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Close Encounters of the Third Kind is Steven Spielberg at his weirdest, most personal, and best

Note: This article is based on a personal blog I wrote 10 years ago to entertain nobody but myself. So if you’re one of the 10 people who read it, that’s why parts of it seem familiar. Steven Spielberg’s 1977 UFO epic Close Encounters of the Third Kind is one of the most influential and beloved sci-fi movies of all time. Its presence is still felt today — not least in Spielberg’s new film Disclosure Day. And yet it’s also kind of an evolutionary dead end for sci-fi, thanks to a little film Spielberg’s friend George Lucas released six months…

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