The Incomparable

00:00:00 ◼   ► the incomparable number 335 January 2070 [TS]

00:00:11 ◼   ► welcome back everybody to the [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► uncomfortable i am your host Jason still [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► we are here to talk about a classic film [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► this time classic science fiction film [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► from 1982 it's ET the extra-terrestrial [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► as directed by steven spielberg joining [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► us because they got lost while picking [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► flowers are my following guests David [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► jail or hello and the Elliots not here [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► uh chips on earth [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► hello I look forward to this discussion [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► of at the extra-terrestrial mmm i will [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► be talking about the Mary Hart John Tesh [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► oh not that he does haha very and [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► studying for this my whole life very [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► confusing [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► David Sparkes also joins us hi David hi [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► Jason remember years ago I told you if [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► you ever do eet you need to make me the [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► most excellent promise you they were [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► made that you would include me [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► yeah and here we are you see I keep my [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► promises like when I told the entity he [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► would be on the alien episode it took [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► years but it you know what happens [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► eventually and Erica inside [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► hi hello I was just excited to watch a [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► movie about intergalactic gardeners yeah [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► that's right about me finding one of the [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► less appreciated parts of science [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► fiction spit XO botany i suppose and you [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► know i'm a fan any opening statements [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► that happens a lot of people come [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► prepared with opening statements and I [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► want to you know I i want to hear them [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► out [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► I kind of have an opening statement i [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► love this movie so much i was in the [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► theater was a kid when I first came out [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► and I'm definitely here as the the blind [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► fan that's okay just put that out there [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► alright alright it'sit's I I doubt we're [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► going to savage this is not a rocket [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► surgery I doubt we're going to safford [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► savage etv extraterrestrial I could be [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► surprised i will point out that [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► something I'd forgotten but when et was [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► released in june of 1982 Star Wars was [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► the highest-grossing film of all time [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► and ET surpassed it and became a fort [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► for a decade the highest-grossing motion [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► picture of all time until another Steven [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► Spielberg movie Jurassic Park passed in [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► the 90 so [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► this was a success on essentially every [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► level [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► everybody saw it in the eighties [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► everybody loved it they didn't put it [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► out on home video for like six years [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► because they just kept re-releasing into [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► theaters and made people increasingly [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► angry I and then for many years it it be [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► still but I for many years I think NBC [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► broadcast it on Thanksgiving night as [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► sort of a good for the whole family [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► holiday film so yeah I think the most [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► impressive thing about et's species by [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► the way is that they travel across the [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► galaxy using only the power of rainbows [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► oh don't make me make David Sparkes [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► angry with me this early [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► please go drive the rainbow drives and [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► flowers it's a perfectly and there they [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► we come with rainbows seeking your [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► flowers [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► it's great it's pretty awesome alright [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► so et is a it's very interesting movie [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► in that I was gonna up before I serve [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► summarizing the plot i guess i have an [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► opening statement after all I'm [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► surprised but I say this about some [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► miyazaki movies totoro and kiki's [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► delivery service very specifically in [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► that there's kind of no bad guy in ET [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► there's Peter Coyote who is keys the [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► government agent who is searching for et [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► but even he in the end is kind of turns [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► out is not a bad guy they're just trying [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► to find this alien land that landed [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► their threat more threats than a [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► miyazaki movie because you do have the [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► sort of sinister music as the government [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► people look for ET but it's pretty [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► gentle it is a pretty kind of [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► delightfully gentle movie i have not [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► seen it since 1982 and it's stuck with [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► me pretty well but i did not remember it [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► being so lyrical I didn't remember it [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► being so [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► sweet you know it felt like it felt like [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► just a big blockbuster back then it's [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► very different looking at with severely [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► aged eyes [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► yeah I had kind of the same experience I [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► I don't remember when I saw it for the [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► first time I know it wasn't on its [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► original release in the theater because [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► we couldn't afford to go to movies so i [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► suspect i saw it like on VHS later or [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► maybe one of the releases and maybe saw [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► parts of it in between then and now but [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► didn't have a whole lot of memory like [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► the memories that I remembered where [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► that the the threats as you put it Jason [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► in the film were more heavy and real [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► than they are watching it as an adult so [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► I think it I think that you know that [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► that worked their whole swaths a plot [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► that i did not remember that you know [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► this did so yeah I think it's a [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► different experience watching it as an [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► adult but i think that the reason that [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► it worked so well and you know became [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► the top-grossing film for so many years [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► is because it did feel like it was a a a [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► real threat and sort of a scary movie 2 [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► kids to some extent interesting to me is [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► when I was a kid and I saw the first [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► time of course identified with Elliot [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► yeah and and that's part of the reason [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► why i love this movie so much is it is a [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► time capsule of my childhood I had a [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► friend that were ski mask we played [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► Dungeons and Dragons I mean the stuff [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► the stuff in the movie that you look at [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► it with 2016 eyes you say all that none [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► of that happened no it all happened it's [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► always in Elliot's room [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► yeah yeah okay we get on our bikes and [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► we had to be home when it was dark and [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► other otherwise our parents had no idea [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► where we were and it just was kind of it [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► was a snapshot of my childhood so of [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► course i love that now but as a kid I [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► identify with Elliot then my daughter is [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► now 20 when she was like for I hadn't [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► seen the moving years and I said well I [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► think she's ready for a tissot watch TT [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► and i just i think i got very nostalgic [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► seen that stuff but also the interesting [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► thing to me was when I watched it when [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► she was a child was identified with keys [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► which I hadn't seen the movie from keys [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► perspective in open you know when you [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► think about it as an adult you're [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► watching oh my goodness he's these [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► people have this alien in their house [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► and 30 [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► isn't so it was it was a good experience [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► for me from both ends of the transaction [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► i guess you would say now I feel alive [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► again maybe as an adult looking at it [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► but the threat here is not really a [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► threat that anything to they're gonna do [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► something terrible to ET the thread is [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► more like they're going to ruin our fun [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► we have an alien in our house [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► I don't want anybody else to know about [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► her or or find him [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► I just want to keep them for myself as [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► the hey Erica it's a one alien for [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► Christmas right by one that's exactly it [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► i want to i just did he's from his mind [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► he's my pet alien and so that's the [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► threat from the government is like you [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► know they want to ruin everything by [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► like learning about him and maybe you [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► know because honestly could ET have [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► communicated to his home and radioed [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► home more effectively with the resources [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► of the federal government probably this [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► felt the little more sinister than that [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► in that I thought that there was kind of [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► a bad guy which is what the ignorance of [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► adults throughout this movie except for [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► Elliot's mom you never see it it's [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► almost like peanuts come to life you'll [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► never see adult heads you never see [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► anything in anything like that and the [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► first time that you actually see a [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► full-on human silhouette is when you've [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► got when you've got dudes an astronaut [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► suits uh the walking dead in their way [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► and yet in the front door that's super [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► scary and we would need to talk more [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► about that when we get there but you're [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► right i mean yeah you're right there [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► it's a threat and if you're a kid seems [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► like there's just as an adult I look at [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► it and I think yeah you know is that is [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► it really that scary you know if the [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► music is scary that's actually one of my [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► first notes is that this is john [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► williams a year after raiders of the [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► lost ark doing a score that at moments [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► is the uplifting ET kind of music that [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► we think of but especially in the early [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► scenes it's much more raiders of the [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► lost ark where it's sort of slow and [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► kind of dissonant and spooky and I think [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► that does that I think that goes a long [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► way that the the people in their cars [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► going through the forest and the and the [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► john williams music makes it seems [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► scarier [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► then you know at least as an adult I [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► look at it and I think they're you know [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► they're just looking for it that they [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► think there's an alien spaceship that [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► landed in the forest because one did and [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► they want to find out about it you know [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► that's not not unreasonable but maybe [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► this means i'm terrible and I should get [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► a set of keys needed my help we're also [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► looking at it in a post x-files world so [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► now we can empathize with FBI agents [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► looking for aliens I kept expecting keys [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► to sort of morph into the dude from the [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► Starman TV show opening theme where he's [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► always talking to camera i can get you [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► the alien but he doesn't ask Peter [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► Coyote he tells a nice story at the end [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► about how he's been dreaming about alien [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► since he was since he was Elliot's agent [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► turns out he's you know he's just a [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► regular guy and he feels really sad like [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► all the doctors do but we'll get there [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► maybe we should start at the beginning [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► and mrs. very good interesting we see [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► keys investigating it's all dialogue [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► long stretch of of no dialogue here we [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► don't really that we see the people [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► investigating the alien landing you know [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► I the there's a spaceship there they're [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► going through the forest great gathering [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► plants people are coming we see the keys [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► there is this John Williams score that [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► is great but its its its sinister and [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► then in the end the alien spaceship [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► sends out its called for its to recall [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► all of its botanist or whatever and one [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► of them gets left behind and that's [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► that's our buddy that's ee that's the [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► the title extraterrestrial i love the [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► love the way they when they say they're [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► scrambling to look because they think [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► there's one left and they want to take [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► off and then there's a shot at a fence [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► where all the flashlights point up in [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► the sky following the spaceship and then [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► simultaneously they all go down and [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► start their search [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► it's very Spielberg to me oh yeah yes [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► yeah they're there are a number of of [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► times where things are you know [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► realism is sacrificed for the sake of [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► getting the shot or making something [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► beautiful like keys for example who [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► keeps moving his keys from one side of [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► his hips to the other does that mean [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► this thing he's got a lot of key to [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► unlock a lot of doors that's the thing I [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► kept thinking too is like why do you [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► need any keys back in the days when the [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► size of your keyring you know she'll [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► never Andy work i love the world [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► building of the you know the interior of [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► the ship you know you pay attention and [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► yet it it's a bottom the expedition the [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► aliens are visiting us to check us out [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► the way that we would be doing [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► theoretically 200 years from now i love [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► it that we're that we're weird the [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► indigenous where the indigenous [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► life-forms and there's a clever [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► scientists except for the clever [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► scientists you can't figure out that [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► it's time to go [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► yeah he's just caught up and in getting [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► those plants that they have a prime [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► directive of some sort / presumably but [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► also i like the fact that these are [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► aliens did you get back to the x-files [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► point they just want to probe our plants [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► not our bodies and that's fine that's [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► they're nice they're just looking for [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► salad [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► yeah that's right hungry a technical [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► issue here so that the all the suburban [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► stuff is shot in the San Fernando Valley [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► in Southern California but the forest [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► stuff is shot like it in Mike Northern [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► California redwood forest i believe so [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► it's a it's a this is a this is sort of [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► a suburb that doesn't quite exist where [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► there's this kind of amazing forest [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► right backing up on the suburb but still [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► we see we see down into the suburb into [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► essentially the san fernando valley it's [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► never specified but that's where they [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► shot it where the the alien perhaps is [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► going and we see a house populated by a [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► bunch of kids there are older boys who [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► are playing Dungeons and Dragons and [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► there's the younger boy [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► Elliot who wants to get in on the action [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► there's a lot that goes on in this scene [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► there's a lot of dialogue there's the [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► there's a whole dnd thing going on [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► Elliot trying to get in with the older [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► boys that are playing with his brother [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► but I wanted to stop and just say it's [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► funny in the highest grossing movie of [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► all time the places where you find [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► influence and like stranger things would [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► not exist were it not for this scene [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► like this scene is stranger things it's [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► the people who made that that movie that [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► or that that netflix series said you [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► know that scene in ET we're playing [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► Dungeons and Dragons what if we did a [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► whole show of [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► that because that's basically like it's [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► all there [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► Freaks and Geeks also seriously [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► references this scene in ET this is like [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► for me this is the the the ground zero [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► of you know of a tease [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► kids playing and and you know ordering a [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► pizza and all that stuff it's all right [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► in here which he is just i was struck me [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► how how much quotes that that scene in [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► the house angry and ended it really mean [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► that's what we were doing you know i [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► remember playing the very brief amount [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► of time I play dnd was right around when [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► he came out [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► yeah the dnd people must have been very [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► happy that there's role-playing [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► happening even like the dialogue is a [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► little edgier than you'd see in the kids [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► movie these days [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► oh yeah and they're douchebags thrown [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► around a lot of kids movies these [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► tickets for penis breath i remember how [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► scandalized my mom was at the penis [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► breath and in and then immediately [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► ensued with a well they did that just [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► just to keep it from being rated g and [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► it up that that behind it yeah yeah [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► those were the words we were using at [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► the time I mean it's not it's it's it's [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► a tactic [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► yeah but my mom didn't like to think [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► that that was which case those are our [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► 16 year old boys doing with 16 year old [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► boys do and then there's you know or 15 [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► year-old boys whatever and then there's [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► you know ten-year-old eleven-year-old [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► whatever is somewhere around there [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► Elliot who once you know who wants to [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► play with the big boys but he's a little [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► brother I do think they're trying to get [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► across the point that deal Wallace is [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► trying to hold it together the breakdown [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► of the nuclear family was a big deal [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► here as well yeah she'sshe's only she's [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► recently separated she's not divorced [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► yet yeah it'sit's been recent but that's [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► a through line for her and the kids is [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► throughout is you know the abandoned the [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► abandonment my dad and the the that just [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► that the trauma that there really that [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► that seems to inform Elliot a little bit [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► you know I've got to find somebody to [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► take care of here [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► it's very clear there's a very personal [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► movie for Steven Spielberg his parents [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► split up when he was young [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► and that that's that's where this is [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► coming from like this is this is his [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► childhood issues kind of brought into [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► this fantasy setting which is kind of a [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► classic thing I think to do it is recent [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► he's got he the father has run off to [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► Mexico with his his new girlfriend he [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► doesn't even like Mexico but he went to [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► Mexico anyway it's that it's it stuff so [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► so yeah she's dead she's trying to do [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► well it's trying to hold it together [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► they order a pizza which turns out i [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► think they're not supposed to do and [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► they have Elliot go get the pizza and [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► from the delivery driver but on his way [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► back with a pizza he thinks there's [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► something in the garden shed [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► don't-don't-don't there is an alien it's [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► really an alien shit [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► no it's a raccoon it's a raccoon surely [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► there is a raccoon in this moment just [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► later and don't call me shirley fit so [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► so Elliot is a intrigued he also steps [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► on the peets kills me everytime it's a [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► god no good one job you had one job but [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► it's a bit i think the scene is [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► interesting it was so he goes throws the [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► ball and then it all comes back flips [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► flips out and then again just kind of [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► another sign the deal Wallace's is [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► barely hanging on the kids all grab [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► knives and yes right and then Michael [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► said he looks at these tracks that are [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► clearly not a coyote [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► yes mam the Coyotes are back at that's [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► one for the movie i can never understand [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► it's not like you'll be tracks it's dark [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► and they don't they're not prepared for [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► alias it's mostly just scuffs like you [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► don't actually see any very clear [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► footprints oh yeah yeah but i feel like [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► she I think she even says like don't she [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► tells them not to do the knives or what [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► everything that that's that's the thing [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► where I where as an adult I look at it [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► and I just feel so bad for her because [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► her life is kind of falling apart and [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► she's trying to keep it together is that [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► in this scene she tells that the boys [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► not to do everything they do and they [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► just blow right past drives yeah right [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► i've seen families like that yes hello [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► parent of a fourteen-year-old yeah so [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► yeah so so reese's pieces are used as a [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► as a guy I an attractor a lower yes yes [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► that's my that's one of my favorite [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► things just like that is that is perfect [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► kid logic like you know what do i use to [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► attract an alien [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► well Lisa's resist pieces because you [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► know candy sweet who wouldn't want candy [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► i love it i want Reese's Pieces can [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► lower this animal and aurélien back to [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► my house with with with candy but he has [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► a peanut allergy know that's the [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► alternate ending when he's on the table [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► at the end of the movie he says he [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► dalenge haha I don't entirely understand [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► why that works uh there is i don't [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► exactly understand why in is awaiting [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► manual ET thinks that the logical thing [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► to do when the ball is thrown in is to [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► throw it back out and when a UH an [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► indigenous child leaves candies lying [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► around that he follows around to pick [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► them up at that point he might be hungry [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► can you really blame him but he bring [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► some back at least many of them back [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► some of them some of my meeting about [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► how many must have been left out there [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► 200 forest you leave all the way home so [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► he saves like 644 Elliott says it's a [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► small gesture in my headcanon he he [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► recognizes elliot from the first meeting [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► from the pizza meeting and says well [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► maybe this is a place I can be safe [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► this is the place where the fact that [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► i've only basically seen it once and [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► it's loom so large as a pop-culture [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► piece of history and now I'm seeing it [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► again after so much time this is where [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► old brain really has me at a [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► disadvantage because I keep expecting [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► the movie at this point and keep [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► expecting ET to behave more sensibly [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► then he does i have complex headcanon [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► about et's behavior to which is mostly [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► the tt's kind of screw-up because I mean [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► let's face it he got left behind on an [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► alien planet [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► he's kind of a screw-up yeah and I also [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► think he's kind of whimsical here a [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► little bit this is one of the many [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► things that he hasn't come with Yoda [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► maybe I think each I think he's kinda [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► like having a good time and he's like.he [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► it's a kid it's gonna be fine and the [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► other the other thing I would throw in [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► there is [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► so they're aliens they they do weird [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► stuff the way they think about in [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► situations and this though this comes up [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► later if they just do weird stuff you [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► know what would who are we to say that [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► this is not perfectly logical behavior [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► for them in their culture we don't know [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► maybe the prime directive is to not [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► interfere with the ball so send the ball [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► right then the ball back [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► that's right but that's interfering with [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► a ball Jase date whoever you superior [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► you agree with me then go to screw up [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► basically he's definitely not exactly [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► Starfleet's finest no clear he got left [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► behind on it away mission because he was [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► too busy with his flower pot or weapons [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► the Barclay of of this group that's what [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► it is [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► let me take a break from our episode to [TS]

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00:20:42 ◼   ► shockingly fair price you've probably [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► heard me talk about it before I've been [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► sleeping on the cast for mattress for a [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► couple of years now and we love it it's [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► it's really a fantastic mattress and [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► they can pay me to read their ad they [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► can't pay me to endorse their product i [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► would have to actually like it [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► am I do it's a really great mattress [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► there are supportive memory foams in the [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► Casper mattress that create this [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► award-winning sleep surface they like to [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► say it's just the right sink in just the [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► right balance it's gotta feel that is [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► very different from the mattress that i [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► used to have which I like and many times [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► to a trampoline it was really bouncy my [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► cat would likely pause the bed if i sat [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► down on the other side because he was [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► disturbed [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► he's finicky cat but it was kind of [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► unpleasant now I sit down and I don't [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► feel like I'm making waves i'm just [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► sitting on a very comfortable sinky [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► surface and i also don't feel like I'm [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► getting sucked into it when I'm laying [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► there it is supportive as well pretty [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► remarkable [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► I like it a lot time magazine named it [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► one of the best inventions of 2015 and [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► here's what I think is the best part [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► about a mattress you order over the [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► internet instead of seeing in the [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► showroom [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► first off you can't learn a lot from [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► showrooms anyway because you're laying [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► on there for a couple of minutes but the [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► best thing about Casper is they will [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► send it to you and you can try it out [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► for a hundred Knights risk-free so [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► there's really no risk here at all [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► all get it try it if you like it then [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► you know you paid for it and you've got [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► a new mattress and if you don't like it [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► you call casper and they'll take it back [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► and you're out nothing so it's Casper [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► understands what I'm saying they know [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► how important it is for you to sleep on [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► it literally sleep on it before you [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► commit and they're going to let you do [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► that for a hundred days there's free [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► shipping and returns to the US and [TS]

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00:22:37 ◼   ► Casper obsessively engineered shockingly [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► fair prices check them out and thank you [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► to Casper for sponsoring the [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► incomparable I so he brings the reese's [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► pieces back he follows Elliot to his [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► room there we get a lot of interesting [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► interesting stuff in here they are they [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► are mirroring each other's movements but [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► you also get right before that you get a [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► I guess whether you like a ten-year-old [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► explanation of how the world works and [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► that was just precious [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► I thought also i would add that the the [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► soundtrack the music of I think some [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► meeting of friends on the soundtrack [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► it's the music that he plays it's a harp [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► and very soft me to get I think it's [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► some of john williams like really nice [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► work if they were if you're listening [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► soundtrack i think this the music they [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► play this is perfect for that scene [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► yeah its your right there there is the [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► he tries to Elliot explains how how the [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► world works and what various objects are [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► very advanced point and it's delightful [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► because they are it is it is so [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► wonderfully without any context that any [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► alien could possibly understand it's [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► great [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► yeah the idea that he explains what a [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► car is using a little like hot wheels [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► matchbox car like even if alien could [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► understand the words he was using that [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► would make no sense knows these to get [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► around how but Elliot so deadly serious [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► that it just [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► love it every time it's like so hard [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► he's trying so hard [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► yeah so precocious why does ete the car [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► he's just an alien and aliens do weird [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► stuff again [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► well why not everything else Elliot has [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► given him has been food and we can meet [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► this to its little piece of metal to eat [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► metal here [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► sure maybe 10 as a matchbox car allergy [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► know this this had a real impression on [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► me as a kid his whole plan of faking [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► being sick to stay home from school [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► where he's got the stuff he's got the [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► the the the thermometer and he's putting [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► it on the lamp and he's got the the [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► heating pad that he's putting on his [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► face and then his mom comes in the room [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► and he pulled you know pulls the beating [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► pad off and put the thermometer in his [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► mouth and I love that little bit where [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► he puts it in backwards and then [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► realizes and gets put into a nice little [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► detail their wonder how many kids burn [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► their tongues check the copy i take it [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► you got it you got to be careful doing [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► that because if you actually put the [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► thermometer right to the lightbulb it [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► will shoot up so high that your mom's [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► going to know NBD leader 120 that's [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► not that I've ever tried that on there [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► are subtle science there this is more [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► getting to know each other [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► the movie so when you watch this movie [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► multiple times you realize that they are [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► because what happens here is a Elliot an [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► ET are connected there's sort of [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► mentally connected and you can see it [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► happens in early point not only are they [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► kind of ETA is kind of imitating his [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► movements but you have the whole the the [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► startling with the umbrella that et is [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► startled and Elliott gets scared so it's [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► like they are good very clearly [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► connected even if you missed that on [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► first viewing very clearly connected [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► yeah I don't know when that happened [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► it's it's not really clear but very [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► early [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► they're connected yeah i thought it [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► actually was in retrospect was meant to [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► happen just after like just before [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► Elliot falls asleep because they're like [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► looking at each other and they're both [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► like rocking and I was like can eat can [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► eat hypnotized this kid what's what's [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► happening and I didn't put it together [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► until much later that that was probably [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► the time that he was sort of like [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► inserting himself and Elliot's mind [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► oh my god that's pretty sinister [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► actually [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► a little sea see Dan was right there is [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► also the scene though when when they [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► when Elliot for when he first comes back [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► and there in like I guess it's like a [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► cornfield or something these tall weeds [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► and they both flip out at the same [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► moment and that seems to be very similar [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► to but maybe it's just because they're [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► both seeing each other [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► this is where Elliot introduces ET to [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► his big brother Michael and to his [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► little sister Gertie the second one is [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► more accidental yeah [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► yes because he makes that this is david [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► this is your you gotta make the most [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► excellent promise [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► yes and I have absolute power we got [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► about your power business there's a [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► there's a bunch of yoda references in [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► this movie too and it's great because [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► curtsies czt and screams and the scene [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► that follows her scream I all I could [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► write down in my notes was madness [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► because it's just really chaotic like [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► everybody running around with her hair [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► on fire moment in the movie at that [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► point it's great i hate movie scenes [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► when you have the everybody screams [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► moment it makes me just break out and [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► home alone hives but this time it works [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► it just really does work [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► its glorious so we watch this with the [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► whole family and I I turned to my [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► daughter as gritty appeared on screen [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► and I said hey drew barrymore and and [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► Jamie just what [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► yeah it is drew barrymore at her cutest [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► little five-year-old self in this movie [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► it is very funny to see her and realize [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► that she went on to have like a whole [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► career but here she is little little [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► sister adorable so adorable haha so [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► adorable mad this also i love the fact [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► that that he introduces his brother to [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► the alien so quickly like because I mean [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► they could have stretch that out and had [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► some more wacky hijinks with him trying [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► to hide ET but I one of the real charms [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► of this movie is is you know the kids [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► sort of not even versus the adults but [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► just the kids banding together and be [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► kids and i love i love the idea that [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► while he is the younger brother and he [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► does get treated like a younger brother [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► most of the time he still he still loves [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► his older brother [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► dance and wants to bring him in on this [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► so he does and then of course the older [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► brother that the treats him very [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► differently after that because oh my god [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► it's real it's real [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► yeah it's just do the any of the rest of [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► you get a fairytale vibe from this story [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► oh yeah who are specifically [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► specifically because of the fact that [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► for most of this movie it's the kids [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► versus the adult it's the it's the it's [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► the the three children who are teaming [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► up to protect and take care of their new [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► buddy its yeah I I came into this [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► expecting more science fiction than i [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► had and i got fairytale and that threw [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► me off a bit so it's also classic [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► children's literature and just in a way [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► that the parents are absent or at least [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► its structured so the parents are not [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► involved I mean Harry Potter is like [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► that to this day is that same sort of [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► idea that it's the you know the kids the [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► kids are the ones who have the adventure [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► not the parents and so the killing off [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► the dad they send him to Mexico [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► yeah he doesn't even like Mexico think [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► yeah we skipped over that seemed that [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► that was a very interesting that [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► watching it again as an adult where you [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► know they have kind of the the dinner [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► confrontation and that was pretty heavy [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► you know I don't remember as a kid that [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► scene but looking back on it could you [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► get away with that scene today I don't [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► think so nice i think i think people are [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► too jaded about that [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► yeah i mean that the goal is to show [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► that she shattered right they might show [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► that today it might be a different way [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► that you showed that she's she's feels [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► like completely destroyed here and he's [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► running off having a good time and she's [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► left she's left holding the bag but it's [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► a classic it's a classic move [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► so you know it's still I think it still [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► works but they might do handle it [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► differently today because divorce you [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► know [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► yeah that did with this was at a point [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► where we're culturally we were just you [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► know accepting that divorce was a thing [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► that happened all the time where it was [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► it was still and still kind of shameful [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► in a way that it probably isn't today [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► well and also it's it's you know [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► Spielberg's own experience I me he did [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► have an imaginary friend as a child when [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► his parents split up this that mean [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► that's the germ of the idea that became [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► the movie [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► sure and so it's it's coming from his [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► experience of its not just oh well [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► here's how we're gonna show this story [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► here's how we're gonna show this couple [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► breaking up [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► it's that it feels personal in a way [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► sure sure the let's see what else [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► happens over there is a great shot in [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► here because we keep coming back to [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► brief moments of the of the people and [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► key is searching for the alien there's a [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► great one of those shots where you know [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► you zoom out and Ollie in so the [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► backward the background kind of recedes [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► which field are used to great effect in [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► Jaws actually and you get you get a [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► great shot of that here with a who as as [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► keys is in looking down on the [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► subdivision that that they live in [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► Gert declares that she doesn't like eet [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► EES feet [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► I enjoyed that I thought that was I [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► thought that was good [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► they're weird they're weird feet shaped [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► funny her non sequiturs are some of my [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► favorite things that's nothing haha mr. [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► Barrymore is awesome through this whole [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► movie yeah [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► alligators in the sewers didn't even [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► mention that [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► watching it now I i wonder how much of [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► that how much room he left for [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► improvisation and and just sort of [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► random things because you know that some [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► of those things you wouldn't necessarily [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► script so you know maybe that's her [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► saying yeah he's good we're treat ya [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► right here they ask where he's from and [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► he makes the play doh float to make like [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► a little la solar system of your system [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► yeah and he makes a he makes a flower [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► come back to life [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► I dead flower he's got powerful his [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► pickup hours he could levitate stuff [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► again nearly and he's got weird [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► there's weird stuff we don't know about [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► him but he's living in the house [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► oh and the end there this leads into a a [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► scene is is this where the scene happens [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► where the mom looks for looks for what's [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► going on in the closet and sees all the [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► stuffed animals and et is just a stuffed [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► animals that is a that is one of the [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► most amazing scenes in any movie ever [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► that he's just got his eyes wide open [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► completely surrounded by all of all the [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► stuffed animals its iconic that supports [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► Jason's ETS Yoda theory as well I think [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► haha that twitter account one perfect [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► shot that would be that would be a yes [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► that I think absolutely totally how do [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► you like that and that's right around [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► the scene i'm not sure exactly [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► chronologically where do else's is [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► telling the bedtime story and they have [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► that shared closet and 80 and Elliot the [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► world is right for them as they sit [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► there and listen to the mother tell a [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► bedtime story is very sweet kind of [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► where things start to go wrong [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► yeah of course yeah is that are they [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► doing like that like Peter Pan [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► yeah it's going to be your plan and it's [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► the part where they're talking about you [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► know clapping and believing in other [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► ways to to bring them back to life which [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► is you know automatically appropriate [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► given the end of the movie and in a way [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► it's the moment when the adults start [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► sort of intruding and getting in the way [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► alright so here we go it's time to [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► detect some frogs at solo I guess I mean [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► did anybody else dissect frogs at that [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► young age [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► he's like 10 I yeah Julian's 12 and they [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► did frog dissection [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► yeah that's we did it when it was in [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► seventh grade and I i did pretend to be [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► sick to get out of it is 7th grade how [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► old you are when you're bringing your 10 [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► because i also did it in no 10 10 is [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► fifth grade if you if he's truly 10 [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► years old I'm not sure it's at his age [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► never specified to even the actor was 10 [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► e week we could we get that I think [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► they're suggesting he's yeah i mean old [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► enough to to to have a girl he likes and [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► dissect a frog as it was handed down as [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► a tradition from the olden times as my [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► younger son loves to point out he always [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► remembers when his older brother was in [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► fifth grade and they got to dissect owl [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► poop that was the most exciting thing [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► for like three years [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► haha yeah but this little when you [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► dissected frogs little bit anybody have [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► to kill frog no entiendo [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► no they were already dead that mean I [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► that's the by get over that was the [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► creepiest part that within that was sort [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► of the ok this sort of this the sort of [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► priests ages what's going to happen when [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► the agents come to investigate ET but [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► it'sit's chicos dissection get it really [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► is but yeah I would I would I had the [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► already the pre dead formaldehyde and [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► frogs not they kill them your self put [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► the drop the cotton ball in there and [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► they'll just go to sleep yeah it's [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► pretty gruesome and I don't know if they [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► ever did it that way or that's just a [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► construction in order to have them be [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► freed by Elliot but before we get to [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► Elliot freeing them we have to talk [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► about what he's doing it this time which [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► motivates the memories hungry and [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► thirsty so he's gonna he's gonna drink [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► beer but he doesn't like potato salad [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► that's no good and he just reads the [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► fridge i love the way the dog has [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► finally accepted et is just part of the [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► family now because he's just doesn't [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► follow submitted the kitchen full of [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► hope that potato salad which he does [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► because ET might drop some food [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► yeah and he does it because he's [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► emailing and he's calling his little [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► clumsy but this is where we see that uh [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► that a that et is connected with Elliot [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► because I Elliot is feeling the effects [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► of ET drinking the beer Elliot burps [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► Elliot's acting wacky and then [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► eventually Elliot decides to free all [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► the frogs and and and have them be able [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► to turn them loose in the classroom and [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► out of the classroom and starts a more [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► madness more more another wacky scene [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► where kids are running around crazy and [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► delightfully he he ends up mirroring the [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► movie that's on the television back home [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► kissing the girl in his class the blonde [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► girl in a in a romantic gesture as the [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► frogs all leap around behind them [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► it's stepping on the kid crawling by so [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► we can reach up to her lips [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► yeah and his future playboy playmate [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► Erica alenia and Baywatch co-star LOL [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► Erica alright yeah you know I enjoyed [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► that seen as a kid but I think I enjoy [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► it more now as an adult [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► that every time it just delights me [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► what's charming and it's it and its [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► total magic realism at this point [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► because there weren't that many frogs in [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► the room at first and all of a sudden [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► it's biblical [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► that's what made the William scores like [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► classic Hollywood it swelling and then [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► yeah it's great [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► yeah so some other things that are [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► happening here so so I i enjoy there's a [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► there's a telephone add that BTW watches [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► he looks at the buck rogers comic strip [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► he's putting together a way of [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► communicating what he wants to do in [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► terms of giving you are using a phone [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► and and reaching a spaceship and all of [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► that so you see sort of like the the [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► building of the of the lexicon hear the [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► let's see uh the guy [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► Gertie is watching Sesame Street so he [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► learns from he learns from that while [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► he's also reading the buck rogers comic [TS]

00:37:48 ◼   ► strip and if somewhere around here is [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► also where mom mom comes home while et [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► is wandering around and that's this led [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► some like for almost farce of you know [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► him moving around and she's moving [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► around she doesn't see him which is [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► pretty amazing [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► mhm she opened the refrigerator door and [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► he just topples over has just glorious [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► like fucking looking down that far that [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► was another one of my favorite blueberry [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► more moments the man in the moon but I [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► think you might have already killed him [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► she's just so blase about it well I [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► guess maybe you'll get to meet him after [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► all she get the phone call from the [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► school and the line that I thought that [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► I didn't ever notice before but I that I [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► i caught this time is you hear her say [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► at one point i am not paying for frogs [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► yeah that's that's when I think we [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► should take some home that's what she [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► says I drivers where I draw the line [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► yeah that's right and we get it we gotta [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► be good in here to be good [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► so the learning of how et is learning [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► how to communicate with with the humans [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► now thanks to his maybe not the drinking [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► beer but the watching TV and and [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► listening to Gert he's he's starting to [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► put it together [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► Nelly comes home oh I i have another [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► great line that i wrote down because it [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► was great [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► I taught him how to talk now we can talk [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► now in Italy it's just so offended i [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► think because she makes so much more [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► progress [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► yeah and and she dressy dress them up [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► and she dressed in my bow god yeah that [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► alien he's gonna he's gonna be treated [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► like a like a like a dress-up doll [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► that's fine it's adorable and a spy van [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► rolls through the neighborhood I just [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► throw that into meanwhile the [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► government's by vans are on the move [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► they're getting closer every I again as [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► a kid I don't think I noticed this but [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► you notice it as an adult watching it [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► like every time we see them there that [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► much closer it's like incremental e [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► closer to the house they're figuring it [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► out and listening to everybody on the [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► blogs into all the conversations that's [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► right including the ones that are [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► characters are are having but you know [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► can you really tell if somebody was [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► talking to an alien in one house on the [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► block and you could listen in would you [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► know they were talking to an alien or [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► about an alien i don't know that i can [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► tell my kids safe kids now the [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► government doesn't need a van to listen [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► to you and that's about the time that [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► they're putting together the machine to [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► yes it's time to build a phone to phone [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► home we've got the Speak & Spell we got [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► the we got the umbrella [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► we gotta can aluminum foil ya again [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► aliens a saw blade a whole bunch of [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► wires [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► yep its technical and it's wind-powered [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► apparently right because it's the the [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► the blowing tree doing that structure [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► chunk with the saw blade right yellow [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► rain right but the one they're [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► collecting the tools is also when you [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► get the big conversation between Elliot [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► Michael about their father and that's [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► the first time you really have any [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► disguise have him in the movie yeah and [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► it it doesn't really it it doesn't [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► really inform the poor push the plot but [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► it gets the it gets that mood across [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► although with i'm not sure that if I'd [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► been in that situation I would have [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► talked about old spice or sea breeze or [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► whatever you know the the scent of the [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► shirt that might not have been where I [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► would have gone [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► yeah if you were too sentimental guy but [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► again you know this is one of the [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► reasons i love the movie is but yes it [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► has a plot [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► yes the plot moves but the whole movie [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► is not about the plot it's a [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► out getting getting to spend time with [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► these characters and that is really a [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► hallmark of seventies and eighties early [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► eighties films that I kind of Miss these [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► days I kind of Miss but you know we have [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► to have continuous moving and plots and [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► explosions and you know i'd like to get [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► to know these characters because that's [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► you know what the difference between all [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► the different aliens with kids movies [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► are the characters you know you could [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► argue that the plot that there's another [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► movie going on that they much more [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► conventional movie which is government [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► scientists try to find a runaway alien [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► on earth [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► yes haha and yes ET what we get is [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► occasionally we will cut away and see [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► that movie is continuing and that's like [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► the plot and it's like the kids are are [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► playing with their alien friend and [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► there's two there's some plot here right [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► because they're there they're learning [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► but it feels like too much more [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► conventional plot is happening somewhere [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► else and occasionally we see that it's [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► progressing and then eventually at the [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► end of the movie it collides with this [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► movie and they have to deal with it and [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► it's ok for that to happen [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► enter to be so oblique because we [TS]

00:42:21 ◼   ► already know have that plot works [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► exactly [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► we don't we don't have to see it in [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► detail and then say the third plot is [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► you know a family is trying to get blown [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► up families trying to deal with it yeah [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► right which-- which you just don't get [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► in the kids movie these days I don't [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► think you know not really that would [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► have been covered [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► yeah this is where we learning he's got [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► healing powers to write do we well he [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► made that he made of the flower come [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► back to life [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► no no any he gets a cut on his finger [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► right knee heals the cut is I think [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► blows his fingertip gets all glowy [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► salient have powers man powers weird [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► things that's right [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► halloween and somebody dressed up so [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► what do you do when you've got an alien [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► you take them out of all the days you [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► could take about an alien and say look [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► at my friend he looks like an alien but [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► now they put a sheet on him cuz my holes [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► and say yeah totally [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► yeah it's really it's really ingenious I [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► i love that I love the scene where uh [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► mom is just a little too excited little [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► to overall emotionally overwrought over [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► how cute the kids look in their [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► halloween costumes and snap the picture [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► and stuns ET immediately [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► but this this movie is really good for [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► falling over gags seems like the moms a [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► little it to me [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► sure okay haha Jenna and I do love that [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► drew barrymore just getting pissed off [TS]

00:43:39 ◼   ► and pacing anything for them [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► yeah and then ET I finally allowed to [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► walk out in the world and he sees a [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► world where people are dressed in these [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► totally weird things and then at one [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► point he sees it somebody in Yoda [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► costume and thanks haha one of my people [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► and it's gonna it's gonna chase after [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► Yoda and then they have to kind of like [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► steer him away because the golden music [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► at that point turns to Yoda's theme from [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► Star Wars and john williams world that [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► right in its great and that was because [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► i remember seeing it like either opening [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► weekend or the weekend after and that [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► was the hugest react yes i agree movie [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► agreed the the room went bananas i [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► remember that memories from 1982 it's [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► funny yeah Elliot and ETR off on their [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► bike on on Elliot's bike they they're [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► joined at this point it's their bike in [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► order to deploy the the phoning home and [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► we see our first instance of flying [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► bikes i had forgotten that the flying [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► bike happened so early in the film I was [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► just remembering the later instance but [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► then I just realize it's checkout slide [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► like that's right and Elliot is coughing [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► this is the this is our first sign that [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► eet is getting sick he wakes up and et [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► is gone they have to search for him [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► Elliot's getting sick Michael finds ET [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► this is grim stuff Michael finds eat and [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► all kind of gray and and laying in a [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► land in the water [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► yeah being like snuffled by a raccoon [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► what gets with reason there's a raccoon [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► yeah the last thing you can't defend [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► yourself from raccoons bad man out of it [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► i heard the helicopter coming in and I [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► was not remembering the movie pretty [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► well i was thinking that this would be [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► the moment when uh you know the [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► the government agents swooped in and [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► grab him but it's not quite that grim [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► but throughout this movie all the way up [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► to this point you know I I feel like [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► Elliott and Michael and even greater you [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► know they know the kind of movie that [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► they're in possibly before they're [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► supposed to they they figure I think [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► they they they surmise that et is an [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► alien they surmise that the government [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► agents are going to come in and swoop in [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► and pick them up and and all the stores [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► the sort of thing they've got to keep [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► them away from the adults they don't [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► ever consider that no getting an adult [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► to help out would be a good idea which [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► is very prescient considering what [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► happens but that's that's one of the [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► things that I have trouble with about [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► the movie is that they know which movie [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► there in just immediately [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► yeah it's so this is a so now the link [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► obviously that things start to move [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► really fast at this point this is where [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► we get weird with were sick I think [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► we're dying where Elliot is now [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► referring to them as a as a unit and the [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► mothers holding the coffee and she just [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► lets go and you just she slowly pours it [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► out onto the floor [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► that's great because my actions smart [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► thing and it's so believable that when [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► they're getting really sick okay it's [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► time to bring mom in on this [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► yeah yeah and it and it and of course it [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► doesn't work out that well because mom [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► is justifiably freaked out about this [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► and she wants to protect her kids from [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► the scary space alien and then she [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► almost immediately discovers that she's [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► just as much as at threat and that the [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► that's a dangerous situation for [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► everybody as well because it's you know [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► knock knock astronaut calling yeah okay [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► so something alright i love i love it i [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► love this movie but here it is [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► yeah but this is this is weird and I [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► feel almost died not knowing the story [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► behind this [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► I feel like almost that this was [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► somebody's an image somebody had in a [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► dream or in a sketch that they made or [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► something like that which is like you [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► know you open the door [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► and there are astronauts standing [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► outside because it feels very dreamlike [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► and one of the reasons that feels [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► dreamlike is it doesn't make any sense [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► that people that people would be wearing [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► like Apollo astronaut suits and they're [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► going through the mini blinds to that [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► one got me as a kid I'm like wow yeah [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► and not only that but just parked [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► walking with arms outstretched I mean [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► like a scooby-doo villain [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► yeah I mean I i get that they're [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► supposed to be like hazmat suit but they [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► have has been suits in this movie and [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► these are not separate thing [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► yeah exactly and it is it's bizarre [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► again I I feel like what this is is it's [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► it's scary and a weird creepy indelible [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► image and all of those things are true [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► all of those things are true and yet [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► it's sort of weird the evil space aliens [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► you know I think that's that that's part [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► of the that that's part of the message [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► you [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► they come in with their NASA patches and [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► their big gold advisors but they're the [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► scary ones you know they're the aliens [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► and the folks inside the house including [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► ET or not [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► yeah and you get the desired effect but [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► the interesting thing is that's it [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► I mean that's the only scary because the [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► next thing you see there there's got him [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► in a hospital bed and they've got a [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► bunch of doctors taking care of them and [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► it's like they didn't go anywhere with [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► that I think for grades just another [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► example of sacrificing realism to make [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► something that looks cool [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► yeah and amp up the drama i wrote down [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► fun image but why it's like that it's [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► like it is a fun image and that's what [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► and you know what [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► it's a great image and I remember it i [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► will say this I'll give him the movie [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► credit the movie never tries to do like [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► a lot of work to explain that image it [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► just moves on which is good because i [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► would say a lesser movie would build all [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► sorts of dialogue about why it was the [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► way it was and things like that it's [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► like now just do not know forget it you [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► saw it we we moved on and now we're in a [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► hospital setup and the people have some [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► some like hospital gowns and hazmat [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► suits and no nobody is an Apollo [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► astronaut anymore I mean if you want to [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► go for the magic realism [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► and the dreamlike logic I mean for the [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► characters in the house yet it it just [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► something totally scary is happening and [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► they don't understand what's going on [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► okay sure but as as a movie that we are [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► watching it's like oh right yeah you [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► could definitely argue that it's like [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► from their perspective it is this then [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► their people then people showed up at [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► the door wearing these crazy suits and [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► they were everywhere and we were [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► freaking out right and this is a this is [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► an illustration of that even though they [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► were really hazmat suits and make they [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► were coming through the blinds but it [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► felt like that and that's and the movies [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► trying to get across that feeling [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► it's just that it's just stopped me cold [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► every time when it's like mad bass been [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► it then it goes even further and the [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► house gets a gets given the breaking bad [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► treatment interest rate gets tented [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► everybody's got everybody's bringing [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► their oxygen with them for a longer time [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► yeah and and you know the point is this [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► is not your house anymore you this is [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► not your home anymore it we we are [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► taking it over because this thing that [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► you have is so scary and unknown keys [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► sees this as an opportunity to learn [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► yes but everybody else is following it [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► everybody still follow following the the [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► government bureaucracy military model [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► here of take it take control of the [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► situation take charge and fear and fear [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► right if your children are open and [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► curious and enthusiastic and the [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► grown-ups are afraid [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► yeah i was actually perfectly fine with [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► them tending the house and stuff I mean [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► that seems like a logical thing to do [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► do you have you know if possible really [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► make sense from another planet that the [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► thing that got me was how quick they [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► were to just discard that like inside [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► yeah you know after after et's dead [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► suddenly everybody's taking off all [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► their masks he could be worse after he's [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► dead you don't know anything about him [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► to explode and release boards that turn [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► you into an ETA for all you know you [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► have no ec2 even then he would be the [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► real monster there you go [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► that won't happen if they fed him after [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► midnight yeah Peter Coyote gets to talk [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► now he we've been seeing him do a lot of [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► him acting basically [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► haha really but frankly acting but uh [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► but we get to hear Peter Coyote who is [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► it's fun [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► he's a fun actor and he he says Elliot [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► I've been to the forest which I really [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► love that I love that moment what's he [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► doing there any it is like he's he's [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► still threatening I as an outsider but [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► at the same time you get the sense that [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► he's you know I don't know he's starting [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► to make a connection and we and we and [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► we begin to appreciate a little bit more [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► about about what's going on here ways [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► he's able to say I get it I kinda know [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► what what's going on [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► yeah it's okay to talk to me exact he's [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► one of us just to a certain extent right [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► yeah yeah he still grown-up who has a [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► job to do but he at least empathize and [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► lots of doors unlock and I thought that [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► was just a really good bit of acting by [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► henry thomas that the kid playing Elliot [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► at that part of that he was that really [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► stands up forget every time it has to [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► have to carry a whole lot of this movie [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► and I doesn't doesn't print you know he [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► does a pretty darn good job [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► he's one of the reasons this movie is a [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► success he was he was 11 when this movie [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► came out so presumably 10-11 when they [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► shot it and he does a pretty amazing job [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► I gotta say yeah mhm I'm usually not i'm [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► kinda like Lisa and then i'm not a fan [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► of child actors in general but i do [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► think that Henry Thomas is spent I mean [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► they really just to shop for the moon [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► here Ben and hid it because you get [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► Henry Thomas and drew barrymore up in [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► the same film [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► no wonder it was a blockbuster yeah yeah [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► yeahs alligators in the sewers [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► this is the moment where ET dies then [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► and everybody leaves the theater sad [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► right well so I a moment that I really [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► love is a science-fiction fan in this [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► movie is there's that moment where they [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► keep showing their charts and they're [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► both getting more and more sick and then [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► and then their their vitals begin to [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► diverge from one another and he said you [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► know he and and so suddenly Elliot any t [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► have set have separated and Elliot is [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► sort of shouting and at you can as a as [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► a non you know science fiction literate [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► filmgoer you don't even need to really [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► get that but I i love that because this [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► is [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► they have all of the signs are there [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► from when they first attached to this [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► moment which is this is ET detaching [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► from Elliot so that he doesn't take him [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► down with him [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► yeah but when i when i saw this this was [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► the one moment in when i was young that [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► I sobbed like a baby [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► it is gut-wrenching when Elliot screams [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► you're killing him you're killin ya and [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► they aren't listening to him that was [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► utterly painful for me back then now I [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► was pretty sensitive back then Mike when [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► I wept buckets over Snoopy go home soon [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► become home but uh but in this case you [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► know his helplessness and his inability [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► to stop the adults from doing something [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► all fall they're doing all the wrong [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► things in their in their Palace effort [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► to save the alien except i don't i don't [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► think they are [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► I really don't i think they're trying [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► their best to save him and at that point [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► he's adapted he's detached so he has no [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► idea that that what they're doing so I I [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► honestly don't think that they are what [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► skilled killing ET at all i think he was [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► just dying anyway and that's why he [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► detached and there's nothing that we do [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► for it [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► yeah exactly so they're doing their best [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► and you know they had that which is [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► another reason i think that Jason was [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► his observation right at the beginning [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► with was so real and so right on is that [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► there's there's really no bad guy even [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► even in this scene where these are sort [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► of the scary people and it's in this you [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► know this is a whole section of the [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► movie I did not remember out of the [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► hospital type stuff and even even these [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► people are actually they have a tease [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► best interests at heart we are trying to [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► save desperately right yeah a little kid [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► who is just so scared that and he just [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► doesn't understand what's happening that [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► he assumes that that they're hurting him [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► even though it's not really the case i [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► think i agree i don't i don't even [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► necessarily think that Elliot believes [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► that they are intentionally trying to [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► kill him I just think he believes that [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► they're screwing it up and he's lost [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► that agents and he's been et's protector [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► yeah and now he is not and i think [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► that's a big red of ye that was the [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► thing that really destroyed me and he [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► feels powerless about it I soju 1982 was [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► a real bumper [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► a bumper time for me crying and movie [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► theaters because you know starter to [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► came out the week before my way and that [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► is the most i've ever cried in a movie [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► theater when Spock dies spoilers for [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► start-ups black eyes and and uh yeah I [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► know and then ET 80 dies in in ET and [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► it's very sad and I and and that was [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► like came out a week later I don't know [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► if I saw the week they came out pretty [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► soon thereafter right i saw both those [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► movies in quick succession and remember [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► just bawling at both following my [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► eleven-year-old eyes right out [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► so yeah so chip yep that's it so you [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► basically went to ET died you just [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► couldn't take anymore you left the [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► theater and and and and that was the end [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► of movie night [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► yeah goodnight everybody so then it [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► turns out ET the the the flower comes [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► back to life and it turns out the dt is [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► not dead after all [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► all he needed to do was be stuck in the [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► fridge for years i have thought that [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► this is nonsensical and a ripoff and [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► shameless and manipulative but it's not [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► i have come all the way back around on [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► this which is our i will cite my [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► previous statements about aliens which [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► is he's an alien [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► I don't know what he's doing here we [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► assume he's dying he's probably putting [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► himself in some sort of hibernation or [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► stasis until his people come to get him [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► at which point he wakes up [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► which he does because they do right so I [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► I'm willing even though it's never [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► explained I i originally felt kind of [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► negative about it but now I feel like [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► he's an alien [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► we know we shouldn't put our labels on [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► him is that is that how you feel about [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► this error occurred you have some other [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► reason why this is I've been pretty [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► pretty close to that because I like i [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► said not remembering this I I was [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► starting to feel the same way that you [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► originally did I was like oh my god is [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► this the end of the matrix again we love [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► conquers all and that's what is it like [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► it's a crying boy and suddenly he's [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► better and i was i was getting ready to [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► be very grumpy with this film but then [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► know when his his little heart thing [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► starts glowing one of the very first [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► questions that that he had that kid asks [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► is are your people coming back and he [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► says yes so I think it's very clearly [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► laid out that the reason that he is is [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► getting better is because his people are [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► close enough that he's able to have this [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► connection [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► I mean they show at the very big [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► getting of the film that like when when [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► one person's heart lights up all of [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► their hearts light up and that's how do [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► you know they are connected in some way [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► and I i assume that that's y et started [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► dying in the first place because he had [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► been disconnected from his people for so [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► long and and they were so far away [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► yeah they got close enough that he was [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► he was able to revive I mean that I do [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► believe that the alien know he's an [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► alien so we don't necessarily know what [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► being dead means for an alien I mean [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► maybe if he would have stayed like that [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► longer he would have actually died in [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► this was just nick of time they don't [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► explain that but but yeah he's an alien [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► he needs people close to get to Alpha [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► Centauri and they're like a is where [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► sparkly so now yeah that's right we [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► gotta turn around and go back and we're [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► getting a signal that's really weird [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► it's like somebody put this together [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► with a tin can and and sustained foil [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► and a and and some string a circular saw [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► so then we get wacky breakout action [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► seem that happens which is funny and [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► this is the part that I had forgotten [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► all the details of but it all came back [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► to me as I'm watching we get the they [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► figured they figure they have to break [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► out they steal a van that's got the [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► plastic tube on the end and there's a [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► guy in it for a while and then and then [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► he finally they finally disconnected and [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► and and reject him that there's a great [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► line in here where Mike is Michael is [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► driving the van and [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► driving the van and [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► and they equally questions is driving [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► and he says look I've never driven [TS]

01:00:04 ◼   ► forward before because we only see them [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► backing the earlier and backing a car [TS]

01:00:08 ◼   ► down the driveway for for his mom and [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► then I said al I've always liked this [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► post to the park and he was not to get [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► there because mom always try yeah yeah [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► that's right they get there on the bikes [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► and the bikes can go all sorts of places [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► the car seat so you think you get this [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► the cars are chasing them and they get [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► they get on they get on their bikes [TS]

01:00:25 ◼   ► there's a another great line is katie [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► just beam up this is reality Greg week [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► after Star Trek that's amazing [TS]

01:00:35 ◼   ► so then there's a bike chase the cars [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► are going around the bikes are chasing [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► around it so it's really a pretty great [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► little bit of scenery where the bikes [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► are trying to go like they go down like [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► down the side of one house and then come [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► out but the cars are right there like [TS]