In praise of "E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial," released 25 years ago on June 11, 1982

I don't care about e.t. so i'm not outraged.

It's a bad... commercial? showing off... the internet? It doesn't say anything about xfinity or Comcast, except that Comcast owns a bunch of companies.

"damn, ellliotttttt... you... got... oooooooooold."

According to the biography Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness, written by journalist J. Randy Taraborrelli, the pop singer had shown an early attachment to the story of E.T. After a publicity photo shoot for the soundtrack album in which an animatronic robot of the extraterrestrial character hugged Jackson, the singer stated with wonderment, "He was so real that I was talking to him. I kissed him before I left. The next day, I missed him."[15] Jackson later revealed in the December 1982 issue of Ebony magazine—in which both he and E.T. appear on the cover—that he felt he actually was the creature during the album recording and shared his thoughts on why he had such a strong connection to the character:

"He's in a strange place and wants to be accepted—which is a situation that I have found myself in many times when travelling from city to city all over the world. He's most comfortable with children, and I have a great love for kids. He gives love and wants love in return, which is me. And he has that super power which lets him lift off and fly whenever he wants to get away from things on Earth, and I can identify with that. He and I are alike in many ways"[4]

cf herzog and baby yoda

Dave Marsh gave the Michael Jackson-narrated E.T. Storybook five stars in The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. I suspect he was high on Thriller fumes, but I've always been curious to check it out.

my dad owned a copy, which I inherited. It is creepy AF. I used to cut bits of it into mixtapes back in my youth.

it's a fucking commercial; I won't see it, so

But a Spielberg-approved commercial!

he's approved a lotta things I don't care for (Hillary Clinton)

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

really liked this new ET thing that people have been talking about.

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.

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.

does E.T. get HEnry Thomas out of a DUI in this commercial

Who cares if it's an xfinity commercial or not? lol

this commercial is boomer-iagra

Gen X-stacy more like it

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.

All the people going crazy about it/forwarding it seem to be boomers.

I never considered ET a kids movie? Wasn't it popular all around?

hmmm. maybe they're just old, bored, housebound, overly sentimental, and unimaginative, and therefore a perfect demographic for Comcast.

It was nominated for Best Picture.

It’s a family movie