A little while ago I came across a video interview of her, "Living With MS"(I believe). But when I saw the thumbnail, I couldn't bring myself to watch it.
The "headlights" rising up is one of the best reveals ever! I've been watching this movie for forty years and I love that shot just as much now as the first time I saw it.
@@hettbeans I was in the theater in 1977. The headlights rising after being waved ahead by a distracted Roy sent a wash of laughter and eager anticipation through the theater. I was sitting there thinking "This is the same director who made Jaws??? Wow......"
One day when Steven Spielberg was a kid, his parents suddenly rushed the children into the family car and drove to a place where a bunch of people had gathered to watch a meteor shower. The memory of people going somewhere to see something arriving from space stayed with him, and was one of the inspirations for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. At the age of 17 in 1965, Spielberg made a movie called Firelight on a budget of $500. The plot was very similar to Close Encounters. He got it booked into a local theater and charged $1 admission. 500 people came to see it, and the receipts totaled $501 - he thinks one person paid $2 to get in. Two of the reels of Firelight have been lost. Not counting Firelight and TV movies, Close Encounters was only the third feature-length movie that Steven Spielberg directed, after The Sugarland Express in 1974, and Jaws in 1975. He's had a little bit of success since then, too.
I loved your reaction when Devil's Tower pops up on the TV. When I first saw this in 1977 in the theaters we were all yelling the same way at Roy. This movie was the first to explore the idea of a giant mothership coming to Earth, and then imitated many times afterwards with films like Independence Day. When we were watching this in the theater on its original run it didn't even occur to us that we would see some of the sights that we saw in this film... This 15-year-old boy was gasping for breath during that scene. I still look upon it as one of the most profound cinema experiences I've ever had. You can try to recapture that later with video tape and DVDs and blu-rays but nothing ever equals that first experience.
For those of us who had never heard of or seen Devil's Tower, it was an amazing thing -- not just the reveal scene, but every time the real thing appears in the movie.
57:45 -- It wasn't a romantic kiss. It was an expression of platonic yet very emotional tenderness between the only two people in the world who, at that moment, could truly understand what the other was experiencing. I'm always moved by this sweet moment, as we're intended to be, and find it odd that so many people are alarmed by it.
The lady playing Richard Dreyfus' wife...you first see her and ask "Who is she?" at least you asked. She is the RECENTLY late iconic actress Teri Garr [December 11, 1944 - October 29, 2024] . In interviews on talk shows, etc, she was so quick and clever she could easily take down Johnny Carson, David Letterman, and others with one quick line ad libbed. She got that from her dad, a stand up comedian. She was often funny as hell in comedies, but had great dramatic skills. My generation is going to miss her. she had started out as a gogo dancer on teen music shows in the early to mid 1960's. did commerials and but parts on TV shows, worked her way up to major films. She was the third child of a comedic-actor father and a studio costumier mother. In her youth, Garr trained in ballet and other forms of dance. She began her career as a teenager with small roles in television and film in the early 1960s, including appearances as a dancer in nine Elvis Presley musicals.[4] After spending two years attending college, Garr left Los Angeles and studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City. She had her breakthrough appearing in the episode Assignment: Earth of Star Trek in 1968. She was nominated for an a Oscarfor Best Supporting Actress in the movie Tootsie. My generation is going to miss her.
Feels like a lot more people will be watching this movie over the next few years..... Concerning Roy going on the Mothership at the end: he was selected for something, something obviously very important, and he answered the call. In a sense it's a heroic sacrifice on his part, but it's obviously one that he was so driven by that he would not be deterred. Out of all the humans that the aliens imprinted with the psychic impulse, he was the only that made it, and he was the only one brought onto the ship.
A pilot friend of mine told me that if a pilot reports a UFO they ground them for suspicion of a mental disorder but it was also a way of suppressing the reports of the actual phenomenon. Close Encounters of the Third Kind is possibly my favorite Spielberg movie.
Exactly, people are coming from this current world where any whacky stupid thing can be said or did and it doesnt mean anything, Back then you would be thought of as a total freak or mental for suggesting such things. How is it i can watch things from the 30's, 50's and etc and acknowledge things were different then but people watching 70's and 80's things and expect things to be looked at the same way things are now.
Claude Lacombe, the Frenchman, was played by the legendary director-writer-actor Francois Truffaut, one of the prominent directors of The French New Wave. He mainly worked in his native France, making only two English-language films. Close Encounters (as an actor) and directing Fahrenheit 451 (1966), based on the Ray Bradbury novel. His French films include The 400 Blows, Jules et Jim, Stolen Kisses, Day For Night, and Breathless. Truffaut was a hero of Spielberg's, and Spielberg was intimidated about asking him to be in the movie. Truffaut had thought Spielberg was an excellent filmmaker and signed on, assuring Spielberg that he was there as an actor. The actor you thought had a "Richard Dreyfuss" vibe was Bob Balaban, who has been in many things on the big and small screen. If you decide to see 2010: The Year We Make Contact, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Balaban plays Dr. Chandra...the man who programmed HAL 9000. And, yes...he played Frank Buffay on Friends. Jillian is played by Melinda Dillon, the mother from the Christmas classic, A Christmas Story. She's been in many other films. One of my favorites is The Prince of Tides, which stars Nick Nolte and Barbra Streisand (who also directed it). Dillon plays Nolte's sister in the film. Other films to see are Harry and the Hendersons, Slap Shot, and Magnolia. RIP, Teri Garr (Ronnie Neary). Oscar-nominee for Best Supporting Actress (for Tootsie, 1982). She was also in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein with Gene Wilder and Mr. Mom with Michael Keaton, all of which are excellent comedies. Producer Julia Phillips was the first female producer in history to win the Academy Award for Best Picture (The Sting, 1973). She was nominated a second time for Close Encounters. One of Richard Dreyfuss's kids in the film, Toby Neary (yelled at for banging the doll), was Richard Dreyfuss's real-life nephew, Justin Dreyfuss. The special effects were done by Douglas Trumbull, who did the effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the scene in India, the crowd sings, "Aaye Re! Aaye!" This is Hindi and translates as "He has come!" The Gentlemen's Agreement: Spielberg and George Lucas have been dear friends for a long time. When Star Wars Episode IV, A New Hope, and Close Encounters were finished, Lucas was positive that Spielberg had made the better film and thought it would be the bigger hit. Spielberg disagreed. Lucas proposed a "gentleman's agreement" to soothe ruffled feathers once both films were released. They would receive 2.5% of the profits from each other's movies. Spielberg made 2.5% of the earnings from Star Wars, and Lucas made 2.5% of the earnings from Close Encounters, and they both still receive money from the films.
Francois Truffaut had a couple lines in English. One was “They belong here more than we.” The crew thought it still sounded French so they had t-shirts made that said “Ze belong here morezanoui”
@FeaturingRob Tout est dit. C'est parfait. Je m'apprêtais à écrire cette tartine d'infos mais vous êtes parfait. J'avais 11 ou 12 ans quand j'ai vu le film à la télévision pour la première fois. C'était magique. Je n'avais rien vu de pareil de ma vie. "Rencontres du troisième type" est parmi un petit nombre l'un des films majeurs qui a décidé de ma carrière dans le son et le cinéma. Merci Rob d'avoir pris le temps de délivrer le genre d'éléments type des passionnés et des professionnels du métier. Et évidemment, avec notre François Truffaut national, ce n'en était que plus gratifiant. Petit, je ne savais pas qui il était bien sûr, mais son œuvre est venu progressivement à ma connaissance, et à 25 ans, il faisait partie de mon panthéon des réalisateurs, forcément. Et enfin, la gamme pentatonique est sans doute le truc iconique du film qui représente le plus ce qui a m'a le plus accompagné dans ma vie de musicien, d'ingénieur du son et de chef opérateur au cinéma.
Absolutely agree. I was an ambulance dispatcher for 8 years and all of the drama took place over the radio or telephone. It was what we couldn't see but our imagination filled in that was so powerful....AND they saved a huge amount of money not filming the pilots point of view...all RT. Love the ATC controller...he's 💯 pro.
Interesting fact. Towards the end of the movie, you see an older looking gentleman wearing a blue sports coat and a tie. He has eyeglasses on, a beard, and a pipe between his teeth. This was Dr. J. Allen Hynek making a cameo appearance. He is the person who came up with the "close encounter" classification system that the movie's title is based on (third kind being actual contact with aliens on the original scale). Dr. Hynek also served as a technical consultant to the film and was a fairly famous (or infamous depending on who you ask) astronomer and professor. Great reaction, Coby!!! 🙂
I always point him out to others. I was fortunate enough to attend one of Hynek's lectures about UFOs and project Blue Book many years ago, before the film's release. So he looked exactly as he does in the film. Who knew what was to come.
Dr Hynek was the responsible for the Blue Book Project, being the objective of it was, according to the ufologists, to discredit the UFO phenomenon. But, at the end, the evidence in favour of the existence of the UFOs was so strong, that he turned into a strong advocate of it.
Holy cow! I love “A Christmas Story” and I love “Close Encounters” but I never put it together that Ralphy’s Mom and Barry’s Mom were one and the same actress. Only now do I see it! 🤯 Thanks for the 411!
Really looking forward to this. You can never tell how Coby's going to react to any given part of any film. Will she react with a child's wonder, seeing through Barry's eyes? Will she examine the scene as a filmmaker, examining the framing, sound design or lighting? Or will she just be awestruck, like any other audience member, by the collection of sights, sounds, and emotions a brilliant director brings?
True. Spielbergs generation of American filmmakers, were very keen on European and Japanese filmmakers. They became very focused on making non-studio films in the studio system, inspired by the 'New Wave' in France of which Truffaut was considered the spearhead.
The "Dreyfus" lookalike was Bob Balaban (Frank Buffay on Friends). He was in 2010, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey... Roy's wife was Teri Garr (Phoebe's mom) who recently passed away. Some of her earliest appearances were an episode of Star Trek "Assignment: Earth" and the Monkees movie "Head"
They kind of made it a point that Roy's family was gone. Put yourself in Roy's shoes. He saw something amazing that he couldn't explain. And when he tried to tell his wife about it, she didn't believe him and got mad at him. Sure, he was acting strange. But, again, her reaction wasn't concern or loving, it was anger. How do you think she would react to him telling her everything he saw at the end? He kind of had no choice but to go.
Roy, and his family through him, were victims of targeted psychological psychic manipulation from a powerful group of conspirators! Was he even in a proper state of mind to make informed consent to be ushered up and away?? They are due some sort of recompense. 😂
Years ago I used to make models. My son gave me a "Close Encounters" model for my birthday. Inside the box (he had made) was a packet of instant mashed potato...
Nice reaction!, When I was in junior high, Ray Bradbury came to speak at my school in a big assembly. He said that he called up and congratulated Stephen Spielberg for making a beautiful movie about contacting aliens. This made me appreciate the movie more. This movie came out when I was a little kid. I always loved it and the soundtrack.
Omg. Ray Bradbury came to my high school in 1993 to talk to my graduating class…. He told me one of his favorite twilight zone episodes was “I sing the body electric “ ….years later I realized he wrote that episode… he was one of the greats!
@@shirleyduffer2081 Is that what that rush song is about? What was that twilight zone about? I always loved the martian chronicles and thought it was very twilight zone-ish.
@@MrNihilist74 the episode is about a widowed dad of three kids who takes his kids to a factory to make a robot “grandma” to look after them after the aunt walked out because she said the kids were too hard to handle. The “ grandma “ looks like their mother and the two youngest kids love her but the oldest doesn’t. The grandma saves the oldest from getting hit by a van. Grandma is a robot so she’s indestructible . Oldest daughter grows to love her. I sing the body electric is a Walt Whitman poem talking about the various parts of the human body. I think Rush’s song may be an homage to Bradbury.
In real life, the ship in the Gobi desert -- the Cotopaxi -- disappeared in December 1925 on a trip from South Carolina to Havana, Cuba. In 2020, the Cotopaxi was finally positively identified as a ship wreck found 40 miles off of the Florida coast back in the 1980's.
It's thought it was interesting that you recognized that Bob Balaban was Pheobe's dad, but not that Terri Garr was Pheobe's mom, but you saved yourself at the very end.
@@alexp601 She was in only three episodes of Friends. Although her adoptive mother died when she was a kid, Phoebe found out at the end of season 3 that her parents' friend Phoebe Abbott, played by Terri Garr, was her biological mother. She was really perfect casting to play Lisa Kudrow's mom.
J Allen Hynek was a lead scientist for project bluebook. He was a consultant for Speilberg for this movie. Many aspects of the sightings and encounters in this film were taken directly from cases from project bluebook
Douglas Trumbull and his magicians deserve a nod for their work on visual effects..."shown in 70mm Dolby Stereo" was a draw for many venues in the late 70s/early 80s...*trivia alert: at 01:03:07 is a cameo of UFOlogist Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who developed the classifications of ufo level of contact
My favorite movie when I was a kid, I remember driving up from Moorcroft, coming up over the rise in the road and seeing the tower for the first time. Had to pull off and just sit on the hood of the rental, staring at it. Then I spent the rest of that day hiking all over the rocks at the base. All because of this movie.
Nice! Proud to say I'm old enough to have seen this in theaters on release. Pops took me, I was 9. Might be the only movie I have vivid memories of from start to finish. The final 20 minutes I don't think I blinked once or moved an inch. Great memories. Fun reaction!
This is one of the masterpieces that grabs you from beginning to end. your investment into the characters lives is exactly what all movies hope to instill in the audience. you yelling at him to look up at the screen is a perfect example of that. PS. i'm glad a reactor noticed the jaws-esque music at the end of the "song" between the ship and the people. Big thumbsup from me.
A funny story told by Steven Spielberg: George Lucas visited the set of the airstrip in front of Devil’s Tower where the finale was filmed. Lucas was completely depressed because he had just finished filming Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and felt that he just wasted his time and energy making this kids movie. He looked at the set designed by Joe Alves and told Steven that he believed that Close Encounters was going to be a much bigger hit than Star Wars. He decided that he wanted to trade points with Steven. Lucas would give Steven 2.5% of Star Wars if Steven would give George 2.5% of Close Encounters. It was a big gamble. And Steven won the bet. To this day, Steven is still receiving money from Star Wars. That’s not to say Close Encounters wasn’t successful. Absolutely not. Star Wars was this big pop culture phenomenon and Close Encounters came in second place at the Box Office and it saved Columbia Pictures from bankruptcy.
Episode IV A new what? I didn't pay to go and see that in 1977. It was called "Star Wars", and yes, it was a kids film. Close encounters ottk seemed to be a more intelligent film to my teenage mind. But then just a couple of years later, Alien ... After that films were never the same again.
@@imthewolf1It wasn't that sequels weren't planned. George Lucas actually fought to retain the rights to make the sequels himself rather than allow the studio to do whatever they wanted. The episode numbers came into play once he realized he might someday want to do prequels. Thus the reason for adding Chapter 4 A New Hope to the title.
@PhysicalMediaPreventsWea-bx1zm no sequels were planned until after the original became such a big hit, it was unexpected. At that time space movies were not a big thing.
You’ll have to watch American Graffiti from 1973, it has a really young Richard Dreyfus and Harrison Ford. I love that movie. The soundtrack is the best. 🍿
Spielberg originally sought NASA's input for the film however they refused to get involved. Prior to release, the director of NASA sent Spielberg a letter condemning the film, saying that it was really dangerous for the public. Also, Dr. J. Allen Hynek makes an appearance in this film, he was a scientific advisor to Project Bluebook which was the US Air Force study of UFOs in the 1960s. The government ultimately denied the existence of UFOs to the public, however Hynek walked-back that claim. Notice also the appearance of the gimble-shaped UFOs in this film, US Navy pilots would capture similar objects on their gun cameras off the coasts of California and Florida in the 2000s, videos which have been all over the recent news of today.
I was seven when I saw this in the theater with my parents. My biggest memory is my dad laughing with tears when Roy started pulling up the bushes, taking the neighbors chicken wire, and throwing it all into the house. Great times.
The rumor back then was that the US had an exchange in the early 70's. @1:03:07 you inadvertently capture a cameo of Dr Allen Hynek who worked on the Air Forces Project Blue Book who was an advisor for Spielberg. The French official represents Jaques Valleé, who worked along side Dr Hynek and who to this day is one of the most renowned specialists in the field of Ufology.
Those planes at the start are a Flight of TBM Avengers that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle on December 05, 1945. They haven't been seen since, hence why they think Alien Abduction.
Except they didn't disappear in the Bermuda Triangle. Every time something happens to a plane or a ship within 2,000 miles of the Bermuda Triangle, people say it happened in the Bermuda Triangle. It didn't.
Yes, the famous Flight 19, consisting of five U.S. Navy single-engine Avenger torpedo bombers, manned by a total crew of 14. The squadron took off from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale on what, ironically, was a navigation exercise. The planes and their crews were never seen again. In popular culture, the "mystey" of the disappearance of Flight 19 contributed to the legend of the so-called Bermuda Triangle. Spielberg borrows the true-life unsolved disappearance and cleverly makes it into a case of alien abduction, thereby helping to establish a mysterious and otherworldly atmosphere that grips the viewer throughout the rest of the film. In reality, it is believed that the squadron's lead pilot or navigator lost his bearings and, at some point, turned in a wrong direction; the other four planes followed the leader's course. It is probable that they believed they were heading back to Florida, when in fact they were heading farther out over the ocean, where they all ran out of fuel and crashed into the sea.
@TheCastlepoet The "mystery" is compounded by the fact that not just flight 19 was lost. Also lost were all 13 crew members of the Martin PBM Mariner that was sent to look for them. It's extremely improbable that they also "lost their bearings." Six aircraft and twenty seven men simply disappeared. They remain missing to this day.
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OMG, Richard Dreyfuss is such a good actor, and was so good in this! 45:48 The funniest line of the movie 😂 The planes at the beginning were from flight 19, five US Naval planes that disappeared off the coast of Florida in December 1945. No trace of the planes or crew have ever been found. The ship in the Gobi desert was the SS Cotopaxi, which disappeared during a storm on a trip from Charleston SC to Havana in December 1925. The wreckage was found in the 80s, but not identified as the Cotopaxi until 2020.
If you listen closely, when the hazmat geared soldier is grabbing the cage with the birds inside, you can hear a spraying sound, as he uses the EZ-4 on them.
Hi Coby. Happy to see you branching out to your own gig and channel. It has always been a pleasure rewatching films with you. Best of luck and look forward to more content and momentum.
This was fantastic watching a review-watch-along with someone that saw this movie for the first time. This is one of my all time favorites, since seeing it in theaters as a kid back in the70’s. Your reactions throughout were priceless, snd well in tune with the movie plot. The Barry kid angle was spot on. Loved your logic reasoning for why would those aliens be flying along roads…and toll booths 😅. I shed a tear with you near the end upon Barry’s return. Well done there, Koby. -new sub here.
Two famous people in this that no one ever catches because their screen time is so short and really just a face shot are Carl Weathers and Lance Henrickson. Apollo creed and Bishop.
And Lance Henrickson was also the one who "took care of" Sal in Dog Day Afternoon, along with being the lead in the X-Files-adjacent TV series Millennium...
Yeah not really. If you're a genre fan you know about Henriksen. And have for decades. And the first Terminator and Dog Day Afternoon and The Right Stuff and all that. Weathers notsomuch.
@ I never said they were necessarily famous at the time. And I only mentioned Terminator and Aliens because that’s where most people would recognize him from. Geeze.
The first time I saw this film, I was immersed from the start. But when they entered the arena I was totally engrossed. So much so that you could have knocked the house down around me and I wouldn't have noticed. I've loved Terri Garr since that day and was so sad when she passed. Watching Coby see this for the first time brought back so many memories. Thanks, lovely lady.
The "other Richard Dreyfuss" guy also played "Russell from NBC" on the TV show Seinfeld. You said something like you "remembered seeing him on a TV show on a date with someone", and in one episode of Seinfeld his character actually did go out on a date with Elaine.
Same. And my mom came back with the album "Music FROM Close Encounters of the Third Kind" by The Electric Moog Orchestra. I didn't realize what was happening until I played it and realized something was terribly, terribly off.
Great reaction. What you have to keep in mind, is that when Spielberg made this film, the UFO phenomenon was a real thing in the cultural zeitgeist, but it was mostly silenced and scoffed upon in official circles (airlines, air force, government). Any person in official capacity that talked publicly about their experiences with a UFO, could risk their position and reputation. It's only recently that serving US air force pilots went on the record by name and talked about what they have experienced after the material was declassified. The stigma has lifted a bit.
There are so many movie gems you have yet to see that will blow you away (if you have an open mind) just like Close Encounters. Starman, The Deer Hunter, Seven Years In Tibet, We Were Soldiers and K-Pax to name a few. I really enjoyed this reaction. For such an old movie it's great to see it still moves new viewers.
Did you know that Steven Spielberg has a profit percentage from Star Wars, and that George Lucas has a percentage of Close Encounters of the Third Kind? During the summer of 1977 both of these life long friends decided to go to Hawaii together after the release of their respective movies. Neither one of them had confidence in their project so they had a gentleman's wager between the two of them, and gave one another a profit percentage in the other's film. It turns out, Steven Spielberg WON that particular arrangement. Close Encounters is a great film, but Star Wars is still generating profits. Nicely done Steven! BTW, during this vacation the two of them discussed a new film to do together that featured a swashbuckling hero who traveled the world looking for antiques and religious artifacts. 🙂😀😃😁😆😍🤩 🤠!!!! Thanks for the reaction Coby!
Yes, there are a few Jaws like chords, but also there is When You Wish Upon A Star, which John Williams included for obvious reasons. That and it was a surprise for Spielberg who adores the Pinnochio / Disney theme.
There's a director's cut where they show the inside of the mother ship at the end. Unsatisfying. Just filler. Did not add to the story or anything. I'm glad you didn't include it.
if you're a seinfeld fan you're probably remembering richard drifus #2 guy from a few seinfeld episodes he was on. in the seinfeld episodes he was the head nbc guy who wanted to make jerry's pilot and then he became obsessed with elaine in later seasons where he was on a date with her and that might be where you remembering on a date at a restaurant. in the same elaine obsessed episode he was the one who joined greenpeace for her and at the very end of the episode he falls out of a small boat in the ocean wearing that bright orange jumpsuit lol
Thanks for reacting to one of my all time fave movies, Coby. Your reaction really brought back some of my own feelings from my first viewing. I first saw Close Encounters on its release in 1977 and it made a huge impression on me, perhaps even more than Star Wars.
The tension building throughout this film is just perfection. My theory is there are multiple alien species in the mothership. The variable designs of all the smaller ships, the almost mishmash of shapes of the mothership make it seem like a multi-species collaboration. And all the spikey bits on it make it seem like scientific information gathering systems... on a ship of exploration. And that music swell at the end always makes me emotional. And I guess in a way I kind of understand why Richard Dreyfuss' character went. There is an inexplicable pull to the sky whenever I go out to look at the stars. If seemingly peaceful aliens came to me, I'd go. The possible chance to travel the universe, and see wonders we've never seen here on Earth. I'd go.
Silly question... Is the slender alien in the original cut of the movie?? I saw this movie a couple of times when I was a child and I didn't recall that alien at all! It's too creepy to note remember it, tbh... Maybe I used to look away every time it was on screen, thus the lack of memories about it? 😅
I always thought that the "skinny alien" were the aliens in their "true" form. But to appeal to the humans and not appear as frightening, they took on the form or identity of the more "adorable" shape of a little child (basically shapeshifters), hence why the camera shot went back and forth between Barry and the aliens more than once. The aliens loved little Barry so much they took on his basic form of a child.
@@SpectreNUT That's an interesting take indeed. I always thought that the little aliens resembled Barry (probably on purpose,) including his face in a generic kind of way.
Coby, I remember seeing this when it first came out in the movie theater. Seeing the mother ship coming in with it's size and all the lights, the music gave me chills and was absolutely breathtaking. Adding to being awestruck with all the visuals, I also seen a UFO in the early 70's in NYC as I was absolutely fascinated with stars, nebulas, constellations and what lies out there. I really liked how emotional you got when Barry came back, it was quite sweet and tender to watch. Merry Christmas to you and your family!🎅🎄
You'll probably get this from a lot of people, so I won't get carried away with it, but "Frenchie" is played by Francois Truffaut. You seem knowledgeable with these things, so I would've expected you to know that name, but if you don't, he had originally been a well known film critic in France, who then became a filmmaker himself, that is considered to be one of the founders of the French New Wave film movement in the 50s and 60s. He also wrote a book of a multi day intensive interview that he did with the reclusive Alfred Hitchcock, called "Hitchcock/Truffaut", that's considered one of the bibles in the world of cinegeeks, but that I doubt very many, including myself, have ever actually read the whole thing of. Very iconic guy! Spielberg, who's own generation was inspired by French New Wave, asked Truffaut to be in this movie as like a tribute. Supposedly, not used to all the down time on set as an actor, he wrote his next movie "The Man Who Loved Women", while sitting around on set.
Among other things, he directed the wonderful "Fahrenheit 451" (1966), which for some reason no one has reacted to. It's a beautiful romantic adaptation of Ray Bradbury's book. Something to consider . . . ?
That was fun watching this with you Coby.You know I never thought about these vessels sticking to the road way before.You're so alert.........and beautiful.
"Look at the tv, look at the tv". Just a great expression of what we were all thinking. Really liked this reaction. Also nice to see you got your own channel.
The reason I enjoyed this film so much and a lot of early Spielberg is embodied exactly in what you did at the end. Your imagination is now completing a story that’s your own personal version of what happened next. Did Roy come back? A few days, a few weeks, a few years later. Was it explained to Roy’s family where he had gone? Did Gillian send the photos she took to a newspaper? And so on. I think Spielberg toyed with the idea of making a sequel. I’m so glad he didn’t.
A lot of younger people can't handle this film because it's a slow burn. But from what I've seen, she's pretty good at handling those. Definitely one of my all-time favorites.
She looks like 30 and there is your mistake i guess. She is from 1984, if your 70 she is a young one but i am 51 and for me 40 is neither young nor old.
I dunno, i've seen quite a few reactions to this, most by "younger people" and they all thought it was great. Plenty even explicitly say things like "It's great when movies let scenes breathe instead of jumping around too quickly". (but anyway, as others point out, Coby is a well preserved 40 - I guess that feels "younger" to me partly because she's technically a millennial but it's not _young_ young because she grew up with e.g. relatively few TV channels, no streaming, no smartphones etc. She is, as I say of my very much Gen-X self, "from the 1900s" :)
Spielberg has since admitted he regretted that he inexplicably has Roy leave his family, an attitude that's evidenced in his next alien movie E.T. where the kids' mom had her husband leave her, & the story is instead about them.
Bob Balaban (cartographer) has a similarly sized role in one of my favorite sci-fi cult classic movies from the era, Altered States (1980), William Hurt's first movie. Would recommend.
Another of my favorite movies! Batting 1.000 with sunshine. Your reaction was exactly the same as mine when I first saw this when I was little. "LOOK AT THE TV! LOOK AT THE TV!" Lol.
The bearded American scientist with the Frenchman is the actor Bob Balaban, and you said you thought you'd seen him in a sitcom - and we have! He played Phoebe Buffay's dad, Frank, in Friends. And you probably remember that Teri Garr played her mom! Amazing coincidence - or is it?!
The best thing about this movie is, it shows you what America looks like in 1977, This is more than a movie, it is history, cars, TV commercials, technology, fashion, everything. P.S. My parents took me to this movie in 1977, the showing was 1:00 AM. The mailbox scene and Barry mom fighting off ET, Barry going with ET scene scared me. I still love this movie 2024.
I was five or six and was made to go to bed right after that scene because it was nighttime. "We'll tape it, so you can watch the rest in the morning." The scene continued to play out in my dreams the whole night, and I'll never forget it.
Another Spielberg/Dreyfuss film to see is "Always" from 1989. It's about pilots who fly fire-fighting aircraft. Good cast, typically great storytelling.
E.T. is a remake of this film, and I'm not talking about aliens. I'm talking about the breakup of families. This film is told from the parent's point of view whereas E.T. is told from the child's point of view. Both films would make an excellent double feature.
I just discovered you this week and have been watching a different video every night. As an introvert, nothing beats a six-pack, and this reaction on a Friday night with some door dash.
You're "Friends" discovery is spot on C! Spielberg has repeatedly said in interviews that the shot of Barry opening the front door of his house revealing the orange light of the incoming UFOs is his favorite shot out of all his films. He also said that the child actor that played Barry was easy to direct and most of his shots were done on the first take. For the scene at the beginning where Barry walks into the kitchen and sees the open fridge, both Barry's parents and Spielberg stood off camera to his left while a man dressed as a clown walked out from behind the camera to Barry's right and that's how they got that great shot of Barry reacting to the aliens being discovered and then fleeing the house.
I saw this movie on first cinema release, and my entire life I've thought Cary Guffey's performance is the greatest I've ever seen from a kid his age - from a kid who was too young to know what "acting" was (just all fun and play!) He's got a completely believable naturalness about him, it just sells every scene he's in. Spielberg was so lucky to find him.
1. $2,500 globe in 1977. Imagine how much that sucker would be today. $12,000? 2. That ATC has some serious pipes. 3. Is it just me, or does that kid have too many toys? 4. Love it. One of the top 10 movies to watch before you die. 5. I worked at a movie theater when this came out. Incredible 6. If it didn't change the outcome and since his marriage was over Roy and Jillian should have hooked up.😈😈 7. The odds of Roy finding Jillian in that chaos are as high as any of this happening. 8. "We're gonna need a bigger mountain".😲 9. Spidey, "Sup-bitches". 10. RIP Teri Garr😇
A couple of fun facts about little Barry: 1) Toward the beginning, when he's in the kitchen, and looks scared, then starts smiling, there were 2 guys that he knew from the production crew in there. One was wearing a gorilla suit, and the other was wearing a clown costume with a rubber mask. That's what scared him. Then, they took off their masks, and he recognized his friends, and started smiling. 2) When he was looking out the window at the approaching spaceships, and said "toys", Steven Spielberg was outside, on a ladder with a box. And, he pulled out... TOYS! 3) When he was being pulled through the doggie door, the person pulling from the other side was his real mother. Supposedly, when the trading cards came out, his mother's arm could be seen in the picture.
Bob Balaban is the Dreyfuss lookalike. The first time I saw this in the theater, I had the same confusion. "Is that Richard Dreyfuss?" Bob Balaban is an excellent character actor - he was Dr. Chandra in 2010. And yes, Melinda Dillon, Barry's mom, is sleeping in cutoffs and a shirt. It was the way in the 1970's, a better time. The reveal of Devil's Tower on the the TV while we are looking at the scale model in Roy's living room is classic! Everyone in the theater was yelling at him!
Hah, you trying to tell Richard Dreyfuss to look at the screen was hilarious :). It's what we're all feeling of course, who knew you could get so much tension out of whether a guy looks at a TV ? (well, Steven Spielberg I guess :)
It wasn't a wildly inappropriate kiss. Two people were broken by a extraordinary event, and then bonded through it. It's a beautiful part of the movie. His wife refused to stay with him and took the children. Does someone that loves you do that?
Someone that loves you might well do that if you're acting unhinged _and_ they've already tried to "help" you. And they might _especially_ want your kids out of there. (yes, yes, now we'd all be super understanding and sit around kumbaya-ing while our husband went "crazy" in a not _entirely_ unaggressive manner. But in the 70s we were less "evolved" :)
The show "History's Greatest Mysteries" on the History channel showed aired a telling of the story of flight 19 and how it disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle December 5, 1945.
@@myfreakyvalentine Maybe over optimistically, I wonder if it's because it's been so thoroughly debunked that it's just no longer considered "a thing" ? But yep, watching "significant" stuff fall out of the culture is one of the fascinating/unsettling things about putting miles on the clock. For me it's _much_ worse when I watch e.g. WWII movie/TV reactions and most people under 40 seem to have only the haziest grasp of even a _world war_ that's still - albeit just - in living memory. It's no wonder "we" keep repeating the same mistakes right ?
RIP, Teri Garr, 1944-2024.
Sank you, Doctor.
My first movie star crush; Young Frankenstein.
A little while ago I came across a video interview of her, "Living With MS"(I believe). But when I saw the thumbnail, I couldn't bring myself to watch it.
Teri was a hottie! Ain’t no way a guy like dreyfus could score that.. but it’s the movies / make believe 🤣
Yeah, Coby… Teri Garr can wear whatever she wants to sleep in.
The "headlights" rising up is one of the best reveals ever! I've been watching this movie for forty years and I love that shot just as much now as the first time I saw it.
You've been watching this movie for forty years and still haven't finished it yet? Wow! 😂😉
@@sdv73168 Keep having to pause it because of the kids. 😆
Also one of my favorite scenes in the movie. I would love to have been privy to the reactions of moviegoers seeing those lights slowly move up.
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@@hettbeans I was in the theater in 1977. The headlights rising after being waved ahead by a distracted Roy sent a wash of laughter and eager anticipation through the theater. I was sitting there thinking "This is the same director who made Jaws??? Wow......"
One day when Steven Spielberg was a kid, his parents suddenly rushed the children into the family car and drove to a place where a bunch of people had gathered to watch a meteor shower. The memory of people going somewhere to see something arriving from space stayed with him, and was one of the inspirations for Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
At the age of 17 in 1965, Spielberg made a movie called Firelight on a budget of $500. The plot was very similar to Close Encounters. He got it booked into a local theater and charged $1 admission. 500 people came to see it, and the receipts totaled $501 - he thinks one person paid $2 to get in. Two of the reels of Firelight have been lost.
Not counting Firelight and TV movies, Close Encounters was only the third feature-length movie that Steven Spielberg directed, after The Sugarland Express in 1974, and Jaws in 1975. He's had a little bit of success since then, too.
40:27 When the TV news report showed the mountain and you started yelling like a monkey, was the best part! 🤣🤣
Coby watched that one fairly recently.
absolutelly priceless
I loved your reaction when Devil's Tower pops up on the TV. When I first saw this in 1977 in the theaters we were all yelling the same way at Roy. This movie was the first to explore the idea of a giant mothership coming to Earth, and then imitated many times afterwards with films like Independence Day. When we were watching this in the theater on its original run it didn't even occur to us that we would see some of the sights that we saw in this film... This 15-year-old boy was gasping for breath during that scene. I still look upon it as one of the most profound cinema experiences I've ever had. You can try to recapture that later with video tape and DVDs and blu-rays but nothing ever equals that first experience.
Ditto!
Beautifully expressed David! This film and Alien changed my consciousness as a teen. I wish I knew a better way of expressing my feelings about it.
Classic Spielberg.
Exactly!
For those of us who had never heard of or seen Devil's Tower, it was an amazing thing -- not just the reveal scene, but every time the real thing appears in the movie.
57:45 -- It wasn't a romantic kiss. It was an expression of platonic yet very emotional tenderness between the only two people in the world who, at that moment, could truly understand what the other was experiencing. I'm always moved by this sweet moment, as we're intended to be, and find it odd that so many people are alarmed by it.
YAAAAaaaahhh right, people are just dogs 😁 either that or there had to be a kiss in the movie somewhere for truly gratuitous purposes
Yes, exactly.. Its important moment and perceptive creative decisions from Spielberg.
Always makes me smile, amidst the aliens, government conspiracy and mind control, so often the response is "What about his wife?!"
Showing affection without consent is alien these days. It's sad that we've come to that and that people question affection being shown in such a way.
It’s not that deep. I don’t get why a big deal is made of the kiss? Like, why is it even notable?
The lady playing Richard Dreyfus' wife...you first see her and ask "Who is she?" at least you asked. She is the RECENTLY late iconic actress Teri Garr [December 11, 1944 - October 29, 2024] . In interviews on talk shows, etc, she was so quick and clever she could easily take down Johnny Carson, David Letterman, and others with one quick line ad libbed. She got that from her dad, a stand up comedian. She was often funny as hell in comedies, but had great dramatic skills. My generation is going to miss her. she had started out as a gogo dancer on teen music shows in the early to mid 1960's. did commerials and but parts on TV shows, worked her way up to major films. She was the third child of a comedic-actor father and a studio costumier mother. In her youth, Garr trained in ballet and other forms of dance. She began her career as a teenager with small roles in television and film in the early 1960s, including appearances as a dancer in nine Elvis Presley musicals.[4] After spending two years attending college, Garr left Los Angeles and studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City. She had her breakthrough appearing in the episode Assignment: Earth of Star Trek in 1968. She was nominated for an a Oscarfor Best Supporting Actress in the movie Tootsie. My generation is going to miss her.
Feels like a lot more people will be watching this movie over the next few years.....
Concerning Roy going on the Mothership at the end: he was selected for something, something obviously very important, and he answered the call. In a sense it's a heroic sacrifice on his part, but it's obviously one that he was so driven by that he would not be deterred. Out of all the humans that the aliens imprinted with the psychic impulse, he was the only that made it, and he was the only one brought onto the ship.
Commercial pilots reporting UFOs in the 70s and 80s would loose their jobs and tagged with personality disorder
A pilot friend of mine told me that if a pilot reports a UFO they ground them for suspicion of a mental disorder but it was also a way of suppressing the reports of the actual phenomenon. Close Encounters of the Third Kind is possibly my favorite Spielberg movie.
They might even lose their jobs too.
They wouldn't, but the movie definitely plays on the idea that they were afraid to report what they saw.
@@darren6202 After they already loosed them? 😜
Exactly, people are coming from this current world where any whacky stupid thing can be said or did and it doesnt mean anything, Back then you would be thought of as a total freak or mental for suggesting such things. How is it i can watch things from the 30's, 50's and etc and acknowledge things were different then but people watching 70's and 80's things and expect things to be looked at the same way things are now.
Claude Lacombe, the Frenchman, was played by the legendary director-writer-actor Francois Truffaut, one of the prominent directors of The French New Wave. He mainly worked in his native France, making only two English-language films. Close Encounters (as an actor) and directing Fahrenheit 451 (1966), based on the Ray Bradbury novel. His French films include The 400 Blows, Jules et Jim, Stolen Kisses, Day For Night, and Breathless. Truffaut was a hero of Spielberg's, and Spielberg was intimidated about asking him to be in the movie. Truffaut had thought Spielberg was an excellent filmmaker and signed on, assuring Spielberg that he was there as an actor.
The actor you thought had a "Richard Dreyfuss" vibe was Bob Balaban, who has been in many things on the big and small screen. If you decide to see 2010: The Year We Make Contact, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Balaban plays Dr. Chandra...the man who programmed HAL 9000. And, yes...he played Frank Buffay on Friends.
Jillian is played by Melinda Dillon, the mother from the Christmas classic, A Christmas Story. She's been in many other films. One of my favorites is The Prince of Tides, which stars Nick Nolte and Barbra Streisand (who also directed it). Dillon plays Nolte's sister in the film. Other films to see are Harry and the Hendersons, Slap Shot, and Magnolia.
RIP, Teri Garr (Ronnie Neary). Oscar-nominee for Best Supporting Actress (for Tootsie, 1982). She was also in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein with Gene Wilder and Mr. Mom with Michael Keaton, all of which are excellent comedies.
Producer Julia Phillips was the first female producer in history to win the Academy Award for Best Picture (The Sting, 1973). She was nominated a second time for Close Encounters.
One of Richard Dreyfuss's kids in the film, Toby Neary (yelled at for banging the doll), was Richard Dreyfuss's real-life nephew, Justin Dreyfuss.
The special effects were done by Douglas Trumbull, who did the effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey.
In the scene in India, the crowd sings, "Aaye Re! Aaye!" This is Hindi and translates as "He has come!"
The Gentlemen's Agreement: Spielberg and George Lucas have been dear friends for a long time. When Star Wars Episode IV, A New Hope, and Close Encounters were finished, Lucas was positive that Spielberg had made the better film and thought it would be the bigger hit. Spielberg disagreed. Lucas proposed a "gentleman's agreement" to soothe ruffled feathers once both films were released. They would receive 2.5% of the profits from each other's movies. Spielberg made 2.5% of the earnings from Star Wars, and Lucas made 2.5% of the earnings from Close Encounters, and they both still receive money from the films.
R.I.P. Melinda Dillon (October 13, 1939 - January 9, 2023) too.
I recognized Bob Balaban from "Altered States". I didn't remember he was in this movie.
Francois Truffaut had a couple lines in English. One was “They belong here more than we.” The crew thought it still sounded French so they had t-shirts made that said “Ze belong here morezanoui”
Also, the Lacombe character was based on real-life ufologist, Jacques Vallee.
@FeaturingRob Tout est dit. C'est parfait. Je m'apprêtais à écrire cette tartine d'infos mais vous êtes parfait. J'avais 11 ou 12 ans quand j'ai vu le film à la télévision pour la première fois. C'était magique. Je n'avais rien vu de pareil de ma vie. "Rencontres du troisième type" est parmi un petit nombre l'un des films majeurs qui a décidé de ma carrière dans le son et le cinéma. Merci Rob d'avoir pris le temps de délivrer le genre d'éléments type des passionnés et des professionnels du métier. Et évidemment, avec notre François Truffaut national, ce n'en était que plus gratifiant. Petit, je ne savais pas qui il était bien sûr, mais son œuvre est venu progressivement à ma connaissance, et à 25 ans, il faisait partie de mon panthéon des réalisateurs, forcément. Et enfin, la gamme pentatonique est sans doute le truc iconique du film qui représente le plus ce qui a m'a le plus accompagné dans ma vie de musicien, d'ingénieur du son et de chef opérateur au cinéma.
I think you should consider watching the movie "Contact" with Jody Foster you may enjoy it. Beautiful reaction. ❤🥰
One of my favorites.
I second that !
It sucks
Ooh that’s a great suggestion.
I would not recommend Contact. Boring
I could watch that air traffic control scene a hundred times, and probably have. It's perfect.
Absolutely agree. I was an ambulance dispatcher for 8 years and all of the drama took place over the radio or telephone. It was what we couldn't see but our imagination filled in that was so powerful....AND they saved a huge amount of money not filming the pilots point of view...all RT. Love the ATC controller...he's 💯 pro.
... and the radar sweep one of the best transitions taking you from the desert to ATC.
It's also a very Spielburg thing where people chatter over each other creating a scene of urgency and some confusion. He's good at that.
Is the ATC a young Morgan Freeman?
The little girl who said there’s a dead fly in my potatoes was ad libbed. There really WAS a fly in her potatoes It was so cute they left it in.
This movie was indeed amazing to see on the big screen. A lot of us who saw it then looked up at the night sky a lot differently afterwards lol.
The aliens provided the 5 tones, and the humans provided the sign language response.
Good thing the aliens had hands 😅😂
Interesting fact. Towards the end of the movie, you see an older looking gentleman wearing a blue sports coat and a tie. He has eyeglasses on, a beard, and a pipe between his teeth. This was Dr. J. Allen Hynek making a cameo appearance. He is the person who came up with the "close encounter" classification system that the movie's title is based on (third kind being actual contact with aliens on the original scale). Dr. Hynek also served as a technical consultant to the film and was a fairly famous (or infamous depending on who you ask) astronomer and professor. Great reaction, Coby!!! 🙂
I always point him out to others. I was fortunate enough to attend one of Hynek's lectures about UFOs and project Blue Book many years ago, before the film's release. So he looked exactly as he does in the film. Who knew what was to come.
Dr Hynek was also a scientific advisor to US Air Force Project Bluebook. Interesting stuff.
Dr Hynek was the responsible for the Blue Book Project, being the objective of it was, according to the ufologists, to discredit the UFO phenomenon. But, at the end, the evidence in favour of the existence of the UFOs was so strong, that he turned into a strong advocate of it.
I have a signed copy of the book he wrote. Very fortunate to get a hold of it
That u keep calling Truffaut “Frenchie” is hilarious🤣
The little boy Barry's mother Jullian is played by Melinda Dillion, who plays Ralphie's mother in "A Christmas story."
Holy cow! I love “A Christmas Story” and I love “Close Encounters” but I never put it together that Ralphy’s Mom and Barry’s Mom were one and the same actress. Only now do I see it! 🤯 Thanks for the 411!
Really looking forward to this. You can never tell how Coby's going to react to any given part of any film. Will she react with a child's wonder, seeing through Barry's eyes? Will she examine the scene as a filmmaker, examining the framing, sound design or lighting? Or will she just be awestruck, like any other audience member, by the collection of sights, sounds, and emotions a brilliant director brings?
All of the above!
Truffaut, a french filmmaker, was an idol of Steven Spielberg and ask him to be in the film.
Truffaut was concerned about his English, though, since his character does have a few English lines.
True. Spielbergs generation of American filmmakers, were very keen on European and Japanese filmmakers. They became very focused on making non-studio films in the studio system, inspired by the 'New Wave' in France of which Truffaut was considered the spearhead.
400 blows is a great movie hope ppl check it out
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I like his film “Jules And Jim”.
The "Dreyfus" lookalike was Bob Balaban (Frank Buffay on Friends). He was in 2010, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey... Roy's wife was Teri Garr (Phoebe's mom) who recently passed away. Some of her earliest appearances were an episode of Star Trek "Assignment: Earth" and the Monkees movie "Head"
And each played Phoebe Buffay's mom and dad in Friends!
Balaban was also the CEO of the fictional NBC on Seinfeld
George was caught ogling his teen daughter.
thats wild
They kind of made it a point that Roy's family was gone. Put yourself in Roy's shoes. He saw something amazing that he couldn't explain. And when he tried to tell his wife about it, she didn't believe him and got mad at him. Sure, he was acting strange. But, again, her reaction wasn't concern or loving, it was anger. How do you think she would react to him telling her everything he saw at the end? He kind of had no choice but to go.
Given how the aliens gathered around Roy. I'd say Roy was invited.
Spielberg was going through divorce around that time and that factored into the story about roy leaving...i read
I can’t blame Roy for going. His family life looked like crap.
Roy, and his family through him, were victims of targeted psychological psychic manipulation from a powerful group of conspirators!
Was he even in a proper state of mind to make informed consent to be ushered up and away??
They are due some sort of recompense. 😂
@ Not as bad as what ET did to those poor kids.
Years ago I used to make models. My son gave me a "Close Encounters" model for my birthday. Inside the box (he had made) was a packet of instant mashed potato...
Nice reaction!, When I was in junior high, Ray Bradbury came to speak at my school in a big assembly. He said that he called up and congratulated Stephen Spielberg for making a beautiful movie about contacting aliens. This made me appreciate the movie more. This movie came out when I was a little kid. I always loved it and the soundtrack.
Omg. Ray Bradbury came to my high school in 1993 to talk to my graduating class…. He told me one of his favorite twilight zone episodes was “I sing the body electric “ ….years later I realized he wrote that episode… he was one of the greats!
@@shirleyduffer2081 Is that what that rush song is about? What was that twilight zone about? I always loved the martian chronicles and thought it was very twilight zone-ish.
You are so blessed to have encountered such a storytelling master!
@@MrNihilist74 the episode is about a widowed dad of three kids who takes his kids to a factory to make a robot “grandma” to look after them after the aunt walked out because she said the kids were too hard to handle. The “ grandma “ looks like their mother and the two youngest kids love her but the oldest doesn’t. The grandma saves the oldest from getting hit by a van. Grandma is a robot so she’s indestructible . Oldest daughter grows to love her. I sing the body electric is a Walt Whitman poem talking about the various parts of the human body. I think Rush’s song may be an homage to Bradbury.
In real life, the ship in the Gobi desert -- the Cotopaxi -- disappeared in December 1925 on a trip from South Carolina to Havana, Cuba. In 2020, the Cotopaxi was finally positively identified as a ship wreck found 40 miles off of the Florida coast back in the 1980's.
I guess that goes to show that aliens are smart enough to put a ship back in the ocean instead of a desert.
It's thought it was interesting that you recognized that Bob Balaban was Pheobe's dad, but not that Terri Garr was Pheobe's mom, but you saved yourself at the very end.
I don't remember ever seeing Phoebe's mum in the show?
@@alexp601 She was in only three episodes of Friends. Although her adoptive mother died when she was a kid, Phoebe found out at the end of season 3 that her parents' friend Phoebe Abbott, played by Terri Garr, was her biological mother. She was really perfect casting to play Lisa Kudrow's mom.
@ Aahh ok yeah sounds familiar, thanks for the reminder
Bob Balaban was also an NBC network exec in Seinfeld.
@@alexp601 It was perfect casting because Lisa Kudrow almost certainly modeled her entire screen persona after Teri's.
J Allen Hynek was a lead scientist for project bluebook. He was a consultant for Speilberg for this movie. Many aspects of the sightings and encounters in this film were taken directly from cases from project bluebook
Douglas Trumbull and his magicians deserve a nod for their work on visual effects..."shown in 70mm Dolby Stereo" was a draw for many venues in the late 70s/early 80s...*trivia alert: at 01:03:07 is a cameo of UFOlogist Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who developed the classifications of ufo level of contact
My favorite movie when I was a kid, I remember driving up from Moorcroft, coming up over the rise in the road and seeing the tower for the first time. Had to pull off and just sit on the hood of the rental, staring at it. Then I spent the rest of that day hiking all over the rocks at the base. All because of this movie.
Nice!
Proud to say I'm old enough to have seen this in theaters on release. Pops took me, I was 9. Might be the only movie I have vivid memories of from start to finish. The final 20 minutes I don't think I blinked once or moved an inch.
Great memories. Fun reaction!
I went to see this in theaters, too. Fell asleep about halfway through. I was 4. 😉
This is one of the masterpieces that grabs you from beginning to end. your investment into the characters lives is exactly what all movies hope to instill in the audience. you yelling at him to look up at the screen is a perfect example of that. PS. i'm glad a reactor noticed the jaws-esque music at the end of the "song" between the ship and the people. Big thumbsup from me.
A funny story told by Steven Spielberg: George Lucas visited the set of the airstrip in front of Devil’s Tower where the finale was filmed. Lucas was completely depressed because he had just finished filming Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and felt that he just wasted his time and energy making this kids movie. He looked at the set designed by Joe Alves and told Steven that he believed that Close Encounters was going to be a much bigger hit than Star Wars. He decided that he wanted to trade points with Steven. Lucas would give Steven 2.5% of Star Wars if Steven would give George 2.5% of Close Encounters. It was a big gamble. And Steven won the bet. To this day, Steven is still receiving money from Star Wars. That’s not to say Close Encounters wasn’t successful. Absolutely not. Star Wars was this big pop culture phenomenon and Close Encounters came in second place at the Box Office and it saved Columbia Pictures from bankruptcy.
Actually at that time. It was just called Star Wars. They didn't plan on making any sequels to the movie till after.
Episode IV A new what? I didn't pay to go and see that in 1977. It was called "Star Wars", and yes, it was a kids film. Close encounters ottk seemed to be a more intelligent film to my teenage mind. But then just a couple of years later, Alien ... After that films were never the same again.
@@imthewolf1It wasn't that sequels weren't planned. George Lucas actually fought to retain the rights to make the sequels himself rather than allow the studio to do whatever they wanted. The episode numbers came into play once he realized he might someday want to do prequels. Thus the reason for adding Chapter 4 A New Hope to the title.
@PhysicalMediaPreventsWea-bx1zm no sequels were planned until after the original became such a big hit, it was unexpected. At that time space movies were not a big thing.
The finale was not actually filmed at Devil’s Tower. It was on a soundstage.
You’ll have to watch American Graffiti from 1973, it has a really young Richard Dreyfus and Harrison Ford. I love that movie. The soundtrack is the best. 🍿
Spielberg originally sought NASA's input for the film however they refused to get involved. Prior to release, the director of NASA sent Spielberg a letter condemning the film, saying that it was really dangerous for the public. Also, Dr. J. Allen Hynek makes an appearance in this film, he was a scientific advisor to Project Bluebook which was the US Air Force study of UFOs in the 1960s. The government ultimately denied the existence of UFOs to the public, however Hynek walked-back that claim. Notice also the appearance of the gimble-shaped UFOs in this film, US Navy pilots would capture similar objects on their gun cameras off the coasts of California and Florida in the 2000s, videos which have been all over the recent news of today.
I was seven when I saw this in the theater with my parents. My biggest memory is my dad laughing with tears when Roy started pulling up the bushes, taking the neighbors chicken wire, and throwing it all into the house. Great times.
Definitely in my top 20 of all time. It was way ahead of its time.
The cartographer was played by Bob Balaban. Amazing career longevity. His famous quote: "Never be hot. Always be warm.".
I always remembered him from Starman and 2010.
I rewatched Midnight Cowboy (1969) a few months ago and was surprised to see Bob Balaban turn up in a small part.
Additionally, he was also in 2010, Gosford Park, Moon-rise Kingdom, and in a few Seinfeld episodes as a NBC producer.
He was also in Dead Bang . A small part but I learned the meaning of the word aegis from him. Lol
The rumor back then was that the US had an exchange in the early 70's. @1:03:07 you inadvertently capture a cameo of Dr Allen Hynek who worked on the Air Forces Project Blue Book who was an advisor for Spielberg. The French official represents Jaques Valleé, who worked along side Dr Hynek and who to this day is one of the most renowned specialists in the field of Ufology.
Hynek created the UFO encounter system that the movie is named after. A “Close Encounter of the Third Kind “ means that alien beings are seen.
Those planes at the start are a Flight of TBM Avengers that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle on December 05, 1945. They haven't been seen since, hence why they think Alien Abduction.
Except they didn't disappear in the Bermuda Triangle. Every time something happens to a plane or a ship within 2,000 miles of the Bermuda Triangle, people say it happened in the Bermuda Triangle. It didn't.
Yes, the famous Flight 19, consisting of five U.S. Navy single-engine Avenger torpedo bombers, manned by a total crew of 14. The squadron took off from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale on what, ironically, was a navigation exercise. The planes and their crews were never seen again.
In popular culture, the "mystey" of the disappearance of Flight 19 contributed to the legend of the so-called Bermuda Triangle. Spielberg borrows the true-life unsolved disappearance and cleverly makes it into a case of alien abduction, thereby helping to establish a mysterious and otherworldly atmosphere that grips the viewer throughout the rest of the film.
In reality, it is believed that the squadron's lead pilot or navigator lost his bearings and, at some point, turned in a wrong direction; the other four planes followed the leader's course. It is probable that they believed they were heading back to Florida, when in fact they were heading farther out over the ocean, where they all ran out of fuel and crashed into the sea.
@TheCastlepoet The "mystery" is compounded by the fact that not just flight 19 was lost.
Also lost were all 13 crew members of the Martin PBM Mariner that was sent to look for them. It's extremely improbable that they also "lost their bearings."
Six aircraft and twenty seven men simply disappeared.
They remain missing to this day.
My highest rated space science fiction film and in my top 40 of over 2000 films seen. Yes! I am old and seen a lot
Can’t wait for the reaction Coby
Huh, how did you go about calculating how many films you've seen ? Might have a try at that myself...
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Internet movie data base.
Registered as customer. You can vote 1-10 on how good or bad film is. IMDb for short counts the films you have rated. I have rated 1850 but I know there are 200 + I just never got around to rating. Either forgot or there were just awful
I am a very tough critic and rate that way. I have 10 tens and 30 nines, 108 eights. I discovered IMDb in 1999, and is greatest movie site ever. Sure you will love it
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Rate on internet movie data base. Best site ever about movies. Rate 1-10. I am very tough critic. I have 10 tens, 30 nines, and 108 eights
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Must be copyright violation. Can’t seem to post about this
IMDb joined in 1999. Great site.. rate films
OMG, Richard Dreyfuss is such a good actor, and was so good in this!
45:48 The funniest line of the movie 😂
The planes at the beginning were from flight 19, five US Naval planes that disappeared off the coast of Florida in December 1945. No trace of the planes or crew have ever been found.
The ship in the Gobi desert was the SS Cotopaxi, which disappeared during a storm on a trip from Charleston SC to Havana in December 1925. The wreckage was found in the 80s, but not identified as the Cotopaxi until 2020.
Glad Coby finally has her own channel
Today: We need a specialized vehicle to handle this rough terrain.
1970s: I have a station wagon.
If you listen closely, when the hazmat geared soldier is grabbing the cage with the birds inside, you can hear a spraying sound, as he uses the EZ-4 on them.
17:01 The kids are Sylvia and Toby, not Coby.
Coby, you remind me of a certain actress. Hint: do you own a Wonder Woman costume?
Hi Coby. Happy to see you branching out to your own gig and channel. It has always been a pleasure rewatching films with you. Best of luck and look forward to more content and momentum.
Coby, great to see you have your own channel! Congrats!
This was fantastic watching a review-watch-along with someone that saw this movie for the first time. This is one of my all time favorites, since seeing it in theaters as a kid back in the70’s. Your reactions throughout were priceless, snd well in tune with the movie plot. The Barry kid angle was spot on. Loved your logic reasoning for why would those aliens be flying along roads…and toll booths 😅. I shed a tear with you near the end upon Barry’s return. Well done there, Koby. -new sub here.
Two famous people in this that no one ever catches because their screen time is so short and really just a face shot are Carl Weathers and Lance Henrickson. Apollo creed and Bishop.
And Lance Henrickson was also the one who "took care of" Sal in Dog Day Afternoon, along with being the lead in the X-Files-adjacent TV series Millennium...
Yeah not really. If you're a genre fan you know about Henriksen. And have for decades. And the first Terminator and Dog Day Afternoon and The Right Stuff and all that. Weathers notsomuch.
Where was Carl Weathers?
@ he’s an Army soldier sometime in the evacuation part. It’s just a quick moment.
@ I never said they were necessarily famous at the time. And I only mentioned Terminator and Aliens because that’s where most people would recognize him from. Geeze.
The first time I saw this film, I was immersed from the start. But when they entered the arena I was totally engrossed. So much so that you could have knocked the house down around me and I wouldn't have noticed. I've loved Terri Garr since that day and was so sad when she passed.
Watching Coby see this for the first time brought back so many memories. Thanks, lovely lady.
The "other Richard Dreyfuss" guy also played "Russell from NBC" on the TV show Seinfeld. You said something like you "remembered seeing him on a TV show on a date with someone", and in one episode of Seinfeld his character actually did go out on a date with Elaine.
He was also Dr Chandra in 2010
"we don't know if they're good or bad just 'cause they sing a song" Someone's obviously dated a musician before
As a former audio engineer, that's heckin' funny. 😅
I was 7 when this came out. I BEGGED my grandmother to buy me the soundtrack on 8-track.
Same. And my mom came back with the album "Music FROM Close Encounters of the Third Kind" by The Electric Moog Orchestra. I didn't realize what was happening until I played it and realized something was terribly, terribly off.
And o my god, that album is available on Spotify. Unbelievable.
Yay, one of my favorite films
Great reaction. What you have to keep in mind, is that when Spielberg made this film, the UFO phenomenon was a real thing in the cultural zeitgeist, but it was mostly silenced and scoffed upon in official circles (airlines, air force, government). Any person in official capacity that talked publicly about their experiences with a UFO, could risk their position and reputation. It's only recently that serving US air force pilots went on the record by name and talked about what they have experienced after the material was declassified. The stigma has lifted a bit.
Coby trying to work stuff out and getting confused untilnthe penny drops and then she screams in joy when she works it out. Pure magic 🎩.
This movie is a masterclass of storytelling by Mr. Spielberg.
There are so many movie gems you have yet to see that will blow you away (if you have an open mind) just like Close Encounters. Starman, The Deer Hunter, Seven Years In Tibet, We Were Soldiers and K-Pax to name a few. I really enjoyed this reaction. For such an old movie it's great to see it still moves new viewers.
Did you know that Steven Spielberg has a profit percentage from Star Wars, and that George Lucas has a percentage of Close Encounters of the Third Kind? During the summer of 1977 both of these life long friends decided to go to Hawaii together after the release of their respective movies. Neither one of them had confidence in their project so they had a gentleman's wager between the two of them, and gave one another a profit percentage in the other's film. It turns out, Steven Spielberg WON that particular arrangement. Close Encounters is a great film, but Star Wars is still generating profits. Nicely done Steven!
BTW, during this vacation the two of them discussed a new film to do together that featured a swashbuckling hero who traveled the world looking for antiques and religious artifacts.
🙂😀😃😁😆😍🤩 🤠!!!!
Thanks for the reaction Coby!
Yes, there are a few Jaws like chords, but also there is When You Wish Upon A Star, which John Williams included for obvious reasons. That and it was a surprise for Spielberg who adores the Pinnochio / Disney theme.
ruclips.net/video/0w8DgrLrn_E/видео.htmlsi=Niag2McZolTnfJAy ' bout the 4:20 mark
There's a director's cut where they show the inside of the mother ship at the end.
Unsatisfying. Just filler. Did not add to the story or anything. I'm glad you didn't include it.
It's an absolute abomination.
The French character is said to be based on astronomer, inventor, ufo expert
Jacques Vallée
(the "Dreyfus twin" played the head of NBC on Seinfeld)
if you're a seinfeld fan you're probably remembering richard drifus #2 guy from a few seinfeld episodes he was on. in the seinfeld episodes he was the head nbc guy who wanted to make jerry's pilot and then he became obsessed with elaine in later seasons where he was on a date with her and that might be where you remembering on a date at a restaurant.
in the same elaine obsessed episode he was the one who joined greenpeace for her and at the very end of the episode he falls out of a small boat in the ocean wearing that bright orange jumpsuit lol
...and George, acting on his own, turned down his financial offer to do the pilot...which led to hilarious Seinfeld-esque consequences!😅😅😅
Thanks for reacting to one of my all time fave movies, Coby. Your reaction really brought back some of my own feelings from my first viewing. I first saw Close Encounters on its release in 1977 and it made a huge impression on me, perhaps even more than Star Wars.
The tension building throughout this film is just perfection.
My theory is there are multiple alien species in the mothership. The variable designs of all the smaller ships, the almost mishmash of shapes of the mothership make it seem like a multi-species collaboration. And all the spikey bits on it make it seem like scientific information gathering systems... on a ship of exploration.
And that music swell at the end always makes me emotional.
And I guess in a way I kind of understand why Richard Dreyfuss' character went. There is an inexplicable pull to the sky whenever I go out to look at the stars. If seemingly peaceful aliens came to me, I'd go. The possible chance to travel the universe, and see wonders we've never seen here on Earth. I'd go.
Silly question... Is the slender alien in the original cut of the movie?? I saw this movie a couple of times when I was a child and I didn't recall that alien at all! It's too creepy to note remember it, tbh... Maybe I used to look away every time it was on screen, thus the lack of memories about it? 😅
I always thought that the "skinny alien" were the aliens in their "true" form. But to appeal to the humans and not appear as frightening, they took on the form or identity of the more "adorable" shape of a little child (basically shapeshifters), hence why the camera shot went back and forth between Barry and the aliens more than once. The aliens loved little Barry so much they took on his basic form of a child.
@@SpectreNUT That's an interesting take indeed. I always thought that the little aliens resembled Barry (probably on purpose,) including his face in a generic kind of way.
I am literally wearing a t-shirt right now with the classic ufo photo and it says "I Want To Leave." No questions asked, i'm going with them.
@@georgezee5173 I'm pretty sure it is in the original cut. It coming out was always that 'shock' of something really alien looking for the audience.
John Williams, who scored the movie said this is one of his favorite scores. John Williams brilliant score was nominated for an Oscar.
They're all in New Jersey right now. 😂
Coby, I remember seeing this when it first came out in the movie theater. Seeing the mother ship coming in with it's size and all the lights, the music gave me chills and was absolutely breathtaking. Adding to being awestruck with all the visuals, I also seen a UFO in the early 70's in NYC as I was absolutely fascinated with stars, nebulas, constellations and what lies out there. I really liked how emotional you got when Barry came back, it was quite sweet and tender to watch. Merry Christmas to you and your family!🎅🎄
You'll probably get this from a lot of people, so I won't get carried away with it, but "Frenchie" is played by Francois Truffaut. You seem knowledgeable with these things, so I would've expected you to know that name, but if you don't, he had originally been a well known film critic in France, who then became a filmmaker himself, that is considered to be one of the founders of the French New Wave film movement in the 50s and 60s. He also wrote a book of a multi day intensive interview that he did with the reclusive Alfred Hitchcock, called "Hitchcock/Truffaut", that's considered one of the bibles in the world of cinegeeks, but that I doubt very many, including myself, have ever actually read the whole thing of. Very iconic guy! Spielberg, who's own generation was inspired by French New Wave, asked Truffaut to be in this movie as like a tribute. Supposedly, not used to all the down time on set as an actor, he wrote his next movie "The Man Who Loved Women", while sitting around on set.
Among other things, he directed the wonderful "Fahrenheit 451" (1966), which for some reason no one has reacted to. It's a beautiful romantic adaptation of Ray Bradbury's book. Something to consider . . . ?
That was fun watching this with you Coby.You know I never thought about these vessels sticking to the road way before.You're so alert.........and beautiful.
The Richard Dreyfusy guy is in 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY's sequel called 2010, and he’s also Phoebe's dad on FRIENDS.
He was also the guy on Seinfeld that caught George ogalling his daughter! 😂
"Look at the tv, look at the tv". Just a great expression of what we were all thinking. Really liked this reaction. Also nice to see you got your own channel.
RIP Teri Garr
The reason I enjoyed this film so much and a lot of early Spielberg is embodied exactly in what you did at the end. Your imagination is now completing a story that’s your own personal version of what happened next. Did Roy come back? A few days, a few weeks, a few years later. Was it explained to Roy’s family where he had gone? Did Gillian send the photos she took to a newspaper? And so on. I think Spielberg toyed with the idea of making a sequel. I’m so glad he didn’t.
A lot of younger people can't handle this film because it's a slow burn. But from what I've seen, she's pretty good at handling those. Definitely one of my all-time favorites.
Shes great. Watches all the old classics and enjoys them. I loved this movie.
She looks like 30 and there is your mistake i guess. She is from 1984, if your 70 she is a young one but i am 51 and for me 40 is neither young nor old.
She said "4 decades", which I take to mean she's 40
@@pscar1 yeah i know but i still wonder how old john thinks she is, he probabaly missed that or thinks that 40 year olds are young and impatient.
I dunno, i've seen quite a few reactions to this, most by "younger people" and they all thought it was great. Plenty even explicitly say things like "It's great when movies let scenes breathe instead of jumping around too quickly".
(but anyway, as others point out, Coby is a well preserved 40 - I guess that feels "younger" to me partly because she's technically a millennial but it's not _young_ young because she grew up with e.g. relatively few TV channels, no streaming, no smartphones etc. She is, as I say of my very much Gen-X self, "from the 1900s" :)
Spielberg has since admitted he regretted that he inexplicably has Roy leave his family, an attitude that's evidenced in his next alien movie E.T. where the kids' mom had her husband leave her, & the story is instead about them.
Bob Balaban (cartographer) has a similarly sized role in one of my favorite sci-fi cult classic movies from the era, Altered States (1980), William Hurt's first movie. Would recommend.
Now that was a wild flick!
He was in seinfeld too
Communin with christopher walken alien movie really good
Another of my favorite movies! Batting 1.000 with sunshine. Your reaction was exactly the same as mine when I first saw this when I was little. "LOOK AT THE TV! LOOK AT THE TV!" Lol.
The bearded American scientist with the Frenchman is the actor Bob Balaban, and you said you thought you'd seen him in a sitcom - and we have! He played Phoebe Buffay's dad, Frank, in Friends. And you probably remember that Teri Garr played her mom! Amazing coincidence - or is it?!
The best thing about this movie is, it shows you what America looks like in 1977, This is more than a movie, it is history, cars, TV commercials, technology, fashion, everything.
P.S. My parents took me to this movie in 1977, the showing was 1:00 AM. The mailbox scene and Barry mom fighting off ET, Barry going with ET scene scared me. I still love this movie 2024.
The scene in which Barry was abducted scarred me for life
I was five or six and was made to go to bed right after that scene because it was nighttime. "We'll tape it, so you can watch the rest in the morning." The scene continued to play out in my dreams the whole night, and I'll never forget it.
Yes, that's Bob Balaban, he played Phoebe's Dad... and Teri Garr (Dreyfuss' wife) played Phoebe's Mom
Another Spielberg/Dreyfuss film to see is "Always" from 1989. It's about pilots who fly fire-fighting aircraft. Good cast, typically great storytelling.
E.T. is a remake of this film, and I'm not talking about aliens. I'm talking about the breakup of families. This film is told from the parent's point of view whereas E.T. is told from the child's point of view. Both films would make an excellent double feature.
Great choice Coby! Can't wait to watch, great special effects for it's time.
I just discovered you this week and have been watching a different video every night. As an introvert, nothing beats a six-pack, and this reaction on a Friday night with some door dash.
You're right. This was awesome in the theater.
You're "Friends" discovery is spot on C! Spielberg has repeatedly said in interviews that the shot of Barry opening the front door of his house revealing the orange light of the incoming UFOs is his favorite shot out of all his films. He also said that the child actor that played Barry was easy to direct and most of his shots were done on the first take. For the scene at the beginning where Barry walks into the kitchen and sees the open fridge, both Barry's parents and Spielberg stood off camera to his left while a man dressed as a clown walked out from behind the camera to Barry's right and that's how they got that great shot of Barry reacting to the aliens being discovered and then fleeing the house.
I saw this movie on first cinema release, and my entire life I've thought Cary Guffey's performance is the greatest I've ever seen from a kid his age - from a kid who was too young to know what "acting" was (just all fun and play!)
He's got a completely believable naturalness about him, it just sells every scene he's in. Spielberg was so lucky to find him.
The sleep agent was not like in GOLD MEMBER. Turn in your movie reaction card.
Yes, Bob Balaban ("almost Richard Dreyfuss") was Phoebe's dad. And Teri Garr, who played Richard Dreyfuss's wife in this film, was Phoebe's mom.
1. $2,500 globe in 1977. Imagine how much that sucker would be today. $12,000?
2. That ATC has some serious pipes.
3. Is it just me, or does that kid have too many toys?
4. Love it. One of the top 10 movies to watch before you die.
5. I worked at a movie theater when this came out. Incredible
6. If it didn't change the outcome and since his marriage was over Roy and Jillian should have hooked up.😈😈
7. The odds of Roy finding Jillian in that chaos are as high as any of this happening.
8. "We're gonna need a bigger mountain".😲
9. Spidey, "Sup-bitches".
10. RIP Teri Garr😇
1. Yes. 👍 The US dollar online inflation calculator says 12,940$ for 2024.
A couple of fun facts about little Barry: 1) Toward the beginning, when he's in the kitchen, and looks scared, then starts smiling, there were 2 guys that he knew from the production crew in there. One was wearing a gorilla suit, and the other was wearing a clown costume with a rubber mask. That's what scared him. Then, they took off their masks, and he recognized his friends, and started smiling.
2) When he was looking out the window at the approaching spaceships, and said "toys", Steven Spielberg was outside, on a ladder with a box. And, he pulled out... TOYS! 3) When he was being pulled through the doggie door, the person pulling from the other side was his real mother. Supposedly, when the trading cards came out, his mother's arm could be seen in the picture.
YES!!!!!!! Perfect reactor for this film.
Melinda Dillin was in this. She got a nomination for an Academy Award, and she also played the mother in The Christmas Story
That guy you kept trying to identify was in an episode of Seinfeld. He played the president of NBC who ended up falling in love with Elaine
He also played William Hurt's friend and lab assistant in "Altered States."
Bob Balaban is the Dreyfuss lookalike. The first time I saw this in the theater, I had the same confusion. "Is that Richard Dreyfuss?" Bob Balaban is an excellent character actor - he was Dr. Chandra in 2010. And yes, Melinda Dillon, Barry's mom, is sleeping in cutoffs and a shirt. It was the way in the 1970's, a better time. The reveal of Devil's Tower on the the TV while we are looking at the scale model in Roy's living room is classic! Everyone in the theater was yelling at him!
“Other Richard Dreyfus” = the great Bob BALABAN, who also wrote the best book on the making of this movie.
Balaban
Hah, you trying to tell Richard Dreyfuss to look at the screen was hilarious :). It's what we're all feeling of course, who knew you could get so much tension out of whether a guy looks at a TV ?
(well, Steven Spielberg I guess :)
Who else was able to predict Coby's screeching when the Devil's Tower was revealed on the tv and adjust their volume accordingly? 😂
The best part of the entire reaction.
I was fully expecting it and looking forward to it. I'm the same way, but silently.
It wasn't a wildly inappropriate kiss. Two people were broken by a extraordinary event, and then bonded through it. It's a beautiful part of the movie. His wife refused to stay with him and took the children. Does someone that loves you do that?
Someone that loves you might well do that if you're acting unhinged _and_ they've already tried to "help" you. And they might _especially_ want your kids out of there.
(yes, yes, now we'd all be super understanding and sit around kumbaya-ing while our husband went "crazy" in a not _entirely_ unaggressive manner. But in the 70s we were less "evolved" :)
5:12 He could pass as Morgan Freemans brother by just the sound of his voice.
I’ve never met brothers that sounded alike. My uncles don’t sound like my dad, and my brother doesn’t sound like me.
The show "History's Greatest Mysteries" on the History channel showed aired a telling of the story of flight 19 and how it disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle December 5, 1945.
Yes, seems the whole Bermuda triangle folklore has been lost over the last couple of generations. Urgghh I feel old 😂
@@myfreakyvalentine Maybe over optimistically, I wonder if it's because it's been so thoroughly debunked that it's just no longer considered "a thing" ?
But yep, watching "significant" stuff fall out of the culture is one of the fascinating/unsettling things about putting miles on the clock. For me it's _much_ worse when I watch e.g. WWII movie/TV reactions and most people under 40 seem to have only the haziest grasp of even a _world war_ that's still - albeit just - in living memory. It's no wonder "we" keep repeating the same mistakes right ?