WERE you alive and old enough in 1975? And IF so, then at which thea-…
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bastasch8647 — 9 years ago(June 17, 2016 06:58 PM)
I was living in my town when it was still a backwater.
Jaws
came out in June 1975 and did not reach our town until October of that year. Worse for
The Exorcist- which opened in December 1973 and didn't get to our town until August 1974. But even so, both films packed quite a punch although they arrived late and played in relatively tiny theaters
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ecrowley-878-171149 — 9 years ago(June 21, 2016 07:52 AM)
5 years old. My family was living in a town called Santee California. My mom took me and my 9 year old sister. After the movie she took us to Taco Belle for the first time. Starting my love affair with the movie Jaws and the best fast food restaurant ever!!!
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Ashaod43 — 9 years ago(June 25, 2016 05:32 AM)
I never saw it in the theater until a year ago but what I saw was better back in the day. I don't remember the year but I am thinking late 70's There was the first video tape store that had just opened up in my neighborhood and they had Jaws on a 25" tv in the display window and they were piping the sound outside with speakers. People were lined up watching the entire film standing up outside in the summer. I was hooked and loved the film ever since.
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Negasonic_WoodChipper_Warhead — 9 years ago(October 06, 2016 07:51 AM)
I wasn't old enough to go, but my parents went and both came back horrified. We only had one theatre in our town. I did get to go see
Jaws 2
, my only
Jaws
theatre experience.
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DialingForDollarhyde — 9 years ago(October 11, 2016 10:55 PM)
I was 9 years old and living on Clark Air Force base in the Philippines when Jaws was released. We moved there on Christmas Eve of 1974. I remember reading the paperback of Jaws at least once during our stay there. Pretty gnarly book to read at that age. I remember agonizing over not being able to see the movie when it was released because overseas military venues didnt get first-run films until about a year after initial release in the states. We moved back to the states in November 1975 and saw Jaws at a packed 2-screen theater in Colorado Springs.I'd been re-enrolled in school for a couple weeks at the time and all my friends couldnt stop talking about Jaws, they'd all seen it at least twice but it was still absolutely awesome to see even though I had already been told almost the whole movie!
Yeah man, those were the daysa great movie could play up to a year in a theater.Then be re-released for a month the next year.
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a_basterd_of_Science — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 07:31 AM)
10 years old Green Acres Theatre on long island ny, don't remember the day but soon after opening, it was a one theater house at the time and jaws played for a full year, now it's a multiplex. great time of life
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anzsubz — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 05:30 PM)
Not sure if I saw it the opening weekend but I had read the book and I'm sure I saw it right away that summer before my 17th birthday. Regency Square Rocking Chair Theatre in Jacksonville Floirda.
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jmbwithcats — 9 years ago(October 29, 2016 01:24 AM)
Watching JAWS (1975) on Netflix I remember seeing the poster when I was a kid, it was massive or I was tiny I must have been about 5, because even though the movie came out in 1975, I saw it at the theater in 1977 the day I saw Raggedy Ann and Andy's Musical Adventure, so I believe Jaws was reintroduced in the theaters due to its popularity
JAWS is essentially John Carpenter's Halloween, if Michael Myers was a shark they came out in the same era and both represent a similar idea of brutal danger to the suburban post war dream
I was 2 when JAWS came out.
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benGsboat — 9 years ago(October 29, 2016 08:14 AM)
JAWS is essentially John Carpenter's Halloween, if Michael Myers was a shark
Let's keep this going, with the same wording
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jmbwithcats — 9 years ago(October 29, 2016 11:41 AM)
Wait, I'll make a new thread for this game
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highpriestess32 — 9 years ago(October 29, 2016 07:42 AM)
I honestly can't recall the first time. When it came to the SKC cinema in Germany where my late father was stationed at the time, my older bro sneaked out with a friend (he would have been eleven years-old at the time). I just remember my Mum chastising him the following morning for apparently he came home looking as white as a penguin's belly. I believe it had a PG guidance of 15 or something. But I suspect I saw it in my youth at some stage and must have viewed it dozens of times since.
What I love about Jaws is, no matter how many times I view it, I spot something new (usually in the background), every time! Awesome movie.
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Rufus-T — 5 years ago(July 13, 2020 05:47 PM)
Saw it here, @57th St. NYC. Used to be called the Playboy theater.
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— 9 months ago(June 21, 2025 06:01 AM)I SAW it where you WATCHED it. At the SAME time. In FACT I was sitting in the SAME seat as you WERE. OCCUPYING the EXACT SAME SPOT at the EXACT SAME TIME!!!
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