So I watched Steven Spielberg's "close encounters of the third kind" from 1977 yesterday, and I hadn't seen the movie since I was a kid. I guess the two things that always stuck with me from the movie were Richard Dreyfus shaping the mashed potatoes at dinner into a mountain, and saying "this means something, this is important". The other was the aliens at the end, they were very cute and child like. So there is now a whole generation of people who may have never heard of this movie, and as it gets older that will only increase. I mean the movie came out in 1977 and well is great but its not a mythological magnet like "star wars" which came out about the same time. I said in an earlier review "I hope they don't remake this movie" (referring to "some like it hot"), well I would say why not remake this movie. The special effects are terrific, but still we could do so much more nowadays with effects on such a grand level that we couldn't do then. The acting is great but, I don't identify any one of the characters with a specific actor like say Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector. Its a great movie though, and if you are feeling nostalgic, or are a youngin' not afraid of watching something that was done before you were born, this is a great movie. However, me personally I am waiting for the remake before revisiting this yet again, directed oddly enough by Steven Spielberg, but starring Johnny Depp (hey why not he made for a great Raoul Duke!). if you like concise reviews of interesting films please read my other reviews at http://raouldukeatthemovies.blogspot.com/
Review of Close Encounters of the Third Kind
