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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) DIRECTOR'S CUT * FULL LENGTH REACTION (Patreon)

Published:
2026-05-06 15:00:09
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2026-05-06 23:27:31
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2026-08
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The winner of our Pre-1980 Sci-fi Poll!!

Movie length: 2h17m25s

A remarkable movie.

I knew this was sci-fi with aliens, BUT I didn't know anything about the events of the story. I thoroughly enjoyed this!!

Thank you for choosing this masterpiece 🤩

For this style of reaction, you need your own copy to watch the movie.  You can set picture in picture by right clicking twice on the video and selecting "Picture in picture". The right clicking twice is a bit tricky, because you have to right click, then move your cursor so it's not on the menu, then right click again

YT Link: https://youtu.be/sYOx_R2KnjY

- Vero 🥰

Thank you so much for being here!!

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FULL LENGTH REACTION | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) [2026]

You need your own copy of the media to watch along with me though since this is solely my reaction. The video is there so you can have an idea when the scene changes in case you need to sync up, but it is HEAVILY blurred so I don't have any copyright issues. Enjoy!!

Comments

AuntVes

Thanks, Véro! 🌌 After seeing the original 1977 version on home video multiple times, I saw the Special Edition when it was released in the cinema in 1980. It showed the inside of the alien vessel. Many reject that version since Mr. Spielberg was forced to do it by Columbia Pictures. But, as a kid, I loved seeing that. 🔸 Since you wondered, the French character was based on a real-life UFO researcher, Jacques Vallée.

Brian

If the movie length is "2h17m25s" I believe that is the 1998 Director's Cut? Just want to make sure before I start this full-time reaction and it starts going out of sync at some point because I'm watching the wrong version! Theatrical Release (1977): 135 minutes (2 hours 15 minutes) Special Edition (1980): 132 minutes (2 hours 12 minutes) Director's Cut (1998): 137 minutes (2 hours 17 minutes) The 1998 Director's Cut is the definitive version of the film so I truly hope that's what we're watching here in the full reaction. This is one of my all-time favorites! The wonder and discovery and grandeur of it all. Dreyfuss and Truffaut are so great in it and, yes, it's one of John Williams's best scores!

Carl Evans

Fun to see this movie with your reaction. I'm forced to play closer attention. 👀☺️ And fun to learn that Canada is a haven for UFOs😄

Cliff Adams

Pinocchio remains my favorite Disney film. Roy's love of it, wanting his kids to experience it, the music box (which I am certain plays When You Wish Upon a Star), the music score becoming that song as Roy walks toward the mothership ramp... I really think the movie takes on greater depth if the viewer has seen and knows Pinocchio. It will never win a poll, but it is worth watching and reacting to.

ButtercupsTrueLove

Thank you for your wonderful reaction, Vero! Thanks also for giving us a heads-up on the running length of the movie so we could sync up properly. The Blu-ray copy that I watched contains the three versions cited by Brian in his comment. The 'abductees' probably on experienced being gone from Earth for a few hours. The pilots haven't aged appreciably since the alien ship was traveling at near the speed of light after stopping to take on passengers on Earth. That's where Einstein's Theory of Relativity comes in. Sometimes reactions are mixed about Roy kissing Jillian before he leaves. I don't see it as a sexual attraction. In the context of the movie I think the two of them shared something profound and life-altering. Some folks have cited Spielberg himself as saying he would have eliminated the kiss from his movie if he'd made it later in life. We can interpret it however we choose and I'm glad that Spielberg did not see fit to do a revisionist version like George Lucas did with "Star Wars". We're fortunate to have "Close Encounters..." to preserve the talents of the late Teri Garr and Melinda Dillon. Teri was great in "Young Frankenstein" (1974) and "The Black Stallion" (1979) and was a favorite of Francis Ford Coppola's earlier works. Melinda was wonderful as the compassionate mom to young Ralphie and Randy in "A Christmas Story" (1983). It was also nice for Spielberg to get the French film director, the late François Truffaut, to appear in "Close Encounters...".

WastedPo

I'm glad you appreciated this so much. I saw this when I was a kid. And while I liked it then, I think I like it even more now, and recognize how brilliant it is. John Williams's score is especially good here. The actual plot (and entire last sequence) is predicated on the music, so yeah, it makes sense that at least a portion of the score would've had to have been written before the movie was shot, so they could storyboard that whole "conversation" between the humans and the alien ship. I also would like to point out a musical reference that most people miss, and that is Williams weaves in "When You Wish Upon a Star" into the climax (most obviously when Roy is being ushered into the ship). Of course, this was part of the plot too, since Roy loved the movie Pinocchio.