After watchin the film JAWS again the other night , me and OH got into a discussion about our fears of Deep Water (sea).
As far back as I can remember My fear started after watching the film JAWS :o.
So did this film affect your sea faring ability's or is it just born into us ......

I've never seen it, and im pretty scared of sharkies :(

I have seen it and although I'm not scared of water or the sea, whilst out surfing I sometimes get that thought running through my head. Kinda unnerves me lol.

Saying that, I was surfing down in Cornwall a year or two back and whilst wading out with my board I noticed a dark shadow moving along the surf, I lost sight of it for a moment and started to worry until I noticed a head looking out the water at me.. it was a seal :hihi:

I had a fear of water before I saw JAWS, I'm sure it comes from my mum trying to drown me as a kid :rolleyes:

Doesn't worry me at all because the odds of it happening are miniscule but try googling Rodney Fox - he was almost bitten in half by a shark.

Not had a bath since watching it :D

Click here & scroll down to the "Wacko Jacko "pic

http://www.sharkmans-world.com/satt.html

I saw it when I was 6 and it put me off going anywhere near the Beach for ages.

After watchin the film JAWS again the other night , me and OH got into a discussion about our fears of Deep Water (sea).
As far back as I can remember My fear started after watching the film JAWS :o.
So did this film affect your sea faring ability's or is it just born into us ......

No I just avaoid Cornwall now that Great White shark has been spotted.:hihi:

As a child we had a downstairs bathroom. Mum used to use Blue Radox bath salts all the time.

She'd been to see 'Jaws 3' at the Cinema, got home, jumped in the bath (of deep blue water) but was scared that something was going to 'come up and get her'

Just as she'd got to the point of relaxing, the dog crept in and licked her back.....she screamed, jumped out of the bath and went running through the house like a naked, screaming mad woman. :hihi:

She went onto pink Radox shortly after that IIRC.

JAWS completely scared the life out of me when I was a kid. I was scared JAWS would get me in the swimming pool or he/she would come through the plug hole in the bath or come up through the toilet when I sat on it!!

I still panic a little bit (sometimes) if I am swim in the sea and think of it. And if anything touches my foot while I am swimming....Ble!

As a child we had a downstairs bathroom. Mum used to use Blue Radox bath salts all the time.

She'd been to see 'Jaws 3' at the Cinema, got home, jumped in the bath (of deep blue water) but was scared that something was going to 'come up and get her'

Just as she'd got to the point of relaxing, the dog crept in and licked her back.....she screamed, jumped out of the bath and went running through the house like a naked, screaming mad woman. :hihi:

She went onto pink Radox shortly after that IIRC.

PMSL! Poor old Mum! :lol:

I gather the dog didn't get any supper that night? :hihi:

PMSL! Poor old Mum! :lol:

I gather the dog didn't get any supper that night? :hihi:

IIRC the dog was eaten by the shark in the bath ;)

That film put me off plastic model sharks for life.

I was only five when it came out, but even I knew it was a work of fiction and not real, so no, it didn't have any impression on me whatsoever once I left the cinema.

Bloody scary film though.

I believe the film was responsible for a widespread dislike of sharks and the feeling that they should be killed for sport and never mind the consequences.

Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws, has recently been at the forefront of a campaign to protect sharks and he has acknowledged the effect his book and subsequent film had on people's views of these creatures

1 and 2 were good films, thoroughly enjoyable.

3 and 4 were absolute garbage. The third one is in 3d where it looks like floating turds across the screen in 3d effect. Although back in the day that was a popular route of movies (I beleive a freddy movie was in 3d).

As for four, Little sharky follows the plane all the way to the Carribbean only to be killed by a lamp. Surely Caines worst film ever only seconded to "The Weather Man".

No I just avaoid Cornwall now that Great White shark has been spotted.:hihi:

It hasn't. The guy who took the photo has admitted it was taken off South Africa. The rest is the usual made up and overhyped tabloid nonsense.
I saw the film when I was quite young. It never put me off going in the sea - you're much more likely to be struck by lightening or killed by cattle than eaten (or even nibbled gently) by a shark.

I may be wrong but I think Spielberg and the crew nicknamed the Shark "Barry" not quite as scary anymore.

I'm from Rotherham originally and we wrestle man eating sharks for fun so I'm not scared

I'm from Rotherham originally and we wrestle man eating sharks for fun so I'm not scared

So that's why you never see sharks in Rotherham...I'd often wondered about that :suspect::hihi:

So that's why you never see sharks in Rotherham...I'd often wondered about that :suspect::hihi:

And now you know:D

traumatized me for life, even scared of my goldfish now !

I'm from Rotherham originally and we wrestle man eating sharks for fun so I'm not scared


Seems a bit unfair to me to wrestle a man while he's eating a shark - surely there is a better time?

Unless its gay code?

Seems a bit unfair to me to wrestle a man while he's eating a shark - surely there is a better time?

Unless its gay code?

What could that be gay code for?

Besides its us girls that do the shark wrestling.

What could that be gay code for?

Besides its us girls that do the shark wrestling.

Having been on a few night outs in Rotherham, I have no problems believing that:P

Having been on a few night outs in Rotherham, I have no problems believing that:P

:hihi::hihi: And the reason I moved to Sheffield becomes clear

:hihi::hihi: And the reason I moved to Sheffield becomes clear

A wise move I reckon:hihi:

Still, the more I come to think of it, the large 'Gold-esque' hooped earings and over bearing stench of 'Charlie'( the perfume, not the other Charlie) that most Rotherham lasses wear, would make them more than a match for most sharks;)

Jaws was scary!.. We never went near her at school... legend had it that she ate metal and her eyes glowed red!:help: if you upset her she'd come looking for you!!!!!!!!!!!!




We are talking about the girl with the braces at my school aren't we?:confused:. . .

my dad took me to see jaws at the abc cinema in 1975 i was about 7years old.i loved it but it terrified me so much i hid behind the chair at one point,it started a life long passion for great whites,but yes i am still scared when ime in the sea i dont go far out,i always make sure ime near other people and i will never swim at night, this is the result of seeing jaws very young but i wouldnt have it any other way cos the memorys of the film, the abc, my dad are priceless.

Im sat watching jaws 2 right now....

Don't watch Jaws 3,absolute garbage.

Don't watch Jaws 3,absolute garbage.

Too late!

I put myself through it last night, it's good if you really need to laugh at the dodgy special effects.

However from watching Jaws 3 I came to the conclusion thet it's the Dolphins you need to watch after all two of them did beat up a 30ft great white shark (and I didn't know they grew that big):o

Too late!

I put myself through it last night, it's good if you really need to laugh at the dodgy special effects.

However from watching Jaws 3 I came to the conclusion thet it's the Dolphins you need to watch after all two of them did beat up a 30ft great white shark (and I didn't know they grew that big):o


Michael Caine's acting in it is dreadful.

Michael Caine's acting in it is dreadful.
He's in Jaws 4, the Revenge. Jaws 3 is even worse than that though!

He's in Jaws 4, the Revenge. Jaws 3 is even worse than that though!


There's been that many,I forgot which one he was in !!!!. They should have stopped at the 2nd one.Caine must have been a bit short of money;)

There's been that many,I forgot which one he was in !!!!. They should have stopped at the 2nd one.Caine must have been a bit short of money;)
Mr Caine is quoted as saying on the movie "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific." :D