Epic Win: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Submitted by Angie D
“This means something. This is important.”
Richard Dreyfus’ slow decline into insanity and the revelation that he wasn’t really insane, coupled with Steven Speilberg’s incredible vision and cinematography for the time period made Close Encounters of the Third Kind a totally Epic Win. Anyone old enough to remember the film can probably still hum the first few notes that aliens played after the landed, not to mention the most memorable line in the film, as Richard Dreyfus builds a mountain of mashed potatoes.
If you’re a young’un who’s never seen CEo3K, you should go out and rent it so you can see what good storytelling used to look like.
I love that movie. When I was a kid, it scared the hell out of me. I must admit that sometimes it still does.
It’s my favorite movie ever, and yet I still can’t seem to be able to look directly at the screen when the star alien appears.
This is why the govmnt lies to us…..we would all pee our pants.
I loved this movie as a kid. This was inspirational and just… Gah my family is full of Trekkies; I think this was their initiation for me. Whatever it was, it worked
Loved it~
I tried watching this once. It bored the crud out of me…
Same for me. I hated the characters, found the story to be tedious.
Sat through it for a film class. *yawn*
Kinda had this beef about how man goes crazy, abandons wifey and kids, and then runs away to go explore the galaxy and hang out with aliens, while lady with the kid that got nabbed stays home. Fair, huh?
That, and I can never get that stupid theme-song back out of my head.
Do-do-do, Dum-DUM!
It takes a certain type of ittelect to realy enjoy this movie. Either you have it you don’t. I loved it, my son was bored with it. It’s like Mony Python, my wife was bored to the bone, my son and I laghted our heads off. I loved close encounters more than E.T.
Oh thank goodness!! I was worried it’d just be me. Hated the goram movie. HATED! And I’m a sci-fi kinda person. Like Star Wars, liked Star Trek, liked the old and new versions of Dune… read the books seen the movies… but when it came to this “classic” I just wanted to turn it off.
yep its crap and im a real sci-fi fan as well.
F*ck you.
Mmm….mashed potatoes!
I can’t eat them without thinking about this movie.
The voter thing isn’t working
Love the movie!
“You can come and play now!”
Man, this movie is brilliant. I love it.
That part scared the crap outta me!! Still went to see it….
anybody catch the sporadic Jaws theme at the end? kinda neat
that’s my favorite part… I love the musical nod.
THIS MOVIE IS FREAKIN’ BOMB. Just awesome in every way possible.
BEST. MOVIE. EVER.
I am in the loved it camp. Did, from seeing in the theatre as a kid, to today.
When they play the music back and forth between the ship and the humans, I cry every time, I don’t know why.
Yeah, it’s such a moving experience to play a duet with an unknown species.
Amazing movie. One of Spielbergs best. The special effects are great too.
ITS CRAP and so are its remastered versions. Huge disapointment at the time and still boring last time it was on tv,when i thought id see if i had been wrong when it came out. I wasnt ..its still crap!
Opinions…
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In Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), the humans and aliens use music and computers to communicate. Spielberg’s father was a computer scientist and his mother was a musician. This fact was only recently pointed out to him on “Inside the Actors Studio” (1994) by host James Lipton and he was unsurprisingly delighted when he realised the connection.
“I got a fly in my mashed potatoes….” lol
Soooo not epic win. That was the dumbest movie ever. Made no sense and a horrible ending.
The town that Dreyfus’s character lived in was the town of Muncie, IN. The first alien encounter took place on Cornbread Rd. today u can still go there…