JAWS (1975) FIRST TIME WATCHING! - MOVIE REACTION! 

Thank you for joining this Reaction video. It's lovely reading everyone's memories when watching this film for the first time. This was one of my very first memories of film in general, I watched it as a family and i asked my mum to cover my eyes when Quint was eaten. Great times. Now we have here in this video another first time viewing! Please share in this thread below, where you were when you first watched this film....

I saw this at a drive-in when I was 9 the summer it came out. All three of us in the car screamed when that shark came out of the water. It still makes me smile at the memory.

"You're gonna need a bigger boat." Fun Fact: Director Steven Spielberg named the shark "Bruce" after his lawyer. What Script Fact: According to writer Carl Gottlieb, the line "You're gonna need a bigger boat." was not scripted, but was ad-libbed by Roy Scheider. Location Location Fact: Quint's (Robert Shaw) boathouse set was built in Martha's Vineyard on an abandoned lot. The city council made the production crew sign an agreement to demolish it after filming and replace everything exactly as it had been, right down to the litter. Writing Ensemble Fact: Quint's tale of the USS Indianapolis was conceived by playwright Howard Sackler, lengthened by screenwriter John Milius and rewritten by Robert Shaw following a disagreement between screenwriters Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb. Shaw presented his text, and Benchley and Gottlieb agreed that this was exactly what was needed. It's widely considered the best scene of the movie. The Rest Of The Story Fact: Several decades after the film's release, Lee Fierro (RIP), who played Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed "Alex Kintner Sandwich" on the menu. She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago; the owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her, and he was none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They had not seen each other since the original movie shoot. I'm told Jeff still owns the restaurant at Martha's Vineyard and he loves talking to fans.

The fact that it can still scare the shit out of people 50 years later is a testament to the film's mastery. I'm not surprised he won't go in the ocean again.

There is a good example of foreshadowing in this movie: when Chief Brody is looking through books about sharks, researching the subject, while thumbing through the books, he comes across a photo of a giant shark with a compressed air tank from a diver in its mouth. Of course, this comes full circle at the end of the movie when Brody destroys the shark by shooting the compressed air tank in its jaws. I am always surprised that no one ever points that out; it seems like such an obvious oversight to me…

Fun facts: The author of the Jaws novel, Peter Benchley, was the reporter on the beach. The other reporter, Harold Meadows, was the co-screenwriter for the movie.

I am gonna go ahead and call it in advance...Ben Gardner's boat is gonna claim another jump scare victim. LOL OH, and I am gonna give many props to Dad here...for doing a MUCH better job of introducing his son to this movie than my Dad did. My Dad took me to see this on a blazing hot summer day in 1976, when I was barely 8 years old...because he wanted to sit in someplace that had air conditioning to get away from the heat. Even still...it is probably still one of my favorite Spielberg films, and the one that I have rewatched the 2nd most number times...my most rewatched is Saving Private Ryan.

I was 13 when I saw this, the world's first-ever summer blockbuster, in my local mall's cinema. The shark still looks real to ME. Most shark attacks take place close to the beach in under 5 feet of water. Fun fact: Novelist and co-screenwriter Peter Benchley played the TV reporter on the beach.

I saw this in 75 as a sneak preview, when you truly had no idea what movie you were going to see. The audience went wild. Best movie going experience ever.

Father: This is a blue ray disc. We used to collect them before the streaming. Child: Nods patiently.

Yo kiddo! Don't worry about the head scene! 24:16 It gets us all!!!! One of my favorite parts to watch on JAWS reviews! Great review guys!

It is common knowledge that the shark was an early animatronic device. but even so , the Brilliance of the way Spielberg filmed it one can easily overlook that maybe the shark isn't as fast of as agile as a real shark would be . But it holds up today under scrutiny very well I think. This movie has aged well , and is a scream classic . This type of Hollywood greatness no longer exists.

Ron & Valerie Taylor also shot the underwater footage for _The Blue Lagoon._ Hooper's my favorite character.

I was a kid when this came out and just learning to swim. I remember distinctly my mom, relaxing on the beach with her nose in the paperback with that iconic cover, casually waving me toward the water where my swimming lessons were about to start. To this day, my heart still races whenever I go into the water. Pools aren't much better because my dad was a James Bond fan and there were sharks in pools in those films too.

I feel like any child's first-time watching Jaws is like a "rite of passage", A true transition to adult movies and actual culture! and just saying that the effects are NOT AT ALL DATED, the piratical effects are still Top Notch to this day, and they still hold up strong!

9:52 "Cause we're seeing them for a bit long" is an excellent cinematic observation

If weren’t already aware? The story of the Indianapolis is a true story.😬

It was very sweet to watch this, I loved that your son enjoyed it. Seeing his reactions were wonderful. I also saw this when I was around 7, same reaction as dad, scared even in pools,. the fear of sharks turned into a deep appreciation of the species. I firmly believe that Quint's monologue is one of the greatest in cinema history.

Every time I see a reaction to any other Spielberg film, Temple of Doom, Goonies etc. and the reactors say, "Oh Spielberg wouldn't XZY a kid!" I just shake my head. I grew up, and still live on the Atlantic shore of Brooklyn. On a good day I can hit the water with a rock from here. I can swim like a dolphin but rarely go deeper than my waist. I saw Jaws at the age of 3. To this day I am petrified of deep water and, as a kid, was also I was afraid of a shady end of the pool.

Can't wait for Space Shark.

I was 12 years old when this was released. I saw it 13 times that summer. I bought the soundtrack, and it was my main reading music for many years.

I still wake up in cold sweats, from terrifying nightmares of tubas.

The guy at the beach party in the beginning was so pissed he passed out on the beach. As an American I used to hang out with some Brits that attended the high school that I went to from 1972 - 1975. So I did learn a lot of the ways they spoke and some of their slang. And during that time I did watch Monty Python's Flying Circus on the American tele. And also I watched The Avengers on the American tele during the 1960s. That was a very popular series here in America. Dame Diana Rigg who played the role of Mrs. Emma Peel was every American man's dream. Cheers!

I have two people in my life that are afraid to get in the bathtub because they went and saw Jaws in person when it came out lol

I remember watching Jaws for the first time on TV as a kid in the early 80's; The following day we had our weekly school swimming lesson at the local sports centre, and we spent most of the lesson messing around reenacting the film and using the foam floats as a shark fin.

I’ve seen this many times, but watching Quint’s obsession, I finally made the connection to Captain Ahab from Moby Dick.

I remember back in 1975 I was 13 years old, me and my friends went to see Jaws, everyone was sitting forward with suspense waiting for the next thing to happen and when the head rolled out there was a big bang of everyone slamming back into their seats. This is by far the best shark movie ever made. Back then the movie makers used suspense and flash surprise along with your own imagination to scare you instead of the CGI they use today. The 70's were full of horror movies such as The Exorcist (1973), and NO I do not recommend your son watching at least for a few more years.

This channel is the best, so wholesome. It makes this old dad whose kids are grown feel warm in the heart, thanks guys for sharing your time together, it makes difference out here in the world. Much ❤ from the mountains of Colorado, USA.

I can't say with any accuracy how many times I have watched this series, or how many reaction videos I've seen, but if it's 75-100 isn't outlandish. I never get tired of this show. It is the focus of the men who fought it versus those who directed the men which they commanded. The portrayal is different because it places us in with them as if we are a member of Easy Company. That is the difference between the usual fair and the portrayal we have here told from the perspective of the participant's.

As a kid (born in '69) I got nightmares just from looking at that movie poster.

48 years old and I still can’t swim in open water or water after dark because of this movie!!

I watched Jaws at 7 for the first time too, and I live on Long Island where great white shark attacks are not common but do happen once in a while.

You guys chose one the great iconic films. 😆Sorry young lad, i was waiting for that scene with Ben Gardener's head popping out of the hole. under water. I showed my nephew this scene and told him to pay close attention...lol. Note the reporter with glasses on the beach was author Peter Benchley in cameo.

The first jaws victim was a stunt woman. Her screams were real because they had her tied with rope on each side of her body. She was really in pain because they pulled her back and forth too hard.

I don't know if that's what Spielberg was going for, but that was such an astute observation about the fence and the guy chasing Chrissie. I'd never thought of that.

Apparently Spielberg had talks about directing the second film but the execs weren’t prepared to wait a year while he filmed Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Spielberg wanted to tell the story of Quint & the Indianapolis and how it made him obsessed with sharks. I also believe the “you’re going to need a bigger boat” line was improvised by Roy Scheider. He only agreed to make the second film to get out of his contract with Universal, and then shot the film Blue Thunder just so he was unavailable for the third film.

There aren't any sharks in a swimming pool... until you play Swim for your Life at midnight on a moonless night while your little brother keeps talking sbout Jaws.

Really fun watching this reaction, guys. Awesome time between father and son!. Thanks for posting it!

I'm 58 and grew up with a river in my back yard. I was 9 when this came out and even though I was 100% certain that there were no sharks in the muddy fresh water in my back yard, I was nervous about it for years. :DDD

I don't know why, but I love Brodys reaction when he sees the shark at 34:39.

C'est souvent dit dans les commentaires mais ça ne coûte rien de le répéter : vous êtes un papa remarquable. J'ai vu déjà plusieurs de vos réactions et je dois dire que je ne me lasse pas, en particulier dans les intros et outros, de voir et d'entendre un père de famille préparer ainsi son fils à l'avance, avec la simple idée qu'il vive sereinement mais pleinement les émotions que nous avons ressenti lorsque, pour beaucoup d'entre nous je suppose, nous avons vu enfant ou ado ce film (ou d'autres aussi "sensibles") pour la première fois. Cet encadrement "moral" est tout à votre honneur et laisse voir à l'image un amour paternel tangible évident. Quel régal à regarder. Je me surprends à rêver un instant d'avoir eu un père attentif comme ça avec moi, ce qui ne fut pas le cas. Ca n'empêche en rien le développement personnel, je vous rassure, puisque mon amour d'enfant du cinéma m'a conduit à en faire mon métier (chef opérateur du son). Mais, disons que l'apport d'un proche adulte eût été un atout supplémentaire dans l'émancipation de ma passion devenue profession par la suite. J'aurais sans doute simplement gagné du temps à comprendre et aimer le septième art... ;) Merci à tous les deux pour cette détente salutaire, cette attitude noble est quasiment d'utilité publique même, compte tenu du contexte anxiogène permanent dans lequel baignent aujourd'hui nos chers "petites têtes blondes", comme on dit (un peu mécaniquement) en français. Stéphane (From France).

34:47 Excellent ! Vos appels du pied dans les minutes qui précèdent rendent délicieux ce passage de LA réplique iconique du film.

oh and in the 70s when no one had ever seen a shark..it looked very real

I remember introducing my daughter to Jaws. This should be fun.

In the words of Big Jim McBob, "he blowed up good."

Fun fact the bespectacled reporter is actually Peter Benchley

I saw Jaws in theater for the first time when I was 7 and it didn't bother me at all. It's an excellent movie.

Can't wait to watch this brilliant movie with my daughter. Merci.

My favorite son and father.. Great reaction..

Great reaction to probably the most iconic creature feature film of all-time

Remarkably, Quint’s speech about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis is a historical fact. It really happened! His vivid description of the tragedy that resulted is one of the most epic monologues in cinematic history, and is the key to his character and his obsession with killing sharks. He smashed the radio not only because he wanted to secure the bounty and reward for killing the Great White, which is strictly a secondary consideration for him, but rather because he wanted revenge - or perhaps personal redemption - for his horrific experience, which he can only achieve by killing the man-eating shark himself.

I was 9 yrs. old when I first saw this in a theater that was so full that the people that came with me and I had to sit in separate sections. I ended up in the first row center. I didn't sleep at all that night.

I was a biology student in the early 90s,I had a professor that once collaborated with the coast navy authority here in Chile. You'll see, the coast guards found a diver's body, with the head and one arm missing. According to my professor, the head and arm at the level of the complete shoulder were torn apart in one round bite, doing the math the shark that did it was around four meters long, maybe a bull or a great white. Contrary to the lore, this kind of sharks are cosmopolitan, but you find them more often in the "feeding grounds", but won't refuse a snack in transit. Fun reaction guys!

Im an Australian. I know Sharks cannot get you if you are on land. So I stay out of the water.

Jaws an absolute classic, would love to see more Spielberg films on the channel.

Holy cuteness.

Great reaction. Thank you. I watched this film every time sick from school 6-10 years old.

"poor shark" good kid 😊

I'm from Massachusetts where it was filmed & it scared the crap out of me. It is a classic & 1 of my favorites. Every year you can go to Martha's Vineyard & the show the movie right on the beach & you can watch it in the water or the beach.

Saw it in the theater as a kid and it’s great you’re introducing this classic to your son. Even to this day the two note music theme (E & F" or "F & F sharp) is enough to trigger my instincts to get out of the water. 🦈 What I remember from the theater experience was a young girl screaming prematurely which triggered a chain reaction of screams but it was only a nothing happening burger. Cheers

Saw at the theater many times, all time classic, thanks

The USS Indianapolis story that Quint spoke was true events.

Jaws was filmed in cape cod in Massachusetts...

I was a kid when this came out and didn't see it in full until adulthood, though I was aware of it, and it had run on cable television frequently. I'm just glad that I hadn't seen Jaws prior to my 1986/1987 year abroad in Spain where I did the whole night swimming bit with a girl on the Costa del Sol. I would have been too freaked out and never would have let her go in, let alone get in myself.

Kid is sporting a mullet. 😂 Halfway to the pony-tailed man-bun. 🤣

28:04 Votre regard est hallucinant. Je vois dedans le doute, une fraction de secondes, de savoir si vous avez pris la bonne décision en montrant le film à votre fils aujourd'hui. Vos mots sont juste après très touchants, "Est-ce que ça va ?" et "Noooon [pas de tête coupée]". Admirable(s) réaction(s).

The actress first sharked in the beginning was actually hurt inured somewhat during the scene. She had ropes tied around her waist and they were yanking her hard in the different directions for the dragging effect.

Your reactions are a joy to watch. I wish to eventually be a parent and have wonderful child like yours! So mature and insightful. Also, love the jacket! 👍🏼

These videos are so much fun to watch. Reminds me of when my Dad showed me these movies for the first time

I also saw this at 7 when it was released in 75 looks like we are the same age . ⭐️🇺🇸⭐️☑️

Oh you should do some 70s disaster movies. Like Poseidon Adventure and Earthquake.

Love the Amity Police sweatshirt!

really is a horror movie about a giant , powerful, mutant shark lol

I saw this at the movie theater when I was 9. Went to the beach, freshwater lake, the next day and couldn't go in the water

Went to the theater for this one at 15 years old. The jump scares were 10 X better on the big screen. Lol

Great reaction. You both did really well. Great parenting as far as I'm concerned.

To get Chrissie's screams, they brought the actress in for a recording session and basically waterboarded her. Did you notice that Brody mis-spells 'CORONER'S' on her death certificate as 'CORNER'S?' The flotilla of local fishermen are actually being counter-productive by using dynamite. While explosions can stun or even kill nearby fish, causing them to float to the surface, it would drive away any shark outside of the blast radius. The Mayor isn't acting entirely out of greed or stupidity; in the book, it is revealed that he owes money to the Mob, who won't let him close the beaches. That doesn't excuse him, but it does deepen the understanding of his motives.

24:20 Great reaction! Very brave of you to keep watching after that.

22:45 I sure hope Hooper has a car! 24:51 As vandalism goes, that's pretty funny.

I would love to see you two react to the film Searching for Bobby Fisher. It's a fantastic father son movie and a film that not a whole lot of reactors have covered. It stars Lawrence Fishburn, Ben Kingsley and several other known actors. It's a very entertaining movie that will make you laugh, Cry, and think.

Back in 1975 this was an awesome and forever memorable cinema experience for anyone seeing the movie for the first time. I was 12 and watched the movie with my dad.

46:59 I'm seriously surprised this kid isn't asking if the sharks still alive

This movie probably should have been rated R. I saw it when I was 9 years old and it was one of the first movies I saw on a big screen. It didn't keep me from going in the ocean as a teenager, but it definitely put me on the lookout for sharks when I was at the beach!

The Ghost and the Darkness. Good watch and based on real events.

"So you're a psychology experiment." Wouldn't that be true for most parents to say that to their kids? 😜🤣

Personally, the mayor’s suit was a lot more scarier than the shark.

Saw it at a drive-in when I was 12 years old.

Finally someone who comments on the fact the fences look like teeth at the beginning!

There is a shark who is probably hopefully still out there named Deep Blue. She is the biggest recorded Great White ; and would be ~20ft+ long now. She also would be pushing 60 past years old! So even if our movie shark were a faster grower he would still be like an older man age of 50-70.

P.S. The lad caught that Michael asked to go swimming. Most reactors miss that. Kid's pretty sharp. To my point, no, the Brody's didn't "just move to town", they've been there for nine months. "We bought the house in the fall. This is summer..." 10:42 Lad: "Kid, dead. Dog, dead." If this dude isn't a detective when he grows up, the city where he lives will be a lot worse off. And trust me, kid. Keep that hair long. You're gonna be a heartbreaker.19:25 You should see what they showed in the cinema, little man. You think the arm was bad? We had the torso and her face in a rictus of agony, just like it described in the book. For 40 years I can't get an explanation as to who or why that was cut. And why that idiotic non-sequitur was put in its place. And for the record, we asked "Was it Jack the Ripper?" at the same time. RHPS represent. 19:52 Don't feel bad, that shark was already dead, shipped up from Florida for an oft-delayed scene that ended with that thing stinking up the place for miles around. Fun fact: the mimic scene with little Sean was an ad-lib. He just started copying his co-star and they left it in. Pro tip: cutting jokes is bad. And don't bother yelping about the coyright. If that was really the case, all reactions would look alike, and they really, really don't. The guy who lost his leg is Teddy Grossman, and he was a prop guy on the movie. He was the one responsible for getting that smelly shark shipped from Florida. There's practically zero chance of killing a shark with a gun. They have a brain the size of a walnut and it's encased in cartilage. Not to mention, a shark dies from the tail forward, and it takes about 24 hours, so, you catch a shark tonight, he can still bite your *ss off tomorrow morning. 34:30 Way to tip him off, Dad. Congrats on not eviscerating the USS Indianapolis story. 42:30 Happens every time, innit? Somebody anthropomorphises the shark. Somehow, he becomes a sentient villain.45:35 In the book, Hooper died and the shark came up out of the water with his body hanging out of his mouth. The movie is much, much better than the book.It does happen occasionally. For the record, compressed air doesn't explode. It will shoot backward, however. This was great fun watching this with you guys! Nice job, Dad. Very well done introducing the boy to one of the classics.

I have a suggestion for a movie that you might like: the movie "catch me if you can" with Tom Hanks and Leonardo Dicaprio, is really funny and captivating

Both the “Jaws” novel and the movie were inspired by a series of deadly shark attacks along the Jersey shore over a short period of time, resulting in multiple fatalities, all of which were caused by a single rogue bull shark. In short, incidents like those portrayed in Jaws do indeed take place in real life. Check the shark attack records for Florida, Australia, and California for more evidence.

Fun fact: The shark only appears when the music does.

The tee up to the classic line made me laugh. "Do you think the boat is big enough?" Well done. lol.

There are so many movies with good jump scare parts that your son may really like . Friday the 13th is one of them. For a comedy movie for many smiles and laughs there's Harry and the Henderson's and also Matilda.

17:20 All dolphins are carnivorous by nature. 😉 19:32 Good timing. It almost seemed as if you knew what he would say. 😉😁😁😁 24:21 Yes, I reckon this jump scare has never failed for almost 50 years. 🙂

fun fact: when brodys son was mimicing him, the boy really did that on a break with him. speilberg saw it and told them to act it out in the movie

That’s an awesome hoodie

I actually don't think the shark looks fake, it seems real enough to me even today. But many people also say the horse's head in the godfather looks fake.

Yea!!!! Welcome! Good luck😁