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Thank you for being the best Patrons! You have voted for Jaws to be the first July 4th themed reaction to be posted, so here we are! Honey and Amy had such a great (and terrifying) time with this movie. The end result is one amazing reaction. Enjoy!

We watched the film on Amazon Prime: https://amzn.to/4mICV3w

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MertzRocks

Hi Amy and Honey 😘❤️ Loved that reaction! Yes, in the 70s you could smoke in hospitals, and there were 'smoking sections' in airplanes, as well as restaurants and theaters and lots of places, and of course back then you could smoke anywhere in a bar. The reference to "swimmin' with bow-legged women": Good luck finding it, but it was a REAALLLY OLLLLDD song, probably from Vaudeville or even before that... Supposedly there is a ragtime version of it, but I can't find anything on YT except a tiny clip of Colonel Potter singing a little bit of it in an episode of M*A*S*H ... Quint is tough to understand if you know nothing about fishing/boating/etc.... Porkers! That's his name for Great White Sharks, because a GW is fatter than most other species of shark. Quint is fat-shaming poor Bruce (the name given to the mechanical shark used in filming which rarely worked properly). So... Karma? 🤷 "Take him for ballast, Chief..." Quint is basically calling Hooper dead weight; as ballast here refers to some weighty material (say rocks or sand) at the bottom of a boat/ship to help stabilize it in the water. I kind of agree Brody had no real place in the expedition... Maybe he felt it necessary to personally see the shark's demise for peace of mind? To be sure Quint wasn't pulling a fast one? again 🤷IDK Quint's motivation is clear though: MONEY. He smashes the radio because if they call a 'bigger boat' out to deal with the shark, presumably that means Coast Guard, and that means Quint is out his $$ ten grand. Quint's USS Indianapolis story is essentially true. The mission involved delivering key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to Tinian Island. The precise number of men killed by sharks is unknown (most sources I find say up to 150); but of 1,196 original crew, only 316 survived; and a few of those died shortly afterward (due to exposure, starvation, or possibly shark-inflicted wounds). As I understand it (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong!), the barrels are meant to slow the fish down and surface them for easier catching. A 6,000 pound GW shark is going to be strong and so would need three or even for barrels to wear it out enough for an easy kill. If a GW shark stops moving, water can't get through the gills properly and the shark essentially suffocates. Not all sharks 'breathe' this way. "What is he doing??" The thing Hooper tied to the first barrel was a tracker with a strobe light. What else was there? I think my comment is long enough. Hope I answered your questions. 🤘😎🎸

Chris Marrero

Great reaction! Since the girls loved it so much, they should watch the documentary on the making of this movie. It's mind blowing that suspense caused by not seeing the shark most of the time in the movie, came about simply to accomodate the fact that the the mechanical shark kept breaking down. For another Spielberg movie from this time period the girls might enjoy, I recommend Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Ian Forbes

Nice job, pretty sure you got it all. 👍

Andreas Benning

Loved the reaction, had fun!! I remember when I was in 4th or 5th grade and this was on TV, the morning after we had swimming in school. Most kids in my class saw it the first time then, and many of them were reluctant to go into the water. We all knew there weren't gonna be any sharks in the indoor pool, but you can never be too sure, can you? xD