Very good movie, very moving !

If anyone doesn't cry at the end of ET, then they are either cold hearted, or didn't understand the story!
i went 6 or 7 times to the theater to see it when it was first released!

ET is  great. however I recently  was talking to a friend and she said she hated the movie. how can anyone hate this movie?

'watched it 100 times'

I've probably watched it half a dozen times over the years. It's a good movie, perhaps even very good, but I get the feeling that it's sooo manipulative in tugging the heartstrings that it loses a little. Drawn out emotion tends to make it more melodramatic and less credible for me.

Pay it Forward tends to suffer from the same problem but double the strength. I feel a better director would have conveyed the emotion just as effectively in a shorter and subtler manner.

Just like the shock reaction from Elliott in the scene where ET spoke to him for the 1st time (the Aha! moment!) some things are very difficult to portray, i.e. shock reactions, and sometimes crying, I can see how Speilberg would want to use the genuine emotion from the closing of filming, in the movie, that's probably why he saved the departure scenes for last!   I have a question: Is it just my imagination, or did Henry in the scene where the dog ran up the ramp of the ship, call the dog insistantly? it looked like a flaw in the editing!...but, Speilberg is known for doing that "Hitchcock" moment in films, he said so once, because he knew you'd eventually notice it!
Just like in "Jaws" the scene of the wide angle shot of the "Orca", you see the shooting star over the boat, Speilberg put it in because he knew people would evetually notice!

cal-Q-L8 wrote on 19. Dec 2012 at 12:20:

I loved "Pay It Forward"! the only part I couldn't handle was the boy dying at the end!

bowser wrote on 20. Dec 2012 at 00:15:

good to know! thanks!