Had a very enjoyable night of viewing. I began with CLOSE ENCOUNTERS on Blu-ray. Much of it looked spectacular but there certainly were inconsistencies with some of it looking flat.
The Blu-ray allows you to choose which of the three versions you want, and, once chosen, if you prefer, let the disc signal you when a scene comes up that was in another version but not in another. I turned that off; I didn't want anything to disrupt my attention from the feature.
It took me several viewings to get on board CLOSE ENCOUNTERS as a great film. I always thought it was good, but years have yielded up so much more to it than I gave it credit for when I was younger.
And for such a young director, it's really a remarkably complex film on a HUGE scale. I guess his having directed JAWS, at the time the highest grossing film ever, enabled him to get a production as big as this one.
