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)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 June 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
wait a second: the landing site is a movie set
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 11 August 2023 08:18 (ten months ago) link
(as is the nazis' ark-opening installation, referenced by omar above)
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 11 August 2023 08:19 (ten months ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 11 August 2023 08:29 (ten months ago) link
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.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 13 August 2023 17:43 (ten months ago) link