GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Bardlerx Strictly average movie

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

muons The movie starts in a chaotic fashion and disengages the audience right at the get-go. The awfully slow combinations of disconnected scenes include noise, dust, flashlights in darkness, yelling and screaming at the breakfast table, erratic behavior of a father of two, dispassionate government workers and so on. The movie is not even sure about its own genre. What starts like an UFO encounter which was trendy of its time takes a weird turn into a cheesy horror flick with all the known cliches like an eerie soundtrack, screws coming off, doors slamming all by themselves and then goes back to its nonexistent plot. Only in the last half an hour or so, Spielberg makes some futile efforts to tie the loose ends together in a weak plot but that appears too little, too late. I can't believe he doesn't even force his imagination a bit later in ET where he recycles the same alien characters of this movie. I saw the movie about 40 years after its release and felt like it aged 10000 years.

rachelle-60307 Biggest suck ever! I will never get these two hours of My life back and I have a terminal illness.

Pjtaylor-96-138044 Spielberg's seminal sci-fi flick finds a way to evoke both fear and wonder from the extra-terrestrial elements which fuel its plot, using a surprisingly enigmatic 'less is more' mentality (perhaps even more so than 'Jaws (1975)' before it). The cracks in the still impressive special effects splendour eventually start to show, though, when the feature breaks from its core philosophy to show its hand in its final moments, leaving almost nothing to the imagination. 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)' would probably have worked better upon its initial release at the height of the flying saucer fanatics, when the world hadn't seen as many of these effects-driven epics and as such were more likely to view those aspects as worthy selling-points alone, but it still holds up relatively well forty-years later even if the pacing is very slow between the several genuinely superbly crafted and suspenseful set-pieces that make it a worth-while watch. The finale isn't quite as gripping as it perhaps thinks it is, however, instead revealing far too much and being far too drawn-out for its own good. 6/10

slightlymad22 Continuing My Plan To Watch Every Steven Spielberg movie in order, I come to Close Encounters Of A Third Kind. I'll admit from the off, I watched this movie when I was 10, did not like it at all, and have never revisited it since.Spielberg left Zanuck/Brown and their deal at Univeral to make this movie for Julia and Michael Phillips at Columbia Pictures, with the budget set at $4.1 million. As is happened the effects alone would cost about $3 million, and the budge was estimated to run to $20 million. Columbia pictures were in financial difficulty by this point and had effectively bet the farm on this movie.Julia Phillips was eventually forced to the sidelines due to her drug use. In her autobiography "You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again", she says how she and the studio did not want to meet Richard Dreyfuss' price of $500,000 plus gross points to play Roy Neary and offered the script to Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman James Caan and Steve McQueen. Pacino wasn't interested, Nicholson thought that any actor would be overwhelmed by the special effects. Hackman turned down the role because he was in a troubled marriage and could not spend 16 weeks on location-shooting. Cann wanted $1 million plus 10% of the gross, whilst McQueen turned the role down because he said he wasn't able to cry on film. So Phillips went back to Dreyfuss, and he became immortalized on film as Roy Neary. Truthfully, like 2001, this one still leaves me a but cold. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it more today than I did all those years ago. All of the cast are grea, and its compelling at times especially during the first hour as Roy appears to be descending into madness. It is also refreshing to see a movie about aliens that does not involve them blowing New York up. But as it went on, I found myself willing it to hurry up. Spielberg's Daddy issues are front and centre in this one. Legend has it the cry baby scene is directly out of his childhood. I wonder what his Dad thought watching all these movies. I noticed it in Jaws, and there is a lot of product placement in this one too Coca-Cola. McDonald's being obvious standouts. Close Encounters Of A Third Kind grossed $116 million at the domestic box office (more than Saturday Night Fever, Annie Hall and The Spy Who Loved Me) to end the year the third highest grossing movie of 1977. Only Star Wars and Smokey & The Bandit grossed more.