maybe I should check this out again. Is there going to be any 25th Anniversary DVD or anything?
― kenan, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
They did a 20th, so I sincerely hope not. No more digi-fiddling!
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah good point
― kenan, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I've never seen this cuz ET scared me as a little kid. I have been on the Universal Studios ride and seen Mac and Me twice though. I would like to rent it but it may be too late.
― A B C, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I just remember as a kid figuring out that the spaceship came back for E.T. on my birthday.
One of the greatest discoveries I have found through the internet is that EVERYBODY hated that fucking video game. I thought it was just me.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I've not seen Mac and Me, nor the film I noticed playing in an Eighth Ave porn house circa '83: E.T. the Extra Testicle.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh man I forgot all about the biology class scene! Every movie needs a moment like that, even if it is completely out of place.
― nickalicious, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Ew, digi-fiddling. Distasteful.
I had a pencil case that said "how do you explain school to a higher intelligence" on it. And several toy ETs. I did love that film.
― accentmonkey, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost
and a Quiet Man kiss.
How out of place?
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
It might be out of place in a movie like Hostel 2 haha.
― nickalicious, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
fiddle about, fiddle about
― kenan, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess I was 12, saw it in the theater, loved it. Though that was a tough age to see it in a way because you're just starting to get a little cynical, so it was very easy to feel like you were above a movie like this. I went w/ my best friend at the time and he was crying at the end, and I'd never seen him cry before even though we'd been friends for a long time, so that was pretty uncomfortable. I felt really bad for him b/c I think he was embarrassed. For a 12 year old boy in those days, crying in a movie was not cool!
― Mark Rich@rdson, Monday, 11 June 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I hated it as a kid too; the crying kids in the audience repulsed me. It was a particularly awful example of my trying to be better than the hoi polloi.
yeah I liked a lot of stuff that was popular at the time - just not this horrid manipulative movie with its phoned-in jokes ("lol school is dumb!") and total lack of cool shit like aliens that eat your head. fuck a feel-good-movie-of-the-summer
― J0hn D., Monday, 11 June 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't really realize that but we don't have feel-good summer movies anymore, do we? Just stuff-gets-blowed up action spectaculars and sequels sequels sequels.
― nickalicious, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think I understood the idea of a movie being manipulative when I was 12, but then I was a late bloomer.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
appreciate the "the only way you can hate this movie is if you're a snob" bs tho Alf
― J0hn D., Monday, 11 June 2007 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, 'manipulative' nevah gets old. That goddamn Eisenstein.
I don't recognize the 'summer movie' as anything but a marketing concept.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
somehow Dr. I get the impression that nothing could convince you otherwise in the case of this film
― J0hn D., Monday, 11 June 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
ah, Alien. In space, no one can hear you snore.
-- Dr Morbius, Monday, June 11, 2007 5:57 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
...
― latebloomer, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
still don't know what that ellipses shit means. i'll live.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
it means SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND ARRRRRRGGHHH
http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/Alien/images/Alien/Alien04.jpg
― latebloomer, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
latebloomer I kiss you with aliens
― J0hn D., Monday, 11 June 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I love E.T. and it still makes me cry like a baby. I was 5 when it came out and remember seeing it in the theatre. I still have an amazing plush E.T. doll with the tags on that say 1982. I often wonder if it'll be worth something one day.
― ENBB, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
if i've ever watched this, i don't remember it at all
(this isn't saying something about its quality, i seriously have no idea if i've ever watched ET)
― impudent harlot, Monday, 11 June 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i was incredibly indifferent to this one as a kid. that school line is sub-nickelodeon at best.
― J.D., Monday, 11 June 2007 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I hated it for the wrong reasons -- I wanted to feel superior to the crying kids. I hated Return of the Jedi even more though: what at letdown that was (laughable Emperor making third-rate cackles, cloddish acting, Han and Lando strangely absent).
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 11 June 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
i'll admit i like ET. but i haven't seen it in years, except for catching a few bits while working as an usher during the re-release 5 years ago.
― latebloomer, Monday, 11 June 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
god, that atari game was shit!!!!!
― lauren, Monday, 11 June 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
i think you have to have seen it as a kid to love it?
yeah, that might be true. i think if i had seen it as a teen or pre-teen i would have dismissed it. i saw it as a 6 year old when it first came to vhs (around '88 i think?). there was a pretty big marketing blitz for the video release i think, since the movie had been (officially) unavailable since it left theaters.
me and my family were living in Oklahoma then, and we watched it at a neighbor's house. it remains a very vivid childhood cinematic experience for me because it's the first film i remember balling my eyes out at and actually feeling worried and scared how it was going to turn out.
― latebloomer, Monday, 11 June 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
the Atari game was (allegedly) partially responsible for the big game industry crash of '83!
― latebloomer, Monday, 11 June 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
My mother went to see it with the guy she was dating at the time, so I had to go see it by myself -- the idea of going to see a movie more than once at the theater was a foreign concept to Mom -- and this would have been the weekend after it opened, at the Mentor Mall General Cinemas Theater in Mentor, OH. Yeah, send overly-sensitive 12-year-old child-of-divorce to see tearjerking broken-home/dying alien movie by himself THANKS MOM.
― Phil D., Monday, 11 June 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I re-screened it last year!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 11 June 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i've never sene ETY is it good
― cankles, Monday, 11 June 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
-- latebloomer, Monday, June 11, 2007 4:53 PM (Monday, June 11, 2007 4:53 PM) Bookmark Link
In the novel Lucky Wander Boy, a landfill composed of those games almost makes a cameo appearance.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 11 June 2007 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link
no, i mean seen it as a kid initially to enjoy it.. because part of me thinks the reason I didn't like it is that i have only seen it as a teenager and/or young adult.
― homosexual II, Monday, 11 June 2007 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
speaking of movies you had to have seen as a kid to enjoy as an adult: cannonball run anyone?
― homosexual II, Monday, 11 June 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
hahaha otm! spaceballs also falls into that category, i think.
― latebloomer, Monday, 11 June 2007 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Definitely true of Cannonball Run. Which I think I can still quote verbatim.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 June 2007 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link
also, howard the duck
― homosexual II, Monday, 11 June 2007 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw this in the theater when it came out with my grandma and parents and older brother. It was somewhere in the Bay Area, we had made a family trip to visit grandma, I must've been around 9 or 10. I don't really remember much about it except I do remember that I cried at one point and then we went to get lunch with a Vietnam vet/college friend of my parents who I scared the shit out of with my popgun and then the rest of the afternoon went badly.
anyway fuck Spielberg this movie is horrible. I don't think I've seen it in its entirety since I was 12 or 13 tho, when it was screened on one of the last days of junior high school in our biology class.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 11 June 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
eagerly anticipating future rip thread
― A B C, Monday, 11 June 2007 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
well, I don't think Spielberg's a bad guy (like, say Jack Valenti or Jerry Falwell), just someone who makes a lot of aesthetic decisions I disagree with.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 11 June 2007 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
What about Jaws?
― Mark Rich@rdson, Monday, 11 June 2007 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
E.T. is good, but Pauline Kael was un-OTM about thinking it was so clearly superior to Poltergeist.
― Eric H., Monday, 11 June 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I was 12, loved it. Saw the anniversary edition, and was so annoyed by the changes that I started looking for weakenesses. (I'm not sure the adult-scientist-child conflict at the end ever made sense.) Then saw the original again last year, and was surprised again by how great the scenes with the kids are--most realistic older brother ever. You get used to movies that have absolutely no idea what to do with children, and they keep coming.
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I need pictures of Morbs crying.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, the portrayal of sibling dynamics/kid interaction was very true-to-life and honest.
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 01:10 (sixteen years ago) link
that landfill is for real! here is the story: http://www.snopes.com/business/market/atari.asp
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 12 June 2007 01:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i was 15 when this came out, and i was primed to hate it, thinking it would be corny kids stuff. and of course it is, superficially, but i ended up loving it anyway. haven't seen it since tho.
― bobby bedelia, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 03:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I NOT LIKE ETEE TOO MUCH BECOS THEY NEVER SHOWED WHAT HE DID FOR A LIVING OR HOW HE WAS MORE EXTRA SPECIAL THAN THE OTHER ETEES THE EXTRATERRESTRIALLS. THEN WHEN HE GOT SICKS AND THE RACCOONS JUST WANT TO EAT HIM AND IT GOT WORSE IN THE MOVIE. AT THE END OF MOVIE. I JUST DONT KNOW WHAT TO THINKED ABOUT ETEE THE EXTRATERRIESTRIAL ANYMORE THEN TO BEGIN WITH. I DONT LIKE HOW THOSED RACOONS WANT TO EAT HIM. BUT MORE THAN THAT. I DONT KNOW. ONE THINK ID LIKE TO KNOW. HOW ETEE LOSED HIS PENISE. I JUST HOPED NOT SOME RACOONS THE EXTRATERRESTRISALS ON ETEES PLANET DIDNT EAT IT. BECOS THEN WHEN ETEE WAS ALMOST EATED BY RACOONS ON OUR PLANET. IT COULD REMIND HIM OF THOSED OTHER RACOONS TOO AND HED FEEL UNLUCKY.
― TIM@KFC.EDU, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 04:18 (sixteen years ago) link
it's a fucking commercial; I won't see it, so
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 November 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
But a Spielberg-approved commercial!
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Saturday, 30 November 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
he's approved a lotta things I don't care for (Hillary Clinton)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 December 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
saw this at the theater today, pretty amazingly bad. mac and me level! but then again, i guess there was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv-Fcy6Aw10
― tylerw, Sunday, 1 December 2019 00:36 (four years ago) link
really liked this new ET thing that people have been talking about.
― DT, Sunday, 1 December 2019 00:51 (four years ago) link
I imagine (hope) that when I finally show them the actual movie they won't remember this commercial, but I was damn pissed to take my kids to see Frozen 2 today and have their introduction to ET (and iconic images like the flying bikes) be an xfinity commercial.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 1 December 2019 04:47 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure the original iteration of E.T. would really resonate with the kids of today, I mean the '80s version of the character didn't even seem to understand the intricacies of DVR-ing one show while watching another via one of the many streaming apps available to subscribers on the Xfinity platform. Our focus testing shows that young people only relate to fictional aliens that know how to navigate through On Demand menus with alacrity and a little swagger.
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Sunday, 1 December 2019 06:54 (four years ago) link
does E.T. get HEnry Thomas out of a DUI in this commercial
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 December 2019 08:23 (four years ago) link
Who cares if it's an xfinity commercial or not? lol
― DT, Sunday, 1 December 2019 08:28 (four years ago) link
this commercial is boomer-iagra
― Yerac, Sunday, 1 December 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
Gen X-stacy more like it
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 1 December 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
boomer-iagra
Why would that be? Boomers sure as hell weren't kids when ET was released in 1982 and a lot of them didn't even have children, yet.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 1 December 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
All the people going crazy about it/forwarding it seem to be boomers.
― Yerac, Sunday, 1 December 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
I never considered ET a kids movie? Wasn't it popular all around?
― Yerac, Sunday, 1 December 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
hmmm. maybe they're just old, bored, housebound, overly sentimental, and unimaginative, and therefore a perfect demographic for Comcast.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 1 December 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
It was nominated for Best Picture.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Sunday, 1 December 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
It’s a family movie
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 1 December 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link