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Brian Earl Spilner
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3:33p, 6/10/22
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One of the most iconic movies of all time and one of my personal favorites growing up.

Went to see it in theaters on its 20th anniversary with my mom and it blows my mind that was 20 years ago already as I was a teenager by then.

I think this is John Williams' best work in any movie not named Star Wars.

Also this is the single best child actor performance in film and it isn't close. I know other kids have won an Oscar and yet Henry Thomas didn't. Travesty.





Spielberg giving Williams the AFI Award:


Legendary audition tape:


Stranger Things does ET:
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3:37p, 6/10/22
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First VHS my family ever owned.
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Brian Earl Spilner
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In reply to jeffk • 3:37p, 6/10/22
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Don't think it was our first, but it was the first we had to buy a second time because I wore out the first copy.
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3:53p, 6/10/22
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I don't know where I saw the article, but I read that ET and Jaws are both headed to Imax in August/September.
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3:54p, 6/10/22
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Saw it in the theater 40 years ago.
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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 3:54p, 6/10/22
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The green VHS case made it even more special.



Thanks for the post. e.t. Remains one of my top 5 films of all time. It's perfect.
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Brian Earl Spilner
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In reply to The Porkchop Express • 3:54p, 6/10/22
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Didn't know about Jaws, but just saw the IMAX trailer for E.T. last night before JW.
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In reply to Yoda • 3:55p, 6/10/22
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That takes me back!
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In reply to Know Your Enemy • 3:56p, 6/10/22
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Know Your Enemy said:
Saw it in the theater 40 years ago.
We played the theme song of ET in our elementary school band.
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3:57p, 6/10/22
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Love John Williams and the score... never really liked ET, though it was one of the few VHS's we had when growing up. Don't know why, but it was just never a movie that really resonated with me.
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That was the only movie that I ever saw in the theater with my mother's entire family. We had all gone to Beaumont to Parkdale Mall, and ET was playing at the theater. Such a great memory.
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I remember being scared of the scenes with the government guys at the house and Elliott and ET sick, Sick ET is creepy. It's not one of my favorites, but it does really do a great job of casting kids who look, talk, and act like kids - the dungeons and dragons game at their house sounds very authentic for what I remember that age being like.
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In reply to The Porkchop Express • 4:03p, 6/10/22
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helloimustbegoing said:
Know Your Enemy said:
Saw it in the theater 40 years ago.
We played the theme song of ET in our elementary school band.
I "played" the theme in my recital during the year my mom made me take piano. To this day, it's the only thing I can play from memory.
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In reply to The Porkchop Express • 4:11p, 6/10/22
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For me it was the entire opening of ET walking through the forest. I think Williams' ominous score during that part is what scared me.
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4:17p, 6/10/22
E.T. was the first movie I ever saw in theaters, and probably my earliest memory. I was 3, and E.T. scared the crap out of me. My mom had to take me out to get candy during the scene the government captures E.T. I have zero trust in anything related to the government, possibly because of this movie.
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4:26p, 6/10/22
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I don't think I've watched ET since sometime in the 80s
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
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4:31p, 6/10/22
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This is one of the first, if not the first, movies I remember seeing in the theater. I feel like we may have gone multiple (4?) times. I also remember being terrified of the scene with ET running in the woods with people with flashlights chasing him.

And if memory serves, I think it was years before it was finally released on VHS and it being a big deal when it was.
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4:59p, 6/10/22
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ET scared the sh** out of me as a 3rd grader in 83. The noises ET makes when that flash light hits him in the corn field gave me nightmares. Later the next year or so, I got some read-along album, an actual record, that was the ET narrated by Michael Jackson with all the sound effects. It came with a book. I remember Michael narrating when ET was eating reeses pieces. "He had to eat... he had to live" listening to that album in the dark with headphones re-ignited my terror.
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5:11p, 6/10/22
First movie I remember seeing in the theater. Was obsessed with ET as a little kid. Toys, shirts, the glasses from Pizza Hut (when Pizza Hut had the red roof and was the ******* bomb and not the diarrhea inducing poison it is today).

Thank the movie gods they haven't tried to sully this movie with a sequel or remake.
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In reply to Vince Blake • 6:10p, 6/10/22
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Pizza Hut was the tits in the 90s. We used to go there on Sundays for family dinner. What the hell happened?
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In reply to Lathspell • 6:20p, 6/10/22
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DallasTeleAg said:
Love John Williams and the score... never really liked ET, though it was one of the few VHS's we had when growing up. Don't know why, but it was just never a movie that really resonated with me.
Never liked it either. I thought ET was creepy AF. Ugly, fat, nightmare inducing caged pig squeals. The alien erection neck thing didn't help either.

But I think the real reason it didn't resonate with me, and maybe you as well, is because we were fully immersed in the world of Star Wars and Indiana Jones at the time. The Empire was badass. Indy killing Nazis was badass. Han and Chewie. AT-AT' Walkers. The Ark of the freakin Covenant melting the faces off Nazi scum. Space battles, massive explosions, the Wampa, running for your life in a South American rainforest.

Then along comes this feel good movie with kids, flying bikes, an unhappy divorced 80's mom, and an ugly turd colored alien. Wasn't having it.
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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 6:21p, 6/10/22
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Brian Earl Spilner said:
Pizza Hut was the tits in the 90s. We used to go there on Sundays for family dinner. What the hell happened?
Closest one to us in the 80's was at least a 45 minute drive. My dad would buy like 10 at a time and freeze them.
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6:28p, 6/10/22
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Still haven't seen it
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6:36p, 6/10/22
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F*** ET.

As you can see by my username, my initials are E.T. and I'm class of '98, which means this movie came out when I was in the 1st grade or so. As the top-selling movie in history at the time, it was really popular throughout my elementary school days. Well, if you don't know, 2nd graders are cruel.

Hey Eric, phone home!
Hey Eric, touch my finger!
Hey Eric, heal this plant!
Hey Eric, where's Eliot!
Hey Eric, play with my Speak 'n' Spell!
Hey Eric, stretch out your neck!
Hey Eric, go eat some Reese's Pieces (for the record, Reese's Pieces are delicious, so I didn't mind that one)

Every day. Every kid on the playground. One by one. Every day. For about 3 years.

Even now, 40 years later, every time anyone realizes my initials are E.T., I get told to phone home. And they laugh their ass off as if they're the first person to ever think of it. It happens at least 20 or so times a year.

I hate that God damned movie.
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In reply to et98 • 6:46p, 6/10/22
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Who pays attention to initials that closely?
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et98 said:
F*** ET.

As you can see by my username, my initials are E.T. and I'm class of '98, which means this movie came out when I was in the 1st grade or so. As the top-selling movie in history at the time, it was really popular throughout my elementary school days. Well, if you don't know, 2nd graders are cruel.

Hey Eric, phone home!
Hey Eric, touch my finger!
Hey Eric, heal this plant!
Hey Eric, where's Eliot!
Hey Eric, play with my Speak 'n' Spell!
Hey Eric, stretch out your neck!
Hey Eric, go eat some Reese's Pieces (for the record, Reese's Pieces are delicious, so I didn't mind that one)

Every day. Every kid on the playground. One by one. Every day. For about 3 years.

Even now, 40 years later, every time anyone realizes my initials are E.T., I get told to phone home. And they laugh their ass off as if they're the first person to ever think of it. It happens at least 20 or so times a year.

I hate that God damned movie.


If you had just picked out the weakest one and beat the **** out of them you could have ended that quickly.
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In reply to et98 • 7:39p, 6/10/22
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et98 said:
F*** ET.

As you can see by my username, my initials are E.T. and I'm class of '98, which means this movie came out when I was in the 1st grade or so. As the top-selling movie in history at the time, it was really popular throughout my elementary school days. Well, if you don't know, 2nd graders are cruel.

Hey Eric, phone home!
Hey Eric, touch my finger!
Hey Eric, heal this plant!
Hey Eric, where's Eliot!
Hey Eric, play with my Speak 'n' Spell!
Hey Eric, stretch out your neck!
Hey Eric, go eat some Reese's Pieces (for the record, Reese's Pieces are delicious, so I didn't mind that one)

Every day. Every kid on the playground. One by one. Every day. For about 3 years.

Even now, 40 years later, every time anyone realizes my initials are E.T., I get told to phone home. And they laugh their ass off as if they're the first person to ever think of it. It happens at least 20 or so times a year.

I hate that God damned movie.
You got off easy. The memorable insult from E.T. is ***** breath.
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In reply to et98 • 8:09p, 6/10/22
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et98 said:
F*** ET.

As you can see by my username, my initials are E.T. and I'm class of '98, which means this movie came out when I was in the 1st grade or so. As the top-selling movie in history at the time, it was really popular throughout my elementary school days. Well, if you don't know, 2nd graders are cruel.

Hey Eric, phone home!
Hey Eric, touch my finger!
Hey Eric, heal this plant!
Hey Eric, where's Eliot!
Hey Eric, play with my Speak 'n' Spell!
Hey Eric, stretch out your neck!
Hey Eric, go eat some Reese's Pieces (for the record, Reese's Pieces are delicious, so I didn't mind that one)

Every day. Every kid on the playground. One by one. Every day. For about 3 years.

Even now, 40 years later, every time anyone realizes my initials are E.T., I get told to phone home. And they laugh their ass off as if they're the first person to ever think of it. It happens at least 20 or so times a year.

I hate that God damned movie.


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9:44p, 6/10/22
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I liked ET well enough. It hit some good emotional moments and really was a showcase for Spielberg's inner child. Now I know it made a butt load of money, but for me it simply was not what I want out of a movie featuring an extraterrestrial on Earth. What I wanted would come out two weeks later - John Carpenter's The Thing. As a high school teen, I wasn't really ET's primary audience. Movies like The Thing, Poltergeist, Blade Runner, and Star Trek II we're more my cup of tea.

Edit - the first time my wife and I went to a movie together was to see the 20th anniversary re-release where Spielberg replaced the police officer's guns with walk-in talkies because ohhhhh, guns scary. Absolutely hated that version of the movie.
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In reply to Cinco Ranch Aggie • 10:04p, 6/10/22
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I'm assuming your wife was a big fan, otherwise that's an odd choice for a first date for a movie that wasn't your cup of tea.
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Nah, I think she was not much into it either. But I'm a sucker for going to see the movies I saw when I was younger whenever they are re-released, kinda like seeing the first Star Trek movie a couple of weeks ago or later this summer, getting to go to The Thing again.
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Inspired the greatest video game ever made.
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12:51a, 6/11/22
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This thread delivers.


and yeah, what the hell did happen to Pizza Hut?
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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 1:10a, 6/11/22
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Brian Earl Spilner said:
For me it was the entire opening of ET walking through the forest. I think Williams' ominous score during that part is what scared me.
What's pretty cool is Spielberg had such respect for Williams that he cut the movie to his score and not the other way around.
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