Originally posted by: booah
But ol' Spielberg has started in with his own pointless cinematic revisionist history and screwed with the modern "classic" E.T. (I love how even though things are referred to as "classic", which means that they're works beloved by many, infuriating changes still occur)

Big difference. He gave us the original on DVD as well. That's what we want Lucas to do - I don't care if he makes Leia into a manwhore in his next iteration, as long as he's willing to release the original version onto the current format as well. Unfortunately, he won't do so.