6. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Directed by Steven Spielberg.
Starring: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore and Dee Wallace.
The film about everyone’s favourite little alien who gets stranded on Earth. It’s kind of like a warped extra-terrestrial version of Home Alone. Though Home Alone was probably more the warped human version of ET, if come to the conclusion Macauley Culkin is in fact human.
Anyway, ET gets taken in by a little boy called Ell-ee-ot, who, after deciding that he’s ‘keeping him’, helps him escape the clutches of a government task-force, and ultimately get back ‘home’.
Who didn’t shed a tear at the end of this film? Betcha Robbie did. After all, he probably felt a little like ET when he got dumped from boy band Take That. Both of course have the last laugh. Another pop star Michael Jackson, who is also treated like something from outer space, is among ET’s biggest fans. Jackson apparently owns one of the ET puppets used in the movie. It’s only a rumour he sexually assaulted it.
“... he’s a man from outer space and we’re taking him to his spaceship” - Elliot. |