Director: Steven Spielberg
Year: 1977
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Terri Garr, Melinda Dillon
OK, I admit it, I've never seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind before. So when I announced this when we had some friends round, that was a great excuse to force me to watch it. I was informed that it's a ground-breaking, iconic movie and everyone should see it.
The movie focuses on Roy Neary (Dreyfuss), a man who has an odd UFO-type encounter. He then feels drawn to a specific area in the wilderness that people are specifically warned to stay away from. And that's about it. It's a pretty long film, and I still don't really know why. Not a hell of a lot happens - although there is a lot of twinkly music.
I can understand why I was told it's an iconic movie. A lot of more recent TV shows and films borrow a lot of ideas from it (The X Files and The 4400 are two obvious ones that spring to mind, but there are many, many more). The individual ideas are therefore clearly lasting ones, but this doesn't make Close Encounters of the Third Kind a good movie. At best, it's average. And I still don't really get the point.
Rating: 2.5 out of 5
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