Not been feeling good the last few days.  I went into the office one frickin’ day, kept away from everyone, and still got sick from what was going around.

So been watching TV.  And Close Encounters of the Third Kind was on, well, at least the last half hour.  So I got to wondering.  We’ve done fantasy re-casts of old movies before.  But then I got to thinking: the casting changes in a newly redone Close Encounters wouldn’t be as important as one other thing.  I was always amazed how they portrayed the government and the scientists to be, well, good.  And organized.  At the end they had lists of those taken over the years and were processing them just like if the aliens had filed a manifest.  The government didn’t scare away everyone out of unexplained malice or corruption, but because that was the best way to keep control of the situation.

Now?  There would have to be a big evil conspiracy, with invasion being the name of the game and weasels in the government helping the whole process along.  Or something equally ridiculous.  When did this type of thing start?  I say with E.T.  There you had the feds come in with guns and try to dissect the geriatric muppet.  Of course the X-Files made everything so much worse.

So what would a new version of Close Encounters be like?  Government assassinations of its own citizens, bioweapon research?  Everything is just a plot to start the road to “Battlefield Earth”?

Oh yeah, one last point about Close Encounters.  Do you suppose the reason that Dreyfuss’ Roy Neary character was smiling so much at the end is because he’s looking forward to 294 light years of anal probe?

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