The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
20 May 2025
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey are compelled by some indescribable force to rewatch Steven Spielberg’s 1977 spectacle ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind.’ Podcast Manager: Craig Horlbeck Video Producers: Ronak Nair and Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Head to Amazon.com slash Prime and follow your obsession wherever it goes. It's big-ass 70s month. On the rewatchables. He missed Death Wish last week.
What's big ass about Death Wish?
Do you want to weigh in on vigilante justice while we have you here? I believe in it. I believe it's the right course of action.
That was where I learned on how to take. We're doing Close Encounters this week, a movie that... Maybe needed more time in the oven, but we're pulling it out anyway. Like a beautiful thing of banana bread. This brioche is a little soft in the middle. Just hoping it's delicious. Holy shit, was this an undertaking. But Close Encounters of the Third Kind is next.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The experience of an ordinary man shared by people from all over the world, drawn to a single spot by a compulsion they don't understand to witness the most dramatic event in the history of the human race. And when the communication begins, it is fantastic. Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
All right, I'm Bill Simmons. That's Sean Fantasy, the big picture. Chris Ryan, The Watch. Yeah. What else are you up to? Top three draft picks?
Watching a lot of tape. Watching a lot of highlight mixtapes on YouTube right now. Close Encounters, the third kind.
I saw it in the theater.
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