People really like Jaws

I've been looking around online and I keep seeing people who think Jaws is the greatest movie ever made. Maybe they haven't seen very many movies. On the other hand, I haven't watched it in years. My people, if we liked a movie, would see it over and over, so I had seen it several times when it came out and saw it on TV a couple of times. But I don't want to see the bloody death of a child again or the adults either, and you have to pay to see it on streaming video. Maybe I'd think it was the greatest movie ever if I saw it again but I doubt it.

Roger Corman recognized it as an exploitation film and was alarmed that a major studio figured out that they could do what he had been doing for years.

But, offhand, thinking only of American movies from the '70's that were better than Jaws---there was Dog Day Afternoon, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Chinatown. 

Spielberg himself had to be bothered that, in lists of the greatest films, other New Hollywood directors had far more grown-up movies while all he had was his big-budget gore film. Or maybe he thought he was brilliant, making a shark movie while those snotty auteurs made pretentious snooze-fests. If so, good for him. Let him have his high self-esteem, and his billions of dollars.

I know I've seen The Godfather and Apocalypse Now but I barely remember either one. Maybe I shouldn't have listed them above. I have no memory at all of Das Boot but I know I watched it. I had a friend who was taking German and was excited about it. The German teacher had been enthusing over it but hadn't said anything about The Tin Drum a year or two year earlier. So Jaws was at least memorable. 

Remember the scene in Ed Wood where 
Bela Lugosi rolls around pretending to be
killed by an obviously fake
rubber octopus?