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www.movie-vault.com - : If mainstream films, especially critically and commercially successful mainstream films, reflect contemporary socio-cultural norms and aspirations, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, written and directed by Steven Spielberg, mirrored the late 1970s and the twin obsessions with unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and the mysterious disappearances of airplanes and ships inside the Bermuda Triangle. Almost as importantly, Close Encounters of the Third Kindoffered a positive, affirmative alternative to the paranoid conceptualization of aliens as destructive, horde-like conquerors, irredeemably other. As a corollary, human beings react not with disgust, revulsion, or fear of the aliens (and their ships), but with curiosity, wonderment, and awe. more...
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www.movie-gurus.com - : Steven Spielberg's ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' (1977) is a genuinely silly, unfortunately outdated story. Its epic scope made it one of the highest-grossing films of 1977, nominated for two Academy Awards ® (it lost Best Visual Effects to George Lucas' ''Star Wars''). Now, 27 years later, it just seems goofy and sickeningly sweet. more...
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www.mutantreviewers.com - : Close Encounters of the Third Kind engages that rare cinematic perspective of watching from the sidelines (instead of in the thick of things) that was recently dug up and dusted off for the brilliantly tense Signs. The story's been done before and since about a thousand times -- first contact with aliens on earth -- but somehow this is so different that you can't even put it in the same league as Independence Day or Star Trek: First Contact. Mostly because it isn't a loud, flashy movie full of ominous bass lines and government officials bustling around looking for one startlingly buff guy to take the fight to them. Instead, we look through the eyes of some fairly average joes who know something's going on, but can't figure out exactly what. more...
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