Spielberg tinkering with E.T?

[davidsanction]

The "terrorist" part has already been cut out of the recent laserdisc edition (the one with the Harrison Ford scene as an extra). But they censored it without telling anyone. Apparently, Spielberg feels that federal agents wouldn't point guns at kids. Hmm, I seem to remember the Cuban kid (Gonzalez) having a sub-machine gun pointed at him, plus that kid at Ruby Ridge who was machine gunned in the back, etc.

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[Thousanth]

I was reading th USA Today, today and read about Steven Spielberg tinkering with E.T. for its 20th Anniversary release.
Apparently the guns in the federal agents hand who chase E.T. will be switched to walkie-talkies and when Elliot's mom tell his older brother he can't go out on Halloween dressed as a 'terrorist', the word 'hippie' has been substituted.
I also heard about a couple scenes that may be added with a CGI E.T. in them.

Why does Spielberg feel the need to do this? I mean the film was made 20 years ago, is it that big of a deal?

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[Ralph Snart]

This is the only answer I can give.

Do you want to hear a story?

Sure you do.

When I was in summer school at about age nine.

We "GOT" to see a Disney film as a reward.

During the break for reel change. About a dozen friends and I got in trouble for reinacting a scene where people were pushing each other into a swimming pool.

We didn't have a swiming pool handy but we did end up with parent teacher conferences.

Additionally after Jaws came out at the theater there was a national flury of shark magazenes.

And people went on shark hunting tours to get boozed up and play "Quint" for three hours at $100.00 a pop. F*****G idiots.

If you have ever seen a real life industrial sharking boat in action, you learn to feel sorry for the sharks.


There is some Australian guy who pets them like dogs.



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[This message has been edited by Ralph Snart (edited November 15, 2001).]

[twister!]

You can see the E.T. 20 trailer on the Quicktime section of Apple.com if you really want to. Don't fancy it myself though.

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[eddie]

I expect it has something to do with the US government 'advising' Hollywood over the last few weeks, and Hollywood being desperate to be seen doing something useful in the wake of the WTC event.
And maybe it will be useful if government agents do start walking around with walkie talkies instead of guns.
Still sounds like another poor excuse to re-release an old film. Oh, remember those special CGI effects in the updated Star Wars- What a treat. Not.

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[cash]

heres the trailer

low res - http://www.apple.com/trailers/univer...et240x144.html

med res - http://www.apple.com/trailers/univer...et320x180.html

high res - http://www.apple.com/trailers/univer...et240x144.html

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[Thread Killa]

Soo... did anybody like the film in its original version anyway? I did when it was first released but I was 10 then. When they finally released it on video after waiting 10 years or whatever I reached the sad conclusion that I really wasn't that bright of a kid.

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[8th Man]

I think E.T. marked the beginning of an awful trend in Spielberg's tastes in filmmaking that lasted about a decade.While I don't think E.T. itself is a bad film (in fact I was obsessed with it for that summer when I was 10) the next few years saw a neverending supply of lame films with Spielberg's name attached as director or executive producer with lots of friggin' kid actors. GOONIES? Give me a break.
Time will not be good to E.T. if you already dislike the film. Anything you found corny 20 years ago will only be more so now. However if you ever had a thing for it I think seeing it on the big screen again with the music and the smell of popcorn will be like a time machine.
But all this aside, this trend in rereleasing films with new stuff is ultimately going to be looked back on as lame, lame, lame.


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[Matt J Heaton]

I must be in the minority by liking the movie now but not really liking it as a kid.

The film is aimed at youngsters so if you liked it as a kid but dislike it now then that probably means its a good movie.

I KNOW that its a good movie.

I saw the trailer on Film2001 the other night. I noticed the police had radios at the roadblock and there was some CG animation on ET.

Personally I'd rather see it done with strings and mechanical parts rather than computers.

The old, untouched version is on the DVD, though, so don't worry.

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[Ralph Snart]

Ted Turner faced resistance of the same nature when he started colorizing older films. (if my memory serves correctly)

Personally I would rather watch the B&W version.

Although keep in mind that the "Phantom of the Opera" had a color scene when it was first released. (again if memory serves correctly)

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