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List Price: $39.95Amazon.com's Price: $28.99 You Save: $10.96 (27%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0043396212688
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Columbia Pictures
Manufacturer: Columbia Pictures
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Columbia Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Running Time: 404 minutes
Sales Rank: 11960
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: November 16, 1977
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Anybody who has written him off because of his string of stinkers--or anybody who's too young to remember The Goodbye Girl--may be shocked at the accomplishment and nuance of Richard Dreyfuss's performance in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Here, he plays a man possessed; contacted by aliens, he (along with other members of the 'chosen') is drawn toward the site of the incipient landing: Devil's Tower, in rural Wyoming. As in many Spielberg films, there are no personalized enemies; the struggle is between those who have been called and a scientific establishment that seeks to protect them by keeping them away from the arriving spacecraft. The ship, and the special effects in general, are every bit as jaw-dropping on the small screen as they were in the theater (well, almost). Released in 1977 as a cerebral alternative to the swashbuckling science fiction epics then in vogue, Close Encounters now seems almost wholesome in its representation of alien contact and interested less in philosophizing about extraterrestrials than it is in examining the nature of the inner 'call.' Ultimately a motion picture about the obsession of the driven artist or determined visionary, Close Encounters comes complete with the stock Spielberg wives and girlfriends who seek to tether the dreamy, possessed protagonists to the more mundane concerns of the everyday. So a spectacular, seminal motion picture indeed, but one with gender politics that are all too terrestrial. --Miles Bethany
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A magical Spielberg story
Close Encounters is one of those Spielberg movies where you can really feel the magic. It isn't a downer, and it isn't the kind of movie that makes you think about the world's problems. Even the US government seems to have the best intentions when it comes to the aliens. The whole movie wears a little smirk on it's face. Masterfully done, Encounters has some simple but effective visual effects and a emotional and powerful soundtrack. The casting is good considering it was early in the careers of ... Read More
Rating:  - Movie: 3/5 Picture Quality: 4/5 Sound Quality: 4/5 Extras: 4.5/5
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50 / Region A, B, C
Disc size: 49,688,551,851 bytes
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (seamless)
Running time: 2:14:41
Movie size: 36,620,150,784 bytes
Average video bit rate: 22.79 Mbps
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 24-bit
Dolby TrueHD 5.1 24-bit
Special Edition (seamless branching)
Running time: 2:12:29
Movie size: 36,062,017,536 bytes
Average video bit rate: 22.79 Mbps
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 24-bit
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Rating:  - Excellent Reproduction (Blu-Ray)
I remember seeing movie when I was 13, and was just floored at the special effects, and the story. Then in 1980, they came out with the "Special Edition", the version where they show show the inside of the Mother Ship, and I thought, "that was total crap!" Never really looked for the original version, but I remember the S.E. was about the only one out on VHS.
Watched the Blu-Ray Original version last night, and all I can say is WOW. Excellent picture, excellent sound, and excellent memories. If ... Read More
Rating: - one of the best ever!
i saw this film last night for the first time since childhood, and the movie itself was better than my very-positive memory of it! i watched the original 1977 version, and it was on a relatively large screen - at the red vic in san francisco - which i recommend highly
unlike more recent computer-generated "eye-gasm" style sci-fi flicks, CEOTTK begs us to fill in the gaps with the wonder of our imaginations - and then surprises/relieves us with each resolution and new question - such a ride! ... Read More
Rating: - DVD-AUDIO?
This item is clearly stated by Amazon to be the DVD-Audio of the SOUNDTRACK, yet almost all the reviews treat it as if it were a DVD of the MOVIE.
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