KDHM
Stunt Coordinator
"ET 20th anniversary edition" is getting a March 2002 release in Theaters Worldwide so maybe there will be a DVD Release to follow. I hope "20th anniversary edition" does not mean that the film will be "redone".
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kd
I hope they don't really take out the guns.
Well, in an interview I read sometime ago (last year?), Spielberg was supposedly quote as saying that all the guns would be digitally removed from E.T and that cell phones would replace them. Something about how Spielberg's mindset changed and how he no longer believe in the use of guns in his films, blah, blah, blah.
While I really hope that he presents E.T. fully intact and without at digital futzing, I seriously doubt we'll see it that way. Look how many times he "changed his mind" about Close Encounters and how many different edits he did of that. I'd like to also think that if he does indeed make the gun changes, that the DVD would have an option allowing the consumer to choose which version to watch (guns or cell phones), but I think the chances of that happening are zero.
Personally, I am SO tired of this constant tampering of films, especially with those Spielberg and Lucas guys. Okay, you made a few films, now LEAVE THEM ALONE. You wanna spruce them up, fine, restore the film, make it look beautiful. But enough of the repeated editorial changes and that horrible digital tampering! Let these films stand on their own merit.
Okay, mini lecture over.
As for what really will happen with E.T., we'll just have to wait and see it with our own eyes. But I don't think there will any changes for the better...
Jeff
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Jeff Krispow
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I thought it was walkie-talkies, not cell phones.
well, 80's cellphones pretty much look like walkie-talkies with their bulk size and all-do you remember those things?
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[Edited last by Sam E. Torres on September 30, 2001 at 02:44 PM]
[Edited last by Sam E. Torres on September 30, 2001 at 02:44 PM]
Spielberg did say in an interview that it will have a DTS (ES) track to die for.
How good could it be? It's not like ET is a film that will ever offer demo material sonically. Maybe if Spiely ADDED some guns we could get some Saving Private ET action - that'd rock the house!
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But enough of the repeated editorial changes and that horrible digital tampering! Let these films stand on their own merit.
HEAR, HEAR!