E.T. big joke

Rating: 3/10 (9 October 2008)

I cannot watch E.T. without constantly laughing and rolling my eyes at scenes in this movie. E.T. has to be the most over-hyped, over-dramatized, commercialized, movie that was ever made. This movie is simple proof of what paying the media to hype a movie can get you. E.T. is really nothing more than a dramatic commercial for things like Reese's Pieces and BMX bikes.
I think Steven Spielberg gets a lot more credit than he truly deserves, especially with E.T. Steven Spielberg doesn't make these stories believable (as so many people claim), he just makes everything extremely dramatic. The scene in E.T. where the scientists come into the house wearing space suits (by the way his mother is the first to see the suits), is beautiful proof of this. I think this also applies to the scene where they're trying to escape with E.T., and Eliot's brother says "I've never driven forward before!" Driving forward is the first thing you learn how to do in driving! Plus, he drives forward after backing out of the driveway earlier in the movie. I also love the Halloween eve where E.T. sees a kid dressed as Yoda from Star Wars and screams "home!", in the same part of the movie E.T. uses the umbrella with crumbled foil for a satellite dish, it's all absolutely comical. And E.T. can't beam up to the space ship because "this is reality, Greg", yet he can make all of the kids riding bikes float above the neighborhood from a clear blue sky through a dramatic sunset?
This movie is labeled as science-fiction. I see a lot of dramatized fiction, but where's the science? The amount of drama in this movie makes me cry, but it's crying laughing.