#618) CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the third kind

1977
dir. Steven Spielberg
"The Square Song" performed by Bugs Bower
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" performed by Meco

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Film & Animation

[timcp1]

This movie is silly. Three fingered beings are suppose to be able to engineer these highly structured sophisticated space machines? Not with their frail bodies and lack of proper articulation due to having only three fingers and being built like a 7 year old. Also, if they're able to function in the same environment as humans, that means they must exist in the same environment , and there's no way these beings would survive.

[barringer82]

@timcp1 you must be a creationist

[wackitobacki]

paul sorry it took me so long to get around to watching this, I was in the Hospital, but it was worth the wait!...this is your best single movie tribute yet!...very innovative, almost too good for youtube!

[barringer82]

Jesus, that hardly warrants an apology.

but thank you for the compliment & hope you're well.

[photon1138]

This is the best CE3K video montage that I have seen on YouTube. The editing, scene selections, spatial choreography of the images that map back to the light board -- it is a beautiful compilation of elements from the film. Well done.

[Paranassus]

simply brilliant!

[Hagfilms]

Hahaha - this is brilliant. Well done. Gives me goosebumps, and made me want to watch the film again - despite having only just watched it days ago.

[Anamnesia]

Nicely done!

[timcp1]

@HeartlessGorre If their minds are so great, then why would they need to use a base of mathematics around how many fingers they have? In order to evolve past these frail physical features to get to their tech capabilities, means they at one time didn't have the intellectual capacity, so they would have to work and yet, if they started with 3 fingers and a frail body, they would have died out a long time ago. They wouldn't have never evolved to the frail three fingered body in the first place.

[HeartlessGorre]

@timcp1 well they have an advantage of having three fingers: since we have 10 fingers, we use a mathematical system with a base around 10, their base is 6, making math faster for them. And consider that they have evolved past the need for work capable bodies since the technology they have does labor for them, much like us, hmm?

[timcp1]

@RetroJenny "maybe" this and "maybe" that can go on and on. Yet, when you read the eye witness accounts of these beings, they are grey, frail, lollipop-headed, with elongated fingers and bug eyed. Obviously they do rely on physical matter, as they have to use ships to travel. And if they could "adapt" to the environment, then they would need to adapt to this environment of Earth. And their physical features are not adequate adaptations for Earth.

[RetroJenny]

@timcp1 Well maybe they use their minds to create machines. They are more advanced than humans so they do not rely on physical matter, and maybe they are so intelligent that they can adapt to any environment.

[rk44fla44]

Nice stuff. This really brings/sends me back in time.

[timcp1]

@PlootTehMedic I realize they were actors what I'm saying is that this film is popular because even though the story isn't based on a true account people believe in aliens and so they watch the film. However, these aliens portrayed in the film are as people have said they've seen them i.e. those you see are referred to as the "grey type" are not capable of designing spacecraft. Check out UFO's A Worldwide Control System here on Youtube, and you will see which beings are far more capable.

[PlootTehMedic]

@timcp1 For one. They actually WERE 7 and 6 years old girls acting as the aliens in suits. Two the movie was from like 1990 some like they know. Three there ARE planets outside the Galaxy that probably DO have life on them. Plus how would you know? Did you search out there? Nope.

[waterskippers]

I like it how every good science fiction movie has a crazy person who turns out to be right.