Ha, we did the same! We wondered what we would do in the shoes of the engineers, for one thing. They were in an impossible position.
There were a couple of earlier posts about Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning. Saw it this weekend and agree it was very entertaining. If this is indeed the last movie in the Mission Impossible franchise, it went out on top. Probably the best action movie I’ve seen in years.
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Highly recommend Jane Austen Wrecked My Life. My wife heard about it NPR so we went to the theater and saw it. It was a wonderful little movie
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I buy very few movies on physical media. Only the ones we tend to watch multiple times. So I preordered Flow on Blu-ray as soon as Amazon had that option. That was in March. Finally, today I got an email that the release day has been set to September 21st! Which means it can come even sooner than that! Our little cat lover will be happy.
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Saw the live action remake of “How To Train Your Dragon.” LOVED IT. Kids talked the whole way home about it. Lots of “THIS is how live action remakes should be done!” from them. 
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We are watching the 50th anniversary showing of Jaws on NBC tonight. As scary now as it was when I was a preteen watching it for the first time!
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I was too little to be able to see it when it just came out, but geez it was so scary when I saw it for the first time! Afraid to watch it now! 
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So unfair. We have baseball on, and Jaws will air at 12:30 am.
I moved to Denver 50 years ago (probably the second week of June) from a smaller town that might have showed it at the Drive-in, but maybe not on opening day. We were always looking for things to do as we didn’t know many people. I went to it here at a very fancy Dolby sound (da da da da da da) cinema with a curved screen, so that shark could come from the side and just jump out at you. Very scary
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I just asked my husband if he wanted to watch Jaws tonight. He asked me if I was ready to do a load of very soiled laundry and to not sleep for 24 hours. 
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Seeing Jaws as a little kid gave me a lifelong fear of deep water, including LAKES.
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No kidding! I can’t remember what I’ve watched or read as a kid that had snakes coming out from a swamp (?), but for the longest time after that I was stuffing pillows in the gap between the wall and my twin bed making sure no snake would appear from there! Irrational, but try to convince a kid!
I no longer fear snakes coming out of anywhere in my house, but I hate snakes. lol
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Is there something special about this presentation of Jaws that warrants watching on network TV vs streaming?
It’s free?
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The community aspect of the anniversary means everyone will watch together. Hyperindependence is overrated.
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I hadn’t watched Jaws in its entirety since I saw it in a theater in Boston 50 years ago. So my daughter and son-in-law came over to watch it with me and my husband Sunday night. That movie stands the test of time. I don’t remember noticing that it’s essentially two movies back then. You’ve got Shark Menaces Beach and then Shark vs. Good Guys in a Boat. We all enjoyed it like it was 1975.
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Two of my best guy friends took me to see Jaws when it came out. They had already seen it and planned the worst prank ever. Sitting on either side of me, they kicked over two cups of water onto my flip flops when that head rose out of the water. I never recovered.
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Dh commented the same thing, about two movies in one.
In case watching Jaws at a theater or in the comfort of your home is not good enough, Alamo Drafthouse is screening Jaws on the Water. See description below:
Jaws on the Water, sponsored by the Texas Lottery, is an immersive, unforgettable screening experience where a huge inflatable outdoor screen is placed at the water’s edge with intrepid viewers watching the movie while floating in inner tubes. As everyone watches Chief Brody and crew on the hunt for the Great White, floaters might feel something tug on their toes as scuba divers provide an added thrill to the proceedings. The evening concludes with an epic finale that coincides with a particularly explosive moment in the film.
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We both really enjoyed watching The Accountant 2 last night. Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal interact so well together. My only disappointment was Ben Affleck looked and sounded weird to me. Like he was old and his face was plastic-y and his voice sounded gravely. He didn’t look/sound like the Ben in Armageddon! Yes I know it was a long time ago…
It was free for us on Amazon prime.
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I was 8, saw it from the back of my next door neighbor’s pickup truck at a drive in. Drive to the movie in the back of that pickup.
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