Close Encounters... Which Version?

[TremblingBluStar]

I'm also not sure if I like the implication that Roy is transformed into an alien. It brings the Pinocchio reference full circle I suppose, but , I prefer the ending to have some mystery to it. I also think these scenes hurt the pacing a bit.

I'll have to rewatch that scene, because I don't recall ever getting that impression.

I also don't care for the mothership interior ending. While it was technically impressive for the time, it's something that didn't need to be shown, and was obviously tacked on as an incentive for people to see the film a second time in 1980.

Regarding Roy's family, I have the director's cut DVD, and Spielberg says in an interview (on the set of Private Ryan) that if he made Close Encounters again he wouldn't cast the family in what was essentially the villain role and have Roy leave them.

 

[Brikar99]

(See War of The Worlds, where Cruise's son survived for no reason other than a picture perfect happy ending.)

I thought that Cruise's son survived because the narrator of the novel found his wife wife, whom he had thought dead, alive in London in the very last line of the novel.

The son is constantly fighting to be treated as an adult and the responsibility that goes along with it throughout the entire movie, and he survives when he's given that, which proves to Ray that the boy is a man.

Or just to have a picture perfect happy ending. Whatevs.

 

[Harvey]

Regarding Roy's family, I have the director's cut DVD, and Spielberg says in an interview (on the set of Private Ryan) that if he made Close Encounters again he wouldn't cast the family in what was essentially the villain role and have Roy leave them.

Thank goodness Spielberg made the movie in the 1970s, then.

 

[Agenda]

That's what's wrong with Spielberg these days. The most meaningful, engaging films are those where not everything works out *just right* in the end. When things do work out *just right* it doesn't seem as true to life. I think he's forgotten that.

 

[Kirkman1987]

(See War of The Worlds, where Cruise's son survived for no reason other than a picture perfect happy ending.)

I thought that Cruise's son survived because the narrator of the novel found his wife wife, whom he had thought dead, alive in London in the very last line of the novel.

The son is constantly fighting to be treated as an adult and the responsibility that goes along with it throughout the entire movie, and he survives when he's given that, which proves to Ray that the boy is a man.

Or just to have a picture perfect happy ending. Whatevs.

Perhaps I should revisit the film with this in mind, and see what I think. I haven't seen it since it came out.

 

[Whofan]

Roy follows the doctrine of Luke 14:26

 

[milo bloom]

You know, I always loved this film growing up, but I never had the impression that Roy turned into the alien. Just that it was another alien that came out, maybe like a "queen" or something (without all the nasty ovipositer business).

 

[fish11111111111]

Roy follows the doctrine of Luke 14:26

this is from Luke 1613 and another way that Jesus Christ put it or human beings,..

no servant can serve two masters,, for either he will hate the one,,, and love the other;;
or else he will hold to the one despise the other,,,

these are the words,, that was said,.. in Roman time,,.,

 

[fish11111111111]

Love and hate are funny thing, despite one and love the other,, or love one and despite the other,., It's amazing that we throw our hatred and love with towards every one,,,
we can love one with passion,, and if we can hate the other with hate of anything that gets us angry,, we can love with the things we do,,, and we can hate with compassion as well,,, with love and hate in our personal feelings demotion and physiologically,,, and our physical being,,, and we can hate in the same way,,, spiritually or emotionally physically,,, with all due respect I don't want to get in between,,, I seen it time and time again,.//The more we love the more we hate,.,.. Maybe it's just the way the world is,.,. And maybe not,,,, who knows, but in the future in the past but knowledge is,.,. The more we love,.//More hatreds will go around,...

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

Hey, a zombie thread. Well, why not. The director's cut is my favorite version. It has all the interesting stuff that Spielberg was able to shoot for the Special Edition, without the crap that he added, too.

Ditto. The DC is the best of both worlds.

 

[fish11111111111]

Hey, a zombie thread. Well, why not. The director's cut is my favorite version. It has all the interesting stuff that Spielberg was able to shoot for the Special Edition, without the crap that he added, too.

Ditto. The DC is the best of both worlds.

maybe zombie thread have a Pacific Place,, in any version,,, directors have their place to cut out or put in anything they want,,, but spielberg do have special edition.

With or without the crap that they've put into it or not,,,,

 

[fish11111111111]

Is there a version that isn't excruciatingly boring?

There is a faster paced version which is more fun and has greater general appeal called E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

ET was a very good show ,,, great for family entertainment,,,, I really like it when the kid take soft flying with his bike,,, or in when the kid gives treats to the alien,,,, those are good memories,,, that I can remember from that show,,,, even though I'm not really a fan of that show,,,,, I still like it,,,, it's amazing what they can come up with a nowadays,,,,,

 

[fish11111111111]

Director's cut

boom boom that make me crazy boom boom to make me natty,,, reminds me of a song I used to know,,,,