THE greatest film of all time!

Rating: 10/10 (21 April 1999)

I make no apologies for enjoying Jaws more than any other film. To me it is one of the most beautiful examples of skillful film-making I have ever seen. It is, in my opinion, the best film of our time.
Let me illustrate this.

It is so beautifully constructed. Trimmed of all fat, it contains no superfluous love interests, no "messages", no grand statements. It merely, and masterfully, sets out to tell a riveting story of a shark that terrorizes a seaside town and their efforts to destroy it.

The script and dialogue are so rich. This film is choc-a-block with memorable scenes and quotable dialogue:

"You're gonna need a bigger boat"
"This was no boating accident..!"
The scene where Brody's son mimicks him at the dinner table.
"He hates the water. They have a name for it..." "Drowning"
"He's gone under the boat, he's gone under the boat"
The head popping out of the hole in the hull.
"Pippet, Pippet!"
"Smile, you son of a..!"
The USS Indianapolis speech
Comparing scars
"I'll find him for three, I'll catch him and kill him for TEN!"
I could go on for ever. I defy anyone to watch it and not find a scene that stays with them forever. It should be in the top ten. It saddens me that it appears in the lowly 130's. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.