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Does anyone like the movie E. T. Extra Terrestrial (1982)?



It's pretty good, but a little overrated.

ET the Extra Terrestrial Original Trailer 1982

The film opens in a Northern California forest as a group of alien botanists collect flora samples. US government agents appear and the aliens ...

ET The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Trailer

ET The Extra-Terrestrial - Starring Dee Wallace, Drew Barrymore, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, C. Thomas Howell, and Erika Eleniak Release Date ...

Some Thing, In the Way, Whenever She Moves: A Review of The Thing

By Gary Westfahl

Certain sorts of films, it can be argued, resist all forms of critical analysis. Seemingly made for no purpose other than providing audiences with a series of thrills, they can be evaluated solely on the basis of whether they have been successful in achieving that goal. Thus, watching this third adaptation of John W. Campbell, Jr.’s novella “Who Goes There” (1938), I found myself recalling not any earlier films but a favorite Halloween pastime of southern California residents, Knott’s Scary Farm, where visitors to the theme park can stroll through a series of mazes and have one costumed ghoul after another threateningly leap out at them for some harmless excitement. What is different about The Thing , because it is an expensive contemporary film, is that its monsters do not leap out of dark corners, but out of people’s chests, and instead of merely wearing horrific makeup, they employ CGI effects to colorfully transform

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 - Bookshelf


E.T., the extra-terrestrial, a novel
246 pages
E.T., the extra-terrestrial, a novel


E.T., the extra-terrestrial, a novel
246 pages
E.T., the extra-terrestrial, a novel


E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 - News


ET flying bycicle scene is rated top memorable scene in poll
ET flying bycicle scene is rated top memorable scene in poll ELLIOTT'S cycle flight with ET is the most memorable scene in 100 years of movies made by Universal, according to a poll of film fans. They ranked the moonlit clip from 1982 flick ET: The Extra Terrestrial – set to John Williams's memorable score – as

10 best summer blockbusters; 'Star Wars,''Finding Nemo'
"ET The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982): Elliott (Henry Thomas) doesn't have many friends and doesn't know how to fit in. Then he finds an alien stranded on Earth and tries to help him make his way home. Some people think Steven Spielberg's films are too

In a Club of His Own: Kent Campbell, executive director of the Boys & Girls ...
Courtesy photo In 1982, ET – The Extra Terrestrial was playing in theaters, Michael Jackson's Thriller was pumping over the airwaves and Ronald Reagan was president. And a 29-year-old, Indiana native named Kent Campbell took the reins March 1 of that

Interview with Dee Wallace
Well known in the science fiction and horror community, she's best known for her hit films The Hills Have Eyes, The Howling, ET: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and of course Cujo. Spreading out her creativity she writes, acts, and hosts a live radio

'Blade Runner' Sequel Confirmed, With Original Creative Team
However, it failed to win the 1982 Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film, with the prize going to ET: The Extra Terrestrial. "It is a perfect opportunity to reunite Ridley with Hampton on this new project, one in fact inspired by their own