[YT Edit] E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Speech to text: So they finally watched ET. It didn't hit them as hard as I thought it might, but it still affected them. I always say with any movie, it can hit you differently depending on your mood that day. Or even where you watched it, the age you were, many factors. Like I've seen movies that don't affect me the first time, and then a year later they blow me away. I didn't get to see it in the theaters. I was a bit older when I saw it with about four or five friends. And we didn't know what to expect either. But like I said it could be the day or something, because it blew all of us away. Youre talking about like five wannabe tough guys, teenagers. And I think all five were balling tears at one point. And I'm not even an alien person, or conspiracy person. But I did get drawn into the movie quick. Plus I didn't think he was ugly lol. I actually thought it was kind of cool looking. I'm sure somebody has said this, but Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were close friends. And think they were maybe around the same time, and Star Wars was so big. So thus you had the little Star Wars action figures and Halloween costumes and stuff. But for boys I think more so, it was a choker of tears. I hope that came out right because it's speech to text. And I haven't seen a lot of reactions late, because some music stuff and other stuff going on. But what an epic movie that was. I wanna edit this, because my sister just text something. There's 17 years between me and my sister, and there's four of us. I'm the youngest, she's the oldest. But she mentioned at the time that was like the biggest movie for like two years

Michael J

I was fifteen when E.T. came out and it was the last movie I ever saw at our local drive-in before they tore it down and put a multiplex theater on the spot. So the movie will always have a place in my heart. I think one of the reason it connected so well with people of all ages is that Spielberg really had his pulse on life in the suburbs and what it must've been like growing up in a broken home. He doesn't dwell on it, but the dialogue clicks it in and it all has the ring of truth to it, at least from my perspective and my upbringing. There are also little details that add to the depth of the film. For example, when the kids are playing D&D at the table at the beginning of the film, "People Who Died" by the Jim Carroll Band can be heard on the radio. It's EXACTLY what I was listening to in my teenage years. The movie is just crafted really well, and that's why it has endured over the years.

Richard Levesque

Thanks! I guess I can get a copy, now.

Steve Colletti

No need to worry about which version anymore (with this film). Spielberg regretted the "walkie-talkie cut" and as far as I know the original is the only version that's ever been available in HD/4K.

Robin T

Thanks. I listen to most of these in the car, so don't always know the version. Thanks, Bruce.

Steve Colletti

Yeah… very stupid. They watched the original cut. The radios just don’t produce the fear for the kids like the guns did which makes their flying over the cops even more exciting.

Bruce Redfield

There were plenty of space alien films at the time (though not as many as there were in the 50s and 60s). You watched Alien, and Spielberg had Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and The Thing. In an interview at the time he said that he wondered what if the aliens weren't the mean, scary aliens. This was around the time where both he and George Lucas went for more 'cute' films than they had been previously. In ET, the government people chasing them around originally had guns, but Spielberg later digitally turned them into radios.

Steve Colletti

Elliot also played the youngest brother in Legends of the Falls.

Now this was fun ! I hadn't seen ET for well over 20 years. When watching the full reaction what impressed me most was how good Drew Barrymore was.....absolutely brilliant. You both did well not to tear up, many in the cinemas did. Great reaction gals.

Darren Hill

Drew Barrymore was never told that E.T. wasn't real. Her reactions were based on that. Smart move by Spielberg!!!

Барри С Каэмер

Just in case you haven’t seen it, there was a short “sequel” made a couple years ago during Christmas time: https://youtu.be/52roM4-5GWs

Rainmaker203

Cocoon and Ladyhawke are good 80s movies that you should watch.

Stardust

ET is in Star Wars! https://www.slashfilm.com/709837/the-e-t-easter-egg-you-forgot-about-in-star-wars-the-phantom-menace/

Bryan Fritchie

Fire in the sky is a good one.

Michael Lynch

Carly my childhood bike was red but got stolen 😔 my next bike was blue. We drove our bikes for literally miles away from our house. The good ole days. Fire in the Sky is one I think you should watch!

Steven Ashford

The little girl that Elliot kisses in school is played by Erika Eleniak, who grew up to be a Playboy Playmate and was in the first few seasons of Baywatch (as well as being the female lead in Under Seige with Steven Seagal). And you said it was a "12 year old's dream".... I was 12 when this came out. It was the first movie I went to see without my parents. Always nostalgic when I see it, especially when I first showed it to my kids.

Cliff Endicott