I've seen the Jaws exhibit at the Universal Studios tour in 1989, and it was pretty fun. I don't know whether they still have it, but it was old in 1989.

You didn't say what channel it will be on, but I doubt it is one that we get, since we only watch free channels, plus Amazon Prime, which we've already paid for. We get tons of free movies on Samsung TV, and we have over 1,000 movies on discs that we still watch.

I don't remember whether I have watched Jaws all the way through, but I did watch most of it. Back when I saw it, I lived near the beach and went there often.

I’ve seen the Jaws exhibit at Universal Studios, as well.

I’ve never seen the movie. I just checked our TV listings and it is on several channels, at several different times. I’m recording one that comes on at 1:30 am.

Thanks!

It frightened me to death when it came out. It's now available on Amazon. Sadly it did a lot of damage to sharks and lead to a lot of misinformed persecution. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/steven-spielberg-regrets-how-jaws-impacted-real-world-sharks-180981335/

I've watched it many times on TV, but got to see it on the big screen a few weeks ago at our local independent movie theater. It still holds up really well after 50 years. And Robert Shaw's speech about the USS Indianapolis is still electrifying.

We'll probably watch it though I've seen it a few times since the original came out. I always seem to associate it with my wedding anniversary now. DH and I were newlyweds that year and saw it a couple of months after our wedding day when it came to the theater (and that really is the best way to view it). Great movie and I'm one of those people who was nervous to go in the ocean after that lol. DH used to dive a lot and kept going. I thought he was nuts.

I never saw it in theaters because I thought it would be too disturbing. I might record it and give it a try now. I think 50 years of desensitization to disturbing things may make it poossible to watch now.

I have seen it! Thanks for letting me know it's on tonight....just might have to pop some pop corn! Hollywood did a really good job of making sharks look scary!

I saw it when it first came out. We happened to be on vacation at the NJ beach and the theater was right on the boardwalk overlooking the ocean, I wouldnt go in the water the next day.

I know Cape Cod has a bigger shark problem now because of all the seals that go there.

The final answer on Jeopardy was about Jaws earlier this week, the book cover, not the movie.

“Allison Maher Stern was the model who posed as the swimmer on the book cover (and later movie poster) of Peter Benchley’s Jaws, the 1974 book that turned into the smash hit summer blockbuster film of 1975.”

FWIW, I know it's a favorite of many, many folks, but I was never into it - especially after seeing the fallout around here: people torturing and killing sharks out of fear ☹️

I understand even Spielberg has expressed his regret over the negative influence his film has had.

I would love to see it at the theater again. LOVE Robert Shaw in it.

It's on channel 5 in Chicago

I've seen it more than once but will watch it again if the timing works out. We have guests at the beach (SIL's weekend home) and I'm not sure what the evening's plans are. I do know brunch tomorrow 😊

We saw the movie at the theater when it first came out. I have such a love for the ocean (and fear of big fish with big teeth but not whales) there was no way I was missing it. My mom was with us and during a particularly tense moment in the film she reached over and squeezed DH's leg. He stood straight up and screamed! Definitely called attention to us. It's been 50 years and I can still laugh about it, am laughing now.

It's one of those classic movies that isn't really a great movie, in my opinion - but it's still worth seeing because of its cultural hooks.

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

I checked local listings, and it appears that it will be on NBC at 8 PM in Palm Springs and last three hours. I'll have to check my TV to find out for sure because the online listing said that NBC was channel 4.1, but I've been watching it on 36.1.

Spoiler alert...

nana-nana-nana

The shark gets blown up at the end along with what's left of Quint.

Great, LoneJack! Next thing you’re going to tell us how the Titanic ends. pfft

I greatly admire one off creative blockbusters of all kinds. Ideas that lead to works that stand-out in their excellence and novelty and continue to be revered in future years. I think Jaws, one of Spielberg's earliest films, is one such creation. Unique, novel, moving! A movie whose impact on moviegoers is still talked about and respected all these years later.

Bravo!

tell us how the Titanic ends

Sure Rox - the old lady throws the giant blue diamond into the ocean.

Spielberg was initially very disappointed in the theme music composed by Maestro John Williams. It is difficult to imagine the movie without it.

I read the novel as a teenager on a visit to the Florida beach. Not a good idea! When the movie came out, I saw it with my dad and I remember it was the first ”blockbuster”, with lines going around the theaters, and around the blocks!

Robert Shaw was amazing in everything he did.👍🏻

Myben watched it too

Thanks for posting this. Although I might have seen it on my phone while I was programming any shows I might want to watch. 20/20 was new and very good, and I recorded Jaws and watched half . I'll finish it tomorrow. Of course, I saw it in the theater like most of the country, but, weirdly, I don't remember more of it. I remember the kid on the raft and the first victim, the girl on a midnight swim. But I forgot a lot of it. I was always sad how maligned sharks were after this movie, and so was Spielberg. 50 years!! Wow. As someone who used to vacation on the Cape, Nantucket, and the Vineyard, I was trying to see places I had been.

A friend of a friend is a phobia and desensitization therapist. They said JAWS is STILL a major source of fear for so many clients. Talk about staying power.

I missed it. If it’s 50 then I must have been 6 when I saw it in the theater. It definitely messed with me. While I have no problem swimming in open water, I don’t like being near ”things.” Buoys in particular. When I was a lifeguard we used to swim out to a buoy and back for a workout. Esp if alone, I’d make a wide arc around it rather than touch it and come back. Diving under a boat makes me really uncomfortable as well.

for sheer shock value, jaws and the exorcist are my 2 most memorable movies.

i recorded jaws last night and will most likely watch it over the weekend.

So funny! Last night, I dozed off on the couch and was woken by a text saying

Watching Jaws.

I remember sitting between you 2 in the theater the first time I saw it and I think I just jumped at the same moment.

The text was not from a recognized contact in my phone, but from a reasonable area code, and included another different but also "reasonable "area code. I debated whether this was a new spam scam but decided to just write back Who is this....

Then both people identified themselves- 2 high school friends. I'm in touch with one, but I guess somehow not in my contacts.

I do remember seeing it with both of them.

I did know it was the 50th anniversary but I did not know it was on. ( I would have been sleeping anyway).

I‘m with you on that Ninapearl. I forget who I was with for them, but I remember the fear.

The Exorcist? We were away for the summer. I read the book in one night. I couldn’t shut the light and sleep anyway it was so terrifying, so I finished it

I've never seen The Exorcist movie, but I too read the book and it was terrifying. I thought about it for months, and still remember that haunting feeling.

I loved watching Jaws last night. I actually jumped and yelled a couple of times! Of course I've seen it before, but many, many years ago (actually, 50, I guess!). It was fun, and great acting.

After Quint died I didn't realize I was sitting on the edge of my seat.

I had never seen Jaws, so after reading many of the comments above yesterday I decided to watch it last night. It was so exciting I fell asleep about 30 or 45 minutes in. When I woke up, it was to three men on a ridiculously small boat trying to catch a preposterously large and fake looking shark. So I guess I completely missed whatever made it scary, exciting, or whatever. It didn't have closed captioning, so I also missed a lot of the conversation.

Obviously I am not in any position to judge this movie, but I think I saw enough to realize it's not of a genre I like. Which explains why I never saw it to begin with. But I have enjoyed reading everyone's comments and reactions above. So thank you, Karen, for this thread.

Rusty

Rusty - I think you have to make allowances for the time. You’re viewing it like the youth of today might. Few classics would hold up as current releases for any number of reasons, technology being just one of them.

We ran Jaws at my theater (worked there for 37 yrs) during the COVID dearth period, on 7/3/2020 (19 paid admissions, 2 passes) and 7/4/2020 (17 admissions). $166.32 gross @ $100 flat-rate payment to Universal. First time I'd seen it in-full.

I am not a Spielberg fan, and so I did not really like the movie that much - it sounded like it had been written for teenage boys - some of the dialog was very uninspired.

I also hated it when characters shoved food (crackers, pretzels) into their mouths while they were talking - that was completely unnecessary and annoying.

I liked the Roy Schneider character (Brody) somewhat, but no one else, and so I did not feel engaged in the film. I liked the second half much better than the first half. I also liked the music.

Just started watching it now, 6-9pm on AMC ....can't believe it's been 50 yrs. We saw the mechanical shark on our honeymoon at Universal back in '78. Doesn't seem that long ago for sure.

Everyone has their own taste and opinions which is fine. I think the music and seeing the sharks POV made it scary.

As a horror film I think it is much scarier than the Exorcist was.

We watched it on Peacock tonight. And enjoyed it. We laughed at some of the quick, unexpected and startling scene changes that were intended to be scary.

It's a solid movie.

I too, watched it again tonight. I had watched almost half, but I started from the beginning so my husband could watch it. We remembered parts of it and forgot others. Since I love Martha's Vineyard, it brought back memories of biking around the island back in the day. Good movie.

We watched it for the first time tonight. Laughed at how campy it was. I loved the truck that the police chief drove around in. We both commented how old the people playing the characters of parents with young children seemed to be. (we thought the young boy on the beach was with his grandparents)

Loved Robert Shaw!

I didn’t find it particularly scary, though.

We enjoyed it.

I enjoyed it all over again...lots of parts I didn't recall. I thought it stood up very well and really appreciated the drama between the timing and camera angles and of course the music. The mechanical shark didn't bother me so much -- I suspect it's from having grown up in a world of movies without CGI. But somehow, I didn't remember the shark being quite as small as it was...in my mind, it seemed a lot bigger.

We also watched it again. I did a little online research on Robert Shaw. Sounded like he and Dreyfuss had personalities that did not mesh well during the filming. The article said it helped enhance their tension on screen. Shaw died of a heart attack at 51.

I first saw Shaw in From Russia with Love, where he played the baddie with dyed blond hair. But my favorite role of his was as Doyle Lonnegan in The Sting, IMO one of the great films of the '70s. Newman and Redford being in it didn't hurt, either. ;-)

^The Sting…a masterpiece!

I liked The Sting, altough I don't remember Robert Shaw in it, but then The Sting was a much better movie than Jaws.

I also liked From Russia with Love, but then I liked all of the Sean Connery 007 movies, which for me (even as a teenager) had a camp value - I could not take them seriously, but I did like the overly dramatic dialogues. I also liked reading articles about Sean Connery in magazines like Look and Life, which attempted to explain the attraction he had from younger women.

There's a video on YouTube called Everyone Got Seasick. Richard talks about how sick Robert Shaw was but still pulled off his scene brilliantly