Are you saying it didn't suck the first time?.....LOL!
Saw it previosly a loooong time ago. Didn’t realize how bad and cheesy it was. A little better than Poltergeist...which was really cheezy and bad and absolutely ridiculous (stupid rope tricks)...Close Encounters hasn’t stood the test of time like Jaws or the first two original Star Wars films (not Spielberg, just similar era).