E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Widescreen Collector's Edition)

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Summary: ONE OF THE GREATEST FANTASY FILMS OF ALL-TIME.
Review: In 2002, Steven Spielberg decided to release an updated version of his 1982 classic "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial". Universal announced that this update included new footage and new digital effects. Some people complain about the new special effects and the added scenes, but to be honest, it's not a big change, it's just some makeup that doesn't change the heart and soul of the movie: the story and the characters.

This movie features our favorite alien, a little squashy guy known as E.T., he gets involved in a very special relationship with a little boy when he is left alone in the Earth. And that friendship is one of the strongest things about "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial". Steven Spielberg created a great dynamic with the cast (specially the children), it's easy to see the wide display of emotions that these young actors printed on the movie. The adults are very good, but the young actors stole the show on this film.

"E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" has some of the most heartwarming scenes in movie history, a lot of people was touched with the brief death of E.T., or the return of the little alien to his home, or the magical scene when Elliott and E.T. cross the sky at night in a bicycle with the moon as background. This movie is the best thing that most of the cast was involved in. Henry Thomas (Elliott) and Robert MacNaughton (Michael) never were involved in a project of this size. Only Drew Barrymore remains very popular today, but most of the people will forever see her as the cute Gertie.

Steven Spielberg solidified an already strong reputation as a remarkable filmmaker with "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial", and John Williams (his favorite composer) created more incredible songs for the score of the movie. Spielberg filmed movies of greater scale, but "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" remains as his more emotional movie. The DVD features great stuff that the fans of this movie will love, so if you like "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial", then the DVD is a must-buy

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Summary: A very MOVING movie!!!!!
Review: Oh,it was released in 1982,8 years before I born,I can call it "a old movie", I had never seen it before, and my parents were never mentioned it, maybe they forgot. And just the other day, I felt bored and watched my favorite movie channel "Sci-Fi", just find this movie, and I was cried at two points, one is E.T.'s "dead", another one is E.T. back to home. It's a very moving movie,and it's a great movie!

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Summary: Still great after all these years
Review: Recently John Williams who conducted the score for ET
was recently honered at the Kennedy Center for his amazing
body of work. It then had me thinking again how much
I love this work, if you still havent got your kid
a holiday present, E.T. should be on your list.

It took 3 models of E.T. and whole number of great special effects and money to make this film but what it really took was the human element to make this one of the most memorable films in the last 20 years of film-making. Nothing or no one can capture the magic of this film.
Released in 1982 under a great deal of hype and marketing power, E.T. became one of the highest grossing films of all time,giving Steven Spielberg the award of being one of the greatest directors not only in the American cinema but in the whole world, even probably to where E.T. came from.

The movie is similar to other sci-fi alien flicks like THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL,but E.T. has more heart , humor and magic that any other previous sci-fi film.

This movie was shown on TNT this Saturday and probably will show again during the holidays, so you can catch E.T. if you want to relive the magic of being a kid and see this great film.

I had the pleasure of seeing E.T. when it came out (I was about 6 or 8 years old)and watching it again , it still has that same magic it had 18 or 20 years ago.

The movie starts off with the E.T. spaceship landing on a remote forest for some much needed repairs, then suddenly a couple of greedy government agents notice something moving in the forest (E.T.) and go after it.

E.T.'s friends seeing the threat coming,leave behind E.T.,

and so E.T. is entirely helpless and very afraid until he meets a young boy,Elliot (Henry Thomas) who cares for E.T. until his friends come back for him.

This movie resembles the story of a boy and a dog, they share alot of things together and when one hurts , the other one hurts as well.

So while E.T. is secretly hidden in Elliot's room alot of weird things start happening to Elliot he becomes sick and doesn't know.

The reason Elliot is sick is because E.T. is sick as well and they share a bond between each other thats make them feel the same thing.

Elliot's mother , Mary (Dee Wallace Stone who appeared in the cult classics the Howling, and the Stepford Wives) finds out what is going on ,but by the time she figures that out, the government agents come in and steal E.T. along with Elliot.

In what is the most saddest moment in the movie, we assume E.T. has died and I bet everyone in the movie theater was crying too,but E.T. comes back to life with his universal saying "E.T. phone home?". :-)

In the end, E.T. does phone home and tells Elliot that he will be with him "Ill be right here" as he points to his heart.

That is classic movie making folks.

See this movie to relive the magic and if you can get it on DVD with extra footage and behind the scenes specials, get it!! By all means but if you cant , get the VHS version.!!!!!




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Summary: DREW IS UTTERLY ADORABLE.
Review: This film has always been quite famous and i can understand why.Famous actors such as drew barrymore that played gertie and Director Steven spielberg a director of quite a lot of films. It is bought to life by a cute little alien E.T, 2 kids who befriended it and took him in to their home to keep. Little gertie is the last to find outabout him and literally screams at first. I think this film would be quite boring for some maybe because of the actors but i loved it.

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Summary: Child-Like View of Dangerous Aliens
Review: This childish view of alien relations not only denounces science as the faith of mankind, but it makes the alien creature a martyr symbol, impervious to the inklings of failure that most men have to endure. Almost as bad as the NBC sit-com drama "ALF", which attempted to make fun of a furry stuffed rodent from some other planet. If you find this repulsive, then may I suggest that the alien was probably carrying some type of disease with him and the director makes it seem like its a great thing to have a dirty creature from the Planet zero in your house. All around boredom and yawn sequences are found throughout. Only see this for the special effects which are worn and outdated.



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Summary: A Collector's Set to End all Collector's Sets
Review: I received this box set as a Christmas present a few years ago and until recently never opened it. I have the other standard DVD so I didn't see the need to peek at this one. Wow! Three discs. One features the 2002 remastering, disc two the 1982 version (Just a tad more violent) and disc 3 has all the behind the scenes goodies. There's the soundtrack album CD and a wonderful book included in this set. It was scheduled to go out of print two years ago. If you can get one do so. It is well worth the money. It is the ultimate on E.T. Everything you ever wanted to read, see, or hear about E.T. is in this box set.