Did you see this movie when it first came to theaters?

Question

I did, and I was so scared, I didn't even want my feet to be on the floor at the theater. Afterwards, swimming in the ocean was never QUITE the same.
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The movie was of course, Jaws. The lines waiting to get into that movie were longer than to get into ANY such movie, today.

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It scared the heck out of EVERYBODY. That summer my family and I went to the beach. My brother-in-law reached under water and grabbed my sister's foot. She screamed so loud that half of the people around us ran screaming to shore!! I still laugh my guts out when I think of this.

Answer 1

I remember seeing this movie after it had been in the theaters for nine solid months. The lady next to me actually ripped the arm off of the seat between us when the head popped out from the hole in the bottom of the boat. Scared the hell out of me. To this day, I still have to see my feet when im in the water and I live in florida. lol

Answer 2

I did, and my favorite scene is:
Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?
Brody: What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

Answer 3

Bruno the Shark (Thats the name of the robot shark)
was the first truly terror for people, around the world, in theaters before Freddie, Jason, Michael Myers, Alien and Hannibal Lector

People who wanted to go to the beach would not get inside the ocean, beaches were very empty that summer of 1977.

They still freak out when the hear John Williams music
ta, ta,.......ta,ta.......ta,ta......ta.ta.
Its creepy nowadays too

Answer 4

Yes, I saw it when it first came out, and I left deep scratches on my friend's arm during most of the movie. It was one of those hold your hands up in front of your face but peek through your fingers, movie. It scared me to death, but I couldn't stop watching it. To this day, I still can't stop watching it, and even though I know what's going to happen, I sit riveted in my seat, unable to move! There is only one other movie that has affected me in this way, and that was The Excorcist.

Answer 5

I did. Still remember to this day waiting in that long line. It was a very scary movie for it's time.

Answer 6

After I saw that movie for the first time, I didn't sleep at all that night ... I think I was 16 years old.

"You're gonna need a bigger boat..."

Answer 7

no clue what is it???????