"E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" Talkback (Spoilers)

[Lord Dalek]

HIS ADVENTURE ON EARTH



"E.T. phone home."

Release Date: June 11, 1982
Studio: Universal/Amblin
Director: Steven Spielberg
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Starring: Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert McNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote

Plot Summary: A group of aliens visit earth and one of them is lost and left behind stranded on this planet. The alien is found by a 10 year old boy, Elliot. Soon the two begin to communicate, and start a different kind of friendship in which E.T learns about life on earth and Elliot learns about some new values for the true meaning of friendship. E.T. wants to go home, but if Elliot helps him, he'll lose a friend...

COMMENTS?

As a part of a master plan to do a talkback for every Steven Spielberg film for which one does not exist, I will be creating ones intermittently throughout the year. A box office triumph in its day, E.T. was for many years the highest grossing film of all time. Spielberg would beat his own record with Jurassic Park a decade later.

(Bringing this one back as part of our salute to Universal's 100th anniversary)

[Angus]

Hmm 30 years this year. They didn't release the video for a heck of a long time too. Guns replaced by walkie talkies, right?

[Commode]

^It's coming to Blu-Ray later this year.  Reportedly it will be the original 1982 version instead of the 20th Anniversary special edition(aka the one with the CGI and the walkie-talkies).

[Spark Of Spirit]

Sounds good. It will be nice to own the original version of the film, as I have yet to ever have a chance to get it.

[Lord Dalek]

Yeah Spielberg has basically gone on record that he's only allowing the original versions of his films (with the exception of CE3K... because the original cut sucks) on blu-ray from this point forward.