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j10022-deleted-1508825858 says...

10 years ago

One of the most beautiful alien encounter films I've watched.

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giorgio333 says...

6 years ago

This movie is so bad in so many ways. Its meaningless, boring, etc. 2 hours time wasting. It is plain and simple shit.

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Reply by Samekas

6 years ago

I feel the same way, it's way too boring but u guess back in that time was good.

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Reply by The_Argentinian

4 years ago

Transformers is your kind of alien invasion movie, isn't it?

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Reply by usuallee

4 years ago

I agree. It's overrated. I almost turned it off because of Teri Garr's shrieking hysterical overacting. In the end, nothing much happens. Meh.

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nmahoney416 says...

7 years ago

I saw this classic for the first time on the big screen in the rerelease. Looked a little bit dated but I'm sure it was mind blowing back in 1977. A lot of suspense near the end that kept me on the edge of my seat. A little too long. Not Spielberg's best but still a very good movie.

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kennybyoung says...

10 years ago

One to remember.

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csbarker says...

2 years ago

I'm sure this was a great movie back in the day, but today? Not so much.

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Van Nyx says...

2 years ago

Undoubtedly a treasure in its time, and though still a curiosity, it is little more than an outdated snooze fest now.

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tomossible says...

5 years ago

I don't consider "good for its time" argument valid, but even with that in mind, this movie is a bad one.

Whoever wrote the script does not understand how math, science and universe in general fundamentally work which results in cringy moments. There are always assumptions in SciFi, but you have to make them consistent with reality or you should have explicitly made it clear that movie universe is purely fictional. I don't recommend watching this film if you graduated equivalent of European high school some time after Enlightenment.

And of course it is super long and boring, with constant multiple shots of the same thing, which are overly long by themselves and often are not needed for the plot.

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Reply by The_Argentinian

4 years ago

What a load of shit.

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Reply by Hillgrove

2 years ago

@tomossible obviously you're wrong, because "in it's time" it was nominated for a long list of rewards.

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Reply by tomossible

11 months ago

@trakt-hillgrove-dk <br /> Well, Hitler was Time's person of the year in 1938.<br /> <br /> I don't care for expert ratings of anything, including movies.

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ak13 says...

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3 years ago

The last 30 minutes are really good and interesting. But getting there is slow and tedious, i almost fell asleep.
[spoiler] plus they never explain why the aliens abducted all those people and why they suddenly decided to let them come back [/spoiler]

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Reply by Adafeloz

3 years ago

Yeah, what was that all about, anyway? And why did the main character go off with them and no one said a word about it?

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getsmartt says...

7 years ago

I remember seeing this when it first came out at a drive-in theater, was great then and still great now.

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Nedzs says...

3 years ago

I can't recall the last time I actually watched this movie, so I gave it a go again today and I'm glad I did.
Yes, it's very clearly a 70's movie that hasn't aged well which just means it's a product of it's time.
There was some criminal over-acting from Teri Garr but everyone else was just solid, even the kids.
I don't recall the movie as being as dark as it was but that only made it better for me as it was unexpected.

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tjesp says...

3 years ago

The French scientist is actually modeled after Jacques Vallee, a known UFO researcher.

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Noxiuz says...

4 years ago

Why are there so many scenes where people are talking through each other? You got main characters in the foreground having dialogues moving the story along and there are people in the background just talking through it about nonsense. I'm trying to like this movie but it's getting really hard to get through. Over 2 hours is way too long for this. Richard Dreyfus is amazing though and I think he's the only reason I'm still watching it about an hour and a half in. But I don't understand its 'classic' status.

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Saint Pauly says...

4 years ago

Steven Spielberg is a master story maker, and this is a masterful story beautifully made. With elements of horror, humor and suspense, _Close Encounters_... is science fiction that transcends so many genres it's transcendant.

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Adafeloz says...

3 years ago

So we sit through 2 hours of mostly boring scenes linked together with bad transitions and don't even find out why the aliens came in the first place? Why they abducted those people and why they suddenly decided to return them? What in the HELL were they even saying to each other when the people and the aliens were "communicating" through those beep-boops and lights? Why didn't anyone question it? What was so special about that mountain? Why did that guy go off with them in the end and how come they nodded and smiled to him instead of being worried or something? Everything was so random and boring. This is possibly Spielberg's worst film.

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