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[Ron Pulliam]

It's not that I dislike E.T., Ron, I just never found it the second coming of Christ like so many others and have never found any compelling reason to re-watch it.  I think I even have a copy of the film on tape (my wife's doing, I suspect); but there are so many other things I rather see or rather see again.

Actually, my favourite Spielberg film is CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, but I don't re-watch that either.  The ones I usually watch over and over are the thirties and forties ones.

I never gave much thought to that "second coming of Christ" take.  It never seemed that way to me, and the one mystical image everyone points to...of E.T. in that robe raising his arms as the vapors from dry ice swirl around him...was very nicely offset when one of the kids asked why E.T. couldn't just beam up to his spaceship.  Elliott's comeback:  "This is reality, Greg!"

"Starman" more closely paralleled a "second coming" tale since its hero restored life to a deer and impregnated a woman who was medically barren.  

But...that's what makes the world go 'round!

[Ron Pulliam]

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[Ron Pulliam]

And that's the whole story!  Aren't you sorry you asked?    

Not at all.  It's nice to know you had a pleasant day (and weren't doing things you wouldn't want us to know of).

 

[MBarnum]

For DR RLP's fyi...there is a recent (2003) Bollywood remake/copy of E.T titled KOI MIL...GAYA.











I have seen neither version myself, but some day I may make a double feature out of them.

[Ron Pulliam]

Dast I admit that I have never seen the movie E.T.?

Durst I faint?

It's never too late.  I hope.

[Ginny]

Off to eat some lunch - leftover cashew chicken - and go to my doctor's appointment.

The retail therapy really helped this morning.  In addition to a get-well-to-me present, I actually bought a Christmas present and a birthday (January) present for our niece/goddaughter.

Bye for now!

[Ron Pulliam]

Another TOD entry:

"The Boy Friend" (MGM-1971)

[Jane]

Try this link again:

http://copiousnotes.typepad.com/weblog/2008/06/elaborating-on-80s-movies.html

I enjoyed reading the link.  Thank you.

[Jane]

Well, I am having another hellish day at the office. and the forecast for tomorrow is likewise.  So what the heck...

I never posted this because I didn't think it was that interesting.  

On July 4th, we did indeed splurge on a morning at the spa: manicures, pedicures, and massages all around!     In the afternoon we ambled in Golden Gate Park and took in the locals and the lovely scenery.  In the early evening, we partook of two services in two different synagogues in two different parts of the city, both in architecturally magnificent buildings.  We then had dinner in our hotel room and collapsed on the early side, as we had an EARLY departure the following morning.

And that's the whole story!  Aren't you sorry you asked?    

I am.  

[bk]

I must say, the only Spielberg films I watch with any regularity at all are Duel and Jaws.  I hadn't looked at A.I. since getting the DVD back in 2002, and have only watched Close Encounters once in the last ten years or so.  Schindler's List was a one time only film, I didn't ever care to see Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report was just odd, Catch Me If You Can had a few moments, 1941 is a big elephant and really unfunny, and I saw ET too many times to watch it again for a long while.

[Charles Pogue]

Ron, I didn't mean to suggest E.T. was some Christ allegory...only the way that everyone fawned over the movie when it first came out...treating it as if it were the second coming of Christ-- or to put it another way, the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I like Spielberg well enough as a director, some things better than others, but, truth be told, there is not one Spielberg movie that would make my top 100 films.

[Jane]

We had the advantage of watching E.T. with our young children, shortly after it was released & before we knew what to expect.  

[bk]

I had the advantage of seeing ET at its premiere at the Dome - and knew nothing about it at all, so I loved it because at every step of the way it was a surprising film.  

[bk]

And, of course, I AM in it.

[bk]

Back from a jog and I've already shaved so I'm way ahead of the game now.  Phoner should come in ten minutes or so.

[bk]

I, too, love The Boy Friend.

[bk]

On the jog I almost took a header and almost fell flat on my face.  They're tearing up the street in new ways every day, and have done something since I jogged yesterday, so I didn't see the place where they'd smoothed out the pavement to a certain point, and then it went UP about an inch and a half.

[bk]

I managed to barely keep my balance, but I think I pulled a little calf muscle in doing so - but I wouldn't stop and it seems to have worked itself out.

[Jane]

 But at least Pogue doesn't like any of it - whereas my bafflement comes from people who don't like just the last twenty minutes but like what's preceded it -

I'm baffled that you are baffled by this.  This happens rather often, while watching a movie or reading a book.  The ending can make or break my reaction to what came before.  There are times when I'm on the fence, waiting to see how the story will unravel & where it will take me.  A.I. is one that did not take me where I wanted to go.  

[MBarnum]

Use caution when jogging.

[MBarnum]

And eat more then one meal a day.

[Jane]

Glad you didn't fall!

[MBarnum]

I think that Duel and Star Wars may be the only Speilberg movies I have ever seen.

[JMK]

HDNet movies is, by chance, running six nights of Spielberg films in HD.

[Jane]

DR JRand-VIBES TONIGHT!!!

[Ron Pulliam]

And a little walk with The Beach Boys down memory lane:

Well she got her daddy's car and she cruised through the hamburger stand now.
Seems she forgot all about the library like she told her old man now.
And with the radio blastin' goes cruisin' just as fast as she can now.
And she'll have fun, fun, fun till her daddy takes the T-Bird away.
(fun fun fun till her daddy take's the T-Bird Away)

Well we're doin' spin standard because she walks, looks, drives like an ace now.
(You walk like an ace now you walk like an ace)
She makes the Indy 500 look like a Roman Chariot race now.
(You look like an ace now you look like an ace)
A lot of guys try to catch her but she leads them on a wild goose chase now.
(You drive like an ace now you drive like an ace)
And she'll have fun fun fun till her daddy takes the T-Bird away
(fun fun fun till her daddy takes the T-Bird Away)

[Ron Pulliam]

Ron, I didn't mean to suggest E.T. was some Christ allegory...only the way that everyone fawned over the movie when it first came out...treating it as if it were the second coming of Christ-- or to put it another way, the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I like Spielberg well enough as a director, some things better than others, but, truth be told, there is not one Spielberg movie that would make my top 100 films.

I understand this all too well.  Overkill ruins many things, just as overplay on the radio kills some songs.

I guess I was lucky enough to have seen "E.T." on the first day of its national release...and before I'd read much about it.  I steered clear of reviews until I'd seen films because of USA Today's review of "The Empire Strikes Back" the day BEFORE its national release date.  The reviewer didn't warn anyone when he revealed the BIG "reveal" without so much as a blink of his eye.  I was flabbergasted that anyone would have violated the trust that Lucas had given them with the advance preview.  I don't recall any of the fallout from it, but I know I never read that newspaper again.

[Ron Pulliam]

The only thing that ruins films more than too much press and word-of-mouth (which can be very good for "sleepers", admittedly) is giving away a film's major surprise.  It's an unconscionable gaffe, IMO.


And does anyone here besides me think that word-of-mouth oversold "Forrest Gump" to the extent that its Oscars seem silly now?

[Ron Pulliam]

HDNet movies is, by chance, running six nights of Spielberg films in HD.

I ain't got no HDNet.

[Edisaurus]

I figured out this group's demographic ages ago.

Gay men and religious women.

Well, like any demographic, this oversimplifies somewhat.  

I don't fall into either category...