When my daughter was in the third grade she was learning clarinet and one Saturday afternoon, we watched this movie together. The next thing I realized, she is standing out in the yard and playing the five tones of the "contact" on her clarinet! I yelled to her, "There better not be aliens in my yard tonight!" We shared a good laugh at that one...
J. Allen Hynek, a big figure in UFO research, had been a consultant on this movie. He coined the term that’s used as the movie title. The disappearance of the planes in 1945 was a real event. I believe it’s the director’s cut which nicely divides the types of close encounters (1st, 2nd and 3rd) into the three acts. The French character questioning Roy is an homage to Jacques Vallee, another figure in UFO research.
J. Allen Hynek was the head of Project Bluebook, the government program tasked with compiling and investigating UFO sightings in America. Hynek makes a cameo in this movie as the scientist with the gray goatee in the film's climax.
Fun fact about Hynek: he went into Project Bluebook as a total non-believer, not even just a “skeptic”. After amassing so much info that he couldn’t logically explain, he became a believer.
J Allen Hynek was not only was the scientific consultant for Project Bluebook. He also became the Founder for CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies), it is one of the oldest UFO groups in America.
And we must all acknowledge the greatness of the music maestro, John Williams, who did some of his best work on this movie. Just outstanding. He was truly on fire around this time, no doubt.
Absolutely. Williams never produced a better score than this. Spielberg also has not made a more awesome film than this. A complete experience from beginning to end. Wonderful film.
He wrote the soundtrack for this and for Star Wars in the same year. I think he was the first composer to get an Oscar nomination for soundtracks for two different films in the same year.
Favorite fun fact about this movie - At the time Spielberg was making this movie he was going through a divorce. He has said in interviews that because of this, subconsciously, that is probably the reason why he had Roy leaving with the aliens. If he was making the movie a few years later when he was remarried and in a good relationship, he may have made a different choice for Roy. It may have made a completely different meaning to the ending of the movie.
The guy playing the keyboards was a contractor hired to set them up for the movie and leave. Spielberg noticed he had a pleasant demeanor and friendly so he hired him to play that part.
The aircraft that disappeared in 1945 is known as Flight 19. They went off radar off of Florida & were never traced. The subsequent rescue flight also disappeared never to be recovered.
Whenever I see this movie, I think of two things: 1) how wonderful, creepy, and exciting this movie was seeing it in theaters for the first time in '77 and 2) how totally dysfunctional Roy's family was (they're terrible!).
That's an interesting point. 1.) The creepy aliens vs 2) dysfunctional family. With Roy choosing aliens over family in the end. Similar to the Buddha, who abandoned his own family. It could be said that even if his family was dysfunctional, his wife and children did not deserve to be abandoned, in order to become another statistic. Instead of the movie showing that one's family ought never to be abandoned, even in the light of visitation of beings from another world, it shows that family is ultimately not important.
The sound design in this movie is “dynamic.” It covers all the points in the range of volume, from very soft to very loud, like in real life. Spielberg and other “New Hollywood” directors were experimenting with new forms of realism, and this kind of dynamic sound is less “canned,” more open and intense than old-time foley work, and more realistic. The terrific irony is the gritty everydayness and rawness of a movie about space aliens! It’s a sublime mess that few today would have the courage to make.
Fun fact: George Lucas' "Star Wars" and CETK were released at the roughly the same time. Speilberg saw Star Wars and bet Lucas that SW would do better at the box office. Lucas didn't believe it and bet Speilberg that CETK would do better. The bet was a percentage of the box office of the film that did better. Lucas says it was the most expensive bet he ever made, paying Speilberg some $60 million as CETK had a mediocre box office while SW became a phenomenon blockbuster.
I saw this in NY's Ziegfeld Theatre and it was an event. Long lines to get inside, waiting in the gorgeous lobby until the previous show let out and the glorious, deafening sound of the mothership passing overhead going into the finale. I saw a different cut than what is considered the director's cut but still, it was a great time at the cinema. I'm so glad you got the opportunity to react to it.
I was ten when this came out. This movie was huge! I remember there was a disco song on the radio with the organ sounds. Movies were really great back then. This, Star Wars, Jaws, the list goes on.
as a symphony musician (tuba & trombone).. the thing that still blows me away is that the mothership conversation isn't electronics... is was instruments in the studio orchestra playing parts.. the high notes were oboe and flute playing together.. lows were tuba and contrabassoon. Jim Self was the tubist and the part was ridiculously difficult jumping intervals and fast note runs mashed together... not something tubas usually are required to play.
The "kid in the background" that was always doing something stupid, was none other than Richard Dreyfuss' son, Justin. What an opportunity to bug the crap out of your dad and get paid for it.
There's some amazing interviews with the cast where they said they never knew if the aliens were friendly or hostile until the end of the shooting of the film. It made the performances more genuine.
You can't see it but the builders of the model for the mother ship put a small miniature of AR2D2 and C3PO on it. For years Spielberg and Lucas played honour to each other.
Thank you for all your hard work and fun times. Hope you are having better weather. Edmonton Area is starting to go up to 20s celcius this week. Have a great week Jen.
Nice call, Teri Garr is the actress! She made some comedies with Mel Brooks. She also had a very prominent guest spot on Star Trek TOS. She even appeared in an Elvis movie.
Yes Jen that is Phoebe's mom on friends... Her name is Teri Garr.. if you like her another movie to check out with her in it is Mr Mom with Michael Keaton... Great movie absolutely hilarious
I watched this maybe 4 or 5 times on a big screen in a theater when it was released, then again when the special edition came out later in the year with the added footage of inside the ship at the end. Although this is contemporary with the original Star Wars, I found this film more impactful with its positive tone that an alien species might be friendly and not just arrive on earth to invade or enslave humanity. Also, one of my favorite soundtracks of all time.
So much fun watching these movies with you, I don't know about everyone else, but my friends have no reactions to movies , they pause the movie for trip to the bathroom, phone calls, smoking, then at the end of the movie, it's all about something other than the movie, yeah I need better friends lol thanks for having a good since of humor and fun personality 🤗
The scene with the light coming through the keyhole and every opening of the house is so creepy, because it reminds me of a childhood nightmare I had about aliens when I was a kid in the '60s. What a great film. Spielberg has such a talent for hitting in the gut.
A absolute classic, it's hard to explain the effect some of these movies that truly changed and effected not just movie culture but society as a whole, i really don't think we'll ever get the level of change, kinda zeitgeist altering moments ever again, you had to go to the theater or drive in, you had to wait to see anything, tell anyone anything, talk about it, it somehow made the the movies that went on to become classics more powerful and awe inspiring. Part of that was the experience and you cant get that clicking your way into a movie on a phone or PC. Now we need a reaction to "PAUL".
Not only did this movie influence the way other alien movies are made . But it has also influenced the descriptions of the alleged alien encounters people claim to have , after this movie was made . Prior to this movie people would report encountering little green man , robots , and monster like creatures . After this movie most people began to report the supposed aliens in their encounters as small grayish almond eyed aliens with big heads . It's seems claims of alien encounters and abductions have a correlation with what is experienced in popular culture and in the public imagination of that particular time in our history . But it's a great movie isn't it ?
Love your Pomeranian. Does he shed? My short-haired mixes shed like crazy. Don’t like to think about when their time comes to leave me, but I’ve had it with shedders. Best wishes.
There is no doubt, me and my family saw lights moving around bizzarely, in ways that no aircraft then or now could have, over the night skies of Kansas on our way to relatives in Nebraska
A Spielberg classic for sure!! One of my favorite sci-fi flicks of all time. You should check out Empire of The Sun, kind of a Spielberg sleeper. It features a young Christian Bale, way before he dons the Batsuit. Always a pleasure watching your reaction Jen. You're very pretty and have a great complexion! Another alien favorite for me is Fire In The Sky, if you've not seen it. :)
I subscribed to you after watching your reaction to the Shing a couple of weeks ago, but I did not know you were Canadian I am Canadian too from Toronto. Its nice to meet you.
I remember seeing this in the theater back in '78? Super profound affect, as close to religious as I can imagine. I remember crying in the theater (I was 13 or 14). I still get emotional watching it, in my late 50s
This is one of my favorite movies growing up as I'm big on UFOs and similar subjects. I don't think I've ever seen anyone react to it! Glad you enjoyed it! :)
At the time this was released, it was a spectacular achievement. I so want to join your Patreon but I am retired and have to watch. I tell you this only because I don't want you to think I don't fully appreciate the quality of your hard work.
QUESTION--------What will you do if the announcement of ET life and news they are coming to visit? Would you freak out, wet your pants, get a gun and get into your bunkers? Would you react in FEAR? You might wanna start thinking about it soon......... =) Music IS math and a great way to communicate with other species
12:50 - welcome to the 1970's. That sort of concept to think of coordinates is actually a very unfamiliar idea. 40 years of pop culture sci-fi films inspired by THIS movie didn't exist to motivate people to check those things ;) In fact they'd likely use it to check sky coordinates before earth coordinates.
4:15 -- the little boy was reacting to two PAs who popped out of a box wearing a clown mask, and a gorilla mask. When they took off the masks, you can see that he "gets" the joke. You can even tell the way he looks from one person to the other.
27:30 In all the God-knows-how-many times I've seen this movie, I never noticed that the woman second from left appears to be wearing a ruff around her neck, as in 1500s-1600s fashion. I may be misreading that, but I wonder if it's about time being distorted by travel at (or beyond) light speed - maybe she's been travelling with them all this time?
Every time you said "What is happening?!?", I had to yell back "THIS is happening!". We may be all spoiled by modern science fiction to think that aliens come down and just start blasting and harvesting resources, but realistic depictions of first contact are all about that - contact. ANY contact would be priceless, and it would seem greedy and impatient in the real world to receive such gifts only to look for the next one. This is a beautiful film about meeting our neighbors.
Hahaha - Indiana!!! As Ruby Wax once pointed out: UFOs only appear in US states beginning and ending in a vowel. Why? Because folk in those states don't sleep night-times. Instead they stand outdoors staring upwards at the sky, with their mouths open. lol. (Well observed, Ruby!)
Jen Murray,, Giving you best screen award. Thanks for the full screen to your viewers . Many other reactors will give a postage stamp or small oval type screen and those reactors piss me off to the point I wont watch anything those people react to. Besides that thanks so much for reviewing this very Iconic movie. Steve
Reactors usually do that to avoid copyright strikes on their channel. I've been lucky so far but if I start getting strikes I will need to go to this method also. TH-cam is brutal
Yeah you should have seen it in 1977 it was beyond crazy Star wars and close encounters changed film forever. Not quite sure how you would look in a red jumpsuit though.
Here it comes! I'm always glad to see you. And you're bringing a good one. "Close Encounters" has been blowing us away for 45 years. Well, I'm old. How 'bout "up to" 45 years. :) See you later!
Loved your first time reaction and glad you enjoyed it. As much as I like the original, I’m going to be odd-man out here and say I really enjoyed the special edition version, mainly for the end sequence not shown in the other two versions. I hope you have a chance to see it….
Personally I'm fine that it's done and finished this way. The whole movie is a mystery, one that is 'solved' at the end. If there was a follow up, it wouldn't have the same effect unless they really pulled off something especially amazing.
I was in high school when this movie came out. My friends and I were totally obsessed. When my family planned a road trip from Illinois to Seattle in the summer of '78, I made the case for a quick detour to see Devil's Tower. Amazingly, my dad agreed and I was forever grateful. The whole experience was magical to me.
I love that story! Especially because as a PNW native I love that you were heading to Seattle. I’ve never been to Devils Tower but that’s on my long list of National Parks and other places of natural beauty I want to see in this amazing country
To see this in a theater in 1977 was freaking AWEsome!! All the early parts of the movie "announcing" the presence of something Not-Of-This-World sent shivers down your spine and made your heart race like Mad !!! Speilberg was doing it AGAIN !!!! Soooo exciting!!
yeah, the first time I saw it at the theater was at the local drive-in. during the movie I kept looking at the night sky to see if I could see any UFO's flying around in our area!
@@kingscorpion7346 Yes, and don't forget, we were handed Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in the same year after the summer of Star Wars!! Mind blowing year for sci-fi. and next level movie making.
There was a stigma tied to pilots reporting UFOs, being labeled crazy or non professional, being teased so pilots were hesitant to report sightings, having that on their record. I thought it was a good touch for them to include that hesitancy in the beginning tower/pilots conversation.
And Steven Spielberg used actual air traffic controllers in that scene. As Jen pointed out, it's rare to hear dialog where people talk all over each other but that's the way people talk sometimes, so it lends an element of realness to it. That's one of the things I really love about this movie is that the way people act in it seems realistic, which makes you forget it's science fiction.
Was? To this day pilots, air traffic controllers and anyone associated with certain industries are actively encouraged not to discuss certain things that occur on the job. This is one of them.
@@scottlette "After all...Isn't it more likely that your o2 system suffered a malfunction? And you know, of course, that one of the symptoms of anoxia is for the brain to hallucinate. I think we should all just be grateful that you managed to land safely."
A lot of air force pilots, and commercial airliner pilots around the world, have seen things they couldn't explain. Declassification started in the seventies, and then the brakes were put on that, for a while. Now there's plenty of official records in the public domain (still just a fraction though). Some countries declassified almost everything they had and in some countries it was never a secret that there's weird things in the sky. Still, after astronauts, scientists and pilots telling their stories for seventy years, anyone will hesitate telling theirs today.
Hard same. Nine years old was probably a bit too young. I did not sleep well that night. Two years later, when I saw Alien in the theater, it barely phased me.
Scared the crap out of me too seeing it on the big screen. As an adult it scares me too cause we are supposed to prevent little ones flying out the doggie door.
They never told the actress playing the mother what was about to happen. The only told the child before the scene was filmed not to be scared. So her reaction to all the crazy stuff going on was her real reaction. Also the child laughing all the time and enjoying it made it even more bizarre.
My parents and I camped at Devil's Tower for an evening during our Yellowstone/Mt Rushmore vacation fourteen years ago. We stayed at a KOA at the exact spot where the "decontamination camp" was located in the film and hiked around the mountain twice. Besides it being thrilling to visit the site of one of our favorite films, the landmark and surrounding landscape is beautiful. Definitely worth a side trip if you love the movie and are ever out that way.
Yep - have done the same thing a few times as well, just love the Devil's Tower area. Also, during my visits there and camping have watched this movie when the campground would play it at night - neat experience watching this movie with Devil's Tower in the background.
I made it there last year for the first time ever. I had wanted to go since I saw this in the theaters back in late 1977. It really was an amazing feeling finally seeing that thing, not only because it's a big part of a favorite film but also the wonder of looking at something that's such an ancient geological weirdo.
BTW @27:21 the gentleman with the glasses and pointy beard is the real life J. Allen Hynek, scientific advisor for Project Blue Book. Went from skeptic to believer after his investigations.
Loved that movie when I was a kid. Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy were married for 52 years until her death and have a real chemistry. They started in a lot of films together like Cocoon 1&2, The World According to Garp, Foxfire, To Dance With the White Dog. It's interesting to see a couple not only stay together for so long but to work on so many projects together too. Best movie couple IMO.
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When my daughter was in the third grade she was learning clarinet and one Saturday afternoon, we watched this movie together. The next thing I realized, she is standing out in the yard and playing the five tones of the "contact" on her clarinet! I yelled to her, "There better not be aliens in my yard tonight!" We shared a good laugh at that one...
Lol! I played clarinet as a kid, I def would've been playing this if I'd seen it 😆
Lol, i used to play it loud as fcuk on my electric guitar 😂 Sounded amazing with a lot of distortion 🤟🏻🎸🛸
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 especially if you play the 5th as a 1-5 power chord
That is awesome! I watched this movie in the theaters when I was like 10 or 11 years old.
@robertlabaw2037 >>> If you suddenly discontinue posting on TH-cam, WE will know what really happened...🤭
J. Allen Hynek, a big figure in UFO research, had been a consultant on this movie. He coined the term that’s used as the movie title. The disappearance of the planes in 1945 was a real event. I believe it’s the director’s cut which nicely divides the types of close encounters (1st, 2nd and 3rd) into the three acts. The French character questioning Roy is an homage to Jacques Vallee, another figure in UFO research.
And the French character in the movie is acted by one of France's great movie directors of the "New Wave", Francois Truffaut.
J. Allen Hynek was the head of Project Bluebook, the government program tasked with compiling and investigating UFO sightings in America. Hynek makes a cameo in this movie as the scientist with the gray goatee in the film's climax.
Fun fact about Hynek: he went into Project Bluebook as a total non-believer, not even just a “skeptic”. After amassing so much info that he couldn’t logically explain, he became a believer.
J Allen Hynek was not only was the scientific consultant for Project Bluebook. He also became the Founder for CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies), it is one of the oldest UFO groups in America.
@@davidhabert He was also part of Projects Sign and Grudge before Blue Book.
Note the main character isn't only not a hero, he's having minimal impact on the events! Nor a single villain!
And we must all acknowledge the greatness of the music maestro, John Williams, who did some of his best work on this movie. Just outstanding. He was truly on fire around this time, no doubt.
Absolutely. Williams never produced a better score than this. Spielberg also has not made a more awesome film than this. A complete experience from beginning to end. Wonderful film.
He wrote the soundtrack for this and for Star Wars in the same year. I think he was the first composer to get an Oscar nomination for soundtracks for two different films in the same year.
@@3dbadboy1 Yep, he was up against 4 other composers including himself! His Star Wars score took the top prize though.
Star Wars, Close Encounters, ET, Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark.. all within 5 years. He was at his most powerful during this period.
@@nicknewman7848 You forgot Superman that is also brilliant.
One of those rare alien films where they don't come to earth seeking to destroy it.
From Twilight Zone, I think. All the townspeople but 1 head off to leave with friendly aliens. "The book! The book, "To serve man"! Its a *cookbook*!"
Favorite fun fact about this movie - At the time Spielberg was making this movie he was going through a divorce. He has said in interviews that because of this, subconsciously, that is probably the reason why he had Roy leaving with the aliens. If he was making the movie a few years later when he was remarried and in a good relationship, he may have made a different choice for Roy. It may have made a completely different meaning to the ending of the movie.
Spielberg also said that after he had kids, he wouldn't have made Roy's character leave his family.
The guy playing the keyboards was a contractor hired to set them up for the movie and leave. Spielberg noticed he had a pleasant demeanor and friendly so he hired him to play that part.
Of all the films Steven Spielberg has directed, this one is my personal favorite. Tears of joy...
The Frenchman is the great director François Truffaut. His film The 400 Blows is on the top 10 list of greatest movies of all time.
The aircraft that disappeared in 1945 is known as Flight 19. They went off radar off of Florida & were never traced. The subsequent rescue flight also disappeared never to be recovered.
Whenever I see this movie, I think of two things: 1) how wonderful, creepy, and exciting this movie was seeing it in theaters for the first time in '77 and 2) how totally dysfunctional Roy's family was (they're terrible!).
Unlike a lot of other movies I thought it actually depicted a real family. Not pristine and rough around the edges.
@@TTM9691 Roy's oldest son was played by Justin Dreyfuss, who is Richard Dreyfuss' real-life nephew.
That's an interesting point. 1.) The creepy aliens vs 2) dysfunctional family. With Roy choosing aliens over family in the end. Similar to the Buddha, who abandoned his own family.
It could be said that even if his family was dysfunctional, his wife and children did not deserve to be abandoned, in order to become another statistic. Instead of the movie showing that one's family ought never to be abandoned, even in the light of visitation of beings from another world, it shows that family is ultimately not important.
@@davidbeck7615yeah, it was during a time the TV networks asked, "It's 10pm. Do you know where your children are?" every night!
The sound design in this movie is “dynamic.” It covers all the points in the range of volume, from very soft to very loud, like in real life. Spielberg and other “New Hollywood” directors were experimenting with new forms of realism, and this kind of dynamic sound is less “canned,” more open and intense than old-time foley work, and more realistic. The terrific irony is the gritty everydayness and rawness of a movie about space aliens! It’s a sublime mess that few today would have the courage to make.
Fun fact: George Lucas' "Star Wars" and CETK were released at the roughly the same time. Speilberg saw Star Wars and bet Lucas that SW would do better at the box office. Lucas didn't believe it and bet Speilberg that CETK would do better. The bet was a percentage of the box office of the film that did better. Lucas says it was the most expensive bet he ever made, paying Speilberg some $60 million as CETK had a mediocre box office while SW became a phenomenon blockbuster.
I saw this in NY's Ziegfeld Theatre and it was an event. Long lines to get inside, waiting in the gorgeous lobby until the previous show let out and the glorious, deafening sound of the mothership passing overhead going into the finale. I saw a different cut than what is considered the director's cut but still, it was a great time at the cinema. I'm so glad you got the opportunity to react to it.
I was ten when this came out. This movie was huge! I remember there was a disco song on the radio with the organ sounds. Movies were really great back then. This, Star Wars, Jaws, the list goes on.
I was a kid when this came out and I have grown up absolutely loving this experience. The images and the music are just so unique.
as a symphony musician (tuba & trombone).. the thing that still blows me away is that the mothership conversation isn't electronics... is was instruments in the studio orchestra playing parts.. the high notes were oboe and flute playing together.. lows were tuba and contrabassoon. Jim Self was the tubist and the part was ridiculously difficult jumping intervals and fast note runs mashed together... not something tubas usually are required to play.
This movie is my childhood, watched it often with my father. :) Looking forward to your reaction!
The "kid in the background" that was always doing something stupid, was none other than Richard Dreyfuss' son, Justin. What an opportunity to bug the crap out of your dad and get paid for it.
Awwww, such a cute furbaby.❤
One of thee most amazing science fiction films is human history!
There's some amazing interviews with the cast where they said they never knew if the aliens were friendly or hostile until the end of the shooting of the film.
It made the performances more genuine.
The model used for the mother ship is on display at the Udvar-Hazey Air and Space Museum
Close Encounters is rare example of High Concept SF, just like 2001 before and Arrival after. Exceptional movie 💙
in the other version, you get to see inside the big spaceship at the end
You can't see it but the builders of the model for the mother ship put a small miniature of AR2D2 and C3PO on it. For years Spielberg and Lucas played honour to each other.
Thank you for all your hard work and fun times. Hope you are having better weather. Edmonton Area is starting to go up to 20s celcius this week. Have a great week Jen.
Nice call, Teri Garr is the actress! She made some comedies with Mel Brooks. She also had a very prominent guest spot on Star Trek TOS. She even appeared in an Elvis movie.
Yes Jen that is Phoebe's mom on friends... Her name is Teri Garr.. if you like her another movie to check out with her in it is Mr Mom with Michael Keaton... Great movie absolutely hilarious
I watched this maybe 4 or 5 times on a big screen in a theater when it was released, then again when the special edition came out later in the year with the added footage of inside the ship at the end. Although this is contemporary with the original Star Wars, I found this film more impactful with its positive tone that an alien species might be friendly and not just arrive on earth to invade or enslave humanity. Also, one of my favorite soundtracks of all time.
The guys in the red jumpsuits totally remind me of the aliens from V. 😂
One of my all time favorites! I love this movie and it's soundtrack... Epic! Thanks for sharing Jen ❤️💛
45 years later, this is STILL an awesome film to watch..!
We were astonished by Star Wars and then amazed by Close Encounters, with Smokey and the Bandit driving us nuts too. It was quite a year!
So much fun watching these movies with you, I don't know about everyone else, but my friends have no reactions to movies , they pause the movie for trip to the bathroom, phone calls, smoking, then at the end of the movie, it's all about something other than the movie, yeah I need better friends lol thanks for having a good since of humor and fun personality 🤗
Fun fact: Phoebe's mom and dad are both in this movie. Her father is the French translator with the big beard.
The scene with the light coming through the keyhole and every opening of the house is so creepy, because it reminds me of a childhood nightmare I had about aliens when I was a kid in the '60s. What a great film. Spielberg has such a talent for hitting in the gut.
A absolute classic, it's hard to explain the effect some of these movies that truly changed and effected not just movie culture but society as a whole, i really don't think we'll ever get the level of change, kinda zeitgeist altering moments ever again, you had to go to the theater or drive in, you had to wait to see anything, tell anyone anything, talk about it, it somehow made the the movies that went on to become classics more powerful and awe inspiring. Part of that was the experience and you cant get that clicking your way into a movie on a phone or PC.
Now we need a reaction to "PAUL".
My mom took me to see this when I was 7 years old. Thanks mom. Many sleepless nights 🥱 classic and amazing and still holds up.
19:54 This whole shot was the first thing that came to mind when the COVID scare came out.
One of my favs. I was 16 at the time. Just after Star Wars. A great time to be a kid and go to see movies!!
All cozy, tea in hand and some healthy snacks watchin this and yeah, this was a banger. Beautiful sc-fi movie and beautiful reactions.
Not only did this movie influence the way other alien movies are made . But it has also influenced the descriptions of the alleged alien encounters people claim to have , after this movie was made . Prior to this movie people would report encountering little green man , robots , and monster like creatures . After this movie most people began to report the supposed aliens in their encounters as small grayish almond eyed aliens with big heads . It's seems claims of alien encounters and abductions have a correlation with what is experienced in popular culture and in the public imagination of that particular time in our history . But it's a great movie isn't it ?
Love your Pomeranian. Does he shed? My short-haired mixes shed like crazy. Don’t like to think about when their time comes to leave me, but I’ve had it with shedders. Best wishes.
He doesn't shed at all!! 🦁🥰
I mentioned in the chat, that the mashed potato scene is parodied in the movie "UHF". It's a funny movie that starred "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Yes, Teri 'Phoebe's Mom' Garr.
I read the parody of this movie in Mad Magazine before I actually saw the movie back in the day LOL That used to happen to me a lot growing up.
Music is the most advanced form of mathematics
the special edition shows you the inside of the mother ship after Roy boards it.
Craig Shreeve was the air traffic controller. I would have sworn he was a young Morgan Freeman. He looked and sounded just like him.
Roy with the best excuse ever for not paying child support: I was unemployed and living outside our solar system.
Squadron of those exact planes disappeared flying into the Bermuda Triangle. Great videos n documentary on what they think happened.🙏
Love this movie, glad your doing this one!
😄 Jen so full of questions the entire time; as were many of us.
Worst award should've gone to Phoebe's Mom
Next to watch of this genre is “Cocoon”.
There is no doubt, me and my family saw lights moving around bizzarely, in ways that no aircraft then or now could have, over the night skies of Kansas on our way to relatives in Nebraska
A Spielberg classic for sure!! One of my favorite sci-fi flicks of all time. You should check out Empire of The Sun, kind of a Spielberg sleeper. It features a young Christian Bale, way before he dons the Batsuit. Always a pleasure watching your reaction Jen. You're very pretty and have a great complexion! Another alien favorite for me is Fire In The Sky, if you've not seen it. :)
A priest in a parish i once belonged to used Roy's obsession for the mountain to explain a person's faith in God.
Love this movie. Great reaction
At the end of the video - is that a throwback Pom? I have one!
Poms are awesome! 🦁🥰
@@jenmurrayxo Our guy is16 now and still going strong!
After this movie came out reports of UFOs went up 100s of percent. So the guy did make a point.
I subscribed to you after watching your reaction to the Shing a couple of weeks ago, but I did not know you were Canadian I am Canadian too from Toronto. Its nice to meet you.
Thank you for remembering the ELDERS this week 😉
Jen...chills....check....hahahaha
I remember seeing this in the theater back in '78? Super profound affect, as close to religious as I can imagine. I remember crying in the theater (I was 13 or 14). I still get emotional watching it, in my late 50s
This is one of my favorite movies growing up as I'm big on UFOs and similar subjects. I don't think I've ever seen anyone react to it! Glad you enjoyed it! :)
"Gonna build a mountain. In your living room. You gotta build a mountain. And it's gonna be keen."
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At the time this was released, it was a spectacular achievement. I so want to join your Patreon but I am retired and have to watch. I tell you this only because I don't want you to think I don't fully appreciate the quality of your hard work.
Thanks Joseph I appreciate that! 🙏 I'm having a blast watching these movies on TH-cam with you guys ☺👍
Do like I do watch all the ads.....well I don't actually watch them I mute them go do something and come back when the ads are over. 😊
QUESTION--------What will you do if the announcement of ET life and news they are coming to visit?
Would you freak out, wet your pants, get a gun and get into your bunkers?
Would you react in FEAR?
You might wanna start thinking about it soon......... =)
Music IS math and a great way to communicate with other species
12:50 - welcome to the 1970's. That sort of concept to think of coordinates is actually a very unfamiliar idea. 40 years of pop culture sci-fi films inspired by THIS movie didn't exist to motivate people to check those things ;) In fact they'd likely use it to check sky coordinates before earth coordinates.
I am taking my daughter so see The Devils Tower in a few weeks.
4:15 -- the little boy was reacting to two PAs who popped out of a box wearing a clown mask, and a gorilla mask. When they took off the masks, you can see that he "gets" the joke. You can even tell the way he looks from one person to the other.
27:30 In all the God-knows-how-many times I've seen this movie, I never noticed that the woman second from left appears to be wearing a ruff around her neck, as in 1500s-1600s fashion. I may be misreading that, but I wonder if it's about time being distorted by travel at (or beyond) light speed - maybe she's been travelling with them all this time?
Every time you said "What is happening?!?", I had to yell back "THIS is happening!".
We may be all spoiled by modern science fiction to think that aliens come down and just start blasting and harvesting resources, but realistic depictions of first contact are all about that - contact. ANY contact would be priceless, and it would seem greedy and impatient in the real world to receive such gifts only to look for the next one. This is a beautiful film about meeting our neighbors.
So Roy just leaves with the aliens and his family never sees him again?
Hahaha - Indiana!!!
As Ruby Wax once pointed out: UFOs only appear in US states beginning and ending in a vowel.
Why?
Because folk in those states don't sleep night-times. Instead they stand outdoors staring upwards at the sky, with their mouths open.
lol.
(Well observed, Ruby!)
What about communicating with Aliens through tones or sounds or frequencies.
Jen Murray,, Giving you best screen award. Thanks for the full screen to your viewers . Many other reactors will give a postage stamp or small oval type screen and those reactors piss me off to the point I wont watch anything those people react to. Besides that thanks so much for reviewing this very Iconic movie. Steve
BTW You received an immediate subscription because of your good work.
Reactors usually do that to avoid copyright strikes on their channel. I've been lucky so far but if I start getting strikes I will need to go to this method also. TH-cam is brutal
I was so worried that the aliens would get little Jen!! 😩
Yeah you should have seen it in 1977 it was beyond crazy Star wars and close encounters changed film forever. Not quite sure how you would look in a red jumpsuit though.
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😁
It's not a hill it's a Butte.
Movie after my heart
This movie set the record for being the loudest movie ever made .
Here it comes! I'm always glad to see you. And you're bringing a good one. "Close Encounters" has been blowing us away for 45 years. Well, I'm old. How 'bout "up to" 45 years. :) See you later!
Read the book project serpo.
Loved your first time reaction and glad you enjoyed it. As much as I like the original, I’m going to be odd-man out here and say I really enjoyed the special edition version, mainly for the end sequence not shown in the other two versions. I hope you have a chance to see it….
Personally I'm fine that it's done and finished this way. The whole movie is a mystery, one that is 'solved' at the end. If there was a follow up, it wouldn't have the same effect unless they really pulled off something especially amazing.
I was in high school when this movie came out. My friends and I were totally obsessed. When my family planned a road trip from Illinois to Seattle in the summer of '78, I made the case for a quick detour to see Devil's Tower. Amazingly, my dad agreed and I was forever grateful. The whole experience was magical to me.
I've always wanted to go there solely because of this movie! Lol. Glad you got to go! :)
I love that story! Especially because as a PNW native I love that you were heading to Seattle. I’ve never been to Devils Tower but that’s on my long list of National Parks and other places of natural beauty I want to see in this amazing country
Back in those pre-internet days, I, living in Florida, had never even HEARD OF _Devil's Tower._
The ending was even more stunning in 1977 - in a wide screen movie theater.
To see this in a theater in 1977 was freaking AWEsome!! All the early parts of the movie "announcing" the presence of something Not-Of-This-World sent shivers down your spine and made your heart race like Mad !!! Speilberg was doing it AGAIN !!!! Soooo exciting!!
The sight and sound of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in big movie theaters in 1977 was mind blowing.
yeah, the first time I saw it at the theater was at the local drive-in. during the movie I kept looking at the night sky to see if I could see any UFO's flying around in our area!
@@kingscorpion7346 Yes, and don't forget, we were handed Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in the same year after the summer of Star Wars!! Mind blowing year for sci-fi. and next level movie making.
There was a stigma tied to pilots reporting UFOs, being labeled crazy or non professional, being teased so pilots were hesitant to report sightings, having that on their record. I thought it was a good touch for them to include that hesitancy in the beginning tower/pilots conversation.
Not just teased...it could really wreck a pilot's credibility and thus their career to report seeing a 'fou fighter.'
And Steven Spielberg used actual air traffic controllers in that scene. As Jen pointed out, it's rare to hear dialog where people talk all over each other but that's the way people talk sometimes, so it lends an element of realness to it. That's one of the things I really love about this movie is that the way people act in it seems realistic, which makes you forget it's science fiction.
Was? To this day pilots, air traffic controllers and anyone associated with certain industries are actively encouraged not to discuss certain things that occur on the job. This is one of them.
@@scottlette "After all...Isn't it more likely that your o2 system suffered a malfunction? And you know, of course, that one of the symptoms of anoxia is for the brain to hallucinate. I think we should all just be grateful that you managed to land safely."
A lot of air force pilots, and commercial airliner pilots around the world, have seen things they couldn't explain. Declassification started in the seventies, and then the brakes were put on that, for a while. Now there's plenty of official records in the public domain (still just a fraction though). Some countries declassified almost everything they had and in some countries it was never a secret that there's weird things in the sky. Still, after astronauts, scientists and pilots telling their stories for seventy years, anyone will hesitate telling theirs today.
That "abduction" scene scared the absolute shit out of me as a kid. Still makes me super anxious watching it now.
Me too! I thought aliens were going to come down the chimney and get me!
Hard same. Nine years old was probably a bit too young. I did not sleep well that night. Two years later, when I saw Alien in the theater, it barely phased me.
Scared the crap out of me too seeing it on the big screen. As an adult it scares me too cause we are supposed to prevent little ones flying out the doggie door.
They never told the actress playing the mother what was about to happen. The only told the child before the scene was filmed not to be scared. So her reaction to all the crazy stuff going on was her real reaction. Also the child laughing all the time and enjoying it made it even more bizarre.
@@charliepotatoes001 Wow!!! Thanks for that great tidbit!
One of the best movies, ever made. In a class and category by itself. So good, it probably couldn't be remade.
My parents and I camped at Devil's Tower for an evening during our Yellowstone/Mt Rushmore vacation fourteen years ago. We stayed at a KOA at the exact spot where the "decontamination camp" was located in the film and hiked around the mountain twice. Besides it being thrilling to visit the site of one of our favorite films, the landmark and surrounding landscape is beautiful. Definitely worth a side trip if you love the movie and are ever out that way.
Yep - have done the same thing a few times as well, just love the Devil's Tower area. Also, during my visits there and camping have watched this movie when the campground would play it at night - neat experience watching this movie with Devil's Tower in the background.
@@jamesbednar8625 Yes. Same. I had to go shut off the DVD player after movie because I kept hearing the menu screen song replay over and over
I made it there last year for the first time ever. I had wanted to go since I saw this in the theaters back in late 1977. It really was an amazing feeling finally seeing that thing, not only because it's a big part of a favorite film but also the wonder of looking at something that's such an ancient geological weirdo.
We did the same. Had to leave the movie because a violent thunderstorm came up behind the mountain. It was awesome and terrifying at the same time.
Fantastic. Did you see any UFO's? 😄
BTW @27:21 the gentleman with the glasses and pointy beard is the real life J. Allen Hynek, scientific advisor for Project Blue Book. Went from skeptic to believer after his investigations.
I suggest "*batteries not included" from 1987! You will like it, I promise!
Loved that movie when I was a kid. Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy were married for 52 years until her death and have a real chemistry. They started in a lot of films together like Cocoon 1&2, The World According to Garp, Foxfire, To Dance With the White Dog. It's interesting to see a couple not only stay together for so long but to work on so many projects together too. Best movie couple IMO.
So sad when the baby dies.
@@happyapple4269 Spoil much?
Agreed.
@@John_Locke_108 😄 I've recommended it on other channels. And Short Circuit too!
Phoebe's mom on Friends was played by the same actress: Teri Garr. She also starred in Young Frankenstein.
There is strong resemblance but as far as I can tell, there is no relation.
Terri Garr was in a Star Trek Episode...#55 'Assignment Earth'...=)