Bluemoon's Official Top 100 Films

[jimharri]

Still great, despite the rubber shark.
Came out right at the time I started open sea swimming races with the club I was with.
1976 & 77 in particular was a great summer.
This films put the heebie-jeebies up me for years. Particularly as a Baskin shark had been spotted off Lambay Island just a week before I was due to swim the Ireland's Eye to Howth Head race.
I was only 14 years old and the older guys were having great craic scaring the younger lads.
I had no idea at the time that Baskin Sharks were harmless, just that judging by the picture taken from the yacht the week before, they were huge.


Jaws scared a lot of people out of the water back in the 70's.

Bibi?

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Bibi?

Saw her last week.

 

[Blue_eyes]

What certificate was jaws on release? I'm totally convinced I saw it when I was about 9 at the cinema

Pretty sure it was an A cert, which meant that a child could watch if accompanied by an adult. There being U,...suitable for anyone, A...as explained, AA....14 years and older, and X....adults only, at that time. I had a strong family tie with a cinema during the 70s and watched practically every film there during those years, I was 11 at the time.

It was a masterstroke to get it through as an A rating as this widened its shockable audience by millions, and as someone who saw it many times during its cinema release, that "head popping out the boat" moment drew the biggest gasps from the audience that I ever saw.

 

[Barcon]

I watched Jaws at the Roxy in Hollinwood when it first came out.
The head popping out was almost as scary as seeing Lurch.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

some films would make the top 100 in both categories !

Yes . . . fucking STEPBROTHERS.

 

[Phil1]

Jaws was another great film watched for the first time. Think I'd have been around 11 or 12 and remember being giddy with excitement when I saw it amongst the 5 videos for £3 my dad brought back from whatever the fuck the local video shop was called back then.
Seen it again when I was in my 20's and still held its own as an enjoyable watch.
Never felt the inclination to see it again. Wouldn't be in my 20 but understand why others would have it in theirs.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I give very little away, but to think there's a chance Shawshank wouldn't be in the top 100 would be pretty mental!

I reckon I could think of 100 better films than Shawshank.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Given the amount of Yorkshire fuckers that I suspect are secretly on this forum at the moment, I’m surprised that Kes or even the Full Monty aren’t pushing for top spot.

Kes was my number 2 and was listed at 84

 

[Cellarite]

I reckon I could think of 100 better films than Shawshank.

I reckon I could think of 100 films better than your 100 - but that would be my opinion of course.

 

[BlueHammer85]

If anyone has a Top 100 without Shawshank, they're doing it to be different.

It's like leaving The Beatles out of a Top 100 greatest band poll