Pros: Everything mentioned, plus a lot more Cons: I know of none
There are almost too many facets in this movie to allow a genuinely effective "review," so I'll just comment instead. First, however, let me state for the record that I saw a UFO. I did. I was in the company of the composer of that old...
Pros: Some great performances; slick visuals; smart script. Cons: Some product placement; some clichés; some utterly incomprehensible scenes.
A couple of years ago there was an “alien” fad. I remember this because I was sucked into it. Skater clothes began having these ugly little alien characters on them. They had giant heads, big bug eyes and tiny little bodies. On the shirts they were...
Pros: Great characters, optimistic plot Cons: Sometimes naive
Ah, Ok, I got it now. It’s not a film about aliens.
When I first saw “Close Encounters...” I was about 13 and had already seen “Star Wars” about 10 times. CE3K was released as a counterpart of Star Wars, and I expected it to be a fantasy space...
Pros: high production values, good story, cast Cons: too showy, government as conspirators
"Stars Wars" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" were both released in 1977, and were enormously successful films, both critically and commercially. This began a new era in Hollywood, in which special effects became much more...
Pros: Great story, special effects and music Cons: Not any really
The previews intrigued me so I went to see this movie.
It seems to be the most well known precursor to the UFO, alien, extraterrestrial movies. There very well could be intelligent life elsewhere in the universe and this movie explored that...
Pros: The performances Cons: Just try to cram it all on the small screen; also, deceptive advertising
This film is about two people - Melinda Dillon and Richard Dreyfus - who become obsessed with Devil's Mountain and UFO's for different reasons. (Dillon's character's son was taken up into the mothership, while Dreyfus' character merely has a close...
There are certain movies that fill you with awe, that leave you staring up at the cosmos with such new-found wonder. Close Encounters of then Third Kind is just one of those movies that, at the end, you're just as befuddled as you were at the beginning....
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