JFC i just reckoned Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out 47 YEARS AGO!
am feeling devastatingly old.
in 1970s Puerto Rico, we’d get USA #movies 6 months to a year later due to the delay in subtitles and dubbing.
CEOT3K was released november 1977. almost 6 months earlier a quirky little film of space cowboys was released in only a few theaters across the USA.
so i was closer to 12 years old when i finally sat in that Mayagüez Mall theater to watch Star Wars, then, Close Encounters.