The Essential Films Podcast Episode #015: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

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We’ll...be….right….HERE. On today’s podcast adventure, Adolfo and Mark discuss the 1982 Steven Spielberg classic: E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL! On this week’s show:

• More Alamo Drafthouse adventures from Mark
• Unoriginal cosplayers
• Our thoughts on the passings of Jerry Lewis, Harry Dean Stanton and Tobe Hooper
• The infamous unreleased Jerry Lewis film THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED
• Harry Dean Stanton should get a posthumous Academy Award nomination for LUCKY
• “Avenge me!”
• The 35th Anniversary of E.T.
• When did we first experience E.T.
• Probably the greatest family film of all time
• Last day of school movies
• The long stretches of time we went before rewatching the film
• How the film is entrenched in pop culture
• Experiencing it again for the “first time”
• The movie still works on 2017 audiences
• ET and Elliot going across the moon is the most iconic image in cinema
• Kids smoking and swearing in family films
• Why did you drop the pizza Elliot?!
• The origins of E.T. from the mind of a young Steven Spielberg
• How 1941’s production problems helped pave the way for E.T.
• 1941: Spielberg’s worst film
• Columbia passed on E.T.
• The tragic mistake of M&Ms 
• Reese’s Pieces!
• Mark’s INCORRECT opinion on Reese’s Pieces VS M&Ms
• E.T. taught kids how to play hooky from school
• The cuteness of young Drew Barrymore
• Why don’t we see the adult’s faces for half the film?
• The trauma of frog dissection
• Henry Thomas delivers one of the great child actor performances
• Harrison Ford’s deleted cameo
• TV versions of movies re-adding deleted scenes
• The 20th Anniversary version
• Walkie Talkies are not guns
• Practical effects are always better than digital
• Why the film was shot in chronological order
• E.T. 2: NOCTURNAL FEARS
• E.T.’s cameo in STAR WARS
• The biggest movie of all time until 1993 when Spielberg beat the box office record again with JURASSIC PARK
• E.T. The Atari Game
• E.T. Adventure @ Universal Studios… kind of a lame ride.
• “Penis breath!”
• “Wolfman’s got nards!”
• We’re not ready for 4K yet

FILM REFERENCES IN THIS EPISODE:

• GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
• CITIZEN KANE (1941)
• THE QUIET MAN (1952)
• ARTISTS AND MODELS (1955)
• CINDERFELLA (1960)
• PSYCHO (1960)
• THE LADIES MAN (1961)
• THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1963)
• THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
• COOL HAND LUKE (1967)
• 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
• THE GODFATHER (1972)
• THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)
• JAWS (1975)
• KING KONG (1976)
• CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)
• STAR WARS (1977)
• HALLOWEEN (1978)
• ALIEN (1979)
• 1941 (1979)
• ALTERED STATES (1980)
• THE SHINING (1980)
• ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981)
• RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
• THE KING OF COMEDY (1982)
• FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982)
• POLTERGEIST (1982)
• TRON (1982)
• CHRISTINE (1983)
• PARIS, TEXAS (1984)
• RED DAWN (1984)
• REPO MAN (1984)
• INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984)
• GREMLINS (1984)
• FIRESTARTER (1984)
• A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)
• BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
• THE GOONIES (1985)
• PRETTY IN PINK (1986)
• FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986)
• STAND BY ME (1986)
• THE MONSTER SQUAD (1987)
• FULL METAL JACKET (1987)
• BIG (1988)
• STEPHEN KING’S IT (1990)
• JURASSIC PARK (1993)
• PULP FICTION (1994)
• JINGLE ALL THE WAY (1996)
• STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999)
• THE LADIES MAN (2000)
• SUPER 8 (2011)
• THE AVENGERS (2012)
• MAX ROSE (2013)
• STRANGER THINGS (TV Series, 2016)
• IT (2017)
• LUCKY (2017)
• SPIDER-MAN HOMECOMING (2017)

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