Childhood favorite

Rating: 10/10 (24 March 2006)

This is probably one of the greatest movies ever made. Personally, just about anyone can relate to this. At one point or another, someone has felt lonely or felt like Elliot. This movie makes you feel good. I don't agree with the 7.8 average, it at least deserves to break 8.0. AFI voted it one of the best of all time, so this site should definitely have it in the top 250. Oh well, I still love it. I've seen it billions of times and i still get a smile out of it. Phone home! I do wish that Steven Spielberg hadn't added in the new digitized E.T. because it took out the darkness of the movie. he replaced the guns with walkie talkies, i mean come on!!! And they say hippie instead of terrorist. Someone should know when to leave a movie alone. It's like changing the last lines of Casablanca's for instance, you just don't do it! That is the cardinal sin of movie business. That's my opinion at least.