Jaws 2

When you consider how tortured the pre-production and production was (see wikipedia) the film was a success.

Poor director Swarc. He seemed to try his best despite being involved in troubled productions (Supergirl, Jaws 2, etc.)

I loved Jaws 2. The water-skiing scene is fantastic. Some good eye candy too.

I don't think it's as good as Jaws, but it's much better than its reputation suggests. The kids can act, and they really help ramp up the terror in the second half of the film. Ann Dusenberry is terrific in the scene where she reveals to Lorraine Gary what killed her boyfriend ("Sh...sh...shark!") and Marge's death has haunted since 1978.

And Mark Gruner (Mike Brody) was SO hot. One of my first crushes.

Not as suspenseful as the first, but plenty of great scary moments. Most of the kids aren't bad, but the girl who plays the supposed "hot" cousin visiting the island is so horrendously bad that I kept wishing they would just toss her at the shark.

The girl who plays the "hot" cousin is Donna Wilkes, who went on to even more bad cinema iconography as the "honor student by day/hooker by night" title role in the notorious Angel (1984).

The first Jaws is a masterpiece.

Jaws 2 was lame. Not bad, but ... meh.

Jaws 3 was awful.

Jaws 4 broke through the space-time barrier of awfulness to transcend to a new level of horribleness that can't even be described by human words.

The cast was a bunch of brewing sexpots.

It's hilarious that one of the pix for this thread is from ANGEL, which was the "schoolgirl by day, prostitute by night" trope film in the 80s. I watched it once from the doorway while my sister and her friends viewed it during a sleepover. I thought it was porn, and was disgusted.

I've since changed my mind on porn; I enjoy it when it is just men.

STEVEN SPIELBERG IS A PEDOPHILE. A RAPIST WHO RAPED LITTLE BOYS

Haven't watched any of them in ages.

Never watched Jaws 4: THE REVENGE .................thought it was a hoot that the shark pulled a Glenn Close/Fatal Attraction on Lorraine Gary.

Lance Guest was such a hottie in Jaws 4.

Jaws 4 belongs on the same shelf as Showgirls and Sleepaway Camp.

Back to Jaws 2 though, I loved the teaser poster with the fin and the sunset. Then the theatrical had that awful watercolored shark.

I'm rematching it now. I never noticed it before but when they first show the kids sailing and throwing water balloons and Mike gets pelted right in the face.

I rooted for the shark in this one.

Sorry OP, but it's awful and the kids are beyond irritating. In the final act I was siding with the shark, that's how shrill and stupid they are. Roy Scheider and John Williams were wasted on this, despite their best efforts. It has nothing, absolutely NOTHING on the orginal's astutely absorbed small-town life, Robert Shaw owning every fricking' second, the heartbreaking death of the young boy and the incredible non-actress who plays Mrs. Kintner, Milius's USS Minneapolis speech.

R5 OMG, thanks! I was thinking about this movie last year. I've never seen it, but I distinctly remember the cover, from the many times I used to frequent my local video store in the '90s. I was a movie junkie! Anyway, I was trying to describe it to someone and could never remember the title. But now I know. So thanks.

This is the second time this year that DL has helped me recall a film. Two months ago, it was a '60s Sandy Dennis movie, THE FOX.

Thank you r16. I just smoked something after a long day. You put my jumbled thoughts into words.

Jaws 2 is the fucking bomb. And so was Angel.

Is this the one with the underwater glass tunnel? Or is that Jaws 3. If not, I can't remember the premise of Jaws 2.

When that movie first came out, some of those kids were considered very hot examples of white teens at the time. Except for the nerdy one. They were the topic of conversation in high school.

I took my kid brother to see Jaws 4 : The Revenge in the theater, and it was just as bad as R6 described. As the final scene was ending, a man stood up and with perfect comedic timing bellowed, "The revenge was on the audience!" The crowd erupted into laughter. Thanks, mystery comedian, you turned a crapfest into a funny memory.

I like J2, but the opening scene in J1 is the best out of all scenes in the series.

R20, the underwater glass tunnel was in Jaws 3. This one has the kids going sailing and the shark going after them.

Funny routine by Richard Jeni on Jaws.

R20 that's JAWS 3-D, with Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Leah Thompson, and Louis Gosset, Jr. That one takes place inside SeaWorld. The shark somehow gets in the park and starts wreaking havoc.

Wasn't Jaws 3 released as Jaws 3-D?

I know I saw it but I don't remember a thing.

I should have waited for r27 to post.

Oops, reverse those post numbers

Funny clip r25, I think that guy killed himself,sad.

Vaughn Junior in "Jaws 2" is the HOTTEST!!!

I had the hots for Dennis Quaid in JAWS 3-D, even though I was only 7 when I saw the film in the late '80s. He played the eldest son, Michael.

For those who don't remember Jaws 3D...

That was funny!

Yeah, he shot himself, r30. One of my favorite comedians.

David Elliott played the super-sexy Vaughn Junior.

Jaws nerds say that the name for the shark in "Jaws 2" is "Slaughter" - which I never knew before today. Like Rose Nylund, I just called the shark "Jaws Two."

In the novelization, after she is electrocuted, Jaws Two gives live birth to several Great White shark pups as she is dying, thus setting up future sharks for more sequels.

[quote]Like Rose Nylund, I just called the shark "Jaws Two."

Are any of your relatives named "Psycho" and "Psycho II"?

I vaguely remember a scene with John Putch in his underwear in J3-D.

Watched it when I was still a youngster in school. Major trauma. I have a lifeguard rating as a swimmer. You couldn't pay me ANYTHING under 7 figures to swim in the ocean, or any body of fresh water, almost 30yrs later. Jaws II was infinitely more terrifying than the original. A 1-2 punch, that affects me to this day.

When I saw "Jaws 2" at the theater in 1978 (when I was 13) I never understood why Angel's mother was mad at her for having bruises on her ass. I did not realize she was getting fucked in the little boat.

However, I did have major MAJOR crushes on Mike Brody and Vaughn Jr.

The primal fear about sharks gives me a mental boner. Throw in hot guys and I'm sold. I recently had a very satisfying morning wank thinking about two guys from a recent Discovery shark documentary. A hot researcher and an amputee sharing a bed after a day of filming on a yacht.

"Can I touch your leg?" "Yeah, sure." "Does it still hurt... here?" "No, ahh-, but the nerve endings are still alive." "How does this feel, am I pressing too hard?" "No... ahh- it feels a bit weird." "Sorry, you want me to stop? Or should I rub it harder?" "Those nerve endings actually are so sensitive that my doc told me it's like having a second penis." Silence. "Oh." "It's alright. Ahh- yeah."

Aside from the scorching hotness of Dennis Quaid in 1983's "Jaws 3-D", there was also the wet-dream inducing Simon MacCorkindale!

God, you're an idiot. It's one thing to say that the movie is not that bad, but to say it is vastly superior to "Jaws" requires a special spectrum of mental derangement. Have you been tested for a stroke?

R43 is a nasty cunt. To say such awful things because you don't agree? Jaws is totally overrated although Robert Shaw is fantastic. Get fucked you fucking bitch.

[quote]Milius's USS Minneapolis speech.

It was the Indianapolis, baby..

And I'M nasty, R44?

I never saw Jaws 4. Is that the one where the shark actually follows them to Hawaii?

[quote]Jaws is totally overrated although Robert Shaw is fantastic.

Why didn't he get an Oscar nod for that? The most definitive Supporting Actor role, if I ever saw one.

R47 it was the Bahamas.

JAWS: THE REVENGE also has the distinction of being the film Michael Caine was working on, when he couldn't accept his Oscar for HANNAH AND HER SISTERS.

The film also featured Judith Barsi as Mike's daughter. Barsi would go on to voice Ducky in THE LAND BEFORE TIME and Anne Marie in ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN. Sadly, she was killed (her mother, too) by her father in a murder-suicide before the latter two films were released.

The trailer that the first run theaters ran for months before JAWS was released was absolutely brilliant. It featured the iconic theme music and showed zero scenes from the movie. It built incredible anticipation for the movie to come out.

"Jaws One" was not scary for me. And that old biddy who slapped Hot Roy - over-acting at its worst.

"Jaws Two" was much scarier. It also had Stefano DiMera as Old Man Vaughn, worried about the tourism dollars.

Of the teen guys, I couldn't stand the one with the frizzy hair and looked like Seth Rogan. Hotties like Mike and Vaughn Jr. would not have been friends with 1978 Seth.

There is no such thing as "Jaws One"

Is "Jaws: 4" the one where Michael Caine shamelessly shows up to pick up the paycheck? I remember watching it and, at some point, the cringeworthy awful mess turns into an unintentional, yet hilarious comedy.

I lived 3 blocks from the beach,after jaws I never swam in the ocean for years. Then on a trip to Cancun I decided enough of this nonsense , the odds were in my favor,so I swam out in the beautiful water until I could hardly see the shore. All of a sudden I was sure a huge mouth was on its way up and a panic attack. It's a shame that a great movie put a major damper on the rest of my life. I can't think of another film that actually ruins something real..

R54 so you can't swim in the ocean to this day?

Was it around sundown, r54?

I don't understand Bess Armstrong is not a DL fave.

No should she ever be. But there's lots of reasons to dump on her.

R54 Go to Cozumel instead. It's very close to Cancun, but the whole west side of the island has magnificent snorkeling right from the beach. The water is crystal clear in most areas, and unless it's a cloudy day, you can really SEE for long distances underwater. Hell, after watching Jaws and Alligator as a kid, I won't even jump into a unlit swimming pool at night. But Cozumel's water is so clear, I can swim and snorkel for hours each day without worrying about shark attacks.

Robert Shaw's character was named Quint, not Milius. Richard Dreyfuss was Hooper.

Nope, I mean I go up to where I can stand but no real swimming,embarrassing but what can you do?

R54,whats sundown got to do with anything?

For some reason I thought Steve Antin played the asshole son of the mayor. I guess he channeled David Elliot's performance for his asshole roles in the 80s.

[quote]Robert Shaw's character was named Quint, not Milius. Richard Dreyfuss was Hooper.

John Milius wrote the speech, you pinko commie bastard.

I grew up in Florida, don't have a problem swimming in the ocean (preferably the calmer Gulf of Mexico coast); but I would never go in the lakes -- snakes and alligators terrify me far more than sharks. To this day, I won't swim in a lake unless the water is crystal clear.

R64, please seek the professional help you so desperately need.

Jaws 2 was schlock. Now I happen to like schlock, and I could see someone getting more enjoyment out 2 than the original. But to say it's better? That's comparable to thinking that The Sting 2 is superior to the classic original.

I love Jaws 2. Well-paced, well-edited, great music score and Roy Scheider is hot as fuck in this.

The first Jaws film so engrossed its viewers there were multiple points the theater audiences collectively jumped in their seat. None of the sequels was that effective.