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[YT Edit] Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
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You can definitely see the DNA for other Spielberg film in this one. Poltergeist, E.T., even Jurassic Park with the joke about the guy running to the restroom in fright. My family and I just had a vacation to Devil’s Tower, WY. The KOA there is great and they show Close Encounters every night. Pretty cool to be watching the film and be able to turn to your left and see Devil’s Tower right there!
Daniel Turbyfill
2025-07-17 18:26:22 +0000 UTCYep. Where he slams the door calling his dad a cry baby
Stan the Man
2024-08-26 05:35:46 +0000 UTCThis movie freaked me out as a kid. It was groundbreaking. So much wonder.
Author Travis Adams Irish
2024-08-26 03:08:36 +0000 UTCOoh I'll ignore the Stalker note because I haven't see the movie yet 🙂 But I think yes, if an alien could travel to where we are it would necessarily mean they'd have very advanced technology and I think we would be in danger. At the very least life as we know it would change forever. Maybe our best course of action then would be to assimilate what they have to offer - either join in or be run over. This means probably a lot of augmentation. For example maybe they'll have a pill that will change you genetically. All you do is see someone else take it and see if their life improves even though they become mostly no longer human. Either that or continue to struggle trying to live in our old ways when everything has changed all around us. I think generations pass and we would ultimately have to change with the times. It might not be so bad, but still we would have to throw away everything we've ever been. At that point it would be too late to carve our own path, the best thing maybe is to leapfrog them using their own tech.
Mannygogou
2024-08-25 16:55:53 +0000 UTCAh yes!, in Arrival they travel by fading away... They are quite mysterious. They know the future in a general or literal sense, one would have to think about it. Might want to ask them if there is free will. "Do you have free will?" They might say free will is an illusion. The one that entered the dying process, did he choose to accept damage from the explosion that he knew was going to explode? If he can see all of his time at once, then he can ponder his own death at key moments of his life when they are especially meaningful. Maybe the lack of free will is the illusion. Maybe everyone dies at the perfect moment. If a being can see the bad things that will happen to them ahead of time they might know that they'll avoid some of them but as soon as they decide this those events would change but he would no longer see it as and event in their life. A wise alien might realize that each thing removed makes their life less and less meaningful. It would be like ironing out the wrinkles in a life, but having done that, there's fewer and fewer consequence until it becomes meaningless. And so they choose (aha free will) the more meaningful life and accept the adversities that come with it.
Mannygogou
2024-08-25 16:41:45 +0000 UTCYes, you would for sure expect not to see your old life ever again. You'd have to leave everything behind. Because traveling near the speed of light or faster you would expect even if you came back home everyone you know would be gone. It's better to expect that. Yet still there might be plenty who would want to check it out...
Mannygogou
2024-08-25 16:32:19 +0000 UTCI live right down the road from the house Barry and his mom lived in. I’ve actually been in it.
Bryan Lennicx
2024-08-25 15:44:09 +0000 UTCKind of foreboding. Not 'The Emancipation of Barry'?
Chris Thom
2024-08-25 02:55:14 +0000 UTCOne of my friends got the Close Encounters soundtrack when it came out. Now, whenever I hear the music when Barry disappears, I remember that the music cue is entitled "The Abduction of Barry." It's a frightening scene.
Stephen Dias
2024-08-25 02:24:30 +0000 UTCThis reminds me of the idea behind that book Roadside Picnic that Tarkovsky made into the movie Stalker. The idea of aliens visiting and being completely unaware of us as intelligent beings. We are so far beneath them that the trash that they leave behind is just so beyond our comprehension, it’s like an ant trying to comprehend the smelting process used to create a can of coke, or what the symbols written on the side of the can mean… or even what a symbol is.
Ria Grix
2024-08-24 23:45:23 +0000 UTC...and then, apparently, he started a studio. :-D
Shadowlord
2024-08-24 23:20:49 +0000 UTCMy dad always brings up that book during movies like this.
Chris Thom
2024-08-24 22:49:24 +0000 UTCSpielberg has said an interviews that if an alien race did exist and was able to create the advanced technology necessary to interact across light years of space with us, without destroying themselves first in the process, they would probably have to be benevolent. I tend to agree with him.
Stick Figure Studios
2024-08-24 22:21:55 +0000 UTC+1 for Duel (1971)
Larry Darrell
2024-08-24 21:36:31 +0000 UTCMaybe a poll in October for Halloween.
2-Can
2024-08-24 20:34:40 +0000 UTCAs usual, a very entertaining reaction from Cassie. Just when I think she's less scare prone now after all the movies she's watched, I'm reminded she really isn't (haha).
Joe
2024-08-24 19:37:47 +0000 UTCGreat movie and as always great reaction.
Russell
2024-08-24 19:31:05 +0000 UTCLove that book! My personal feeling is they may even be living/circulating in a different dimension and see us as ants. As long as we don't crash the picnic, we may be OK. Or one day we may wake up and all the water on the planet is gone and we're being processed as food.
Above Average Dave
2024-08-24 17:26:53 +0000 UTCThe analogy has often been made to a human being walking through a forest. We try to not step on and injure too many other living things, but it is almost impossible not to do a little damage and not much to hold us accountable if we do. If an advanced civilization knows of our existence the kindest course of action would be to leave us alone. Trying to “Guide us” or share their technology is much more likely to be destructive to us. Star Trek has made this point well, but probably the most original take was Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” where the protagonist’s every effort to improve medieval life with his more modern ideas and technology ends in disaster.
Steve Holton
2024-08-24 17:17:22 +0000 UTCThere are no friendly Aliens. If they come, they will be exponentially more advanced than us and they'll be able to take anything they want with little or no consequences to themselves.
Above Average Dave
2024-08-24 16:51:46 +0000 UTCCassie, A couple a weeks ago when I was in the middle of latest kidney stone outbreak you asked on your Instagram page. Favorite comfort movie. Yeah A League Of Their Own and Driving Miss Daisy, and of Course The Mexican
Zachary K. (Verified Swiftie)
2024-08-24 16:38:38 +0000 UTCYes, he was.
Stick Figure Studios
2024-08-24 15:57:33 +0000 UTCI am all aboard for a "Duel" reaction...! one of the most tense and nerveracking movies ever... and that of a TV-movie...
Jens Kristensen
2024-08-24 10:14:41 +0000 UTCYeah, he goes into all that in The Fablemans, which I thought was really fantastic, and is one of Spielberg's more overlooked films.
Stranger2Reality
2024-08-24 09:52:00 +0000 UTCGuys. DUEL! Yes! An object lesson in how to correctly use a small budget.
Clarence Newman
2024-08-24 09:40:12 +0000 UTCWas the stick figure alien in the original release?
Chris Thom
2024-08-24 09:06:14 +0000 UTCThe stuff with the dad leaving the family felt kind of personal. I heard for a long time he blamed his dad for the breakup, but really it was more his mom.
Chris Thom
2024-08-24 09:05:07 +0000 UTCSome Twilight Zone would be fun. Not sure if she's ever considered doing those. Or maybe even the movie.
Chris Thom
2024-08-24 09:03:29 +0000 UTCI think many would for sure. They'd see the tech and think 'well they must have it all figured out' and assume it'd be a comfortable existence with them.
Chris Thom
2024-08-24 08:46:21 +0000 UTCAfter John Williams does a score it's hard to imagine that film without him. The movie's 'identity' gets so wrapped up in it. His style is so versatile.
Chris Thom
2024-08-24 08:44:45 +0000 UTCThat scene where the child gets taken was beautifully shot as well.
Chris Thom
2024-08-24 08:40:10 +0000 UTCAI had a lot of Pinocchio references too. Wonder if that was one of his favorite movies growing up.
Chris Thom
2024-08-24 08:39:26 +0000 UTCJoy Ride would be fun for October. That one seemed to borrow quite a bit from Duel.
Chris Thom
2024-08-24 08:37:16 +0000 UTCWhen the boy angrily shouts "You crybaby!" repeatedly at his distraught father, that's autobiographical. Young Spielberg actually did that to his father at the dinner table of night when he started crying because he blamed his dad for the breakdown of his family.
Stick Figure Studios
2024-08-24 06:44:40 +0000 UTCAgreed. I was hoping she'd watch the DC too. Oh, well.
Stick Figure Studios
2024-08-24 06:42:04 +0000 UTCThat's one of the reasons why I suggested the directors cut
Stick Figure Studios
2024-08-24 06:41:30 +0000 UTCOne of his most personal films.
Stick Figure Studios
2024-08-24 06:40:50 +0000 UTCIt feels 100% real.
Stick Figure Studios
2024-08-24 06:40:09 +0000 UTCThe unknown is scary... but not necessarily dangerous.
Stick Figure Studios
2024-08-24 06:39:36 +0000 UTCAnd leaving it all up to the audience's imagination. You never actually see anything.
Stick Figure Studios
2024-08-24 06:38:45 +0000 UTCShe's also seen ARRIVAL.
Stick Figure Studios
2024-08-24 06:37:41 +0000 UTCI would love a DUEL reaction.
Stick Figure Studios
2024-08-24 06:36:33 +0000 UTCSorry, last one, but from your ‘Masters of the Air,’ you know the radios had a limited range, that could be affected by severe weather and even in clear weather an entire squadron follows that lead plane….. which can totally make navigational errors with WWII technology, you saw ALL that happen and never once thought ‘aliens,’ why not?
Lamar Smith
2024-08-24 06:31:29 +0000 UTC….and weird lights and strange atmospheric effects, stuff glowing, etc…. All of it true, don’t tell anyone
Lamar Smith
2024-08-24 06:15:37 +0000 UTCThe ‘Bermuda Triangle’ phenomenon needs no supernatural explanation, unless you want to add one. Why do you want to do that, though? So, the whole’BTriangle’ sucking ships to the bottom, weird lights in or under the water, planes disappearing, etc. Let you in on a little secret….. It’s ALL true, EVERY bit of it….. And still naturally explained…. The Caribbean is hurricane alley. I’d say it’s a testament to the historical pilots, ship and air, that there haven’t been more. Poor ship guy, until satellites have near perfected it, sits down low and doesn’t have air guy’s speed or perspective AND has to negotiate chains of islands and no shortage of submerged reefs. It’s a dangerous place without magic. Recall the ‘Twisters’ reaction y’all just did; incredibly violent and SUDDEN weather really does just pop up in hurricane alley.
Lamar Smith
2024-08-24 06:13:22 +0000 UTCHi Cassie, great reaction. It’s a classic Spielberg movie. I really recommend yourself and Carly watch Spielbergs first ever movie “Duel” it’s another classic of his and a great suspense movie for October!
Mark White
2024-08-24 06:10:19 +0000 UTCIf I’m challenged that this story proves aliens, I’m going to have to point a few more LIKELY causes for an entire squadron to go down simultaneously with no evidence and no distress call that do not require alien visitation. Perhaps the entire squadron used tainted fuel from the same bowser? Judge for yourself whether that is more or less likely to be the answer.
Lamar Smith
2024-08-24 06:01:39 +0000 UTCDearest Cassie, you’re well aware of the admiration, knowledge, promotion (He funded the EXCELLENT WWII Museum in New Orleans. If yall ever go, especially with your, personal lately acquired knowledge and appreciation for WWII, make absolute SURE you block off the ENTIRE day….. It’s HUMONGOUS. Kind of like your ‘BoB’ and the ‘Pacific’ reactions…. Do Europe & Africa….. Go have lunch…. Do the Pacific…. I apologize for the digression…..) That Spielberg has for WWII. So, the story in this is real. There were a flight of TBF Avengers flying, from memory, happy to be corrected, in the Caribbean or shuttling Avengers across the Atlantic to fight or some such. The story goes, though, that the entire flight of, REALLY hazy memory…. 6-9 or so planes flying in formation, no enemy at all if it was even wartime. Radar was in use as early as 1941 and was, from memory, tracking them…. Sunny day, no storms, new-ish pilots. Each Avenger carries a pilot, gunner and at least one more to run the radio, navigate, do some stuff with the bombs or torpedoes or mines or whatever else it was carrying. It was mainly a Navy plane and could land on carriers. Picture a B-17 about a quarter of the size but still that B-17, guys might be moving around inside the plane, freezing cold feel to it. So, radar had them one second, lost the entire squadron the next. No distress calls No debris No wreckage or bodies recovered or found. The incident, from memory, fueled ‘Bermuda Triangle’ theories, let’s call them. I’m sure you know Neil DeGrasse Tyson? He dealt with this precise question: “I SAW SOMETHING! I don’t know what is!….. It MUST be aliens from outer space!” Tyson’s hilarious response was….. “Well….. if you don’t know what it is….. that’s where the conversation should stop.” The story, from recollection, also fuels
Lamar Smith
2024-08-24 05:55:56 +0000 UTCYou're right....that WAS the point...and that's the way it is....no real answers....yet
Don
2024-08-24 03:01:50 +0000 UTCOne of the great things about this movie (among so many great things) is that, at one moment it feels like a horror movie (when the aliens come for Barry), at another it feels like a mystery movie (what is it that Roy keeps seeing in his head), and at other moments it’s funny, heartwarming, and magical. So many aspects of movie making wrapped up in one brilliantly crafted film.
Dan M
2024-08-24 02:51:41 +0000 UTC2319... I had to think for a second, then I cracked up, good one. 😂😂 By the way, the French guy was a famous French filmaker named Francois Truffaut.
Jeff Rogers
2024-08-24 02:19:28 +0000 UTCI thought about it and I think I can write it so that I would be enticed to join the aliens. I don't think Cassie has seen Interstellar and not 2001 a Space Odyssey but... she's seen Contact. So the aliens and I would have a conversation about faster than light travel (FTL). In Contact they used wormholes to travel. I will have to ask the aliens, so if I go with you, will you be able to show me the sights? Alien worlds? And you have protection against gamma radiation right? And... do you guys have mecha suits and gladiatorial combat in them? for fun? just as an example. How about virtual reality with advanced interfaces? Just like in Ready Player One. And how about life extension?
Mannygogou
2024-08-24 02:12:57 +0000 UTCYes, indeed -- very correct!
Shadowlord
2024-08-24 02:11:45 +0000 UTCYes, neither of which he directed.
Stranger2Reality
2024-08-24 02:01:59 +0000 UTCBTW, just a quick shout-out for the soundtrack. This is one of John Williams great masterpieces. Not many people notice that hidden in the closing title music is Disney's "When You Wish Upon a Star" -- a callback to the Pinocchio reference early in the film and a hidden message about "believing."
Shadowlord
2024-08-24 01:56:35 +0000 UTCIn the Susan Lacy documentary, "Spielberg," he also reveals that the breakdown of Roy's family in Close Encounters was a direct reflection of his own childhood trauma. The Fabelmans suggests he's done a lot of reflecting since then, so yeah that tracks.
Shadowlord
2024-08-24 01:49:46 +0000 UTCIs the breakdown scene the one where his oldest child is just seething while his family dissolves around him? That's a tough watch.
David Blount
2024-08-24 01:46:55 +0000 UTCThe air traffic controller scene is just a master class in lighting, blocking, and sound. So so so so good.
David Blount
2024-08-24 01:45:18 +0000 UTCIt's my favorite Spielberg film. I don't know if it's his best, but it's my favorite.
David Blount
2024-08-24 01:44:54 +0000 UTCInterestingly, the additional alien footage in the "Special Edition" was removed from the "Director's Cut" because Spielberg wanted to keep the ending mysterious.
Shadowlord
2024-08-24 01:44:01 +0000 UTCSpielberg also got a writing credit for Poltergeist and a story credit for Goonies.
Shadowlord
2024-08-24 01:42:14 +0000 UTCWhat I love about Close Encounters is how it shows the reaction of a real America, from pilots not want to report to crazy military leaders fearing everything, both alien and human.I love how the sinister tactics of the government weeded out so many "visioners" that, in the end, there were only two left. And I love the counter narrative to most alien stories: Good aliens! As for the horror aspect of it, can you imagine being the first human to discover an octopus?! Just run the worst case scenario in your mind a bit and it's easy to see why this is so scary.
Jack Dalton
2024-08-24 01:28:37 +0000 UTCIn the 1970s, UFO mania hit popular culture thanks to a book titled "Chariot of the Gods." Captivated by the topic, Spielberg set out to make a film that incorporated details from many of the stories of reported abductions and sightings. For example, the scene where multiple small craft buzz the base (just before the mother ship arrives) features the many shapes of UFOs described by witnesses. The ambiguity of the film is intentional as it speaks to the ambiguity of the subject. There are still many unknowns regarding UFOs/UAPs despite recent US government disclosures.
Shadowlord
2024-08-24 01:25:06 +0000 UTCEverytime I see the air traffic control scene it reminds me of how wrong the rule “show don’t tell” can be. This sequence is so effective and we don’t see a single plane. Cutting away would ruin it tension and all I can think about is if this movie were made today they 1000% would’ve shown the airplanes encounter with the ship.
Stan the Man
2024-08-24 01:19:04 +0000 UTCI just finished watching on YouTube streaming - it's pretty fun, sneaking in a chat here and there. Um... "sol"... "cantar" um... the sun came out and sang. So this is about contact with aliens. It's a nice mystery throughout. I do think a lot of people would join the aliens, well a small percentage. I think I wouldn't. Between back then in the 70s and today we've learned a lot about science, astronomy and cosmology - cool worlds. So... I think aliens would have to demonstrate some very advanced tech to entice people... but yea, a lot would go with them I think.
Mannygogou
2024-08-24 01:16:34 +0000 UTCNow you should watch The Twilight Zone episode, season 3, ep. 24, called To Serve Man.
2-Can
2024-08-24 00:54:06 +0000 UTCOriginally seen it as a kid at the Drivin. Wouldn't say it's a favorite. But glad you enjoyed it. Richard Dreyfuss is good in Good Bye Girl 70s movie and Stake Out with Emilio Estevez. I could just imagine the 911 Call for a Allien Abduction. 🙂
Tim C
2024-08-24 00:47:10 +0000 UTCInterestingly this was one of the only movies Spielberg directed where he also got a writing credit, just this, AI and The Fablemans (he did get a story credit for Sugarland Express, as well as for a couple other movies he didn't direct).
Stranger2Reality
2024-08-24 00:34:17 +0000 UTCYeah as soon as I saw the McDonald’s I was like “Oh no she chose the wrong one”. Man. Thats a shame. No Roy in the shower scene, no Cotopaxi ship, no extended ending(I don’t mean the Roy in the interior of the Mothership stuff). The directors cut is the best version of the movie in my opinion.
Stan the Man
2024-08-24 00:31:04 +0000 UTCSo just a heads up there are three versions of this movie. You watched the original version which doesn’t have some of the best most emotional scenes in the movie. Spielberg was forced to rush this version into theatres and it didn’t include many integral scenes. This includes a major emotional breakdown of the Roy and his family. There’s also more discoveries with the aliens.
Stan the Man
2024-08-24 00:23:09 +0000 UTCI second that statement
Dan M
2024-08-24 00:22:00 +0000 UTCJust imagine how different this movie would be without John Williams’ score.
Dan M
2024-08-24 00:20:26 +0000 UTCIts the original theatrical cut.
Dan M
2024-08-24 00:18:14 +0000 UTCI just finished a 7 hour drive to bring my daughter back to college. I’m exhausted and my butt is numb. Watching this tonight will be a perfect way to wind down before (hopefully) a good night’s sleep. You just never know with hotel beds.
Dan M
2024-08-24 00:17:38 +0000 UTCWhich cut did she watch?
Stan the Man
2024-08-24 00:09:59 +0000 UTCThey sent out signals which only some people could receive. These people felt a pull to go to be with the aliens. The government picked a group to go with the aliens, but they only wanted the ones they could communicate with. They hinted that they travel at light speed, thus the people they take haven't aged. Richard might be brought back many years later and still be the same age. Barry, the child, just happened to be one of the humans that the signal reached. They probably didn't even understand our concept of children vs adults. A lot of the UFO scenes were filmed in Mobile, Al. Near where I live. It was like Jaws, in that you don't see much of the main characters. The shark or the aliens.
William Brownlee
2024-08-24 00:02:49 +0000 UTCSpielberg has gone on record saying that if he were to make "Close Encounters" today, he'd have Roy choose his family over the aliens. This change of heart by Spielberg stems from his own experience of becoming a family man.
David Woodbridge
2024-08-23 23:57:03 +0000 UTCwe popcorn in theater now.
rubberkidney
2024-08-23 23:44:21 +0000 UTCForgot how fantastic the score was to this. John Williams always does sci-fi in a really great way. The Mecha World from AI is one of my favorite pieces ever.
Chris Thom
2024-08-23 23:42:42 +0000 UTCThe ratcheting up of the tension reminds me a lot of Jaws.
Chris Thom
2024-08-23 23:32:13 +0000 UTCPlease check out the X-Files. You don't have to commit to the entire series, just watch an episode and if you feel like watch another
Butt Head
2024-08-23 23:24:39 +0000 UTCNo, that was not Morgan Freeman
William Jackson
2024-08-23 23:19:13 +0000 UTCCool movie! Love that the connection is made through music.
clutchkman
2024-08-23 23:18:52 +0000 UTCGood movie. Good reaction. I'm sorry it caused you flash backs.
Rick Williams
2024-08-23 23:16:08 +0000 UTCA worthy successor to Jaws
Rosario Cicero
2024-08-23 23:15:24 +0000 UTC"This means something..." Absolutely love this movie, one of the best benevolent alien films ever, alongside ET, The Abyss and Contact.
Stranger2Reality
2024-08-23 23:14:53 +0000 UTCYeaaaaa!
Samuel Champ
2024-08-23 23:14:52 +0000 UTC
