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Tim Asten
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posted 08-24-2012 04:08 PM
Quints USS Indianapolis speech, just for Joe... ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss): You were on the Indianapolis?
Brody (Roy Scheider): What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian to Laytee, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know... was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like ol' squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.
Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, boson's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He's a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
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Jonathan Goeldner
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posted 08-24-2012 04:45 PM
quote: Geoff Jones
Saw JAWS tonight at the Century Boulder. Digital print, presumably based on the new master from the recent BluRay release. Auditorium 9.
Not sure if it was 2k or 4k. The movie had that "mushy" low-contrast digital look. Outdoor/ daytime scenes looked good. Screen was decently large (~40'?). A thin strip of the image was projected above the screen, which was slightly annoying.
Audio was good, with more bass and a wider front soundstage than I remembered. The final word in Brody's line "Smile you son of a bitch!" was inaudible, as folks have been complaining about on the BluRay.
Wow, what a great movie! I enjoyed it more than I expected, especially having seen it in the theatre less than a year ago. I was smiling through most of the movie, absorbing it all and noticing little things I hadn't noticed before. And I saw it with a few folks who had not seen it before, and had a great time.
Looking forward to Raiders in two weeks, even in LieMax. Planning to see it at the AMC Orchard based on some comments by Joe in another thread...
The Hanover Maryland Cinemark showed this yesterday on their XD screen. 7.1 audio and all. Strange that the projected image would be 'mushy' since it's a DCP.
Sounds like your theater overmatted the image. With the film screening on the XD screen at the Egyptian - there would have been black borders framing the top and bottom of the screen.
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2015 will be the 40th anniversary of JAW'S,I'm hoping UNIVERSAL will do a special Re-release in the same 3D Format as AVATAR. I want to jump out of my seat again 40 years later... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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