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23 hours ago, Underdog said:

The French Connection

The Seven Ups 

All That Jazz

Scheider was in a few low budget films in the 80s I never watched, I want to say he played a baseball player in one of them. 

Totally forgot Sorcerer, he was good in that also. 

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On 6/28/2025 at 10:43 AM, Underdog said:

Totally forgot Sorcerer, he was good in that also. 

Sorcerer is a great movie.

If you have not seen it I highly recommend it.

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The picture forever in my mind is how every person I could see in that theater was plastered to the back of their seat the first time that shark's head came up out of the water.

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20 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Re-watched Sorcerer last night.

Holy shit that is a great movie.

Just googled. William Friedkin, huh. Interesting. 
 

for full circle, apparently friedkin directed Robert Shaw in n a 1968 movie called the birthday party. 

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On 6/24/2025 at 3:28 AM, Underdog said:

J2 is a decent sequel far less gory than original but has a few good tense scenes and another solid JW score. 

The bigger boat line is catchy, indeed, however the thing about the Jaws that gets everyone is two freaking notes of music.
You hear the duuuuh-nuuunt!!!  and you know immediately impending doom is present.

2.Notes.

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I watched 2 last night. They show the shark too much. Some scenes shows a real shark that is nowhere near the size of the mechanical shark, and the mechanical shark looks pretty cheesy. They should have stuck with what worked with the first movie. 

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1 hour ago, bschoolprof said:

Every shark got progressively worse in each sequel.  You would think they would get better as technology advances.  By Jaws 4, it looked like claymation.  

There wasn’t enough time between them for tech to advance, and each one surely had a lower budget than the previous. 

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2 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

There wasn’t enough time between them for tech to advance, and each one surely had a lower budget than the previous. 

nah, 2, 3, and 4 had similar budgets to each other and double the budget of the original (20-25 mil vs 10).  Just bad/lazy filmmaking.  

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6 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

nah, 2, 3, and 4 had similar budgets to each other and double the budget of the original (20-25 mil vs 10).  Just bad/lazy filmmaking.  

Are you a pair of orthopedic shoes?  Because I stand corrected. 

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