The Close Encounters of The Third Kind Thread

yeah having the family be somehow party to his choice to leave would be good

like yeah ok sure roy you can leave but your family will banshee-wail on the sidelines to really hammer it home for you

I watched ET last night - man that ending still fucks me up w all the crying (me + cast)
but i should have waited a week or two after watching Close Encounters, which i watched that afternoon. ET felt ~too~ childish by comparison which bummed me out & made me feel like a Grown Up™️ - do not recommend lol

(my point being that it never bothered me before, not that ET is a dumb kids movie or not good or whatever)

wait a second: the landing site is a movie set

(as is the nazis' ark-opening installation, referenced by omar above)

Only found out the other day that Jerry Garcia can be glimpsed as an extra in one of the Close Encounters crowd scenes:

In Dharmsala, India, Lacombe and the other researchers arrive to a chaotic scene. Crowds of people are running through the streets, and others, including Jerry Garcia (really), are sitting and reverently chanting 5 musical notes.

And there's also this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYjLi78lViA

Not to get all #onethread up in here, but was reminded this week that one of the many things that screwed Friedkin up post-Sorcerer was he had to scrap a long-gestating SciFi project because it was too much like Close Encounters.