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Ooh, AI nust be the next one! I know AI got panned,..but I loved it. For most of the movie he is searching for a Fairy tale character....in the end, he is the Fairytale....even the world in the end has fairytale rules and limitations that usually are part of one. Very underrated movie
Just wanted to say that the work of John Williams is going to be hard to top. I mean, there are other soundtrack composers that I love dearly, but I would be hard pressed to come up with any others that would come close to his utterly prolific and consistently master class level body of work. Just, bravo. Bravo, sir. 😎☮️
I remember watching E.T. for the 1st time in late summer of 1982. It was a full house 4-500+ (mid week afternoon mind you) & at the ending there was not a dry eye in the house. As the credits began to roll EVERYONE stood up and applauded for what seemed like forever (but was actually about 5mins). I looked back & around & was so filled w/emotion I could barely breathe.
Spielberg, at his best, captured the "ordinary people in WTF situations-what would you do?" better than anybody else. THAT'S why his movies have resonated-IMO. The effects are just bonus
One of those movies that hits me emotionally as an adult as much as it did when I saw it as a kid. My parents always tell me this story whenever ET comes up about going to a drive-in theater when I was a little kid in the 80's and how I was hiding in the backseat of the car during the beginning of the movie due to be scared but by the end of the movie I was just about sitting on the dashboard with how enthralled and invested I was.
16:20 all the kids who grew up in the 80's felt that one... about half of us grew up in a reality where our dads bailed on their obligations as fathers.
Easily up there with some of the most important films I've ever seen. While Star Wars might have had me enthralled for my early childhood. It was E.T that blew my mind and gave me a life long love of Sci-Fi that tries to imagine what could be real rather than a galaxy far far away. This was also the only movie I ever saw in the cinema with my whole family. It never happened again so really stands out as an important memory.
Not to take anything away from this wonderful film, but the summer of '82 was also incredibly hot, blisteringy so, and going to an air-conditioned mall theater to watch E.T. was exactly the move for me and my friends. Buy a ticket for one movie, like Poltergeist or TRON or The Thing and watch E.T. Everyone watched E.T. and ate Reese's Pieces. We'd make a day of it. I saw the movie so much, i never watched it after it stopped playing on TV. 16 weeks at #1, but that thing was in theaters going into the fall. What a fun memory!!
Spielberg is one truly great Directors of our time. Sooo many of the truly timeless classics have been made by him. Close encounter. E.T. Jurassic park. Indiana Jones and so soo many more.. Added to those the scores of John Williams and you have timeless classics that still to this day gives awe and delight when watched (Though I do advice against Jurassic park in 4k the Dino's looks SOOO horrible in that as the upscaling went off the mark on them)
Gremlins I could see getting remade, I think by it's nature as a horror/comedy it isn't as emotionally resonant as ET. But it's a miracle ET hasn't been touched.
Gremlins had a sequel, so that's not entirely true. That said, i would love to see a Gremlins 3, if Joe Dante directed it. The story could be about Daniel Clamp from the second film, whose character was inspired as a Trump parody. They could make him President, and the Gremlins get into the White House. Mike Stoklasa from RedLetterMedia described in more detail the same plot, and i agree with him.
@@trekkiejunk not a sequel but modern remake. But I forgot the other big 80s franchise that has remained untouched by the remake machine....Back to the Future
I remember E.T. was one of the first films I saw in a theater. Unfortunately, I freaked out a bit when Elliott first saw the titular alien, and I remember my mother taking me to the theater lobby until I calmed down. At two years old, I might have been a little young. 🤷♂️
In the novelized version of the film, E.T. was described as a 10 million year-old scientist, mainly a kind of botanist, if I recall correctly, which accounted for his insatiable curiosity and fascination of humanity and all the weird things and artefacts that go with our culture.
Awesome review and contemplation on the importance of ET as a film. It is one of those films that is easy to forget how impactful it really is. When you rewatch it the power and impact is reawakened in your heart. Its a rare film that works on multiple levels for kids and adults. Thank you for a great video and all the work you do making these kinds of reviews/retrospectives.
Its a testiment to the film that no matters how many times I've watched E.T over the years, even now in my 40's, the ending still brings a tear to my eye
ET was not about holding onto fantasy. It was about heartfully incorporating new facts and realities which present themselves. That includes new beings whose existence implies a broadened reality.
Even as a kid, when I saw both Close Encounters and E.T. in theaters, I saw them as two versions of the same story. For me, both represented encountering and striving to understand the unknown. Adolescence is like that. It is an encounter with the unknown Adulthood.
Steven Spielberg 's E.T. Is a great movie. About young boy be friends a alien. He calls E.T. Growing up Spielberg had a imaginary friend. Help with the divorce of his mom and dad. Close encounters of the third kind and E.T. Show that aliens don't have to be evil.
ET holds such nostalgia for me - when I was a young 80s kid, an Uncle gifted me a VHS copy of ET. I think it costed him more than a new house cost at the time. I watched that more often than even Transformers, or GI Joe. Related idea: can we build housing from old VHS tapes? Modern interpretation: how can an interstellar alien species somehow not have cell phones? ET worked so hard trying to phone home. Really great video. ET made me cry then too :)
When I watched E.T. some years ago, I realized that the pretty blonde girl in the school classroom was Erika Eleniak, Shauni McClain from Baywatch! I guess that's the third entry in the "Stars When They Were Kids in Spielberg Movies" category. 😀👍
I was about the same age as Elliot when I saw this, on a pirated VHS, watched on a likely sub-20" screen CRT with a bunch of other people who'd gathered to watch it together, all cramped in whoever's living room it was at the time and it still managed to wow us all. I somehow missed out on the Star Wars hype but this movie is the one of my childhood definitely. The John Williams music crescendo at the end - hair raising...
This movie is the first sci-fi film I ever saw, and the first time a movie made me cry. It holds a special place in my heart even now, nearly thirty years later.
I remember that i watched it in the 80's as a kid and hating it with a passion and never watched it again since that one time. Maybe its time to try it now after all those years to see what i think of it now as a adult.
E.T. was actually the first movie I saw as a kid, in the theater. I’ll have to revisit it soon. It didn’t get enough replay compared to the dozens of other 80s movies I’ve watched over and over throughout the years.
I liked the Close Encounters review. I agree with what you said. I had no parental limits to what I could watch with my brothers at the time, and it was kinda of a middle ground between the first two Aliens & Gremlins. E.T. was sweeter and since I was most of theses days riding skate boards (McFly style boards) or BMX's riding behind bumpers to gain lift at the time, I thought at 5 or 6 that it was corny but on still on point. (I lived in coastal cities all my life with nearly 80 meters differences to see my best friends, so x2. Catching a ride was the best option, lol.)
UFO-TAROT: nr 17. The Stars. Strength of imagination can often help in understanding what actually happen around us. Do not be afraid of what your heart is suggesting.
I'll never understand why music can uplift a movie that much. It's just carefully placed noise at the end of the day. But it can shatter you and transport you for some unfathomable reasons.
I’m sure it’s probably not in your plans, but I would love it if you talked about Jurassic Park since it is a sci fi movie, if a less spacey one. Either way excellent video! I actually saw E.T. for the first time the day before this video dropped, and in a theater too! Crazy timing! Excellent work as always!
Thanks for this really great retrospective! I'm so happy to learn this film had such a profound effect on you. I have also kept my inner child alive through my adult years (and wonder if seeing E.T. three or four times when it first came out has helped). I am still curious and in awe at what future possibilities might come to pass... even as I know there's an "adult world" out there (sadly, built on hate and fear) that seeks to wipe out all hope of a better future and replace it with a future of continuing danger and division. Here's to hoping those forces do not succeed. Maybe more of us should be riding bicycles!
The part where he says get the bikes always made my heart sink as a kid. I never had a bike so I knew I would never be able to go with rest of the kids and take flight alongside them. I grew up in a slum surrounded by vermin.
This is one of a handful of movies that was on every Christmas while I was growing up here in the UK (don't ask me what the others were - it's a case of "I'll know them if someone mentions them"). I can't say it means a great deal to me personally, but that may be because it's so much a part of the wallpaper of my life that I have no basis for comparison to have any idea who I'd be without it.
(25:20) And unless things somehow radically change, that 16 weeks at #1 record will more than likely not be beat again. At least not in our lifetimes. I miss those days. 😕
I absolutely hated this film seen it on a pirate VHS as a young kid early 80s. ( to be fair nearest cinema was a 6h train ride away anyway) I was convinced ET was hiding waiting to get me on the side of the driveway up to our house. Even today gives me the creeps.
Saw this at Christmas in the cinema, a house so packed I had to sit right up in the rafters. Unfortunately, I never liked it. Far preferred The Thing from the same year and still do.
I do not know what version it was... but in one of them there is a scene in the end where ET goes into the ship, and the dog is following him. Elliot (or perhaps the actor) then shouts at the dog to come back down. But there is no audio, only the music... It looks like an outtake that mistakenly been left in... because the scene of Elliot shouting angrily at the dog (while he should be crying) is so off-putting and out of character for that specific moment in the story, it had to be an outtake...
Well, of course they don't realize that. Audiences are quick to point fingers at who to blame when they don't like something, but are more forgiving if you indulge their own selfish desires.
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I remember playing the ET video game on the Atari 2600. It definitely deserved its notoriey as one of the worst (if not THE worst) video games ever made. It really sucked. Of course this has nothing to do with the quality of the actual film.
We have plenty of ironic, cynical, violent, and dark films. Movies like E.T. is a reminder that sentimental stories can also be great. We need more writers and directors who are brave enough to tell those stories--Guillermo del Toro and the team of Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens are in that category.
I agree. Far too many films now are drowning in misery and extreme pessimism. We could really use more uplifting and idealistic films/shows during these times.
No matter how many times I've seen it, the ending of this movie makes me ugly sob EVERY. TIME. That shot of a changed Elliott staring upward as his alien friend retreats back into the stars, possibly never to return, absolutely fucking wrecks me. Henry Thomas is an absolutely incredible actor and should have gotten an Oscar for this movie imo.
I was seven when it came out in theaters. The film was first marketed mysteriously. Just the poster with the night background and the letters "E.T." Siskel & Ebert enthusiastically said to go see this film. I asked my mom to take me with a friend. I still had no idea what it was going to be about. Watched it at least three times after that in the theater. Decades later, I got my then six-year-old daughter to watch it with me. At the end, she broke out sobbing. The look of surprise she had that she was sobbing for the first time from a work of art. Wow!
I very much think that whether or not you find ET "ugly" is how old you were when you first saw the film. I see all these UA-cam reactors who are adults, and never saw the movie until now. Almost every single one finds ET gross. But if you saw it at 4-9 years old, you typically don't. As adults, it is much easier for us to be tribal, and "othering" what is not like us, even if unconsciously. But children are more accepting of everyone, even when different.
This freaking movie! You got to the bit about the bikes, nostalgic memories came flooding back, and suddenly I'm tearing up over a movie REVIEW. Guess it's time to watch ET again....
Early Spielberg mothers, esp single or separated moms, would be so interesting to analyze. He really nails the kitchen sink drama/chaos of families as 2nd wave feminism hit American women. Genuinely amazing he's so empathetic & his mom actors were all fantastic. Dee's underrated.
Spot on about close encounters I love your work and you’re right. ET is everything close encounters, of the third kind was trying to do much better way not at all close encounters. It’s not a bad movie Richard Dreyfuss’s family of a train wreck we never see what happens to them at the end but we know by the end of ET that Elliott‘s family is grown closer together. They still have problems but obviously better off than they wanted the beginning of film. We don’t close encounters then the whole point of the abductions years what are you trying to say are they good aliens or bad aliens but ET leaves no You know who he is what his motives are pure heart and spirit love and thought about what they did a sequel of both movies together in one film, imagining what if the aliens from close encounters are the enemies of ET species comes to visit Elliott and the counter captures him and tortures him and Elliott and family have to save him rescue him from the bad guys It’s a basic but I’m not a filmmaker. I have ideas, but I’m not good. I thought about by the way I don’t know if you know but the guy who played Elliott did a TV commercial for a cable company in Britain where they did a spot for Christmas returns to Elliott and sees his family and has some fun with his family and returns to his planet, I thought On UA-cam what it was and I’m so glad Steven Spielberg permission for that to meet Elliott grown up with his own kids and tried to explain video games ET yeah, cause you’re so good. You totally believe that Elliott‘s kids at least I did get a chance to see it should just look up ET and Christmas commercial you’ll probably find it thanks for the fun until next time
I love how, as a young adult, this movie moved me, both being disturbed through my science fiction eyes and fulfilled through my hopeful human empathy. Great reaction and a much appreciated spotlight on a move often too deep for some to be comfortable exploring!
Even watching this video this movie and its soundtrack still get me till this day . Thank you so much for bringing back my childhood. I actually first saw this before it came out at the cinema on an illegal bootleg at a customs and excise family Christmas party lol . My gran was a customs officer and a load of tapes had been confiscated. And et was one of them. Amazing the memories this movie brings back to me I must of been about 5 or 6 and its one of my oldest memories . Thank you we lost my gran last year . And this brings back such happy movies .
It's funny, ET is one of those movies I know I've seen but have never had an inclination to re-watch. But between Lindsay Ellis's video and now this one, I think I may have to look it up (if only to watch with my own kids).
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Ooh, AI nust be the next one! I know AI got panned,..but I loved it. For most of the movie he is searching for a Fairy tale character....in the end, he is the Fairytale....even the world in the end has fairytale rules and limitations that usually are part of one. Very underrated movie
I’m glad Henry Thomas has had a renaissance in the last few years, dude is wicked talented
Just wanted to say that the work of John Williams is going to be hard to top. I mean, there are other soundtrack composers that I love dearly, but I would be hard pressed to come up with any others that would come close to his utterly prolific and consistently master class level body of work. Just, bravo. Bravo, sir. 😎☮️
I remember watching E.T. for the 1st time in late summer of 1982. It was a full house 4-500+ (mid week afternoon mind you) & at the ending there was not a dry eye in the house. As the credits began to roll EVERYONE stood up and applauded for what seemed like forever (but was actually about 5mins). I looked back & around & was so filled w/emotion I could barely breathe.
'Hook...was PANned..." I see what you did there. Nice work as always. My spouse and I enjoy your Retrospectives immensely. Keep them up!
Spielberg, at his best, captured the "ordinary people in WTF situations-what would you do?" better than anybody else. THAT'S why his movies have resonated-IMO. The effects are just bonus
One of those movies that hits me emotionally as an adult as much as it did when I saw it as a kid.
My parents always tell me this story whenever ET comes up about going to a drive-in theater when I was a little kid in the 80's and how I was hiding in the backseat of the car during the beginning of the movie due to be scared but by the end of the movie I was just about sitting on the dashboard with how enthralled and invested I was.
It's astounding you don't have more followers. You're one of my favourite creators. Keep them coming!
16:20 all the kids who grew up in the 80's felt that one... about half of us grew up in a reality where our dads bailed on their obligations as fathers.
Easily up there with some of the most important films I've ever seen. While Star Wars might have had me enthralled for my early childhood. It was E.T that blew my mind and gave me a life long love of Sci-Fi that tries to imagine what could be real rather than a galaxy far far away. This was also the only movie I ever saw in the cinema with my whole family. It never happened again so really stands out as an important memory.
Not to take anything away from this wonderful film, but the summer of '82 was also incredibly hot, blisteringy so, and going to an air-conditioned mall theater to watch E.T. was exactly the move for me and my friends. Buy a ticket for one movie, like Poltergeist or TRON or The Thing and watch E.T. Everyone watched E.T. and ate Reese's Pieces. We'd make a day of it. I saw the movie so much, i never watched it after it stopped playing on TV. 16 weeks at #1, but that thing was in theaters going into the fall.
What a fun memory!!
Spielberg is one truly great Directors of our time. Sooo many of the truly timeless classics have been made by him. Close encounter. E.T. Jurassic park. Indiana Jones and so soo many more.. Added to those the scores of John Williams and you have timeless classics that still to this day gives awe and delight when watched (Though I do advice against Jurassic park in 4k the Dino's looks SOOO horrible in that as the upscaling went off the mark on them)
E.T. and Gremlins the last two 80s hit films that have not been remade. I hope it stays that way
Gremlins I could see getting remade, I think by it's nature as a horror/comedy it isn't as emotionally resonant as ET. But it's a miracle ET hasn't been touched.
Gremlins had a sequel, so that's not entirely true. That said, i would love to see a Gremlins 3, if Joe Dante directed it. The story could be about Daniel Clamp from the second film, whose character was inspired as a Trump parody. They could make him President, and the Gremlins get into the White House. Mike Stoklasa from RedLetterMedia described in more detail the same plot, and i agree with him.
@@trekkiejunk not a sequel but modern remake. But I forgot the other big 80s franchise that has remained untouched by the remake machine....Back to the Future
Gremlins got an animated prequel/reboot last year. Sigh.
Back To The Future. Not YET anyway..
I remember E.T. was one of the first films I saw in a theater. Unfortunately, I freaked out a bit when Elliott first saw the titular alien, and I remember my mother taking me to the theater lobby until I calmed down. At two years old, I might have been a little young. 🤷♂️
In the novelized version of the film, E.T. was described as a 10 million year-old scientist, mainly a kind of botanist, if I recall correctly, which accounted for his insatiable curiosity and fascination of humanity and all the weird things and artefacts that go with our culture.
Awesome review and contemplation on the importance of ET as a film. It is one of those films that is easy to forget how impactful it really is. When you rewatch it the power and impact is reawakened in your heart. Its a rare film that works on multiple levels for kids and adults. Thank you for a great video and all the work you do making these kinds of reviews/retrospectives.
Its a testiment to the film that no matters how many times I've watched E.T over the years, even now in my 40's, the ending still brings a tear to my eye
ET was not about holding onto fantasy. It was about heartfully incorporating new facts and realities which present themselves. That includes new beings whose existence implies a broadened reality.
Even as a kid, when I saw both Close Encounters and E.T. in theaters, I saw them as two versions of the same story. For me, both represented encountering and striving to understand the unknown. Adolescence is like that. It is an encounter with the unknown Adulthood.
Steven Spielberg 's E.T. Is a great movie. About young boy be friends a alien. He calls E.T. Growing up Spielberg had a imaginary friend. Help with the divorce of his mom and dad. Close encounters of the third kind and E.T. Show that aliens don't have to be evil.
I'm glad to have been a kid when Spielberg was at his peak.
A wonderful film, and the first I saw more than once in the theatre. Thanks for this, time for a rewatch of this classic.
Great video. Really like your personal connections to the media you discuss.
Oh, I am excited for your take on _A.I._ I've always felt that it was a sorely undervalued film.
ET holds such nostalgia for me - when I was a young 80s kid, an Uncle gifted me a VHS copy of ET. I think it costed him more than a new house cost at the time. I watched that more often than even Transformers, or GI Joe.
Related idea: can we build housing from old VHS tapes?
Modern interpretation: how can an interstellar alien species somehow not have cell phones? ET worked so hard trying to phone home.
Really great video. ET made me cry then too :)
What a lovely essay! Thank you! 😊
There are two films of Spielberg’s that I’m glad never got sequels: Close Encounters and E.T. Perfect on their own.
I'd say *ET is* the sequel to *Close Encounters.*
@@oliverbrownlow5615 except that it’s not a sequel to Close Encounters. Spiritual sequel, maybe.
Like how he used the original film(?) where the agents had shotguns instead of walkie talkies.
Kinda surprised he didn't have a few words on Spielberg going George Lucas on ET.
One of the keystone films of my childhood (I was 12 when it came out). Love your take and review, as always.
Thanks for another great retrospective. You do amazing work. Keep it up!
When I watched E.T. some years ago, I realized that the pretty blonde girl in the school classroom was Erika Eleniak, Shauni McClain from Baywatch! I guess that's the third entry in the "Stars When They Were Kids in Spielberg Movies" category. 😀👍
I was about the same age as Elliot when I saw this, on a pirated VHS, watched on a likely sub-20" screen CRT with a bunch of other people who'd gathered to watch it together, all cramped in whoever's living room it was at the time and it still managed to wow us all. I somehow missed out on the Star Wars hype but this movie is the one of my childhood definitely. The John Williams music crescendo at the end - hair raising...
Your summary is on point. Keep dreaming everyone! Thanks RJC, there is still good left in this world.
Loved this one as a kid. Rewatched recently for the first time in 30ish years with my young sons and appreciated it on a whole different level.
This movie is the first sci-fi film I ever saw, and the first time a movie made me cry. It holds a special place in my heart even now, nearly thirty years later.
What's funnier is that the version played is AD&D, which at the time was about to get slapped by the satanic panic.
Would love to see your take on Flight of the Navigator!
E. T. is a masterpiece.
ET is simply a masterpiece in visual storytelling.... My children were as captivated by it in 2023 as i was a kid in the 80's..
I remember that i watched it in the 80's as a kid and hating it with a passion and never watched it again since that one time.
Maybe its time to try it now after all those years to see what i think of it now as a adult.
E.T. was actually the first movie I saw as a kid, in the theater. I’ll have to revisit it soon. It didn’t get enough replay compared to the dozens of other 80s movies I’ve watched over and over throughout the years.
I liked the Close Encounters review. I agree with what you said. I had no parental limits to what I could watch with my brothers at the time, and it was kinda of a middle ground between the first two Aliens & Gremlins. E.T. was sweeter and since I was most of theses days riding skate boards (McFly style boards) or BMX's riding behind bumpers to gain lift at the time, I thought at 5 or 6 that it was corny but on still on point. (I lived in coastal cities all my life with nearly 80 meters differences to see my best friends, so x2. Catching a ride was the best option, lol.)
UFO-TAROT: nr 17. The Stars. Strength of imagination can often help in understanding what actually happen around us. Do not be afraid of what your heart is suggesting.
I'll never understand why music can uplift a movie that much. It's just carefully placed noise at the end of the day. But it can shatter you and transport you for some unfathomable reasons.
I’m sure it’s probably not in your plans, but I would love it if you talked about Jurassic Park since it is a sci fi movie, if a less spacey one. Either way excellent video! I actually saw E.T. for the first time the day before this video dropped, and in a theater too! Crazy timing! Excellent work as always!
Thanks for this really great retrospective! I'm so happy to learn this film had such a profound effect on you. I have also kept my inner child alive through my adult years (and wonder if seeing E.T. three or four times when it first came out has helped). I am still curious and in awe at what future possibilities might come to pass... even as I know there's an "adult world" out there (sadly, built on hate and fear) that seeks to wipe out all hope of a better future and replace it with a future of continuing danger and division. Here's to hoping those forces do not succeed. Maybe more of us should be riding bicycles!
This is one of your best videos yet Rowan. Well done!
Yeah, by the end I’m always balling too. 😭😭😭
Why are they Pedalling when they are flying? That never made sense to me, not even as a child.
The part where he says get the bikes always made my heart sink as a kid. I never had a bike so I knew I would never be able to go with rest of the kids and take flight alongside them. I grew up in a slum surrounded by vermin.
I like the line you used
I got bigger toys
i would love to see a video on flight of the navagetor one of my childhood favrates
Hook was panned. I saw what you did there.
This is one of a handful of movies that was on every Christmas while I was growing up here in the UK (don't ask me what the others were - it's a case of "I'll know them if someone mentions them").
I can't say it means a great deal to me personally, but that may be because it's so much a part of the wallpaper of my life that I have no basis for comparison to have any idea who I'd be without it.
For me, it is the best science fiction movie. Very touching.❤❤❤
I remember watching this at the theatre as a kid. My main memory (and takeaway) was “they are playing d&d!”
(I was and still am a D&D nerd 😅).
Very nice retrospective. I love this film. Thank you.
Good one, Row.
What a great retrospec - thank you
"Swear never to work with child actors again". Jurassic Park with two child actors comes two years later lol
(25:20) And unless things somehow radically change, that 16 weeks at #1 record will more than likely not be beat again. At least not in our lifetimes. I miss those days. 😕
PS: thank you for these retrospectives. Love your work, sir. 😎☮️
"Hook was Panned"
I see what you did there.
P-51...CADILLAC OF THE SKIES!
I remember seeing ET 3 times in the theatre as a young kid. AI on the other hand only once as that ending was trying too hard to rip my heart out.
What happened inside the mothership when it flipped the way it did? No aliens were killed in the proces?
I absolutely hated this film seen it on a pirate VHS as a young kid early 80s. ( to be fair nearest cinema was a 6h train ride away anyway) I was convinced ET was hiding waiting to get me on the side of the driveway up to our house. Even today gives me the creeps.
Your first mistake was watching it on a pirate VHS. It probably looked like crap.
Mac and Me is the superior film. Prove me wrong.
Saw this at Christmas in the cinema, a house so packed I had to sit right up in the rafters. Unfortunately, I never liked it. Far preferred The Thing from the same year and still do.
So relate, man.
I almost feel bad. I hated it as a kid and have never enjoyed it as an adult. I'm not exactly sure why.
I do not know what version it was... but in one of them there is a scene in the end where ET goes into the ship, and the dog is following him. Elliot (or perhaps the actor) then shouts at the dog to come back down. But there is no audio, only the music... It looks like an outtake that mistakenly been left in... because the scene of Elliot shouting angrily at the dog (while he should be crying) is so off-putting and out of character for that specific moment in the story, it had to be an outtake...
Crap I guess I need to watch E.T. finally. (I do own the Atari game, at least. I was about 7 when the film and game came out.)
Those are toads. Not frogs. :)
Hey can you do a video on Blade Runner, and it's multiple cuts chaos, please?
K. Kennedy gets a lot of crap from modern audiences, but they probably don't realise she produced half of their favourite films from childhood.
Well, of course they don't realize that. Audiences are quick to point fingers at who to blame when they don't like something, but are more forgiving if you indulge their own selfish desires.
Great video destroyed by all the midroll Ads. When will creator's learn that they are ruining their own work.
I didn't put those mid-roll ads there. The video was copyright claimed and those ads were put there by the claimant. If the dispute resolves in my favour I'll remove them or at least put them in better places.
@@RowanJColeman thank you, I understand you want to make money from your work and thats fine, you make great videos but with the every minutes Ads it just makes the video jarring. Retention of an audience is a must. Thank you for your work.
I remember playing the ET video game on the Atari 2600. It definitely deserved its notoriey as one of the worst (if not THE worst) video games ever made. It really sucked. Of course this has nothing to do with the quality of the actual film.
Paul was underrated; Super8 was overrated
Sponsored by AI. I'll watch something else.
et is boring
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We have plenty of ironic, cynical, violent, and dark films. Movies like E.T. is a reminder that sentimental stories can also be great. We need more writers and directors who are brave enough to tell those stories--Guillermo del Toro and the team of Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens are in that category.
I agree. Far too many films now are drowning in misery and extreme pessimism. We could really use more uplifting and idealistic films/shows during these times.
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Me: Nothing can beat the magic of Close Enc...
E.T.: Hold my reese's pieces.
No matter how many times I've seen it, the ending of this movie makes me ugly sob EVERY. TIME. That shot of a changed Elliott staring upward as his alien friend retreats back into the stars, possibly never to return, absolutely fucking wrecks me. Henry Thomas is an absolutely incredible actor and should have gotten an Oscar for this movie imo.
I was seven when it came out in theaters. The film was first marketed mysteriously. Just the poster with the night background and the letters "E.T." Siskel & Ebert enthusiastically said to go see this film. I asked my mom to take me with a friend. I still had no idea what it was going to be about. Watched it at least three times after that in the theater.
Decades later, I got my then six-year-old daughter to watch it with me. At the end, she broke out sobbing. The look of surprise she had that she was sobbing for the first time from a work of art. Wow!
Rowan, love all your videos, but this one was just fantastic. Thanks for sharing your personal experience and insight.
Oh and that Homage to George Pal when ET puts his hand on Elliot's shoulder.
Hmmm. I don't think I've ever made that connection. Interesting.
Thanks for the upload! Greetings from Nicaragua!
I very much think that whether or not you find ET "ugly" is how old you were when you first saw the film. I see all these UA-cam reactors who are adults, and never saw the movie until now. Almost every single one finds ET gross. But if you saw it at 4-9 years old, you typically don't. As adults, it is much easier for us to be tribal, and "othering" what is not like us, even if unconsciously. But children are more accepting of everyone, even when different.
I have one…and only one plushie from when I was growing up. And it’s ET.
was that possibly a teaser for an A.I. retrospective at the end there?! looking forward to it if so!
Yes it was :)
This freaking movie! You got to the bit about the bikes, nostalgic memories came flooding back, and suddenly I'm tearing up over a movie REVIEW. Guess it's time to watch ET again....
consider Primer
Early Spielberg mothers, esp single or separated moms, would be so interesting to analyze. He really nails the kitchen sink drama/chaos of families as 2nd wave feminism hit American women. Genuinely amazing he's so empathetic & his mom actors were all fantastic. Dee's underrated.
Spot on about close encounters I love your work and you’re right. ET is everything close encounters, of the third kind was trying to do much better way not at all close encounters. It’s not a bad movie Richard Dreyfuss’s family of a train wreck we never see what happens to them at the end but we know by the end of ET that Elliott‘s family is grown closer together. They still have problems but obviously better off than they wanted the beginning of film. We don’t close encounters then the whole point of the abductions years what are you trying to say are they good aliens or bad aliens but ET leaves no You know who he is what his motives are pure heart and spirit love and thought about what they did a sequel of both movies together in one film, imagining what if the aliens from close encounters are the enemies of ET species comes to visit Elliott and the counter captures him and tortures him and Elliott and family have to save him rescue him from the bad guys It’s a basic but I’m not a filmmaker. I have ideas, but I’m not good. I thought about by the way I don’t know if you know but the guy who played Elliott did a TV commercial for a cable company in Britain where they did a spot for Christmas returns to Elliott and sees his family and has some fun with his family and returns to his planet, I thought On UA-cam what it was and I’m so glad Steven Spielberg permission for that to meet Elliott grown up with his own kids and tried to explain video games ET yeah, cause you’re so good. You totally believe that Elliott‘s kids at least I did get a chance to see it should just look up ET and Christmas commercial you’ll probably find it thanks for the fun until next time
I love how, as a young adult, this movie moved me, both being disturbed through my science fiction eyes and fulfilled through my hopeful human empathy. Great reaction and a much appreciated spotlight on a move often too deep for some to be comfortable exploring!
All made for a tiny budhet of $36m ( inflation afjusted )
Just xompare this with the unflated budgets of the Marvel films
Definitely not the Carl I thought would be mentioned after Einstein.
Even watching this video this movie and its soundtrack still get me till this day . Thank you so much for bringing back my childhood. I actually first saw this before it came out at the cinema on an illegal bootleg at a customs and excise family Christmas party lol . My gran was a customs officer and a load of tapes had been confiscated. And et was one of them. Amazing the memories this movie brings back to me I must of been about 5 or 6 and its one of my oldest memories . Thank you we lost my gran last year . And this brings back such happy movies .
It's funny, ET is one of those movies I know I've seen but have never had an inclination to re-watch. But between Lindsay Ellis's video and now this one, I think I may have to look it up (if only to watch with my own kids).
Any younger folk on watching this video, there is no bigger inspiration for Stranger Things than ET.