Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - The Reel Collection [1977]

See Larger Image	List Price: £12.99 Our Price: £9.98 Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Lance Henriksen, Carl Weathers, Michael Phillips, Teri Garr Directed By: Steven Spielberg Average Customer Rating:
Audience Rating: Parental Guidance Binding: DVD EAN: 5035822650152 Format: Box set Label: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2006-10-02 Running Time: 137 Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 1977
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Editorial Reviews: Anybody who has written him off because of his string of stinkers--or anybody who's too young to remember The Goodbye Girl --may be shocked at the accomplishment and nuance of Richard Dreyfuss's performance in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Here, he plays a man possessed; contacted by aliens, he (along with other members of the "chosen") is drawn toward the site of the incipient landing: Devil's Tower, in rural Wyoming. As in many Spielberg films, there are no personalized enemies; the struggle is between those who have been called and a scientific establishment that seeks to protect them by keeping them away from the arriving spacecraft. The ship, and the special effects in general, are every bit as jaw-dropping on the small screen as they were in the theater (well, almost). Released in 1977 as a cerebral alternative to the swashbuckling science fiction epics then in vogue, Close Encounters now seems almost wholesome in its representation of alien contact and interested less in philosophising about extra-terrestrials than it is in examining the nature of the inner "call." Ultimately a motion picture about the obsession of the driven artist or determined visionary, Close Encounters comes complete with the stock Spielberg wives and girlfriends who seek to tether the dreamy, possessed protagonists to the more mundane concerns of the everyday. So a spectacular, seminal motion picture indeed, but one with gender politics that are all too terrestrial. --Miles Bethany, Amazon.com
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Several versions floating around Comment: There is the dark version that cut out all the comic scenes like throwing all the dirt in the window, and added some "Mother gets disturbed scenes." I bought this first because I thought it had the special ending where the inside of the ship is shown. But I did not know that it was completely remade. Some of the Gas mask scenes are missing also. Other than that if you did not see the original or the third version that is shown periodically on TV you would like this movie and it is worth the purchase price. Closer to the original but still not the one shown on TV is "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" This is the lighter version, with many comic relief scenes. It is almost impossible to know which version is being sold under which cover. So you may have to buy several versions. Example light version: ASIN: 0767827031 Example dark version: ASIN: 0800198395 Feel free to tell me of other versions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roy Neary is n routine maintenance work when his vehicle is approached from behind at night. He waves the approacher around to find the visitor is not quite kosher. Turns out he is about to have an encounter of the third kind. The story is a series of lives that cross with each other as each is invited to rendezvous at a location to meat with special visitors. It is how they respond to the invitation and each other that is the story. That is how one version can be made light and witty. Yet another version is dark and sinister. More Reviews