On a much lighter note: our TiVo picked up ET recently, and I watched it last night.
You know, I’m trying to remember the last time I saw ET. It may have been in Spanish class (and thus in Spanish) in tenth grade. ET is one of those movies that I always felt like I’d seen a billion times, so why bother seeing it again? Imagine my surprise, then, to see that it’s a -great- movie. This movie is fabulous! I loved Elliott trying to explain things to ET, in that perfectly ten-year-old way, and the creepy march of the scientists when they take control of the family home, and the harried single mother trying to hold the family together, and the mad rush when Elliott liberates the frogs from science class, Michael and his friends in those coordinated formations during the bicycle chase, and then, god, you can almost -feel- the huge soaring joy when those bicycles rise up and start flying.
It’s all just beautifully done–I had no idea!
Posted Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 1:45 pm. Filed under: personal > science fiction.
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I grabbed it when it came out on video, when I was in college, and I’m glad I did, not least because my version pre-dates any “let’s not scare the children, what do you mean children have been watching this movie for decades?” edits Spielberg has done in recent years.
One of the things I always liked best about it is that the children act like children: harebrained schemes, shortcuts, name-calling and all. (Because, if I were to meet an alien creature at the age of eight, I would totally bring him home and introduce him to my Greedo action figure.)
So, did it bother you that now-politically-correct-Spielberg changed G-men guns to G-men cellphones? Or is that one of those urban myths? :-)