLa. In turn, there are some scenes reminiscent of "Jaws"(1975) in "Go-dZi-LLa Minus One"(2023).

When you rank this movie you have to remember when this was done. The late 70s and when you figure the graphics and story line this made people avoid to go swimming at all. I remember seeing this at the movies when it came out. I was scared to go swimming in a big pool. Love this classic.

the tiger shark they used in the movie was a real dead shark that they found washed ashore beach also you’re more likely to be crushed by a vending machine or struck by lightning then to be attacked by a shark

In the same style you've got "Orca " 😱 👌

Speilberg only had a few movies of note before this. Sugarland Express, and death car, which was Jaws with a car. Then he did this and Close Encounters, and his fame was set! Hooper did some huge movies, Close Encounters, Mr Hollands opus, American Graffiti and the riot, what about Bob, and Let it Ride. Chief was in a huge 80s movie, Blue Thunder, and Quint was in a Bond film Dr no, Battle of the Bulge, Force ten from Navarrone, The Sting, The Deep. This is also perfectly spoofed in Ace Ventura Pet Detective! Pro tips ...rhey had multiple issues with various mechanical shark issues. The story of the Indianapolis was true. A kid researched it about 20 years ago after seeing this movie, and got the Navy to recognize and reward the survivors and give backpay to the families of the dead. Sharks are programmed to eat fatty sleek shaped, one or two colored animals, like fat tuna, dolphins sea lions, seals, etc., so humans aren't high on their food menu. pro tip... independent theaters will sometimes on the anniversary, put a massive portable screen on a beach, reverse projection it, then u get in ur floaty, go into the beach water, and u and crowds of people watch it, from the water!😮😮😮. Years later the mom of the eaten kid went into a restaurant, and saw on their menu they had a Mrs Kitner or Alex Kitner sandwich. She goes and tells the manager, that was me, I played the woman! Manager goes back, tells the owner....the owner is the kid Alex! Jim Carey does a perfect parody of the first attack, in Ace Ventura!

My grandfathers Navy vessel help set up the facility in Leyte.

You two should also watch Jaws 2 and the movie Orca (1977). To answer the question if crabs eat dead stuff, yes they do and they eat live stuff too. So if you're immobile they will eat you alive. Same with pigs. There's lots of horror stories of farmers falling into the pig pens and only pieces of clothing being found. That's also the reason why farmers don't allow their kids to play around the pig pens. There are stories of people being bitten by the pigs on pig beach in the Bahamas.

The scene with Ben Gardner's head popping out was filmed in a swimming pool. Steven Spielberg wanted a major jump scare. He paid for it with his own money. The jump scare is still considered to be one of the best to this day.

You guys did a lot more of the movie than all the other reactors! Thank you! Excellent job! First time seeing you new sub!

He wanted coffee ice cream not coffee.

Spielberg isn't just a director. He's a writer and producer. He's one of the co-founders of Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures, and DreamWorks Animation. You'll see his name on a crap ton of movies that he didn't direct because they were produced by one of his companies. Best way to find out which movies he actually *directed* then go to his Wikipedia page. It tells you whether he directed each movie or only wrote or produced the movie. You can start with Duel (1971) . It was originally written for tv but there's a theater release version as well.

I just love watching you two react! You two are such a great couple! =;-D

Enjoyed this! Such a great movie!!

The thing that makes it scary is that it’s possible. Back in the 70 & 80’s people were actually scared to get in the water at the beaches. Shark attacks are real.

Love it! You guys are funny.

I only ever go ankle deep in the ocean lol

What the little boy meant in the hospital was he wanted coffee ice cream

Now, interesting fact for those who don’t know, this movie is rated PG. that’s right, this film has the same rating as Zootopia and Frozen. On a side note, I make it a point to show this to my students every year. To show them a proper film that used practical effects, no CG. The Ben Gardner scene always makes them jump.

Sharks don’t discriminate against kids hahahaah

haha great reaction 😀

Alex mind that shark. What shark, gobble gobble.

With Mothers Day approaching, might I suggest movies with a strong female “lead”. (Hero or villain , or both): “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle”, “The Believers” 1987, “Fatal Attraction”, “The Grifters”

Yes it's horror Jaws always comes in at number one or two best 100 horror movies of all time Jaws and the exorcist are always the top two! And Jaws actually scared more movie audiences than the Exorcist! Especially scared people away from the beaches! I remember that I was 12 when Jaws first came to the theaters I know it scared the shit out of me The exorcist didn't because I never did believe in possession or the devil where jaws with a story came from actually happened and sharks are real and demon possession is not real!

A Chief of police works for the mayor.

26:40-Fun jump scare--I knew it'd get ya!! 28:19, Larry's worried about his own azz. Book said he owed N.Y. Mafia $$ and needed his summer cabins to rent, or he couldn't pay 'em back. And you know how those guys are about thier $$..Might make HIM shark food! Great reaction to a great classic, guys.

I have subscribed...Great reaction video!!!!!!!!!stay real

What gets lost to history is this started a shark scare when I was a kid. They started killing sharks left and right where I grew up in New England. What I didn't know is how much sharks were garbage disposals. The following summer we had a TON of jellyfish issues and whole schools washing up on beaches. Sharks would eat them in our area and the culled so many the jellyfish just flourished. Spielberg thought this was going to destroy his career. He was so stressed out that at the end of the movie he turned it over to his associate director before he had a nervous breakdown. This ended up becoming superstition for him because Jaws was so huge. To this day he leaves a movie early before filming is completed. The shark was suppose to feature more in the film. The problem is they tested it in fresh water and not salt water. It had so many issues so it didn't feature as much. It ended up working in the film's advantage because it gave it that Hitchcock feel.

this how you do great reaction.

Jaws 2 is also a good movie. Loved this reaction.

They were talking about drowning the shark because sharks have to keep moving to breathe