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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Patreon)

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Santiago Hardy

This is a GOOD one! The way Spielberg was able to make you feel exhausted by the time you get to Devil's Tower in the best way, validates how great a cinematic storyteller he was for this movie. The 5 tones has been my cellphone ringtone for years now.🫱🫳🤛☝️🫲 Quintessential 1970s era brilliance and pure nostalgia to me. Thee BEST.

Sven Lekberg

ExciTEd and Thrilled, grEaT choicE, Truly, none bETter, wEll, TherE mighT be an excEpTion Eagerly waiTing for your viewing pleasure; thE Title escapes mE now, buT the opening scarEd The bejEsus ouT of me as a kid...nudge, nudge, wink, wink (if you need more "scare...ish" incEnTives).

Perry Campbell

Great reaction pigeon girl ❤️❤️❤️ Steven Spielberg does kill a kid. Remember Jaws 😢😢😢😢

Leif Pedersen

Wow! You keep positively surprising us with your choice of movies to react to. Great! Love it! I know this movie very well. Classic must see!

Bob Bittner

With the caged birds… There’s a very subtle sound of a gas being expelled when the person in the hazmat suit collects them from the car. He’s administering the sleeping drug that was used on all the livestock.

Taco Wolf

So glad that you checked this out, it's such a good movie. I re-watched it last year and my friend and I were talking about how different the tone is watching it as a kid vs watching it as an adult. As a kid it was like, "why is that man acting funny??" and as an adult the realization that he's in a full blown manic episode is just so sad. Fun fact: this was, happily, one of the "no animals were harmed in the making of this" movies from the time! They hired vet techs to come out and sedate a bunch of livestock and horses and they were careful about it. Jaws was '75, this was '77 and ET was '82.

RJ Inkglider

Devil's Tower is a real place (obviously?) and it's just as spellbinding in person.

Bob Bittner

This was an interesting version, including material added for the “special edition” rerelease in 1980 but dropping that version’s controversial end scene showing Roy inside the mothership. (Additions included more scenes of Roy tearing up the neighborhood for his sculpture and a much extended argument with Ronnie, which I think was a tonal mistake.) Having seen both versions multiple times, I favor the original theatrical cut…but don’t know if it’s even possible to watch that one now. (I’m old enough to have seen it in the theater.) Thanks, Kat!

RJ Inkglider

In case you were wondering those amazing cloud effects were done by Douglas Trumbull using a special cloud tank where they fill the bottom half with saltwater and the top half with freshwater and then inject milk into the interface layer and it creates all these awesome "clouds". These effects were used in dozens of movies from the 60s to the 90s and to this day haven't been surpassed by CGI effects.

RJ Inkglider

This movie came out 7 or 8 years before ET the Extraterrestrial, and has a lot of elements that would become Spielberg trademarks; the big government experiments and secrecy, the helicopters and kids being a central focus for emotion.

RJ Inkglider

I too was frustrated with the way the parents acted in this movie; Barry's mom was perpetually losing track of him or not holding on in crucial moments, and Roy was so obsessed he ignored his own family completely. Speilberg has confessed that he made this film before he had kids himself and he would have written the parents and Roy especially differently today. He said "Roy was kind of an asshole."

RJ Inkglider

You're absolutely right about UFOs being big in the 70s. There was a show with Leonard Nimoy called "In Search Of" about unexplained phenomena like Bigfoot and Loch Ness monster and UFOs and it was absolutely a huge part of the culture. Undoubtedly it played a big part of this movie being greenlit.

RJ Inkglider

In retrospect he definitely dragged out the exposition scenes with the government a bit too long in places but movies are paced differently now and people processed information a lot slower before the internet.

Santiago Hardy

Agreed.🎯 I was born in 1970, that era molded my psyche with all the great sci-fi/horror/fantasy films it yielded, the pacing of 1970s cinema is more laid back by comparison to the films of the past 20 years or so. NOPE(2022) has that same slower paced essence to it, i was pleasantly surprised at how Jordan Peele allowed the scenes and scenery to breath and not have the music score dominate each scene frame. I ended up loving that movie. It was so refreshing to see.

James At the Peak

Devils tower exist in Northeastern Wyoming, E.t. hit Theatres in 1982 where as Close encounters was released in 1977. First kind encounter is a reported sighting Second would be tracks or evidence and lastly the third would be actual contact. Your reviews never lag and are always such a treat. Good call on figuring out that it was a John Williams score.

RJ Inkglider

I just read that to produce the cloud effects used in CCotTK, Douglas Trumbull and his team used several tons of salt to get the bottom layer of water salty enough to create the effect in all the cloud shots they created. The tank they used was 7ft x 7ft x 4ft and held 1000 gallons of water.

RJ Inkglider

The air traffic control scene was so excellent because they used a real controller (that black guy who looked so calm and collected) who knew exactly how to issue those commands so convincingly because it was his real job for the last 20 years.

Hoop

PIggly Wiggly is/was a regional grocery store chain in parts of the USA. I don't know why it bothers me so much, but helicopters are flown, not driven. My pet peeve, my problem.

deskmerc

I watched this film at a drive in theater when it was released, and though I was but a 7 year old tot at the time I loved the whole flick, until that goddamned long armed thing crawled out the lower airlock and stood up. My parents would say that "I lost my shit at that", so this movie has scarred me ever since.

RJ Inkglider

I wonder if the way Barry's mom kept losing track of him before he finally was abducted was a not so subtle warning to single moms (which were still highly frowned upon, not for all bad reasons necessarily). Movies are vectors for social messaging and propaganda after all, some of it well meaning, some of it nefarious.

RJ Inkglider

The way they focused so much on Roy's abusive treatment of his family hit too many people of that era too close to home. There were a lot of broken families in the 70s and to put that up on the screen in such painful detail in what was supposed to be a fun family film was a really weird choice. I didn't like it at all.

Daniel Turbyfill

It was before ET and also before Poltergeist, both of which seem to take different aspects of this film.

Daniel Turbyfill

Devil’s Tower, Wyoming is real. There is a KOA campground that I’ve stayed at just outside of the park. They show Close Encounters every night. While watching all you have to do is turn your head to the left to see the actual tower.

Digital Droo

I paid a bridge toll of $8.50 on the way home today. That's the real horror.

Digital Droo

"John Williams…I don't know what he's done, but I know the name." Yeah, he's composed the score for a film or two. 😆

RJ Inkglider

Some daredevil parachuted to the top of the tower in the 1940s and got stranded because his rapelling gear bounced and fell off when it was dropped. He ended up spending five or six days up there before he was rescued by a climbing team. No one has ever done that feat again.

RJ Inkglider

Seriously. $0.25 tolls are a fond memory.

RJ Inkglider

Besides the awful way Roy treated his wife and family I liked it. Speilberg has said he would have written Roy differently today. He was a single man without kids and didn't appreciate how cavalierly he treated the abandonment of a family on screen. The 70s were a time of a lot of broken homes and it hit a nerve with a lot of viewers.

RJ Inkglider

I didn't like watching those birds flutter about and go unconscious. That can't be good for them, or for the livestock, really.

RJ Inkglider

I'm an Xer also. I miss slower paced films too. You should see Backrooms if you haven't (I assume you've seen Kat's reaction to it). That movie has an old-school pacing to it (except for the first found footage scene which felt very modern).

Santiago Hardy

Same here, I miss movies that don't feel so rushed or overly edited. I'm going to watch Backrooms when it streams on HBO later this month. I didn't know about it's pacing, thanks for that info, it gets me more interested in watching it.

RJ Inkglider

I just thought of a movie you might get a kick out of, it's basically in its own category of existential horror-comedy: Synecdoche, NY by Charlie Kauffman. He's the genius behind Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation and Human Nature. All very cerebral films, but Synecdoche, NY is about acting in a way that I think you'll really dig.

Anton Hennicker

Great choice and reaction Kat 👌 Fire in the Sky from 1993 i think you'd enjoy too x

Taco Wolf

Look, I understand that social cues can be difficult sometimes but you’re commenting five times more than everyone else here. No one else is leaving 15 to 20 comments on each post. At this point it’s starting to dominate the conversation in addition to just being off-putting and unnecessary. Maybe take it down a notch.

Michael Davis

Kat, you look nervous, rather than excited. I love your enthusiasm for special effects. You don't think Spielberg would kill a kid? I guess you haven't seen Schindler's List?

Robert Raszkowski

KAT - cutest kid ever. Alaso KAT - what a creepy kid. Kids can't win with KAT! :D Yep - this was before "ET". "Devil's Tower" is a real place. The animals, birds were gassed - they were okay. Aliens in a Spielberg movies are always good so You never ever have to worry. That is a weak point because it is predictable. This is a good movie but it was elaveted by Daffy Duck. If You would add Daffy Duck in any movie - instant gold. On a base of that movie I reccomand "Batteries not included" from 1987.

RJ Inkglider

You were like "shake a leg, lady" and I just noticed that she managed to finally find a high gear when Roy almost hit Barry in the road with his truck... then of course she lets him wander into the street again. The 70s were a different time. No helmets, etc. Even the neighbors on the road didn't show the least concern when a little boy was standing in the road. Thanks, Spielberg

RJ Inkglider

They needed a better creature designer. Top shelf for every effect but that one.

BrakYeller

SOOOOOOO glad you watched this one. This is one of my absolute favorite films despite its few flaws, as it is such an enormous and deeply personal statement from Spielberg about the human reaction to the unknown. If you'll forgive me In advance for going all X-Files on you: The planes from Flight 19 found in the beginning of the movie, and the Cotopaxi, the ship found in the middle of the desert, are both real-world incidents of disappearances from the Bermuda Triangle. The wreckage of the Cotopaxi was eventually found and confirmed in the 2000s, well after the movie was made, but Flight 19 has still not definitively been located. Spielberg himself admits to a Fox Mulder level of interest in the paranormal/extraterrestrial, and he definitely knows chapter and verse on his pop culture "Mysteries of the Unknown" stuff. Dr. J Allen Hynek, a civilian astronomer who worked for the Air Force under Project Blue Book in the 1960s (the US government's public attempt to categorize and explain UFOs), who started in the field as a skeptic and became a believer, and who came up with the "close encounter" scale, has a very brief cameo in the film... he's the man in the blue suit who pushes to the front of the crowd and puts a pipe in his mouth as the missing people are being returned, at the 2:03:30 mark here. The close encounter scale: 1st Kind: visual sighting of a craft. 2nd Kind: measurable effects are left behind by the craft. 3rd Kind: sighting of craft occupants. (and then there are the later additions made by French researcher Jacques Vallee, who was the real-world template of the Lacombe character from the movie) 4th Kind: abduction by craft occupants. 5th Kind: measurable injuries or aftereffects of an abduction. When this film came out in 1977, the subject of UFOs was still in the public zeitgeist, but largely as a curiosity. Since the late 1940s, there had been thousands of serious reports of UFOs, hundreds of pictures of varying quality, and a few accounts of sightings or abductions by people who were willing to go on record with their story. Most of those stories were largely dismissed by the media at large as mentally disturbed people seeking attention, leading to the stigma against reporting or even acknowledging the unknown that comes up several times in the movie. Despite that stigma, the subject remained popular enough in the public eye. At the time the movie was made, the idea of contact with aliens was seen as scary but generally idealized as positive. CE3K was one of the first films set in a contemporary moment to take the subject of UFOs and alien contact seriously, and without portraying it as dangerous, campy, or invasive. In CE3K, the government is seen as keeping secrets about UFOs largely to make sure the public doesn't panic, like a benevolent parent taking care of a child that doesn't know enough to take care of itself. It wasn't until the 80s and 90s, when several popular accounts of abductions came out focusing on how terrifying and bizarre the experiences were, and the more conspiratorial side of the phenomenon started to come to the fore, that we lost the magic of Spielberg's movie and started going down the path of inscrutable and insidious alien abduction that the X-Files would go on to explore so effectively. From that point onward, "the Government" is usually seen as the big bad guy in any media about UFOs. Ideally, one would watch CE3K before watching Spielberg's more recent movie Disclosure Day, as they both cover different moral ends of the UFO cover up spectrum, and help to illustrate that drift away from protecting the public and toward absolute secrecy over the past 50 years. Einstein's theories (as referenced in the film) postulate that if a spaceship is traveling at or faster than the speed of light, time moves slower for the people on that spaceship than it would for people back on Earth, explaining why the returned missing people hadn't aged. There was a long-standing rumor that when Spielberg screened Close Encounters for Ronald Reagan, Reagan reportedly leaned over to whisper to Spielberg "you know, not that many people know how true all of this really is." Spielberg has repeatedly denied Reagan ever did any such thing. It's odd how universally terrifying the now-typical 3-foot-tall gray alien is to almost everybody. It terrified me as a child, and is still barely tolerable as an adult. Yet Spielberg manages to take these terrifying beings, and their incredibly scary attempts to approach humanity (hearing them scampering around on the roof of Jillian's house sets me off to this day) and turn it all into this brilliant and uplifting moment of contact and understanding. You may recognize Melinda Dillon (Jillian) as the mother from the classic A Christmas Story. Lastly, Cary Guffey, the little boy who plays Barry. He earned the reputation of "one take Cary" from the crew, because he usually gave Spielberg the reaction he wanted on the first take, which is startlingly rare in a child actor. To get the happy reactions from him, Spielberg would pull a toy out of a box to show him, which is why he yells "toys!" at the sight of the approaching UFOs the night he gets abducted. There's some wonderful interviews with him as a grown man talking about what he remembers about his time on the set you can probably find on YouTube. Sorry for the novel. This is one of my favorites, and it lays a lot of the track that later media about contact with aliens, and government conspiracies, like the X-Files would travel.

James Cole

It’s obviously a set, she says. It is called Devils Tower in Wyoming.

James Cole

That’s one way to get out of paying child support.

Erich

The Frenchman in charge is played by the legendary director Francois Truffaut! Check out some of his films, like Jules and Jim and Day for Night, and especially The 500 Blows.