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Originally posted by: starkiller
What do you mean "No one wanted?" I've got it and wanted it.
I should also add that ET was the first movie to freak me out so bad I had nightmares.
At age 24 years and 11+ months, I still have trouble watching the movie. The chase in the movie opening and the shot where ET is face down in the ditch, they still give me the willies.
Any movie that can get that kind of reaction out of me has to be strong.
OK, sorry Starkiller- I meant 'that FEW people wanted'. Trust me- I LOVE loaded DVDs with lots of extras, but to make people have to buy a much more expensive box set just to be able to get the original version of a film while the 'special edition' is readily available is just robbery- and apparently Spielberg (or someone) agreed as they changed their mind. Spielberg blamed the studio and the studio blamed Spielberg.
I didn't mean to criticize E.T.- I really dug the film, saw it several times when it was released originally and upon re-watching remembered just how strong some of the sequences are. I was just criticizing cutthroat business practices which don't give consumers the choice to make informed choices (ie the SW DVD set, any Blockbuster or WalMart 'fullscreen' version of a film stocked at a 30 to 1 ratio over widescreen, the aforementioned E.T. release, etc)