Product Description: In the night skies near his Muncie Indiana home power repairman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) experiences something out of this world. His close encounter sets into action an amazing chain of events that leads to contact with benevolent aliens and their Mothership. Spectacular special effects John Williams' outstanding score and winning performances from Dreyfuss Teri Garr Melinda Dillon and legendary director Francois Truffaut in the role of Lacombe make CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND movie magic of the best kind.Bonus Features: Animated Menus Production Notes Making-Of Documentary 1977 Featurette "Watching The Skies" 11 Deleted Scenes Filmographies Theatrical TrailersSystem Requirements:Starring: Richard Dreyfuss Cary Guffey Shawn Bishop Adrienne Campbell Justin Dreyfuss Lance Henriksen Merrill Connally Francois Truffaut Teri Garr Melinda Dillon Bob Balaban J. Patrick McNamara Warren J. Kemmerling Roberts Blossom and Philip Dodds. Directed By: Steven Spielberg. Running Time: 137 Min. Color. This film is presented in "Widescreen" format. Copyright 2000 Columbia TriStar Home Video.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: PG UPC: 043396126497 Manufacturer No: 12649
Amazon.com: 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 philosophizing about extraterrestrials 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
when will it end? This movie lingered and lingered. I couldn't wait for it to end. The reason i gave it a 2/5 is because it somewhat kept my interest
After 30 Years I know this was released back in November of 2007 but Amazon ask me to review it.
Finally, the 1977 uncut version of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" has been release on DVD. The first release on DVD still had three scenes missing from the 1977 version that I saw on the theaters. I did miss seeing the man with his family commenting on how far behind the aliens was in technology when it came to our highway systems. I also miss Ray wife (Teri Carr) complaining that she was not going to get a job and Ray looking at the pillow and seeing the mountain shape in it. The third scene was included with the outtakes. It was the scene with Ray walking into the Electric Power Plant (his job) and talking to his co-workers.
The first two scenes were not in the outtakes so the movie was missing something. These two scenes were less than a minute each but they really stood out in the film. I had to wait 30 years for this movie to be release the way I originally saw it in the theater in 1977.
If you enjoy the 1980 re-release version of this film it is also in this package and so is the release 1997 DVD copy. If you get it now it cost a lot less than it did in November of 2007 so, if you enjoyed the original versions of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" take advantage of this offer.
One of the greatest sci-fi movies of the 70s in a killer Blu-ray set! It's a good time to be a sci-fi fan! Between Blade Runner (Five-Disc Complete Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray], 2001 - A Space Odyssey [Blu-ray], and this marvelous Close Encounters release, it's an embarrassment of riches. These are some of the best films in the genre, and they're all getting the treatment they deserve on the new high definition format.
If you haven't seen the movie in any of its three versions (all of which are available here), no plot summary can do it justice. It's worth a blind purchase based just on its pedigree (Spielberg, fresh off of Jaws, is at his creative peak) and reputation (8 Oscar noms, #64 on the AFI top 100, 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes) . If you need to know a little something before jumping in, it's the story of a man (Richard Dreyfuss) who, after witnessing a series of unexplained bright lights, becomes consumed by an obsession with UFOs that tears his family apart. At the same time, a multinational group of scientists investigating a series of mysterious events begin preparations for the first diplomatic visit from extraterrestrials.
So the film is a classic. What about the disc? First, this is the only Blu-ray I've come across that doesn't have that cheesy blue plastic top. The packaging is a stylish cardboard slipcase with shiny metallic artwork of a bright light on the horizon. Along with the two discs, which I'll get to in a minute, are a book containing on-set photographs and biographies of the cast & crew, and a poster outlining the differences between the three versions of the film. These are the kind of paper inserts I wish more movies came with instead of worthless lists of chapter titles and ads for other movies. All told, this set looks very nice on the shelf.
But how does it look on the screen? Great. Bright lights against a dark sky usually spell disaster for image quality, but everything looks as it should here. Sure, it's no Ratatouille [Blu-ray]; there are a few instances when the colors look saturated, but unless you high exceedingly high demands I can't imagine having any complaints. It's certainly the best this film has ever looked!
In case you couldn't tell (or are the type of person to skip to the end of a review to get the bottom line recommendation), I highly recommend it.
A sci-fi classic now on Blu-Ray!
In a town in Indiana, Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) while investigating a strange power outage in the town he witnesses a UFO that flies above him and gives him a special sunburn as proof. His wife and kids think he's nuts especially hearing strange musical notes in his head from that experience and becomes obsessed with what he's seen. A single mother named Jillian (Melinda Clarke) who's son was abducted by a UFO also helps with Roy and other ones that have encountered the strange Unidentified Flying Object especially French researcher Claude Lacombe (Francois Trauffaut) has a believe that music can be a language of the strange beings. The witnesses including the government and researchers head to Devil's Peak in Wyoming to make a special meeting place to meet the alien beings.
A magical, intelligent and stunning Sci-fi drama adventure from Steven Spielburg is a philosphial and unique motion picture experience. The performances by the cast are outstanding and the special effects that still outstand including the film's originally thanks to the magic of Steven Spielburg. This movie was a large labor of love for the writer-director but it was worth it to bring a fantastical and smart story to the big screen in a successful way, it made audiences believe in UFOs and if we are alone in the galaxy.
This 2-Disc Blu-Ray set is incredible! this has quality picture and superb sound quality. This set has three versions like the original version, 1980 special edition and Director's cut with great extras like three featurettes, deleted scenes, storyboard comparision & Gallery, Location Scouting Pictures, Behind The Scenes pics, Production Team gallery, Portrait Gallery, Marketing gallery on both original and special editions and Trailers to all three versions.
This is a must have Blu-Ray for fans of Sci-fi and cinema everywhere! this is one movie to truly experience better on Blu-Ray.
Keep The Original !! Well , 30 years after it's initial theatrical release Close Encounters of the Third Kind is now available with a 3 disc dvd format collectors edition. I saw the Original theatrical release in 1977 and that is the version that i believe is by far the best . I never liked the 1980 special edition , that ended up cutting some scenes and replacing it with some others. For instance "The dopey scene when Dreyfuss is sitting in his bathtub fully clothed with the shower drenching himself !! And they also cut the scene when Melinda Dillon , Dreyfuss and other folks go to government officials with their stories and have a Press conference was cut out from the 1977 version. Spielberg himself said he never wanted to show the ending with Dreyfuss entering the spaceship but was forced to. Spielberg then came back in 1998 to yet once again re-do this classic film by eliminating the ending from the 1980 special edition. I have kept the 1977 original theatrical release disc and gotten rid of the other two. I love the original version. It seems so much more pure and one of the funniest scenes in the film with Dreyfuss digging up his garden and throwing rocks and plants and chicken wire and his ladder through his kitchen window with neighbors watching so he could build his own copy of the Devil's Tower in his own living room which was of course the pre-determined meeting place with the UFO'S is hilarious and was cut out of both the 1980 and 1998 versions. KEEP THE ORIGINAL !!! Also , I never liked when Star Wars (1977) was screwed around with in 1997 with them adding some footage which i never liked either and when They came out with the 2 disc collectors edition I also kept the Original Version disc and got rid of the special edition !
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