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It f'ing offended me.

posted 8 years ago by recklesscow
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There was something about the shark I didn't care for. It was so wantonly mean-spirited and almost gleeful in its consumption of these poor people. And there was no way it was that hungry. It was like it was eating them for fun. Proof is how much was left of dirty Chrissie--he obviously didn't even eat that much of her. The guy with the missing eye was left totally intact! Plus I could understand the mayor's problem with it hurting tourism and I do not blame him, I blame the POS shark for making him make those decisions in his position. I bet it enjoyed it, too.

I do not understand what went wrong with it but it was a villain worse than Scar or Voldemort even. I wanted to punch it badly. And then it ate Quint and I was really mad. Unnecessary and traumatic for him, plus he was a veteran and it was distasteful, no pun intended.

I was rooting for the stupid hicks hunting for it in droves and hoping they got it but of course all they got was the shark that wasn't even doing anything wrong. It had to suffer because the other shark was a terrible creature. I felt horrible for it.

I did not like the shark at all. I was very angry with it. It didn't deserve to be there.

[–] Phydeaux50 8 years ago

Sometimes I think the shark is Satan doing God's work. Chrissie (read hussy) offended God with her reckless desire, attempting to pervert a good Christian boy studying at a reputable college. Alex Kintner disobeyed his mother, showing disregard for her authority and swaying her towards a tragic outcome. Ben Gardener was a braggart, with little regard for his fellow man. God must have been truly offended, to take an eye. It was very biblical. I won't begin to talk about the scout master. We all know where that goes. He had it coming, to be sure, and Satan gave it to him in the form of a relentless, practically psychotic fish.

Good call, recklesscow. You have read between the lines with righteous rectitude, and I'm sure God will direct Satan to abandon you.

🇦🇺 All the little devils are proud of Hell.

[–] bastasch8647 8 years ago

And the shark, which was totally nude throughout the entire story, had no business being in a PG-rated film.

[–] Negasonic_WoodChipper_Warhead 8 years ago

And the shark, which was totally nude throughout the entire story, had no business being in a PG-rated film.

Such scandalocity! 😱😁

Payback's a bitch and her stripper name is Karma 😶

[–] rascal67 8 years ago

...the shark, which was totally nude throughout the entire story, had no business being in a PG-rated film.
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Lucky for us that it wasn't shown very much, otherwise it would have been 'X' rated. I thought it was sexist that it showed Chrissy skinny dipping though and the nude shark wasn't shown at all during it's sexual frenzied attack of her.

Don't eat the whole ones! Those are for the guests. 🍪

[–] highpriestess32 8 years ago

Hahaha this thread is the best thing since sliced Quint!

I must be the only one who felt sorry for old Bruce. He outsmarted Quint and Quint endangered more lives than Bruce IMO. I bet he tasted revolting. His body was saturated with whiskey. Lol.

"These days you have to boil someone before you can sleep with them"

[–] rascal67 8 years ago

Lucky for Bruce, that he would have been sozzled by Quint's whiskey infused plasma by the time Brody blew him to smithereens. He wouldn't have noticed so much.

Don't eat the whole ones! Those are for the guests. 🍪

[–] highpriestess32 8 years ago

"Smithereens"! 

I see you are using my words again hahaha! Yes, good point. He wasn't tasty enough during the whole Indianopolis incident, evidently. He wasn't pickled enough 

"These days you have to boil someone before you can sleep with them"

[–] fab4_gal 8 years ago

There was something about the shark I didn't care for. It was so wantonly mean-spirited and almost gleeful in its consumption of these poor people.

Would you have preferred that the shark swam around and did tricks for everyone it came in contact with?

This was JAWS, not Flipper....

"You're going to need a bigger boat"

[–] benGsboat 8 years ago

Damn, fab4_gal...it's not often I stumble across a Beatles fan with no sense of humor.

By the way, no true Jaws fan would ever misquote "You're gonna need a bigger boat." Please get rid of that "going to" nonsense in your sig.

[–] jjpoppy9 8 years ago

Actually, it's "You are going to need a bigger boat."

[–] Phydeaux50 8 years ago

Hey, put your gloves on, both of ya!

You get this little needle through his skin?

🇦🇺 All the little devils are proud of Hell.

[–] benGsboat 8 years ago

jj must be fab4_gal's personal assistant.

[–] strangenstein (683) 2 years ago

“ By the way, no true Jaws fan would ever misquote "You're gonna need a bigger boat." Please get rid of that "going to" nonsense in your sig.”

Thank you for this! The “going to” always drives me nuts. Scheider ad-libbed the line and he said it the way people speak.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77425) 2 years ago

That shark hated white people.
What a goddam racist!!

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21466) 2 years ago

Wait! I think Pippit was black.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77425) 2 years ago

That’s a good point🥸

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21466) 2 years ago

Well that is, if he truly died. In fact, his fate is debatable.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77425) 2 years ago

I like to think he swam all the way to Ireland and spent the rest of his years knocking back pints of Guinness like a good boy🍺

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21466) 2 years ago

Hell yeah!

[–] PersistentViewer (2381) 2 years ago

I will never watch this film again.

This movie makes a Great White Shark to be an absolute monster.
When sharks are pretty mellow in real life.

It has disrespected nature, and if you disrespect nature, you are a big round zero in my book.

[–] millsey72 (10284) 2 years ago

Great white sharks are probably the closest things to monsters that we have on the planet. You should read up on them sometime

[–] ecarle (14979) 2 years ago

Sometimes I think the shark is Satan doing God's work.

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As the narrator of the original 1975 trailer said:

"It is as if God put the Devil on earth and gave him.....JAWS."

Oh, yeah.

Of course, this was meant to tie Jaws into "The Exorcist" which had been a huge horror hit of less than two years earlier...

[–] millsey72 (10284) 2 years ago

Sharks have nothing to do with a movie like The Exorcist, which deals with the supernatural

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