E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!!
Added 2023-06-28 22:27:35 +0000 UTC
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For the film’s 20th anniversary, they rereleased it in theaters but with one small change made. To tone down the intensity/danger when the kids fly over the cops on their bikes, Spielberg decided to digitally erase the cops’ guns from their hands, replacing the guns with walkie-talkies. This led to quite a bit of ridicule, with South Park making a spoof trailer for the special rerelease of Saving Private Ryan with all the soldiers’ guns digitally replaced with walkie-talkies, showing the allied troops just getting slaughtered at Normandy with nothing to point back at the Nazis but walkie-talkies.
Nick of Time
2023-07-05 16:35:40 +0000 UTCI remember seeing this at about age 10 or 11 and now at age 54, having seen it half a dozen times, it still reduces me to tears, of joy I suppose. It IS beautifully wholesome. Thanks so much for checking this out!
Eric J Watkins
2023-07-03 09:20:53 +0000 UTCRegarding the music at the end, Spielberg did something very different. Normally, a director would cut the film then expect the music composer to adapt to the picture. But, in this case, Spielberg told Williams to just write an entire suite about 15 min. long, and he would cut the picture to it. The result is this epic crescendo that starts after the bikes land in the forest and ends with, "I'll be right here." "Bye." Spaceship streaks a rainbow across the sky. Wow! Great stuff! I saw this movie during first release and still love it! I think over the years I've owned 4 or 5 copies of this movie on a variety of formats. Definitely worth owning a personal copy. Just avoid the version (which Spielberg now disavows) where he turned the guns and rifles into walkie talkies. Also, there are some CG E.T.s in that version. The current version that is available is the theatrical (and director-preferred) version.
Ron
2023-07-02 11:32:50 +0000 UTCE.T.'s people appeared in the Star Wars Prequels too, in a brief shot of them at the Senate. Ties in with how he recognizes Yoda.
Guston Zimasheen
2023-07-01 05:33:49 +0000 UTCElliot is Samuel from Legends of the Fall. He also is from my hometown San Antonio. We used to see him shopping at our local grocery store HEB when I was kid. This is definitely a movie that they could have done a sequel to these days with original actors. No idea why they don't. Ot was be huge, an ET return? I'd be there day 1.
Jonathan Patrick
2023-07-01 05:14:41 +0000 UTCAlso I noticed for the first time, in one of the chase scenes, it sounds like the Jaws theme but the notes are backwards.
Guston Zimasheen
2023-07-01 04:42:21 +0000 UTCThey already watched Poltergeist on Oct 25, 2020. Got the full reaction and everything.
Guston Zimasheen
2023-07-01 04:29:44 +0000 UTCDid you know Elliot's teacher who's face you never see is Harrison Ford
Odd Thomas
2023-06-30 16:04:24 +0000 UTCI hope you watch Poltergeist, it's shot in the same sort of neighborhood and same time. It's like ET but with ghosts instead.
Odd Thomas
2023-06-30 14:47:54 +0000 UTCHmm. I feel bad for saying so because I do so love ET. There is absolutely nothing wrong with ET whatsoever, and it is indeed an amazing movie, but I fully agree with you. Flight of the Navigator I used to watch it over and over, I drew the spaceship, I fantasized about flying in the spaceship. I wanted to make a video game about it. Actually damn I had forgotten about that.
Alex
2023-06-30 14:01:43 +0000 UTCI'll take Flight of the Navigator over ET any day
Odd Thomas
2023-06-30 13:38:18 +0000 UTCAll of the Star Wars references (the action figures in the beginning and Yoda when they were Trick-r-Treating) was a nod to his good friends George Lucas (who he collaborated with to create Indiana Jones). I think even the toy shark at the beginning was a hat tip to his earlier film Jaws.
Code Monkey
2023-06-29 23:07:22 +0000 UTCI won't be able to do a watch along so i hope the youtube cut is out fast! Lol
Shaun2342!
2023-06-29 17:09:39 +0000 UTCHere's a nice mini reunion Elliot and E.T. had: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52roM4-5GWs
Nismo
2023-06-29 11:13:33 +0000 UTCAre we getting spoiled again by any chance & getting Sopranos reactions this Saturday? Was a nice surprise last week.
Stan the Man
2023-06-29 10:50:55 +0000 UTCThis definitely brings back good childhood memories. Thoroughly enjoyed it. And Sam did excellent taking the lead on this one!
Chet Overholt
2023-06-29 05:59:38 +0000 UTCLove this Classic !!! Another Great Reaction to one of my Childhood Films !! I think i watched it 20 Times as a Kid ;) Another Great Steven Spielberg is "Sugarland Express" with Goldie Hawn from 1974 !!!
Florian Meier
2023-06-29 05:58:52 +0000 UTCSecond for Terms of Endearment !!! Great Film
Florian Meier
2023-06-29 05:56:37 +0000 UTCThis was one of the cutest reactions. I love the role reversals. There’s not a whole lot more to add. E.T. is just a whimsical film that makes you feel good. For a little bit of trivia, the voice of E.T. was done by Debra Winger, who would go on to star in Terms of Endearment with Shirley MaCLaine and Jack Nicholson the following year. That’s definitely an 80s movie worth checking out.
Robert Boyd
2023-06-29 05:31:51 +0000 UTCYou guys should watch Flight of the Navigator, it's another classic alien kids movie.
Alex
2023-06-29 05:06:48 +0000 UTCYou were talking about wholesome movies with kids that were similar to this and the first thing I thought of was My Neighbor Totoro. Sadly, it's from strike happy Ghibli.
Marcus Cato
2023-06-29 04:49:52 +0000 UTCI haven't watched this in years. Thanks for giving me a reason to pull it off the shelf again ☺️ I kept waiting for Daniel to say, "This IS fucking Stranger Things!" during the bicycle chase 😂 Funny story, I was 6 when it hit theaters. I'd already seen it once or twice the day my brother and aunt talked my grandma into taking us all to see Friday the 13th part 3. Of course I didn't make it long, so my grandma took me across the hall to see ET again. Lol
ShadowVessel π
2023-06-29 04:05:32 +0000 UTCSeeing this movie in the theater is one of my earliest memories, I was 4 or 5, and all I remember is crying when ET left lol. I also remember that for years after, this movie was iconic, Spielberg had already had huge hits obviously, but this being both a kids movie and just great, it was like a huge global hit, and just a year after Raiders. Yeah, not gonna lie, I'm glad I grew up in the 80s and 90s, I had a lot of fun riding bikes and getting in and then out of trouble, plus so many great movies. Now you gotta watch Mac N Me, just kidding, please for the love of God don't, unless you wanna watch it ironically because it is atrocious. Fun fact, Peter Coyote played the nice government guy, and he narrates my favorite UFO, sorry "UAP", documentary, it's a few years old now so doesn't have the newest evidence, like those US Navy videos. It's called Out Of The Blue and it's free on YT, it is a trip how many military folk in countries all over the world have seen them.
Joe D. MacGuffinstuff
2023-06-29 03:56:54 +0000 UTCI haven't seen this movie since I was a little kid. I don't even remember seeing it but what's interesting is I don't remember the bad guys being good LOL. I always thought they were bad. And in the Atari video game you always have to run away from them as they get ET and put him in I don't wanna say jail but it's like they put him in the government building. Speak & Spell was one of my favorite things as a kid and I love the voice. I am really surprised that there was not more of a reaction to Drew Barrymore as a toddler. I was expecting for someone to say how cute she was :)
Alex
2023-06-29 02:43:28 +0000 UTCOh, fuck...this movie makes me cry little a stupid little moron every goddamn time. "I'll. Be. Right. Here." Every time. Saw it when I was 5 in theaters, cried then. Still cry. Shit. I'm gonna cry again. Shit.
Steve Mercier
2023-06-29 01:44:37 +0000 UTCAs you noted in your outro they were pumping out these wholesome youth adventure moves in the early eighties and Stranger Things did indeed pay homage to the suburban Spielbergian aesthetic of films such as E.T. and Poltergeist. I think this film is a masterpiece in the way that it told its story not with words and dialogue, but purely by the films visuals. There were many long stretches in the film without any, or little, dialogue. Also with this film, the Star Wars films and the Indiana Jones films over about a 5 year period John Williams firmly established himself as the preeminent film composer of the late twentieth century. My favorite part of the film is E.T. watching John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in that scene from THE QUIET MAN (1952) on TV inspiring Elliot to kiss the little girl at the school. THE QUIET MAN would make a fine reaction by the pair of you.
Mike LL
2023-06-29 01:38:52 +0000 UTC
