JAWS Movie Reaction (That was PG?!?!?) 

Robert Shaw's monologue is the greatest monologue in movie history.

One of the jokes somewhat lost on today’s audience is the fact that Quint could crush that beer can. Back then the cans were not aluminum but tin and you really needed strong hands to crush them like that.

I was ten the summer it came out. Saw it in the theatre. Scared the ever-loving crap out of me. My friend and I ran all the way home from the theatre, and we were over a 1000 miles from the nearest salt water. Truly scarred me for life. I’m 56 now, and am still uncomfortable in the ocean. Having said that; my favourite movie of all time!

That line "you're gonna need a bigger boat." was improvised

Roy Scheider wasn't in Jaws: The Revenge because he saw the script and ran as far away as he could. Michael Caine said he was only in it because it paid for a beach house. :)

The “Indianapolis” monologue that Robert Shaw delivers was originally written by John Milius, that legendary maniac who wrote Apocalypse Now and wrote/directed Conan the Barbarian. Originally the monologue was 15 pages long. Shaw cut it down to 5. The rest is cinema history!

I was born in 1970, and saw this movie in the theater. Yeah, at 5 YEARS OLD. This damn movie is why I won't go into the ocean, even though I lived for 16 years within 2 miles of the beach (in Monterey!). Quinn's death is the most disturbing scene in this entire movie, and his story about the Indianapolis is one of the best scenes of the movie. Oddly enough, I only recently rewatched this movie a couple of years ago, and was shocked at the amount of humor in the movie - well done, and nicely juxaposed the terror this movie spawns.

I saw this movie when I was 7. I had trouble calming myself down even to get into the bathtub at that age after seeing this movie! I loved the movie but i didnt exactly want to go to the beach very much that summer, either. Quint's monologue about the Indianapolis still gives me chills to this day. Moreso because the Indianapolis incident was an actual event during WWII.

What makes that opening scene so terrifying are her screams, genuinely blood curdling, gets me every time!

The original Jaws still holds up after all these years. What a fantastic film. From the clever editing to keep the shark from looking too fake to the amazing music from John Williams it is truly a film classic! Loved your react on this Kazzy!

Imagine this: it’s 1976, you’re 9 years old packed into a theater with 200 people seeing this for the first time. Then take your reactions (which I thought were great by the way) and amplify them by like, a million times. I mean when Brody killed the shark I thought the roof was going to cave in on us.

The story narrated by Quint is a real story. During WW2, the USS Indianapolis was sunk by a submarine and the survivors were left in the water for several days without food and water surrounded by sharks. There is a movie about this story called "USS Indianapolis" with Nicolas Cage.

The first Jaws is the only one worthy of watching.

Still one of my favorite Spielberg films. No other shark film will ever reach the heights of Jaws. It's everything you could want from a summer blockbuster: well-developed characters, tension, suspense, emotional weight. It's brilliant filmmaking 101.

I love how u pull your legs up, as if the shark will get them.lol

the mechanical shark gave them endless headaches according to Spielberg, breaking down, sinking. They named it Bruce if you hadn't heard that before.

A sizeable portion of the book is about the affair b/w Hooper and Brody’s wife. Personally, I’m glad they left that part out.

The scene of the shark attacking the boy was originally so gruesome that is was actually edited, for someone with so much great memorabilia is out of this world you haven't seen this before. Nice video.

When she looks away from quint being eaten Half the comments in patrick voice: LOOK AT IT!

Hilarious ass reaction!! And of course wonderful editing on top of all that. The duo of you two is brilliant! Love all the inserts and kazzys commentary is great!

I saw Jaws first as a kid too. I was so scared, i had nightmares and refused to go in the bathtub for weeks!

Watching someone see this for the first time is a lot of fun! It had a special weekend release a few years ago and I took my Dad to see it. THAT was great! I'm 58 now, and I saw it when it first came out in the theater and I watch it maybe once a year or so. Not only is it my favorite movie, I love telling people it's my favorite 'time travel' movie - whenever I see it, I'm 13 years old again!

Apologies if anyone else has posted this, but: The massive full-sized shark animatronic (dubbed “Bruce” by Spielberg) was notorious for malfunctioning at every given opportunity during filming and held up production several times. This lead to Spielberg deciding to keep the shark hidden throughout the first half of the movie to minimize delays from Bruce’s repairs. And, as you found out, that decision made the movie even more terrifying.

Important Life to remember: when reviewing movies from the 80s.. 80's PG is basically 21st century rated R

I first saw “Jaws” in early 76 and I was 12 I think. The part of the movie that managed to give me a jump scare was the scene where Dreyfus’ character drops overboard to check a drifting boat at night, and the fisherman’s head suddenly appears in the hole of the boat.Never forgotten it. Did it’s job I’d say.

One of the best scenes in film. Robert Shaw. Amazing.

I really enjoyed watching your reaction! Your enthusiasm and constant chattering, peppered with questions, made it make me wish I had been there with you! You've got a new fan in me!

Your reactions were spot on. Imagine being 10 years old and in a sold-out movie theater in 1975 . . . cuz otherwise you can't imagine how huge this movie was. HUGE. About a year later, a movie titled "GRIZZLY" was released, its plot a cookie-cutter rip-off of "JAWS" but about a killer grizzly bear instead. I just watched it again last month for the first time since it came out, and, oh dear, it was worse than I remembered. Fun fact: the gal who played the mother of the boy who was killed has said in interviews that random people have come up to her and asked her if she would slap them in the face -- all because of that heart-rending scene where she blames Brody's negligence for the death of her son. Of all the 'crazy fan' moments that have ever happened since the invention of the Motion Picture, that's gotta rank up there with the craziest.

Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) died in between films because he had a heart attack from the fear of the shark. So it went like this: 1975: "Smile you son of a....bitch", BOOM, yeah woo" 1978: "Open wide, say ahhhhh", ZAAAAP, yeah woo" 1986: "Oh wait that was dangerous" --> Dies

Enjoyed watching this reaction, thanks for posting it. :) The barrels were meant to make the shark easier to track. Also they float, so part of the plan was to make the shark too tired to submerge. This shark was a big strong fellow though, at twenty five feet and three tons. Quint was obsessed with killing the shark and didn't want any "help" so he stopped Brody from radioing for aid.

“That’s some bad hat Harry.”

Their are four "Jaws" movies. The movie you were describing was called "Jaws: The Revenge". It was Shaun, his youngest son who was the police officer who was killed in the beginning of the movie.

These are the reactions the film makers want from their audiences. Great vid.

I remember my Dad taking me to the Cinema to watch Jaws. I remember I was 12 years old. The man at the Cinema told me be careful you will be scared but when I went in and watched it I wasn't scared at all. I loved the film. It was great. I loved it that much my dad bought me the magazine if the film. I still have the magazine. I bet it's worth something. Kazzy you got to remember the shark isn't real. But as you know Steven Spielberg likes to scare the actors and the people. That's the way he is. He's like Alfred Hitchcock.

Thanks for a great reaction. Since everyone has probably chimed in on the "Indianapolis" monologue (one of the best ever), I thought about other amazing things about the film that are interesting. So, here's a few tidbits... The backstage antics of Robert Shaw and how much he pissed off Richard Dreyfuss are part of the legend of the film. Shaw was one of the famous and infamous "Hellraisers" of British actors and musicians. Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton among the actors, and Keith Moon of The Who among the musicians. Men who were known for their very hard-drinking, womanizing, and offstage antics. Shaw would take potshots at Dreyfuss, who was a pretty serious actor at the time...and then Shaw would turn around and be very kind and funny. Shaw was ultra-competitive as well. There is also a legend about his drinking before doing the Indiana speech, that he blacked out...and then begged Spielberg to redo the scene the next morning (while he was not quite hungover, but basically still drunk). It all drove Dreyfuss NUTS, but...as the years passed, and after Shaw died (quite young in the late 1970s or early 1980s), Dreyfuss has since talked about how much he admired Shaw's talent and generosity (when he wasn't drinking or around other people on the set) and the pride he felt knowing Robert Shaw. In fact, there is a video on RU-vid where Dreyfuss is interviewed for Irish television, and he talks about meeting Shaw's then 14-year-old granddaughter. It's a moving short video. The shark had a name on set..."Bruce". Bruce almost NEVER worked and because of the problems with this mechanical shark and since they were filming off of Martha's Vineyard...filming was a nightmare! Over schedule and over budget! The novel this was based on was by Peter Benchley, who appears in the film as a reporter, and he co-wrote the screenplay. Peter was the son of Robert Benchley, a member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table set of the 1920s, a group of New York-based artists, writers, actors, poets, and critics. Robert was a humorist and actor.

Jaws devastated the beach-going tourism industry for years.

Jaws and The Exorcist have scared so many people for life.

Imagine what it would be like in real life if some widespread danger affected everyone's life and the politicians only cared about the public amenities, allowing more people to die. Thank goodness this cautionary tale came out forty-six years ago to teach us an important moral about putting a price on peoples lives.

The opening scene of this movie traumatized me as a child. Still very effective 45 years later. Best JAWS reaction video I've seen. I just subbed!👍

The "R" rating in the 70's had a different age restriction and the requirements for what makes a movie R-rated or PG were different. Also, the PG-13 rating hadn't been invented until 1984 when concerns were raised over movies like Indiana Jones And The Temple of Doom.

Back in 1975 my parents were young and naïve. They took me and my older brother to see this at a drive-in theater. It was and is still my favorite film of all time.

The barrels were empty and plastic so were extremely bouyant and were supposed to stop the shark diving below the surface. The fact that the shark can pull them underwater is a signifier of its size and strength. Nice reaction.

The first time Spielberg heard the Jaws theme he hated it as he wanted more of a swashbuckling-type theme. Thankfully he eventually came around.

I was 16 when this came out and me and my buddy were in the audience for the World Premier.......scared the hell out of ALL of us....nightmares for a week😄😄😄 best movie experience I ever had

All these moments where she's so irritated and incredulous that the mayor won't shut down the beaches despite what's going on, and all I can think about is how completely unsurprising that is after 2020. It's been a weird damn year.

"But you live on an Island." "Only if you look at it from the water."

In 1975 the premier of this movie, a family vacation in Bethany Beach, Del., and my 10th birthday all came on June 20th. My uncle took a bunch of us kids to see this for my birthday. That movie scared the living crap out of me more than any horror movie ever has!

Steven Spielberg has said in the Jaws documentary that the film Jaws did encourage more humans to hunt down Sharks to almost make them an endangered species. Spielberg says that is one regret he has to making the film Jaws that it lead so many humans to hunt sharks. The truth is the amount of shark attacks on humans was not as many as humans attacking sharks.

25:46 - Quint destroyed the radio, because he wanted to get the shark himself. He didn't want anyone else interfering. Partially for the money but he was obsessed with this giant beast.

THIS is the only “Jaws” movie. The rest shouldn’t have been made. One of the best movies ever made. You should have seen it in a dark theater in 1975. The audience went nuts! And they applauded twice at the end. The last one was a standing ovation. For a movie. Yeah.

I watched this with my nephew when he was 10. The death of Quint scarred him for life.

Best part is when the head appears in the water, made me jump, or maybe that was the sequel

Robert Shaw’s monologue was a true story. USS Indianapolis, read about it. Secondary historians say it wasn’t that bad. That many of the 1100 sailors in the water drank the salt water & died that way. Yet the Canadian rescue boats that eventually arrived in 1945, their sailors said on record, “they’ve never seen so many sharks”. It was a true story. The 300 surviving sailors didn’t imagine it from heat exhaustion. They lived through it. 800 US Navy sailors were ripped about by sharks. The largest shark attack ever recorded in human history.

Shaws monologue, true true acting at its best!!

This is the movie that launched Spielberg to the stratosphere, which he followed up with Close Encounters of the Third Kind two years later and his reputation as a master director was cemented. Spielberg had wanted to show the shark many times in the movie but the mechanical shark was always breaking down so he instead 'hinted' at the shark, which actually worked better because terror is best conjured in the imagination of the audience. Having John Williams epic score in this certainly added to the success of the movie as his work on Star Wars a couple years later did as well. Watched this again and I'll add that that jump scare when Ben Gardner appeared in the whole in the bottom of his boat, Kazzy's jump scare has been waiting 46 years to happen and is the same jump scare we had back then. Happy New Year 2022!

SO fun to see your reactions to this movie!!

Jaws was actually just shy of being rated R. PG-13 ratings didn’t exist back then. It used to skip from PG to R. Jaws almost was rated R because the estuary scene and the kid on the raft scene were both originally extended. The guy the shark ate from the rowboat in front of Brody’s kid was supposed to come up to the surface again and the shark carried him in his mouth while swimming towards Mike. Then the guy grabs Mike while he’s screaming and pushes him out of the way of the shark. With the raft scene, the kids body was supposed to come up to the surface and Brody was supposed to see his dead body in the water. Then the shark would come up and pull the kid under again, then the scene would play out as normal. It was almost way more disturbing with those two scenes lol

If you like Roy Scheider in this, you should watch him in "Blue Thunder".

That USS Indiannaoplis soliloquy by Robert Shaw (Quint) is one of the best speeches in all of movie history. I never get tired of watching it.

Best reaction I have seen to this. Thank you. Also, the barrels were to drown the shark. if he can't swim, he can't breathe.

Great reaction. This film is one of my 10 faves. The elements of horror and humor blend nicely, but what makes this movie classic is the chemistry of the 3 characters.

I was 9 years old when Jaws came out. Being PG, we thought it was safe. This film scared me for life. I think the boy on the raft affected me the most. Love this film.

That monolog by Robert Shaw, he was drunk. Had to be carried on to the set.

the reaction at the 14:46 mark was all of us in the cinema back in the day...

Best jaws reaction I've seen yet, thank you for not getting caught up in the special effects between now & then

Incredible film. One of the greatest of all time. Quite possibly the best paced and edited film ever. Scheider is in JAWS 2, but, truly, don't waste your time. Spielberg had no involvement beyond the original movie. p.s. The way you reference great, classic movies (that I grew up with) with little clips throughout... you're my hero. :)

It's so cool how this movie still holds up so well today, still makes people afraid to go in the water lol!

When the channel Bravo did a "100 Scariest Movie Moments" list, Jaws got number 1 for the lasting psychology effect it had on people since they started getting paranoid of bodies of water, including swimming pools.

I was 13 when this movie came out. I had already read the novel so I thought I was prepared. I remember my friend and I went on opening night and were part of those "around the block" ticket lines that became the origin of the term "blockbuster". And I remember I had eaten spaghetti for dinner that evening.... really bad choice, lol. It would be 20 years before I watched it again, and it still terrified me. It's just a brilliantly done movie. Glad you watched it! Loved your reaction.

"You yell shark! We've got a panic on our hands. On the fourth of July." Me: You know what makes me panic Mr. Mayor? The fact that you made the choice to buy and wear that jacket with the anchors all over it. And despite making that choice you were still became Mayor. Meaning that people voted for you to make important choices for the town, when you clearly can't make good choices concerning your wardrobe.

I love this movie. And love the Indianapolis speech. As for harpooning with barrels is that he harpoons them with the barrels since they float being they're filled with air, and make it hard for a shark to pull them under the water and easier to track them being stuck near the surface. The fact that this shark was so huge that it could still go under with THREE barrels on it even gave Quint a pause...

Fun fact: some of the footage where Hooper gets attacked by the shark was actually shot by Aussie husband and wife underwater photo/film team: Ron and Valerie Taylor, using a scaled down cage and stunt double. The scenes where the cage was being beaten on by the great white was an accident; when the shark got tangled in the lines and panicked. Fortunately it was able to get free without injury to itself. In regards to the film itself, the Taylors had a good laugh at those in the audience talking about how fake the shark looked while pointing at film that they knew they'd shot. Another item is the 1971 movie/documentary: Blue Water, White Death(developed and directed(in part)by Peter Gimbel); which was the first time that an extended expedition was launched to exclusively study these amazing animals. That inspired Peter Benchley to write the novel.

I saw this in the theater when I was 10. When Hooper was down in the cage I actually crawled under the theater seat. Had nightmares for months afterward. And after seeing this, I was never comfortable swimming in any body of water where I didn't know what was in the water with me, especially the ocean. Basically it scarred me for life. I was in the Navy, and have visited some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, but I can count on one hand the number of times I actually swam in the ocean.

I saw this at the movie theater when I was a kid when it was first released. I was afraid to take a shower for a week.

I always like that Quint, hard, uncompromising and determined that he knows best, and is the authentic expert, as he is, has the balls to realise when he's beat, and turns to Dreyfuss's character for help. The measure of the man.

Love this movie! One of my all time favorites :) The sequels... Not so much.

I don't know if someone already told you but the interviewer in the 4th of July scene is actualy the writer of the novel, Peter Benchley.

That classic soundtrack... John Williams is a genius! Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Superman, Jurassic Park, ET, Saving Private Ryan... This guy almost literally wrote all the movie classics!

I have to share with you what happened while I was watching this yesterday. I had the volume up quite loud because it was very quiet, and then when 9:30 came along she screamed “WHOOOOOOOAAAAAHHHERRRHHH!” so loud that I’m assuming the vibrations it made caused one of the back speakers to fall from the wall and my dog, who was sitting next to me, freaked the fuck out and used me as a jumping board to escape. I’ve got two huge deep scratches on my right forearm. Bloody Jaws, still wreaking havoc after all these years!

when the head showed up in the destroyed boat, I remember seeing this at the theater as a child. My uncle went with us, I was sitting next to him, and at the moment when the head came out, we were all showered with the drink and popcorn my uncle had in his hands!

19:52, Oh my goodness, SPOILER ALERT!!! Had you seen the ending before or heard about it? You called it perfectly....well done, you should be a Hollywood screenwriter...LOL

Incredible how the title was chosen and how it's now synonymous with sharks while every animal has jaws.

Since this is one of my favorite movies, I've seen a lot of first time reactions. I have to say this was the best one! You reacted perfectly, you laughed and shrieked at all the right times. I think your body language was perfect! Especially during Quint's last scene. Will subscribe!

OMG I love your reactions to this amazing movie!

Quint's monologue about the U.S.S Indianapolis is a true story. It REALLY was sunk near the end of WW2 on it's way back from delivering pieces of the atomic bomb, and it crew REALLY was adrift in the ocean for several days during which a lot of men died from drowning, exposure, and shark attacks until they were finally rescued.

Roy was only in the first two. Stock footage from Jaws was used in Jaws: The Revenge, which was the film you remember with the banana boat and older Lorraine Gary. Her sons were the police chief Sean (the younger son who gets killed) and marine biologist Michael (the older son with the beard).

10:06 I’ve watched many Jaws reaction videos and you were the only one who knew Richard Dreyfus.

Saw it twice the year it came out, 1975. I was 9 lol. Robert Shaw as Quint was a stellar performance!

My father took me to this opening weekend. I was 5... ... Pretty sure my mother never forgave him. But, at least, it planted the seeds for my horror writing career XD

"PG?!" These days people are pansies.

I've seen this movie (since the age of 10) a ''thousand'' times, but I've never noticed those (2!) shooting stars!

This was great! I just saw your "2001" and now I saw this! Thanks to Modedorf (?) who suggested both movies. To tie the two movies together: Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is Spielberg's amazing follow-up to "Jaws", starring Richard Dreyfuss, and using the same special effects designer as "2001". (and, like "2001", it's about alien contact, although a completely different type of movie). This was a real blast to watch with you, I just subscribed, and I do hope you continue doing classic stuff from the 70s (and 60s too - someone's got to do "Bonnie And Clyde", for instance! :D) Anyways, really enjoyed these two reaction videos and am looking forward to seeing more. Thanks, Kazzy!

Robert Shaw was one of the original Bond villains, (From Russia With Love). He also played the Panzer Commander in the movie The Battle Of The Bulge.

My dad took me to see this on release in 75, (maybe early 76) when I was 6 maybe 7. It's the whole reason I love cinema.

This movie made me obsessed with sharks. It destroyed the beach economy all over the nation! Nobody wanted to go swimming after this movie came out. I saw it at least 5 times at the theater. It was a sensation!! It was so good.

Quint is talking about a real event. The ship that delivered that bomb which took out Hiroshima was taken out by a Japanese submarine on its return. Look up Mission of the Shark. The CO was eventually exonerated but he killed himself.

The barrell is also supposed to tire the shark. That story of the Indianapolis sinking is a true story.

The insert shot of Ben Gardner's head was filmed in somebody's swimming pool with a molded prosthetic after production had wrapped. There was a guy above who shoved the head through the hole without notifying Richard Dreyfuss to get a better reaction shot. They felt like there wasn't enough tension and emphasis on the stakes of having the shark around this far into the movie. Most of the film was ad libbed by the actors since the screenplay had to be re-written on the fly because Bruce the mechanical shark almost never worked. The famous U.S.S. Indianapolis speech was written by Robert Shaw (Quint) and delivered while Spielberg and the three actors were a little bit tipsy just to set the mood and make things more authentic. Such a brilliant film!

I think I love your reactions more than the film, itself. And that's hard to top. Jaws is second on my all time favorite horror films

When Jaws was released in cinemas in the UK it was given an A rating (not for under 8 years old and Adult supervision recommended). By the time Jaws got released on VHS, the BBFC had changed it's classifications and gave it the equivilent, PG (Parental Guidance), as it wasn't deemed bad enough for a 15 certificate (15 years old and over). 12 (over 12 years old) and 12A (over 12 years old with adult supervision) were introduced in 1989, but only applied to new films. Jaws was recertified as 12A in 2012 for a cinema re-release, but most copies still show the PG rating at the end.