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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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00:21:10   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]

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

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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]

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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]

01:00:48   that wasn't they couldn't lose them [TS]

01:00:49   there and it's it's really good but [TS]

01:00:51   eventually they are cropped they're [TS]

01:00:54   caught and they can't escape the cars [TS]

01:00:57   their cars in front of them and cars [TS]

01:00:59   behind them and they will never be able [TS]

01:01:01   to get ET to safety so so they're more [TS]

01:01:04   flying bikes and answer your question [TS]

01:01:06   from earlier this is where i lost my and [TS]

01:01:08   I felt like most of the theater did too [TS]

01:01:10   i mean it was because there was so much [TS]

01:01:12   tension the music the way they're doing [TS]

01:01:14   the camera zooms and suddenly they start [TS]

01:01:16   flying in the music swells and madden it [TS]

01:01:19   just was awesome [TS]

01:01:20   I i moved out loud I don't know if I've [TS]

01:01:22   ever done that in a movie when it [TS]

01:01:24   happened I just couldn't control my room [TS]

01:01:26   my friend was sitting next to me look at [TS]

01:01:27   me like what the hell's wrong with you [TS]

01:01:29   oh I didn't even mention the fake out [TS]

01:01:31   right before then what happens is they [TS]

01:01:33   break into the clear and they're like we [TS]

01:01:34   made it and then immediately there are [TS]

01:01:35   people all around them in the cars [TS]

01:01:37   coming that's when they fly so it's [TS]

01:01:38   super ratcheting up tensions like it's [TS]

01:01:40   almost like a jump-scare and then they [TS]

01:01:43   and then they fly is terrible it's [TS]

01:01:45   hysterically funny you know he dudes [TS]

01:01:48   like in dudes cocky yeah we did it and [TS]

01:01:51   then there's all the people because you [TS]

01:01:54   know you just trying to escape your kids [TS]

01:01:55   trying to bike away from a major [TS]

01:01:58   international global incident that your [TS]

01:02:00   government is on top of I think it might [TS]

01:02:02   be hard to bike away from that kids but [TS]

01:02:04   they think they make sure i can fly but [TS]

01:02:06   if your bike and fly it helps a little [TS]

01:02:08   bit so they fly their bikes in front of [TS]

01:02:11   the moon [TS]

01:02:12   because you gotta have that you know a [TS]

01:02:15   bad man fly since the everybody flies [TS]

01:02:16   there things in front of the moon is [TS]

01:02:18   what I'm saying Batman flies a little [TS]

01:02:19   bat playing in front of the Moon ET [TS]

01:02:22   flies his bike in front of the Moon you [TS]

01:02:24   gotta get that good shot in your movie [TS]

01:02:25   if you're going to fly and the moon is [TS]

01:02:27   really have that opportunity you you [TS]

01:02:29   don't pass that is it a full moon got [TS]

01:02:31   what we gotta do it then right i mean [TS]

01:02:32   we're lucky this moon this movie [TS]

01:02:34   happened during a full moon and not like [TS]

01:02:36   a like a crescent moon or something with [TS]

01:02:37   nearly as good [TS]

01:02:38   why don't these things ever happened [TS]

01:02:40   during like the waning quarter mood [TS]

01:02:42   crazy stuff happens during the full moon [TS]

01:02:43   David that's the ladies they do those [TS]

01:02:45   movies those movies just never get made [TS]

01:02:47   because we want to see those yeah [TS]

01:02:49   exactly right you just see the edge of [TS]

01:02:51   the bicycle wheel and that's it so they [TS]

01:02:52   reach the forest and the spaceship comes [TS]

01:02:56   down and is there you the ket your ride [TS]

01:03:00   is here [TS]

01:03:01   his heart glow it's a hell of an uber [TS]

01:03:03   for all of the this is another sort of [TS]

01:03:05   sweet adorable thing about that for all [TS]

01:03:07   of the tension of the chase scene once [TS]

01:03:09   they get there and it's clear that he's [TS]

01:03:11   going to get back on the spaceship [TS]

01:03:12   everybody comes and stands there and [TS]

01:03:15   watches and they take their time saying [TS]

01:03:17   goodbye it's fine it's all and that's an [TS]

01:03:20   another example of sacrificing reality [TS]

01:03:23   to make it the the feel what you want it [TS]

01:03:26   to be because the timing just does does [TS]

01:03:28   not quite work [TS]

01:03:29   I just had like people are showing up at [TS]

01:03:31   at times that you know that work well [TS]

01:03:34   for the narrative not so much when they [TS]

01:03:35   would have actually gotten there [TS]

01:03:37   yeah how is it that Mary and keys get [TS]

01:03:39   there and none of the other pursuing law [TS]

01:03:42   enforcement officers do things like that [TS]

01:03:44   has been to the forest and Gertie gets [TS]

01:03:46   there first but she was with her mom so [TS]

01:03:49   she runs in way before her mom and keys [TS]

01:03:51   do so what did what are they doing [TS]

01:03:52   apartment car time there parking Carly [TS]

01:03:54   dropped kandi off to get there [TS]

01:03:56   oh but it's and it's very much of a [TS]

01:03:58   piece with the end of Close Encounters [TS]

01:03:59   yeah it's again it isn't it it's a it's [TS]

01:04:02   a nice emotional finish even even if [TS]

01:04:05   it's not your logical it's almost like [TS]

01:04:07   yeah I i hate to say this but you know [TS]

01:04:09   it's kind of like the end of a play [TS]

01:04:11   where everybody comes out the stage and [TS]

01:04:14   vows this is like everybody gets their [TS]

01:04:15   chance to have a moment with ET before [TS]

01:04:18   ET leaves we all wanted we want to have [TS]

01:04:20   the emotional emotional fulfilling and [TS]

01:04:23   we don't want to have dirty as last time [TS]

01:04:25   she sees ET [TS]

01:04:26   he be when he's dead or anything like [TS]

01:04:29   that and they said no no no he came back [TS]

01:04:31   to life and flew back to his planet is [TS]

01:04:32   like I don't know if I believe you see [TS]

01:04:35   he's like my puppy is on a farm he went [TS]

01:04:37   to reform upstate [TS]

01:04:39   he's fine a planet upstate but it is [TS]

01:04:42   satisfied that was totally emotional [TS]

01:04:43   don't miss this movie makes i mean i [TS]

01:04:46   think what we've been saying is there [TS]

01:04:47   are times in this movie we're in it i [TS]

01:04:50   think consciously makes the decision to [TS]

01:04:51   go for the emotionally satisfying or or [TS]

01:04:55   resident image instead of it being like [TS]

01:04:59   supremely logical and that gives you the [TS]

01:05:03   fairytale aspect yeah i mean if everyone [TS]

01:05:06   talks about it as a science fiction [TS]

01:05:07   movie and you know it one what saturn [TS]

01:05:09   awards and all these things and you know [TS]

01:05:11   it's like oh it's the greatest science [TS]

01:05:14   fiction film ever made and no it's a [TS]

01:05:16   very tip yeah it's a fairy tale with the [TS]

01:05:18   science-fiction elements [TS]

01:05:19   yeah it's an alien fairy tail fairy tale [TS]

01:05:23   about namely growing up with a Catholic [TS]

01:05:26   theologian in the house this movie I [TS]

01:05:29   mean without even having the [TS]

01:05:30   conversation I'm already going wow [TS]

01:05:32   that's a lot of Judeo Christian imagery [TS]

01:05:35   holy cats because you know it's the [TS]

01:05:38   dying and the sacrificing to save the [TS]

01:05:40   human and then rising up surprising it [TS]

01:05:43   again and then going up into the heavens [TS]

01:05:44   and but it's never showing up in a [TS]

01:05:47   shroud when they open up the back of the [TS]

01:05:49   van [TS]

01:05:50   the Shroud of ET its kind available but [TS]

01:05:55   you know it's never heavy-handed about [TS]

01:05:57   it's never like hey we're going to use [TS]

01:05:58   this imagery whom you know it is very [TS]

01:06:01   light and I feel more like it's it's [TS]

01:06:03   it's steven spielberg rifling through [TS]

01:06:07   the imagery drawer and knowing you know [TS]

01:06:11   it is yes is ET meant to be Jesus no [TS]

01:06:14   buts ET s ET storyline is meant to eat [TS]

01:06:18   evoke things that can be revoked using [TS]

01:06:23   imagery that lots of people are familiar [TS]

01:06:25   with right it's sort of the reverse it's [TS]

01:06:27   like we it's in our cultural programming [TS]

01:06:29   now and those are those are things that [TS]

01:06:32   can be played and Exploited and used by [TS]

01:06:36   the stream movies telling and and just [TS]

01:06:38   like that [TS]

01:06:39   parallel science fiction movie about [TS]

01:06:41   hunting the alien we don't need all of [TS]

01:06:44   those details because we get it yeah and [TS]

01:06:46   we can focus on the characters like Andy [TS]

01:06:48   takes the the flower that came back to [TS]

01:06:50   life and that's the one that he takes on [TS]

01:06:51   the spaceship is like I got my flour [TS]

01:06:53   because he is a botanist right I feel [TS]

01:06:55   like they were collecting samples at the [TS]

01:06:57   yeah this rapture one that's pretty [TS]

01:06:59   potted yeah that was that was the one he [TS]

01:07:01   was he was left behind because he was [TS]

01:07:02   trying to collect yeah i got my flour [TS]

01:07:04   I got it I got a new kind of flower pot [TS]

01:07:07   that's perfect [TS]

01:07:08   I my I mean that's the kid that's [TS]

01:07:10   another cute aspect of it goes back to [TS]

01:07:11   me saying ET may not be a very good [TS]

01:07:13   officer on this spaceship is like I [TS]

01:07:16   these aliens are kind of adorable like [TS]

01:07:18   they really care about plants and that's [TS]

01:07:20   their thing and hand each other [TS]

01:07:22   yeah I'll at all of all the way back at [TS]

01:07:24   the beginning of the movie there's the [TS]

01:07:26   one still waiting there at the door on [TS]

01:07:29   the word me to come back [TS]

01:07:31   yeah and then and then he when he's had [TS]

01:07:33   a great adventure and he says goodbye to [TS]

01:07:34   all of his friends and he says you know [TS]

01:07:36   I'll be right here we get that it so the [TS]

01:07:38   the tears come to my comeback right then [TS]

01:07:40   has a little glowing finger and all that [TS]

01:07:43   but then he takes his plant and goes [TS]

01:07:45   away [TS]

01:07:46   ok come on plant I'm good and that's [TS]

01:07:48   just I i love i love that aspect of it [TS]

01:07:51   to that it's just like in the end [TS]

01:07:52   why did he come and visit us he wanted [TS]

01:07:55   some plants become what he does he does [TS]

01:07:59   invite Elliot to go along with that's [TS]

01:08:01   true yeah that's a really really [TS]

01:08:03   touching moment and I think like you can [TS]

01:08:06   cut it i think e.t knew that he wasn't [TS]

01:08:08   going to be able to go along with him [TS]

01:08:09   for the same reason that et is not able [TS]

01:08:11   to stay right on it would hurt his heart [TS]

01:08:13   if he was away from those people [TS]

01:08:15   exactly yeah and so the spaceship takes [TS]

01:08:19   off and departs by rainbow for other [TS]

01:08:21   planets using the rainbow they engage [TS]

01:08:24   the rainbow dr ya gotta install one of [TS]

01:08:26   those in my car show [TS]

01:08:27   rainbow drive and they're gone get to [TS]

01:08:29   get back to the fairytale aspects like [TS]

01:08:31   why would it not leave on a rainbow [TS]

01:08:33   come on that's right yeah that's it and [TS]

01:08:36   the music swells and that's the end of [TS]

01:08:37   ET NE gets home and everybody's happy [TS]

01:08:40   except maybe the mom but I think maybe [TS]

01:08:43   her faith in humanity is restored or [TS]

01:08:46   something like that let's hope let's [TS]

01:08:47   hope it gets better for diwali and you [TS]

01:08:49   know you gotta think that an experience [TS]

01:08:51   like this is going to bring [TS]

01:08:52   therefore their family together so you [TS]

01:08:54   know maybe they'll have a stronger bond [TS]

01:08:56   because they have gone through all of [TS]

01:08:57   this and things will change for them [TS]

01:08:59   plus you know the government smashing [TS]

01:09:01   through their windows and tended their [TS]

01:09:03   house they're probably going to get some [TS]

01:09:04   sort of you know phenotype settlement i [TS]

01:09:06   would think maybe yeah well yeah they're [TS]

01:09:08   gonna they're gonna be famous and and [TS]

01:09:10   and the dad is not is just out of the [TS]

01:09:12   picture so he's going to talk show [TS]

01:09:15   circuit yeah [TS]

01:09:16   mhm I'm I'm telling you she's gonna [TS]

01:09:18   marry Peter Coyote mm well they were [TS]

01:09:20   parking the car over here so you never [TS]

01:09:22   know they were they were doing something [TS]

01:09:24   in the car for a while i do think that [TS]

01:09:25   they'll get compensation of some form [TS]

01:09:28   from the government for the the program [TS]

01:09:31   probably by the house right it's like [TS]

01:09:32   the sight of of the famous alien [TS]

01:09:35   encounter and they'll turn into like a [TS]

01:09:37   museum or something it's probably still [TS]

01:09:39   more research to be done [TS]

01:09:40   Elliot to I i would imagine that Elliott [TS]

01:09:42   said not to totally ruin this movie by [TS]

01:09:45   speculating what reality what happened [TS]

01:09:47   yeah but but to do that I Elliott has [TS]

01:09:51   Elliot is a human who has been mentally [TS]

01:09:54   attached to an alien being bonded for [TS]

01:09:59   days with an alien and sort of got out [TS]

01:10:02   glimpse into the thought process of an [TS]

01:10:04   alien i would imagine that they will be [TS]

01:10:06   talking to elliot and using him as a [TS]

01:10:08   research subject for a long time which [TS]

01:10:11   probably be you know that probably pay [TS]

01:10:13   for his college tuition and all those [TS]

01:10:14   things because of that so yeah it'll be [TS]

01:10:17   okay eventually he becomes an FBI agent [TS]

01:10:19   and he's teamed with this beautiful [TS]

01:10:21   brilliant red head and they I did [TS]

01:10:23   actually want again in a lesser movie [TS]

01:10:26   that is not that is not this movie the [TS]

01:10:28   last scene is they go back home and as [TS]

01:10:32   they're walking into the front door [TS]

01:10:34   Elliot passes a planter box and all the [TS]

01:10:37   plants and he touches it and all the [TS]

01:10:39   plants bloom back to life [TS]

01:10:41   oh he's been left with ed powers and [TS]

01:10:45   then guitar solo tu tu ET le will return [TS]

01:10:48   in ET to the quickening yeah i mean that [TS]

01:10:51   there was a spate of movies after this [TS]

01:10:54   of you know aliens befriending children [TS]

01:10:56   and doing really making me and number [TS]

01:10:59   two the frozen every one of the [TS]

01:11:01   sucked was because they were all about [TS]

01:11:04   trying to be cute and doing things just [TS]

01:11:06   like that you know it's ago when that'd [TS]

01:11:08   be cool yeah and and they don't they [TS]

01:11:11   don't pay any attention to how children [TS]

01:11:13   really behaved they don't really pay [TS]

01:11:14   attention to the characters the way this [TS]

01:11:17   one does i mean this is a really well [TS]

01:11:19   realised group of of characters [TS]

01:11:22   yeah i agree it's such a just a great [TS]

01:11:24   movie I yeah I started out saying how [TS]

01:11:26   much i love it I since you know once i [TS]

01:11:29   started watching it with my kids and I [TS]

01:11:31   realized again how much I love it we had [TS]

01:11:33   a thing for my kids are growing up every [TS]

01:11:35   year on dad's birthday we would watch ET [TS]

01:11:37   together and to the sub was kind of like [TS]

01:11:41   a thing you know and let's say well what [TS]

01:11:44   do you want for your birthday that I [TS]

01:11:45   really want you to watch ET with me and [TS]

01:11:46   they loved it and we had a great time [TS]

01:11:48   now my kids are like you know high [TS]

01:11:49   school and college and I find myself [TS]

01:11:52   still watching it on my birthday [TS]

01:11:53   sometimes alone [TS]

01:11:55   it's just such a great i don't know i [TS]

01:11:58   like it relates a snapshot of my [TS]

01:12:00   childhood so there's a part of it that I [TS]

01:12:01   love for that but also i just feel like [TS]

01:12:03   it's a very well-conceived project and [TS]

01:12:06   everything in it works even the stuff [TS]

01:12:08   that doesn't work work for me right [TS]

01:12:10   yeah yeah yeah well then I mean that's [TS]

01:12:12   magic that's the magic realism III I [TS]

01:12:15   wonder if I'd kept in touch with the [TS]

01:12:17   movie / 0 over the years it it did not [TS]

01:12:22   hit me very strongly this time and I i [TS]

01:12:27   do remember how strongly it hit me when [TS]

01:12:28   I was a kid but I've been separated from [TS]

01:12:31   it for so long that as i watched it i [TS]

01:12:34   found myself feeling you know I'm not [TS]

01:12:37   really looking for magic realism I'm not [TS]

01:12:40   really i am having trouble turning my [TS]

01:12:43   brain off and I'm trying to turn this [TS]

01:12:46   movie into something it's not [TS]

01:12:47   and i'm not sure where I'm not sure [TS]

01:12:49   where that comes from you we recently [TS]

01:12:51   reviewed a significantly lesser movie [TS]

01:12:54   called Batman Returns that was very very [TS]

01:12:58   bright in my memory for something I [TS]

01:13:00   thought it was fascinating and weird and [TS]

01:13:02   edgy and all the stuff that was it i'm [TS]

01:13:04   having a similar moment of let down with [TS]

01:13:07   ET for some reason I can't really put my [TS]

01:13:09   finger on it other than [TS]

01:13:11   all of the other big movies in the big [TS]

01:13:14   franchises of the late seventies and [TS]

01:13:16   early eighties for some reason I feel [TS]

01:13:20   like they stuck around a little bit [TS]

01:13:21   longer and I felt compelled to keep [TS]

01:13:24   checking in with him [TS]

01:13:25   ET was a one-off and it left me behind [TS]

01:13:28   and on and and i'm just not sure do you [TS]

01:13:32   how how big does it still hold all flat [TS]

01:13:36   how big a place doesn't still hold in [TS]

01:13:38   current pop culture is it a period piece [TS]

01:13:40   is it nostalgia or is it still ET the [TS]

01:13:44   big blockbuster that we all still [TS]

01:13:46   remember fondly well let my kids both [TS]

01:13:49   saw in school the first time I didn't [TS]

01:13:53   even know I was like wait wait you saw [TS]

01:13:56   it in school because my wife and I said [TS]

01:13:59   we should we should see if they want to [TS]

01:14:00   see et they've never seen ET well they [TS]

01:14:02   both seen it and and over the course of [TS]

01:14:06   several days it was one of those time [TS]

01:14:07   killer things in school and that's [TS]

01:14:11   really not the best way to an experience [TS]

01:14:13   in the movie and you know and and so [TS]

01:14:16   they like it they liked it when we [TS]

01:14:18   watched it again and you know I I can't [TS]

01:14:22   help but think like the first time I [TS]

01:14:24   showed them star trek the wrath of khan [TS]

01:14:26   i even knowing that there were more [TS]

01:14:29   films with Spock later my son my older [TS]

01:14:34   son really had no idea what was coming [TS]

01:14:36   and so when Spock dies at the end it's [TS]

01:14:39   like oh my god and he had been [TS]

01:14:42   shattering all through the movie and he [TS]

01:14:43   just went dead silent for the rest of [TS]

01:14:45   the movie i really want to kind of you [TS]

01:14:48   know now that it's been a little time [TS]

01:14:49   since they saw it I kind of want to sit [TS]

01:14:53   down and turn out all the lights and [TS]

01:14:55   turn off all the devices and just say [TS]

01:14:56   let's just watch this and experience it [TS]

01:14:59   and see what happens but i know that the [TS]

01:15:02   whole generation of kids at least in [TS]

01:15:05   their school for them it's a movie that [TS]

01:15:07   kills time at school and that's kind of [TS]

01:15:09   depressing at the might get my kids are [TS]

01:15:12   older now and they've died already told [TS]

01:15:14   the story about them seen many years ago [TS]

01:15:15   but my my sister-in-law has two kids a [TS]

01:15:18   five and seven and we watched it [TS]

01:15:22   together and they had never seen it [TS]

01:15:23   before and I will [TS]

01:15:24   super curious to see how they liked it [TS]

01:15:27   the seven-year-old girl was completely [TS]

01:15:29   in I mean from the very beginning feet [TS]

01:15:31   she really enjoyed it she wasn't talking [TS]

01:15:33   she was watching during the part where [TS]

01:15:37   he's dying she like scooted in next to [TS]

01:15:40   me you know she wanted to be close but [TS]

01:15:43   the but the five-year-old he did you [TS]

01:15:46   just didn't care at all and I feel like [TS]

01:15:48   maybe this is the grumpy old man but you [TS]

01:15:50   know a lot of like you know kids [TS]

01:15:51   animation style movies today are a lot [TS]

01:15:54   of like an old fart jokes and like gags [TS]

01:15:56   and it just didn't feel like this movie [TS]

01:15:58   resonated with him at all but i think he [TS]

01:16:00   might have been too young to for to [TS]

01:16:02   resonate with him [TS]

01:16:03   yeah I have no idea how it how it lands [TS]

01:16:05   with kids at all these days but I know [TS]

01:16:07   for me kind of like it was with you chip [TS]

01:16:09   it i didn't check in with it at all and [TS]

01:16:11   I found it I found it enjoyable film to [TS]

01:16:13   watch I think maybe I'm still you know [TS]

01:16:15   Snoopy enough and an emotional enough to [TS]

01:16:17   to have all of those those cute sweet [TS]

01:16:19   scenes resonate with me enough to enjoy [TS]

01:16:21   I don't see myself going back to watch [TS]

01:16:23   it again it was just it was it was a [TS]

01:16:26   fine movie I i think it was very [TS]

01:16:28   well-crafted and I can see how it if if [TS]

01:16:31   i had seen it at the right time or the [TS]

01:16:33   right age and watch the beginning again [TS]

01:16:34   that this this would totally have been a [TS]

01:16:36   movie that I would have returned to [TS]

01:16:38   again and again is that didn't happen [TS]

01:16:40   that way and I don't think that it's i [TS]

01:16:43   don't i don't know that it's as well [TS]

01:16:45   known in you know the cultural zeitgeist [TS]

01:16:47   is it used to be i mean that's that's [TS]

01:16:50   going to happen but it's i feel like i [TS]

01:16:53   used to see a lot more references to it [TS]

01:16:55   in pop culture and that is is fading out [TS]

01:16:58   a little bit so I mean unless some sort [TS]

01:17:01   of big ET revival happens i would not be [TS]

01:17:04   surprised if as the years pass he [TS]

01:17:07   teaches sort of fades away [TS]

01:17:09   I feel like it's a club it's a classical [TS]

01:17:11   movie and will always be considered that [TS]

01:17:13   it is right i think it has reached [TS]

01:17:15   classic status i think what it is nice [TS]

01:17:17   is a science-fiction franchise right and [TS]

01:17:22   I yeah and it's never gonna be that and [TS]

01:17:24   that's good [TS]

01:17:24   I i read i think the wikipedia page says [TS]

01:17:28   that that's feel burger at one point was [TS]

01:17:30   throwing around a sequel and where [TS]

01:17:33   they're like no no it would be it would [TS]

01:17:36   do nothing but Robbie original of it [TS]

01:17:38   virginity is what steven spielberg said [TS]

01:17:40   about ET to nocturnal fears and so that [TS]

01:17:45   was made and so it is [TS]

01:17:46   I you know I think it's gonna be one of [TS]

01:17:48   those things where people like oh you [TS]

01:17:49   haven't seen ETO that's a classic like [TS]

01:17:51   it's it's on you know the national film [TS]

01:17:53   registry [TS]

01:17:54   it's a lie i feel like it's that kind of [TS]

01:17:56   movie and so in the end I do think it [TS]

01:17:59   will be remembered but it's not going to [TS]

01:18:01   be remembered in the context of [TS]

01:18:02   something like Star Wars which for [TS]

01:18:05   raiders of the lost ark where they [TS]

01:18:07   became the blockbuster movie franchises [TS]

01:18:09   because in the end [TS]

01:18:10   yeah it's a largely quiet fairytale kind [TS]

01:18:15   of movie I also would say i do think it [TS]

01:18:19   looms large on Steven Spielberg's [TS]

01:18:22   filmography and Steven Spielberg yeah [TS]

01:18:24   who is who is still making movies 69 he [TS]

01:18:28   still making movies but he is it safe to [TS]

01:18:31   say going to be recognized as one of the [TS]

01:18:33   towering directors of all-time and this [TS]

01:18:36   is one of his very best films and will [TS]

01:18:40   remain so so i think on that level it [TS]

01:18:42   will also be remembered but it's not in [TS]

01:18:44   the same category as movies that you [TS]

01:18:46   might categorize it with because it's [TS]

01:18:47   not it's just this you know it's kind of [TS]

01:18:49   personal and it's sweet and it's fairy [TS]

01:18:52   tale ish and it's not any of the things [TS]

01:18:54   and it has kind of no villain any of the [TS]

01:18:58   things that that would require it to be [TS]

01:19:00   more I don't feel like revisiting it [TS]

01:19:02   more than once every decade and myself [TS]

01:19:04   and and that that's fine because I don't [TS]

01:19:08   you know I can't remember the last time [TS]

01:19:09   i watched watch casablanca it's probably [TS]

01:19:11   time to watch it again but it you know [TS]

01:19:14   it but it's been a little while because [TS]

01:19:15   I don't feel the need to revisit all of [TS]

01:19:17   those movies all the time so classic [TS]

01:19:20   though I think also chip I think [TS]

01:19:21   somebody needs their heart touched by a [TS]

01:19:24   glowing alien fingernail haha one thing [TS]

01:19:29   that I do value about this movie and [TS]

01:19:31   it's not it was never intended to be but [TS]

01:19:34   it totally has turned we started at the [TS]

01:19:36   beginning calling a time capsule [TS]

01:19:38   it is so thoroughly obvious time it's so [TS]

01:19:42   thoroughly 1982 ya down to the you know [TS]

01:19:46   down to him playing with his star wars [TS]

01:19:50   figures in front of ET and [TS]

01:19:51   calling them by name you know all of the [TS]

01:19:53   all of the back pass between Steven [TS]

01:19:56   Spielberg and George Lucas really coming [TS]

01:19:58   out here but i was looking back into my [TS]

01:20:03   childhood I was looking into 1982 and it [TS]

01:20:06   looked authentic absolutely authentic [TS]

01:20:08   and that that is a gift for this movie I [TS]

01:20:12   think and just like it does not [TS]

01:20:14   it's not like a Stepford portrayal of [TS]

01:20:17   the suburbs rain right grown-up thing I [TS]

01:20:19   mean [TS]

01:20:19   Oh on Halloween when I grew up things [TS]

01:20:21   were rough on halloween night me when [TS]

01:20:23   you went out you had eggs and there was [TS]

01:20:26   stuff going on [TS]

01:20:26   I mean it's so much more milk toes now [TS]

01:20:28   at least where i live compared to where [TS]

01:20:31   I gave up and you know penis breath and [TS]

01:20:34   all that's I mean that's just kind of [TS]

01:20:35   the way of the world then and and you [TS]

01:20:38   know you didn't have GPS on your kids [TS]

01:20:40   and get all the stuff you know and and [TS]

01:20:43   so that's one of the reasons why i know [TS]

01:20:44   i'm nostalgic for now and i enjoy [TS]

01:20:46   because it reminds me of a different [TS]

01:20:47   phase of my life but but it is it is [TS]

01:20:50   wonderful that that it is there the [TS]

01:20:53   events go kind of magic realist but uh [TS]

01:20:56   but he really he really strives for [TS]

01:21:00   civility grounds it and and when it when [TS]

01:21:02   it's grounded and windy other other [TS]

01:21:05   movies off the time didn't pay as much [TS]

01:21:08   attention to where they were there was [TS]

01:21:10   set dressing but he's actually exploring [TS]

01:21:12   this is the pop culture of the time [TS]

01:21:14   these the Star Wars toys here's the [TS]

01:21:16   dungeons and dragons here's that [TS]

01:21:18   commercial and when you do a good job of [TS]

01:21:21   grounding it in a time then you [TS]

01:21:25   inevitably create a time capsule and [TS]

01:21:27   there are other contemporary movies that [TS]

01:21:30   just are not this one does it if you're [TS]

01:21:33   of age that you grew up in this late [TS]

01:21:35   seventies early eighties and you haven't [TS]

01:21:38   seen this moving in while you owe it to [TS]

01:21:39   yourself to just just watch it once [TS]

01:21:41   because it is so fun especially for [TS]

01:21:43   someone that lived through that area now [TS]

01:21:45   even though it didn't strike me [TS]

01:21:46   emotionally [TS]

01:21:48   uh the way it does you David it it did [TS]

01:21:51   it I am grateful that I got that I [TS]

01:21:54   rewatched it just to sort of reconnect [TS]

01:21:56   who i was back then huh [TS]

01:21:58   back when ship had a heart mmhmm yeah it [TS]

01:22:01   is then then for the next couple of [TS]

01:22:02   years because i was a scrawny guy with a [TS]

01:22:04   long [TS]

01:22:05   like the kids on the bus would taunt me [TS]

01:22:06   and call me ET so maybe that also has [TS]

01:22:08   some knows we just got to the room [TS]

01:22:12   sure yes ouch indeed therapy via podcast [TS]

01:22:16   everybody hug shoots to everybody hug [TS]

01:22:19   chip it's time for us all to grab our [TS]

01:22:23   flower pots and return to our spaceship [TS]

01:22:25   now so I'd like to thank my guess [TS]

01:22:27   Erica and sign thanks for being here [TS]

01:22:29   thank you for having me i'm going to [TS]

01:22:30   switch my keys to the other side of my [TS]

01:22:32   belts and head home [TS]

01:22:34   smart move chipset earth thanks for [TS]

01:22:36   being here I'll be right here [TS]

01:22:38   oh look at you it'sit's all it's working [TS]

01:22:41   now dear lord thank you thank you I i [TS]

01:22:44   will engage the rainbow dr excellent and [TS]

01:22:47   David Sparkes I told him to talk now he [TS]

01:22:49   can talk now [TS]

01:22:50   thank you Jason and thanks everybody out [TS]

01:22:52   there for listening we are indeed [TS]

01:22:53   engaging the rainbow drive and heading [TS]

01:22:55   off to the other side of the rainbow [TS]

01:22:56   which is in space or something [TS]

01:22:59   we will see you next week bye everybody [TS]

01:23:07   to done your heart late [TS]

01:23:10   ok ok I'll stop I'll stop will you know [TS]

01:23:13   let it shine wherever I just wish I [TS]

01:23:17   remembered more of the lyrics to heart [TS]

01:23:19   like yeah I'm grateful that you don't [TS]

01:23:20   want to know your heart like God I [TS]

01:23:25   wasn't gonna stop you did that day it's [TS]

01:23:27   your fault Jason chip i only watch [TS]

01:23:31   Baywatch for the articles and uh error [TS]

01:23:40   error error reboot ship reboot chip [TS]

01:23:43   summer Steve let's is smiling [TS]