Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Saw it a long time ago. Remember liking it. There are different cuts, which one is considered the best?

I love it.  I first saw it as a little kid too.  

I think its a decent movie

It was quite okay.

It was big spectacle at the time--the light ships were unique. The ominous sense of the aliens although I think the imagery got ahead of story. All those people returning from their space trips.

"Following this, an enormous mothership lands at the site, releasing the missing World War II pilots and Cotopaxi sailors, as well as over a dozen other abductees from long-missing adults to children (and even a few animals), all from different eras and all of whom have strangely not aged since their abductions."



I read the book--Spielberg was credited as author--but I never understood whether he was taken aboard or turned into an alien?
It was hard to tell in one version-he gets hit by a shower of light and then you see the grey alien.

I remember not being impressed at all by it as a kid and i'm old enough to have seen it at the cinema. I learned to appreciate it more as an adult and now quite like it but it's only a solid movie for me and not a great one

Better than Earth vs. the Flying Saucers? Surely you jest!

I always liked the opening sequence with the Grumman Avengers from Flight 19. It’s a fun film but not one I revisit that often. I was in the Mobile, Alabama area a few weeks ago and there was a little pamphlet at the visitor station about filming locations for the film in the area.

9 tenths of a classic movie. The negative 1 tenth is the scene in which Dreyfus fills his living room with dirt to sculpt the vision of Devil's Tower rolling around in his head. I thought it was stupid when I first saw the movie in '77 and I haven't changed my opinion since.