Back in 1977 we saw both Star Wars and Close Encounters. I had two friends at that time who saw both pictures and didn’t like Close Encounters saying Star Wars was “so much better” I’m sorry, what? I thought it was an irrelevant comparison. They might as well have been comparing rice to cottage cheese. Plus such a statement is a complete betrayal of all true sci-fi buffs and blasphemy of the highest order. But we should probably keep things on a friendly basis. The only time I compare movies is when there are similar themes, if one is a sequel or prequel of the other, or if I see a clear ripoff of thematic material. There was none of that between those two movies.
Inverse Paradigm
The final frontier is not space…it's consciousness
Now if they’d said that the special edition re-edit of Close Encounters was a steaming pile of crap…