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Great movie, excellent in fact, sci-fi at its best (Rating: 5.00) Review : This movie is so entertaining and awe-inspiring that it's hard to believe it was released way back in '77 to such an unsuspecting audience... Spielberg's keen directorial eye and his involving and emotional script are just the backbone of the film though, the true power lies in Richard Dreyfuss' absolutely PERFECT (yes, I said PERFECT!) performance and the spectacular visuals that the movie offers. In spite of the flying saucers and the little green men, this is an incredibly human story that probably hits closer to home than any other movie of its kind. Our relation to Roy is as the everyman we all know and are... One review I read below suggested that Roy would never have left his family to pursue aliens... but who knows what an experience like a close encounter with a UFO could effect a man's perception... Spielberg stated himself that when he made this film, he was in a sense making a makeshift autobiography and living out a fantasy, because, like Roy, at the time he would have been willing to give everything up to go up in an alien spaceship... Anyway, this has to be probably the most intelligent science fiction story ever told on film. If you haven't seen it, you don't know what you're missing. Pop some popcorn, sit down with your sweetheart, and enjoy a great movie. SPECTACULAR AND AWE-INSPIRING (Rating: 5.00) Review : Steven Spielberg topped himself with this movie, which arrived two years after JAWS, the movie that blew the movie industry -- and the rest of us -- away. The first movie to explore aliens from the vantage point of someone who could be your neighbor, or YOU, is fascinating and utlimately surprisingly moving. The visual wonder of this movie is so palpable you can almost touch it with your hand, and the performances are so in synch that you become friends with these people by the time the Mother Ship arrives -- especially Melinda Dillon and Richard Dreyfuss; Teri Garr is as usual excellent, and Francois Truffaut is the perfect man to embody a sympathetic scientist, filled with wonder. When communication between humans and aliens begins to explode, I found tears welling up in my eyes, so complete was Spielberg's magic spell. The fact that this movie essentially features no real villian is remarkable; it manages to be profoundly funny, sentimental, interesting and magical without any real violence and no real character conflict/battle. John Williams once again provides a score of majesty and power; the creative collective genius who concocted an alien encounter entirely through music, whether it was Williams, Spielberg, the writers, or a combo, deserve(s) special mention, and Williams' theme evokes precisely the right emotional chords to transport you to the galaxies above, or at least to heaven. "Toys!" (Rating: 4.00) Review : 4.5 stars. This is easily one of my favorite early films from living, legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg. This film and "Jaws" are two incredible, remarkable achievements from the 1970s. In 1977 all I really remember was the release of another science fiction film by the name of "Star Wars," and it wasn't until the early eighties on cable television that I began to appreciate "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." One of the aspects that sets his early films apart from most was his subtle, yet effective sense of humor. There are many scenes in this film that are just plain hilarious. This is a great story with some excellent acting, most notably from Richard Dreyfuss who won the Oscar for Best Actor in the same year for "The Goodbye Girl." I can't help feeling that his work in this film added to the Oscar voting. Apart from the magical Spielberg touches, which are everywhere, there is another force in this film in the score by composer John Williams. John Williams also won the Oscar for Best Score that same year for "Star Wars." As for the Special Features section on the DVD they finally have the deleted scene showing the inside of the Mother Ship. Steven Spielberg mentions in the documentary that he wishes he had never filmed the sequence, leaving the inside of the ship a mystery. But I love the scene, and I think it adds even more majesty to the ship seeing how huge it is from the inside. This is a Sci-fi gem from the 1970s. I highly recommend buying this DVD. Thank you. Incoherent plot; bad science (Rating: 1.00) Review : This film has such distractingly glaring holes that enjoying it is impossible. Aside from questions of what do aliens need with airplane fighter squadrons and steamships, it presumes that aliens use the same numbering systems and geographic and temporal degradations that we do (why would an alien know how long a second is?) Add a whole lot of Spielbergian paranoia about the government, and there you have it. The special effects are breathtaking and continue to prove, as have so many other great films, that the old way of doing effects is far more spectacular and convincing than today's cartoonish CGI effects. |
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