Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Emma Kiely, and this time with special guest Jess Dunne, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
This week, we’re doing something a bit unusual. To line up with Shark Week, we are covering the Jaws franchise. So today, Jeannot Szwarc’s Jaws 2.
It has been several years since a series of shark attack scarred Amity Island, but Chief Brody is still scarred by the experience. As the community prepares to usher in a prosperous new era of investment and development, Brody starts to see signs that a shark is once again stalking the waters off these peaceful shores. Can Brody convince the community that they are in mortal danger or will the monster finish off the seaside town?
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the lists of either the best or the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 9th June 2022.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
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- CBS Miami reports on an allegator attack on a kayaker, June 2022.
- Ryan Lambie at Den of Geek looks at the production of Jaws 2, July 2016.
- Darren Mooney looks at the dawn of the modern franchise at The Escapist, June 2022.
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- Francis Ford Coppola talks The New York Times about sequelising The Godfather, December 2020.
- Francis Ford Coppola talks to The New York Times about what he set out to do in making The Godfather: Part II, December 1974.
- Michael Kennedy at ScreenRant looks at why Steven Spielberg didn’t direct the sequel to Jaws 2, March 2020.
- Michael A. Smith at The Daily Jaws looks at John Hancock’s aborted version of Jaws 2, June 2021.
- Jae Prowse at Horrified Magazine looks at the version of Jaws 2 almost directed by John Hancock, June 2021.
- Joe Rutland at Outsider looks at the origins of “the Eastwood Rule”, April 2022.
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- Ben Sherlock at Total Film looks at Spielberg’s plans for a Jaws prequel based around the Indianapolis, March 2021.
- Steven Spielberg talks to Ain’t It Cool News about his regrets abandoning the Jaws franchise, June 2011.
- Shia LaBeouf talks to The Los Angeles Times about working on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, May 2010.
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- Jay Glennie at GQ looks at how Robert DeNiro came to be cast in The Deer Hunter, December 2019.
- Chris Nashawaty at Entertainment Weekly argues in favour of Roy Scheider, May 2006.
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- Joel Draba-Mann at The Independent looks back on how Halloween codified the modern slasher movie, October 2018.
- Ricky Schroder talks to Yahoo! Life about being fired from Jaws 2, January 2018.
- John Hancock counts “young Ricky Schroder” among his “few trusted allies” on the set of Jaws 2 in Hancock on Hancock, 2008.
- Ian Spiegelman at Los Angeles Magazine reports on Ricky Schroder’s support of the anti-mask movement, May 2021.
- Jordan Hoffman at Vanity Fair reports on Ricky Schroder’s fund raising for Kyle Rittenhouse, November 2020.
- Caryn James reviews Leonard: Part 6 at The New York Times, December 1987.
- Vincent Canby reviews Jaws 2 for The New York Times, June 1978.
- Dylan Gray at The Daily Illini argues that Jaws is a Vietnam movie, October 2020.
- Peter Cox at The Lost Highway Hotel argues that Jaws 2 is a movie about the legacy of the Vietnam War, July 2019.
- The New York Times reports on the hiring of Susan Ford as a set photographer on Jaws 2, June 1977.
- Jeannot Szwarc talks to The Jaws 2 Super Special about the making of Jaws 2, 1978.
- The Daily Jaws looks at how the camera team placed a literal saddle on the shark on Jaws 2 to get particular shots, June 2018.
- Douglas Buck at Off|Screen looks at the novelisation of Jaws 2, March 2019.
- Rich Juzwiak at Jezebel looks at Jamie Lee Curtis’ insistence that the new Halloween movies are about “trauma”, October 2021.
- Logan Kenny at Little White Lies looks at masculinity and trauma as key themes in Mysterious Skin, November 2020.
- Parul Sehgal at The New Yorker criticises “the trauma plot”, January 2022.
- Tom Davidson at Medium discusses “the Eric Bana nutting scene” in Steven Spielberg’s Munich, May 2021.
- Jason Hellerman at No Film School discusses the way that Spielberg approaches sex, January 2021.
- Josh Weiss at SyFy Wire reports on Javier Bardem’s crush on the eponymous alien in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, February 2022.
- Extra Terrestrian: Die Ausserirdische, 1996.
- Richard Newby at The Hollywood Reporter looks at the state of the Jurassic Park franchise, June 2022.
- Aljean Harmetz at The New York Times looks at the merchandising around Jaws 2, June 1978.
- Padraig Cotter at ScreenRant argues for Jaws 2 as one of the great movie taglines, May 2020.
- Xan Rice at The Guardian reports on a Great White Shark jumping on board a research boat, July 2011.
- The Guardian reports on Great White Sharks jumping completely out of the water, June 2016.
- Paul Brown and David Mackie at The Guardian report on Peter Benchley’s campaign to save sharks from the panic caused by Jaws, July 2000.
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