Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
@C.C. 95 I feel like i need to watch this again. For starters, i was actually interrupted during the movie (even though i actually set aside time for it) so there was a gap. And i absolutely hate doing that to a movie. My only beef with it is that it actually felt like watching excerpts from a bigger picture; i dont mean that in a bad way; like reading a few pages from a bigger book, but the important or relevant pages that's enough to understand the story. I dont even know if i'm making sense right now

Like I wanted to see more; which is a good thing because from that i know that i enjoyed it. So yea, i'm a bit conflicted here; hence my ratings are not on the high end. So i'm hoping to watch the director's cut in the future. I believe you recommended that i either avoid the SE cut or watch it last. Other than that, i can see where almost all other alien movies copied some of their ideas from

Thanks for a great recommendation
Free Fire (2017)
The Boy and the Beast (2015)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 (2017)