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The Great 2020 All Time Movie Draft- The judging is heavily biased against me. It’s a hoax! Fake news. (1 Viewer)

Hags and I did discuss that unlike the Sports draft, this is so subjective that we are just going to pick our favorite movies while doing our best to do well.  This also makes the smack talk a lot more fun in this draft - nobody was logging in and saying that Jordan or Gretzsky were crap picks.

 
AAABatteries said:
Hags and I did discuss that unlike the Sports draft, this is so subjective that we are just going to pick our favorite movies while doing our best to do well.  This also makes the smack talk a lot more fun in this draft - nobody was logging in and saying that Jordan or Gretzsky were crap picks.
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Exactly.  Unless we are going just box office, it's not like there are stats to look at to argue, and people love movies for a big variety of reasons.  

 
1.04 --  ET, Children's Movie.

One clip is all you really need....

....but just in case (and this is for a Children's movie btw):

Released on June 11, 1982, by Universal Pictures, E.T. was an immediate blockbuster, surpassing Star Wars to become the highest-grossing film of all time—a record it held for eleven years until Jurassic Park, another Spielberg-directed film, surpassed it in 1993. E.T. was widely acclaimed by critics and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. In 1983, E.T. surpassed Star Wars as the highest-grossing film of all-time, and by the end of its theatrical run it had grossed $359 million in North America and $619 million worldwide.

Derek Malcolm of The Guardian wrote that "E.T. is a superlative piece of popular cinema ... a dream of childhood, brilliantly orchestrated to involve not only children but anyone able to remember being one"

 
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Netflix has a fun show called "The Movies That Made Us" and Die Hard is one of the features. Really worth watching.

And the famous line "Yippee-ki-yay, mother####er" isn't just great, it's really quintessentially American considering this is a good guys vs bad guys movie. The first part is old school Roy Rogers and the second part is totally crass 80's.

It's the perfect movie line.

 
AAABatteries said:
:hifive:   EXACTLY.  It's set around Christmas and has some Christmas elements but it's not about Christmas.  You could take every bit of the Xmas pieces out and it would be just as good.  I'll fight by your side.
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Christmas movies suck, and Die Hard most definitely doesn't suck, so therefore Die Hard is not a Christmas movie.  

 
E.T. is really such a great movie because of the thematic elements in it.

The dinner table scene sets up the whole thing. You can see that the nuclear family has been broken apart by divorce and how lonely Elliot is as the middle child. When brother Michael says "Why don't you think of how other people think for a change", is really talking to the whole family including the mother.

E.T. brings the whole family back together because he's the catalyst that breaks them out of their self absorption. When Elliot reaches out for Mary with the cry of "Mom!" it's a critical moment because they realize how much they love and need each other. 

Another thing - this movie shows the superiority of 80's movies because kids did things. They didn't have superpowers and they're not stunted and coddled by helicopter parents. It's why Stranger Things is so popular, IMO, because it's a return to exemplifying that kids don't have to be protected at every turn, and really that they're stunted when they are.

 
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Andy Dufresne said:
E.T. is really such a great movie because of the thematic elements in it.

The dinner table sceen sets up the whole thing. You can see that the nuclear family has been broken apart by divorce and how lonely Elliot is as the middle child. When brother Michael says "Why don't you think of how other people think for a change", is really talking to the whole family including the mother.

E.T. brings the whole family back together because he's the catalyst that breaks them out of their self absorption. When Elliot reaches out for Mary with the cry of "Mom!" it's a critical moment because they realize how much they love and need each other. 

Another thing - this movie shows the superiority of 80's movies because kids did things. They didn't have superpowers and they're not stunted and coddled by helicopter parents. It's why Stranger Things is so popular, IMO, because it's a return to exemplifying that kids don't have to be protected at every turn, and really that they're stunted when they are.
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It was/is but I don't feel like it's held up well.  I would be curious if Stranger Things gave it any kind of bump in popularity with young people.

 
AAABatteries said:
It was/is but I don't feel like it's held up well

  I would be curious if Stranger Things gave it any kind of bump in popularity with young people.
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I was going to ask if people thinks this holds up.  It's been many years since I've watched it honestly, but thought about watching it the other night when it popped up on NF.  

 
I just saw it in the theater a week ago. It's still great, IMO. But I'm very biased. I was an 11 y.o. when it came out so I imprinted on it like a duckling.

 
Charlie Steiner said:
Not a fan of E.T.. Sorry, guys. Maybe I was the wrong age (almost 17) when it came out but it just didn't do anything for me.
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No need to be sorry - there will be top movies that all of us don't like.  I think E.T. was, like another movie that I won't mention as we should see it picked soon, one of those you had to live through the phenomenon for it to impact you the way it did many.  "E.T. Phone Home" brings emotion to people of a certain age.

 
Andy Dufresne said:
I just saw it in the theater a week ago. It's still great, IMO. But I'm very biased. I was an 11 y.o. when it came out so I imprinted on it like a duckling.
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I was 7 or 8, and the little ******* scared the crap out of me.  The scene with him in the closet gave me nightmares.  LOL.  

 
AAABatteries said:
No need to be sorry - there will be top movies that all of us don't like.  I think E.T. was, like another movie that I won't mention as we should see it picked soon, one of those you had to live through the phenomenon for it to impact you the way it did many.  "E.T. Phone Home" brings emotion to people of a certain age.
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I think especially for movies that came out around those ages for all of us, and there is a big difference for how we probably will react to something like E.T. if it was something that came out when we were 10 or 11 or if we were a teenager or older.   Even those 4-5 would make a big difference for loving a movie like that. 

 
AAABatteries said:
I have a feeling that @krista4 may login, see the last 3 picks and have a stroke.

Just a guess.
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Can’t imagine why you’d think The Godfather would be an issue.  It’s one of my favorite movies, as is one of its sequels (I’ll let you guess which one).

I like Die Hard as well.  Not sure of its value as #3 overall, as I’m not sure what the canon of action movies is considered to be.  I think some of the ones that immediately come to mind as great action flicks will get sucked into the other categories such as war, crime, comic book (I don’t know if the latter two are actual categories but you get my drift), so it could be a top pick when it all shakes out.

ET:   :mellow:  

 
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krista4 said:
Can’t imagine why you’d think The Godfather would be an issue.  It’s one of my favorite movies, as is one of its sequels (I’ll let you guess which one).

I like Die Hard as well.  Not sure of its value as #2 overall, as I’m not sure what the canon of action movies is considered to be.  I think some of the ones that immediately come to mind as great action flicks will get sucked into the other categories such as war, crime, comic book (I don’t know if the latter two are actual categories but you get my drift), so it could be a top pick when it all shakes out.

ET:   :mellow:  
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Well, to be fair - I only included it because Hags and I picked it and I didn't want to seem mean.  You are right - joffer and higgins are dummies and Hags and I are brilliant. 

 
AAABatteries said:
No need to be sorry - there will be top movies that all of us don't like.  I think E.T. was, like another movie that I won't mention as we should see it picked soon, one of those you had to live through the phenomenon for it to impact you the way it did many.  "E.T. Phone Home" brings emotion to people of a certain age.
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Fall of '82 I was driving all over the place and really feeling early freedom, so maybe that was part of it.  I did take a date to see it, though, so I tried.  I guess I felt I was too 'old' for the concept of the story, and I remember the scene when they found E.T. laying in a ditch or wherever it was and I thought he looked like a cat turd. Really couldn't take it in the vein it was intended.

 
Charlie Steiner said:
Fall of '82 I was driving all over the place and really feeling early freedom, so maybe that was part of it.  I did take a date to see it, though, so I tried.  I guess I felt I was too 'old' for the concept of the story, and I remember the scene when they found E.T. laying in a ditch or wherever it was and I thought he looked like a cat turd. Really couldn't take it in the vein it was intended.
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:lmao:

 
KarmaPolice said:
I was 7 or 8, and the little ******* scared the crap out of me.  The scene with him in the closet gave me nightmares.  LOL.  
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I think that's intentionally symbolic too. Responsibility shows up in our life and it's scary just like when ET shows up in Elliot's. But we find out that accepting that responsibility is actually empowering. 

 
I give you ####, AD but that's some good posting breaking down E.T. like that.   It's not a movie that stuck with me, so I've never really given it a ton of thought that way.  :thumbup:

You have kids, right?  Do they like E.T.?

 
A lot of crossover categories are going to make this interesting.  A lot of stuff that crosses over based on true events/based on book/and then a specific movie genre that is in the draft.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
I give you ####, AD but that's some good posting breaking down E.T. like that.   It's not a movie that stuck with me, so I've never really given it a ton of thought that way.  :thumbup:

You have kids, right?  Do they like E.T.?
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We watch it every Halloween as a family tradition.

A lot is made about "the hero's journey" in that other space movie, but Elliot's is no less so.

 
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