Now that I watch it again, I wish I had known as much as I did now. Theories I learned later in life-that finally explain what I'm seeing- would have helped others who watched this with me at the time would have been useful to understanding this movie. I wish I could have known to help others know as much as I do. But we all can now watch this classic on film available virtually everywhere. I'm glad for that much.
It’s a movie all of us can connect to. It’s that simple. We all wonder, we’ve always wanted answers, and we’ve never gotten them... It’s a bit frustrating and wonderful, isn’t it?
And if there was a remake.......... Roy Neary: John Boyega...........Will Smith is too old... LaCombe: Morgan Freeman... Jillian Guiller: Jessica Chastain.......or Jennifer Lawrence.... Roy's wife: Anne Hathaway.....or Amy Adams....... Roys kids: At least 1 LGTB kid.......... Aliens: All multiracial & transgender......
Actually, the aliens are multiracial, and were intended to be so. We see three different kinds: an absurdly tall and spindly alien, a group of small, bulbous headed aliens, and a medium-sized alien at the end. And they appear to be genderless.
Sebastian Atkinstall Yes, it does. They are real objects. The mind pick up on that. What I want to know is, how did they do that ring of clouds? Was it natural and they took advantage?
You are so right, the movie was like a Roller coaster ride! So much fun to watch. Richard Dreyfuss should have gotten a academy award 🏆 for his outstanding performance in Close encounters of the third kind. The music 🎶 also made the space ship seem so real. Hats off to Steven Spielberg, he is a genius. 🎩🧢👒. I still Love 💗 this movie after all these years!
To this day I still call this picture up and watch it to be my time machine. Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s … We definitely had the best new films for those decades that were the catalyst for so many more to come … we were truly lucky to live in the last best decades of America. From Star Wars, Star Trek, Jaws, Close Encounters, Superman, Aliens, Predator, E.T. to name a few. These pictures were our only technology. However back then we lived such a different way of life here in America that today people can’t understand or imagine it . We did not lock our doors, we did not have shootings, we talked about things over dinner, we went camping, swimming and did many things together and appreciated the simple things in life like a walk up town for an ice cream or a cold soda in a glass bottle. It was just better then……….
In Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, near the end of the movie, did anyone else notice how the mother ship arose from below Devils Tower? Another thing I noticed recently watching the DVD, when all of those previously abducted people were walking down the ramp of the UFO to terra firma, (after the military pilots) there was also a dog that exited the mother ship. Steven Spielberg thought of everything!
Yes I did notice that. And I especially noticed the name "devil's tower." Are the aliens in the movie benevolent? They seem very scary when the little boy is taken (or kidnapped). And they don't seem to understand or care that their actions lead to a father leaving his family behind. I'm not so sure the aliens are benevolent. At best, I think they could be described as indifferent. I love the movie though; it's still one of my favorites. But over the years the character of the aliens has perplexed me.
The mother ship rising over Devils Tower is the most ridiculous thing in the movie. The scale is so out of wack. The movie will never cease to be spectacular to watch, but in time it has become quite silly.
The part of the movie that enforces quarantines over a faked story...this reminds me of this current year so much! I was a 21 year old theater usher when this film was playing in 70mm, 6 channel stereo every night for months. Love hearing John Williams in stereo with 16 Altec speakers picking up every signal.
Mike, he actually mentioned in the extras of the DVD that content and approach wise, he couldn't see him writing Roy Neary as a father and husband that would have just left his family behind. Spielberg was a different man in the 1970s!
@@LarryLeeMoniz Agreed. Spielberg was a totally different guy in the 1970s and first half of the 80s. Anyone remember how he edited out the guns in E.T.? Only to put them back in some years later after that outcry. George Lucas changed too as he got older. They both went from young, hip filmmakers to these older, greyer, pudgy older middle age or elderly guys that were super sensitive family men. I mean in Jaws Spielberg had the shark kill a kid, he never had any of his dinos eat kids by the 90s Jurassic Park movies.
@@MVR326 Content approach. I don't think he would have had Roy Neary leave his family and go off into space with the aliens. Spielberg wasn't a family man at the time. I think if he'd waited even a few years, his outlook would have been very different. Also, somehow the kids would have been more involved with the plot... and would have saved the day in some way. I am glad that didn't happen.
Besides being a great movie, the various domestic scenes do a great job of portraying middle American life in the 1970s... right down to that damn soap opera my mom always used to watch
Oh God!! It's been over 40 years since I first went to see this amazing movie. Still my favourite all time movie bar none. I admit I disliked the Special Edition intensely but, was so relieved when the Directors Cut came out with the Theatrical Cut reissued also. No other Alien contact film has ever come close to Close Encounters in any way. Spielberg nailed it on his first try and I am ever thankful to him. This film has a very special place for me. Changed my outlook on everything. Thank you Steven Spielberg.
It was indeed an event. I thought it was better than Star Wars, which came out months earlier. Bob Balaban, who played the French interpreter, wrote a diary during the production of the movie and it is one of my prized treasures of that era.
Yep. My sister and I didn't say a word to each other all the way home. We just kept looking out the bus windows, staring up at the sky, stunned by what we had just watched.
While Steven Spielberg was filming Close Encounters of the Third Kind, George Lucas came to visit him. BTW, that 2% gross is still in effect, as both men agreed to, as far as which movie would make more at the box office- George's movie was the first Star Wars movie, which Steven predicted would be a historic box office smash. He was right- Close Encounters was also a box office smash, too, back in 1977!!!
I think the reason we don't have all of the UFO sightings like we used to is because the aliens are seeing what we're doing to ourselves as a society and are keeping their distance.
Nah its because we've stopped looking up as we are all looking down at phones. We aren't as collectively intrigued and interested. As a society we've become empty and cynical. It's very sad.
hmmm, interesting.... I've noted that not one interviewee dares to come forward about the truth there... This "making of" should be renamed as Jaws 2 ( 1977: 138minutes in it's true form ), because that's what it is. No one cared about the sharks in Jaws 1 (1975: 124minutes ), what people wanted was more Dr. Hooper and this was to be the sequel and HIS own side story about life after Jaws 1 (1975: 124minutes ). True, hardcore Jawsheads might not care that much about the film naming sequence, but hardcore Hooperheads care about Canon and it's important to note that Jaws 2 (1978: 126minutes ) - as you all know it - was finally re-named Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977: 138minutes ) due to Spielberg being denied the naming rights to the Jaws sequel. He wanted less sharks, because that had already been done in Jaws 1 (1975: 124minutes ) and more aliens, a larger threat, but the studio backed him into a corner over having MORE sharks and Spielberg eventually packed his things and left to make the TRUE sequel with his own money. It DID finally come out as "Jaws 2" but that was never it's original name. After this, Jaws 2 ((1978: 126minutes ) was actually Jaws 3 (1983: 99minutes ), Jaws 3 (1983: 99minutes ) was actually Jaws 4 (1987: 89minutes ) and Jaws 4 ( 1987: 89minutes ) was in fact really Jaws FIVE ( 1987: 89minutes ). Why the creators of this "making of" have chosen to stay silent on the truth and not expose the sex perverts of Hollyweird, is beyond me.
We were interviewed by Dr J Allen Hynek afer our ufo encounter. He came to my country in the 70s. My husband got feedback that said he was impressed with our interview.
It's one of the few films of his I can stand. Indiana Jones is too irritating, his first film too meaningless, ET is too predictable and cloying...and I'm too critical.
@@victorbonilla4634 You agree that Indiana Jones, (at least the first one) was too violent? Once I open on social media with that attitude, I get solid walls of resistance, discard, and other reactions. It's my honest opinion, but people won't let you have it...at least easily.
Wyoming my favorite state ...I drove through many states ...Washington State also impressive ...America special nation spiritually ...my impression 🌎 💖
*In our galaxy alone there may be MILLIONS of primitive Precambrian equivalent planets, THOUSANDS of Stone-age equivalent planets, and only less than 100 Radio communications planets, all too, too far to be heard. This is the Drake Equation.*
Steven spielberg was sent a 20 page booklet to his residemce from the government and told him not to release the movie because that last scene depicts 12 people boarding the ship was based on real actual event that took place through 1964 through 1978 the mission was called project serpo and yea pretty wicked awesome stuff gotta love it also this movie changed my life :)
Where 12 brave humans had an exchange program with an ET race called the p'nti (famously the greys) from Zeta Reticuli star system for several years before they finally returned? 🤔
@@hafizlemot The P'nti are fraudsters. Government agents influence the medium Su with telepathy machines and tell messages of light and love, that keep the people passive and controllable. The alleged P'nti ETs lied so many times about official contact amd photo proof, that you have to be a follower of this subtle cult, to still believe in them.
I have to watch it every now and again...even tho' Ive seen it a dozen times or so. You'd think in the midst of all the ancient alien theories, my 'looking back' at this movie would sorta fade. But if anything, "Ancient Aliens" kind forced me to watch this a few more times. And to boot, there is so much of what that program talks about, that is all over the movie (UFO sightings, abductions, the way UFOs move, motherships, probes of light, how fast they are, pilot experiences with UFOs, old aircraft from decades ago, appearing in deserts, etc)
6:25, Michael Jackson watched this movie on video tape while in the hospital after his hair caught fire during the filming of the Pepsi commercial. Did he pattern his look after that person? Just a thought.
the air traffic control scene from close encounters and the uss Indianapolis story from jaws are for me 2 of the greatest scenes steven spielberg has done in absolute film history
There are other beings, there are other intelligence's out there, -what we view in movies now is the future. Frankenstein 1940s movies about a scientist who uses body parts to produce a human being, resuscitated by electricity, today we use electricity to shock the heart back to life, we can also do heart transplants, use the face of a dead person to put on another, so the movie proved this would happen. First Man on the Moon movie 1940s shows a rocket not unlike the one used to go to the moon, they also acted weightlessness , a space suit, so how did they know about this. Terminator movie, robots talking and fighting against humans, micro technology, tracking people, and even more concerning SKYNET. So we now have robots ready for use in the workplace and soon to be in Tesco, Asda, etc, drones already used in war situations, and SKY TV, and they are branching out in to every conceivable field. So there you have it Spielberg once believed but now is more sceptical , it should be the other way around, its more real than ever before.
Yo tenia 5 o 6 años cuando la estrenaron acá en Chile, mi tío(abuelo) nos llevo a verla, función vespertina, llegamos cuando abducían al niño...tremendo espectáculo ante mis ojos. Luego la vi completa en Tv.
You a fan of this great movie like i am? Cool, maybe you should check out a fan edit: "Close Encounters of the Third Kind:The 5th Kind Extended Edition" - What is it about? This extends CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND with all the scenes from the 3 available versions including the available deleted scenes. Although differing in image and audio quality, this is the ultimate extended edition of the movie. (its pretty cool, and much longer with all the cut scenes put back in! :) ) kickasstorrents.ee/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-the-5th-kind-extended-edition-t683539.html i downloaded it years ago and made the dvd - not sure if that torrent will be completed tho, maybe i should reupload it to the fanedit site?
Anyone who has seen this....a contributor advisor was BluBook USAF ufo investigatorJ. Allen Hynek,who was originally a debunker...later became a devout believer...he is in scene at end if im mistaken...even with his pipe....when the mothership lands...he comes out of the group of technicians etc...
Dieser tolle Film sollte nach solanger Zeit die Rückkehr der Menschen die mit den Außerirdischen ins All geflogen sind auf zeigen Herr Spielberg das wäre eine Chance noch ein mal so ein vascienirrnde
I would like to see Steven Spielberg make another great classic such as this movie. :D *Haven't you ever wondered that life might be just like a video game? Imagine creating a character in like a video game, and you are basically are trying for example how you look like and how your future is going to be? what are your special abilities, what are you going to become as you grow. So Instead of saying that "GOD" made man kind, why not say Aliens came up with man kind.* - great movies are created with dreams and imagination. so why not do the same for future films?
Dieser Film ist so faszinierend Weill er sehr nahe an der wirklich keit steht wir werden seit langer Zeit beobachtet 👽wir müssen nicht mehr nach ihnen suchen sie sind schon längst da🛸 ❤️👍👍👏👏
I care not whether anyone believes this or not, I will just share it for those who keep an open mind, and wish the rest of you all the best. A friend and colleague of mine (a doctor of material science, Yuri Lozotzev) investigated close encounters of the third kind in Russia at the request of the KGB in 1989, after a series of landings occurred in Voronezh. An egg-shaped craft landed in a football park witnessed by 30 children. A bus-shaped object landed on a Russian nuclear asset site - and left after being fired upon - witnessed by two soldiers whom he then interviewed, and there were other landings in various other settings. They were very tall, benevolent beings, who appear to have craft that travel trans-dimensionally, and not through space. A high-ranking military friend of his told him that hovering UFOs helped to avert the Chernobyl reactor from reaching critical mass and exploding in 1986. Jacques Vallee traveled to Russia and compared notes with them. He said the French had recorded UFOs for more than 200 years - noting that old sightings were of 'balloons', as in alien visitation 'by balloon' suggesting that they might tailor their craft's appearance to fit in with the locals, so to speak. The 'dark matter' which generates the unaccounted gravity we can detect in the universe may be direct evidence for the parallel dimensions which share the space we live in. Other beings may have discovered ways of moving between dimensions, perhaps prompted by our fondness for nuclear explosions, which may impact their dimensions in some way, hence making our nuclear programs of great interest to them. In 1995, at a racetrack in Ballybrit, Galway, Ireland, I and about 20,000 people witnessed a golden sphere appear out of nowhere - it hung directly over the course like a little sun - where it hung motionless for about 20-30 minutes before disappearing. It was not a meteorological phenomenon, and it was not St' Elmo's fire as was suggested by the meteorology office (no metal conductive surfaces anywhere closeby). What it was I have no frame of reference for. People just stared at it, and there was no major reaction. I now believe it was from another dimension and that we were being observed. Not only are we not alone, they are most likely already here. Peace.
I can believe it. I've witnessed a UFO in real life in broad daylight. It phased in from nothing like it was just bleeding into reality, did a loop in the sky, came to an abrupt stop without deceleration, and then left so fast it became a line in the sky for what seemed like a nano second. It changed my life.
Unwatchable???. !! I think this film is full of some of the most imaginative images in movie history. The approach to the UFO's was highly original. The mother ship is presented as a "what if" and what's wrong with that?. You'd rather have a giant cigar hover over the mountain? I mean to each their own. But the sense of awe and wonder i get when i watch this film has not diminished in 35 years. Spielberg knows how to capture that on film so well. Its why i enjoy the film
Steven cleared every hurdle and got this made EPIC‼️ 8:15 In New Mexico in the middle of nowhere .I laid down in some tall Grass to sleep while hitchhiking .I thought I was looking at a oil refinery, a bunch of white lights suspended in the air. There was no structure anywhere in sight when I got ready to leave.
One thing that seldom gets mentioned. The short musical note and tone when the mothership hovers over Devil's Tower and turns over...is exactly the same as when Dave Bowman in 2001 : A Space Odyssey is in the middle of the stargate sequence. Nobody ever mentions this....but it seems to me deliberate. Compare the music at 3.53 in this clip with that at 2.15 here... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JY-ajPNQMh0.html
I dreamed of UFOs after this film for a long time. I watched a pirate copy of et at a friends birthday party. Gremlins changed the way I looked at films. Jaws scared me... Some people are just meant to create things...
Please forgive my bad language, but i fucking love this guy! The word 'Genius' just about touches it. Kudos though, to everybody else involved! An all time fave film of mine... \m/ (:o)
This movie is a miracle in itself..It has no character development..it has serious, repetitive script flaws and it lacks depth....still, it's a classic movie...the awe factor swallows all its defects. Figure that out..🤔😂👍👍
LaCombe is based on an actual person named Jacques Vallee who researches UFO sightings to this day. I believe the book Edge of Reality by Jacques Vallee and J. Allen Hynek inspired Spielberg to make this film. Vallee's steady scientific research and data collection into the UFO phenomenon is unparalleled. Close Encounters is a great film but the books by Vallee WILL BLOW YOUR TITS OFF. Check it out. Won't be disappointed. 👽
If you LOVE Close Encounters of the Third Kind, then search on RU-vid for "We Were NEVER Alone screenplay presentation" and then please share with your friends. Maybe we can get some online momentum going for a sequel.
@steven, their is real spaceships but they are in places you would never expect to see them and they only come to earth certain times in time frame, hard to exsplain but its not far fetched.i know this from exsperience and other people i know had experiences as well. Starting in 1946 on.
Great man but his information on today's ufo sightings but just like everything in life seeing is believing So many lights behind cloud cover across the world ...what's next Mr Spielberg maybe something you never dreamed of ...horrer perhaps?
In the 70s. 🎉 I looked for St.Nicolus aska Santa Claus, 🎉and I found out after seeing this 🎉movie , thanks for nothing except something was under my 🌲 ‼️
But Stephen they 🐽👽know the technology has grown, they kno 👁️🖖👁️👀👀👀👀👀👀so if they not ready, myb they🐽more careful 🙃😄🤓🤓🤓🤓they not slow 😂 Ps the title nvr threw me...... 🖖@6:29 & that's why it's one of my favorite films 🐥😊
