This evening I thought I was going to watch E.T. with Boo, who hasn't seen it. Well, she still hasn't seen it. What the hell were we watching that was almost E.T?

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Can I buy a vowel?

Are you saying that you rented a movie that you thought was E.T., the one with Drew Barrymore and Henry Thomas, and what you got was something only similar? Or are you saying that you rented the right movie but it was different than you remember?

I'm not sure I understand the question.

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I'm with Tog_ here. This has to be the most mysterious question on BAUT in some time!

Could this have something to do with Spielberg's Lucas-like editing of the film? Most notably the removal of the black-helicopter-agents' guns and replacing them with hand radios.

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"Lucas-like editing" : verb; [Luke-a*s laec aed-eat-eeeng]; The act of taking film stock which is ingrained in the collective conscious of a generation and revising it using poorly executed CGI, utterly charlie-foxtroting the soundtrack, and removing skillfully designed model work so that the film resembles the nightmare of every fan you ever had before. Thus rendering (hah! Rendering!) your entire fan base a stunned, disappointed mass of disillusioned people that thought you knew what you were doing.

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Well, he got left behind on Earth, he was found by a little boy named Elliott, who helped him build a communication device. He then "phoned home", he got very sick and sort of died, but then he got better and the other ETs rescued him.

Or is that not what you meant by "what happened to ET"?

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I thought the ET burned up on reentry after being jettisoned.





Wait...
THAT E.T., Gotcha.

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You know, the DVD of E.T. that I have has both the original cut and the slightly re-worked version, on seperate discs. I can watch whichever I prefer.

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Robot Chicken had a very good, if slighly nsfBAUT, interpretation of the ET movie somewhere in Season 2. It turns out ET's name is Kleeborp, and he's his species equivalent of Forrest Gump, except he makes Forrest Gump seem very literate and articulate. The jocks at his high school demonstrate their lack of anything worthwhile to do by abducting the very slowest kids (aka, Kleeborp) and stranding them naked on random planets.

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It was on tv last night on TBS. I don't recall nearly as many cartoon sequences in it as was evidenced by last night's showing. The CGI "graphics" were so obvious I had to turn it off after the bathtub scene. Played Halo instead. I even made popcorn for the show.

Lotus hit the nail squarely on the head.

Thanks Lotus

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Reminds me of a great line in "Spaced Invaders":

"They're not evil, they're just...stupid."

Daffy, I have a tshirt (from ThinkGeek, I think) with Space Invaders, two of which are talking about how exited they are to get to meet the Humans and give them knowledge and technology. The caption reads: "Such an unfortunate misunderstanding."

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Hahahahahaha!

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They did that?

And in something even more odd. Mention of this same thing appeared in my game forum tonight. I hadn't seen it since probably 1983 (or around then), so I didn't know it had been changed.

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'Fraid so.

Yeah, it's fairly common knowledge. It got changed when Spielburg did that re-release a few years ago. If I'm not mistaken (and it's likely I am), the theatrical re-release of ET happened the same month Revenge of the Sith came out.

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LOL! Gotta get one...

For some reason this thread title caused me to picture a bunch of doctors gathered around E.T., shoving large objects up his anus and shouting, "How do you like that? Its not so fun when it happens to you, is it?"

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I got a huge laugh out of the "Robot Chicken" episode where E.T. goes home and you find out he was just one of the 'special' kids of his kind....

http://fliiby.com/file/5313/zgvms2hlf0.html

I have to say that I do like South Park's take on this. Mostly because the CGI walkie-talkies (which replaced the military's guns in the original version of E.T.) still fire bullets.

Hahahahaha!