JAWS 2

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

While "Jaws" was one the greatest adventure films ever made, I've always thought of "Jaws II" to be much more in line with the "teen horror" films of the day. The Shark essentially becomes Jason from the "Friday the 13th" movies, stalking a bunch of horny teens one by one. It just takes place in the ocean instead of at Camp Crystal lake.

[neonnoodle]

Jaws 2 reminds me of Halloween II, also.  Halloween II was no masterpiece of suspense-building.  But it was a competent piece of cheese...a fairly inexpensive sequel that delivered a lot of action and didn't require much thinking on the part of its audience...just your basic popcorn horror flick.

[BlackLagoon]

I never understood Jaws the Revenge, did the shark call their travel agent to find out where they were going?

Haha, that's great I always say that! Did it find out their travel plans?? Just ridiculous.

I think in the upcoming JAWS 5, Quint gets the Robocop treatment and kicks some serious fish ass!

[Count_Zirock]

I think in the upcoming JAWS 5, Quint gets the Robocop treatment and kicks some serious fish ass!

Great Whites are a protected species now. RoboQuint's gonna get fined into oblivion, then the Sea Shepards will start hounding him, too!

[Sean]

JAWS is one of the greatest movies of all time.  Period.  NOT seeing a lot of the shark has helped it stand the test of time.  The opening water skiing scene right through to Brody's discovery of a body in JAWS 2 was right up there with the material in the original.  Then it just slides. 

The idea that the town leaders and board members look at Martin Brody as a laughing stock in JAWS 2 is ridiculous.  Mrs. Kitner would have castrated Larry Vaugh with her bare hands once she found out about HIS role in the denial/ coverups. 

Chief Brody would be the flipping Grand Marshall at every parade Amity ever had with what he did in the 1st one alone-------and he's viewed as a looney instead?  No.  Then he kills a SECOND giant Great White that was threatening everybody's kids???  They would have approved an ordinance unanimously that Chief Brody was allowed to go sans pants on the island from then on and given him a photo license that allowed him to grope anyone's wife-------morning, noon and night.

I can still watch JAWS 2------but I curse at the screen.  The rest I just can't.  Especially the one with the shark who makes roars like SPOT from the freaking Munsters.

[Count_Zirock]

I can still watch JAWS 2------but I curse at the screen.  The rest I just can't. Especially the one with the shark who makes roars like SPOT from the freaking Munsters.

"Jaws: The Revenge." The revenge was making an unwatchable piece of crap and putting "Jaws" in the title.

[Sean]

"Jaws: The Revenge." The revenge was making an unwatchable piece of crap and putting "Jaws" in the title.

Who was the technical advisor on the shark in that movie!!?  A 6 year old boy?

[BlackLagoon]

Who was the technical advisor on the shark in that movie!!?  A 6 year old boy?

I'm pretty sure it was the guy who came up with RoboQuint.

Wait a minute......

[Wolf Man]

There are a number of things I liked about Jaws 2.  When the shark eerily glides into the harbor and you can barely make out its outline was pretty ominous.  When the guy was sort of parasailing going up and down in the water, that had some suspense and I was fairly certain it was going to get him.  Then we see just a splash of fin after the sail takes him back up again.  It riminds me of just how close we might come sometimes and "not" even know it.  When the shark showed up in front of the divers, that was a good "jump" scene.  I too liked how the shark was scarred and looked gruesome although the scene how he got that way was an amazing bumbling female screaming and panicing scene that annoyed me.  She might have almost been "ok" if she just sat in the bottom of the boat in a fetal position like the girl did on the sail boat after her boyfriend became lunch.  I did like that scene though.  When he falls overboard after the boat being bumped and trying to swim agianst a current and with a shark on his trail then taking a chunk of the boat with him during his final pull under water.  Good stuff.  There were some good close calls and scrambles every time the shark attacked the sailboat mish mash.  I stiill feel a jolt though when the shark takes the young girl who saved Brodiy's son.  She was one of the bravest and least annoying of the teens so I felt bad she got the chomp.  It would have been better to see one of the others get the chomp.  We had such a good selection of truly annoying teens and yet they all survived. 

I agree with many things said about the Mayor, Brody and the smuck hotel developer.  I mean, they had to take idiot pills not to have made Brody the Mayor and hung the other guy up by his buster browns.  I love the line though when Brody says, "don't tell me that is not a shark because I know what one looks like and seen it up close" or something to that effect.  Great line. 

Overall, I enjoy Jaws 2 for the most part.  I felt a lot of suspense when Brody wades into the water to get the board with the burnt lady still attached.  A real jump scene too.  I have been in water like that too and with just a few steps you find yourself chest deep already.

There was a film called Jaws of Death with Richard Jaekel that I always thought was pretty good.  However, that being said, keep in mind I saw it a long time ago so judged it on those standards.  Not sure if it is one of those movies that "today" I would go "what the heck was I thinking". 

I highly recomend "The Reef"   Based on a true story.  Great shark footage, all real.  And the attack scenes are some of the best I have seen.  Speaking of a great attack scene, watch "The Beach".  Not a great film but the scene where three divers haul their friends ashore with a long streak of blood behind them and the chunks taken out of them from a great white attack are brilliant.  There is also a good shark attack scene in the film Rapa Nui.  Most likely the attack is from a Mako from the way they filmed it.  Another good attack scene is the Tiger shark attack in Soul Surfer. 

Back to the "Reef" film though.  We know so much more about shark attacks now.  A shark usualy bites first to wound prey then swims around while you bleed out before  finishing you off.   The Reef does that perfectly in several scenes.  We also know that sharks usually test bite to see if you are something good to eat although with something the size of a great white that is little consolation that it did not intent to eat you. 

I never liked the scene in Jaws 2 where it takes down the helo but it is well documented that sharks are attracted to the rhythmic vibrations of rotor blades.  They pay homage to that scene in Lake Placid.  I do think though the shark would have let go once it realized it had not bitten down on flesh and the helo would have stayed aloft.  I always asked myself though why the helo just did not radio in the sailboats position and call for a Coast Guard cutter.  Oh well, that would have made more sense and been less exciting I suppose.

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

[yendor1152]

The best thing about Jaws 2 was its stunner of a teaser poster. Just an ocean with an orange sunset (and I think) a fin sticking out of the water. With the greatest tag line evah: "just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water..."

Rod

[Count_Zirock]

[general gruesome]

gnarly poster!

[yendor1152]

Beautiful...and very effective!

[Count_Zirock]

Of course, we now know that the incident that inspired "Jaws," the shark attacks in Mattawan, NJ, involved a Bull Shark, not a Great White.