Close Encounters price drop

[GregBlu5]

This is my first new thread. (Hope I'm doing this right.)

Close Encounters has dropped $2 on amazon this morning to $32.95. I was not aware until now that it will contain all three versions of the movie. So, something that didn't seem like much of a bargain IS actually a bargain. (I've likely had all three versions at some point in laserdisc and DVD, but I just pre-ordered it.) There was a time, when this and Star Wars debuted, that I preferred Close Encounters to Star Wars. (I know that's a kind of blasphemy.)

I always hated the version of CE when they took out the sequence where Roy tosses debrise into their kitchen through the window, prepartory to his building Devil's Tower in the family room. That was certainly motivation enough for his (any) wife to take the kids and flee. Also, toward the beginning of the movie, when he shows up at work and volunteers to track down the source of the electrical outage, but then he heads off and chases down the UFO's and soon gets fired, again, the primary motivation for his firing was removed when that sequence was taken out; unfortunately, this significant scene was still not restored in the "final" version of the film on SD.

-Greg