"Close Encounters ..." boiled in Novocaine

Rating: 1/10 (14 January 2019)

Leave it to present day Hollywood to turn a sensational event like an outer space alien invasion into a snorefest. I mean, I ask you.
I didn't realize this film was a new release until I saw the tell-tale symptons - dreary, depressing, ponderous, pretentious, shot in dull shades of blue and grey ...
and s s s l l l o o o w w w - or I would have given it a quick pass.
This time, aliens are huge squids who arrive in what looks like a humongous suppository and communicate by belching squid ink - you know, my favorite fantasy is one in which an alien space ship lands on earth ... and out come the most gorgeous, physically- perfect beings we ever saw. And then I'll be ready to die because I'll die laughing, so I'll die happy.
Anyway. I won't repeat the reasons why the other 1-star posters gave this snoozer a deservedly low grade. But I will repeat their advice to unsuspecting potential victims: Don't listen to the mouth breathers who praised this PoS and give it a wiiiiide berth. Or you will throw away an interminable amount of time you will never get back.
They say that aliens once visited this planet and now people wonder why they left. They must have gotten a glimpse of what the future here would be like: one plagued with films like this. And being a "superior intelligence" they decided to abandon Planet Stupid. Or maybe I should just say Planet Hollywood.