This Was No Boating Accident

^^^^ Lol, I thought about posting that. Forgot how bad Jaws 2 was as a movie.
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Mayor Vaughn: I don't think either of one you are familiar with our problems.
Hooper: I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and BITES YOU ON THE ***!


One of the best summer date movies of my younger years.
 
The scene which begins with them all comparing scars and which concludes with Quint (Robert Shaw) telling Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) and Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) about the sinking of the Indianapolis is, IMO, one of the great movie scenes of all time.
 
My favorite scene is when Hooper is diving on the half sunken boat. He looks in the hole in the side and grabs the tooth. I know that dead body is gonna come floating out but it gets me every time.
 
Of course you know the role of Quint was offered to Lee Marvin, who turned it down. He would have been great (sort of like Liberty Valence on the high seas). But I'm sill glad that Robert Shaw got the part. He was magnificent. And I concur with previous opinions about the Indianapolis monologue being one of the greatest scenes in cinema.

In any case, whenever I'm stuck in a boring situation with no avenue of escape, I like to replay Jaws in the theatre of my mind, substituting Lee Marvin for Robert Shaw. And if I'm really bored, I'll substitute Gene Hackman for Roy Scheider.

You're certifiable, Quint! You know that?
 
The scar comparing scene has never seemed the same after I saw the Far Side in which Pegleg says to Peghead, "Well, I guess that ain't a bad story -- but let me tell you about the time I lost this."
 
Farewell and adieu to you, my fair Spanish ladies,
Farewell and adieu to you, you ladies of Spain,
For we've received orders for to sail to old England;
But we hope very soon we shall see you again.
 
Say all you want about the Robert Shaw/USS Indianapolis schene. All I know is that the Jaws II scene where the shark bites the underwater electric cable has to be the most realistic scene in the history of scenes.
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Nothing could possibly be as realistic as the notion of blowing a shark to kingdom come by jamming a scuba tank in its mouth and shooting it with a rifle.

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In fairness to Spielberg, he rightly foresaw that audiences likely would have rioted if the movie ended the way the book did (with the stupid shark just only keeling over and dying only a few seconds before chomping on Brody).
 
Quint: Here lies the body of Mary Lee; died at the age of a hundred and three. For fifteen years she kept her virginity; not a bad record for this vicinity.
 
Scuba tank explosion kills one, injures three in Florida dive shop
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LURAVILLE, Florida (29 July 2004) -- An O'Brien woman was killed Tuesday and three others were injured in an explosion at a Suwannee County dive shop.

Sara Frances Slaughter, 50, was refilling an oxygen tank for customers at Cave Excursions in Luraville when the tank exploded, Suwannee County Sheriff's Major Les Hall said.


So, yes, scuba tanks can explode. Maybe they aren't the preferred method for hunting sharks, however.
 
btw, my daughter has been attending SeaCamp at TAMU-Galveston this week (I know, I know, but she wants to be a marine biologist) and one night they showed Jaws; her comments: not very scary or suspenseful, and that mechanical shark is SO lame.

I was apoplectic. Until I remembered how silly certain movies from way back (the Flash Gordon serials of the 1930s, or George Pal's Conquest of Space from the 1950s) look to those of us who grew up on Star Trek, 2001, or Star Wars.
 
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