Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Seems like it came up on another thread right before this one.

or a place that the Winter Olympics were held in Canada at one point.

subs plz chk

i've been in the UK for 12 years and i still get a little defensive about 'you all right?' i'm like, why shouldn't i be

You need to say "yeah not so bad, how's yerself?" and all will be well. If we said "hey how ya doin'?" like Americans do the responses would be all "can't complain / oh, fine, fine, you know? / it's a good life if you don't weaken" etc and it wouldn't work.

once something like that is explained to you, how does it stay an issue for ya tho?

(no aggression, juat v curious like)

a place that the Winter Olympics were held in Canada at one point

I think you got that mixed up with what one unit of nutritional energy value is called.

And yet a cavalry stampede and a Calgary Stampede have much in common.

There was no census at the (supposed) time of Jesus' birth, and no census has ever required people to travel back to the city of their forefathers (42 generations back no less!)

The bones in tinned sardines are soft and can be eaten; they don't need to be removed.

...were you trying to take all those teensy bones out??

There was no census at the (supposed) time of Jesus' birth, and no census has ever required people to travel back to the city of their forefathers (42 generations back no less!)

Look, Mary had her story and Joseph had his census story. No reason to get all cynical here.

The census story was what Joseph took his other wife

*told

François Truffaut stars in Close Encounters of the Third Kind??????

In at least one or two of the half dozen different cuts of the film, yes.

You've never seen it?

(xp)

I'm choosing to believe flappy has seen one of the Truffaut-lite cuts (because if he hasn't seen it at all, wtf). That whole extended bit toward the beginning with Francois and Bob Balaban was inserted later and I think he doesn't otherwise appear until the Devil's Tower sequence.

I've only ever seen it once tbf and Truffaut being in it was one of the highlights.

Never seen it

Me neither

It's good!

Seeing it tmrw

Ah, you can report back. I hope Truffaut's in it.

it's incredibly boring

YOU'RE incredibly etc.

boring is a fake idea

I watched some of it at a schoolmate's birthday party on VHS and all or most of us got bored and gave up

went to a newly-struck 35mm screening of the director's cut in 2013 and fell asleep around the time a squad of alienspotters were hanging out up a hill

Had no idea there were cuts without Truffaut, he adds a lot

I don't think they removed any Truffaut in the later edits, they just added more Dreyfuss.

In the original theatrical cut there's the opening scene discovering the 5 planes in the sandstorm, finding the latitude & longitude on the globe, Truffaut demonstrating the hand signals, and the scene in India where everyone points at the sky. The first recut added the ship in the Sahara scene.

Fuck any version that doesn’t include the footage of the inside of the alien spacecraft. Spielberg hated it, but the studio wouldn’t let him do the Special Edition without it. NEVER LISTEN TO THE “GENIUSES”.

AFAICT there isn't a version that doesn't omit something. It's a little ridiculous.

I wish any actually-released cut had included the scene where the plane we here in the air traffic control scene lands, and Truffaut's team shows up to confiscate the passengers' cameras. It's a good scene!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNG2FDKaZoQ

Also the scene where Truffaut tests Balaban's translation skills by having him read an erotic novel.

they should restore the footage from the aliens' homeworld imo

https://wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com/asset/voices/2018/02/21/17359747/creepy_alien_smile-DMID1-5dv72z0f6-220x242.gif

that 'alpha' + 'beta' gives you 'alphabet', realised approximately 45 seconds ago while reading an introductory bit on Ancient Greek appropriation of Phoenician symbols. seriously, that has just blown a hole in my brain a mile wide

welp

That whole extended bit toward the beginning with Francois and Bob Balaban was inserted later

Old Lunch factually wrong, cuz i saw it in '77, pal

u ppl should fall asleep to that Ridley Scott shit

was def in my 30s before I realized the alpha+beta thing

Forgiveness, Morbs, sorting out what is and is not included in the various cuts of Close Encounters requires some kind of flow chart, possibly a slide rule.

That whole extended bit toward the beginning with Francois and Bob Balaban was inserted later

Old Lunch factually wrong, cuz i saw it in '77, pal

So did I, and you're wrong. The movie has *always* opened with the black screen/credits w/swelling score crescendoing to a loud chord and the bright desert light of the Truffaut/Balaban/airplanes scene. Every cut.

This site details, down to the timecode, the differences among all extant versions, and there are none until 14 minutes into the movie. https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=491777

Even the comics adaptation opens with that scene!

https://savacoolandsons.blob.core.windows.net/photos/13003/13003-x95y.jpg

https://savacoolandsons.blob.core.windows.net/photos/13003/13003-x95y.jpg

Also the promotional Topps trading cards were sequential and this card is #1 in the series:

https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Non-Sport/75166/75166-1Fr.jpg

ANYWAY.

Okay fine, y'all are just going to badger me until I'm forced to admit that I hardly ever pay much attention to the first fifteen minutes of any movie because I'm too busy dancing around the room and singing the title over and over to the tune of Zapp's 'More Bounce to the Ounce'. Are you happy now? Are you?

Hold up, I am cuing the filmstrip proving you are wrong. One sec

And for final emphasis, Vincent Canby's NYT review of Nov. 17, 1977:

Though “Close Encounters” is strictly a product of the 70's in its dress and manners, its heart is in the 50's. This is apparent from the first scene, when a squadron of World War II fighter planes, missing on a training mission more than 30 years earlier, suddenly turn up intact, as good as new, in the Mexican desert. In classic sci‐fi manner, Mr. Spieiberg's screenplay then cuts from this general introduction to the “mystery” to encounters with the mystery by individual folks in Muncie, homespun types like you and me who draw into the adventure

Still loading the film strip

lol final emphasis, pal!

Here, lemme see that thing a sec (grabs Close Encounters screenplay, uncaps Sharpie)