one of the best of our time

Rating: 9/10 (19 May 2005)

Granted, it's not "Gone With the Wind", but who needs a antebellum epic to become one of the best movies ever made? The fact that Spielberg worked with a down-right pitiful budget and against conditions of the sea earns him respect. But then the writing and story were also downright awesome. That scene where the Quint talks about the Indianapolis and gives grisly account of his survival. Sure, it is seemingly meaningless to the story, but it terrifies the other characters. Nice job. This movie actually altered my childhood. At first I was afraid to go near a bathtub...by the time I was 16, I realized that it was a movie and I realized I wanted to become an Ichthyologist (a scientist that studies fish). Thank you Jaws, you were the bomb.