iceberg's_eleven said:

I've heard of and seen bad movies in the past ( The Party, Frankenstein's Daughter Meets Jesse James, The Beast of Yucca Flats ) But this movie has got to be the most horrendous piece of crap in the world! By the way, this is how it ends: [SPOILER] E.T. Flies off in his spacecraft after teeling Elliot that he'll always "be right here" (as he touches Elliot's heart) what a piece of crap! [/SPOILER]

RaydenXP said:

oh no not this! THE FIRST 1 SUCKED! WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER 1! whats this world coming to!

evenstar said:

this movie is brilliant! how can u ignore this wonderful break through in movie making!! it's like a piece of history. there are many pathetic movies in this world, but E.T. is not one of them!

DarthMark said:

I never took to it either. Firstly, I tend not to like Spielberg's films - they are the epitome of queasy Hollywood sentimentality. I also found the kid who played Eliott VERY annoying (not quite Jake Lloyd annoying, but bad enough), and his laugh was horrible, and repeated exactly about 500 times. The rubber suit used for E.T himself was so poor that I constantly forgot he was an alien, and not ... well, a guy in a suit. John Williams' score is overrated, and way over-the-top for a film that is hardly an epic. Scenes that may have worked twenty years ago seem almost like spoofs now, and all emotional effect is gone, making it seem like a stereotypical Hollywood film. The changes I heard that Spielberg made to this "special edition" made me laugh out loud. The terrorist-hippie one perhaps isn't so bad (though it still makes you cringe), but the changing of the government agents' guns to walkie-talkies dwarfs even George Lucas' Greedo-shoots-first in A New Hope. How scared would you be if you were approached by a man with a walkie-talkie? And it still makes these kids leg it like their lives are at risk?
I was so pleased when I heard that the special edition didn't make it to number one in the States. It simply doesn't deserve it, and is one of the most ovverated, unentertaining films I've ever seen. And nothing you say is going to change my mind.

DarthMark said:

I never took to it either. Firstly, I tend not to like Spielberg's films - they are the epitome of queasy Hollywood sentimentality. I also found the kid who played Eliott VERY annoying (not quite Jake Lloyd annoying, but bad enough), and his laugh was horrible, and repeated exactly about 500 times. The rubber suit used for E.T himself was so poor that I constantly forgot he was an alien, and not ... well, a guy in a suit. John Williams' score is overrated, and way over-the-top for a film that is hardly an epic. Scenes that may have worked twenty years ago seem almost like spoofs now, and all emotional effect is gone, making it seem like a stereotypical Hollywood film. The changes I heard that Spielberg made to this "special edition" made me laugh out loud. The terrorist-hippie one perhaps isn't so bad (though it still makes you cringe), but the changing of the government agents' guns to walkie-talkies dwarfs even George Lucas' Greedo-shoots-first in A New Hope. How scared would you be if you were approached by a man with a walkie-talkie? And it still makes these kids leg it like their lives are at risk?
I was so pleased when I heard that the special edition didn't make it to number one in the States. It simply doesn't deserve it, and is one of the most ovverated, unentertaining films I've ever seen. And nothing you say is going to change my mind.