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3. My Mom didn't let me see it

Reply to Mosby (Original post)

Thu Jun 12, 2025, 02:42 PM

Jun 12

I was 7.5 at the time and she ruled it "too scary", and we didn't have cable so I went through my childhood only knowing the secondary culture about it. I did see https://thesharkisbroken.com/ a play about the movie's creation by one of the principal's sons, it was interesting take about those mechanical malfunctions along with waiting for appropriate weather in the time before CGI.

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