Close Encounters of the Third Kind | FIRST TIME WATCHING | Reaction

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  @parahandy2000 · 3 months ago

  “I’m gonna have those notes stuck in my head for weeks…” Yeah, for those of us of a certain age, those notes have been stuck in our heads for decades…

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• TR

  @travismorris9303 · 3 months ago

  The Lakota & Kiowa story of Devil's Tower: Seven girls playing outside were chased by giant bears. They climbed atop a low rock and prayed to the Great Spirit to save them. The rock rose toward the heavens, and as the bears furiously tried to climb after them, they left deep claw marks in the stone. When the girls reached the sky, they were transformed into the Pleiades constellation (the "Seven Sisters"). This makes it all the more interesting as a choice for alien contact.

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• GA

  @garylogan3640 · 3 months ago

  I saw this movie in the theater as a 10 year old, those notes will still pop into my head at random times for no reason.

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• 6_

  @6_Turning_4_Burning · 3 months ago

  The five airplanes are from Flight 19 that disappeared off the coast of Florida in an area that was known as The Bermuda Triangle. There had been aircraft and ships that have gone missing in this area for years. The Cotopaxi also went missing in this area as well in December 1925. While the five aircraft haven't been found the wreck of the Cotopaxi was found off St Augustine in 1985 but wasn't identified until 2020.

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• AL

  @alanw505 · 3 months ago

  The line, "I hate these potatoes. There's a dead fly in my potatoes" was totally ad-libbed by that little girl. They thought it was so good they left it in.

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• ZM

  @zmarko · 3 months ago (edited)

  Yep, the woman who plays Jillian, the mother of Barry, did play the mother in A Christmas Story. Melinda Dillon is her name, she sadly passed away in 2023.

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• DI

  @digitalranger4259 · 3 months ago

  The French UFO expert is played by Francios Truffeau, a prominent French director and one of Spielberg's influences.

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• RE

  @Release_The_Epstein_Files · 3 months ago

  Back in the day if you were a pilot an reported a UFO sighting, you could kiss your pilot license goodbye.  That's why they didn't want to report one.

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• WA

  @WastedPo · 3 months ago

  Roy leaving his kids and family is something Spielberg himself said he later regretted putting in the story. And if he'd made the movie after being a dad, he would have rethought that angle.

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• MJ

  @mjmullady · 3 months ago

  The Jaws theme in the music towards the end is always a nice easter egg

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• SU

  @susanliltz3875 · 3 months ago

  The actress playing Richard Dryfess wife was “Terri Garr”<br>you saw her in the movie “Young Frankenstein “, she was Gene Wilders laboratory assistant in that movie.

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• TS

  @tskwerl · 3 months ago

  I say it every time, but I&apos;ll say it again... that air traffic control tower scene never gets old. Perfect written, perfectly shot, perfectly acted.

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