Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Director's Cut) (1977) First Time Watching Movie Reaction/Review
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- Arrive here and watch this reaction to an extremely immersive and wild experience as Cameron and Isaiah sit down together and watch the director's cut of Close Encounters of the Third Kind on Amazon Prime Video for the very first time! The mystery was full of wonder and Steven Spielberg shows off his amazing skills again! if you agree and enjoyed this reaction, show some support and leave a like, share, and subscribe! Comment down below your favorite scene from the director's cut of the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"!
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Back in the 70's if you were a pilot and reported a UFO, you were done being an airline pilot.
Can you imagine the effect this film had on audiences almost 50 years ago? Before cell phones, before the Internet. It blew my mind.
This is a Spielberg movie, boys. This movie is child-like hope, not underlining horror. I know he did Jaws, but that was more of a one-off. Also, this is an enhanced version, so it's longer than the theatrical version.
The music was the legend John Williams, who did the most iconic films scores of all time. That's why the score popped off.
The idea to use brilliantly colored lights was genius. It makes the ships look delicate and inviting rather than frightening or evil. Great design choice.
Jurasic Park?
@@THEPATRIOT1000 That came long after his "avatar of hope" period. :)
This isn’t a comedy guys. Seriously it’s a moving sci fi movie! Spielberg makes it almost childlike. 😊
As an old guy, you cannot imagine what it was like to se this in a theater in 1978.
In the theater was SO MUCH MORE impactful.
Those giant ships cruising along over your head. 😳😮
Not the same when it's all condensed and contained in a little box (or flat picture screen) in your living room. Even more so on a phone or tablet.
@@cindyknudson2715And back then they weren't multiplexes with little screens but we watched it on giant screens.
Amen! ❤
As of three summers before, "Jaws" was my favourite film. Therefore, I was going to see anything any "Jaws" alum was in and that included this one. Me and my Pops went and we sat there for three hours with our mouths hanging open. There was nothing like that first scene with the musical tones. No CGI. No computer programs. Just imagination and talent.
So true! I saw it at Mann's Hasting's Ranch in Pasadena, CA with my brother and sister.
"THat's not how my mom would react to finding me outside in the middle of the night!"
Welcome, Cam and Zay, to the world of parenting in the 1970s!
Exactly. I don't think Cam & Zay would survive the 70's. LOL! They're going to freak when they watch Stand By Me. Parenting in the 50's.
It's not that parenting was crazy then, but that it got crazy in recent years. What we see in the movie is more "normal" for the past, possibly, thousands of years.
@@BobS-mv5fl These dudes seem more likley to survive than a lot of people their age I see.
From what I hear parenting is still like this in Europe. It's just here, in the US, where fear and paranoia has ramped up precipitously.
@@Aeroldoth3 Paranoia has increased most everywhere thanks to modern media tormenting everyone 24/7 with all the cherry-picked bad stuff going on. But yeah, things in the USA are usually done worse and bigger than anywhere else!
Boys, you cannot underestimate the impact of seeing this film on it's original release, on a huge cinema screen with 6 track stereo sound! Absolutely incredible and mindbending. The scientist with the French accent is famed film director Francois Truffaut. And by the way this is not the original version that was released in 1977. This is another subsequent cut that is actually not as good as the original version. Also love the haircut Zay.
Barry’s mom is the lady who played Ralphie’s mom in a Christmas Story. The old man saw Bigfoot once is the old man in Home Alone. The lady who plays the wife, the one and only Teri Garr is best known for Young Frankenstein and Mr. Mom.
also the original Oh God, Teri played John Denver's wife as well. Oh God was also released in 1977.
@@ihl8608 she played the perfect distressed wife. Also played Dustin Hoffman’s girlfriend in Tootsie as well.
Roll...roll...roll in ze hay!
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@@iKvetch558 “what knockers”
When I'm with a bunch of people in the elevator, during that awkward silence, I like to just blurt out, "I saw bigfoot once. Sequoia National Forest, 1951! It made a sound that I would not want to hear twice in my life."
Then a random person had to ruined it for you and says: "But weren't you born in the 90's?"
Hahahaha
If a girl on the elevator replies "There's a dead fly in my potatoes", you've found your soulmate.
@@sebswede9005 Late 60s
😂😂 LOL! 🤣
I don't want to sound like an old fogey, but guys, map reading skills are still important. GPS isn't always reliable or available. I have had it lead me astray more than once. Do yourselves a favor and learn to read a map. It won't cause your brain to explode! ;)
Yep. People have literally follwed GPS to their deaths. Stranded into the desert, dead end middle of nowhere, I think even over a cliff?! Reading a map is a crucial life skill. Your GPS device may not always be available.
@@jenniferfoster1692 Not only reading a map, having a compass isn't a bad idea either; and learn how to use it. I used to teach Hunter Safety and "Map & Compass" was a required section. For most of my travel (Maine), I still carry the DeLorme Atlas and Gazetteer. I also have some old folding maps. In fact, in the State of Maine folding map from 1971, there's several pictures on the backside, used just to fill up space. One of those pictures was taken at the harness racing event at the Windsor Fair. The bald headed guy in the picture was my father, and I'm the little boy sitting next to him.
I avoid Google earth because once I open it - I'm there for a long time. Love geography and cartography.
@@terrylandess6072 I've used the street view to revisit all the places I've lived, etc...
@@brt5273Same, or look at places I want to go see.
The aliens did NOT take the rest of the astronauts.... the ones in red who had been trained. They only took Roy because he was the only one who had been "invited" through the vision he received.
It was implied that they were all taken; they focused on Roy because he was the main character.
Nope. Just Roy. They would've taken all in the helicopter cuz they were all invited. But the government messed it up & Barry's mom just wanted her kid back.
Fun fact, the whole "sunburn" thing is actually a pretty common facet of real UFO experiences. People seem to get mild radiation burns (which a sunburn technically is) in some encounters. The whole movie seems to be very grounded and based heavily on real encounters of previous decades, ar least in the fine details.
I saw this when it came out and the reaction at the end was a lot more wholesome from the audience. No one had any comical comments and imagined what that really would have been like instead. We were in the very beginning of the Sci-Fi kind of thinking and all this was new to us. Remember, it was just a decade earlier when we had Westerns dominating the cinema
Er...scifi has been present since the beginning of cinema. From the Earth to the Moon was one of the first movies ever made.
@@TransoceanicOutreach present, yes, but as a mainstream movie genre it wasn't really around. There had been a burst of sci-fi movies several decades earlier, but they had fallen out of favor. For mainstream audiences, sci-fi movies weren't really much of a thing anymore, and that's what I think they were getting at.
You had this and Star Wars come out in the same year, and I think that reinvigorated audience interest.
Since y'all wondered, there are *no* prequels nor sequels to this. THE FOURTH KIND (2009) and THE 5TH KIND (2017) are completely unrelated... and in different ballparks quality-wise.
I mean, E.T. and War of the Worlds might be considered spiritual sequels to Spielberg's Alien trilogy.
@@sebswede9005 They're in the same category, but not "sequels" in the way the boys were asking about.
@@sebswede9005 War of the Worlds? The 1895 book made into a radio show in the early 20th century followed by an excellent 1950's film? That spiritual successor? :P
Fun fact: One of the scientists (Claude Lacombe) is played by famous French film director Francois Truffaut.
Despite being a more accomplished director at the time, in a "making of" featurette Spielberg said Truffaut was remarkably humble and magnanimous. When they first discussed the film Truffaut made it clear that Spielberg was the one in charge and he was just there to do what he was told. Apparently Truffaut was a bit insecure about his performance and was worried he was ruining the film, so Spielberg had to keep encouraging him and reassure that he was doing great.
They belong here Mozambique. 😉
@@rttoonist4275That’s amazing.
still the most realistic depiction of real UFO encounters to date
@58.30: I don't interpret the kiss as a romantic one so much as an empathetic one; these two people have shared a story that they cannot share with others, and they're both dealing with the grief of having lost families and children (in different ways), and both are totally alone with the exception of the other. Maybe there was some attraction-romance in the kiss, but it definitely wasn't the main motivation, in my opinion.
I completely agree, and that's why I find both the chaste kiss and their earlier embrace on the train platform to be so moving.
The cinematography in this entire movie is amazing.
This film won one competitive Oscar, Best Cinematography (it was awarded a special award for Sound Editing and Design).
I love seeing younger folks watching movies that I grew up with! This was one of my Dad's favorite movies! I saw it many times throughout the 80s!!!
Greg Jein made the models for this film. When I was working for him, there was a crate that we were using as a paint base, painting models on it. One day, Greg opened it up, and inside was the Devils Tower miniature used for the model effects shots.
Dude straight up left his wife and kids to be with aliens! 😂 The last time his kids saw him, he was falling off the hood of the car while their mother drove away! This movie is nuts, but I love it so much! It's damn near perfect.
I saw this movie when I was 12 back in the 80's. Even at that age I was like: "his wife and kids are anoying. I would gladly go with the aliens" 🤣
@@letmadora28 TBH I hated the way the wife reacted, and dealt with the situation, always bugged me.
TLDR
In my head canon (and I wish Spielberg would have explained it this way instead of his apologetic statements) the aliens may not yet have any way of understanding how our social dynamics work, so when they implant humans with the uncontrollable urge to meet with them they have no idea that they could be breaking up a family. Roy pretty much shows that no matter how hard he tries to “get back to normal” he invariably gets sucked back into the urge to get to the meeting. The aliens may be communal, and not even aware of the concept of a “nuclear family”. In other words I think Roy might not be operating under free will after the implant. As for the kiss, I think at that point Roy’s wife had left, he knew he couldn’t help but leave with aliens or he might go nuts, and he may never see another human again. He was just having one last human interaction with someone who truly understood his dilemma, a kindred spirit, and so he was really trying to have the most meaningful last moment on earth that he could. Roy kinda gets treated like he was a drunk who abandoned his family to join the circus, but I think it was infinitely more complicated than that. Once again, just my head canon.
Those aliens must've watched "Jaws". They recognized Richard Dreyfuss. 😂
@@stevesheroan4131That’s pretty darn good head canon. I like it.
The planes at the beginning were a reference to the bombers gone missing in the Bermuda Triangle in 1945 "The Lost Squadron"...Spielberg is throwing in some historical incidents
Yeah, I was going to say they should look up the historical case of Flight 19, plus the rescue/search flight that followed and also disappeared. Fascinating story.
Those 5 plains were actually found off the coast of Florida. They had a navigation issue and ran out of fuel.
@raymondregis6219
Nope. In the 90's some unidentified debris was found. And a couple other planes have been found.
Flight 19, en todo, is still missing.
Plus, the giant Marlin PBY flying boat which was sent out to look for them.
"Are they... aliens?" No Zay, that's just what people in Indiana look like.
When this movie came out, we watched in awe with our mouths open and a tear in our eye. It made us think and gave us a new way of looking at things. But I'm glad you guys had a good laugh.
My sentiments exactly. Kinda makes me sad. Maybe this generation is just jaded af.
"These reactions are waaay to calm"
This was the Seventies baby, people were much moe chill then
Also consider that when this movie was made, most previous movies showed the aliens as the enemy with evil intentions. This was one of the first ones to show aliens as friendly.
Best line: "They asked me if I'd seen any strangers in the neighborhood."
One of the interesting things about the movie is that there are (ultimately) no antagonists.
Richard Dreyfuss' character's face is burned because he looked up at the UFO when it was hovering over his car. He even goes "Aaahh!!" in the moment.
Nobody does breakdown of the family, through children's eyes, better than Steven Spielberg. Roy's children (and wife) turning on him still crushes me
1977 was a good year for me. I was 6 and my 26 year old kick ass mom took me to the first showing, opening day of Star Wars in May, then took me to Close Encounters later that year opening day as well. That song "So look with care for the shape of a square" has been in my head ever since.
Nice! I was born in 1973, but I don’t think I saw them both until a year or two later. I can’t remember when I first saw Star Wars. I wish I could.
Mine too! My mom took 6 year old me and my 4 year old sister. Scared the crap out of us!
I was 9 and I saw Star Wars and Close Encounters. Became a huge Star Wars fan and love most of Spielbergs films.
Masterpiece guys ! in 1977 we were absolutely surprise and huge fun !
They didn't take the other volunteers into the ship as they weren't invited. Only Roy and the others that were compelled to show up were invited.
I never thought I'd ever see anyone throwing shapes to Close Encounters, but yet here we are ... lol 😄
You mean "throwing shade"?
@@Serai3 No "throwing shapes" means dancing. Generally in a flashy, arm-wavy, kind of way.
@@maddwitch There were disco records in the 70s that covered the main music motif, so it's not unreasonable to want to get your groove on.
@@maddwitch Ah, I'd never heard that slang. Thank you. You learn something new every day!
@@maddwitch I learned something today - thx.
Fun Fact: in the 70s, calling someone a turkey was the biggest slur you could throw at any person. EVER!!!
Lol. Yes. You could add "Jive" for added emphasis.
Those were great times 😂
I don’t remember that
LOL, no it wasn't. It was definitely an insult, but the worst ones were the same as now.
The urban version was jive ass turkey
There was a Golden Age of sci Fi, for a brief period in late 70s, very early 80s Star Wars , Blade Runner, Alien, and this masterpiece. They all raised the bar, while honoring the past, and have been copied , ever since. Blessed to have seen all of them in a theater, as a child. ❤ Keep up the great reactions .
Growing up on so many Science Fiction films from the 50's and 60's which also had a LARGE share of TV series like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea or The Time Tunnel, I can't agree about a 'golden age' although technology helped to make it more exciting.
@@terrylandess6072 I'm not a words smith by any means, however I think you absolutely get where I'm coming from. Example...I think " The creature from the Black Lagoon" is one of the greatest horror, adventure, love story's ever filmed , next to King Kong..🤣✌️♥️
@@johnathanstruble1064 Ever notice in the Creature film how Spielberg copied the underwater POV shot looking up at the female swimmer in Jaws?
@@terrylandess6072 No, I did not, but now I will! ...that's great🤣✌️
Glad you caught the 'Jaws' quotation!
The Aliens abducted people in the 1940s but weren't gone for very long from their perspective. The spaceship was going close to the speed of light so time on Earth went much faster than from inside the ship. (Time Dilation). "They haven't even aged. Einstein was right... Einstein was probably one of them"
“If they’re touching him like that in public, then what goes on behind closed doors?” Bravo, Zay. Well done.
Clearly they have "close encounters" of the third base kind.
@@Aeroldoth3 Nice
Close Encounters of the First Kind: We left you a phone message.
Close Encounters of the Second Kind: We mailed you a reminder.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Taxmans Revenge.
😂😂😂
Fourth Kind is .... Anal! !!!
When I went to Devils Tower there were people drawing pictures of it.
THEY WERE INVITED!
With this film Spielberg started the trend in film of benign aliens. This trend would continue until 1996, when I can remember being absolutely shocked that the aliens started destroying cities in Independence Day. You guys obviously grew up after Independence Day when aliens were hostile again, you can hear it in your presumptions about the aliens' intentions early in the reaction.
what about Predator
what about Alien?
@@THEPATRIOT1000 I said 'trend' mate. Predator and Alien didn't end the trend, Independence Day did. That goes for The Thing also.
Ebb and flow like the tides - in the 50's and 60's Aliens weren't benign. People just got burnt out so the happy alien was 'new'.
Predator only attacked armed people😊@@THEPATRIOT1000
This film made a huge impact when it came out. One thing that I'll say, and I may be in the minority, but I think for most films, the original theatrical release is actually the best version of a film. Things are cut and trimmed for a reason. More is not necessarily better.
There is an even longer version that shows scenes of Roy at work at the power plant, and shows the inside of the big ship and where the little ones dock inside a large structure in the center, and windows all around the inside with them all looking down at him.
The reason the pilots didn’t want to file a UFO report with Indianapolis Center is because reporting a UFO encounter used be a career ending move, with airlines. Now, they’re finally changing the rules so that pilots can report unidentified aerial phenomena without repercussions, and the FAA will pass reports onto The Pentagon. There sure is enough military pilots reporting craft outmaneuvering advanced fighter jets, and moving in a manner as if not affected by gravity, or inertia, by some advanced form of propulsion.
The reason everything went crazy when Roy was stopped at the railroad tracks was due to strong electromagnetic, and antigravity, forces coming from the spacecraft. Unshielded electrical systems experience disruption, or erratic activity, antigravity fields cause objects to rise, float, or move in unusual ways, and EM fields affect ferromagnetic metallic objects.
Look up "talking plasma"
@@ITPalGame that’s fascinating. At least it’s a laser plasma system for talking to people and not burning holes in them, though that will be coming. It sounds like a similar premise to directional speakers using inaudible sound beams that can be focused on an individual who then is the only person who can hear the audio. Now they have laser plasma balls that talk. Why not? We can beam lots of things through lasers, audio data is one. Make a ball of plasma that vibrates the air like a speaker, like an audio modulated Tesla coil, all while powered and audio fed by the same lasers. I figured that wouldn’t be far off from audio mod Tesla coils, and megahertz range plasma flame speakers, that soon an alternative power source would be lasers, and the lasers even act like an audio cord. Interesting read, thanks for mentioning it!
@@FredtheDorfDorfman1985 apparently, although I haven't looked it up, there is a thing about moving a plasma ball using multiple lasers converging so that it can be moved about at high speeds giving the illusion of a physics defying object.
Everything you just explained, I knew as a child while watching this movie. But kids today know nothing. They just laugh at what they don't understand. We failed them.
I love how totally unhinged Richard Dreyfuss becomes in this movie 😂❤
Why does every reactor focus on the kiss? And then misinterpret it. It wasn't a romantic kiss. It was a reaction to everything going on around them. It was them going through this journey together, but separately. Only they could understand what the other was going through. And they knew this was a parting of the ways.
@cynfan
Exactly! Thank you for putting it so succinctly. Hope the boys read your comment.🩵✨️
They misinterpreted most of the movie. Most 8 year old could have understood it better
How did they make the cloud effect? They poured dye into huge tanks of water.
They used the same technique to make the Mutara Nebula in Star Trek II, and the mushroom clouds in The Day After.
The frenchman in this is played by director Francois Truffaut.
And he's absolutely wonderful as an actor. He plays a director in his 1973 masterpiece Day for Night, and as you can imagine, he does so convincingly 😂
Absolument, c`est bien lui.
Gary's abduction is described in heartbreaking detail in the film's novelization:
When the mom grabs her son through the doggy door she put all her strength into holding on to him. With her son being so tiny and frail and the force used to by the aliens being so stong she feared continuing the tug-of-war would cause her son serious pain and bodily harm. Her heart shattered as she reluctantly let her infant son go.
There's a great tonal and thematic followup to this from 2019, "The Vast of Night." More spooky and less starry-eyed, but somehow more effective because of it.
I love that film so much. Unbelievable creativity and direction for a budget of $700,000! My only gripe is that it was so short, because I could have stayed in that world way longer.
As impressed as you may be, it's nothing compared to sitting in a a theater with 300 people when you get that first scale shot of the mother ship and the mountain. A part of a group that large going from silence to a quiet gasp to expelling " Ohhhh..." simultaneously.
No one ever reacts to the film performance of Richard Dreyfuss that won him The Best Actor Academy Award. It's a rom com by Neil Simon one of the prolific and popular play/screenwriters of the late 60s and 70s, titled The Goodbye Girl. It swept The Oscars in 1978, Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress ( Marsha Mason who was Neil Simon's wife ), Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Song by David Gates, formerly of the Mega Group Bread. I have no idea why it's been so forgotten. I was 19 when it was released. Many years later, my then 15 year old daughter was fooling around on the computer in the same room where I was about to watch The Goodbye Girl, and mentioned it was really good. After a few minutes she drifted over to the sofa and sat down to watch it. When it was over she said, spontaneously, " I'll never doubt your taste in movies again!" and went back to the computer.
Watch it guys.
great/great movie Dreyfuss was amazing. Going from a shark to an Alien....nice.
It somehow hurts when he takes a part as the bad guy - a testament to his acting skill such as in DAVE.
This flick is profound. The idea is out of this world. Even the title, without any reference to prequels, at 6 words, is worth remembering.
Devil's Tower was formed from a prehistoric lava chute. Over time, the surrounding ground wore away until the tower is all that's left. Also, the local Indians named the mountain after a bear god. Unfortunately, those who translated it messed up and thought they said Devil, hence, Devil's Tower. There was nothing malicious in their folklore.
Pre-CGI, there really was only one way to make these Cloud-effects: Use a Cloud Tank, a container filled with water in which various liquid additives such as colors and other chemicals are poured and then filmed at either lower or higher frame-rates. Other movies prominently using this technique are _Star Trek II, Never Ending Story_ and _Flash Gordon._
They really did it up in Flash Gordon.
This wasn't the Director's Cut. It had scenes inside the ship with Roy looking around wide eyed! Not very long, but the shoe was so long anyway that they cut it for theater release but added it back in for the DVD release. 😊
BTW - They didn't age on the spaceship due to traveling the speed of light. Part of the space/time continuim according to Einstein.
45:25 it was intentional 😊 John Williams scored both films and acknowledged the nod to Jaws
Another good movie...is Fire in the Sky 1993 - hard to explain you'll have to see it.
Very good movie as well.
Yes! I wish more reactors would do Fire in the Sky. It's not perfect (especially the obnoxious musical soundtrack), but the final, disturbing reveal in that film is stark contrast to the benign, somewhat syrupy conclusion of Close Encounters . . .
@@jaysverrisson1536 And whether that stuff actually happened to that person or not...since it's supposed to be a true story, makes you wonder. Regardless good movie.
@@jeremiahrose4681- Travis Walton and everyone on his crew took lie detector tests and all passed. None of them have ever changed their story.
Have you heard of the Bermuda triangle mystery ? the planes at the beginning disappeared in this triangle at sea (near Florida) FOR REAL ! but also ships...that's the reference in this movie. The japanese ship Cotopaxi in 1925, The squadron of TBF Avengers planes (squadron 19) in 1945 ! that's the myth
This is definitely one of the best depictions of “real” alien stuff. The burns, the lights and how they move, obsessive thoughts after an encounter, lost time. It’s all been described by people who’ve supposedly had encounters so it’s neat to see it portrayed with a Hollywood budget.
Richard Dreyfuss famously stated that, if he had known what the UFOs looked like, his expression upon seeing them would have been totally different. Spielberg didn't know when they were filming what the UFOs looked like, the designs were finalised very late into the shooting, too late to inform the actors what they were actually looking at.
On May 25th, 1977 I was one of the fortunate ones who saw Star Wars A New Hope on opening day! Thankfully we arrived early enough, my father took my sister and I, the crowd was starting to form and when the theater opened the line had gone around the theater a few times. Big day for me, I was 12, my sister 10! As a 12 year old I was so excited when we came out, but we had to wait until 1980 for Empire Strikes Back! In the meantime, Close Encounter's Of The 3rd Kind came out on December 14th 1977. Two great movies; tons of fun and excitement! You may notice Richard Dreyfuss, the main character in Close Encounter's also played Hooper in Jaws 2 years before? Richard Dreyfuss has been in a ton of great movies: American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounter's Of The 3rd Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Stand By Me, What About Bob, and Mr. Holland's Opus. Great actor!
Out of curiosity, where had you heard about Star Wars at that time to be so motivated to see it. Were there a lot of commercials on tv creating a hype about it or articles in magazines, newspapers, etc...? For my part I was nine years old and along with my older brother we both only heard about it, in September-October from other classmates who were all raving about it. But my dad did bring the whole family to see Close Encoun. that summer, so we didn`t miss out on that one at least.
As an ex-Air Traffic controller I can say it's just a big book of rules and procedures with specifics for the airspace you're responsible for. Follow the rules and it's just another job. Pilots ALWAYS have the final say so a controller is actually an advisor with eyes that see further with information helpful to the intentions of all aircraft within their 'jurisdiction'.
When he said to his wife it's not a MOON BURN...he was being sarcastic guys.
Random Trivia:
11:00 To create this effect a replica of the truck's cab was built and placed inside a rotating gimbal. Dryfuss was strapped in (easily done as Roy was wearing his seatbelt). The camera was static as the set rotated. While it's kinda easy to see (even more so when you know how it's done) if you play it on a loop, it's clearly obvious how it was done.
Air traffic control scene one of my favorites all time - didn't feel like acting, just people doing complicated work that I am trying to follow, but the camera movement and music- loved it. Also your reaction captures the difference about younger generations feeling toward UFOs vs. those in 70s-80s
if you ask most people their reactions to ufos is pretty normal. theyre curious. humans are naturally curious over fearful.
"They should have cut some parts to make it less slow" Well, you're watching the Director's cut. Back in the 80's the one I saw didn't have the council meeting, neither the part where Roy dumped the plants and dirt inside his house.
What a GREAT MOVIE! Wish you guys could have seen this on a big screen at the theater - it was mind-blowing - with all the lights, colors, the sounds…it was freaking awesome! It was literally a “trip!”
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Richard Dreyfus’ big break on screen was a cameo in the 60’s classic
“The Graduate” with ayoung Dustin Hoffman, an absolute iconic must watch, everything from the 60’s , Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack,
He pops out towards the end in an apartment scene asking if he should call the cops.
Great movie and scene
I was 12 when this movie came out. This was the beginning of Spielberg's rise to his super stardom as a director. It built upon JAWS success. Unlike so many Alien movies Spielberg and many other scientists, and movie makers were hoping if Aliens were out there, that they would be benevolent, and mentoring to us. I prefer this to the enemies type. This movie is an ICONIC film that led the way to other sci-fi movies of the age, etc. LOVE THIS FILM!!! The reason the people they had taken from Earth were still young is that Einstein's theories state that as you get closer to the speed of light, it alters/slows/bends time. So that a journey of an hour for the traveler at light speed would last like years/decades, centuries here on Earth in regular un-altered time. Read up on Einstein, and other space travel books. I would say the reason the aliens took humans first, then came to visit...and took more is for both species to begin to know one another, and begin to share. Barry, His mother, Roy, and Larry and the rest who saw visions of Devil's Tower, and heard the tones were INVITED to go with them to their World (the French scientist, and head of the project said through his assistant/interpreter that they were invited in the film at one point...it was loud at the time...so the interpreter was yelling "THEY WERE INVITED"...then the French scientist said "they belong here more than we", as opposed to the ones we chose to go. THEY took Roy by the hand, and had him walk into the ship alone, because he was the ONLY one they had invited who was there to "catch the ride".
This film didn’t lead the way to Star Wars. Star Wars was released 6 months before Close Encounters.
@@richardvinsen2385 edited my comment. I thought this predated star wars...since they both came out in 1977 it would be a difference of months or weeks...
@@Lethgar_Smith Star Wars beat Close Encounters to theaters by six months.
You all like the Alien Rave at the end ! Also the child looks like the Aliens !
I have a theory that he is.
The project was already in progress when the movie starts. Them finding those planes was not the start of things, it was the latest development. So I think the people in charge already had certain information about what this was all leading up to. When they got the coordinates for the Devil's Tower, that was the final piece. That's why that base was all set up. I think they hoped the aliens would allow us to send some more people with them. This time it would be trained people, people who might be able to figure out some of what they are seeing. Roy gets to go because he was selected by the aliens themselves. All those people who were imprinted were selected but only Roy made it all the way to the ship. Time dilation, time passing slower for you relative to someone else if you are traveling at extremely high speed, is implied since the 1945 pilots haven't aged much. This means those aliens can travel at near light speed if not faster. My guess is that if you could ask one of those pilots how long in his frame of reference he's been gone, and you compared it to how much time has passed on Earth, you could calculate how fast they were traveling.
Disco was big in the late 70s. I remember thinking it was a giant disco ball in the sky when I was little.
Was great seeing this in theater in '77. (67 yr old usa rock and roller)
"The only gas around here is from you guys farting around!"
Exactly. I'll never watch any more of their videos. The movie is clearly above their comprehension abilities.
They sound like preteen girls
I saw this in the late 70s / early 80s, as a kid I later learned the whole communication tones sequence on my mothers organ. It was the only thing I wanted to play on the organ...freaked my parents out.
...........this movie is in my top 5 favorite movies of all time (that's 50 years for me)! I remember seeing this at a drive-in theater (way back when) - and was mesmerized...I count this movie as the reason why I love sci-fi today. Good movie choice for you guys.
A whole generation of reactors trying to make sense of movies in which the aliens are not bent of destruction or conquest. It's ok guys, if you don't understand the concept you can make a weak attempt at a joke to cover your confusion.
Cam and Zay are very young adults, trying to reconstruct ideas and viewpoints (from more recent movies), and assimilate it the this new, more altruistic idea. Cut them some slack. I think it’s impressive seeing young reactors like this even giving movies this old (which may be older that their parents), a chance to watch. I appreciate Cam and Zay’s finding humor in certain scenes, while still being able to recognize the quality of the film. Keep up the good work guys.
I love the first half of this movie. It's unsettling and intriguing, like with the Bermuda Triangle planes showing up, or the UFO showing up behind the utility truck looking like car headlights until it starts to go up. The scenes at the kid's house are pretty scary. Also seeing the characters' stories unfold and realizing they're under some kind of spell as they get let to WY.
I find the ending completely unsatisfying. The aliens drop some people off, pick some others up, and the end. No explanation of the aliens, or the people they took. It's possible to have a good, ambiguous ending- but this isn't it.
Good reaction and commentary, thanks for posting.
There was a parody trailer of this film made in the 1970s called Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind. You can find it on CZcams. Definitely worth a short reaction.
I was home on leave from the USAF when I saw this film. It blew my mind, about the same as 2001.
Nice!
This was the very first Steven Spielberg movie I saw on VHS as well as ET: The Extra Terrestrial.
The first Spielberg movie I watched in the theater was JURASSIC PARK. I was 3 years old when the film was released
It's still my #1 favorite movie of all time.
Highly recommend E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (also by Spielberg) and The Abyss
51:18 I reckon that the aliens chose all those people that came to the Devil's Tower, the ones that the military drove off, and they were excited because one of them was actually there and willing to go with them.
This is the best version, with the shower meltdown and no spaceship interior.
The extended version is definitely not always the better version.
The spaceship interior scene is a pure imagination-killer.
I love the reaction. I haven't seen you guys laugh this much, which actually speaks to the conflicting emotions in trying to process such grandiose events rather than any humor.
Killer movie. Still haven't seen an ET film that tops this one.
I ADORED this reaction. Your commentary had me laughing and smiling the whole way through. A tough thing to do for such an overly-serious movie. You had fun watching it AND appreciated all the great cinematic elements about it! You were impressed, liberal with your praise, and gave it an incredibly high score. But people are annoyed you didn’t watch it with the seriousness and reverence they think it demands? Some people are a little too precious with their favourite movies. Two new young guys love the classic movie you love, you don’t get to dictate the mood they need to have while watching.
This is one of the movies I'd watch all the time as a toddler--one of the reasons I learned how to use a Beta machine at that age. You should watch Cocoon-great alien movie but you'd prob have to buy it on dvd.
I remember my wife being unsure of me teaching our toddler how to use the stereo, but I told her best he learn instead of experimenting. The next morning we were awoken by the blaring of music - he turned it up before turning it on - then quickly turned it down. I said "See?", rolled over and went back to sleep.
Look up Close Encounters on Wikipedia for the classifications for UFO sightings. It'll help explain some other movie titles as well as this movie's title.
The actress that played the mother of Barry was also in a Christmas Story as Ralphie's mother
She was in Slap Shot as well the greatest Hockey movie ever made.
...and Nick Nolte's sister & Barbra Streisand's patient in "The Prince of Tides".
The movie is supposedly based on the true story of the events leading up to project serpo, which took place in the 1960s. This is when the US government had a exchange program with the Aliens, sending humans on a 10 year round trip to the Alien home planet with two suns.
Saw at the theater many times, top 5 all timer for myself, thanks guys
You guys have such entertaining comments and reactions. So fun, I saw this back in the day as I born in 1973 and was super fascinated with UFOs and aliens as a kid.
Patton Oswalt said it best "This is not a movie about aliens. It's about the disintegration of a family."
Yeah, they only took Roy. He was the only one that they invited who made it past the government.
In 1971 Steven Spielberg directed the movie Duel for TV. It got Spielberg noticed and was later released in theaters. It's a pretty good movie about a guy driving through rural California being terrorized by another guy driving a semi.
There are now CE5 groups all over the world, most of them meeting monthly. Close encounters of the 5th kind are human initiated contact. It's some pretty interesting stuff.
Yes Duel is like in the top 5 best tv movies ever made next to Brain's Song, The Night Stalker, The Jericho Mile.
There's a couple decent 'killer car' films made afterwards with The Wraith and Christine. Steven King must've had a thing for the concept because later he released Maximum Overdrive where all vehicles go homicidal.
When they were bobbing their heads around to the beat of the interplay of tones between ship and Humans I wanted them to say "duelling techno.Dj's!!"
One of my favorite all-time movies! I was a kid when this came out. It was extremely popular. You could get a 45 record in a cereal box of that whole communication tone/dance. Flight 19 is a real event. That and many other mysteries that were blamed on the Bermuda Triangle.
The special effects before CGI were more based on imagination. It gave you a lot more to think about whereas today, it's just all in your face and so overly fantastic that it's hard to grasp, at least for me.
The big lanky ones were the top "officers" and the smaller ones were "drones". At least that was the talk back then. Behind the scenes documentaries are pretty great. This and Star Wars sparked my interest in Science Fiction. This was a first contact experience. They obviously made the first move. So, it's just the beginning of the story.
Also, just me, but that wasn't romance at all. That was a complete bonding and a deep friendship. It was just a very brief tender moment between two people under extraordinary circumstances. There wasn't anything more. They didn't make out or anything. The other films that seem to be a sequel are not related.
This was a great review! Cam, great shirt!! Zay, your reation to the toys had me rolling! 😂
Teri Garr’s character wasn’t just reacting to her husband’s erratic behavior. He’d stopped being a father to their kids. And he was fired from his job, the biggest problem of all. She was watching her family’s survival disintegrate and that was enough to tip the scales right there.
1. $2,500 globe in 1977. Imagine how much that sucker would be today.
2. That ATC has some serious pipes.
3. I went with my family when I was a kid and got to visit the Devils Tower. Before this was made.
4. Love it. One of the top 10 movies to watch before you die.
5. I worked at a movie theater when this came out. Incredible
6. If it didn't change the outcome and since his marriage was over Roy and Jillian should have hooked up.
7. The odds of Roy finding Jillian in that chaos are as high as any of this happening.
8. "We're gonna need a bigger mountain".😱
9. Spidey, "Sup-bitches"
FYI They only took Roy, not the other volunteers.