Hollywood Gothique wrote:

I love it when people change horses in the middle of a stream. We have gone from "...there's barely much time spent ashore" to "Even if there is lots of 'ashore time..."


There is no contradiction. There just isn't much time spent ashore, and even when the action is not at sea, it's still far from boring, with interesting characters and situations. Do you require the entire film to be set on the water hunting the shark to keep you interested?
Yes, the mayor is ignorant. I believe my post said he just "stupid." so you're not really disagreeing with me; you're just rephrasing in a way that is supposed to make the lame-movie plot device sound defensible. Basically, the script has to keep the beaches open; otherwise, there is no movie, so we'll make the mayor keep them open even though it makes no sense.


I love it when people think characters in films must behave or think and act in a way that makes sense to them, or they think it's "lame" or "makes no sense". Even in real life, there are unscrupulous people like "Larry Vaughn, Movie Mayor". Don't people in the real world do things that you sometimes may deem "senseless"? ("NO STUPID CHARACTERS IN A MOVIE, PLEASE!"). So a movie character is supposed to be perfect why...?

In the film, Hooper invents this theory of "territoriality" and says the shark is probably still out there, waiting to eat someone else - and the mayor opens the beaches anyway.


No, Hooper doesn't invent the theory on his own. In the film he says it's a theory which he happens to agree with.

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