Already Viewed-"Jaws"

So before I start this post about the movie "Jaws", I need to confess something....I made a mistake. I said that I had watched the movie "Psycho" already but the truth is I have only seen the funny new version with Vince Vaughn. For some reason i kept thinking "Psycho" was the movie "the Shining". I don't know why but I changed it on the blog and on my own list, but I apologize profusely! So I have actually only seen 8 of the 100 movies, which means more time being anti-social watching old movies or forcing my friends to watch old movies with me!

"Jaws" is a 1975 movie directed by Steven Spielberg starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss. This movie centers around a beach town called Amity where tourism is a major source of income for the town. This summer it will be hard for them to get tourists with a gigantic great white shark swimming around! After a young girl goes missing, the chief of Police named Martin Brody goes searching in the ocean for her. He stumbles upon her mangled body and after waiting for the coroners report it is declared that she died from a shark attack. Brody immediately wants to close the beaches for the safety of the public, but the mayor and other townspeople do not want to do that at all. They need the beaches to stay open for tourists to come and bring in the income. The next couple of days, tourists flock to the beaches and Brody anxiously watches the water for the shark. After a young boy is attacked by the shark, his mother puts a $3000 reward for anyone who kills the shark. After a town meeting, where the mayor agrees to closing the beaches for 24 hours. Many local fisherman try to find the shark but none are successful. A man named Matt Hooper comes from the Oceanographic Institute to help find the shark. On the fourth of July when many beach goers are swimming in the water, there is another attack from the giant shark. Finally, the mayor closes the beaches and Brody and Hooper receive the green light to hunt this beast down. They acquire the aid of a local fisherman named Quint and they all gather on his boat to look for the shark. After many failed attempts to get the shark, Hooper decides to go down in shark cage to entice the shark closer, then he will inject a harpoon filled with drugs into the shark. He goes in the cage and obviously the shark easily rips it apart, however, Hooper escapes and swims down to the reef. The shark attacks their boat and kills Quint, as the boat is filling with water, Brody throws one of Hooper's extra scuba tanks into the sharks mouth. He then shoot the shark many times before hitting the oxygen tank and blowing the shark up. Hooper swims back up to the surface unharmed and they paddle back to shore.
                   "Jaws" theme song:

This really is a classic movie. It's hilarious how this extremely fake looking shark caused so much fear in people who saw this movie when it came out. I will admit that after seeing this movie it did solidify my fear of a shark attack. I love going to the beach so it didn't hinder my swimming abilities in the ocean, but i never go out too far. I saw this movie in high school with one of my friends in my basement. I remember we were first thought that the shark looked so fake that we wouldn't be scared at all! The movie isn't scary when you watch it but you will never look at the ocean the same..especially if you watch shark week afterwards.