Golden Anniversary Dept. - Released 50 years ago on this date–20 June, 1975–Steven Spielberg's horror epic JAWS.
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jriddle73 — 9 months ago(June 20, 2025 05:24 PM)
Golden Anniversary Dept. - Released 50 years ago on this date–20 June, 1975–Steven Spielberg's horror epic JAWS.
What can one say about JAWS that hasn't already been said a million times? It was the point at which the kind of b-movies Roger Corman and others were making were picked up by the major studios and taken upbudget. It became the biggest box-office moneymaker of all time (though it has been superseded many times since). It launched the Summer blockbuster season. Every Summer when Hollywood bombards you with tentpole pictures? JAWS is where that began.
JAWS was so influential that any effort to cataloque that influence is bound to fall laughably short. On top of that whole Summer blockbuster phenomenon, it inspired 3 direct sequels, all of which were terrible, and an entire universe of rip-offs, knock-offs and "homages," many of them quite good. Its healthy post-Watergate "malevolent authority" theme quickly broke the bounds of the horror genre and bled into nearly every broad class of movie being made. In the CGI era, shark horrors became a genre unto themselves. Every element of JAWS writing, direction, editing, score ripples off into the cinema since.
Not bad for a monster movie, eh?
As I said before, what can one say that hasn't already been said? It's a great, great movie.
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AnthonySocksss — 9 months ago(June 20, 2025 05:56 PM)
A great classic that also ruined cinema and hollywood
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jriddle73 — 9 months ago(June 21, 2025 02:23 AM)
Some of its influence is undeniably baleful, yes. But it gave us a lot of good stuff too and though it started the tentpole obsession, it doesn't really belong in that class of movies (because it was made by talented people who loved the cinema, at a time when it was light-years better, and were still deeply immersed in the craft, unlike what came later).
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Aph the cat whisperer — 9 months ago(June 21, 2025 08:39 AM)
You just reminded me when I was on ark one time and my daughter went into the ocean. My son and I started singing the jaws theme and I just now thought how does he know it when he's never seen the movie
