MARVELOUS, MAGICAL!!!!! Thank You, STEVEN Spielberg: ET, an adorably cherish-able film; moving and personal to us all

Rating: 10/10 (8 September 2006)

I saw ET twice in summer and late 1982 when I was 11. ET was playing in Bryn Mawr and 4 miles east on Lancaster Ave The Thing and Poltergeist were playing in Ardmore. My brother, his friend, and I stood in line for an hour and before that my just my brother and I stood In line (Das Boot was also playing).
Man, oh, Man I cried in ET. I cried when ET died . . . then ET came back to life . . . and I cried with tears of joy. Oh, what a precious time at the movies . . . Elliot's parents were divorced . . . so were mine . . . so were everyone's parents in 1982 it seemed (not really). Elliot was a true everykid and Gerti and the big brother, I can't remember his name . . . they even had an ATARI 2600 like we did. ET . . . was magical . . . and up the street THE THING was the antithesis of ET, vicious, mean, scary truly ahead of its time and still a classic . . . The Thing will gross you out today as it did 25 or whatever years ago . . . ET will make you wonder and marvel at the Heavens today as it did 25 or whatever years ago today . . . 1982 WAS A GREAT YEAR TO BE ALIVE IN . . . now I'm thirty-five and working on a Ph.D. . . .I have a wife and son . . . watching ET is like going back into a time-machine . . . I know exactly where i was and how i felt when I first saw it . . . life is really far-out. THANK YOU STEVE!!!! for giving us ET . . . its truly a magical experience.
and to think . . . some people don't like ET, THAT'S WEIRD. but that's America.