Home Artists Posts Import Register

Files

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review Commentary

Simone & George are reacting to ET the Extra-Terrestrial for the first time! Canadians React! For unedited full length version go to https://www.patreon.com/Cinebinge Merch Store: https://www.cinebinge.ca Subscribe | Like | Share | Comment Early Access & Full Reaction available on Patreon! #moviereaction #moviereview #stevenspielberg Instagram: @cinebingechannel Instagram: @simone.swan Movie Reactions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHakYDfILlxWOp8Rwm60i6s31 The Witcher Reactions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHakPpBOOSyThaEu9GBs7h5af Squid Games Reaction: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHakSIA0kJIJkUmcxmms0m_Q0 Band of Brothers: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHanBD7cksu-blgCyxZOJrgT0 Blind Playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHan3qPNF7wNbOvo653VjhxOR

Comments

Anonymous

And yeah, it WAS rough in the 80s. I remember in Colorado when Russians teamed up with Cubans and invaded. Took out a school, a whole town actually and we were completely cut off from what was happening in the rest of the country. Many of us grew up out there, so we know how to hunt and such. So we were able to stock up and hide out in the mountains while trying to come up with plans on how to regain the town. It was rough. There is a memorial on Partisan Rock which reads: “In the early days of World War III, guerillas – mostly children – placed the names of their lost upon this rock. They fought here alone and gave up their lives so that this nation shall not perish from the earth.”

Thomas Wendel

New poll: Nice/non-melevolent alien movies. Winner will be Enemy Mine. Explorers is good too but just fun. Enemy Mine is powerful

VisualHigh

I was born in 1990 so I obviously wasn't around for it's release but I don't remember a time before I had seen this film. It never bothered me really, I always felt they did a really good job of making E.T. endearing in spite of his design. I don't think it would have been nearly as iconic if he had a cute design.

Rob Church

When I was a kid I thought the cottonballs they put in the jars were pillows to make the frog fall asleep.

Amos T Fairchild

I'm still stuck on the film's font choices...

Rachel W

Please watch Spielberg's best sci fi film, "Close Encounters"(1977). It's fantastic. ET was always too cutesy for me-even as a kid.

Noe Ramirez

This was a childhood favorite for me. And same. I like that he's all weird looking. I found him creepy and weird as a kid for sure, but at the same time I loved him. Felt the same way about Yoda too as a kid.

Anonymous

George… As a biologist I can’t let it slide. The singular of species is still species.

MoulinNoir

this was one of the first movies i ever saw in a theater (i was like 5) and when baby drew screamed i screamed and i ran out of the theater and made my mom watch the rest of the movie with me from the exit doorway. as an adult, i think the alien design very aptly captures feelings about aliens at the time, which was very much that the idea of actually coming face to face with something that evolved on another planet would be a little creepy even in the best of circumstances. Like, people throughout time have thought about space aliens, for example one ancient roman satirist wrote about spending time with the rulers of the moon and flying through space in ships shaped like acorns. But when ET came out we had just about a decade earlier started actually GOING TO SPACE and standing on the surface of the moon for real and stuff, and suddenly the idea of meeting aliens seemed like a very real possibility (however improbable; the fact was any aliens that exist are in space and we were physically going into space, which is where they would be if there were any) So our space alien stories were starting to have a "no really, what might it be like to actually see an alien though" edge to them And i think it would probably be unsettling and disturbing to actually see an alien being in front of you. So a design that evokes those feelings seems right to me And in a lot of these movies from the time there seems to be an element of "the alien is disturbing or scary but if you get to know them they are super cool actually" which i think doubled as a commentary on accepting people and cultures that our own culture tended to "other" ... as well as functioning as a cautionary preparation, like reminding ourselves as a species that if we run into aliens we shouldn't automatically interact with them as though they are something to be scared of, even if they kinda scare us

Adam Wetstein

hairy fish on a pizza is disgusting

Anonymous

E.T was a movie that shaped me. No director today sadly captures the magic of discovery because even if everything is discovered today it is a trend or social notion that everything of substance is discovered now, and that is a substantial difference in this and that generation. Science had a magical quality in the 70's 80's and 90's but now it is the gray teacher telling you about all that is no fun. You've already seen "Contact" and I wish there were more movies made by "magical scientists" but I just enjoy anything you put out... So put out "Willow" already. It's time. Give Val Kilmer some love.

Ohmss

Flight of the Navigator was a great family-friendly alien film from the 80s!

Chase Lonnergan

So far it has amused me both times that George had trouble saying "Lonnergan". Heh heh.

Anonymous

Another "friendly alien" themed film that was made at roughly the same time was Jeff Bridges' "Starman". As so often happens when 2 studios make essentially the same movie at the same time, one becomes famous & the other, at best, a footnote. For example The Matrix & The 13th Floor, Armageddon & Deep Impact, Ex Machina & The Machine, Independence Day & Mars Attacks (technically one is action/adventure & the other scifi/comedy, but go through the stories plot point by plot point and yeah, they're basically the same movie),

Patrick Jackson

The soundtrack to Starman is next level. A great John Carpenter movie. TBH I prefer it to ET.

Anonymous

"Can't believe they showed that"!!!! Back in my day Hereditary was at most a PG-13 movie!!

Anonymous

I respect that. I enjoyed it too. I only wish it hadn't come out under the immense shadow of Spielberg's iconic epic. It might have gotten more attention & affection.

Anonymous

We weren't tougher back then but we're more in need of therapy now. Batteries Not Included is a wholesome movie with cute aliens.

Hyperdryve

Nice aliens from the 80’s? You should watch Earth Girls Are Easy XD

Anonymous

Starman starring Jeff Bridges is another suggestion.

Anonymous

Paul is hilarious!!!

Anonymous

E.T. is actually a Christ metaphor. (Being comes down from the heavens, performs miracles, tells people to be good, dies, is resurrected, and returns to the heavens.) Of course, it is not the first alien movie to do this...

Anonymous

"we were tougher back then" ??? - hell no, this was so upsetting for me when I was a kid!

Joits

Holy crap, as a really young kid, I was also afraid of E.T. and avoided it until I was in high school... LOL. Funny thing was I watched a couple of the Freddy Kreuger movies, some of the Poltergeist movies, a few of the George Romero zombie movies, but it was ET that scared me...

Anonymous

oh boy. This was not one of your better reactions...yikes. Shit was cringey as hell. It's okay, you guys make a lot of videos and not all of them will be good.