The most delightful movie of all time - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Reviews

E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial is the most delightful film of all time. It proves Steven Spielberg is the real thing and also proves that he's the greatest director ever. I mean, there's Jaws, the Indiana Jones films, Jurassic Park, Schiendler's List, The Terminal, this movie and others. He's unstoppable. He's responsible for creating the most warm-hearted film ever. E.T. starts with a space ship that lands in a forest somewhere in California. Out of it comes aliens with visible, wiggling red hearts. They've landed on Earth for some reason, but the audience never figures out why. One alien wanders too far into the forest. In fact, he goes so far that he witnesses men going through the woods, searching for the thing that's landed. All of a sudden, the men hear something scream. It's the alien, and he runs as fast as he can from the men, with them going after him. But by the time he's almost there, the spaceship lifts off. The alien is stranded on Earth. Thankfully, the men never find him...yet. On the other side of the story is young Elliot(Henry Thomas) living with his divorced mother Mary(Dee Wallace), his older brother Michael(Robert MacNaughton), and his younger sister Gertie(Drew Barrymore). He goes through the fields one night to search for something that he thinks is alive. Right then, he discovers the alien, who screeches and runs away. Elliot has another encounter with the alien one other night, but this time it's a pleasant one. That morning, Elliot pretends to be sick so that his mother can leave and he can stay at the house with the creature he's keeping in hiding. He starts by giving the alien an introduction of things on his desk, such as space toys, a toy car, a peanut bank, and other things. It's not long before Michael and Gertie discover the alien and they almost totally freak out. But Elliot tells them to promise not to reveal the alien, because it could cause a catastrophe. Gertie witnesses the alien say his first letter, "B", and then she watches him recite his first sentence, "Be good". The alien also memorizes Elliot's name, and Elliot decides to name him E.T.. But Elliot and E.T.'s frienship is so strong that they're telepathically connected, which not only means that Elliot will do whatever E.T. does, but also if E.T. dies, Elliot will die too. And keeping E.T. a secret from Elliot's mother gets tougher. E.T. has one of the most memorable scenes ever: the moon silhoette. When Elliot and E.T. are riding a bike and almost fall over the edge of a cliff, E.T. saves them and causes the bike to hover though the air past the gigantic moon. E.T. is also able to heal injuries with his finger. He also builds a satellite that will hopefully contact his fellow aliens so that they can come back to Earth and pick him up. I read that E.T. is based on the divoce of Steven Spielberg's parents. He would watch with his sisters as his father Arnold and mother Leah would fight. E.T. is about divorce and how children survive after it occurs. E.T. is today the third highest-grossing film of all time. I wonder why so many people wanted to see it? Maybe they loved Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Raiders of the Lost Ark so much that they wanted to see more from the director who was at the time just beggining. People don't seem to think that today though, because not everybody wants to see his new films and they're not afraid to critisize them. Why would anyone ever do that? Every one of Spielberg's films are perfect. So let me thank Spielberg one more time. He's responsible for the best shark movie ever, the best dinosaur movie ever, great war films, and also the most delightful film ever created. E.T. is a huge experience, and everyone has to see it and love it. If they don't, then that's just sad.