WTF Happened to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- In hindsight, it’s a story so simple a child could’ve come up with it. A story about a boy, feeling lost and alone in the world. He befriends a small alien, similarly lost and alone in the world. Their bond is almost immediate, and in a few short days they become the best of friends. But the alien doesn’t belong here, and the boy knows it. One day soon, that loveable creature will have to return home, and when he does, he won’t be coming back... The end.
It might not sound spectacular on paper, but with the right storyteller in charge, the result broke millions of hearts and earned hundreds of millions of dollars. When Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extraterrestrial came out in June of 1982, the world was not quite prepared for just how much of a phenomenon the movie - and its title character - would become. Before long it would be the biggest movie ever released. It wasn’t cynical or violent, it made no excuses for how sentimental it was, and it did not play fair when it came to toying masterfully with the audience’s emotions. And the people loved it almost as much as the boy loved his extraterrestrial pal.
Sit back and be good as we find out WTF Happened to this movie!
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What happened was a truly iconic and beloved movie got made
I remember years ago hearing how when John Williams recorded the theme song with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Steven Spielberg was so moved by the piece he refused to edit out any of the song to fit the scene but rather extended the scene to fit the song. One of Williams' finest scores in my opinion.
A true testament to the respect these two masters had for each other.
Sometimes, you experience a piece of art so perfect for what it was created for, that you can't help but work around it to ensure everyone else gets to enjoy it in it's purest, original form.
As a musician, composer, and hopeless John Williams addict, I only hope to achieve a fraction of that feeling from another peer artist I respect.
It's not Spielberg's BEST film, but it's the one that resonated with the entire world. If you're old enough to remember 1982, you'll understand what I mean.
It’s also notable that originally Spielberg wanted M&Ms to be Elliott’s favorite candy. But the Mars company declined, supposedly saying the alien was ugly, it will scare children and the movie will bomb. So they go to Hershey, who were more than happy to let Reese’s Pieces be the featured candy. Suffice to say the movie was a hit, and Reeses sales went through the roof.
The first movie I saw in the theater and 41 years later it still remains my favorite movie ever made. Pure perfection and like many, that ending gets me every time.
The first movie that made me actually feel what the writers wanted me to feel. I remember being a kid and this movie bringing tears to my eyes.
John Williams’ score is still so iconic, especially the piece when the bicycle flies for the first time
Preach, it still gives me goosebumps to this very day, no matter how many times I've seen the movie.
We need to make that scene the theme of the moment where bike riding clicks
So many great moments like the bicycle flying across the moon, and lines of dialogue like “E.T phone home” and “It was nothing like that penis breath!”
I met Henry Thomas a few weeks ago and regret not asking him to sign my poster with “It was nothing like that penis breath!”
"I'll be right here!" Someone's obviously been cutting onions! 😭💔 Also, I liked that many of the shots were filmed from a kid's perspective, especially the climatic chase sequence.
Watching E.T for the first time as a kid is an experience I will remember for the rest of my life!
This movie is better than the unwatchable mac and me movie 😊
I saw this in the movies - I must have been six. I was really into the film and when ET “died” in the film, I started balling. Cried my eyes out. I remember my parents telling me to be quiet. Jerks. It really hit me on an emotional level - it was too much for six year old me.
This is the first real movie I can really remember seeing in the theaters. I still remember the wonder it made me feel.
It stayed with me my entire childhood. I almost feel bad for people who first see E.T. as an adult.
Hmm.. i feel the same way, but with starwars first and only 3three
Spielberg was on fire with E.T, as he made Raiders Of The Lost Ark a year earlier
For some reason, I can’t cry when watching something really moving or sad, but can still feel emotion, because holy crap does the ending touch me
I saw it in the theater when it was first released in the summer of '82, and there wasn't a dry eye in house at the ending of this beautiful, tender, heartfelt movie.
I was Drew's age when this came out. I even saw it in the theatre. I loved it but it also traumatized me. It's been years since I watched it but I know I'll ball like a baby still if I do.
There are only a handful of absolutely perfect movies. ET is near the top of the list.
I watched this movie when I was about 8 years old… fast forward 25 years and I’m sitting in a cabin in northern New Hampshire and we discover the bench were sitting on holds a stash of VHS tapes from the early 90’s. ET was sitting on top. Wow was it cathartic to watch ET on VHS again 25 years later. Still a great movie that subtly discusses the horrors of “doing harm” and not hurting others- other life included. The movie truly taught us to do no harm and the importance of loving and letting go.
I grew up on this wonderful film and had the pleasure of taking my young son to the recent 40th anniversary re-release. It really is timeless.
First movie I saw in a theater. Caught the 40th anniversary screening and it held up amazingly. This flick is timeless.
My family saw ET in the theater the day it came out, I was 6 years old. We loved it so much we saw it 2 more times at the drive in. I had an ET lunchbox for the next 2 school years, an ET TV tray I ate dinner from every evening, and got a Kamar ET doll that I took everywhere for years. Even at almost 50 now, it's still one of my absolute favorite movies that I watch once or twice a year. And my ET items are still with me. Such a fabulous film.
When it first came out, I watched this on a pirate VHS when I was 19. I was sobbing at the end - to the embarrassment of myself and the amusement of my mother ! Dee Wallace was gorgeous in this film !
The house both interior and exterior is a gorgeous 80’s time capsule, like a Sears Wishbook.
I'll never forget watching this movie as a kid
ya, i loved those last lines:
"Come."
"Stay"
such a solid, fast ending, after all that build up
I miss these kind of movies😢
It became an all-time great & classic movie. That's what happened to this film.
It was nominated for 8 Oscars including Best Picture but won for
Best Visual Effects
Best Sound Editing
Best Film Editing
Best Original Score.
I love the movie and the Atari game. (I have a Henry Thomas signed copy.) Also there was a sequel of sorts in a 5-minute 2019 Xfinity ad. It's really great.
Maaaan, I cried my ass off when I saw this as a kid. Apparently, I yelled "leave him alone" in the theater my mom said 😂. The 80s ruled!!! The little sequel commercial they did a few years back was really good too. I think it was for Comcast internet. I forget, but it's worth watching.
Such an awesome movie
Well there was the technical sequel with E.T. comingbback to see a grown up Elliot & his fam in the Christmas commercial a few years back
This was the first movie my mom took me to in the theater. i was around 6 years old.
I never got the whole movie at all as a kid, Lets face it, after the "happy" ending shown, the whole town would at best be in locked down forever, at worst the whole town would be nuked.
I know you left out tidbits like they wanting to use M and Ms first but the manufaturer said no. Also of note is the awful ET Atari video game and it's side story. Good video. Man, the changes they made to the rerelease were so dumb. Like Greedo shooting first dumb.
16:03 You guys didn't see the short sequel that was released a few years back, starring the original actor who played Elliot, did you?
One of my childhood movies watched it all the time on VHS 10/10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Great movie 😊
Do no harm. Love and let go. Powerful messages, especially when combined.
One of my favorite actresses of all time had her first role in a movie
I saw this the first time at a premier in Australia and it scared me.
00:30 it might have done that, but it also scared the fuck out of me, no one can change my mind about it being a horror movie.
Actually, it’s a misconception that E.T. is sappy. When someone says that, it’s obvious they haven’t seen it in a long time. E.T. has an intense, ominous atmosphere for almost its entirety and doesn’t become sentimental until the end.
The 80s had the best summer blockbusters and many of them were from original screenplays. Another example of how movies blow today and it's the worst era for American movies especially blockbusters.
This movie was a big part of my childhood, and is why I still to this day love Reese Pieces!
First movie I remember seeing in a movie theater
Thanks guys
This movie has always been special to me, my mom went to see this movie and later that night, her water broke, and I was born.
Anyone remember ET 's Product Placement?. *Reese's Pieces*
E.T is kinda like a modern version of Old Yeller.
He went home.
Baby Drew Barrymore was so adorable, and almost stole the entire show from Elliott and ET! I'm glad that Harrison Ford's scene as the principal was ultimately nixed, since his star power presence might have been a little distracting for a family film.
Talk about coincidence, I got ET from my library last week. I saw it on the shelf and gave it a shot. If I hadn't stumbled across it, I wouldn't have sought out the DVD, but since I hadn't seen it since the early 80s, I checked it out. I think most of us actually only remember the 3 or 4 iconic scenes. It's definitely worth seeing again, but not as much happens as you probably remember, it's more about mood and feeling than actual set pieces. Your local library probably has a copy.
Harrison Ford has a larger role as the professor but was cut
Well one thing we found out they are part of the StarWars universe. Extraterrestrial botanists.
10/10 piano back2back
anyway.. i remember drivin with my uncles, "renting" the movie on the black market, more than the movie it self... lol .... many many many years ago
8:04 Lol that's like the first movie I ever rented. You phone it in from a big catalog and they delivered the tape to your box, sort of the Netflix of the 80s.
The ET universal ride is wtf in itself too. Fun times
U not stay til the end? He went home 😂😂😂😂
Funny story that happened to me with this movie. Last year, 2022, I went to see Dragon Ball Super: Super Heroes in IMAX in Orlando FL. After watching the trailers and the movie finally started and once the studio logo came up, it was the old universal studios logo from the 80s and I was like what is this? Dragon Ball is not part of universal studios. After that, E.T started to play. Being that it was the 40th anniversary of the movie that year, it was playing in that year. So it was hilarious that they put the wrong movie instead of Dragon Ball. People laugh, groan, got up to complain. The movie play for about 5 minutes untill it switched to the right movie. In that time, people were calling E.T. Goku and the other E.T's were called namekians from the show. It was a day I'll never forget😂.
I remember watching for the first time and at the end I turned in tears 😭 to my mom and said but he is coming back right ?
I could not imagine Shelly Long playing the mother. It’s like the role was written for Dee Wallace.
Cute movie
ET crushed some shape shifting alien in the Artic.
First sentence I get why people say bumblebee is like E.T
They need to make a E.T animated series that tells the prequel story to the 1st film just like how gremlins secrets of the mogwai did with gizmo
Best movie ever made😊
"ET2: Nocturnal Fears" should be toned down a bit and turned into a crossover between ET and Dragonheart (In DH3, Patrick Stewart's character comes to Earth in an asteroid with 7 eggs), where the dragons become allies to the brown tribe. I also believe that "Jurassic Park 7" should _really_ be *"Dragonheart 12"* ...
F the academy for not giving Spielberg that award 🤷
One of my top 10 favorite movies.
ET turns all the shot guns into walkie talkies.
I saw ET growing up and I thought it was a great movie and that ending scene 😩
It got buried in a new mexico landfill...oh wait
I can't watch ET and NOT cry like a baby. Hell I almost cried watching this video😂
A Story that Made A Lot of $$$$$ Back in the Day! And Even Now!! 🤔😲
Just Another Steven Spielberg Masterpeace And Money Maker! 😊👍👌😎👊✊😎🍁🍁
Maybe it's because it's been so long; that I'm just a little bitch; could be that this movie is so well-made; or a mixture of all three. But watching E.T. again today broke me
I've seen it before, right? Plenty of times; I know what happens. But as soon as E.T. gets sick and they think he's dead, I could feel my heart starting to break like a twig
Don't even get me started on the ending where they all say "goodbye". I nearly started a flood with my own tears
This is just such a wonderful movie
Tell us WTF happened to the Island of Dr. Moreau with Marlon Brando
I'm 39 and have never seen it. Should I?
I remember after the movie I went to the restroom. I started crying 😂. I was like I’m why am I crying? Omg like a baby I cried
11:37 Hold up so K Kennedy was able to straighten out Spielberg but couldn't handle the Star Wars franchise? Go fig.....
It's a great movie,my brother took me to see it.
👍👍👍🎥
If I remember right it took this movie three years to get on home movie
Another clearly super-sentimental film hyped endlessly & yet just never struck me as a gotta-see, I'm afraid.. probably why, just like Forrest Gump, I never did... 🤔
I agree ET is grossly overrated, and Forrest Gump doesn’t seem intriguing when you hear what it’s about. But please watch Forrest Gump. Especially if you enjoy 20th century history, just a fantastic movie that deserves all the praise it gets
@@clamcrewcarclub6017 Thanks for the recommendation, but I'm really just not into overly sentimental movies, moreover movies that are unashamedly hyped as such.. Don't get me wrong, I have shed a tear during movies occasionally, but I prefer that emotion to come from something perhaps unexpected, a great turnaround.. not to sit feeling like I'm literally waiting to feel weepy or 'moved' or whatever, after I've already been told I will... 🙂
I love Steven Spielberg, but this is the only classic movie of his I really don't like.
The Dark Crystal and Secret of Nymph (which came out around the same time) are much better movies, and the character nearly took out the entire home-video game market
Phone Home
ET was an actual real Alien. They pretended it was a puppet.😉
The first movie I was taken to. I was two years old and don’t remember a thing.😂
With all do respect, what is this robotic voice over?
He went home
The '80s pulled no punches with kids' movies. ET had me sobbing my little heart out and I still watched like five times a week.
E. T is copied story from screenplay of Alien by Great Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray. We Shouldn't forgot about it.
I remember a teacher showing us this movie as a kid. I thought it was terrible and et was the ugliest shit I've seen. I felt kind of glad when he was dying just because I hated to look at him.
Well, oppose this. He's my favorite movie all time and still my favorite to his favorite day e.t. the extra-terrestrial I'm loves in the movies This is a classic picture movie ever made history. And no one ever forget that movie, he made a masterpiece. And went down history in Hollywood, California name Director Steven Spielberg Is the best in hollywood He's lucky how dumb now came from I want You It's hometown phoenix Arizona
Caveman isn't notoriously terrible, and Shelley Long has had a fairly good career. Has been in a few hits, numerous cult classics. as for E.T, fantastic
I’m probably the only one on earth to feel this way, but I never liked this movie. Not even as a kid. I just don’t understand what charm or appeal this alien has, never could reason its abilities (psychic? telepathy?) or to what extent they reached, how an alien that feeble and immobile could be a part of an alien race that can build advance space ships and travel to distant planets and same time doesn’t seem to have a language of its own, and on and on. The movie was just too embellished to me.
It’s about the kid. It’s a poetic about childhood.
Personally I was always more of a “Mac and Me” kid.
1 finger!!!!!!!!!
I have to be honest. I think most of Spielberg's movies are overly earnest, cheesy, and overrated. They tend to unapologetically rely on emotional manipulation, which makes them pretty vapid (to me). It's the same thing that Pixar does. 🤷🏾♂️
I'm sure they'll get around to a part 2 or a bad reboot
Spielberg refuses to allow it
Bladerunner shouldv'e won more