They are airing this on Starz this month, but I'm not sure which version they are showing. It's terrible. So many scenes
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Close Encounters of the Third Kind
wardcm31-16-716932 — 9 years ago(December 04, 2016 12:36 PM)
They are airing this on Starz this month, but I'm not sure which version they are showing. It's terrible. So many scenes are cut out. The math homework scene using the train, conversation about Pinocchio and goofy golf, Roy having a breakdown in the bathtub, and many other scenes are gone. The version I enjoyed included all these scenes minus Roy in the spacecraft. Anyone know what version that is? Maybe the original release?
And can someone please explain Roy and Ronnie's house to me? I can't figure out if they are hanging out in a finished garage with a lot of crap piled up against the wall. They look like hoarders. -
gp12345us — 9 years ago(December 04, 2016 09:46 PM)
That must be the original theatrical cut playing on Starz. If you want to see all the scenes you mentioned minus Roy in the mother ship, you need to watch the director's cut. Just get the Blu-Ray, it's cheap and you can watch whatever version you want in high definition.
As for the house, I thought it looked very appropriate for a late seventies family with three young kids. All the scenes in the house were filmed in a real house in Mobile, AL, not on sets. The production crew bought the house so they could do what they wanted to it during filming, then they sold it for a profit when they were finished.
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