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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - YouTube Version (Patreon)

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No Sync Required Version: https://cinebingers.ca/N2sKqmYUk4 - For Patreon tier "Bingers on The Wall" or higher.

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

Full length/Unedited: https://www.patreon.com/Cinebinge https://www.instagram.com/cinebingechannel/ Merch: https://www.cinebinge.ca BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/cinebinge.bsky.social Simone & George are reacting to ET the Extra-Terrestrial for the first time! Canadians React! 00:00 - Intro 01:28 - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 36:05 - Discussion 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

8bitAndy

Ah the 80s. The golden age of film makers not being afraid to terrorize and traumatize kids with their movies. Luckily we only had to wait about 20 years for therapy to become socially acceptable. /s

BND
>>107270699

did this movie traumatize kids back in the day?

Dave Gaskin

One of the first movies I saw on the big screen. I was 5 and all I can remember is bawling my eyes out at the end. It wasn’t traumatising - I still love it - just very emotional for a kids film. It dealt with death from a child’s perspective which was quite rare. 40 years ago it was pretty groundbreaking to get so emotionally attached to a puppet!

Jose Deleon

Growing up watching this, I definitely feel like certain parts scared the shit out of me. But because of that, the more magical elements of the film are enhanced even further when juxtaposed with the scares. The older I’ve got, the more I realize how much this movie has stuck with me because of the balancing act they managed to pull off. It really captures the feeling of being a kid so well. Also, The sound design and John Williams score really move this film past transcendent in my mind. It’s a masterpiece. Not my favorite reaction from y’all, but glad you watched it.

nj

some other "nice alien" movies from the 80s (i think - a couple may be from the early 90s and i maybe misremembering the extent aliens are involved in others - people who remember better, please correct me): mac and me, flight of the navigator, the last starfighter, my stepmother is an alien, spaced invaders, batteries not included, starman . . .

jackers

Yay Spielberg! Do the one where TOM HANKS plays cat and mouse with LEO DI CAPRIO :D

BND

I know George said he works in AI and there's a Spielberg movie called A.I. that if you haven't seen yet would be interesting to see your reaction to.

Pam Nail

Students do still dissect frogs in school, apparently -- I definitely had to (back in the late 1900s :P), but they weren't still alive. I was 7 when this came out but I never saw it until I was an adult so I don't have as much nostalgia for it. I do remember that ET was everywhere in the culture and most people thought he was adorable. Watching it now, I think the John Williams score as well as Henry Thomas's genuinely great child performance do a lot of the heavy lifting to make this movie as emotionally affecting as it is. And to answer Simone's question, the original trailers kept ET mostly hidden -- you'd see shadows, lots of shots of the fingers, but nothing of the body or the face. Here's a link to an article about the original design of ET -- he could have been SO MUCH CREEPIER! https://www.bustle.com/articles/26113-steven-spielbergs-original-et-concept-was-truly-frightening-photos

Kim Brink

Been waiting along time for this reaction. Was okay, but damn you guys are using like 85% of the reaction on finding plotholes and what's wrong instead of what good and works, so even if you like a movie, it comes of as you dislike it.

Mudshark419

You can't mention nice aliens without Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Plus it's Spielberg again (made between Jaws and this). I'd pay good money for you guys to do Close Encounters (if I wasn't doing that already).

Jeff K
>>107276052

Yep, just came down here to comment on that as well. It's not just a rumor that ET is in the same universe as Star Wars, it's actually canon (even if it is just an Easter Egg, but still).

MongoTheElder

Another "nice" alien movie is Close Encounters of the Third Kind

John DelVecchio

Please watch Close Encounters it’s a great movie.

Spacedone

Kids were tougher in the 80s... Sorry I couldn't resist :D Seriously though, nobody who'd sat through Watership Down was going to be particularly fazed by the Old Man Scrotum Alien. Plus, I don't know what it was like in Canada etc at the time but our TV was full of public safety films/adverts aimed at kids that were basically horror movies. At some point after the 80s they decided that scaring the shit out of kids "for their own good" might be counterproductive given how we were all watching stuff like Robocop or An American Werewolf in London on VHS or the late night horror movies on TV.

Generators
>>107275843

i feel like the issue is more with you guys its not like they are purposely looking for plotholes, how can they its the first time theyve seen this movie. they wouldn't know there is a plot hole until the movie stepped in on and it drew their attention. so they comment on it, which is literally their job. to give honest genuine reaction as they occur. if a movie's plot hole becomes noticeable and pull the audience out of it, then its the movie and story tellers fault. spielberg might be one of the greatest directors but hes not an infallible God who makes no mistakes. this movie has plenty of plot holes and non sense and theyre two thinking adults rather than small children which the film was intended for.

Dax

There was another 80's movie that has a weird tonal shift called Explorers from 1985. It was so good and so bad and the third act is so over the top. You just don't see the turn it makes coming at all.

Generators
>>107280399

yeah a lot of good all that scared straight non sense did lol. honestly i feel like the "kids were tougher back then" crowd are just people who hate the fact that kids now arent as miserable forced to do things they dont wanna do.

John Prichard

EXPLORERS. Loved that movie, must've watched it a million times.

Jakub Krelik

I hate this movie so much ....

Rick Le Mon
>>107276321

It really is a fantastic movie (although it gave 9-year-old me nightmares. Weirdly, 11-year-old me was fine with Alien)

Caturday Nite

The alien was a secret. I remember seeing this at a drive in back in the day. Scary at first, but then you get to know the character and he isn't But for YEARS they didn't release this on VHS for rental. The only way to see it was on a new theatrical run. When it finally came out on VHS it was a BIG deal...and I still have it {you can probably see it on the shelf behind me in some of my videos}

Caturday Nite

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
>>107312235

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.

ZerozeroZero

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

Johan Ogren

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.

punterjoe

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
>>107442681

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

Salvatron

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

punterjoe
>>107442681

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.

Ed Stephens

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

Christopher Greenley

How about Spaced Invaders. A funny Disney comedy with nice but clueless aliens.

Stephen Ridolfi

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...

Thomas Hilbert
>>107406532

Yep, Flight of the Navigator! Watched it yesterday again, after 30 years, and I actually appreciated it much more this time, because now I actually understand what's happening xD

DanDanDanDanDan

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

simon brouillard

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - one of my favorite Minority Report - tom cruise Catch Me If You Can - tom hanks and leo Munich - heavy but good Lincoln - still no Daniel Day Lewis, although I would do there will be blood instead The Fabelmans - a great reflection on is own life/career

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.