50 Reasons Why Jaws Might Just Be The Greatest Film of All Time

46. Son Mimics Father Scene

The most touching moment of the film. €”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€“

47. Gave us ONE good sequel

Although no classic Jaws 2 is an admirable follow up with most of the cast reprising their roles and three memorable moments: shark attacks helicopter; shark attacks water skier; shark gets pulverised by power line. It also had an equally excellant tagline "Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water!" Unfortunately two toothless sequels followed, cumulating with Ellen Brody failing to ape Ellen Ripley as a revenge-seeking heroine in 1987's Jaws: The Revenge. €”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€“

48. The Moby Dick Showdown

The aquatic denouncement with the Great White is just as tense the 100th time you watch it as it is the first. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gw-qjuR8Kg €”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€“

49. The Tension Between Quint and Hooper was for Real!

Actors Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss famously didn't get along and argued all the time, resulting in some great real tension between the characters. €”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€“

50. And just for fun!

Gave us this hilariously edited clip of Brody and Quint bonding courtesy of YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISTmqjh1y-A €”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€“ So that's it. What did you think of my reasoning for Jaws as best film of all time? And was there anything I missed? Is there anything that doesn't make it a contender? (Apart from giving us Jaws III and The Revenge) Hardened shark fan or not I want your responses... And please if you enjoyed this article, vote for us in the Sky Movies Blog of the Year Awards, HERE - to help us produce more work like this in the future.
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Oliver Pfeiffer is a freelance writer who trained at the British Film Institute. He joined OWF in 2007 and now contributes as a Features Writer. Since becoming Obsessed with Film he has interviewed such diverse talents as actors Keanu Reeves, Tobin Bell, Dave Prowse and Naomie Harris, new Hammer Studios Head Simon Oakes and Hollywood filmmakers James Mangold, Scott Derrickson and Uk director Justin Chadwick. Previously he contributed to dimsum.co.uk and has had other articles published in Empire, Hecklerspray, Se7en Magazine, Pop Matters, The Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle and more recently SciFiNow Magazine and The Guardian. He loves anything directed by Cronenberg, Lynch, Weir, Haneke, Herzog, Kubrick and Hitchcock and always has time for Hammer horror films, Ealing comedies and those twisted Giallo movies. His blog is: http://sites.google.com/site/oliverpfeiffer102/