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We head to the Bahamas with Ellen Brody to hang out with Michael Caine, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles, and Bruce the Shark. That’s right, it’s time for our conversation about the mess called Jaws: The Revenge. But is is completely terrible? Is there anything redeeming about it? Tune in to find out!
For our December Member Bonus episode, the members voted that we talk about Jaws 3-D! That’s right, we’re tackling Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Louis Gossett Jr., SeaWorld, and killer sharks in the third dimension! Tune in!
The members have spoken! For our next three member bonus episodes, they wanted to hear us talk through all the Jaws sequels. So we kick things off this month with Jeannot Szwarc’s 1978 film Jaws 2. It doesn’t hold a candle to the original, but is it bad? Does it work? Can we find things to enjoy in it? Tune in to find out!
When someone says the word ‘jaws’ to you, it inevitably conjures up the man-eating great white shark in Steven Spielberg’s 1975 thriller masterpiece. It’s hard to imagine a time when the word ‘jaws’ didn’t do this. But that’s what Spielberg’s film “Jaws” did, as well as birth the notion of the summer blockbuster and make people not want to swim in the ocean. Join us—Pete Wright and Andy Nelson—on this week’s episode as we chat about this film, the next in our Richard D. Zanuck series.