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Post by Popeye Doyle on Oct 13, 2018 23:18:30 GMT
Those opening titles are still creepy as fuck. Same for when the astronauts come into the house.
Spielberg really manages a great sense humor. Love the scene with the mother completely blind to E.T. walking past her in the kitchen or hiding amongst the stuffed animals.
For a film 36 years old, it’s aged very well. Its 1980s suburbia seems very little removed from today.
I still cry like a bitch at various points in the 3rd act. Elliot’s first goodbye to E.T. Is wrenching.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 13, 2018 23:37:12 GMT
It's good but was never really one of my favorites growing up.
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Post by ck100 on Oct 13, 2018 23:41:59 GMT
Those opening titles are still creepy as fuck. Same for when the astronauts come into the house. Spielberg really manages a great sense humor. Love the scene with the mother completely blind to E.T. walking past her in the kitchen or hiding amongst the stuffed animals. For a film 36 years old, it’s aged very well. Its 1980s suburbia seems very little removed from today. I still cry like a bitch at various points in the 3rd act. Elliot’s first goodbye to E.T. Is wrenching. Have you ever seen the 2002 version with the walkie talkies in place of the guns? Just curious. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2018 23:52:45 GMT
It seems like each time I see it, I have a different response, between loving it and thinking it's bad/boring. I need to dust it off for another rewatch soon.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Oct 13, 2018 23:54:54 GMT
Those opening titles are still creepy as fuck. Same for when the astronauts come into the house. Spielberg really manages a great sense humor. Love the scene with the mother completely blind to E.T. walking past her in the kitchen or hiding amongst the stuffed animals. For a film 36 years old, it’s aged very well. Its 1980s suburbia seems very little removed from today. I still cry like a bitch at various points in the 3rd act. Elliot’s first goodbye to E.T. Is wrenching. Have you ever seen the 2002 version with the walkie talkies in place of the guns? Just curious. Yeah, had the 2-disc DVD which included both versions. I just watch the theatrical version. |
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Post by rudeboy on Oct 14, 2018 0:02:16 GMT
Like many of my generation, I was obsessed with it as a child and think it holds up pretty wonderfully. One of Spielberg's greatest films and one of the best family films ever made.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2018 0:06:51 GMT
It's good but was never really one of my favorites growing up. Same here. I believe I saw Free Willy and The Iron Giant before it, so that might have taken the punch out a little. |
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Post by twothousandonemark on Oct 14, 2018 3:16:20 GMT
Not Spielberg's best (Jaws) nor his career apex (Schindler's List), E.T. however to this day I think remains his hallmark achievement.
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Post by kingkoopa on Oct 17, 2018 5:35:37 GMT
When Elliot comes back at Mike with "it was nothing like that penis breath!" is one of the funniest deliveries I've ever heard from an actor that young. I probably wasn't alone, because the actress playing his mother breaks and chuckles a bit (don't know if intentional or not).
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Oct 18, 2018 16:05:30 GMT
When Elliot comes back at Mike with "it was nothing like that penis breath!" is one of the funniest deliveries I've ever heard from an actor that young. I probably wasn't alone, because the actress playing his mother breaks and chuckles a bit (don't know if intentional or not). More movies need to use that as an insult. |
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Post by vegalyra on Oct 18, 2018 16:19:43 GMT
I saw it with my grandmother at the theater all those years ago shortly before she died of cancer so the movie has stuck with me all these years. That being said, it's not one of my favorites. I don't remember even thinking it was all that awesome as a kid. But it has a certain sentimental value. I had the Atari game too that everyone says is so bad. It's not, it's actually quite playable if you read the instructions (which I think most people didn't or don't). There are even some hidden Easter Eggs in the game which was pretty unusual for an Atari game.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Oct 18, 2018 18:01:13 GMT
I saw this a week after seeing Poltergeist, and after seeing that (not to mention all of Spielberg's previous movies), I was expecting something different than what I got, and was underwhelmed as a result. It wasn't until six months later, when the cinema I was working in ran its re-release at Christmas that I sat back and just watched it for what it was and fully appreciated it. Watched it again within the last year or so, and it does hold up beautifully. I think twothousandonemark summed up pretty well where this falls into Speilberg's library. |
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