[a fool in paradise]

I finally saw Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Watched it on a big screen.

I was around when the film came out. And when it played cable for years. Never saw it.

Steven Spielberg has recycled the “tricks” a number of times since (like the water ripple as the dinosaur approaches in Jurassic Park).

And the end of that film? A disco rave in the dessert. Feh.

[Las Vegas Dave]

J.Allen Hynek did a cameo role in that film (the movie title was named after one of his chapters in his book, "The UFO Experience, A Scientific Inquiry".

He was the bearded scientist in the blue jacket smoking a pipe when the craft made contact.

I saw the film with my ex when it was released, when I saw Hynek’s cameo, I was the only one in the theater to laugh out loud....