Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

This movie is overrated ... surely very well made and still worth watching "for entertainment purposes only!" even today because of its good (but not exceptional) cinematography ... but too overrated no matter what ... yes, a few fine scenes and even maybe a lot of calculated government-approved subversive messages too, but that's about it all ... have seen much better entertaining movies of this director (The Jurassic series for example) and this one barely cuts it even half as much ...

This is my all time favorite movie. The sense of wonder, fear, anticipation and excitment in this piece of art is amazing. I highly recommend for kids and for people who lost that feeling of what it is to be young and curious about life. 1000 out of 10, cannot say enough about this masterpiece!

Movie Review: "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" (1977)In the very first year of dreaming being a director for life, Steven Spielberg, at the age of sixteen, in filmmaking season 1962/1963, when Hollywood Major Productions as "Cleopatra" starring Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton and English Imports as "Lawrence of Arabia" directed by David Lean winning all the glory at the Academy Award Ceremony in Los Angeles, California, a young U.S. American teenager from Columbus, Ohio starts principal photography on Super 8mm, in reminiscence of executive S. Spielberg producing "Super 8" for director J.J. Abrams in season 2010/2011, when images of gathered teenager take all their pride to finish a 140-Minute micro-budget science-fiction film releasing in 1964 under the title "Firelight", making some waves with executives at Universal Studios Hollywood, when legend says that 18-year-old Steven Spielberg from Columbus, OH jumped the visitor train at Universal Studios to make his way into an office of an Universal executive to present a copy of his film "Firelight" (1964).The rest is history, the name of the executive not to be revealed here, presumingly resting in peace, presented a 10-to-12 exclusive picture deal to the young man Spielberg, when first television as an episode of the weekly crime-feature series "Colombo" (season 1969/1970) before hitting an Hitchcockian thriller base with original television feature, exclusively produced for Universal Television, "Duel" starring Dennis Weaver, where Steven Spielberg, at age 24, already shows the visionary eye of connecting several angles into one shot, keeping the suspense going to a clean 85-Minute-Cut finish of ultimate action between a salesman and a truck driver.Steven Spielberg's fourth theatrically-released feature brings the director full-circle with his first "Firelight" endeavors in filmmaking, blowing up to an ultimate cinematic experience, when "Aliens" from outer space fly light-flashing saucers over U.S. American soil, doing magic of physicalities, which hit leading man portrayed by Richard Dreyfuss like an exploding lighbulb. He starts to see visions of an lonely mountain of "title-given" stage of encounter, when a French scientist performed by director Francois Truffaut (1932-1984) in an all-time exclusive favor from a French critically-acclaimed director to an new-age Hollywood blockbuster director that "Close Encounters of Third Kind" reaches the highest heights in cinematic splendor visually, audioable as the galvanizing score by director Spielberg's close-friend through the ages John Williams, recalling the "five notes of eternity" to play as inception of communication between "humans" and "aliens". F.A. Dausend (one-time author exclusive-engagement)Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

This film is a classic. It is a well made Sci-Fi drama. The story is not simple but compelling. In this film an ordinary man encounters a strange thing he can not explain. At the same a child is kidnapped by a UFO.Other strange events lead other people into an out of this world film experience! Now there is 3 version of "Record". The 1977 Original Theatrical Cut. The 1980 Special Edition. and the 1998 "Directors Revisionist Cut". However there was a television edition that combined the 1977 and 1980 versions. However that cut has never been officially released on home video. There is minor differences in all 3 cuts. The worse version to me is the "Specail Edition". My prefered version is the original theatrical cut. I love that version. It has more of the comic relief moments that were cut in the 1980 Special Edition. Hard to imagine that the original theatrical cut was not seen by the public for 13 years. Criterion rescued that version after it was almost lost forever. Now you can decide what version is the best because 3 of 4 versions are on home video releases. George Lucas should do the same with the "Star Wars Films"