ET: Did it feel "different" on the Special Edition?

[inglourious basterd]

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I was watching the DVD (keep in mind that I haven't seen it in like 7 years) and the story was totally different than what I recalled. Did ET die (temporarily) in the original? The whole final third of the film felt completely different. Was it really the same film? It just didnt feel that way...

[notchreturns]

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I know the feeling, Psudoazn. I saw E.T. about 3 months, but before that, maybe 6 or 7 years, and I totally forgot about the FBI involvement in the film. I thought Spielberg edited it around or something. But I did remember that he does die for a short while in the tent, but is brought back because Elliot is regaining health. Not sure, though.

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But, yeah, great film!

[Buck Turgidson]

"I resent that movie. I know that it was made by one of my oldest friends, but I feel that it soiled my aura." - John Milius.

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[Fergus]

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I think its just you haven't seen it in awhile Psu, the Anniversary Edtion has many changes (I counted 51 when I saw it in the theater), but the last third is pretty much the same except for the omission of the shotguns, and that ruins it a bit. I don't know if you're referring to the original on the dvd or the anniversary one..... But E.T. did die, and you were close notch, its because he gets a message that he's going home. :D Once again the Anniversary edition has many changes, but most of them minor changes, like the addition of two scenes, but my HUGEST peeve about it was the change of the opening scene, they totally change it, GRRR.... If you were talking about the Original, I haven't seen it on the DVD yet, I'm working on getting it very soon, but if I see any I'll post.

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Buck, why would Milius say, "it soiled my aura."????? I don't get how it effected him. :confused:

[Puck Bond]

Interesting that you bring this point up, because this year on Oscar night after the show was over I watched my video copy of E.T....because the special release was out. It had been years since I had last seen it. It still was the wonderful film I remember...a couple days later I went to check out the special edtion at the theatres(after hearing about the changes) and it didn't feel different at all. Yeah you see more of E.T. in the corn field and might catch the walkie talkies and yeah the special effects of the spaceship were brighter, crisper etc. but the emotions and feelings were the same...the wonderful feeling of seeing him flying on the bike and I still cried with joy at the end. Spielberg may have tinkered...but the emotions and feelings remain the same...and you can still tell this is a movie from the early 80's base on the look, dialogue etc.

Bottom line the special edition changes are barely noticeable.

[Buck Turgidson]

Well, John Milius is the guy who scripted Conan the Barbarian, and wrote a lot of dialogue for Apocalypse Now. That's the sort of stuff he's done in his career. He and Spielberg and Lucas were all at UCLA film school together in the late 60's. That quote is from a Playboy 20 Questions segment he did in @ 1991. I've always remembered it because I kind of feel the same.

I know E.T. is a deeply beloved movie by a lot of people, but there is a vocal minority of people, me included, who really hate it's treacly presence in our lives. Stuff like this made me really not care too much for Steve's films until he got back to doing serious work w/ Schindler's List.

Sorry to be so mean, but that quote is just too funny.

(Milius actually said he'd have loved the movie if it had been about a dog :) )

[robk]

Unlike the Special Editions of the Star Wars trilogy, the changes to E.T. didn't bother me at all because Spielberg was smart enough to keep the original version on the DVD. That decision & Minority Report both proved that Spielberg, unlike Lucas, is still as much a genius as he was in the '70's.

[APzombie]

before i viewed the 20th ann. on the big screen i checked out my old vhs copy first... I have to say that the new version doesn't ruine anything the original version gave us.... it is still the brilliant lovable film it was 20 years ago!