Omg girl i didn’t know it was Drew Barrymore I swear this movie made me cry multiple times especially the ending it hits my heart so much E.T will always and forever be in my heart and I’m so happy I grew up watching this movie and I’m glad you loved it as much as I do🥹❤️
I guess Drew was young enough to believe that ET was real, so Spielburg made some operate him any time he was around Drew to keep up the illusion. They were best friends. 🥺
E.T.'s species is sort of a psychic hive mind. They feed off their own psychic bond with each other. So when E.T. is left behind, he immediately starts to "starve". He "bonds" with both Elliot and the flowers so he can survive. But that doesn't last long cuz it's not a psychic bond with an entire race of beings...so E.T. starts getting sick pretty quick and Elliot & the flowers feel his disease. When E.T. is dying, he lets go of his psychic bond with Elliot so he doesn't die with him. Thankfully his people's spaceship is close enough to Earth that their energy revives E.T.
i always figured it was becasue his main breathable chemical for his race was carbon .. and the low carbon content of our atmosphere took a while to kil him bnecasue there was jsut enough carbon that he didn't die imediately , just like how humans can breath in a low oxygen environment for a while such as higher altitudes (like 8-9,000 feet, too much above that and we do start requiring oxygen tanks) . i just always assumed this because he seemed to revive after being in the carbon preservation tank the scientist put him in. also it's been said that he was a living plant creature too , plants consume carbon and "exhale" oxygen.
One of Steven Spielberg's most iconic and heartfelt masterpieces and Drew Berrymore's first big role. Fun Fact: Reese's Pieces were about to be discontinued before agreeing to appear in the movie. And afterward, it became one of the best-selling candies ever. M&M was probably kicking themselves for not taking the deal.
I'm pretty sure in the book version, it actually was M&M's, but they didn't get permission to use them in the film. I read the book here in the UK before seeing the film, and we didn't have M&M's here then, so I had no idea what Elliot was dropping on the ground!
There's a "family reunion" clip from her talk show where she had Henry Thomas (Elliott), Robert McNaughton (Michael) and Dee Wallace (Mary/Mom) on for the movie's 40th Anniversary which is worth a watch.
The puppeteer crew helped maintain that connection she had. They noticed she would talk to ET during filming breaks and so they agreed between themselves that at least one of them would be available to animate him even when the cameras weren't rolling.
It makes scenes that ET would be drawn to Yoda. Fun fact, in (Attack of the clones) some of his species are present at the senate meeting so that must mean that they are part of the galactic republic. Being that Yoda is so old and the earth is in the same universe ET might have recognized him as a mean to get home.
15:36 “but I think you killed him already” was improvised by young Drew as the ET puppet wasn’t supposed to get hit by the refrigerator door or fall over. A natural talent to stay in character at such a young age, which is why America and Hollywood have continued loved Drew Barrymore.
I think it was more the fact she kept forgetting it wasn't real at that age. In between scenes she would actually talk to the E.T. animatronic and bring it food and stuff. Really funny scene either way though.
Yes, that was a child Drew Barrymore. She and Spielberg became close during the filming of this movie. He was touched by her troubled homelife, and he became very protective of her. He let her stay at his home, took her to Disneyland, and gave her acting advice. She asked him to become her father and he declined, but agreed to become her godfather. In a recent interview she said he was “the only person in my life to this day that ever was a parental figure.” When she was 19, she appeared nude in Playboy. I remember seeing an interview of her by David Letterman years ago where she said that, after the magazine was released, Spielberg had his crew "photoshop" clothes on the images and sent them to her with a note to "cover yourself up". MARS was approached by the studio to use M&Ms in the movie, but they declined. Reese's agreed, and their sales skyrocketed that year. Spielberg and George Lucas are good friends, and often include references to each other's films in their own movies. Spielberg included many Star Wars references in E.T., and in return, Lucas included members of E.T.'s species in the Imperial Senate in the first SW prequel, The Phantom Menace.
"Keys guy" is painted as a villain until the end. It's easy to gloss over his lines during those hectic scenes, but his emotional arc is revealed; it's suggested he's caring, full of wonder, and reconnecting with his own emotional event and loss during his youth
By far you have the best commentary on E.T. I'm very impressed and you gave me new insight into my childhood movie that I've watched a hundred times that I didn't even realize. As someone who was Elliot's age when I saw this I was also in a broken home feeling isolated. Gen Xs parents weren't real present. Awesome reaction ❤
There’s so many of these scenes Stranger Things took inspiration from, especially in season 1. Eleven was supposed to be very similar to ET, learning to speak with the kids that took her in, the bike scenes, the D&D, the flipping the van scene is the reverse comparison of the bikes flying, etc. The mom is like Joyce, the “astronauts” are like the lab, they’re listening in on radios to the calls. ET went as a ghost for Halloween and Eleven tried to do that too. It’s all so perfect.
The tempting candies were supposed to be M&M's but when Mars Inc were approached for permission to use them they refused believing kids would be scared by ET. Hershey however jumped at the chance and so Reeses were chosen - and the film catapulted the product sales to record levels as a result. Turning the opportunity down is generally accepted to be one of the worst business decisions ever made.
John Williams won the Best Original Score in the Oscars for this musical masterpiece. He has won just five Academy Awards (could have won ten or more times, deserved). But specially this one... got me as a kid.
E.T. was the first movie I ever saw in the movie theaters. I'm just a little bit younger than Drew Barrymore. For better or worse, I don't remember crying; I don't remember watching this movie in the theater at all.
Unfortunately, I didn't get to see it when it was in theaters. They were going to take me to see it, because they'd heard it was good; but at the last moment my parents decided it would be more appropriate to take me to see The Secret of Nimh instead, on the grounds that it was a cartoon, and cartoons are somehow inherently more appropriate for children than live-action movies. (If you haven't seen The Secret of Nimh, I'll just say that it is not in any way shape or form more appropriate for young children, than E.T. Also, it is probably not worth an hour of your time to watch it.)
@@jonadabtheunsightly such a funny concept. cause some of the early cartoons were geared towards adult. Wily using TNT to try and blow up a bird, Popeye punching people into the sky and such, this stuff was never meant for children to absorb, However, because it's 'cartoons' little thought was given to have 5yr olds glued to the TV watching this stuff. However, I believe much of these cartoons were designed for entertainment for troops serving in war, hence also some of the political humor in these cartoons.
@@mikeshoe74 In fact, most of those early Looney Toons and Merrie Melodies cartoons were originally created as shorts intended to run as prefix material in movie theaters, back in the era when entire families would go together. The idea was that the children would watch the cartoon and then fall asleep while the adults watched the newsreels and then the movie. So the cartoons were intended to entertain children and *also* be watchable for adults. This is why they often have adult-oriented humor that was meant to go right over the children's heads, but they also have child-oriented entertainment value, in the same cartoon, and often taking place simultaneously. This is also why many of them are still available in color, when most of the content produced in that era has only been preserved in black and white. Once a movie was too old to show in theaters any more, the studios would convert it to black and white (for television) and then usually throw out the color originals, because there was no chance they would ever be needed again, since the movie was not going back to theaters any more. But the shorts were aimed principally at children, and were short anyway, and were not the feature presentation, so they were preserved in color in case they could be re-used at a later date.
One of my favorite things about ET, that I’ve never seen anyone bring up, is the fact that most of the issues that arise are solved through open communication or at the very least a willingness to communicate. I think that’s a pretty powerful lesson for a family film.
I've always been thankful for the fact that Spielberg and Universal never gave up "E.T." as an IP that had sequels or remakes. It's perfect as is and will always be a classic film of its time.
This is iconic 80's. Not the aliens... more like kids just going everywhere unsupervised on bikes. Left home alone. Riding in the front seat of the car at like 6 years old lol.
That still happens today. Not all parents are neurotic and suffocating. You're brainwashed my media/news. I hate the arrogance of older generations thinking they had it so much better than younger generations. Just like your parents thought and the generations before them thought. Always thinking their childhood/coming of age period is superior. Nostalgia and rose-colored glasses of an imperfect memory of the past. Learn humility and grace. Manage your oversized ego. "Back in my day..." Ok BOOMER! xD
E.T. was the biggest cultural phenomenon film (1982) since Star Wars (in 1977). I was a small kid and I still remember E.T. stuff everywhere. Heck I still own some of it. Don't think anything came close until Lord of the Rings in 2001 and maybe Harry Potter.
well LoTRs was already a cultural phenomenon before peter jackson made those movies .. it had just gotten way sided in the 2 decades before the movie. in the 70's LoTRs had it's first explosion of popularity . it had a massive series of cartoon features made for it and it birthed DnD. it' sucess despite having no live action movie .. fueled the fatasy genre of movies that spun out of holy wood in the late 70's and early 80's . starting with Excalibur (liam neesons first time acting a sir galahad, and patrick stewarts second screen role as guenivere's father). into Conan and quite a few other fantasy movies. the popularity of those movies hinged on the fact that in the 60's and 70's every one loved teh LoTR books. but of course peter jackson's movie revitalized the IP's popularity. not downgrading his contribution , jsut clairfying that LoTR had been deeply ingrained in our culture long before jackson finnally gave LoTR fans a live action movie set. point is it's popularity was not unexpected , when whispers of a live action LoTR were heard , every one knew it was gonna bea super hit. the story had just been a cultural phenomenon for too long already for the movies to not succeed.
@sterlingarcher9208 what i loved about movies back then when i was kid .... they played forever in theaters . ET was still playing in many theaters well into 86 even. back then VCR's were still a high dollar thing and not every one had one , so movies ran much longer in the theaters. today's high speed instant gratification world demands that movies get in and out of theaters fast and into streaming (or blu ray ) formats quick . hell even the small "secondary showing" theaters don't run too old of movies like they used to.
Films where the story is emotional growth are often seen as lacking the scale of large-event films. There may be days where one does not feel like going with Elliott on this journey, yet the film is the highest-grade of storytelling
@18:15 There is a very old theory that E.T comes from the Star Wars universe (his species is seen in the senate in Episode 1) and may have thought that the kid dressed as Yoda was the real one and wanted to go home with him.
Harrison Ford's ex wife wrote the screenplay. The appearance of ETs in the Star Wars prequels was a nod to the friendships/collaborations between Lucas, Spielberg, Ford, etc.
@@TLowGrrreenExactly what I was about to comment. People take it too seriously and try to explain it with lore instead of appreciating as simple filmmaker nods.
@@christiangomez320 There can be both in-universe and real-world explanations for the same things. With that said, it's basically impossible to fully reconcile the Star Wars universe with E.T., not least because the opening text of SWIV:ANH makes it very clear that the setting is in a galaxy far, far away from ours, but E.T.'s call, moving at light speed, reaches his ship within days. The level of retconning required to reconcile everything is pretty ridiculous.
The guy with the keys is simply listed as "Keys" in the credits - his name is never revealed and the constant shots or sound of his keys distinguishes his presence. There was also a novelisation of the movie, which explained that while E.T. did die, his people sent a healing spark right into his heart which revived him, which E.T. recognised as meaning they were on their way.
Everyone keeps asking why some of the government agents would come in with astronaut suits on. That's because they were unsure if the alien was carrying dangerous germs or viruses. A space suit is literally the most sealed outfit you could have chosen.
Yea but there are hazmat suits for just that occasion which they show people wearing in the very next scene. The astronaut suits were more to look scary and intimidating for that quick scene but definitely wasn't practical for the suit's lack of mobility since they're literally only meant for being used in space.
No, it's way overkill. A normal, earthbound hazmat suit doesn't need to stand up to a huge pressure differential like an environment suit does. Environment suits are much more expensive, and you wouldn't pay for them if you were only going to use them inside Earth's atmosphere. You'd go with the more appropriate option. The in-universe reason they came in with environment suits, was because they *had* them, because they're a space agency, not the CDC or EPA or some other government agency that would have hazmat suits. The space suits were what NASA possessed, so they used what they had on hand, as one does. The real-world reason is so the audience would *know* they were a space agency. It was a reveal, because until that point in the movie, most first-time viewers would've assumed they were an intelligence agency (perhaps the FBI), or some nefarious dark shadow group. But now we find out, they're scientists. Presumably, NASA detected the space ship, which is why they dispatched people to the landing site, to make contact.
E.T. is a Jedi Padawan from the Agricultural Corps of the Jedi Order. He can do all the Jedi stuff....mind control, levitate stuff and people, heal others....even recognizes Master Yoda and his species are in the Republic Senate.
Who the hell came up with that load of B.S.? E.T.s species are members ot the senate in the Star Wars prequels, ok! That is long ago in a galaxy far far away. Someone is making big assumptions about the longevity, and space and time traveling capabilities of E.T.s people.
This movie is such a classic. It has memorable moments, the characters are great, not to mention every time Reese’s Pieces are brought up in a conversation, you’ll think of this movie. It’s basically another win for Steven Spielberg.
My friend in grade school actually saw ET months before it came out, I think his family knew people in the industry, he came to school one day with a button that said I Love ET and was raving about it. He said it’s the greatest movie ever made, you have to see it. Better than Star Wars? Way better he said. I couldn’t believe it. Then it came out and was the biggest movie of all time for the time.
This movie came out the year I was born and was a big part of my childhood. There were E.T. posters in a lot of kids' bedrooms, even several years later. I first saw the movie when it was released on home video a couple of weeks before my 6th birthday and I got it as a present. I had seen the E.T. merchandise everywhere, but thought it was just some kind of strange skeleton until I saw the movie. I watched my video copy of the film so many times that the tape became very worn, though I think I still have the physical tape somewhere (instead of the plain black plastic shell that most video cassette tapes had, the E.T. one had some parts that were bright green plastic, which I think was some sort of attempt at copy protection due to the extreme popularity of the movie). Many years later, I rewatched the movie as an adult and was amazed by how well it held up, as well as delighted by just how...80s...it was, bringing that wonderful decade back to me. I started looking up trivia about the movie and found out some pretty interesting things. - The original script (and the novelization of the movie) featured M&Ms as the candy Elliott used to lure E.T. to his house and into his room. However, when Spielberg tried to get permission from Mars Candy to use M&Ms in the film, Forrest Mars, founder of Mars Candy and inventor of M&Ms, found E.T.'s appearance so repulsive that he refused permission, expecting the movie to be a flop. Spielberg then approached Mars Candy's rival, Hershey's, about using their equivalent to M&Ms, Reese's Pieces, in the film. Hershey's agreed on condition that they could use the film in their advertising. This proved to be one of history's best business decisions, as E.T. was one of the most successful films in history, and Reese's Pieces went from only a tiny fraction of the sales of M&Ms to almost even thanks to its association with the film. - The scenes were shot more or less in chronological order, so that the child actors would bond with the character of E.T. and make their emotions genuine and their performances more real. - The scene in which Michael (Robert MacNaughton) jumped back into the shelves and made them collapse was the actor's real, unscripted reaction to unexpectedly seeing E.T. for the first time. The same is true of Gertie's (Drew Barrymore) scream of terror when first encountering the alien. - For the scene where the government has taken over the family's house, Spielberg felt that casting professional actors as the medical staff that was present and monitoring Elliott's and E.T.'s condition would be too unconvincing, so he hired actual doctors and nurses from a hospital in the area to play the medical staff. He gave them a summary of their role in the story and had them write their own lines so they would be consistent with what a medical staff would actually say in that situation. - Many years after the movie was filmed, Henry Thomas (who played Elliott, and who had retired from acting shortly afterward) returned to play Elliott in a commercial that portrayed an accurate (though very short) sequel to the movie, showing E.T. returning to earth near Elliott's house a generation after the events of the film, meeting his family and reuniting with him.
- For me, my parents handled everything to do with pizza delivery. - I live in the Midwest, where it's very windy, so I'm no stranger to tipped over garbage cans... - According to the novelization, the keys on the guy's belt terrified E.T., who mistook the keys for being teeth and thought the guy wanted to eat him. - Drew Barrymore started acting very young thanks to her family connections to the film industry. Her father, John Barrymore Jr. and his father, John Sr. were both actors, and her great-uncle, Lionel Barrymore, was one of the most famous actors in the world during the first half of the 20th Century. - Spielberg originally planned to have Harrison Ford cameo as Elliott's principal, who was going to lecture Elliott about aliens not being real, but the idea sadly didn't make it into the final film. - My mom had one of those mirrors that simulated the lighting of various locations (the lights had "Day", "Office", "Evening" and "Home" settings) when I was a kid. It looked exactly like the one Elliott was using at 17:21. - As Spielberg and George Lucas are great friends, Spielberg used a lot of Star Wars references in E.T. and Lucas reciprocated by putting E.T.'s species in Star Wars: Episode I. They appear in the background of the Senate scene, and are officially called "Grebleips" ("Spielberg" spelled backwards!) - This may sound weird, but I couldn't eat those white powdered mini-donuts for the longest time because they reminded me of E.T.'s appearance when he was in the later stages of his illness... - E.T. wasn't faking his demise. He revived because he drew energy from the bond he shared with others of his kind, and they got close enough for that bond to be re-established in the nick of time.
@@tubekulose Yes that was him, he was also in two other movies I have seen Pet Sematary Blood Lines, made a mistake watching that one, and a movie called Fire in the Sky, which I saw years ago, I just remember him in it and nothing else.
yes Elliot is Henry Thomas. In recent years he has worked a lot with Mike Flanagan (hence Doctor Sleep), but above all the incredible TV show The Haunting of Hill House which I recommend watching @ANGELINAA
@@tubekulose How many have you seen? I mean, you're right, he only had a vague resemblance but I've never seen anyone who looks very similar to Jack Nicholson.
There was a sequel in development, and the story was wild! Evil aliens come to earth, and then ET comes back to Earth to fight the evil aliens.Spielberg hated the idea and the fact that the studio even wanted to make a sequel. Spielberg said that ET was a complete film and didn't want or needed to have a sequel.
Im pretty sure later down the line, they made an ET commercial where he finds Elliot all grown up with a family and the two have to contact ET's ship again to find his family
There actually was a sequel novel where ET returns to his home planet to resume normal life but retains a bit of his psychic link with Elliot. Thru which ET senses Elliot's burgeoning teenage moodiness and deduces that he is growing into the most dangerous animal on Earth: an ADULT. So ET has to devise a way to return to earth on his own, since his own people have no plans to go back.
The logo for Amblin, Stephen Spielberg’s production company, is Elliot and ET flying in front of the moon. Also, anyone interested in his movies should check out the documentary about him on MAX. It’s a running theme in his movies that the character is from a broken home because Spielberg himself was from one and his movies became a type of therapy.
"He's soooo good!" If you think he's good here than check out his 3 minute audition for the part! (cut and paste) "Henry Thomas audition för E.T. "Ok kid, you got the job"."
Dang. This is the first time I had seen somebody react to this movie. This was really a film from my childhood. Seeing the way life was back then just hit me with some form of nostalgia and I just got all loose on the water works. Good happy old days tears. lol Enjoyed this so much. Subscribed now. lol
There's a wonderful (voice-only) Spielberg cameo in the movie Paul, in which Paul (a green alien) advises Spielberg on the creation of E.T. Spielberg also has a cameo at the end of The Blues Brothers, in which he plays the County Clerk that accepts the $5000 payment that saves the orphanage (and sends the Blues Brothers to jail)
"The movie got me!" It got all of us. I got to see this in the theaters when it came out, and we were all sniffling away until we all saw the red glow, when we all shouted in surprise. Fun fact: Not too long ago, there was a kind of follow-up short film with the original "Elliot" all grown up. It was an ad (like they did with Die Hard w/one of the first movie villians and Bruce Willis), but it was still kinda fun seeing them hang out.
I saw one of the first screenings of "E.T." with a full audience in a 1,000 seat theater. Standing ovation at the end. We all knew we had been the first to see a classic. Spielberg recut the end scene to fit John Williams score, very rare. Williams won an Oscar for this. Great seeing it again through your eyes!
ET came out in 1982. Another movie about aliens came out in 1977 was written by and directed by Steven Spielberg. Starred Richard Dreyfuss, who is also in jaws and Terry Garr Music was by John Williams
That musical moment to the end, when E.T. calls the line "Ill be right here". When the cuts and the orchestral variations play eachother.... this is the moment i cant hold my tears. even 42 Years after i was in cinema at about 13 years old. Im glad you feel kind o like the same ❤& ☮
ET was one of those movies that came out of nowhere and became a phenomenon. Spielberg was very smart, he underplayed it before the release and knew it would grow stronger by word of mouth instead of studio hype.
I LOVED how you reacted in realizing that it was Drew Barrymore. 😊 If I recall, she was only 4 years old at the time. Drew comes from a family of Hollywood actors, her grandfather was Lionel Barrymore, who is probably most famous for his role as "Mr. Potter" in "It's a Wonderful Life".
Your reaction was so much fun as always. It has been a minute since I watch E.T. and your reaction was so on point. You are an E.T. among reactors which I guess in this case stands for Extra Terrific! LOL. I know. That was goofy. Anyways I really enjoyed your reaction Angelina Keep up the great work!
and was totally robbed by Gandhi 😡😡 the year before that, Raiders of the Lost Ark was also rob by Chariots of Fire. the Academy didn't like Spielberg at all
Spielberg used Disney's formula when making ET - Which is to touch on as many emotions as possible. You feel angry, sad, happy, anxious, frightened, etc. If you can do that, you are guaranteed to have a hit classic. (Sorry for so many posts, but this was really a great reaction video. )
I had so many nightmares of E.T. as a kid. The beginning of the movie just freaked me out way too much nut once E.T. and Elliot became friends I was ok with watching the movie. My parents for some reason thought that maybe if I went on the E.T. ride at Universal Studios that I wouldn't be as scared of him but they were wrong. The wait in line was made to be like the forest in the beginning of the movie and E.T.'s head would randomly pop out of the bushes in places while you waited to get on the ride and I hated it. Now that I'm older though this is a movie I really appreciate.
I grew up watching this movie and it was at first a creepy, spooky movie as a kid but as I got older I saw things the way you did. It’s a timeless classic and I’m here for it.
This movie ran for 6 months in my small home town NH. Other than Rocky Horror Picture Show, that ran in small theaters every w/e for 2 to 3 decades. This was a never before heard of. Saw it 3 times back when it came out with my then future ex wife and friends lol. I still tear up. Thank you Spielberg for making us human with this one.
E.T. scared me so much as a young child that I didn't finish the movie, don't think I even got to the parts where it showed him being gentle and not dangerous. And he was the subject of my re-occuring nightmares for a couple years. It wasn't until I was almost an adult I watched the movie again and realized how feel-good the movie is.
I am about Drew Barrymore's age. I was that young when I saw this. I was completely heartbroken when ET died. Filled with joy & happiness when he came back to life. When he left, I felt the loss. I walked out of the theater it felt like he had taken a piece of me with him. I had never seen a movie that made me both happy and sad at the same time. It was a happy ending but it was like I lost a dear friend. It's been over 40 years. But when I see this movie I am four years old again, feeling those same feelings. That, is the power of movies. That is the power of Steven Speilberg. You can play any track of the music and I will know which scene it was in, and feel the exact feelings when I heard it the first time. That, is the power of John Williams. Over 40 years, and I still feel like I lost my friend. That, is the power of E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial.
If you haven’t watched these already;Some other great movies? from the same era to consider: The last starfighter (1984) Night of the comet (1984) Explorers (1985) Enemy Mine (1985) The legend of Billie Jean (1985) Flight of the navigator (1986)
The Wild Robot is fantastic. The animation is insane, see it on the big screen. I cried when this movie came out and I still cry. It’s a perfect movie.
When I went to see E.T., my date and I got there just after the trailers, just as the movie was starting. The opening scenes were so dark that we had an adventure our own trying to find two empty seats with almost no light. We ended up sitting in the front row. I've never gone anywhere without a flashlight since then.
Pretty sure this movie is the original "Kids on Bikes" trope, which defines and expands on the idea of kids having to group together to solve a mystery, while doing with adult themes. Usually while going around town on bikes. This leads on to things like It, The Goonies, Super 8, Attack the Block, and Stranger Things.
I went to Universal Studios in Hollywood when I was 10 back in 87. We went into section where they demonstrated how the did the flying bicycles, and it was awesome, including having John Williams score playing around the building while the demonstration was going on. It was pure magic.
Since you mentioned asking the viewers who they're going to be for Halloween, I'll be the Lon Chaney Jr version of The Wolf Man (1941) since it's a werewolf from the Universal studio monster movies
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg embed stuff from their movies into other movies. The ET species shows up in the Star Wars Senate, and R2D2 and C3PO can be seen in the hieroglyphs in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
watching this in theaters was just priceless. I was like 16 and cried like a baby at the death and at the goodbye scenes, and still do sometimes when watching it again. my second best Spielberg movie after "Raiders" (my all time favorite)
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are peanut butter and chocolate, yes. Reese's Pieces, though, are just peanut butter in a candy shell. Read the ingredients; no chocolate or even cocoa.
Neil Diamond sang a song about ET called "Light Up Your Heart Light." Thought that might interest you as to how big of a Hit ET was in the 80s lol. In the book, ET had a crush on the Mom lol. There is also a sequel book, I haven't read it, but I've heard some things about it.
We Gen Xers were just built different. Ride off in to the forest to stay the night with my little alien friend to chill out for the night? Why not? I got nothing else going on!
The order of the movies as it fell in my life. Baseline (Born in 1970) Jaws when I was 6 or 7, E.T. when I was 11 or so and Jurassic Park when I was in my 30's.
This movie was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. I was 6 and went with my dad. E.T. getting scared in the bushes at the very beginning in turn scared the hell out of me and I had to hide.
I love the sketch from Family guy where ET is the special needs kid from the ship the other aliens tried to abandon on earth, and all their fingers on each hand can glow
I saw this movie in theaters when it came out. Though I am a guy I cried at the end. Now that I am 60 years old, I still cried during your reaction, not even seeing the whole movie. Movies from my era were so great. I hardly go to see movies today because they are not of the same quality.
This movie came out in 1982 and Rise of the Jedi came out 1983 - when Elliot was showing ET his action figures, it was the first time Boba Fett's name was mentioned in a movie
Fun fact: When ET sees the kid in the Yoda costume and says "home", it was turned into an in canon easter egg in Star Wars Episode 1 decades later, as there are members of his species in the senate chambers on Coruscant.
There’s a movie theory that states E.T is from the same galaxy as Star Wars explaining his telekinetic powers similar to the Force and when he says “home” to the kid wearing the Yoda mask stating he’s seen the Jedi Grandmaster before. Pretty interesting I’d say.
27:32 Yep, the soundtrack is the real star here. This is, in my opinion, John Williams finest creation and that's some body of work to pick from ! The whole 'Adventures on Earth' suite from the beginning of the final escape and chase leading to that final rainbow stanza is PERFECT. It never, ever fails to reduce this 50+ year old guy to tears. Wonderful work from the Maestro of Maestros and he knew it because it was one of the rare occasions where Williams actually asked Spielberg to hear what he had composed without the footage. Why ? Because he couldn't match the visuals with the score as per usual but he knew he had something special. Spielberg agreed and once he'd heard it he took the movie back and re-edited the final scene to match the score.
6:23 those are not M&Ms by Mars, but Reeses Pieces. Instead of chocolate centers they are peanut butter centers, very soft and tasty. Imagine an M&M with a peanut butter cup center. 7:07 that adorable girl is Drew Barrymore 15:25 the "prettt girl" is Erika Eleniak actually is Playmate of the month in 1989 and she plays Jordan Tate aka Miss July 1989 in Under Siege. 17:05 i had a finger like that from Chiristmas. It glowed. Also, the Speak-n-Spell, had one of those too as a kid. Elliot (Henry Thomas) plays in a good spy movie 2 years later.in "Cloak and Dagger" (1984)
Harrison Ford was the teacher. It cut was due to not adding anything to the scene, but the rumor was that he was so famous, they didn't want him to drown out the rest of the film. If you haven't already, you should do Hook, especially if you do Peter Pan
I will never forget the stand up comedist who remembered this movie as "how it scarred him as a kid" "horror" "a poo creature terrorizing all" and "every time he was hoping the good guys finally catch it it always escaped". Was hillarious.
we couldn't do pizza delivery when I was growing up. there was only one place that would deliver that far out of town... and then they tended to get lost. or, if they ended up at the wrong address, they might have a shotgun pointed at them with a stern "get off my property!"
Even Michael Jackson wanted to be involved in the project, having identified so much with the little alien's predicament of being stuck alone in a strange place and needing to make new friends, as he did in his childhood. He eventually narrated a chidren's storybook companion to the movie and sang the song "Someone in the Dark" on that album. He soon won a Grammy for Best Recording for Children. (It didn't hurt that his monster hit album "Thriller" also came out about the same time. 😄😉)
Fun fact: this alien species is part of the Star Wars universe. In blink-and-you'll-miss-it scenes, you can see a group of them in one (or maybe two or three) of the galactic senate meetings in the prequel movies.
It's funny how E.T. seemed to recognize the Yoda costume. In the Star Wars prequel movies, in the Senate, one of the Senate pods have delegates from E.T.'s homeworld. Another fun Fact is the E.T. animators team kept someone at the controls at all times as Drew Berrymore would interact with E.T. between scenes. Guess back then she thought he was real.
i was immediately bamboozled by how the little girl was drew barrymore. DREW BARRYMORE?! are you kidding. loved this.
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Omg girl i didn’t know it was Drew Barrymore I swear this movie made me cry multiple times especially the ending it hits my heart so much E.T will always and forever be in my heart and I’m so happy I grew up watching this movie and I’m glad you loved it as much as I do🥹❤️
And the girl Elliot kissed is future Playboy Playmate Erika Elaniak, who was also in Under Siege (booba) and The Beverly Hillbillies Movie.
I guess Drew was young enough to believe that ET was real, so Spielburg made some operate him any time he was around Drew to keep up the illusion. They were best friends. 🥺
Lol, I was about to post that it was drew.
E.T.'s species is sort of a psychic hive mind. They feed off their own psychic bond with each other. So when E.T. is left behind, he immediately starts to "starve". He "bonds" with both Elliot and the flowers so he can survive. But that doesn't last long cuz it's not a psychic bond with an entire race of beings...so E.T. starts getting sick pretty quick and Elliot & the flowers feel his disease. When E.T. is dying, he lets go of his psychic bond with Elliot so he doesn't die with him. Thankfully his people's spaceship is close enough to Earth that their energy revives E.T.
Wow! I have seen this movie so many times but never realized this! But you're right! cool!!
i always figured it was becasue his main breathable chemical for his race was carbon .. and the low carbon content of our atmosphere took a while to kil him bnecasue there was jsut enough carbon that he didn't die imediately , just like how humans can breath in a low oxygen environment for a while such as higher altitudes (like 8-9,000 feet, too much above that and we do start requiring oxygen tanks) . i just always assumed this because he seemed to revive after being in the carbon preservation tank the scientist put him in. also it's been said that he was a living plant creature too , plants consume carbon and "exhale" oxygen.
That's amazing. Is that the official version of it or like a fan theory type of thing?
@@DenverStarkey That's also a very good explanation.
Seeing ET seemingly dead , just lying in a ditch as a child, was extremely depressing/sad for me. Traumatic/memorable moment.
One of Steven Spielberg's most iconic and heartfelt masterpieces and Drew Berrymore's first big role. Fun Fact: Reese's Pieces were about to be discontinued before agreeing to appear in the movie. And afterward, it became one of the best-selling candies ever. M&M was probably kicking themselves for not taking the deal.
Also, Reese's Pieces have no chocolate in them. They're just peanut butter in a candy shell.
That’s Drew “Barrymore.”
Ms. “Berrymore” was in Porn.
Reese's pieces are delicious, but you clearly must like peanut butter.
I'm pretty sure in the book version, it actually was M&M's, but they didn't get permission to use them in the film. I read the book here in the UK before seeing the film, and we didn't have M&M's here then, so I had no idea what Elliot was dropping on the ground!
@@Ryan_ChristopherWhoops! I didn't even know about the porn thing. Thanks.😂 Oh well, I can't change it now, or the heart will disappear.
Summer of 1982 was amazing for movies, ET, Tron, Star Trek II, Blade Runner, The Thing, the list goes on
Little Drew was so young that she had trouble remembering that E.T. wasn't real sometimes. In the scene where he appears to die she wasn't acting.
There's a "family reunion" clip from her talk show where she had Henry Thomas (Elliott), Robert McNaughton (Michael) and Dee Wallace (Mary/Mom) on for the movie's 40th Anniversary which is worth a watch.
The puppeteer crew helped maintain that connection she had. They noticed she would talk to ET during filming breaks and so they agreed between themselves that at least one of them would be available to animate him even when the cameras weren't rolling.
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It makes scenes that ET would be drawn to Yoda. Fun fact, in (Attack of the clones) some of his species are present at the senate meeting so that must mean that they are part of the galactic republic. Being that Yoda is so old and the earth is in the same universe ET might have recognized him as a mean to get home.
15:36 “but I think you killed him already” was improvised by young Drew as the ET puppet wasn’t supposed to get hit by the refrigerator door or fall over. A natural talent to stay in character at such a young age, which is why America and Hollywood have continued loved Drew Barrymore.
Totally didn't know that. Thanks!
I think it was more the fact she kept forgetting it wasn't real at that age. In between scenes she would actually talk to the E.T. animatronic and bring it food and stuff. Really funny scene either way though.
@@stevenfriedman2902 That's just the purest form of method acting!
Yes, that was a child Drew Barrymore. She and Spielberg became close during the filming of this movie. He was touched by her troubled homelife, and he became very protective of her. He let her stay at his home, took her to Disneyland, and gave her acting advice. She asked him to become her father and he declined, but agreed to become her godfather. In a recent interview she said he was “the only person in my life to this day that ever was a parental figure.” When she was 19, she appeared nude in Playboy. I remember seeing an interview of her by David Letterman years ago where she said that, after the magazine was released, Spielberg had his crew "photoshop" clothes on the images and sent them to her with a note to "cover yourself up".
MARS was approached by the studio to use M&Ms in the movie, but they declined. Reese's agreed, and their sales skyrocketed that year.
Spielberg and George Lucas are good friends, and often include references to each other's films in their own movies. Spielberg included many Star Wars references in E.T., and in return, Lucas included members of E.T.'s species in the Imperial Senate in the first SW prequel, The Phantom Menace.
"Keys guy" is painted as a villain until the end. It's easy to gloss over his lines during those hectic scenes, but his emotional arc is revealed; it's suggested he's caring, full of wonder, and reconnecting with his own emotional event and loss during his youth
Agreed. Keys was never a villian. He was always empathetic to Elliot.
Yep. Enthusiasm doesn't make you a villain.
We could never think of Peter Coyote as a villain, even back in ‘82. When the NASA reveal came all us kids realized there were no villains per se.
By far you have the best commentary on E.T.
I'm very impressed and you gave me new insight into my childhood movie that I've watched a hundred times that I didn't even realize. As someone who was Elliot's age when I saw this I was also in a broken home feeling isolated. Gen Xs parents weren't real present.
Awesome reaction ❤
There’s so many of these scenes Stranger Things took inspiration from, especially in season 1. Eleven was supposed to be very similar to ET, learning to speak with the kids that took her in, the bike scenes, the D&D, the flipping the van scene is the reverse comparison of the bikes flying, etc. The mom is like Joyce, the “astronauts” are like the lab, they’re listening in on radios to the calls. ET went as a ghost for Halloween and Eleven tried to do that too. It’s all so perfect.
YYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS! Spielberg was the goat of the 80s. Do the Goonies next!
RUclips does search terms now? Damn
The tempting candies were supposed to be M&M's but when Mars Inc were approached for permission to use them they refused believing kids would be scared by ET. Hershey however jumped at the chance and so Reeses were chosen - and the film catapulted the product sales to record levels as a result. Turning the opportunity down is generally accepted to be one of the worst business decisions ever made.
Fun trivia - The girl Elliot grabs and kisses in the frog scene was Erika Eleniak of Baywatch and Under Siege fame.
John Williams won the Best Original Score in the Oscars for this musical masterpiece. He has won just five Academy Awards (could have won ten or more times, deserved). But specially this one... got me as a kid.
Yeah, this might be his best work. And that is elite territory.
E.T. was the first movie that made me cry in the cinema. 😥
E.T. was the first movie I ever saw in the movie theaters. I'm just a little bit younger than Drew Barrymore. For better or worse, I don't remember crying; I don't remember watching this movie in the theater at all.
It made my stern, military man Papaw sob like a baby, so I’ve heard.
Unfortunately, I didn't get to see it when it was in theaters. They were going to take me to see it, because they'd heard it was good; but at the last moment my parents decided it would be more appropriate to take me to see The Secret of Nimh instead, on the grounds that it was a cartoon, and cartoons are somehow inherently more appropriate for children than live-action movies. (If you haven't seen The Secret of Nimh, I'll just say that it is not in any way shape or form more appropriate for young children, than E.T. Also, it is probably not worth an hour of your time to watch it.)
@@jonadabtheunsightly such a funny concept. cause some of the early cartoons were geared towards adult. Wily using TNT to try and blow up a bird, Popeye punching people into the sky and such, this stuff was never meant for children to absorb, However, because it's 'cartoons' little thought was given to have 5yr olds glued to the TV watching this stuff. However, I believe much of these cartoons were designed for entertainment for troops serving in war, hence also some of the political humor in these cartoons.
@@mikeshoe74 In fact, most of those early Looney Toons and Merrie Melodies cartoons were originally created as shorts intended to run as prefix material in movie theaters, back in the era when entire families would go together. The idea was that the children would watch the cartoon and then fall asleep while the adults watched the newsreels and then the movie. So the cartoons were intended to entertain children and *also* be watchable for adults. This is why they often have adult-oriented humor that was meant to go right over the children's heads, but they also have child-oriented entertainment value, in the same cartoon, and often taking place simultaneously.
This is also why many of them are still available in color, when most of the content produced in that era has only been preserved in black and white. Once a movie was too old to show in theaters any more, the studios would convert it to black and white (for television) and then usually throw out the color originals, because there was no chance they would ever be needed again, since the movie was not going back to theaters any more. But the shorts were aimed principally at children, and were short anyway, and were not the feature presentation, so they were preserved in color in case they could be re-used at a later date.
You are one of my favorite reactors! And I appreciate the throwback! ET is an OG movie
One of my favorite things about ET, that I’ve never seen anyone bring up, is the fact that most of the issues that arise are solved through open communication or at the very least a willingness to communicate. I think that’s a pretty powerful lesson for a family film.
I've always been thankful for the fact that Spielberg and Universal never gave up "E.T." as an IP that had sequels or remakes. It's perfect as is and will always be a classic film of its time.
This is iconic 80's. Not the aliens... more like kids just going everywhere unsupervised on bikes. Left home alone. Riding in the front seat of the car at like 6 years old lol.
No aliens? You were in a boring neighborhood.
@@tenchraven well you never know who was under the ghost costumes.
We were free-range kids, the only way to grow up👍
That still happens today. Not all parents are neurotic and suffocating. You're brainwashed my media/news. I hate the arrogance of older generations thinking they had it so much better than younger generations. Just like your parents thought and the generations before them thought. Always thinking their childhood/coming of age period is superior. Nostalgia and rose-colored glasses of an imperfect memory of the past. Learn humility and grace. Manage your oversized ego. "Back in my day..." Ok BOOMER! xD
Seat belt, what’s a seat belt? My parent’s Mustang didn’t even have any in the rear seat, not sure the LTD did either.
E.T. was the biggest cultural phenomenon film (1982) since Star Wars (in 1977). I was a small kid and I still remember E.T. stuff everywhere. Heck I still own some of it. Don't think anything came close until Lord of the Rings in 2001 and maybe Harry Potter.
well LoTRs was already a cultural phenomenon before peter jackson made those movies .. it had just gotten way sided in the 2 decades before the movie. in the 70's LoTRs had it's first explosion of popularity . it had a massive series of cartoon features made for it and it birthed DnD. it' sucess despite having no live action movie .. fueled the fatasy genre of movies that spun out of holy wood in the late 70's and early 80's . starting with Excalibur (liam neesons first time acting a sir galahad, and patrick stewarts second screen role as guenivere's father). into Conan and quite a few other fantasy movies. the popularity of those movies hinged on the fact that in the 60's and 70's every one loved teh LoTR books.
but of course peter jackson's movie revitalized the IP's popularity. not downgrading his contribution , jsut clairfying that LoTR had been deeply ingrained in our culture long before jackson finnally gave LoTR fans a live action movie set. point is it's popularity was not unexpected , when whispers of a live action LoTR were heard , every one knew it was gonna bea super hit. the story had just been a cultural phenomenon for too long already for the movies to not succeed.
@sterlingarcher9208 what i loved about movies back then when i was kid .... they played forever in theaters . ET was still playing in many theaters well into 86 even. back then VCR's were still a high dollar thing and not every one had one , so movies ran much longer in the theaters. today's high speed instant gratification world demands that movies get in and out of theaters fast and into streaming (or blu ray ) formats quick . hell even the small "secondary showing" theaters don't run too old of movies like they used to.
Indiana Jones. Which is also scored by John Williams.
A lot of people say this movie is overrated, but I disagree. It has earned its well received status in my eyes.
Films where the story is emotional growth are often seen as lacking the scale of large-event films.
There may be days where one does not feel like going with Elliott on this journey, yet the film is the highest-grade of storytelling
Honestly, I consider it to be in the running for best movie ever made.
@18:15 There is a very old theory that E.T comes from the Star Wars universe (his species is seen in the senate in Episode 1) and may have thought that the kid dressed as Yoda was the real one and wanted to go home with him.
Yea that part is where it gets confusing because Star Wars is supposed to be a fictional story in the movie.
Harrison Ford's ex wife wrote the screenplay. The appearance of ETs in the Star Wars prequels was a nod to the friendships/collaborations between Lucas, Spielberg, Ford, etc.
@@TLowGrrreenExactly what I was about to comment. People take it too seriously and try to explain it with lore instead of appreciating as simple filmmaker nods.
@@christiangomez320 There can be both in-universe and real-world explanations for the same things.
With that said, it's basically impossible to fully reconcile the Star Wars universe with E.T., not least because the opening text of SWIV:ANH makes it very clear that the setting is in a galaxy far, far away from ours, but E.T.'s call, moving at light speed, reaches his ship within days. The level of retconning required to reconcile everything is pretty ridiculous.
@@stevenfriedman2902Star Wars isn’t fiction , it just happened a long time ago in a galaxy far away.
Of course ET is a force sensitive. !
The guy with the keys is simply listed as "Keys" in the credits - his name is never revealed and the constant shots or sound of his keys distinguishes his presence.
There was also a novelisation of the movie, which explained that while E.T. did die, his people sent a healing spark right into his heart which revived him, which E.T. recognised as meaning they were on their way.
Everyone keeps asking why some of the government agents would come in with astronaut suits on. That's because they were unsure if the alien was carrying dangerous germs or viruses. A space suit is literally the most sealed outfit you could have chosen.
Yea but there are hazmat suits for just that occasion which they show people wearing in the very next scene. The astronaut suits were more to look scary and intimidating for that quick scene but definitely wasn't practical for the suit's lack of mobility since they're literally only meant for being used in space.
@@stevenfriedman2902 Oh, definitely, they were used for effect too.
No, it's way overkill. A normal, earthbound hazmat suit doesn't need to stand up to a huge pressure differential like an environment suit does. Environment suits are much more expensive, and you wouldn't pay for them if you were only going to use them inside Earth's atmosphere. You'd go with the more appropriate option.
The in-universe reason they came in with environment suits, was because they *had* them, because they're a space agency, not the CDC or EPA or some other government agency that would have hazmat suits. The space suits were what NASA possessed, so they used what they had on hand, as one does. The real-world reason is so the audience would *know* they were a space agency. It was a reveal, because until that point in the movie, most first-time viewers would've assumed they were an intelligence agency (perhaps the FBI), or some nefarious dark shadow group. But now we find out, they're scientists. Presumably, NASA detected the space ship, which is why they dispatched people to the landing site, to make contact.
Next, you must see, this December, the 2018 Xfinity commercial that serves as the official sequel to ET, titled Holiday Reunion.
E.T. is a Jedi Padawan from the Agricultural Corps of the Jedi Order. He can do all the Jedi stuff....mind control, levitate stuff and people, heal others....even recognizes Master Yoda and his species are in the Republic Senate.
Spoiler alert for anyone lucky enough to not have seen the cruddy prequels.
@@zimvader25*waves hand* There are no prequels. George Lucas just joked about them.
Who the hell came up with that load of B.S.?
E.T.s species are members ot the senate in the Star Wars prequels, ok! That is long ago in a galaxy far far away. Someone is making big assumptions about the longevity, and space and time traveling capabilities of E.T.s people.
@@zimvader25 we still prequel bashing in 2024?
@@Sancsteq it's not like the movies got suddenly better 😏
This movie is such a classic. It has memorable moments, the characters are great, not to mention every time Reese’s Pieces are brought up in a conversation, you’ll think of this movie. It’s basically another win for Steven Spielberg.
My friend in grade school actually saw ET months before it came out, I think his family knew people in the industry, he came to school one day with a button that said I Love ET and was raving about it. He said it’s the greatest movie ever made, you have to see it. Better than Star Wars? Way better he said. I couldn’t believe it. Then it came out and was the biggest movie of all time for the time.
This movie came out the year I was born and was a big part of my childhood. There were E.T. posters in a lot of kids' bedrooms, even several years later. I first saw the movie when it was released on home video a couple of weeks before my 6th birthday and I got it as a present. I had seen the E.T. merchandise everywhere, but thought it was just some kind of strange skeleton until I saw the movie. I watched my video copy of the film so many times that the tape became very worn, though I think I still have the physical tape somewhere (instead of the plain black plastic shell that most video cassette tapes had, the E.T. one had some parts that were bright green plastic, which I think was some sort of attempt at copy protection due to the extreme popularity of the movie). Many years later, I rewatched the movie as an adult and was amazed by how well it held up, as well as delighted by just how...80s...it was, bringing that wonderful decade back to me. I started looking up trivia about the movie and found out some pretty interesting things.
- The original script (and the novelization of the movie) featured M&Ms as the candy Elliott used to lure E.T. to his house and into his room. However, when Spielberg tried to get permission from Mars Candy to use M&Ms in the film, Forrest Mars, founder of Mars Candy and inventor of M&Ms, found E.T.'s appearance so repulsive that he refused permission, expecting the movie to be a flop. Spielberg then approached Mars Candy's rival, Hershey's, about using their equivalent to M&Ms, Reese's Pieces, in the film. Hershey's agreed on condition that they could use the film in their advertising. This proved to be one of history's best business decisions, as E.T. was one of the most successful films in history, and Reese's Pieces went from only a tiny fraction of the sales of M&Ms to almost even thanks to its association with the film.
- The scenes were shot more or less in chronological order, so that the child actors would bond with the character of E.T. and make their emotions genuine and their performances more real.
- The scene in which Michael (Robert MacNaughton) jumped back into the shelves and made them collapse was the actor's real, unscripted reaction to unexpectedly seeing E.T. for the first time. The same is true of Gertie's (Drew Barrymore) scream of terror when first encountering the alien.
- For the scene where the government has taken over the family's house, Spielberg felt that casting professional actors as the medical staff that was present and monitoring Elliott's and E.T.'s condition would be too unconvincing, so he hired actual doctors and nurses from a hospital in the area to play the medical staff. He gave them a summary of their role in the story and had them write their own lines so they would be consistent with what a medical staff would actually say in that situation.
- Many years after the movie was filmed, Henry Thomas (who played Elliott, and who had retired from acting shortly afterward) returned to play Elliott in a commercial that portrayed an accurate (though very short) sequel to the movie, showing E.T. returning to earth near Elliott's house a generation after the events of the film, meeting his family and reuniting with him.
Spielberg also insisted ET be a single movie. Universal offered him the moon to do a sequel and he refused
- For me, my parents handled everything to do with pizza delivery.
- I live in the Midwest, where it's very windy, so I'm no stranger to tipped over garbage cans...
- According to the novelization, the keys on the guy's belt terrified E.T., who mistook the keys for being teeth and thought the guy wanted to eat him.
- Drew Barrymore started acting very young thanks to her family connections to the film industry. Her father, John Barrymore Jr. and his father, John Sr. were both actors, and her great-uncle, Lionel Barrymore, was one of the most famous actors in the world during the first half of the 20th Century.
- Spielberg originally planned to have Harrison Ford cameo as Elliott's principal, who was going to lecture Elliott about aliens not being real, but the idea sadly didn't make it into the final film.
- My mom had one of those mirrors that simulated the lighting of various locations (the lights had "Day", "Office", "Evening" and "Home" settings) when I was a kid. It looked exactly like the one Elliott was using at 17:21.
- As Spielberg and George Lucas are great friends, Spielberg used a lot of Star Wars references in E.T. and Lucas reciprocated by putting E.T.'s species in Star Wars: Episode I. They appear in the background of the Senate scene, and are officially called "Grebleips" ("Spielberg" spelled backwards!)
- This may sound weird, but I couldn't eat those white powdered mini-donuts for the longest time because they reminded me of E.T.'s appearance when he was in the later stages of his illness...
- E.T. wasn't faking his demise. He revived because he drew energy from the bond he shared with others of his kind, and they got close enough for that bond to be re-established in the nick of time.
I know the actor who played Elliot, was in the movie Doctor Sleep, sequel to The Shining and he played the ghost of Jack Nicholson's character.
That was Elliot? I mean, first of all, that was the worst Jack Nicholson look-alike I've ever seen in my life. But... that was Elliot? 😮
@@tubekulose Yes that was him, he was also in two other movies I have seen Pet Sematary Blood Lines, made a mistake watching that one, and a movie called Fire in the Sky, which I saw years ago, I just remember him in it and nothing else.
@@TrentRushton Oh, thanks for the info!
yes Elliot is Henry Thomas.
In recent years he has worked a lot with Mike Flanagan (hence Doctor Sleep), but above all the incredible TV show The Haunting of Hill House which I recommend watching @ANGELINAA
@@tubekulose How many have you seen? I mean, you're right, he only had a vague resemblance but I've never seen anyone who looks very similar to Jack Nicholson.
There was a sequel in development, and the story was wild! Evil aliens come to earth, and then ET comes back to Earth to fight the evil aliens.Spielberg hated the idea and the fact that the studio even wanted to make a sequel. Spielberg said that ET was a complete film and didn't want or needed to have a sequel.
in Gremlins there's an easter egg about it, the title on the movie theater is one of the possible titles for ET2.
Im pretty sure later down the line, they made an ET commercial where he finds Elliot all grown up with a family and the two have to contact ET's ship again to find his family
There actually was a sequel novel where ET returns to his home planet to resume normal life but retains a bit of his psychic link with Elliot. Thru which ET senses Elliot's burgeoning teenage moodiness and deduces that he is growing into the most dangerous animal on Earth: an ADULT. So ET has to devise a way to return to earth on his own, since his own people have no plans to go back.
@@ScooterBond1970 Is that the one where he has to grow a new ship, since in the novelization the technology is plant based?
@@robertmartin2936 That's the one I remember
The logo for Amblin, Stephen Spielberg’s production company, is Elliot and ET flying in front of the moon. Also, anyone interested in his movies should check out the documentary about him on MAX. It’s a running theme in his movies that the character is from a broken home because Spielberg himself was from one and his movies became a type of therapy.
09:30 The ET species is actually in the prequels, there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot of them in the Republic Senate.
Yeah I was going to say “love it, he in it”
If you didn't know, ET is in the Star Wars prequels.
"Waves hand" there never were any prequels.
@@karlajaeger2082Your Jazz Hands do not change the fact that Lucas made episodes 1-3. THEY ARE CANON, like it or not. Suck it up, buttercup. 💋
"He's soooo good!" If you think he's good here than check out his 3 minute audition for the part! (cut and paste) "Henry Thomas audition för E.T. "Ok kid, you got the job"."
I just wanted to suggest exactly the same.. one of the best auditions.. and this by a young boy.. so good that Spielberg instantly gave him the job
Dang. This is the first time I had seen somebody react to this movie. This was really a film from my childhood. Seeing the way life was back then just hit me with some form of nostalgia and I just got all loose on the water works. Good happy old days tears. lol Enjoyed this so much. Subscribed now. lol
There's a wonderful (voice-only) Spielberg cameo in the movie Paul, in which Paul (a green alien) advises Spielberg on the creation of E.T.
Spielberg also has a cameo at the end of The Blues Brothers, in which he plays the County Clerk that accepts the $5000 payment that saves the orphanage (and sends the Blues Brothers to jail)
"The movie got me!" It got all of us. I got to see this in the theaters when it came out, and we were all sniffling away until we all saw the red glow, when we all shouted in surprise.
Fun fact: Not too long ago, there was a kind of follow-up short film with the original "Elliot" all grown up. It was an ad (like they did with Die Hard w/one of the first movie villians and Bruce Willis), but it was still kinda fun seeing them hang out.
29:31 Best comment I'd heard for some time 😅.
OMG! This was uploaded on my 22nd birthday, and E.T. is my 2nd favorite film of all time. I was hoping you would see this film. Thank you, Angelina!!
This is one of those classic that everyone should be required to see.
I saw one of the first screenings of "E.T." with a full audience in a 1,000 seat theater. Standing ovation at the end. We all knew we had been the first to see a classic. Spielberg recut the end scene to fit John Williams score, very rare. Williams won an Oscar for this. Great seeing it again through your eyes!
ET came out in 1982. Another movie about aliens came out in 1977 was written by and directed by Steven Spielberg. Starred Richard Dreyfuss, who is also in jaws and Terry Garr Music was by John Williams
That musical moment to the end, when E.T. calls the line "Ill be right here". When the cuts and the orchestral variations play eachother....
this is the moment i cant hold my tears. even 42 Years after i was in cinema at about 13 years old. Im glad you feel kind o like the same ❤& ☮
ET was one of those movies that came out of nowhere and became a phenomenon. Spielberg was very smart, he underplayed it before the release and knew it would grow stronger by word of mouth instead of studio hype.
I LOVED how you reacted in realizing that it was Drew Barrymore. 😊 If I recall, she was only 4 years old at the time. Drew comes from a family of Hollywood actors, her grandfather was Lionel Barrymore, who is probably most famous for his role as "Mr. Potter" in "It's a Wonderful Life".
Your reaction was so much fun as always. It has been a minute since I watch E.T. and your reaction was so on point. You are an E.T. among reactors which I guess in this case stands for Extra Terrific! LOL. I know. That was goofy. Anyways I really enjoyed your reaction Angelina
Keep up the great work!
Nominated for 8 Oscars including Best Picture but won for
Best Visual Effects
Best Film Editing
Best Sound Editing
Best Original Score.
and was totally robbed by Gandhi 😡😡
the year before that, Raiders of the Lost Ark was also rob by Chariots of Fire.
the Academy didn't like Spielberg at all
Spielberg used Disney's formula when making ET - Which is to touch on as many emotions as possible. You feel angry, sad, happy, anxious, frightened, etc. If you can do that, you are guaranteed to have a hit classic. (Sorry for so many posts, but this was really a great reaction video. )
I had so many nightmares of E.T. as a kid. The beginning of the movie just freaked me out way too much nut once E.T. and Elliot became friends I was ok with watching the movie. My parents for some reason thought that maybe if I went on the E.T. ride at Universal Studios that I wouldn't be as scared of him but they were wrong. The wait in line was made to be like the forest in the beginning of the movie and E.T.'s head would randomly pop out of the bushes in places while you waited to get on the ride and I hated it. Now that I'm older though this is a movie I really appreciate.
I grew up watching this movie and it was at first a creepy, spooky movie as a kid but as I got older I saw things the way you did. It’s a timeless classic and I’m here for it.
This movie ran for 6 months in my small home town NH.
Other than Rocky Horror Picture Show, that ran in small theaters every w/e for 2 to 3 decades.
This was a never before heard of.
Saw it 3 times back when it came out with my then future ex wife and friends lol.
I still tear up. Thank you Spielberg for making us human with this one.
E.T. scared me so much as a young child that I didn't finish the movie, don't think I even got to the parts where it showed him being gentle and not dangerous. And he was the subject of my re-occuring nightmares for a couple years. It wasn't until I was almost an adult I watched the movie again and realized how feel-good the movie is.
Props to both you and Reese for putting together such a fun reaction!
I am about Drew Barrymore's age. I was that young when I saw this. I was completely heartbroken when ET died. Filled with joy & happiness when he came back to life. When he left, I felt the loss. I walked out of the theater it felt like he had taken a piece of me with him. I had never seen a movie that made me both happy and sad at the same time. It was a happy ending but it was like I lost a dear friend. It's been over 40 years. But when I see this movie I am four years old again, feeling those same feelings. That, is the power of movies. That is the power of Steven Speilberg. You can play any track of the music and I will know which scene it was in, and feel the exact feelings when I heard it the first time. That, is the power of John Williams. Over 40 years, and I still feel like I lost my friend. That, is the power of E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial.
If you haven’t watched these already;Some other great movies? from the same era to consider:
The last starfighter (1984)
Night of the comet (1984)
Explorers (1985)
Enemy Mine (1985)
The legend of Billie Jean (1985)
Flight of the navigator (1986)
Watching ET for the first time in 2024. You are more Extraterrestrial than the freaking ET himself. (pd: love you) :d
The Wild Robot is fantastic. The animation is insane, see it on the big screen. I cried when this movie came out and I still cry. It’s a perfect movie.
When I went to see E.T., my date and I got there just after the trailers, just as the movie was starting. The opening scenes were so dark that we had an adventure our own trying to find two empty seats with almost no light. We ended up sitting in the front row. I've never gone anywhere without a flashlight since then.
Pretty sure this movie is the original "Kids on Bikes" trope, which defines and expands on the idea of kids having to group together to solve a mystery, while doing with adult themes. Usually while going around town on bikes. This leads on to things like It, The Goonies, Super 8, Attack the Block, and Stranger Things.
I went to Universal Studios in Hollywood when I was 10 back in 87. We went into section where they demonstrated how the did the flying bicycles, and it was awesome, including having John Williams score playing around the building while the demonstration was going on. It was pure magic.
Some company, I forget which, did an ET commercial with grown-up Elliot for Christmas a few years back. Really cute, worth a watch.
Since you mentioned asking the viewers who they're going to be for Halloween, I'll be the Lon Chaney Jr version of The Wolf Man (1941) since it's a werewolf from the Universal studio monster movies
I'll be a cowgirl!
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg embed stuff from their movies into other movies. The ET species shows up in the Star Wars Senate, and R2D2 and C3PO can be seen in the hieroglyphs in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I forgot Drew was in this. She was so adorable. Awesome in Firestarter!!! you should totally catch that =D
watching this in theaters was just priceless.
I was like 16 and cried like a baby at the death and at the goodbye scenes, and still do sometimes when watching it again.
my second best Spielberg movie after "Raiders" (my all time favorite)
It's bout Dayum time 😁
great pick
Made my evening 💯
stay Awesome ⭐️
6:23, not chocolate, Reese's Pieces. Peanut butter and delicious candy coating, but not chocolate. Not those anyway. 🙂
Well, Reeses is peanut butter AND chocolate. As anyone who's ever eaten their products would know.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are peanut butter and chocolate, yes. Reese's Pieces, though, are just peanut butter in a candy shell. Read the ingredients; no chocolate or even cocoa.
Neil Diamond sang a song about ET called "Light Up Your Heart Light." Thought that might interest you as to how big of a Hit ET was in the 80s lol. In the book, ET had a crush on the Mom lol. There is also a sequel book, I haven't read it, but I've heard some things about it.
That' Moon shot, with them flying, silhouetted by the moon is iconic, and became the Amblin Entertainment logo.
We Gen Xers were just built different. Ride off in to the forest to stay the night with my little alien friend to chill out for the night? Why not? I got nothing else going on!
Facts.
The order of the movies as it fell in my life. Baseline (Born in 1970) Jaws when I was 6 or 7, E.T. when I was 11 or so and Jurassic Park when I was in my 30's.
This movie was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. I was 6 and went with my dad. E.T. getting scared in the bushes at the very beginning in turn scared the hell out of me and I had to hide.
I love the sketch from Family guy where ET is the special needs kid from the ship the other aliens tried to abandon on earth, and all their fingers on each hand can glow
I saw this movie in theaters when it came out. Though I am a guy I cried at the end. Now that I am 60 years old, I still cried during your reaction, not even seeing the whole movie. Movies from my era were so great. I hardly go to see movies today because they are not of the same quality.
My Twin sister and I were 3 years old when this movie came out and my mom took us to see it and my sister balled her eyes out lol.
Awwww!
This movie came out in 1982 and Rise of the Jedi came out 1983 - when Elliot was showing ET his action figures, it was the first time Boba Fett's name was mentioned in a movie
Fun fact: When ET sees the kid in the Yoda costume and says "home", it was turned into an in canon easter egg in Star Wars Episode 1 decades later, as there are members of his species in the senate chambers on Coruscant.
There’s a movie theory that states E.T is from the same galaxy as Star Wars explaining his telekinetic powers similar to the Force and when he says “home” to the kid wearing the Yoda mask stating he’s seen the Jedi Grandmaster before. Pretty interesting I’d say.
The most simultaneously heartwarming/heartbreaking line in this whole movie....
(ET illuminates his finger): I'll....be....right....here
27:32 Yep, the soundtrack is the real star here. This is, in my opinion, John Williams finest creation and that's some body of work to pick from ! The whole 'Adventures on Earth' suite from the beginning of the final escape and chase leading to that final rainbow stanza is PERFECT. It never, ever fails to reduce this 50+ year old guy to tears. Wonderful work from the Maestro of Maestros and he knew it because it was one of the rare occasions where Williams actually asked Spielberg to hear what he had composed without the footage. Why ? Because he couldn't match the visuals with the score as per usual but he knew he had something special. Spielberg agreed and once he'd heard it he took the movie back and re-edited the final scene to match the score.
6:23 those are not M&Ms by Mars, but Reeses Pieces. Instead of chocolate centers they are peanut butter centers, very soft and tasty. Imagine an M&M with a peanut butter cup center.
7:07 that adorable girl is Drew Barrymore
15:25 the "prettt girl" is Erika Eleniak actually is Playmate of the month in 1989 and she plays Jordan Tate aka Miss July 1989 in Under Siege.
17:05 i had a finger like that from Chiristmas. It glowed. Also, the Speak-n-Spell, had one of those too as a kid.
Elliot (Henry Thomas) plays in a good spy movie 2 years later.in "Cloak and Dagger" (1984)
Harrison Ford was the teacher. It cut was due to not adding anything to the scene, but the rumor was that he was so famous, they didn't want him to drown out the rest of the film.
If you haven't already, you should do Hook, especially if you do Peter Pan
“It’s a heart warming story, but it’s just not believable. Which is why I give E.T 1 1/2 stars”-Perd Hapley
and now who remembers that guy (nobody), and who remembers ET (everybody)
Awesome reaction of my favorite movie!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊
The “Tangled” reference to Rapunzel’s healing hair song was crazy💀😭
😂😂😂
@@ANGELINAA 😞
I will never forget the stand up comedist who remembered this movie as "how it scarred him as a kid" "horror" "a poo creature terrorizing all" and "every time he was hoping the good guys finally catch it it always escaped".
Was hillarious.
As someone who read The Hobbit in 1977. And has DMd since 1989. I love that they're playing Dungeons And Dragons.
Actually it is a game called Tunnels and Trolls that they play, not DnD. It has similarities, but also huge differences, just look at the BGG.
I remember seeing this is the theatre's when i was a kid, such an amazing experience!
we couldn't do pizza delivery when I was growing up. there was only one place that would deliver that far out of town... and then they tended to get lost.
or, if they ended up at the wrong address, they might have a shotgun pointed at them with a stern "get off my property!"
I watched this in the theater when it came out, I was 7 yrs old. Cried my eyes out!
Even Michael Jackson wanted to be involved in the project, having identified so much with the little alien's predicament of being stuck alone in a strange place and needing to make new friends, as he did in his childhood.
He eventually narrated a chidren's storybook companion to the movie and sang the song "Someone in the Dark" on that album.
He soon won a Grammy for Best Recording for Children. (It didn't hurt that his monster hit album "Thriller" also came out about the same time. 😄😉)
Fun fact: this alien species is part of the Star Wars universe. In blink-and-you'll-miss-it scenes, you can see a group of them in one (or maybe two or three) of the galactic senate meetings in the prequel movies.
It's funny how E.T. seemed to recognize the Yoda costume. In the Star Wars prequel movies, in the Senate, one of the Senate pods have delegates from E.T.'s homeworld.
Another fun Fact is the E.T. animators team kept someone at the controls at all times as Drew Berrymore would interact with E.T. between scenes. Guess back then she thought he was real.
A true Spielberg/ Williams masterpiece! Brilliant score! Disney plus will have a J.W documentary next month.
ET was a big event when it came out, the whole theater was crying when I saw it as a kid, it really hit people emotionally in a big way