468: Did the Shark Order Takeout?

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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For 4th of July week we’re going to the beach — Amity Island, to be precise. Old Movie Club takes on the original summer blockbuster, 1975’s “Jaws”, directed by some kid named Steven Spielberg. Two of our panelists have never seen it! But we all learn some important lessons about how much blood the human body contains, the ins and outs of tourism marketing, and how the most important part of the journey is the sharks we met along the way.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 468, June 2019.
0:09.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable, and this is another edition of
0:14.0	Old Movie Club.
0:17.0	And this movie takes us back to the ancient time when dinosaurs roam the earth.
0:21.7	It's 1975.
0:24.9	Oh boy, I don't like it when old movie club has movies that were when I was alive.
0:29.9	But here we are.
0:31.2	This is, for those you kids out there who think like a blockbuster is like your Avengers Endgame or something like that.
0:37.3	The original summer blockbuster is like your Avengers Endgame or something like that. The original
0:38.2	summer blockbuster. It is Stephen Spielberg's Jaws. And with me are a wonderful collection of panelists,
0:47.9	but of course the gentleman himself who leads us in Old Movie Club is here. It's Philip Michaels. Hello.
0:54.0	Hello. Would you like a
0:55.1	fun fact about Jaws now? I would. Well, it was almost not the original summer blockbuster because it was
1:00.2	supposed to come out in 1974 towards the end of the year, but it ran so far over in terms of production
1:06.4	that they ended up, oh, let's dump it in the summertime. Yeah, sounds like Steven Spielberg was convinced he'd never work again
1:13.1	because they were 100 days over shooting schedule.
1:15.6	Mm-hmm.
1:16.4	So I'm hoping that tonight, in his honor, we will be over time and over budget.
1:22.3	This is actually, it actually was echoed with, what was it, the abyss where James Cameron spent a lot of time
1:29.3	shooting a movie in water and thought, I will never, ever work again.
1:33.6	Yeah, don't make movies in water, I think is what we're learning.
1:36.9	It's like Waterworld, whose director actually didn't work again.
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