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498. Movie Review: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Starman, Explorers, Dark Star, Tron

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

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Dran

It's a kid's adventure movie with very little a to recommend it for an adult, because there's just no connection to the characters. The look of it is still amazing. It reminded me of the graphicsat they used in ah a, weird science. And it's still visually cool. But it's just, there's no real story other than they're in the video game and they have to do this thing. That's about it. Just interesting historical footnote is that the, the movie sort of bombed at the box office, but then they made a ton of movie. They st made a lot of money off the video game. So the video game actally made more money than

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