3.5/5. Cultural classic, a sometimes-unnerving sci-fi film brought low by some pacing issues and rather sudden swings in overall "mood". My favorite part was when the "mothership" decided to take direct control of the keyboard setup and have a little jam session.
A lot of great scenes but my three favorite are the Air Traffic Control Center, the Radio Dish Array where they decode the coordinates and the end where they translate the signal and have the computer take over the "conversation."
I would rate the Theatrical release at 5/5. The directors cut is a 4.5/5. The theatrical verison has less family drama and a shorter ending. As for my favorite scene(s): Flight 19, and the air traffic control scene are top of my list.
Well .. no...I appreciate it...doesn't mean I have to love it to appreciate it. And youth or not means nothing....I've seen films WAY older than this and appreciate them but always give my honest opinion . Just because it's beloved doesn't mean I have to love it
The French scientist was played by legendary French film director François Truffaut. Truffaut was to French cinema as Spielberg is to American cinema. One of the truly great masters.
The piano player was the technician that was sent to install the synthesizer on the set. No one could be found that could play it convincingly so they just cast him.
I like the version where you see Dreyfus inside the spaceshiip, just after he's escorted in. It is SO cool, and he gets emotional and starts to cry. I WISH they would show THAT version more when it is on TV or places like Hulu, Netflix, etc. I have only seen THAT version in the space ship twice, and it's been a very long time since I saw that version. WHY were you disappointed??!! So sad, I was BLOWN AWAY by this film when it first came out. As for older movies, black and white movies, etc, you are missing a LOT of GREAT FILMS with GREAT STORIES, movies DON'T need to be all action films, etc to be good. Yes you younger people have NO patience or don't seem to appreciate a good story, etc, in older films. "CLOSE ENCONTERS OF THE THIRD KIND" is one of my Top Ten favorite movies. I watch it ANY time I see it being shown on TV, and I also own a DVD of it which I watch several times a year. I never tire of it. By the way, people knew about aliens BEFORE the '70s....and people that DID have encounters with them have consistantly described them similar to the alien at the end that did the sign language to them. Usually referred to as "the Grays"
They only took Richard Dreyfuss because he was the only one that they invited that showed up. The special edition has a sequence where he goes inside the mother ship and we see what it looks like. The aliens look the way they do because that's how people who had encounters described them. The small body with a big head (aka Grays) wasn't the cliche in 1978 that it is today.
I'd argue the tense music is there to throw people off. Nobody quite suspects what's going on. The military's scrambling, the scientific community's buzzing with excitement. The tense tones are there to instill the same sense of anticipation and anxiety as the characters are experiencing. "We just have no clue what the fuck is going on, but we like it" is how I'd best describe it.
When we rented this out on VHS back in the day there was no special edition and extended cuts. Everybody so badly wanted to see inside the mothership. I craved to see what was inside and I asked my mom a million questions about what they were like. My dad never interacted with me as a kid because he was always drunk so my mom explained the title and what it meant. Also how they could move things about because they were super intelligent and had full control of the fundamental forces in nature and also gravity which isn't a force per se, but inextricably an effect of mass bending the 3 spatial dimensions and time.
Hey man, I totally get it! This movie takes a LOT of time to build up the situation because there'd never really been a story quite like this on film before (and so they really needed to lay the groundwork for it all) - but nowadays, of course, we see and absorb TONS of "alien encounter" and "alien abduction" stories pretty much our whole lives. There's dozens of them in movies, TV, video games, etc. So even though the acting and special effects are well-done, it can't help but feel pretty slow because modern audiences don't really need as much buildup to appreciate what's happening.
I was the age of the kid when this came out. Lived near Muncie Indiana too. You have higher expectations on things than the people in 1970’s did. I love this movie, have this version.
So you find out that you are one of the folks that this doesn't click with. Unfortunate, but it happens. I have always found it an enthralling and engaging mystery adventure with impressive visuals and a convoluted storyline that triggers all sorts of emotions. Roy is a very sympathetic character who did not ask to be where he found himself and struggled to cope. He was alienated, fought with and lost his wife and family, fought against the government to penetrate the layers of defense and find his answers, and was swept away in the end. And that is just HIS story. There's the frantic mother, the pilots who were too scared to report what they saw, and the obviously many other civilians who had been touched but we didn't see their experiences. Plus all the interesting things going on with the researchers as they followed the clues and made preparations. That bit about "reading maps...that first number is a longitude" ALWAYS gets me. As does the TV newscast. To answer your repeated question: that tiny red ball of light that trailed the other ships was Spielberg's homage to Tinkerbell (flying with Peter Pan and the lost boys). There is much more that is said about this movie, but I will leave that to others.
When they were crop-dusting and the man yells "Los Angeles!", the scene was referring to a major controversy when the State of California Dept of Agriculture sprayed malathion pesticide over many LA and Orange County neighborhoods in the middle of the night starting in the 1970s and into the 80s in an effort to control the Mediterranean Fruit Fly infestation. In the 80s, I remember people saying that the paint on their cars was coming off and lots of people were scared about being poisoned. When the news said they were spraying, people would stay inside and close up and tape up their windows.
The reason you feel this dragged a bit was because you saw the director's cut which is quite a bit longer. And also back in the 70's, most people did not know much about third close encounters. This was the first movie of it's kind to delve into this subject and show how it affects people's lives. It was also the first of it's kind because it showed UFOs with different shapes, sizes, and colors like the witness accounts as opposed to the old typical silver saucer shape in old movies before. This movie affected me in a great way, like the way Star Wars did, like the way the original Superman with Christopher Reeve did. And like the way E.T. did. Because it was the first of it's kind.
I was 10 years old when this came out. The Barry thing really scared me, I was like, “They take little kids?!” I had the soundtrack on vinyl, the communication with the mother ship was called The Conversation.
The thing is when it came out it was unlike any other thing and it was the most talked about thing, but then George Lucas came out with Star Wars and that was that
Actually, Star Wars came out first. It had greater impact at the time and over time. Among the various details embedded in the alien ships' exteriors, there were Star Wars items. And a VW bus.
I'm older, This is one of my ALL TIME favorite movies, and I don't begrudge your opinion AT ALL! We simply can't all have the exact same opinion on movies, sometimes you're left disappointed. I get grief for this A LOT, but I saw "THE MATRIX" the week it opened and...I didn't like it. I get why so many do, but it did very little for me. You gave an HONEST movie reaction, plain and simple!!👍👍
I love this film I first saw it when I was ..... about 7 20 years ago now on VHS I got it from a market where I live and I watched it everyday I wrote a sci-fi script inspired by this when I was in college and I sent it to Spielbergs production company I didn't get a reply but that is my greatest achievement he was a real inspiration still is I'm not giving up on the script one day 🤞👍
Back I the day it was something new and exciting for us i see your point but there's no way you will see the wonder seeing this back when it came out I saw this in the zigfeld theater in NYC with my first boyfriend I was 17
That's fantastic! You saw it at the ZIgeld? Wow. That theater is gone now, I'm heartbroken to report. That's so great you saw it with your boyfriend! I saw it in the theatre three times, never had another movie theatre experience like seeing "Close Encounters" on a big screen with a packed audience. After it was over, everyone was walking around in a stoned daze, as if they had just been ON the mothership!
When I saw this in its commercial debut, the two impressions I remember having were "what a pretentious crock of ...", and "so now we see the end result of ever-increasing commercial lighting requirements: room lights that blister paint". P.S. If you're looking for a _good_ film on the subject of encountering aliens, give "Contact" a watch.
Amazing masterpiece very classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind directed by Steven Spielberg starring Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut and music score by John Williams. The Devil's Tower is real located in Wyoming all tourists visit that monument. Thank you bro great reaction awesome👍👍👍👍👍
John William's did the score for this movie and for "STAR WARS" in the very same year. He was nominated for the "BEST SCORE" Oscar for this & "STAR WARS" (he won for "STAR WARS"). The man's a musical genius!!
This was so so amazing when I saw this first time back then. It always kept you wondering what is going on or going to happen. I too was sometimes confused as to what and why things were happening. To me when the mother ship opened up and all the aliens came out, that was one of my favorite parts. Also the beginning when they found the planes and the ship in the desert. Totally kept my interest. Back when this came out you have to remember the special effects were still new for what Spielberg did and it was top of the line. Today it's not so much a big deal. I really love this movie though. I am much older than you are and to me the special effects of CGI are just meh. And that's because it's CGI. Not much brain work for that. Any way, great reaction. Thanks for watching this one.
I definitely agree with you. We have to consider that this movie was made in 1977 and the special FX were groundbreaking at the time. I was around in 1977 but I was way too young to see it. I actually saw it in the early 80's when VHS rentals were pretty new. This movie scared me , fascinated me , intrigued me even as a preteen. Yes it had moments that were kind of long , but It held my interest. I was too young to understand the govt cover up, but I remember getting scared that the animals were (allegedly)killed from the poisonous gas. I try to look at older movies through the lens of the time period that they came out, and that helps me to understand why certain movies are considered classics :)
There is a reason, the directors cut does not make the theatrical release... the theatrical release was a little more streamlined and moved at a good pace
I was 11 when I first saw this in theatres. I have to admit, at the time, no one seemed at all bothered that he abandoned his family! I think I figured, “Well they left him, so he’s free to go into space!” But that seems to be something that modern reactors pick up on right away.
This is key to me. As a father to two, I just have a hard time when he just ditches his kids. It bothers me a ton, but I get that the counter-argument is that he's just so driven he had no choice. I just can't fathom being in his shoes and making that choice, if I had it to make.
@@rickanderson9360 To be fair, how healthy was it for his kids that he was acting like that? He was getting into shouting matches with mom, throwing trash into the house. He chucked bricks and whole shrubs through glass panes, shattering glass and heaving dirt everywhere. The entire incident's very scarring.
@@FlixTalk im shocked that the current generation view him leaving his family as a big thing..cause nowadays with divorce at ats highest rate and family structure not as strong as it once was..I would think this generation wouldnt even care. Im saying that cause there is so much disrespect nowadays with kids to their parents.
im shocked cause the current generation nowadays have little respect for parents and with divorce at an all time high...I didnt even think they would care if he left his family..esecially considering his family life was a mess.
Love this movie! Easy 8.5/10 rating. That said... I am of the increasing opinion that there is no such thing as extra-terrestrial UFOs (or whatever they are called these days). They are either hoaxes, scientific explain phenomena, or advanced classified aircraft (like the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk and Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, both of which actually operated out of Groom Lake (Area 51) before being declassified). Every "alien abduction" story is wildly different and highly suspect. While fun to imagine these things, it's called science-fiction for a reason. Fun Fact: J. Allen Hynek was a famous ufologist and the creator of the diverse kinds of contact that this movie is based on, as explained in his The UFO Experience: A Scientific Study (1972) book. The first kind: sighting of an one or more UFOs. The second kind: observation of physical evidence of extra-terrestrial visitation. The third kind: contact with one or more extra-terrestrials. Hynek made a cameo at the end of the movie as the guy smoking a pipe at the landing site. One And Done Fact: Cary Guffey's (Berry Guiler) performances were so good that they only had to do one or two takes of each shot he was in. He became known as "One-Take Cary" on the set, and director Steven Spielberg had a T-shirt printed up for him with the phrase written on it. Music Enthusiast Fact: The iconic five-note melody was a chance arrangement that both composer John Williams and director Steven Spielberg happened to like out of hundreds of different permutations.
Fun Fact: The character played by François Truffaut is based on a famous French ufologist called Jacques Vallee, in fact he added the UFO classifications: Close Encounter of the forth kind (CE-4) Abduction Close Encounter of the fifth kind (CE-5) this could either be communication with a UFO (the witness(es) doesn't necessarily need to be abducted) or it could mean that they are encountering UFOs on a regular basis, commonly known as a "Repeater Witness." These two classifications were not added by Dr J.Allen Hynek as he passed away in 1986.
Dreyfuss' character's wife and children were a sloppy mess anyway, so I'm sure he found a better family in better company and not missing them at all from space.
When I first saw this at Christmas 1977, it was about 30mns shorter. This may be the Director's Cut with lots of asides that didn't make the original release. I still think the ending is anticlimactic. It felt that way in '77 too. We all came out of the theater going, "What did you think?" .. "It was okay."
I was almost scared to feel the way I felt watching because so many told me it was a gem but thank you for sharing your experience! Yes this was the directors cut by the way
Dude, it's a 70s movie. And a pre Star Wars 70s movie at that. Its gonna be slow, its gonna be weird, there's gonna be a lot of character study.. keep your expectations realistic and try learn to appreciate a film within the context of when it was made.. understand why it was important or different or special rather than write it off as a 'snoozefest' becusse it's not moving at the speed of "Crank 2".
I think because he saw the director's cut which is a lot longer, it felt a bit too long for him. But yeah this movie was the first of it's kind back then. I was a child and saw this in the theater and was blown away because I'd never seen a movie like it before. It had a big impact on me.
@10:45 His boss sent him out on an assignment to fix the power. He specifically said he was relying on him. Instead he went off chasing “UFOs”. Of course he was fired.
It wouldn't have made much of a difference if he tried to fix the power, because the UFOs were sapping all the power including knocking out his car. He was fighting a losing battle to start off with. There have been real UFO cases where they do affect electrical and mechanical devices.
I think Spielberg wanted this movie to be a more cerebral type of science fiction movie. You had the investigators doing their job of gathering data and coordinating a meeting with the extraterrestrials, and there was the local residents with their perspective on things. That all makes for a longer movie and listening to the dialogue closely makes the story more easier to follow and more fascinating. I've seen a lot of science fiction movies produced in the 1950's up to present day, and this movie is one of the best, more intelligent movies made. There was a huge UFO buzz going on in the 1970's, so when this movie was released and in theaters, it fit right in with the times.
Now Do........Communion (1989), Fire in the Sky (1993), Fourth Kind (2009), and Dark Skies (2013). I think that would round out your UFO/Alien watchlist.
I liked this movie. Especially that part where he thinks the UFO is just another car. I have a movie reaction suggestion. One of my favorites. The Final Countdown (1980) The U.S.S. Nimitz goes back to December 6th, 1941. It's filmed on the Nimitz.
What happens over 25 years later? The U.S.S. Nimitz is involved in one of the biggest UFO/UAP incidents in history, where a fighter pilot encounters an object which is referred to as "The Tic Tac UFO."
lol - yeah, Spielberg had planned for more impressive aliens BUT, the film production was behind schedule, way over budget and the studio was getting very nervous that they might have a young director who may have bitten off more than he could chew so they pulled the plug and ordered the production to finish up.
4 stars from me. The descent into madness portion of the film is too long, I agree. And then he dragged out the end bc of the wonder associated with the ships (like their variable designs you noticed) and it just doesn't play as well today, unfortunately. I was born in 77, so obviously saw this much later, but movies still had that aura of magic at my first watch of this. It really wasn't until T2 and Jurassic Park that everything changed industrywide to CGI, and now nothing looks amazing anymore. It's very disappointing to me, I can't remember the last time I was blown away by CGI, maybe The Matrix.
That movie is based on a real UFO Abduction case that happened in 1975. It was *The Travis Walton UFO Abduction case.* In fact Travis wrote the book about it, it was called *"Fire in the Sky: The Walton Experience"*
You're disappointed in the aliens. 4 years before I watched this in 78, my father took me to see 'Sinbad and the eye of the tiger' check out the Ray harrihausen (sp?) Puppets. Then you'll realise how incredible it was. Your generation is spoilt!!!! But, you've never had what we had. Wonderment.
I can see how you would think this movie drags on in some parts and the sudden turns it takes at times, but you have to try and put yourself in the mind of the audience back in 77 and how someone would react to experiencing something like this. It's not a perfect movie, but I hope you appreciate it more as you watch it multiple times as I and many others have. I also understand how a movie that people overhype before you see it can be disappointing when you're expecting a lot more than what the film delivers. That's happened to me w/classics like Citizen Kane and Chinatown. I felt like they were overrated and I guess the same happened to you w/this one. If you want to check out another Spielberg take on Aliens that you might enjoy more try his version of War of the Worlds. Peace. 👽🤘
Love Teri Garr as an actress but man she sure had to play a major non supportive wife in this role - she did it well but I hated seeing this sweet gentle lady (typically funny in her movies) play this uncaring selfish wife and mom. The Aliens caused the people to have an obsession about where they would be landing - the obsession took a different pattern in each persons mind - some drew it , some painted it - he built it in his kitchen LOL. The goofy little Aliens I think - are a product of the big Spider guy mixed with humans - that is my take. YOUR DISSAPOINTED it is a dad gum 45 year old movie!! You can't compare it to modern day stuff like Nope or whatever that was you mentioned.
I think Teri Garr's character was supposed to be realistic for the situation. Especially back then. And at first she was trying to be supportive. It was when she saw her husband was no longer involved with the family and obsessed with the UFOs that she changed. She was not uncaring, she just didn't understand because the aliens were not calling her, they were calling him. Any wife would eventually lose their patience especially after he went nuts and started throwing dirt and garbage in the house just to make another mountain...lol. I feel bad for what both of them were going through. He felt like he was going nuts and she saw her husband checked out.
I'm an old guy (70's) and am right with you about this movie. We saw it when it first came out and the kids enjoyed the effects, but if not for your reaction I'd never watch it again. Now, your older movie reactions like the original "12 Angry Men," "To Kill A Mockingbird", "Psycho" and "Vertigo", etc., I have really enjoyed as it's a nice mix you've done of the different decades. Hopefully you'll get around to "Casablanca" and "The African Queen" some day; both star Humphrey Bogart & you should enjoy both of those movies.
I saw this movie in the 70s and even back then, the aliens looked totally fake and disappointing. The spider alien looked cool but even that one looked more like a puppet than anything real. I agree with you that the aliens were a big disappointment. I did like the movie up to that point and remember thinking it went into 3 phases. It started out in a spirituality and mystery form, then morphed into obsession, then into the actual revelation phase which didn't quite provide the required payoff. Even the little spaceships resembles toys more than anything else.
What are you talking about, I saw this in the theater as a child and I remember all the hype about the special effects back then and the alien that greets them. I only remember that people wished there was more aliens in the movie.
So, this is about a father abandoning his family to go fulfill selfish curiosities? All fathers or mothers who abandon their families put many miles or oceans between them and their families. In this case the father moved to another planet to put some distance between him and his family. Nice. Let's all give him a heroic cheer and a round of "for he's a jolly good fellow."
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5 my fav part when he's dressed up like a girl lol
3.5/5. Cultural classic, a sometimes-unnerving sci-fi film brought low by some pacing issues and rather sudden swings in overall "mood".
My favorite part was when the "mothership" decided to take direct control of the keyboard setup and have a little jam session.
A 3, maybe.
A lot of great scenes but my three favorite are the Air Traffic Control Center, the Radio Dish Array where they decode the coordinates and the end where they translate the signal and have the computer take over the "conversation."
I would rate the Theatrical release at 5/5. The directors cut is a 4.5/5. The theatrical verison has less family drama and a shorter ending. As for my favorite scene(s): Flight 19, and the air traffic control scene are top of my list.
The problem with being too young to appreciate a thing is that you don't know how wrong you are until you're older.
Well .. no...I appreciate it...doesn't mean I have to love it to appreciate it. And youth or not means nothing....I've seen films WAY older than this and appreciate them but always give my honest opinion . Just because it's beloved doesn't mean I have to love it
The French scientist was played by legendary French film director François Truffaut. Truffaut was to French cinema as Spielberg is to American cinema. One of the truly great masters.
The piano player was the technician that was sent to install the synthesizer on the set. No one could be found that could play it convincingly so they just cast him.
I like the version where you see Dreyfus inside the spaceshiip, just after he's escorted in. It is SO cool, and he gets emotional and starts to cry. I WISH they would show THAT version more when it is on TV or places like Hulu, Netflix, etc. I have only seen THAT version in the space ship twice, and it's been a very long time since I saw that version. WHY were you disappointed??!! So sad, I was BLOWN AWAY by this film when it first came out. As for older movies, black and white movies, etc, you are missing a LOT of GREAT FILMS with GREAT STORIES, movies DON'T need to be all action films, etc to be good. Yes you younger people have NO patience or don't seem to appreciate a good story, etc, in older films. "CLOSE ENCONTERS OF THE THIRD KIND" is one of my Top Ten favorite movies. I watch it ANY time I see it being shown on TV, and I also own a DVD of it which I watch several times a year. I never tire of it. By the way, people knew about aliens BEFORE the '70s....and people that DID have encounters with them have consistantly described them similar to the alien at the end that did the sign language to them. Usually referred to as "the Grays"
They only took Richard Dreyfuss because he was the only one that they invited that showed up. The special edition has a sequence where he goes inside the mother ship and we see what it looks like.
The aliens look the way they do because that's how people who had encounters described them. The small body with a big head (aka Grays) wasn't the cliche in 1978 that it is today.
I'd argue the tense music is there to throw people off. Nobody quite suspects what's going on. The military's scrambling, the scientific community's buzzing with excitement. The tense tones are there to instill the same sense of anticipation and anxiety as the characters are experiencing.
"We just have no clue what the fuck is going on, but we like it" is how I'd best describe it.
When we rented this out on VHS back in the day there was no special edition and extended cuts. Everybody so badly wanted to see inside the mothership. I craved to see what was inside and I asked my mom a million questions about what they were like. My dad never interacted with me as a kid because he was always drunk so my mom explained the title and what it meant. Also how they could move things about because they were super intelligent and had full control of the fundamental forces in nature and also gravity which isn't a force per se, but inextricably an effect of mass bending the 3 spatial dimensions and time.
Hey man, I totally get it! This movie takes a LOT of time to build up the situation because there'd never really been a story quite like this on film before (and so they really needed to lay the groundwork for it all) - but nowadays, of course, we see and absorb TONS of "alien encounter" and "alien abduction" stories pretty much our whole lives. There's dozens of them in movies, TV, video games, etc. So even though the acting and special effects are well-done, it can't help but feel pretty slow because modern audiences don't really need as much buildup to appreciate what's happening.
I was the age of the kid when this came out. Lived near Muncie Indiana too. You have higher expectations on things than the people in 1970’s did. I love this movie, have this version.
The effects in this movie blew my mind back in the day, then Star Wars does and not untill Terminator Judgement day ( T2 ) will it be blown again.
So you find out that you are one of the folks that this doesn't click with. Unfortunate, but it happens. I have always found it an enthralling and engaging mystery adventure with impressive visuals and a convoluted storyline that triggers all sorts of emotions.
Roy is a very sympathetic character who did not ask to be where he found himself and struggled to cope. He was alienated, fought with and lost his wife and family, fought against the government to penetrate the layers of defense and find his answers, and was swept away in the end. And that is just HIS story. There's the frantic mother, the pilots who were too scared to report what they saw, and the obviously many other civilians who had been touched but we didn't see their experiences. Plus all the interesting things going on with the researchers as they followed the clues and made preparations. That bit about "reading maps...that first number is a longitude" ALWAYS gets me. As does the TV newscast.
To answer your repeated question: that tiny red ball of light that trailed the other ships was Spielberg's homage to Tinkerbell (flying with Peter Pan and the lost boys). There is much more that is said about this movie, but I will leave that to others.
A great classic very underrated
i saw this in the theater in 77, the ripping up the yard scene was in the original 77 version
The thinking man's Star Wars...
When they were crop-dusting and the man yells "Los Angeles!", the scene was referring to a major controversy when the State of California Dept of Agriculture sprayed malathion pesticide over many LA and Orange County neighborhoods in the middle of the night starting in the 1970s and into the 80s in an effort to control the Mediterranean Fruit Fly infestation. In the 80s, I remember people saying that the paint on their cars was coming off and lots of people were scared about being poisoned. When the news said they were spraying, people would stay inside and close up and tape up their windows.
That's crazy! I live near LA too lol
Close Encounters of the Third Kind was inspired by a real event.
Classic Spielberg, from when he knew the difference between sentiment and sentimentality.
What??? This is a classic!! One of Spielberg's best!!!
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The reason you feel this dragged a bit was because you saw the director's cut which is quite a bit longer. And also back in the 70's, most people did not know much about third close encounters. This was the first movie of it's kind to delve into this subject and show how it affects people's lives. It was also the first of it's kind because it showed UFOs with different shapes, sizes, and colors like the witness accounts as opposed to the old typical silver saucer shape in old movies before. This movie affected me in a great way, like the way Star Wars did, like the way the original Superman with Christopher Reeve did. And like the way E.T. did. Because it was the first of it's kind.
From the box you showed, you have if I remember correctly three different endings, one where you see the inside of the spaceship.
I sorry, but I busted out laughing when the monkey scared you.
Lol I'm a very auditory guy....loud sounds get to me. Even without headphones
I think it gets everybody at least a little bit the first time. It is kind of creepy. But it IS fun to watch the reactions.
Scared me in the theatre. Those monkey's were creepy in the 70s...even more so now I think.
Remember this was 1977… Aliens weren’t as “well k own”then ..🤷♀️
I would love to see them release an Ultimate Cut. All three versions fused together.
I was 10 years old when this came out. The Barry thing really scared me, I was like, “They take little kids?!” I had the soundtrack on vinyl, the communication with the mother ship was called The Conversation.
I agree.. I was too young.. I was only 6 when It came out. I didnt see it until the early 80s as a preteen and It scared me when they took Barry
The thing is when it came out it was unlike any other thing and it was the most talked about thing, but then George Lucas came out with Star Wars and that was that
Actually, Star Wars came out first. It had greater impact at the time and over time. Among the various details embedded in the alien ships' exteriors, there were Star Wars items. And a VW bus.
I'm older,
This is one of my ALL TIME favorite movies,
and I don't begrudge your opinion AT ALL!
We simply can't all have the exact same opinion on movies, sometimes you're left disappointed.
I get grief for this A LOT, but I saw "THE MATRIX" the week it opened and...I didn't like it. I get why so many do, but it did very little for me.
You gave an HONEST movie reaction, plain and simple!!👍👍
I love this film I first saw it when I was ..... about 7 20 years ago now on VHS I got it from a market where I live and I watched it everyday
I wrote a sci-fi script inspired by this when I was in college and I sent it to Spielbergs production company I didn't get a reply but that is my greatest achievement he was a real inspiration still is
I'm not giving up on the script one day 🤞👍
Back I the day it was something new and exciting for us i see your point but there's no way you will see the wonder seeing this back when it came out I saw this in the zigfeld theater in NYC with my first boyfriend I was 17
Facts !
That's fantastic! You saw it at the ZIgeld? Wow. That theater is gone now, I'm heartbroken to report. That's so great you saw it with your boyfriend! I saw it in the theatre three times, never had another movie theatre experience like seeing "Close Encounters" on a big screen with a packed audience. After it was over, everyone was walking around in a stoned daze, as if they had just been ON the mothership!
When I saw this in its commercial debut, the two impressions I remember having were "what a pretentious crock of ...", and "so now we see the end result of ever-increasing commercial lighting requirements: room lights that blister paint". P.S. If you're looking for a _good_ film on the subject of encountering aliens, give "Contact" a watch.
Amazing masterpiece very classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind directed by Steven Spielberg starring Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut and music score by John Williams. The Devil's Tower is real located in Wyoming all tourists visit that monument. Thank you bro great reaction awesome👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you for watching!
@@FlixTalk You're welcome bro👍👍👍
Greys were the popular aliens back then
John William's did the score for this movie and for "STAR WARS" in the very same year. He was nominated for the "BEST SCORE" Oscar for this & "STAR WARS" (he won for "STAR WARS").
The man's a musical genius!!
This was so so amazing when I saw this first time back then. It always kept you wondering what is going on or going to happen. I too was sometimes confused as to what and why things were happening. To me when the mother ship opened up and all the aliens came out, that was one of my favorite parts. Also the beginning when they found the planes and the ship in the desert. Totally kept my interest. Back when this came out you have to remember the special effects were still new for what Spielberg did and it was top of the line. Today it's not so much a big deal. I really love this movie though. I am much older than you are and to me the special effects of CGI are just meh. And that's because it's CGI. Not much brain work for that. Any way, great reaction. Thanks for watching this one.
Thank you for the comment & thanks for watching!
I definitely agree with you. We have to consider that this movie was made in 1977 and the special FX were groundbreaking at the time. I was around in 1977 but I was way too young to see it. I actually saw it in the early 80's when VHS rentals were pretty new. This movie scared me , fascinated me , intrigued me even as a preteen. Yes it had moments that were kind of long , but It held my interest. I was too young to understand the govt cover up, but I remember getting scared that the animals were (allegedly)killed from the poisonous gas.
I try to look at older movies through the lens of the time period that they came out, and that helps me to understand why certain movies are considered classics :)
There is a reason, the directors cut does not make the theatrical release... the theatrical release was a little more streamlined and moved at a good pace
I was 11 when I first saw this in theatres. I have to admit, at the time, no one seemed at all bothered that he abandoned his family! I think I figured, “Well they left him, so he’s free to go into space!” But that seems to be something that modern reactors pick up on right away.
Well yeah..family is something you should fight for...to me that transcends generation gaps....probably even stronger back then
This is key to me. As a father to two, I just have a hard time when he just ditches his kids. It bothers me a ton, but I get that the counter-argument is that he's just so driven he had no choice. I just can't fathom being in his shoes and making that choice, if I had it to make.
@@rickanderson9360 To be fair, how healthy was it for his kids that he was acting like that? He was getting into shouting matches with mom, throwing trash into the house. He chucked bricks and whole shrubs through glass panes, shattering glass and heaving dirt everywhere.
The entire incident's very scarring.
@@FlixTalk im shocked that the current generation view him leaving his family as a big thing..cause nowadays with divorce at ats highest rate and family structure not as strong as it once was..I would think this generation wouldnt even care. Im saying that cause there is so much disrespect nowadays with kids to their parents.
im shocked cause the current generation nowadays have little respect for parents and with divorce at an all time high...I didnt even think they would care if he left his family..esecially considering his family life was a mess.
Love this movie! Easy 8.5/10 rating. That said...
I am of the increasing opinion that there is no such thing as extra-terrestrial UFOs (or whatever they are called these days). They are either hoaxes, scientific explain phenomena, or advanced classified aircraft (like the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk and Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, both of which actually operated out of Groom Lake (Area 51) before being declassified). Every "alien abduction" story is wildly different and highly suspect.
While fun to imagine these things, it's called science-fiction for a reason.
Fun Fact: J. Allen Hynek was a famous ufologist and the creator of the diverse kinds of contact that this movie is based on, as explained in his The UFO Experience: A Scientific Study (1972) book. The first kind: sighting of an one or more UFOs. The second kind: observation of physical evidence of extra-terrestrial visitation. The third kind: contact with one or more extra-terrestrials. Hynek made a cameo at the end of the movie as the guy smoking a pipe at the landing site.
One And Done Fact: Cary Guffey's (Berry Guiler) performances were so good that they only had to do one or two takes of each shot he was in. He became known as "One-Take Cary" on the set, and director Steven Spielberg had a T-shirt printed up for him with the phrase written on it.
Music Enthusiast Fact: The iconic five-note melody was a chance arrangement that both composer John Williams and director Steven Spielberg happened to like out of hundreds of different permutations.
Fun Fact: The character played by François Truffaut is based on a famous French ufologist called Jacques Vallee, in fact he added the UFO classifications:
Close Encounter of the forth kind (CE-4) Abduction
Close Encounter of the fifth kind (CE-5) this could either be communication with a UFO (the witness(es) doesn't necessarily need to be abducted) or it could mean that they are encountering UFOs on a regular basis, commonly known as a "Repeater Witness."
These two classifications were not added by Dr J.Allen Hynek as he passed away in 1986.
Dreyfuss' character's wife and children were a sloppy mess anyway, so I'm sure he found a better family in better company and not missing them at all from space.
Well....damn lol 😂😆😂 thanks for watching
When I first saw this at Christmas 1977, it was about 30mns shorter. This may be the Director's Cut with lots of asides that didn't make the original release. I still think the ending is anticlimactic. It felt that way in '77 too. We all came out of the theater going, "What did you think?" .. "It was okay."
I was almost scared to feel the way I felt watching because so many told me it was a gem but thank you for sharing your experience! Yes this was the directors cut by the way
Dude, it's a 70s movie. And a pre Star Wars 70s movie at that. Its gonna be slow, its gonna be weird, there's gonna be a lot of character study.. keep your expectations realistic and try learn to appreciate a film within the context of when it was made.. understand why it was important or different or special rather than write it off as a 'snoozefest' becusse it's not moving at the speed of "Crank 2".
I think because he saw the director's cut which is a lot longer, it felt a bit too long for him. But yeah this movie was the first of it's kind back then. I was a child and saw this in the theater and was blown away because I'd never seen a movie like it before. It had a big impact on me.
Thanks for pointing out the Spielberg-ian flaws in this movie, namely the pacing and the script.
@10:45 His boss sent him out on an assignment to fix the power. He specifically said he was relying on him. Instead he went off chasing “UFOs”. Of course he was fired.
It wouldn't have made much of a difference if he tried to fix the power, because the UFOs were sapping all the power including knocking out his car. He was fighting a losing battle to start off with. There have been real UFO cases where they do affect electrical and mechanical devices.
I think Spielberg wanted this movie to be a more cerebral type of science fiction movie. You had the investigators doing their job of gathering data and coordinating a meeting with the extraterrestrials, and there was the local residents with their perspective on things. That all makes for a longer movie and listening to the dialogue closely makes the story more easier to follow and more fascinating. I've seen a lot of science fiction movies produced in the 1950's up to present day, and this movie is one of the best, more intelligent movies made. There was a huge UFO buzz going on in the 1970's, so when this movie was released and in theaters, it fit right in with the times.
Now Do........Communion (1989), Fire in the Sky (1993), Fourth Kind (2009), and Dark Skies (2013). I think that would round out your UFO/Alien watchlist.
Dark Skies is very underrated and probably too complex for his smooth brain to comprehend
We communicate with them with synthesizers. All the alien sounds are instruments you could find in a symphony
That's because the aliens abducted the entire tuba section of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1958.
I liked this movie. Especially that part where he thinks the UFO is just another car.
I have a movie reaction suggestion. One of my favorites. The Final Countdown (1980) The U.S.S. Nimitz goes back to December 6th, 1941. It's filmed on the Nimitz.
I'll check it out! Thanks for watching
What happens over 25 years later? The U.S.S. Nimitz is involved in one of the biggest UFO/UAP incidents in history, where a fighter pilot encounters an object which is referred to as "The Tic Tac UFO."
I'm here waiting patiently
This movie has the best Practical Effects.
Also please take this into account, this is before CGI.
lol - yeah, Spielberg had planned for more impressive aliens BUT, the film production was behind schedule, way over budget and the studio was getting very nervous that they might have a young director who may have bitten off more than he could chew so they pulled the plug and ordered the production to finish up.
The saying that movies are never finished, they are abandoned.
The Family Guy fartoff was doing a play on the Dueling Banjos bit from Deliverance.
4 stars from me. The descent into madness portion of the film is too long, I agree. And then he dragged out the end bc of the wonder associated with the ships (like their variable designs you noticed) and it just doesn't play as well today, unfortunately. I was born in 77, so obviously saw this much later, but movies still had that aura of magic at my first watch of this. It really wasn't until T2 and Jurassic Park that everything changed industrywide to CGI, and now nothing looks amazing anymore. It's very disappointing to me, I can't remember the last time I was blown away by CGI, maybe The Matrix.
Watch Spielbergs first film duel 1971! Now that’s a classic! People really need to start reacting to that film instead of this!
I've seen it already that's why I won't for the channel . Good flick
You want a UFO movie, Mike?
FIRE IN THE SKY (1993)
D. B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick.
That'll cure ya.
That movie is based on a real UFO Abduction case that happened in 1975. It was *The Travis Walton UFO Abduction case.* In fact Travis wrote the book about it, it was called *"Fire in the Sky: The Walton Experience"*
Your movie reactions deserve more views. Your content is better than a lot of other creators out there.
Hey thanks! That really means a lot! 🙏🏽
SO seconded. Here here!
Agreed.
You're disappointed in the aliens. 4 years before I watched this in 78, my father took me to see 'Sinbad and the eye of the tiger' check out the Ray harrihausen (sp?) Puppets. Then you'll realise how incredible it was. Your generation is spoilt!!!! But, you've never had what we had. Wonderment.
I can see how you would think this movie drags on in some parts and the sudden turns it takes at times, but you have to try and put yourself in the mind of the audience back in 77 and how someone would react to experiencing something like this. It's not a perfect movie, but I hope you appreciate it more as you watch it multiple times as I and many others have. I also understand how a movie that people overhype before you see it can be disappointing when you're expecting a lot more than what the film delivers. That's happened to me w/classics like Citizen Kane and Chinatown. I felt like they were overrated and I guess the same happened to you w/this one. If you want to check out another Spielberg take on Aliens that you might enjoy more try his version of War of the Worlds. Peace. 👽🤘
Try the Original "The Day The Earth Stood Still".
WHEN THE UFO 🛸 SHINED THE LIGHT OVER HIM THAT MEANS HE WAS CHOSEN TO COME TO ANOTHER LOCATION TOO GO UP WITH THEM
Actually, he no longer has a wife. She left him.
Where do they specify that? She just seems to take off temporarily until he regains sanity lol
Love Teri Garr as an actress but man she sure had to play a major non supportive wife in this role - she did it well but I hated seeing this sweet gentle lady (typically funny in her movies) play this uncaring selfish wife and mom.
The Aliens caused the people to have an obsession about where they would be landing - the obsession took a different pattern in each persons mind - some drew it , some painted it - he built it in his kitchen LOL. The goofy little Aliens I think - are a product of the big Spider guy mixed with humans - that is my take. YOUR DISSAPOINTED it is a dad gum 45 year old movie!! You can't compare it to modern day stuff like Nope or whatever that was you mentioned.
I think Teri Garr's character was supposed to be realistic for the situation. Especially back then. And at first she was trying to be supportive. It was when she saw her husband was no longer involved with the family and obsessed with the UFOs that she changed. She was not uncaring, she just didn't understand because the aliens were not calling her, they were calling him. Any wife would eventually lose their patience especially after he went nuts and started throwing dirt and garbage in the house just to make another mountain...lol. I feel bad for what both of them were going through. He felt like he was going nuts and she saw her husband checked out.
People talking this as a classic? snoozetown? If a giant UFO landed and we made first contact with friendly aliens, you'd change channels aye lol. :P
Actually Spielberg regretted put out this cut. He prefers the original theatrical version.
I'm an old guy (70's) and am right with you about this movie. We saw it when it first came out and the kids enjoyed the effects, but if not for your reaction I'd never watch it again. Now, your older movie reactions like the original "12 Angry Men," "To Kill A Mockingbird", "Psycho" and "Vertigo", etc., I have really enjoyed as it's a nice mix you've done of the different decades. Hopefully you'll get around to "Casablanca" and "The African Queen" some day; both star Humphrey Bogart & you should enjoy both of those movies.
Hey thanks for watching and the comment! I actually do have a reaction already to Casablanca....search it...loved it
@27:30 He had a wife, she took the kids and left.
I hate to tell ya but he does not have a family anymore.
At the beginning when he's in the truck , thats when he got abducted. It happened instantly.
He wasn't abducted. Where did you get that from. He chasecthecufo from his truck after that. You shire you were watching the movie?
It's just a kiss, not sex !
I saw this movie in the 70s and even back then, the aliens looked totally fake and disappointing. The spider alien looked cool but even that one looked more like a puppet than anything real. I agree with you that the aliens were a big disappointment. I did like the movie up to that point and remember thinking it went into 3 phases. It started out in a spirituality and mystery form, then morphed into obsession, then into the actual revelation phase which didn't quite provide the required payoff. Even the little spaceships resembles toys more than anything else.
Well said! Thanks for understanding my points!
What're you gonna do if the aliens end up looking like that in real life?
What are you talking about, I saw this in the theater as a child and I remember all the hype about the special effects back then and the alien that greets them. I only remember that people wished there was more aliens in the movie.
I'm assuming because of the facial expression on the thumbnail and the many yawning emojis in the title, he DIDN'T like this movie, am I wrong?
You're wrong
I would watch you react to paint drying. 😍
Haha 🤣
So, this is about a father abandoning his family to go fulfill selfish curiosities? All fathers or mothers who abandon their families put many miles or oceans between them and their families. In this case the father moved to another planet to put some distance between him and his family. Nice. Let's all give him a heroic cheer and a round of "for he's a jolly good fellow."
Mother abandoned him
_Did_ he abandon them? 'Cause I seem to remember his wife leaving him about 2/3 of the way through.
I think it would have been better if the aliens were actually bad.
Klingons? Romulans? Martians?
I didnt like this reaction....
Thanks for letting us know lol
@@FlixTalk you're welcome...I enjoyed other reactions that you did though like fright night, the howling