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In Reply to: I used to think E.T. was great too, until... posted by Audiophilander on June 19, 2002 at 22:34:39:
I am not a huge fan of ET. Actually Alien and Blade Runner are more my cup of tea. However, I think ET was more widely seen by the "general" population than anything except Star Wars and Close Encounters, which was a feat for a "science fiction" type film.Again, the effect it had on kids from 3- 12 was quite an accomplishment at the time.
The point I was trying to make it that ET seemed to harken back to a gentler time while using a premise of something as alien as well, an alien. That's why I think it was special.
I do think it was a wonderful work which must stand on it's own merit. Since not many people rushed to see it this time around I will have to yield to your viewpoint that it does not stand up to time.
Now that you made me think however, how many movies lately can stand up to Alien, Blade Runner,Close Encounters, Star Wars (1) or ET?
There is not much "inspiring" out there these days.BTW you are right on about "smart ass kids" and H J Osmond. I was forced to actually think by Sixth Sense. How many times can you say that about a movie?
I do think that there's plenty of good serious SF making it's way to the screen. From Spielberg alone, last year's AI stands as a near-masterpiece, thanks in part to Haley Joel Osment's performance, and early reviews suggest that his new film Minority Report (openning tomorrow; based on a Philip K. Dick story) may be even better! Also, the upcoming film Signs from M. Night Shyamalan (Sixth Sense and Unbreakable) looks like potent speculative SF fare. I've got to admit that my taste in SF is pretty varied (i.e., I love Spielberg's Jurassic Park series based on the popular Michael Crichton novels, ...the sarcastic wit of Paul Verhooven's Robocop & Starship Troopers, ...the imaginative cyber-addiction/machine dominence concepts explored in The Matrix, ...the edge-of-seat emotional rollercoaster of James Cameron's Terminator's I & II, Aliens and The Abyss, ...the desparation of survival in a hostile alien environment in Pitch Black, ...the religious implications hinted at in Roland Emmerich's Stargate and thoroughly explored in Robert Zemekis' film Contact, based on Carl Sagan's novel, ...and even John Carpenter's The Thing, an arguably more valid interpretation of John W. Campbell's short story "Who Goes There?" than the original '51 cold-war inspired movie, and his cult classic Escape from New York, -- I've left out around 2/3 of the Star Trek movies, both original crew & next generation, etc., and that's only from the 80's to present!).One thing I'm very happy about is that there seems to be as much attention to story content as special effects in much of the SF being produced of late and that bodes well for the genre!
Cheers,
AuPh
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