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It's funny how times tend to make your memories happier. E.T. was a fun movie, but probably not on the "greatest of all time" list. But seeing that commercial made me want to go back and watch it again. Alas, I think it came out in pre-DVD times. I'll bet I still have it on a VHS tape somewhere. But then, I'd have to pull my VHS player out of the basement electronic graveyard and attempt to fix it. Possibly E.T. is still available for streaming from some place.
 
We keep a VCR, DVD Player, Blu-Ray, and other outdated tech connected to one of the basement televisions just in case. The rest of them all stream 4K from a media server. We have an older DVD of E.T. but it is in 720p. We watched it a year or so back.
 
It's funny how times tend to make your memories happier. E.T. was a fun movie, but probably not on the "greatest of all time" list.

Definitely not on the greatest of all time list but much better than the crap they put out as entertainment now days.
 
Definitely not on the greatest of all time list but much better than the crap they put out as entertainment now days.

Because entertainment now days is always just remakes or reboots of the old stuff. Or worse yet politically correct versions of classics. There are no new ideas anymore. At least not when it comes to entertainment.
 
It's funny how times tend to make your memories happier. E.T. was a fun movie, but probably not on the "greatest of all time" list. But seeing that commercial made me want to go back and watch it again. Alas, I think it came out in pre-DVD times. I'll bet I still have it on a VHS tape somewhere. But then, I'd have to pull my VHS player out of the basement electronic graveyard and attempt to fix it. Possibly E.T. is still available for streaming from some place.
We have it on DVD.
 
Or worse yet politically correct versions of classics.

I bought Song of the South just because people were making a fuss over how racist they think it is. Took forever to find it and I'm sure its probably a bootleg since it came from Hong Kong.
 
E.T. was daughter's first video. She watched it every day for the first month she owned it, then I bought her another video, maybe the Wizard of Oz. E.T. was a good, clean children's video.

My kids still watch it.
 
My kids still watch it.
Daughter watched at least one movie a day for most of her childhood. I would buy her a new movie each month. They were well used and she was always taking them to slumber parties and overnights with friends. Interesting that she never lost any.

Imagine how this works when we stockpile food, buying another canned ham (or 2, 3, 4...) each month until after 10 years, we have 100's (even when we are eating some). We had a closet full of VHS tapes which I eventually got rid of when we switched over to DVD's and she built up a collection of them.

In spite of watching all those videos, daughter was not a couch potato. She was a very active girl, playing soccer for 10 years with the same team, playing the violin for years, dancing, being a Girl Scout for 10 years with the same troop and having lots of friends.
 
I've never seen the movie or the commercial. I worked offshore in the oil industry then went into the military. I didn't go to movies or watch tv for several years from the late 70's well into the 80's. I saw Rock 1 then fast forward to Rocky4. :D
 
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