Rate The Movie #1: Jaws

[El Fangel]

I was looking at IMDB's Top 100 and Bottom 250 and had an idea, why not create something akin to a top 100 (or whatever) on TPWW sort of like Better Wrestler but not putting movies up against each other.


Process is simple, rate the movie by choosing a rating in the poll.


At the end of the voting session, votes will be tallied and an average will be given and recorded in a list.


This will not be flooding the forums as it is my intention to put one out every 3-4 days (maybe Wednesday or Saturday)


Definitely open to suggestions, however I ask that movies released in the last 6 months not be used since some people may not have seen it and to be fair to them, so they dont stumble upon spoilers.


Feel free to discuss memories, opinions and the such on the movies.


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Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. The police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant great white shark by closing the beach, only to be overruled by the town council, which wants the beach to remain open to draw a profit from tourists during the summer season. After several attacks, the police chief enlists the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter. Roy Scheider stars as police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as marine biologist Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw as shark hunter Quint, Murray Hamilton as the Mayor of Amity Island, and Lorraine Gary as Brody's wife, Ellen.
Jaws is regarded as a watershed film in motion picture history, the father of the summer blockbuster film and one of the first "high concept" films.^[1][2] Due to the film's success in advance screenings, studio executives decided to distribute it in a much wider release than ever before. The Omen followed suit in the summer of 1976 and then Star Wars one year later in 1977, cementing the notion for movie studios to distribute their big-release action and adventure pictures (commonly referred to as tentpole pictures) during the summer. Jaws is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. It was number 48 on American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies, a list of the greatest American films of all time, dropping down to number 56 on the 10 Year Anniversary list. It ranked second on a similar list for thrillers, 100 Years... 100 Thrills. The film was followed by three sequels, none with the participation of Spielberg or Benchley. A video game titled Jaws Unleashed was produced in 2006.