Close Encounters of the Third Kind (DVD)

Made at roughly the same time and released about a year apart, 'Star Wars' and 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' were both phenomenally successful, but whereas the popularity of 'Star Wars' never waned, spawning the closest thing cinema has come to a religious sect, 'Close Encounters' produced just two indirect sequels. The first, the 1980 'Special Edition', was a re-edit, with the awkward mid-section trimmed and new, slightly redundant, special effects added to the end. The second was 'E.T.', a pointless scaled-down version of 'Close Encounters', reducing its big ideas and scale to a suburban fairy tale where ...  Read the complete review

I first went to see this at the cinema back in 1978 and was struck by how good a story it was and how well it was made. The special effects back then were brilliant. The story is about a space ship that comes to Earth to find out whether it is worth meeting up with the humans. They send out smaller ships from the big one to fly round the world and check things out. Some people are taken onto the ship. When the ships come everything electrical goes haywire like lights flash on and off and the tv goes mad and cars stop etc. The try to communicate to the earth by sending musical notes and people hear this around the world but not many people know what is ...  Read the complete review

This is one of the most famous sci fi films of all time,it tells the story about a group of people who all begin to act strangley,no members of there familys are effected only them,they start to express themselves in different ways but all feel the need to draw or model a mountain which becomes a compelling obsession driving there families mad,through a series of events a couple of the people meet up and try to find the mountin they keep seeing,when they reach the mountain they find they arnt the onlyones there ,a huge military base has been built and there expecting some visitors. This is a amazing film directed by Steven speilburg,its got a excellent ...  Read the complete review

This is a classic! To appreciate it you had to be there, you had to be in 1978 that is. This film was released around about the same time as Star Wars. Two totally different films, tied together with (for the time) marvellous special effects and beings from outer space, and that really was all they had in common. But all too often CE3K (as it is known amongst fans of the film) is lumped in and compared with Star Wars, so lets drop Star Wars now. CE3K follows the course of a family man, Roy Neary who becomes obsessed with a shape he is 'seeing' in his imagination. This obsession occurs after he has an encounter with an 'aircraft' hovering above his truck. The ...  Read the complete review

Close Encounters" was one of the most sensational movies of the 1970s. I remember seeing it at the cinema with my parents and sisters.We sat still staring at the screen mesmerised it was that good. I would love to see a flying saucer. The movie does tend to drag a bit in the first half, as the character played by Richard Dreyfuss a family man,slowly becomes more and more obsessed with building scale models of something in his home,after a late night encounter with one of the space craft. Finally, about the time Dreyfuss' character realizes the things he's been building are models of Devil's Peak,his family leaves him, and he goes out on a solo ...  Read the complete review