When i saw it in the theater in '77, the entire theater shook and vibrated while the mother ship turned over. I thought I was having a stroke, but it was one of the best experiences I ever had at the movies,. I always wanted a sequel to this and E.T, but other than the Indian Jones movies, Spielberg does not do sequels.

This is one of the very rare thrillers, if not the most prominent, where there is no actual danger and the real problems come from the people dealing with the mystery and not the mystery itself.

This movie blew my mind. I've never experienced such awe and wonder in a film before. What are you thoughts on Close Encounters of the Third Kind? Full length reaction to the this movie, Alien all every movie I've reacted to on Patreon: www.patreon.com/casualnerdreactions

A great movie. I never questioned why Roy would leave his family. His life ,for him, seemed mundane and unfulfilled,and the relationship with his family dysfunctional. A trip to outer space was an adventure he couldn’t pass up,and I might have felt the same in his place.

The reason they choose Roy was because he wanted to know from a purely human factor, while the other "volunteers" were going for such reason as research, scientific and technological exploration and so on. In essence it was the other volunteers JOB, Roy was there because HE WANTED TO BE THERE.

This is even more impressive on the big screen with the theater style sound system.

What a masterwork of a movie! This ladies and gentlemen, is what they used to call sense of wonder. Something movie makers nowadays completely deny it ever existed, because they are unable to create on their own.

24:00 watched this as a kid and for a lot of us this question never occurred to us, at the time. As adults we know now, **of course** any parent wouldn't have left their children in this situation. Steven Spielberg has said that if he'd written this script after he had children, he'd never have had Roy leave. Apparently he had the child's view at the time of only thinking about the wonder and magic of being with friendly (as far as we knew) aliens. Pretty amazing admission IMO.

Before Roy went on the ship, he had already left his family just as they had left him, so there was nothing left but to go. He found happiness.

The possibility of being introduced to some galactic civilization has always struck me as being hopeful.

Although Close Encounters wasn't the actual first film I saw in cinemas as a very young child it IS the first film I have an active memory of seeing in the cinemas as a kid. I had seen a few Disney films in theatres and Star Wars (Episode VI), but I can only remember waiting in line for Star Wars now and not actually sitting in the seats seeing it. Close Encounters was my first favorite movie as a little kid (I loved Star Wars but Close Encounters filled me with wonder and awe about the real world and science and whatnot). Then Grease came out and that became my new fave for a time (Olivia Newton-John was the center of my universe in the 70s, next to ABBA). It was a blast seeing you, as an adult decades later, experience some of the awe I experienced as a 3 year old so long ago. Thank u for sharing this!

One of my “desert island” movies for sure. When the mothership leaves and John Williams’ score fires up at the end I get chills and nearly well up every time. I like to believe that the aliens picked Roy very specifically and already knew he would be leaving his family anyway. The kiss near the end is really Roy saying goodbye to the only person who understood him at the time, just before he leaves all human contact behind. I think subconsciously Roy knew he was leaving. Just my take obviously.

Awwww, what a great reaction to a great movie! Hey just so you know..... that daze that you're in at the end of that movie? EVERYONE in the theater was walking around that way after the lights came up! All three times I saw it! :D Welcome to the club! Amazing. Yes, the "Director's Cut" is the one I think most of us would recommend, although the "Theatrical Cut" is also fine (there isn't that much difference). As long as you didn't do "The Special Edition"! As far as where alien tropes come from: there definitely were a lot of UFO movies in the 50s, and people went UFO crazy in the 50s and 60s (Spielberg included) so some come from there. But this movie definitely created a bunch, such as "The Mothership". This along with Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" (the guy who did the special effects for that, did this one too! Douglas Trumball)....and "Forbidden Planet" (1954), for me, that's the trio of super dazzling, one-of-a-kind, profound sci-fi space movies with spectacular, groundbreaking special effects. And "Close Encounters" and "2001" leave you with a sense of awe and wonder about the mysteries of the universe. All three are very different, totally distinct movies....but they are all extremely colorful, visual feasts, and mindblowing. 11:14 - Speaking of mindblowing, you say "It looks like a 'Fire In The Sky'". That was the title for what was going to be a sort of sequel, but was repurposed as the horror movie "Poltergeist"! Very wild that you literally said the title! That sequel split into two movies, actually, the other movie being....."E.T.". If you notice, some of the aliens look like E.T. Spielberg intentionally had a variety of aliens, reasoning that we have different races and life forms on Earth, why not on other planets? Anyways, E.T. has been left behind! See how that sort of picks up where "Close Encounters" left off? Most people who saw "E.T". had seen "Close Encounters", so he was a somewhat "familiar" alien, just more up-close. But "E.T." doesn't tell you about Roy, though. Roy's gone forever, in my opinion, he ain't coming back! As far as ditching the family? That is the most 70s thing about the movie; everyone was splitting up and getting a divorce, certainly my parents did and all those argument sequences seemed very familiar, including "I'm taking the kids and I'm splitting!" In a way, it's the ultimate 60s-70s movie.....the aliens come down to basically give the greatest, trippiest, most psychedelic concert ever, drop some people off, and pick Richard Dreyfuss up! And the government is trying to cover it up! lol. Spielberg says he could never write that ending for "Close Encounters" now with Roy leaving the family; he also says in the same exact interview that it's the movie of his own that he'd save above all others. It's a realistic movie, and sometimes life is messy, right? John Williams cites it as the score he's most proud of, and Richard Dreyfuss will talk at length about this movie any chance he gets. Oh man, I could talk about this movie all day long.....I'm just so happy that you saw it, and you found it as special as I (we) always have! I knew you'd love it! This was a great, special reaction!!! Thanks for sharing it with us!!!!

Spielberg's shot composition, John Williams' awe inspiring score. An absolute masterclass.

Close Encounters was inspired by a real event. Spielberg was told about the event and that became the inspiration behind this movie.

I saw this in a theater four times as a 14-15 year old. It was released near the end of 1977. Spielberg based a lot of the UFO sightings and appearance on “accounts” based on eyewitnesses. Take it for what it’s worth. The planes in the beginning were based on a fairly well known (in the 1970s) and often Bermuda Triangle disappearance. It has since been debunked and at least one of the planes was found in 1986 after the space shuttle challenger exploded. They found it while looking for debris off the Florida coastline. It’s a great film though and filled with wonder and one that begs for multiple viewings. There are three versions of the film available on dvd. Check them out!

Just found your channel, it’s awesome! I saw Close Encounters in theaters in 1977 at 10 years old. It was one of the greatest experiences in my life, same with Star Wars, at that time. You didn’t know what to expect, because the trailers and tv ads seemed frightening! I felt the same about Rory. I kept saying, he left his family in a really bad situation. Hopefully, his wife wrote a best selling book! Thanks for the review ❤️

The UFO rising up behind Roy's truck is one of my favorite shots in all of cinema.

I had the same reaction. I was filled with wonder and awe druing the last scenes on top of Devil's Tower. Simply put, it was mind boggling- at least for me the first time I saw it on the big screen. Out of all the early run of films made by Stephen Speilberg, the only 3 that made an indelible impact on me, that grabbed ahold of me and which I "re-experienced" in my mind for days afterwards- Jaws. Poltergeist & this one. Here is why I think CE3Kind did that to me was, not just the special effects- which were revolutionary for the time, but because of the reaction of the characters towards this phenomenon- especially at near the end. Each genuinely reacted in different ways that humams would if they actually experienced, in real life, what these characters did in the movie. Literally what they felt- is what YOU feel watching it the first time. This movie stands out for me, as one of the greatest sci fy movies ever made. Because it was so real, honest and organic in the way it portrayed the human response in the face of the unknown.

Spielberg has said that if he had made the movie now, as a father, he wouldn't have the ending where Roy leaves his family behind. Personally, I love this ending because it is transcendental. The aliens only took Roy, because he was one of the people that they imprinted the message to in his brain, and he came. There MUST be some very important purpose of it, because as we know, they could just take/abduct anyone they wanted to. So Roy is giving up his life on Earth and his family, he is sacrificing that willingly for some grand purpose that he does not yet understand. Something that probably has incredible implications for the human race. I think that's worth it!

this was one of those mind blowing stories when you first see it. And at the time, those effects also blew us away. I didn't see any other comment about it but, when this came out there was a whole explanation about the name. Close encounter of the first kind is a visual sighting, second kind is physical evidence (marks from the craft landing or even a crashed ship) and an encounter of the third kind is physical contact.

“He got a full tank”🤣🤣🤣🤣 You have gained a subscriber! I saw this a few years back for the 40th anniversary and they featured some behind the scenes and they showed how they filmed the scene with Barry and his toys lighting up and moving around his room. The little boy who plays Barry was not told in advance what would happen so his reaction is genuine! Loved your Alien reaction!

I also had a fantastic time watching this in the theater. This time with my Dad. This film totally blew my mind. The one two punch of seeing this and Star Wars really turned me into a full-blown dreamer.

The guy that was running towards the bathroom was not scared, he just ate a bad burrito.

I was lucky enough to see Close Encounters on opening night at the theater in Dallas -- the Medallion -- where Spielberg previewed all his movies, including Close Encounters. I was thirteen years old and, while we had all just had our minds blown by Star Wars six months earlier, it was Close Encounters that truly changed me. More, I had already been obsessed with John Williams since The Towering Inferno and Jaws, and like those two albums, I pretty much melted my Close Encounters record playing it non-stop.

One of the greatest movies ever made. A true work of art.

I saw this movie with my Mom and 4 baby brothers at the drive-in , in a station wagon ! Great memories !

The beauty of this Spielberg movie is he lets the viewer’s imagination determine what happens to Roy. Just like the kid abduction scene, we are treated to lights and sounds, but we never see the UFOs until they are leaving. At the movie’s end we are left to our imagination as what happens to Roy? There was no sequel which is nice. Why ruin it. But that’s exactly what the studio tried to do. Since this was the first films from Spielberg they basically said he’d get funding for his next film if he filmed an extra extended scene of Roy INSIDE the UFO. So he did. That’s why you see different versions out there. In my opinion he didn’t need to do that. But hey, he wanted to get the funding for his next film. Interesting factoid. Dr J. Allen Hynek, the UFO researcher on Project Blue Book for the govt was a consultant on this movie. How much was based on his UFO/Alien research knowledge? We’ll never know. But he also makes a quick cameo in the movie at the final end encounter scene.

Great pick. This is my fave Spielberg film. Funny you mentioned "Fire in the Sky" because that's another alien abduction film.

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Imagine how cool this was in 1977. The same year of the Star Wars debut!

This was the first movie that I saw at the theater multiple times. We went three times, which in the 70's was unheard of (although my mother did see Saturday Night Fever three times). This, along with Star Wars and Superman, marked a change in movies. Suddenly, the special effects made things REAL and the quality increased dramatically. We just were not seeing this stuff before.

I was seven when I saw this in theaters. I was completely obsessed. I got the 45rpm record and later the soundtrack. I still have my poster. I practiced the “sign language” with friends and we played the tones on our early Casio keyboards years later. I’m 54 now and I’m still enraptured by this film. Same goes for other Spielberg movies of my youth like Jaws, E.T., and Raiders of the Lost Ark with the Master John Williams providing his genius for all of them.

Static electricity is reported phenomena of close encounter of the first kind. Toys move on their own.

3:00 -- fun fact.....that little scene with Barry was shot by having two crewmembers offscreen, near the camera. One popped out of a box wearing a gorilla mask, another popped out of a box wearing a clown mask. He then took the mask off and smiled at Barry, who recognized him.

I appreciate that you were left uneasy in that Roy seemed to happily leave his family. It has always bothered me, too.

The arrival of the mother ship is one of the most spectacular sequences ever captured on film.

I'm in love with this movie and 'E.T.' Spielberg was at his most powerful in the late 70s and early 80s

"It looks like a fire in the sky". Interesting terminology. ; )

LOL That side by side shot of you and the little kid around the 3:00 minute mark - he looks like he could be you at that young age.

The guy playing the synthesizer in the mothership encounter scene was actually the engingeer that was sent to install the instrument.

“Fire in the sky.” Lol. That movie scared the heck out of me.

There’s an R2D2 on the Mother Ship’s hull. Spielberg and Lucas did this all the time for each other.

Always love your reactions. They're so genuine and natural.

"Why are they all dressed in shiny red uniforms?" - cause Disco was really big back then.

One of my Top 5 movies of all time. So many solid performances. And the way Spielberg builds the mystery and impact until the final conclusion is masterful. Such a fantastic (and haunting) film.

This was a good one! My own dad took our family on a road trip out West in the early '80s and made sure we stopped at Devil's Tower. Perhaps he was drawn to it, mysteriously... 🤣

This movie took phenomena which had been documented around the world, & put them in this movie! The aliens are inviting specific people & implanting either A) a specific melody or B) a specific image. The image is a real place. I love the way the puzzle pieces come together in the end! Btw, the short aliens are children in costumes; the tall alien is a puppet! They're based on the Grays, the aliens seen by witnesses around the world. Two types had been reported: tall & slim; & the short, big-headed ones. I don't know if you're aware, but UFO sightings are real, alien sightings are real; & the depicted aliens are based on innumerable eyewitness reports & drawings. I even saw a UFO, once. Still trying to find out what I could've seen... Been looking at images for decades!

I remember the scene just before Barry's abduction the ominous animated clouds in the sky were mind-boggling to me and indeed it turns out that while this effect is seen more than in this film - they are all more recent than this. This was a process that Steven came up with himself where they had a fish aquarium full of water and filmed paint being poured into it from an oblique angle in slow motion.

The reason Roy lost his job was better explained in the extended director’s cut which is way better than the theatrical version. As the blackout was progressing, Roy’s boss at the power plant called to have him come in on emergency duty, to which his wife said “oh no, Roy can’t go anywhere at night without me…” Roy made it in to the power plant, and his boss told him he needed him to go take care of a specific task that was very important, high responsibility, “don’t let me down!” Since Roy is terrible at navigating at night without his wife, he’s already running late to the task trying to find his way. Once he has his encounter of the second kind, seeing, and being affected by, a UFO, he forgets all about his task, followed the spacecraft, then went home and took his family to go watch for them. He let his boss down during a complete blackout, so his boss was less than pleased with him. He didn’t even want to hear Roy’s voice on the phone to fire him.

Can you imagine seeing this in the late 70s? I did. I was born in 1966. My parents took me to see this in Drake's Circus cinema in Plymouth, Devon, UK when it came out. A long drive from Falmouth in Cornwall. It was my favourite movie of all time until Blade Runner came out in 82. Still my favourite movie. Seeing it on the big screen was breathtaking. Later Spielberg released a Special Edition. My whole family saw that too. When you saw Roy inside the mothership. Although it didn't have much more than the original release I loved it all over again. I was sent to Boarding School in 78 and bought the John Williams soundtrack. In the age of punk rock the boarders used to laugh that I played it so much. You can't beat a great music score. I made the stupid mistake many people do years ago. And watched the Making Of documentary. Don't do it please. Movie magic is spoiled by watching them.

One more time, with feeling: GREAT reaction. Your face at the very, very end said it all. Believe me, we know how you feel!

There was a continuation written by Rainer M. Schröder. His novel tells Roy Nearys continuing adventures traveling along with these aliens to other worlds. There is no return to earth. This book was printed 1979 and as far as I know it was published in German only.

The special effects in this film were done by Douglas Trumbull, who also did the spacy psychedelic scene toward the end of 2001 A Space Odyssey and you can kinda tell. Once you know, you can kinda see the similarity between those insane lights and the spaceships here.

Five years ago I fulfilled a bucket list dream of watching CE3K at the base of Devil's Tower in the summer. One of the best experiences of my life. I was 12 again. :)

This film, along with Star Wars in 1977 was groundbreaking. Many of the "alien" tropes you see in this film existed since at least the 1950s, but they weren't well known in the mainstream until this film became a huge success. This movie really turned up the volume to 10 as far as alien abduction mythos was concerned.

I think you nailed it when you said its about making you feel that sense of awe and wonder that an alien visitation would entail. And I'm also perfectly fine with the movie ending where it does and not really needing to know more. Sometimes the long running narratives that explore every aspect that a story could possibly contain wind up diluting the core emotions and themes that a movie like this can bring. On a side note, I'm not sure if you keep up with the comments on some of your older reactions like this one. But if you do, there's a movie called 5-25-77 that (sort of) recently came out. (It was actually filmed from 2004-2006, then finally released in limited run in 2017 and then rereleased on streaming and in a limited run again in 2022). But in it there's a scene where they show them filming how they created the clouds and light effects in this film. Its also a fairly unique and fun movie on its own and is worth checking out, especially if you really dig movies. Would love to see you react to it, but regardless I definitely recommend checking it out on your own anyways.

The ambiguous ending puzzled me when I first saw this. Many years later I decided that was the point.. each of us can write or own ending/meaning

So much fun watching this with you! I very much remember watching this in the theater. There was a really long line to get in and we didn’t get in until the part where he is stopped at the train tracks with his truck. Very hard to find a seat, it was so dark in the theater until the light lit up over the truck. Great year to be a kid with this and Star Wars coming out.

24:00 Absent or family-abandoning fathers have been a Spielberg speciality his whole career. His dad divorced his mom when he was a young teen, and more or less disappeared from his life. If your father were to abandon you, wouldn't you want it to be for the most amazing reason? This is also Spielberg's only original screenplay.

The man with the pipe at the end is J. Allen Hynek. True to life UFO investigator who worked with the Military on UFO’s under 3 projects; Sign, Grudge, Blue Book. Also the founder of C.U.F.O.S. Sadly he passed away the year I was born 86 but, his partner in research is still alive Jacques Vallee.

I saw this in the theaters back in '77. I had just turned 12. Probably around the time of watching Star Wars for the 5th or 6th time by then. Both movies awed me. Very different movies, but I've always loved both. I always rationalized Roy leaving his family as a result of some kind of thought that was somehow implanted during the earlier encounters. As Lacombe says "they were compelled to come here". if the family can't deal... well... I mean, as a father now, I get it, but I also still remember the wonder this film brings.

Hollywood wouldn’t be the same without John Williams, the man is an absolute icon.

in the extended version it shows Roy entering the ship, and what happens is that he gets transformed into one of them. then he comes back out, and is the one that signs with the French scientist and smiles, then leaves with them.

John Williams is a musical genius. He had to come up with which 5 musical notes would be the language of communication for the entire story to work. Wow! That is responsibility!

The mother ship played the first few notes of Jaws

I always wished they made a sequel about Barry and his wonderfully innocent relationship with the beings.

1977 - a great year. The universe is our's to explore - so many new alien friends to make ... 1979 - scratch that, bad idea!

Steven Speilberg later said that he filmed Close Encounters when he was quite young and the family aspect didn't come to mind, but it would have been one of the things he would have changed in the film had he made it when he was older.

Great reaction. This was an amazing movie then and now. I still love watching it. I saw it when it came out in the theater. Was in total awe. Can't wait for your reaction to Rear Window.

great movie

This is my favorite Spielberg movie. The music conversation between the humans and the aliens was amazing, it makes cry every time. Loved your reaction. Edit: the kiss they shared is not romantic, it's just to show human connection. He didn't cheat his wife. He left a family he didn't belong to.

I saw this in cinema when I was 7 years old, it changed my thinking forever....amen.

One of my top ten movies. Thanks for sharing.

I was proud to say I thought the movie when it first came out in 1977. There are three versions of this movie.: the original theatrical version, the directors cut, which you watched, and then there is the special edition where we actually see the inside of the mothership when Roy goes in. I like to watch the Directors cut headshot that they’re going into devils power I switch desk and watch the special edition.. sadly Melinda Dillon, who played Jillian passed away last year. She was also the mom in a Christmas story.

I never thought of the food in the kitchen in Barry's initial scene as the aliens raiding the kitchen. If you pay attention, the only things that seem to be affected by the aliens are magnetic things, so I assume that the door to the fridge flew open and the grates within which hold all the food also flew around, therefore throwing around their contents. Seconds later in the scene where Barry looks off-camera and smiles, he was too young to be able to take the cue to do that, so to make it more natural and spontaneous, Steven himself dressed up in a gorilla costume off-camera to make him smile.

I have close encounters the movie where they show Roy inside of the spaceship. The special effects are fantastic.

Check out the extended ending where you see inside the ship. Awesome.

Classic!!!!!!!

The reason the abductees hadn't aged was because of time dilation caused by traveling at/beyond light speed. Time stops for objects traveling at LS, so you could basically be in flight for hundreds of years (Earth time), then come back and you would be the same age as you were when you left. More than that, from your point of view the trip would seem instantaneous. One of the workers there comments, _"They haven't aged....Einstein was right."_ (referring to Einstein's theory that time stops when you travel at light speed). Another worker replies, _"Einstein was probably one of them."_

I remember when this came out and I was in the theater watching this , when those lights that pulled up behind his truck start going up, the audience lost it. Noooooo!!!! Also, in the beginning of the film, when the Mexican solders greet the Americans in the Sonora Desert, in Spanish, the stocky solder says "we saw something come down from the sky. It was extremely beautiful and yet extremely terrifying" - had to be talking about the mother-ship.

Anyone noticed that Williams sticks a wee 'Jaws' theme in at the end of the 'music communication' scene

Bleak? Anything but. Fills you with wonder about the possibilities in the universe. Never looked at a clear night sky the same way after seeing this movie. One thing that never changes - gov't attempts to gaslight the public on everything. 2 suggestions: The Conversation and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the remake w/ Donald Sutherland).

Great movie and loved your review!

This indeed was an awesome experience first viewing it on the cinema screen in '77 as an 11 year old kid. I prefer Spielberg's benevolent alien encounter films like this and "ET" as opposed to the much different (but still fantastic) "War Of The Worlds". It's been a while since watching any version of this, but being Spielberg, I would also say that the Director's Cut was THE way to go. Awesome reaction!🛸 Enjoy your Channel, Thanx.

Poltergeist-type activity is actually pretty common in the UFO scene, at least, according to reports. There are connections to Bigfoot and other weird shit, too. Fascinating stuff. That French scientist character is based on real-life UFOlogist Jacques Vallee.

Planes that went missing were meant to be flight 19, a very well known and famous flight that went missing over the Bermuda triangle

I’ve seen it who knows how many times, and in 2017, me and my family took a road trip to Wyoming, to watch Close Encounters st the base of Devil’s Tower for the 40th anniversary of the film.

The reason there were 2 different types of aliens was Steven wanted to portray them as having different races just like us. The long spider-legged one that appears first was from one race of the same aliens from the child ones and the final one.

What always annoyed me was that no aliens stayed behind. They just buggered off with more Earthlings, and not so much as an apology for the earlier abductions. They screwed the lives of a lot of families. At least the crew that leaves with them was voluntary. Still a great movie, though.

Il really hope that there never ever will be a sequel or a remake. Every damn movie doesn’t need to be in a « franchise »… They have to be unique and precious.

I always thought the tall spindly being was a fake to see what people would do at the first sight of an alien. They didn't try to kill it, so the real ones came out. I never gave his wife and kids another thought.

john williams said this was his favorite composition out of all he's done for movies i agree

One of the greatest movies ever.

Not sure if you noticed but near the end, when the aliens were leading him towards the ship, the music that was playing had the tune “when you wish upon a star”

Way back when the Sci Fi Channel was cool, they had a big special viewing of this movie- complete with cast and director interviews. Terri Garr said Speilberg hadn't decided wether the aliens would be peaceful or hostile until the week of shooting and only gave the cast the script on a daily basis so they would also not know what was going on. Brilliant.

When i saw this at the cinema in 77 i was in awe. Spectacular movie. Great reaction.

Great reaction my friend!

All good questions you raise. When I first started watching movies with reactors, I'd get annoyed that they'd sit and question everything. Like, just be quiet and watch. But, after seeing a movie dozens of times, the situations set up by the director wear on me, and I relate more to the reactor. For instance, all the stuff from the frig all smashed on the floor? Roy building the mountain inside the house, but not doing it with a wheelbarrow; instead throwing it in the kitchen window? Multiple shots of Barry somehow opening a door or leaving the house or standing in front of the fireplace; and, in each case, where's Jillian? What's she doing? Then, when he scuttles out the doggie door, she looks off into the distance long enough so he's irretrievable? Oh, and good comment about the doggie door. I never even thought of that. The guys messing up that expensive globe when they could've just picked it up and walked it over? They could've run their fingers down the globe without removing it from the office. Roy driving against traffic without looking out the windshield because he's looking at a map? Countless more. It's why watching a lot of movies works really well the first time, but, when watching repeatedly, you start seeing the same things the director set up so each scene would be more DRAMATIC. Oh, don't get me wrong; I like this movie and still need to get it on Blu-ray because I love to watch it. I just kind of let the forced-dramatic scenes, in which people do stupid things, go in one ear and out the other because all movies have it to some degree. Good reaction. Again, I don't know if I've told you this, but it's nice to watch you just enjoy the movie without making faces and jokes. A ton of reactors out there do that and I can't sit through it. Wasn't that mothership jaw-dropping? I'll tellya what...you think the movie's awe-inspiring? We got to see it in theaters when we were kids. You'd sit there with your lower jaw burrowed into a ditch it dug into the floor because the thing on the screen is 50-feet wide! It's just a shame so many reactors watch movies on relatively small monitors :) Cheers!

I have always thought of this as a perfect "feel good" movie. It didn't need a sequel.