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).
Are you talking about the same movie the article is referring to (Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: Contact Has Begun by Michael Mazzola)?
Or the 1977 movie Close Encounters Of The Third Kind by Steven Spielberg?