Arrival of the Mothership | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Voyage 

Lovely story ❤

I was 9 when I saw this film in '78 (at Leicester Square Odeon) and it's been my favourite film ever since for how it made me feel. Casting, music, special effects - just perfect.

Just a great film. It had everything 👍🏻👍🏻

Thank you, for your contribution to this masterpiece, Diana Lee. Whenever I see this film, I'll be thinking of you...o

So I heard your voice at age 12. You were there and others like you. Your voice is now in the Great Library of Congress. May it be remembered for millennia to come.

Agree

genius

Certainly less than 12 parsecs.

Spielberg was LY ahead yes...

No b doubt it

Love that thought! And do you think some of these humans that returned on this ship died earlier or were they only abducted?

And the grandma in a petticoat, a man with his dog, the thin girl with braids... The more you think of this the more horrific the aliens are. Why did they abduct innocent people? To perform experiments on them. It's how they learned to brainwash the protagonists to Devils Mountain.

@@graphite2786 but they returned them?

@@Arizonalain Maybe the aliens got what they needed. They were returning them because they had enough information on how people functioned and didn't need them anymore. Its how the returned folk behave which upsets me. I mean the folk all look dazed , sad, and confused, if they were coming out talking with each other and smiling, that has a more positive connotation. Like They had an amazing experience and were glad to be home. But they come out like sleep walkers or shock victims. And they are like strangers with each other. Were they kept in solitary confinement? Some have been detained for years and years! All their families are gone, all their hopes and dreams were stolen from them. It's a plot point I really dislike from the movie. The aliens were playful and powerful but also callous. They could have bought them home after even a year or two but for some abductees it was decades!

@@graphite2786 the little boy runs up to greet his mom. Full of joy!

I love old school sci-fi. Specially the 70s as well old RPG/box games. The hand drawn non-computery art of aliens and spacecraft just feels so much more real. Stuff today doesn’t hit the same.

The magic is the secret this is the greatest production about Ufo Spielberg gave form to ancestral fears 😊but also an hope when that day will come maybe we will know the truth

For me, this is real life and what's being kept hidden before our very eyes the Roswell Greys civilization located in the Zeta Reticuli star system which is possible there's a few Planets which might bring back positive feedback for life. Whether or not they live in the Zeta Reticuli star system is only a Legend but these species actually exist and I know for a fact they do sometimes they will manifest them selves to me almost like they're just watching.

@@futuristicentity2417 Roswell was just a story without any evidence. The people of the Roswell news paper took a story and just exaggerated some folklore. To sell news papers with a lie. It was nothing but a stupid balloon experiment. For the cold war. But you want to believe in a fairy tale. I can see you don't do real research behind the hoax. To see if there was anything real.

I believe you. 😔

One of my favorites along with Day the Earth Stood Still, Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back.

God it was tedious

Stephen Smith 1 week ago Same here too.

Me too. I fucked off to my room when the little kid got sucked out the doggie door. My mom tried to get me to come back for the end, "see, the aliens were nice!" And I was like "the hell they were!"

@@chrisdewey3559 The Alien Harvester's (that's their true name of their species) in the 1996 film "Independence Day" are PURE Evil. But not all aliens in many alien invasion movies and TV Shows are all bad guys. We do actually get to meet the Sphere: hero.fandom.com/wiki/Sphere the last surviving member of a very friendly and mysterious alien species, who are in fact the ancient and sworn enemy of the unsympathetic Harvester's in the 2016 sequel "Independence Day: Resurgence", who fought in a nearly forgotten war that lasted for thousands of years. At some point, their remaining forces were unfortunately overwhelmed and their peaceful home planet was conquered by a hostile alien race called the Harvester's that harvested its core. The Sphere was the sole survivor of its kind and carries the combined intelligence of its entire species. It then traveled across space in the only surviving spaceship of her species and encountered other refugee alien races that were also defeated by the Harvesters, and helping them find refuge on a planet and establishing a major resistance against the Harvesters. The actual name and their true actual organic appearance of the Sphere's specie's remains to this day unknown.

The music!!! When it shows the alien coming out of the ship was terrifying to me as a kid

@@jase4010 Same here too.

Says it all.

Speechless 😶

Yep, and not just the big scenes. The insight and care devoted to every shot is incredible. Vilmos Zsigmond was as much a visionary as Spielberg, same with John Williams and it really took a collaboration to pull the whole thing off at the level they achieved.

😶 that's what they actually look like. the tall greys. creepy as hell. like something that shouldn't be real, but somehow... is.

I thought it was amazing until I looked up Roswell greys and how even more amazing how this might be on a frequency or something. These Extraterrestrials practically do exist and I am hoping they AREN'T the bad guys and just hiding from us because we're afraid of them for no reason. Some people picture Extraterrestrials as little green people but in most cases this is wrong they're actually Grey little people the media should correct them selves if they read my post. I know more things out there and yes I do think we have telepathic communication because some of them mess with my hair to let me know they're listening but don't be alarmed they're not bad they're just telepathic that way letting you know they're real.

Don’t look up it’s concept art. Creepy

@@Woahahaha3 now I have to

@@Woahahaha3 ok yeah you're right, and when you actually see what the puppet actually looks like it's really unsettling

@@tinkletink1403 LOL

Truth

Cruel, though, to take people and then plonk them back in a different time when their family would be very old it dead.

The aliens are NOT benign in the book.

You're not alone....

I fully agree. IMHO it’s the most realistic first Contact movie ever made. You can debate about the liberties taken by the director on the third and final act with the communication tool chosen for the dialogue between humans and aliens (colours and sounds) but the rest of the movie and the phenomena were heavily based straight out of the hundreds of testimonies and cases from Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s (also seen here smoking his pipe) Project Blue Book. Those events and cases may be questioned, maybe partially fake or fully fabricated but it’s all we got to rely on as a source material for alien contact and behaviour and Spielberg is the only director that implemented it perfectly in Close Encounters. Arrival is another great first contact movie which I also love but Close Encounters will always remain the best in my book.

You might be scared of them. I choose to not be. Not that i dare to presume I'd be the one making 1st contact. But someone has to hold the guts and self-discipline to face one of the ultimate unknowns; another intelligent society. It's my ultimate caution-to-the-wind dream to see the human race make 1st contact. Even if only on a television screen or otherwise from a distance. Because that will guarantee at least some of us will become an interstellar society. ❤

Exactly! At first glance I thought it was Cel. Sanders (maybe KFC sauce is from other world?), but then I remembered Mr. Hynek. Excellent observation.

If this true cool fact, thanks. 😊

John Williams and Spielberg. Nothing else to say.

Roman Polanski does too, but he's not allowed in our yard any more.

In the book they were all the same but they were able to stretch and elongate themselves, and I believe that their skin was semitransparent, enough so that colorful illuminations were visible within their bodies. That's what I remember at least. Read it almost the same time the film came out, so it's been a lot of years.

@@brt5273 Nice!

@InhumanCondition interesting thanks

But they couldn't give him a door way tall enough , as an advanced civilizations, that he doesn't have to duck and crawl under to get out.

@@whispermason8052 Tell me you didn’t seriously say that

They are not from planets. They are from different vibrational frequencies which are actually very, very close, if not completely overlaid. But then you’re not on a planet either.

Imagine seeing it in the cinema when it first came out at the tender age of ten. Yes I know exactly the feeling you had.

🤣😂🤣

Oh IKR?!?! And the scene where Gillian loses him and runs helplessly screaming toward the direction of the ship, drives me into an anxiety fit!

The way he does that little jump off of the platform and shuffles his way toward the camera! I can just visualize my grandson doing the same thing. Onions again!

That rules. Thanks.

😂 i think it was running... you funny tho. 👍👍👍

surf practicing: he coudn't wait to disembark from the mothership and take a vacation on the west coast. It has been a long duty shift travelling to earth.

Two kinds of aliens. For what purpose?

The small greys make fun of him.

And you were probably 12 to 15.

Some movies just HAVE to be watched on the big screen.

lol I was thinking the exact same thing when I watched this

They also don't wear any sort of clothes

its a stupid movie

@@rngsilvercraft3995 The clothing part could make sense. The climate inside the ship would be "perfect" for them, their skin may be resistant to the sort of minor wear and tear clothing protects us from, and they may have no concept of modesty as we know it.

to me its seemed like the alien was eager to see the humans it didnt wait for the door to fully open

Those are the semi-harmonic, semi-dissonant sounds of violins and flutes emulating the physical pain you feel in your eyes when looking into extremely bright lights like the sun. Where did John Willians learn this?

@@JohannRosario1 John Williams is God as far as I'm concerned

This happen for real.

😶 most abductees don't remember anything at all. unless they go through hypnotic regression.

@@havu2236 You say that as if you have irrefutal proof beyond the anecdotal.

@@SilentKnight43 Look up project Serpo.. Not only that but the NASA hacker Gary McKinnon also saw some files talking about something very similar to project Serpo.

@@happymess3219 Every abduction storie is a hoax you don't do the research or do the math because it's always about money. In most cases. Even Travis Walton was found to be a fraud.

Spielberg was worried that John Williams would be too worn out from composing Star Wars to come up with something special for Close Encounters. No problem.

Because LESS is MORE.

And here we are after yesterday’s hearing, about to acknowledge we’ve been visited. Fascinating

​@@hcliiiThis is how I hope, if there is intelligent life out there, the encounter takes place. Such a great outlook into what could be.

​@JohannRosario1 - After Williams finished composing the theme to Jaws, he invited Spielberg to come listen to it. Spielberg's reaction: "That's it?" William's response: "That's all you need." Williams won the Oscar for best movie musical score for Jaws. So yes, sometimes less is more. Williams lost the award for Close Encounters to himself for the theme from Star Wars. Tough break.

I'm sure life is pretty common in the universe but intelligent life not so much. We could truly be the only intelligent life in our galaxy.

@@StinkyGreenBud SMH

Venus

Troma interterrestrial races/beings on planets with inhabitable surfaces

​@@navrroboy If you disagree with me give me a reason why then. If intelligent life was so common then we surely would have spotted it by now right? Say a species could not achieve FTL but maybe 99% of the speed of light. It would only take them a few hundred thousand years to colonize the entire Milky Way Galaxy by now. Our galaxy is over 13 billion years old. So it should be so over populated by now with so called intelligent life. But we have no signs of anything intelligent out there. As I said, there very well could be other forms of intelligent life but I think it is super rare. They could be galaxies away from us and we would never know. Now common life, as in animals, is probably in our own solar system. Intelligent life is very complex and the Universe is bigger than any of us could imagine. So we being the only intelligent life in our galaxy isn't that far fetched. But when it all comes down to it, none of us know for sure.

The three legs of the stool of Perfection. They allowed us to stand on it and see farther than we ever thought possible.

@@JohannRosario1 I love how you worded that

The mothership is great but for me it's those first three ships that arrive on the scene and begin to interact and respond to the musical tones...gets me teared up every time🥲

What a tribute to include François Truffaut, a master in his own right

Truffaut was wonderful. At the time I had no idea who he even was until layer when I developed an interest in French film.

To think an advanced race that can fly through the stars like they do, hasn't figured out a flat surface on an angle downwards you don't slide down

We'll all pray for you as Kansas (the flattest state I have ever seen) is a great state to be from!

Can't remember a recent movie anywhere near as moving in so many ways as this one.

You’re living in the past, old timer.

@@Hotdogwateryum Because the past is a million times better than the woke trash we get today, new timer.

@@carlosalbert7667 a close-minded old timer at that!

The good old times when a film was made out of celluloid and had a screenplay.

Though technically his family left him.

He makes a cameo in the film at 1:10

Who is this Dr. and what event are you speaking of?

Actually the doctors name is spelled Hynek. Here is a bio in Wiki that mentions his work: Extract: In later years he conducted his own independent UFO research, developing the "Close Encounter" classification system en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Allen_Hynek

Lol horseshit.

@@nugsymalone1247 - Look up "J. Allen Hynek" in Wikipedia. It was his UFO classifications that gave this movie its name.

I think that's supposed to be it that does the sign language later in the scene after it retracts its limbs or something. But then if it can do that why didnt it retract them to make getting out of the ship easier? Unless it was just like "Watch this yall Ima scare these humans.".

the bathroom, it had to go pee after that long trip 😆

He got beamed up.

Apparently the larger alien was a marionette, and was difficult to film without its strings being visible. So they just salvaged the few shots that looked right.

@@williamlydon2554 thankkkk youuuuu for the sufficient response!

Prepare yourself. The religions of the world are going to have a tough time when they fully realize man is NOT the only intelligence within this vast universe.

Study every single creature known or created by man throughout evolution may be, guess is as good as yours man 😊

Well what can we do? Sue them? Bring them to justice? Beings light years in advance could do anything they want to us really

They couldn't help it. It's the nature of space travel. But when you finally get back home, things are different from when you left... unless it's the Shire. That never changes.

Apparently the child wasn't gone 35 yrs. I have heard from SSP people say they can bring you back within 5 mins of when they took you but you have been gone 30 yrs like you were never gone space and time travel. Sounds surreal!