Jaws (1975) - Movie Reaction *FIRST TIME WATCHING* 

This is the movie that coined the term "Blockbuster"!

I saw this as a kid in the 70s and it wasn't until I turned 30 before going ocean swimming again. This movie interrupted the swimming habits of an entire generation of children.

This movie scared the shit out of me as a kid. For years, I had nightmares of my room flooding, with a big assed shark swimming in and eating my brother.

Sharks don’t sleep in the traditional sense. They need to keep moving to stay alive. They can stay still for moments of deep rest, but they still have their eyes open, monitoring their surroundings.

Jaws is a classic hands down, I watched as a kid, I watched as an adult love it! :) Glad you guys enjoyed it.

Sweetie your family is so chill. And you are a little dynamo of info...I guess they are so use to you being you lol. It’s quite endearing and sweet. Your enthusiasm for every movie is a major reason for watching y’all. But the others are just as dedicated so I really enjoy all of you. Jaws was one of the first movies I ever saw as a little kid. (Yes I’m that old). People actually clapped at the end when the shark was killed. A few weeks after my family vacationed in Florida. And not one of us would go in the water.

The girl on the right is "reacting" a little ...too much. To the point where she missed a perfectly good jump scare and I would've loved to see her reaction :( Oh well, glad you guys enjoyed it though.

The woman who's son died early on, died of covid. She was in her 90s. She was the head of the theater club or something along those lines in Martha's Vineyard where they filmed the movie. There were a lot of locals in this movie that were extras in some of them, like her got speaking parts. She was very sweet based on what everyone said. People would go visit Martha's Vineyard to film Videos at the locations that Jaws was filmed. And he would meet people and have lunch with them and tell them about the movie. She went into a restaurant one day and the kid that played her son in the movie, with the restaurant owner and they bumped into each other for the first time in like 30 years. I was very sad to see she died. But tell me how in the hell you guys have never seen all these fucking amazing movies.

I’ve actually met hooper, aka Richard Dreyfuss. This one of my top movies all time. Imagine the fear this instilled in people and it did stop a lot of people from swimming that summer

"She don't have no bra on!" '70s! Let those puppies hang out and breathe!

Some interesting facts that differ from the movie, from the novel. And that fact is that in the novel the reason Mayor Vaughn wanted to keep the beaches open is because the town of Amity was heavily indebt to the Mafia & Mayor Vaughn resigns to go into hiding from the Mafia who were admented to get there money back but couldn't because of the shark caused some setbacks. Also the Chief's wife was having an affair with Matt Hooper who was different from the one that Richard Dreyfuss played, plus Matt Hooper dies in the novel. Also great reaction as Jaws is a childhood favorite of mine :)

Jaws was based on a real incident that occurred in New York in the 1800s , a tiger shark got into the river near a small town and killed a few people. The author Peter Benchley was inspired by this story. The story about the USS Indianapolis is also true , very few survived. Jaws was the very first blockbuster . Steven Spielberg’s Duel is also a great film to check out .

“How mad would you be if there’s another one? feel like I’m gonna attract something bigger than this” Jaws 2: 😈

"Oh, you hooking it to you. That's bold. But if you go over, you drown..." More or less how Quint died in the novel.

16:58 R.I.P To Lee Fierro the actress who died of COVID-19 In April this year (1929 - 2020)

I’m sad that you weren’t looking when the head popped out of the hole in the boat.

All of the Actors did a Fantastic Job in "JAWS". However, I myself really liked the Acting Performance from Robert Shaw (He played 'Quint', the Shark Hunter). It was so good (especially when he is telling the story of the USS Indianapolis) that I think that he should have gotten a Best Actor Academy Award Nomination for it.

THIS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE

The shark (Bruce) was actually supposed to make an appearance earlier in the film, but they kept having trouble with the mechanics, so that's why you only see parts of him till the very end.

The film crew actually gave the shark a name. Bruce. The great white in Finding Nemo being named Bruce is actually a reference to this

That 10000 quint wanted would be about 40 to 45k today.

My own Top 10 Favorite "STEVEN SPIELBERG" Movies. 1. Jaws 2. Jurassic Park 3. Duel 4. Close Encounters of The Third Kind 5. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade 6. Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom 7. Minority Report 8. Indiana Jones and The Raiders of The Lost Ark 9. The Lost World: Jurassic Park 10. Hook

While 25'long is a bit bigger then average for a Great White, back in 1975 when this movie came out most people who were used to seeing only dolphin sized sharks on tv and movies had no idea that Great Whites can grow 12'to18'in length and it surprised and scared them. My dad had a boat at this time and people paid me to take them out on it to try and see a Great White. My dad's boat was 53' Quint's boat the Orca was a modified Elco Angler and was 32' long.

I am always happy and sad/mad when i see this movie....because that was a real Tigershark they catched for this shots... This movie is great, one of the first movies i can remember since i was a kid. I swim with sharks and not my fears grows but my love. The U.S.S Indianapolis story is kinda true but not that dark, because the sharks mostly fed on the men who were already dead. The rest is horror and moviehistory. Peter Benchley who wrote the book JAWS - suffered from the fact he "helped" demonyzing these animals and he do what he can, to protect them until his death.

The USS Indianapolis actually happened. (what Quint talks about on the boat) The ship was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-58, and sank in 12 minutes. Of 1,195 crewmen aboard, approximately 300 went down with the ship. The remaining 890 faced exposure, dehydration, saltwater poisoning, and shark attacks while stranded in the open ocean with few lifeboats and almost no food or water. Only 316 survived. The single worst loss of life in the US Navy's history.

I don't think Quint smashed the radio because he was that interested in getting the reward money or the glory of getting the shark. After he told the story about what happened with the Indianapolis and the experience of seeing all of his fellow sailors eaten by sharks, I think it became his life mission to kill sharks. He wasn't about to let that shark "best" him, so he was going to make sure he killed the shark, not someone else. Quint's character has a lot in common with the character Captain Ahab from the novel Moby Dick. Captain Ahab was obsessed with killing the white whale because the whale took his leg...Quint was obsessed with killing the white shark, because it represents to him all of the sharks that killed the men from the Indianapolis. For Quint, it's more about revenge than money or glory.

Girl on the right is a QUEEN :D Making me laugh so much!

Girl, if you don't climb on that buoy..... Me: She can't, that shark already bit off majority of her lower body.

Fun Fact: when doctor Hooper left the cage and the shark was going all crazy on top of it that was actually a great white going all crazy on top of it and it was not the puppet.

The current supposed record holding shark is a whopping 21 feet long, so while "Bruce," the mechanical shark, is larger than life, he's actually not too far off from reality.

I love all your narration and comments. You say exactly what I’m thinking too. But you said something unexpected that made me laugh out loud! When the shark blew up... “I think this is gonna attract something bigger.” 😂

Time for a spielberg masterpiece!!!

What's funny is that the guy that played Quint (Robert Shaw) apparently he was drunk af for a good portion of them shooting this movie.🤣

Interesting fact. In the original script, Hooper the biologist is killed by Jaws in the closing moments after he’s lowered down in a cage attempting to harpoon the shark. While some incredible footage of a shark caught on top of the cage thrashing about to free itself was captured by the Taylors, Rizzo wasn’t in it at the time. The footage was so powerful that Spielberg decided to use it, rewriting the script so that Hooper lived. “A great white shark off the south coast of Australia rewrote our script,” said production executive Bill Gilmore.

Lee Fiero, who played the bereaved mother, got semi-famous because people who met her would ask her to slap them, and she would.

Fun fact: the boy in the movie with the fake shark fin...in real life, he just became the police chief of Martha's vineyard where this movie was filmed.

Known fact...Robert Shaw was drunk as hell when he delivered the greatest monologue ever with the Indianapolis story

Jaws is a classic. The first scene you don’t see the shark or blood but you know what’s happening to her. They had guys underneath the water with ropes pulling on her. She broke a rib so her screaming was legit. I love the ocean and still swim in it but I’m always thinking of sharks now. I’m just not as comfortable in the water as I used to be-all from this movie. Liked your reactions.

After blowing up the shark: "How mad would you be if there's another one?" *JAWS 2 has entered the chat....*

Sorry for another post but I keep seeing more that I want to say. To answer her question its NOT bigger than the boat. Shark was 25. Ship was around 50. And they would drown the shark by leading him into the shallows. If they get enough barrels in him, he will not be able to keep water flowing over his gills which essentially drowns them. The poison bullets comment is HILARIOUS because they TRY that in the second. the scene in the cave where you see a real great white and then the fake one and then a real one, the real one was actually smaller than it looked they use a small cage with a little person inside and the Sharks legitimately got tangled in the wiring for the cage in real life. And that's how they got that footage of it tossing and turning and freaking out. Luckily the little person was not inside the cage at that time. However, Cooper the scientist was supposed to die in the movie but because the footage that they got was so amazing and there was no one in the cage, they made it so he lived instead. I did a RU-vid video on my buddies channel for not only this movie but scream as well. I'm filled with fun facts about these movies. I can watch the movie until you pretty much a fun fact about every scene. Which apparently gets annoying haha but I love seeing people watch Movies like this for the first time because I remember the first time I watched it when I was seven. I'm 29 now. One of my first dates with my most recent ex-girlfriend, we lived in Florida, and they had this movie playing at a restaurant right on the beach, so I was sitting in a floaty, in the ocean, at night time, watching this movie from the water. It was so much fun. Btw the music leading up to the shark blowing up, watch that scene again on mute and then with sound and appreciate the AMAZING music.

Saw this movie when I was a little kid. My mom took me and she snuck some KFC into the movie with her purse. This movie terrified me until my late teens. As many times as I've seen it, watching it with ya'll was so fun and hilarious and I was CLOWNIN! It's fun watching these classics through fresh eyes! Peace out and take care!

$10,000 in 1975 is worth about $54,000 today.

You should also watch “the hand that rocks the cradle”. It’s a little dated (1992) but it’s such a good thrillerrrr!

I keep forgetting I'm 60 years old; I just assume everyone has seen blockbusters like Jaws. I saw this at the shore when it opened in theaters and went crabbing and swimming in the bay the next day which made this movie special for me. Watching your reactions to this movie is like experiencing the movie through new eyes. The part with Chrissy Watkins dying in the beginning of the movie is that she was calling out for God's help and he wasn't there to help her. It really brings home how we're all animals and part of the food chain. Just one more anecdote: I saw this with my mother after we both read the novel (recommended because it is different in many ways) and I was scared to see the remains of the girl swimmer as it was a lot more graphic in the novel so I relaxed after seeing the hand covered in crabs. That calm was broken when the entire theater leaped out of seats when Ben's head popped into view through the hole in his boat. THAT wasn't in the novel.

Fun fact the shark in the movie was named Bruce.

32:44- Hahaha, that's my favorite part. He backed up so quick. The way he looked down is the most relatable thing anyone has done in that movie. Such a historic cinema moment.

Finally get to watch through this channel, without any interruptions. The commentary on this channel is just so relatable.

When I saw this as a kid, I was to scared to get into the bathtub. LOL

That head coming out of the sunken boat gets me everytime

that was $10,000 in 1977, big money back then for working class

"You sittin' in blood!" lol

The lady on the right wouldn't stop talking, the lady on the left didn't say a word. LMAO

Hey guys, thoroughly enjoyed watching you watching Jaws. It one of my 5 fav films of all time. Your 3 different reactions are always great. I don't even know your names but the lady on the right is just a joy to watch, you get so excited and engrossed in the movie like you're a wee girl again, shouting at the screen is so cute. The lady on the left is cool and calm and taking the whole movie in with now and then saying little snippets of what you're watch and letting the other 2 know whats happening in the film (you're wee jumps at the jump scares are funny) and the man in the middle, well as the movie went on we could see you slowly getting completely enthralled by it and can see you completely enjoying it. :) When Spielberg was making the film, he wanted more of the shark to be shown, especially earlier on in the film but the mechanical shark kept breaking down so he couldn't film what he wanted but by showing less of the shark in the film it made it more suspenseful and why Jaws become the first Blockbuster film. Keep up the good work guys. Dan

When they remake Jaws, it needs to renamed "Mr. Bitch."

For the record, he had missed several times because he didn’t have glasses. He was nearsighted that’s why he was able to blow it up when it was near him.

21:37 Yo, everybody else sees that and freaks out, here people are like “you dropped your tooth!” 😂

"Finish your first meal before you come at me!" -top shelf

GREAT Reaction Video! GREAT Movie! "JAWS" is My Number 1 Favorite "Steven Spielberg" and 1 of My own Top 10 Favorite Movies of All-Time. GREAT Movie!

Absolute masterpiece of cinema, two cool facts about the production 1. It was Spielberg who pulled the girl underwater for that last tug under the ocean, he wanted it a very specific way and she was in fact being pulled between two ropes from the crew on the shore but it was Steven who pulled her underwater while she was saying ‘oh god please no’ and 2. He felt that he could get one more scare but Universal refused to give any more cash to the production so he used $250,000 of his own cash to film what would become the head in the boat scene, it was filmed in the editors pool (Verna Fields was her name) and they used a mould of the actor who played the dude who said ‘they’d with their fathers had never met their mothers’ the same dude who said to Richard Dreyfuss ‘hello young fella how are ya?’, the entire production was a disaster and for 7 months the entire team was stuck on the island, Spielberg began to suffer from cabin fever (as did the majority of them) and even for years after suffered nightmares from the production, nobody back in Hollywood believed it would be a success and also believed it would completely tank Universal Studios but as we all know they were proved completely wrong and it became THE first blockbuster

Came back to this one again with ya'll and two of my favorite lines: after the mom slapped Brody my man on the couch was like "Naw, DAMN that, you need to be two-piecing that mayor up! He the one kept them beaches open" and the other one is when Hooper came to Brody's house for dinner and said "How was your day?" - again, dude on the couch got me with "You SEEN me get slapped" Still so funny a year later!

3:36 Nobody worried about sharks in the water… until this movie came up. The only reason why your worrying about it now is because this movie came out. It's a subconscious thing that you've learned through generations that you didn't even know.

In the book, the Mayor is being blackmailed and threatened by the mob to keep the town open which is why he refuses to shut down the beach. It makes more sense when you know that, but they changed it for the movie. Brody's wife also has an affair with Hooper. The book is really good but the movie is far scarier. Sharks have to keep moving. They "breath" by moving so water always flows into their gills. He was going to drown him in shallow water because the shark would get stranded on the bottom and be unable to swim. Without swimming, a shark will die. They also can't shoot it because between the water and the thickness of the sharks skin and layer of fat, a bullet wouldn't penetrate far enough to kill, which is why Hooper tells Quint to not waste his time trying. Fun film fact: Robert Shaw ( Quint) was drunk on set the entire time. He also rewrote the monologue about the USS Indianapolis. ( this was a real US Navy ship and everything but the shark story is true) He delivered his lines drunk as a skunk. The rumor is the he and Dryfus ( Hooper) hated each other and did not get along. I wouldn't be able to watch a movie with the girl on the end, but watching her reactions is hilarious. My family went to the lake when this film came out and my mom, dad, aunts and uncles were wading in the lake when my mom said " I think something just bit me ( she thinks it was a turtle) ". She said as she said that, everyone including my dad rushed back to the beach leaving her there in the water lol. She was pissed.

"Bop it on the head!" Loving this channel. Jaws is one of my all-time favourite films.

Also the "pond" is the nickname for the estuary. Technically an estuary6 its where a river meets the saltwater. Its brackish. He thought ot would be safer. He thought incorrectly. The fishing wire has a thick piece of piano wire. Its often used at the end of a line when shark fishing. Its so they cant bite thru the normal line Also the largest white shark every officially measured was 21 feet 8 inches and 5000 lbs. Not far off from this movie.

Body count: 5 humans and (presumably) one dog. Of the main characters: 1 Caution, Spoilers below. 1) Chrissie Watkins (girl at the beginning) 2) Alex Kintner (boy on the raft) 2a) Pippet the dog (not seen, but presumed) 3) Ben Gardner the fisherman in the partially sunken boat (one of Hollywood's best jump scares ever) 4) Man in the rowboat on 4th of July 5) Quint

"Hipster" and "Glenn"... 😂 (Yeah, I came back for seconds lol.)

Jaws was the first shark movie of ALL TIME!!🤩🦈

A pity we didn't see the reaction to Shaw's full Indianapolis wartime speech. It's a classic monologue.

Crabs and lobsters will eat anything, this includes shit. Remember that when you go to Red Lobster. Closing the beaches, the Mayor and city counsel would have probably fired the Chief if he didn't reopen the beaches.

That's where you're wrong they're on his turf!

I'm usually not keen on recommending movies, but Jaws is one of my top 5 movies ever and because it's early Spielberg, I also highly recommend his first film Duel from 1971. His early films have a vibe that I prefer over his later ones.

Happy Anniversary, JAWS (1975)!!!!!! and Happy Father's Day!!!!!!

The scariest PG-rated movie I’ve ever seen. ‘Jaws’ is still the BEST among the film franchise.

The thing is, these guys did not prepare before they went fishing the shark cause they didn't think it would be this hard.

If you have not already seen it Tremors (1990) . Is a good movie to watch after this one . In my opinion an if I remember correctly people. Have been attacked by sharks in 3 to 4 feet of water. Basically if the shark can keep it's gilles in water . It will get as close to land as it can to get food.

29:43 - It's not about the little fish, it's about the blood. Sharks are attracted to the smell of blood in the water.

Yall should watch a horror movie "Your Next" It sa hidden gem and is very smart.

29:43 - It's not a matter of the shark eating the fish. The shark is attracted to the smell of blood. They're using the chum (fish heads, blood) as bait to attract the shark

The girl on the right is like I am watching a movie like this! Screaming at the screen and commenting on everything!

Fun fact: in The Novel of Jaws the shark is a horror movie villain between Michael Myers and Carnage a killer shark with no motive and mercy and emotions and killing humans and beach goers and nearly eaten Roy Schneider character and the book is Rated R version of scary movies like Michael Crichton Jurassic Park and I need to buy the jaws novel and Jurassic Park boom from book stores or some stores and oh Tbh a warning to y'all this make u cringe and never sleep again In Jurassic park novel 1. Compys nearly killed a baby and left for dead 2. Nedry gets eaten alive and his organs pulled from his stomach and devoured horribly and head bitten off by Dilophosaurus 3. Dr Wu- eaten mauled by Velicoraptor 4. Injured Jurassic Park worker- mauled and eaten by Velociraptor 5. John Arnold- eaten by Velociraptor 6. John Hammond- eaten alive by Compys 7. Ed Regis- eaten by Juvenile Tyrannosaurus Rex 8.Diego - Eaten by a Carnotaurus. 9.George Baselton - Torn apart by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. 10.Howard King - Eaten by Velociraptors. 11.Eddie Carr - Killed by Velociraptors. 12.Dr. Lewis Dodgson - Eaten alive by infant Tyrannosaurus Rexes after the mother Tyrannosaurus Rex dropped him into her nest Yep I ain't going to Jurassic park or world to get mauled eaten alive by dinosaurs nah I'm good I rather work as an employee working on computers and closed the park and locked dinosaurs in cages 👀👀👀

Parts of the scene with Hooper in the cage were shot with a small person in a smaller cage and a real shark to make it look HUGE.

Another great reaction video to one of my favorite movies. You guys are hilarious! 👍🦈

Nice video guys I love this movie

The story of the USS Indianapolis is a true and horrifying story.

I know everyone is watching it, but you have to have her watch Back to the Future, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and Clueless, and the movie Clue.

The very first Blockbuster Summer Movie!! At one point it was the highest grossing movie in history!! Nobody looked at sharks or swimming in the ocean the same after this movie!! Honestly one of the top 10 movies ever made!!

"We can swim in the ocean come on join us don't be a square" Me: nope I see the shark swimming in the water I ain't gonna swim or deep dive or getting on the boat nah y'all on your own bye bye (sitting in the shades) 👀👀👀

They say you notice something new every time.........this time, and it's a great one......I noticed the old guys with the binoculars, lololololol....

33:05 - they could radio the Coast Guard for a bigger boat. That's why Quint destroyed the radio. He wanted to kill the shark himself.

Love this reaction!!!! Best one to 'Jaws' on the whole of RU-vid, because you actually watch the film rather than chat shit whilst its on in the background like most others!! Have subbed and the bird on the right had me cracking up!

29:47 Yep. The shark doesn't want those little fish. They are "chumming"; putting blood and fish in the water to attract the shark.

that part at 46,19 where the shark is twisting in the ropes, that is a real shark doing that. They used that film from a real shark encounter

If you like Roy Scheider , he is great in Sorcerer (1977), a great film too, the first act is so slow, but it gets better. I love Jaws, even though the special effects are a bit dated, the tension and atmosphere is still top notch. The music is of course so iconic, and the camera work is fantastic. It's funny, it has a huge reputation, but it feels like such a small film, rather than a huge blockbuster. It feels like a TV movie to me, a bit like Duel (1971), also by Spielberg. It is still so good, but I wonder what it was like to watch it when it came out in the theatres in the 70's, way before I was born though.

I`m guessing the girl on the right has been kicked out of theaters before for talking back to the screen. The shark would have spit her out.

To your friend who said that you don’t want no little fish it’s not necessarily a fish that the shark once the shark also likes the scent of blood

The shark in this movie is a female who just gave birth to three little sharks,( part 2,3 and 4

Love her reaction

Great reaction to one of my favorite movies. Thanks for the video

A machete? A shark wouldn't even feel that.

That girl just does not shut up, she even talks while she's pigging out.