JAWS GOT ME! First Time Watching 

The face emerging from the boat is, to this day, one of the greatest jump-scares ever. And Quint's (Robert Shaw) monologue about the Indianapolis is still one of the best performances I've ever seen.

Quint's story about the USS Indianapolis is one of the greatest monologues in movie history IMHO.

The story of the USS Indianapolis recounted by Robert Shaw was historically accurate

If you could go back in time to 1975 and see this movie in a very crowded theater, as I did, you wouldn't believe the collective screams. That's an experience one cannot forget.

The "Killer Shark" reporter on the beach on 4th of July was Peter Benchley the author of the novel Jaws.

I just knew when you said I'm a really hard person to jump scare, that the face in the boat hull would get you 😂 it got everyone in the theater when it came out 😊

There's a great story about Lee Fierro, who played Mrs. Kintner in "Jaws", as she went to eat at a restaurant. As she looked at the menu, she noticed that they served an "Alex Kintner Sandwich". She commented to the server that she had played the mother of Kintner in the movie years earlier. A few moments later, the owner of the restaurant, Jeffrey Voorhees, ran out to meet her. Voorhees was the boy who played Alex. They hadn't seen each other since the filming. (Love your reactions, Ames!!) 💖

I'm always amazed that there are STILL people out there who have not seen these huge watershed movies that have become such a part of culture.

Quint running his fingers down the chalkboard...one of the best character introductions ever.

The mechanical shark was notorious for having bad reliability on set, so they couldn’t use it on several of the scenes they wanted to. It was the composer use came up with that “DUH-Duh” to add enough tension to let the viewer’s imagination do the rest and fill in the gaps. Pure genius!!!

"Anyway, we delivered the Bomb." -- Best line in the film.

i was stationed over in Hawaii, when 'Jaws' premiered. I stood in line for over 3 hrs before getting into the theater. And although I was over there for just over a year.....surrounded by the beautiful ocean......i've never been swimming in the ocean again.

I love it when people say I don't jump scare easily just before watching this movie!!! and I'm like 'Really'?

Quint's monologue while they're drinking on the boat is so fantastic. If you watch Hooper, his demeanor changes COMPLETELY once he hears Quint mention the U.S.S Indianapolis. He knows exactly what he's going to say.

This movie invented the summer blockbuster phenomenon, for better or worse. This was the first. Star Wars was the second a few years later.

most people know the Indianapolis story really happened but so did the Mary Ellen Moffat story..... a truly heartbreaking incident.

Nice! It made $470 million dollars ($1.6 billion dollars today) against a $13 million dollar budget. Nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture, but won for Best Original Score, Best Film Editing and Best Sound Editing

This movie absolutely terrified me in the theater then. It really is a masterpiece of suspense and HOLY CRAP THAT SHARK IS HUGE!!!

Who was was waiting for Ames to get Jump Scared by the dead fisherman?

I saw JAWS in the theater when it came out and I was seven. Taught me everything about audience reactions. I can still hear the screams from the head-in-the-boat. "A what?" is one of the biggest laugh lines I've still ever heard.

Quint's accent is a Irish and New England accent. Robert Shaw, who plays Quint copied the accent from two guys he observed in Martha's Vinyard, a community in Massachusetts. The USS Indianapolis story Quint told is based on a real WWII tragedy.

I discovered the vicarious thrill of watching reaction videos in 1975 with ‘Jaws’. The first time I saw it, the moment the severed head popped out of the boat, I felt my entire row jump back as every single person in the theater reacted. I went to see the film a few more times, this time I turned around as the jump scare took place. It was amazing to see the entire theater jump back and scream! I bought tickets for friends and classmates to see the film with me, just so I can see and hear them scream! Heh, heh, heh. After seeing this film so many times, I noticed an ‘optical illusion’ with the popping head. If you slow it down, the shadow on Ben Gardner’s severed head gives the illusion of shark teeth! The effect is the subconscious image of a shark with jaws open lunging at you! Jaws author Peter Benchley makes a cameo as the ‘Clark Kent-looking reporter on the beach.

Less of a jump scare movie, more of a consistent psychological mind screw.

Something that I saw recently in an analysis of Jaws was how Quint's death echoes his descriptions of deaths from the USS Indianapolis - so his entire life was a hunt to take revenge on sharks, but he still ended up dying just like his shipmates. The irony...

I saw this in a small-town theater in 1975. I was fourteen lol. Scared the HELL outta us all. That jump scare with Ben's head had some people fleeing the theater. I had already read the book by the time I saw it but that was an added fright. Pretty much everyone's soda and popcorn went everywhere, lol. Fun fact, the reporter at 18:06 is a cameo by Peter Benchey - the novel's author.

Love how Quint and Hooper start out as antagonists on the boat but then come to respect each other because of their shared knowledge of seamanship and sharks. The Chief ends up being the outsider landlubber. But then he is the guy who kills the shark in the end. He might not be a seaman but he's a pretty good shoot with an M1 Garand.

Great reaction Ames! There's a funny story in one of the documentaries about the making of Jaws. During filming the first scene with the girl swimming, Spielberg had the idea to have her start reciting the Lord's prayer while holding onto the buoy. There were about 15 Catholics in the crew and camera operators and none of them could remember the Lord's prayer correctly.

I honestly have watched this movie over 30 times and it never gets old. The cinematography is perfect and the music and performances are so so good. Just a perfect movie for me

This movie still looks good today and man that epic jumpscare 😂! Great reaction!

I saw this in the theatre right before I took a trip to Bermuda. Walking out into the ocean at low tide at night, with a pretty girl I met there, turned scary when a fog rolled in from nowhere. She got scared because she did not know which way the beach was, and, she reminded me that most shark attacks happen in 3 ft. of water. (She had seen the movie too.) We were in 3 feet of water. She began yelling. I told her to be quiet and then i heard faint music coming from off to my right. I assumed this was from a party in a beach house and held her hand and dragged her toward the music. We found the beach 10 minutes later and all was well, but I blamed this movie for making us scared. It is an awesome film. The book is better in some ways, written by Peter Benchley, who also wrote The Deep which was also made into an excellent film.

Definitely Spielberg’s best it launched his career and started the blockbuster. I love your videos very much.

There’s an urban legend that during the filming of the opening sequence the actress broke her ribs due to the stage hands pulling on the harness she was attached to. Several years back, I got to meet Susan Backlinie who played Chrissie Watkins & I asked her if this was true. She said that due to her training as a stunt person, she was able to position herself in order to prevent injury & had heard the urban legend. Anyway, during our brief conversation, she confirmed that she didn’t get injured during filming. Fun Fact: the actor who played Alex Kitner (Jeff Voorhees) lives on Martha’s Vineyard & owns a restaurant. Back in 1999, Lee Ferro who played his screen mother in Jaws visited the restaurant purely by chance & noticed that there was an ‘Alex Kitner Sandwich’ listed in the menu. Ferro then told the staff that the sandwich was named after her son in Jaws….only for the manager, Voorhees , to come out & see her for the first time since they had filmed Jaws. Also, the scene in the pond where the man looses a leg was originally much more violent. The POV shot as the camera passes Micheal, originally had the man in the sharks mouth, he then grabbed Michael whilst blood came out of his mouth. It’s worth noting that the hand / arm covered in crabs is actually that of Spielberg’s assistant; she was partially buried for the shot.

(0:11) "I'm normally a really hard person to jump scare!" (16:45) - yeah well...about that. *XD*

This was filmed about an hour from my house in Martha's Vineyard. The water was so cold that the mechanical shark kept breaking, so that's why they used the fin & came up with the iconic music to make up for not seeing the whole shark. This was the 1st "Blockbuster" & they just hoped the fin/music would work. It's my favorite movie

25:32 I had the honor of meeting 11 of those survivors in 2004 at an Indiana air show. They were having a meet n greet raising awareness to the memorial in the city and a book they had out. A great bunch of older tough dudes shaking hands and taking pics with everyone. Watching this scene means so much more since I met those guys, and the similar stories they were telling that day. To this day Richard Dreyfuss still tears up talking about the great time he had and the friendship he had with the late Robert Shaw. Shaw was around 47-48 in this scene, he died 3 years later at just 51.

I grew up in Miami, Florida and was 10 years old when I saw this movie at a Sunday afternoon matinee. Up to that point, I had been a beach urchin and totally unafraid of anything in the water. After that Sunday, I didn’t go back in the water for 11 years. When I finally did I was snorkeling off a cay in the Caribbean when a 6 foot white tip came cruising along to have a look at me. I left the water and haven’t been back since. 😊

As a point of interest, the Quint monolog is 95% true. Actually happened

I watched Jaws when I was 10 years old in 1978. I haven’t been past shin deep in the ocean since. I don’t even like swimming in fresh water if I can’t see the bottom. We all watch Jaws reactions for the Ben Gardner jump scare 🤣

A wonderful reaction! :08 Hard to jump scare 16:45 OMG!!! saw this movie opening week at the Cinerama Dome. The "face" jump scare stopped the screaming audience's collective heart! I experienced the collective terror of the ocean for many summers after that!

Quint was always my favourite character, and he has the best lines. Both of his monologues are the best

Saw this as a 9 year old back in 1975 in a packed theatre over here in 🇬🇧 how lucky I was .

Most Americans had no clue about the USS Indianapolis until this movie. Quint's Monologue made a lot of people find out the truth about the USS Indianapolis, one of the saddest events in US Navy history.

Of all of the movie reaction videos out there, yours are, by far, the best. Your reactions are so genuine and your post movie analysis is spot on. Please keep doing what you're doing!

the opening scene will never lose its power. 🦈🦈🦈

I had a feeling your resistance to jumps scares would be tested by Ben Gardner's head popping out of the hull. It's one of the best timed jump scares in cinema history. You can't even prepare for it by listening to the score beforehand because it happens a fraction of a second before the start of the new measure.

I was almost 9 when this came out, I lived 25 minutes from the Texas Gulf Coast, we went to the beach and no one and I mean no one was swimming. Great show.

Hi Ames, nice to see you do my favourite film after your epic Band of Brothers reactions. It was nice to see you again. 1. Congrats on calling the manner of the shark's death so early! 2. The dog is actually Pippet, and I refuse to believe he's dead 3. Knocking on doors is, in fact, scary. lol Have a good weekend!

That head coming out of the boat was the biggest jump scare back in the original run.

On the opening 4th of July scene is a reporter. That character was portrayed by Peter Benchley. He wrote the book, "Jaws" and he also worked on the screenplay for the film. Great reaction, as always. Be safe..

I first saw this movie when I was 3 years old. I couldn't stand watching other horror movies until I was a teenager, but Jaws... Jaws had the opposite effect on me as what everyone talks about, it made me love sharks. Been my favorite animal ever since. That's nothing though. When Brody is looking at the pictures in the book of shark attack victims, one of those is of Rodney Fox. In 1963 Fox was participating in a spear fishing competition when he was attacked and dang near bitten in half by a Great White. By some miracle he lived, and afterward he dove into studying the creatures. He invented the shark cage we see Hooper use, pioneered underwater filming of sharks, studied them, became one of the world's foremost experts on them, and also one of the leading voices for their conservation.

Thank you pretty Ames for reacting this masterpiece Jaws directed by Steven Spielberg starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss and the iconic music score by John Williams. The famous line is epic "You're gonna need a bigger boat".

One of the very best movies ever made. It's truly a masterclass in acting and storytelling. The direction, the acting, the pacing, the music; all just brilliant. No other movie in history had as much real world impact as this did. I almost never went in the sea as a kid because of this and millions of other people were the same. What's even more amazing is that it was partly because it was so difficult to make that it came out the way it did. Spielberg famously had to keep changing the storyboard as he went because the shark kept breaking down.

So David Webster(Band of Brothers )wrote a novel about sharks years before Peter Benchly wrote Jaws. No one would publish it until after Jaws was released. It was released posthumously.

Robert Shaw's monologue is a masterpiece!

The scene with the chief and his young son wasn't scripted. They were sitting around between scenes and the little kid just started making the faces. So Spielberg rolled camera on it and used in in the film.

Happy to see you re feeling better afterthe flu.

One of the best jump scares in all of cinema. Such a fantastic movie. But I’m sure it was worse because of the knock and ghost for you lol. 😊

1975, we were in high school... I remember going to Jaws at Cinema 70 in Fargo when it came out. Packed! A family of 6 with little kids came in late and sat in the front row... the first epic death, they rushed out of the theatre!

This was the first PG movie I saw in the theaters back in '75 as a 14 year old (without my parents or other adults). My cousin and I went, and we were scared $#itless. Had trouble swimming in our pool at night after seeing it! But I saw it three times. It was held over in our theater for 15 weeks and it consistently continued to draw huge crowds in our 600 seat, single screen theater, throughout the run.

Great reaction! I used to love Jaws as a horror/thriller, but I've come to appreciate the deeper layers of the film. Chief Brody's character is fantastic. His humanity juxtaposed to the Mayor's cold business mind. The way he faces his fear of water and sharks to hunt the shark as a sort of redemption for not closing the beach. There's a great moment where Hooper and Quint are comparing battles scars, and Brody starts to lift up his shirt as if he's going to enter the contest, but then he stops himself. It hints at some past trauma that triggers his fear of the ocean, but also shows his character: he's not there for bravado, he's there for redemption.

This movie doesn't get old. Quint's monolog just kills you. Hard to believe he was drunk doing that scene. All pretty much a true story.

I love your commentary on the movies that were such a big part of my youth. Great channel.👍

Funny you brought up Finding Nemo, they named the Great White ‘Bruce’ in homage to Jaws, as the animatronic shark’s nickname on set was ‘Bruce’.

Don't miss "The Bad Seed" , the original from 1956. No one is reacting to it. I doubt that anyone who's seen it has ever forgotten it.

"Amity" as you know, means friendship!!!! So hop on in the water!!!!!

Also, the scene when they are examining Ben Gardner’s beat-up fishing boat, and Hooper pulls a shark tooth the size of a shot glass out of the hole in the hull -- just as Ben Gardner’s mutilated head suddenly appears -- is one of the greatest jump-scares of all time!

the iconic scene where they're on the boat talking about scars (the USS Indianapolis) and you see a shooting star in the background, the shooting star was real, no CGI in the 70's.

All three of the main characters in this film are in other good movies: Roy Scheider (The French Connection, Sorcerer, Marathon Man, Naked Lunch, 2010), Richard Dreyfuss (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Moon Over Parador, Tin Men), and Robert Shaw (The Sting, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, From Russia With Love).

I was 13 when this came out. My friends and I stood in line for a couple of hours on opening night. I had already read the book, so I thought I was ready for the movie... HAH! No. Not at all, lol.

_That’s a twenty-footer._ _Twenty-five. Three tons of him._ Love these lines.

What gets me is how fresh this movie still seems. Of course Quint's monologue rates as one of the greatest scenes in all of cinema. And I love the scene where Roy Scheider's character is saying goodbye to he wife on the doc. It's all about their love and concern for each other but their dialogue is about something else entirely. A great lesson for all writers.

48 years later and Ben Gardner is still scaring the ever loving hell out of people. This movie scared me so bad that after seeing it, (I was 5 years old at the time.) I refused to go into any body of water. So much so I couldn't even take baths anymore!

Ames, I had the privilege of being an 8-year-old who went in my neighbor's station wagon to the now-defunct outdoor drive-in movie theater in rural Cornish, Maine, to see my first drive-in movie: Jaws. Saw it in the summer of 75, and while I didn't have nightmares afterward, I also didn't go into the deeper ocean until I was well into my teens. Scared the shit outta me, but I'll forever be grateful to see one of the greatest, most iconic movies of all-time as my first-ever drive-in experience. :)

My mom was watching this on tv around 1980 (or so), and 8 year old me wanted to watch it. She said no, but i insisted (as all 8 year olds do). It scared the ever-loving shit out of me. 🤣

These small towns literally survive on 'summer dollars'. The townspeople are not greedy, rich folk - they are just regular people who don't know how to deal with this problem. The mayor is not a bad person; he is more a greek chorus for the townspeople.

The most famous jump scare in cinematic history strikes again! Haha!

TRUE STORY: My dad was a teenager when this movie first came out. He told me a couple of funny stories: 1. Just as the man's head came out of the boat, he was taking a drink of Coca-Cola. It scared him so badly he ended up dumping the whole cup of Coke over his head, drenching himself. 2. He also said that when the shark exploded at the end the crowd went INSANE. People were cheering, throwing popcorn up in the air, jumping up and down like their team had just won the Super Bowl. All these years later, this movie STILL has that power. What a masterpiece.

You were right on the basic concept for the barrels being attached to the sharks. Large fish and sharks need to move constantly to be able to get enough water through their gills to breathe, so if you were to slow the shark down enough it would end up suffocating.

Best jump scare ever. And Quint's introduction is best entrance ever. And John Williams is a genius. This is also the original "Summer Blockbuster."

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.

There again, the great John Williams comes through is the best character of the movie with his wonderful music🎼💫❣️

Perfect reaction. Thank you.

Robert Shaw gave one of the best monologues ever he also played Grant in the James Bond film From Russia With Love.

I remember seeing this as a kid and to this day, I still watch it. I have practically every version/ format of this film. VHS/BETA. Every disc versions to include all the directors cut and extended versions and now blue ray. The only one that's missing is the big disc version; the one that is the size of a 33 record. Way old school video.

The greatest "movie" ever made. Just perfection.

A reaction to Jaws never gets old. Great reaction! 👍🏿

I think I remember hearing you say “Chasing Amy” is one of your faves. The scar story scene between Alyssa and Banky is Kevin Smith’s homage to the scar-comparing scene between Quint and Hooper. Both great scenes!

0:10 “I’m normally a really hard person to jump scare…” 16:45 😂

Great reaction to a great movie. This is the movie that made people afraid to go in the water. I wouldn't be too worried about them, though. About 100 people per year are killed by sharks worldwide, but about 100 million sharks are killed each year by humans, so I think sharks have more to fear from us than we do from them. The mechanical sharks they used for filming (nicknamed Bruce, after Spielberg's lawyer) kept malfunctioning in the water. That's why you don't really see them for the first half of the movie, cementing Spielberg's reputation as a master of suspense. The shark that "ate" Quint had jaws and teeth made of foam rubber, to not hurt the actor. The famous line, "You're going to need a bigger boat", was ad-libbed. Early in his career, Spielberg was known for encouraging his actors to improvise. Richard Dreyfuss (Hooper) was recommended to Spielberg by Spielberg's friend George Lucas who had worked with him on American Graffiti. He initially turned down the role but eventually agreed to do it. He later had nothing but praise for Spielberg, who was still relatively unknown at the time. Another great Spielberg movie with Dreyfuss is Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). If you liked Robert Shaw (Quint), he's in The Sting (1973), with Robert Redford and Paul Newman.

2:57 "Holy Heckin' Doodle Moley." Language, young lady! 🤣

Bruh.... After seeing this in the 70s , I was always sketched out in water that I couldn't see clearly through, and the theme sound of "dun duhn dun duhn" was done by every kid for EVERY tense moment... I remember going to the Maryland beaches that summer and NO ONE was going more than like 25' out into the water, it tapped into our hardwired primal fears of the Ocean

The most famous jump scare in cinema history. It never fails. Can you imagine that scene on a modern IMAX! There'd need be medics on standby.

Ames: "Tippet! I'll never forgive you, Steven!" None of us do, Ames. Nevertheless, we all still love this movie.

Hey Gorgeous! Shout out from the U. S Marine Corps! 16:44 Don't worry this scene gets everyone! Yeah this movie is truly a masterpiece and definitely belongs in the top 100. Did you know the original shark sank to the bottom of the ocean a few times? They made another one! Also, that's a true story of the USS Indianapolis. But in the movie he says June 29th it happened. But the history books has it written on a different day. USS Indianapolis, U.S. Navy heavy cruiser that was sunk by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945. Anyways, love your reactions. Keep them up! ❤🤍💙💛

Good one, Ames! I saw this in the the theater the summer it came out. I was a young teen there with a bunch of my friends. You should have heard the screams, LOL! 😆 Thanks for sharing it.

They needed to di extensive re-writes on the movie because the shark was broken a lot of the time. The reason was the electronic controls kept shorting out in the salt water. The eventually switched the controls to hydraulics. The fact that you didn't see the shark until he eats the guy in the boat helped build suspense and make the jump scare with Brody a lot more impactful. $10, 000 is worth about $56,000 today.

"I'm hard to jump scare". Oh Ben gardner will get ya 🤣

The book's author Peter Benchley regretted writing it because the film made people afraid of sharks and contributed to overfishing which drove several species to endangered status. He actually became a shark conservationist himself to make up for it.

Robert Shaw, who plays Quint, also plays Doyle Lonnegan in "The Sting", the best villain this side of Hans Gruber.

I saw the flick when it first came out. Two days after seeing it, I still couldn't look at a glass of water without hearing the "Jaws" theme music in the back of my mind.