CLOSE ENCOUNTERS in 4K. Theatrically. September 1.

[emeraldknight47]

There are some films that are just totally meant to be seen on the big screen. This is one of them. I'll have my butt parked in a theater seat for sure!!

[Hector]

One of my all time favorite movies...and yes, this is meant for a huge screen...

[Klosterheim]

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Those mashed potatoes are going to look really good on the big screen!

[emeraldknight47]

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Those mashed potatoes are going to look really good on the big screen!

Even WITHOUT gravy!

[Klosterheim]

Even WITHOUT gravy!

Ha!,Ha!,Ha!,Ha!,Ha!,Ha!,Ha!,Ha!,Ha! Yeah!

[Toyman_Chris]

am I a bad person for never having seen this movie?

[Hector]

Yes, yes you are...

[Hector]

Just kidding, lol...

But it does seem like you are not much of a movie buff, or at the very least, not a sci-fi person...

[Toyman_Chris]

Just kidding, lol...

But it does seem like you are not much of a movie buff, or at the very least, not a sci-fi person...

Actually, I am a big time movie buff and Sci-Fi person. Just this movie and 2001 always bored me, so I never finished them. Admittedly, I have never sat down to actually watch them, just came in as they were started. I just need to make it a point to give them a go.

[emeraldknight47]

Wait---so you've never seen either 2001 or CETK in their entirety?!? For shame, sir, for shame! Please turn in you sci-fi creds as you leave the room. LOL!!! Seriously, they are both massively entertaining and were, and are, highly influential in what has come since. You owe yourself a viewing of both.

[palitoy]

I've seen this movie a couple of times and it's not my favourite. It's not a bad film by any stretch of the imagination, I just don't revere it the way others i know do.

[Hector]

I watched it with my dad way back in late 1977 at the Coronet theater in San Francisco (now sadly closed) after the Star Wars Summer run had passed...and I have nothing but great fond memories of Close Encounters of the Third Kind...every time I watch it, that moment immediately comes back, it's what makes nostalgia so great...our own personal time machine.

[palitoy]

I watched in the sixth grade on a VCR, probably why I don't hold it dear.

Also, a terrible board game.

[Hector]

No wonder, Brian, ha...

[Hedji]

This is important.
This means something.

I LOOOVE CE3K. So brilliant the way the musical score evolves and eventually becomes the film itself. From atonal music for the encounters and abduction, to the 5 tones integral to the storyline, to the lush, fully realized orchestral crescendo.

It's the perfect tonic for those who find Star Wars too fantastic or E.T. too saccharine. (I do not include myself in those groups, but for some...)