Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
A line worker, after a encounter with UFO's, feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen. (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Written By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Lance Henriksen, Richard Dreyfuss, Bob Balaban, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Josef Sommer, Melinda Dillon, Basil Hoffman, J. Patrick McNamara
Genres: Drama, Sci-fi, Adventure
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BillyShears | 85 86% |
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Dreyfuss's character is one of the biggest assholes in movie history. He just ABANDONS his 3 kids and wife to go play in space and who knows how long he'll be gone. the little boy was gone for a few few days, then the pilots were gone for 30+ IT'S selfish and what do the government say to his family if anything "Oh he um died". Let's just say he comes back after the 30 years, his wife will be dead and his kids will be all messed up and broken, but he'll come back all: "AW NEAT YOU GUYS."
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djross | 50 43% |
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This is the film in which Spielberg portrays his own inner conflict through the character played by Dreyfuss: fantasising himself as a misunderstood artist, he is in fact a pathological conformist. Hence, after a set of conspiracy-type scenes in which he is pursued by apparently unscrupulous authorities, not only do they turn out to be benign, but Dreyfuss dons a patriotic uniform and becomes a kind of vanguard representative of the government. It is, in a sense, Spielberg's TANNHÄUSER.
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MartinTeller | 93 97% |
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It's not a brilliant or insightful story, it leaves a lot of questions unanswered, and it's kinda corny. But it so perfectly awakens that childlike sense of awe and marvel. And the fact that the film manages to completely ignore the aliens for over an hour in the middle and yet still command your attention is a testament to Spielberg's storytelling skills (when he's working with the right material). After Raiders of the Lost Ark, it's perhaps his most captivating creation.
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Paxton | 82 90% |
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There's an alternate version of this movie where he just genuinely loves mashed potatoes.
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frederic_g54 | 7 57% |
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While watching this film, I was struck by this feeling of mystery and discovery, which makes Close Encounters a more heartfelt movie than other sci-fi classics such as Kubrick's 2001. The movie does lack a good ending, but the rest of film makes up for it. Spielberg brings you closer to ufo's and aliens than any other director who has attempted to do the same, a fair reason why he's still one of the best in the business.
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Pickpocket | 1 12% |
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I'm really having trouble trying to find something I liked about this movie. It's painfully boring and has a slow build that grows into one of the worst climaxes in cinematic history. Seriously, that was a really gay climax. Too many plot holes and continuity errors for me. Features one of the worst kiss scenes I've ever seen too. So unneeded an out of place. Gross. Also I love Truffaut but there was no reason he should've been in this movie. Incredibly overrated and frustrating.
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doctor7 | 79 70% |
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It leaves you with far more questions than answers and so many things are simply left unexplained. The special effects are honestly somewhat dated now but the movie completely succeeds in it's goal of creating a giant sense of child-like awe from the audience. Some say there's some Christian influence in the film but I honestly don't see any of it, even Spielberg himself said if it's in there it's not intentional as he is Jewish. It's a great film that invokes a genuine sense of curiousness.
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Alex Watkins | 4 70% |
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Portrays a sense of awe and wonderment beautifully. Spielberg's themes of nonverbal communication mesh perfectly with the film's story, as nobody can quite explain the how or what of the situation but instead communicate with music, images and symbols. It's no wonder, then, that the two most awe-struck characters are Barry and the child-like Roy, who abandons his family for the mysterious extraterrestrials. Great thoughtful popcorn entertainment.
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juntakinte99 | 70 38% |
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As the quintessential Boomer filmmaker, Spielberg understood both 50's sci-fi & the space race era's optimism. Here, he made a film that shows extraterrestrials not as invaders, but rather a benevolent force. The Oscar-winning cinematography lifts the drama, creating a visual story that's compelling even on mute. The psychological mystery is a little weak. And the hero returning at the end to a galactic ascension is saccharine. But if the latter is your jam you'll dig this picture.
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eCitizen | 40 32% |
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I loved this when it came out, but stepping back and revisiting it makes me wonder what I thought was so great about it. I thought it was engaging when I saw it some 30 years ago but it just does not hold up. There are a lot of perplexing events and many pot holes that hurt the suspension of disbelief. The acting is good and the theme engaging, but so much about this movie really should have been better.
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bof | 64 48% |
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Spielberg challenges Demme and Scorsese. It's not one of the great concert movies, but Spielberg's "Yanni in concert" is undoubtedly visually impressive.
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afx237vi | 70 69% |
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Generation X with flying saucers. More than anything, I always thought this film was about the breakup of a family. Why is Richard Dreyfuss so willing to completely abandon his wife and three kids? Because he has nothing else to live for? He wants more than a nice family, a house in suburbia and a comfy job working for the city? What does that say about the world he lives in? Maybe I'm over-thinking a fun popcorn flick, but I find it quite sad.
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spleen | 97 98% |
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In the 70's aliens wanted to be our friends. Now they just wanna either disintegrate us, eat us or probe us. Disco be damned, I miss the 70's.
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andayb | 60 46% |
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probably the most overrated spielberg film. the special effects and the cinematography are exceptionally good for its day, but the story seems to drag on for an eternity, and doesn't avail to anything satisfying in the end. except for the fact that extra-terrestials were into groovy jazz and gangsta signs.
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mrandersen10 | 75 59% |
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Of Spielberg's earlier works, this is probably the most difficult to watch today. It just doesn't hold up well to repeat viewings. I still enjoy Jaws and E.T. because they get the human elements right. It's the journey of their discovery that makes them special. Not so much here. The protagonist, who is a complete jerk-off, is not someone you'd root for. Also, I do wish they'd have gone with a more menacing spaceship; the colorful goofy-looking saucers screamed kid's movie.
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elmakebabi | 45 15% |
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The most overrated film of all times!
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somnivore | 70 16% |
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I think I fell asleep watching this.
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edkrak | 25 10% |
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One of the lamest alien films ever. And the ending sucks so much... well but that's actually Spielberg's trademark.
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Barnowl | 93 65% |
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Close Encounters is an excellent film.
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| 2 | gleeb | 36 6% |
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About the point at which Spielberg turned to syrupy goop.
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Suture Self | 8 81% |
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When I watch this I'm a kid again. Jurispathic, you're such a buzz-kill.
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AFlickering | 6 88% |
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we're introduced to dreyfuss extolling the virtues of PETER PAN to his agnostic family. soon, that family is long forgotten as he leaps into (or invents) an adventure that could only be the product of the silver screen (no coincidence that the triggers for this obsession are audiovisual). it plays as subversively in the jaded, ironic '10s as i imagine it did in the cynical, paranoid '70s, earnestly locating the face of god in the process of creating and consuming art.
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jimmynmu | 89 90% |
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Spielberg, please make more films like this.
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| 1 | myfavchords | 77 61% |
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This film has some slow spots but also some very interesting moments. Richard Dreyfuss is really good in the lead role. There are a number of suspenseful moments in this film. Overall I would recommend this movie.
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Kojiless | 58 61% |
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Far too drawn out for me to even consider slapping on the "masterpiece" tag. And, there will always be the personal trauma connected to this movie--my mom confiscated my electronic Casio keyboard a punishment for playing that gods-damned 5-note riff day and night.
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shalev | 83 69% |
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It's a mystery, as much as it is a sci-fi, maybe could have even worked better with a more loosely tied ending
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Valenzetti | 88 81% |
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Still just as awe-inspiring, terrifying, and moving as it was when I was twelve.
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thewire | 44 31% |
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I came here for François, Vilmos, and Bob, and they did not disappoint. The rest of the film however is messy. The farther it went along, the more my interest waned. I knew it was a Spielberg film when the climax was a bunch of white dudes staring into a bright light. Also, why create such heavy familial stakes if Dreyfuss is just gonna abandon his? However, everything is far more interesting when viewed through Villeneuve's comment that the film is metaphorical for the labor of filmmaking.
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dunbar | 70 44% |
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There's something curious about this film, and least of all it's the aliens. Maybe it's the pace or the characters, which is enjoyable but at other times seem a little off the mark.
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hellboy76 | 73 89% |
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One of my favorite science fiction films as it deals with real people. No action heroes or far away worlds.
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Noblet | 79 67% |
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I really got sucked in and was dying to find out what happened next. The great acting and music didn't hurt either.
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DetoxP | 1 0% |
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Okay, so what if it's 30 minutes of plot stretched out to two hours, or it has a terrible kiss scene, or its boring and corny as hell, or if the climax was rubbish, or if the aliens are bizarrely prone to groovin', because that spaceship was all like woah soooooo awesome duuuuude. Overrated. Score is not a grade.
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TheDiceman | 75 89% |
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Great film.
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pilgermann | 85 87% |
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That tall skinny alien near the end used to scare me nearly to death. It still weirds me out.
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Grit | 59 60% |
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Although Close Encounters of the Third Kind has gained a very high reputation over the years and has many iconic scenes, it is surprisingly lacking in some areas and is terribly slow paced. The shared idealologies, parallels and physical forms between the aliens and humans also seem a little too contrived under the context of a first contact. However the portrayal it paints and the way it goes about it has thrust it to a much higher level than any similar film has managed before or since.
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krmr | 83 58% |
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Man was this a visual treat. The space crafts were just so perfect. But when it ended I was somehow just underwhelmed, but for no particular reason. It certainly deserves its iconic status though.
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DavidBlast | 85 88% |
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If it is not his most accomplished and polished film, it is probably the one that people will look back on as quintessential vintage Spielberg. The Magic, the aliens, the broken homes, the distant fathers, and the gripping scenes of suspence. One particular effective scene is when the mother comes to the terrible realisation that her house is under alien attack, and her child commands his playmates to "Come in through the door!". This is for better or worse the godfather of 'The X-Files'.
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monkeycat | 80 64% |
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I remember when I was little my grandma yelled at me for making a mountain out of my mashed patatos. I just wanted to be like Richard Dreyfuss! My grandma was kind of a bitch
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comepelicula | 50 37% |
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I think this movie is bit overrated, probably revolutionary in its time but by todays standard's too naïve, and has lost the surprise effect. The action didn't make too much sense story wise, but it was entertaining.
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| 1 | brandons | 87 84% |
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Close Encounters' most iconic bits (the theme, the mashed-potato sculpture) have been so thoroughly absorbed into the culture that it's easy to forget that its treatment of aliens as peaceful beings rather than warmongering monsters was somewhat groundbreaking in 1977.
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mutter | 60 44% |
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Too long
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| 1 | DyanneThorne | 65 54% |
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Certainly has some very memorable images and novel ideas, none of which makes a lot of sense. I'm getting the vibe that Spielberg really wanted to make something deep and philosophical in the vein of 2001 but with really, really annoying kids instead of homicidal AIs.
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joel-w-m | 7 64% |
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"This means something. This is important." There's this incredibly compelling sense of mystery and discovery, yearning and wonder throughout the film; it's got the nuts and bolts scenes of typical sci-fi investigation but there's a wholly human element here too, as evidenced by Roy's tragic arc (it was just tragic-a gross negligence, really-that the film ultimately didn't paint it as such; that certainly would've added some fascinating nuance to the triumphant final scene). Wonderful camerawork.
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dardan | 60 58% |
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Too many retards went full Dreyfuss after seeing this.
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luord | 85 93% |
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I like this one much more than E.T., which I suppose makes me odd. In any case, I love every minute of it, maybe that five-note leitmotif brainwashed me. It deserves its place among the one hundred cheers.
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nobamba | 70 76% |
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Director's Cut. The soundtrack was amazing. The movie's atmosphere was dreamlike toward the end. The use of light fluctuated between wonder and annoying. Barry was very frustrating. I feel like this movie leaves me with more questions than answers...that the mythology could have been explored more. Strong start, lags in middle. Scary at times. Alien design was a clunker. Fav scene: the ending, which was quite flawed but still very stylized. I guess I just had different hopes for first contact.
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| 1 | demiurge | 38 11% |
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Plodding. 40 minutes of plot extended to over two hours. The final sequence is the best part.
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Judge Holden | 3 32% |
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I'm such a fucking buzz-kill.
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mwgerb | 70 86% |
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Wondrous and awe-inspiring, traits Spielberg has relied on for his whole career. The mystery and promise of the encounters sustain the entire movie, plus it's hard to beat the combination of Dreyfuss and Truffaut, early Spielberg, Douglas Trumbull, and John Williams. They make the film masterful even before the aliens arrive. Which is good, because the ending is far from perfect; see BillyShears' review for the biggest issue, and see ET for Spielberg getting it right the second time around.
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Just boring.
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Mentaculus | 70 53% |
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The same joy and wonder directed toward the innocent child and the UFOs is shockingly absent in most of our human characters. I have always been distressed and sad after watching this film - Spielberg turns Drefyuss into a Real Boy by whisking him away, an escapism with hints of celestial suicide.
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nandorizzi | 75 71% |
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Certainly one of the best in the genre. It is a novel experience, unique and magic in which we are immersed in a reality totally fantastic. A movie well directed and a very well built, with effects very well done.
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Wiche | 83 85% |
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Although nothing really happens here and the plot is extraordinarely thin, this film grabbed my attention and never let go because of the mystery it offers. This is some real storytelling.
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phaedrus | 65 57% |
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Builds and builds and eventually gets there. That guy had a family, then he kissed another woman, and went up with the aliens. What happened to the family?
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Biedronski | 46 22% |
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there are a few scenes in this movie that are absolutely fantastic. The scene with dreyfuss stopped in his truck at the railroad tracks. The scene with the kid opening the door to extremely bright lights. the final scene of the movie is fairly solid even though it's drawn out for way too long. But i just felt that this movie didn't hold up through time. I just saw it and i can imagine it was a much different experience in 1977. I was dozing off though a good portion of it.
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| 1 | slobone | 60 22% |
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Be a lot better if it made any sense. Humans are individually selected by the aliens to go to the mountain, and then when they get their the US Air Force is waiting for them?
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Nathan S | 3 45% |
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In a broad sense, it portrays the events in a very believable way. The atmosphere of unsettlement (as opposed to outright hysteria) drives the movie really well. On the other hand, the individual characters are all easy to sympathize with. Richard Dreyfuss is awesome. Spielberg is also really good at building curiosity and a sense of wonder.
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calharding | 94 95% |
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The pacing of the film's first hour has occasionally been criticized, but I believe the pacing is perfect in order to adequately experience the frustrating tension and eventual awe that the film's final act delivers. Truffaut is a pleasant addition to a strong cast that adequately conveys the bizarre mix of emotions to be experienced in truly extraordinary circumstances. This, combined with Douglas Trumbull's amazing effects, ultimately creates one of the most hopeful films I have ever seen.
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Gilly | 50 12% |
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boring... maybe it was a good film in the 70s
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Derekstar | 20 6% |
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I get why this movie is significant, but it also happens to be terribly boring.
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begoniabol | 55 45% |
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Starts off quite promising, until one of the gayest Scifi endings I've ever seen. Really.. *spoiler* the ship and humans play music with eachother, and eventually some small aliens get out with sharp nails that just begged to be sunk into juicy human flesh. But no, instead another alien emerges and smiles to the people... Some of the dialogue really felt unnatural. The two likable characters were the French dude and his interpreter, but other than that I didn't really care.
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| 1 | owen1218 | 80 79% |
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Some cheesy moments (particularly the early UFO scenes) but enjoyable overall.
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| 1 | citysqwirl | 95 99% |
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One of the most enjoyable, watchable movies ever made, start to finish. Great, ordinary, believable characters in a believably extra-ordinary situation. That finale with the mothership singing along is one of the great payoffs in all cinema. Plus I love watching Teri Garr melt down.
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WWallce4prez | 82 79% |
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Masterful 1st act followed by a a pretty good 2nd and 3rd. Still has the power to awe.
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letskillrobots | 18 51% |
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Yo that dude has a wife and kids
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| 1 | pompousass | 40 71% |
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Spielberg surpasses all of his sci-fi forerunners in the only way he knows how: in material things. He has costlier, more spectacular special effects, including some really wonderful nighttime skies; he has bigger and brighter spaceships; he has louder sound effects and background music; and he has the largest number of world-renowned cinematographers ever assembled on one list of credits (six: Vilmos Zsigmond, William Fraker, Douglas Slocombe, Laszlo Kovacs, John Alonzo, and Frank Stanley).
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rubba | 0 3% |
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movie was garbage
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Ocelot | 85 94% |
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Ultimately a reflection on mankind's eternal curiosity, Close Encounters takes the meditative nature of late 60's/early 70's sci-fi but gives it a flair the Spielberg of this era was known for. Dreyfuss's character IS selfish, but I can understand, and in a way, empathize. I liked this quite a lot.
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ABUNCHOFCATS | 82 59% |
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It has a bunch of cool ideas but like most everything Spielberg does it feels too commercial and doesn't really amount to anything other than a fun movie, like Independence Day. It's slow to start and long though which really hampers it even being an awesome fun movie, it's lost between being hard sci-fi and a summer blockbuster.
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ozymandius10 | 89 97% |
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The effects are pretty dated now, but it's still an amazing experience. Before Spielberg collaborated for Indiana Jones, this was his adventure. Make sure to take this ride.
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SirStuckey | 90 94% |
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Here's hoping real aliens are as cool as these dudes were.
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| 1 | Jay Dub | 95 96% |
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One of Spielberg's absolute best. Richard Dreyfuss gives a wonderfully manic performance, but Francois Truffaut and Bob Balaban somehow steal the show. This is one of those rare films that manage to deliver just about everything a person could ask for in a film. Wonder, excitement, terror, awe; Close Encounters is close to perfection.
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| 1 | cthululaw | 50 2% |
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I've tried to watch this multiple times, and I just can't make it
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