When you first saw ET were you offended by Elliot calling his brother...

[JVS]

"Penis-breath"?

[progmom]

1. isn't it odd that they removed that line when they rereleased the movie???

it's like the one line i remember from the movie!

[JVS]

3. Even though I was a very young child, I remembered that moment as the...

comedic high-point of the movie

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Likewise

[AntiCoup2K4]

15. They cut that out too?

I heard they cut out something regarding Halloween costumes and "dressing like terrorists" after 9-11-01, which is why I refused to buy the E.T. DVD. Hopefully Spielberg will release the original some day. And Lucas will release the REAL Star Wars trilogy on DVD. I refuse to buy the retouched versions, especially with the new blasphemy of Hayden Christensen appearing at the end of "Return of the Jedi", kicking it with Yoda & Obi Wan.

[RPM]

19. yow

fukkin weak man....

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Thank God I've never seen that movie.

I don't think my stomach could handle it.

[RandomKoolzip]

4. It's actually not half bad for mephitic treacle.

I'll take "ET" over anything else Spielberg's done since.

[HeeBGBz]

18. Amazing

Poor you.

[Redstone]

5. No. Is there some reason i should have been, so we can spark

some kind of "controversy" over sngle phrase in a twenty-year-old movie, since there's nothing more important going on in the world today?

Redstone

[lpbk2713]

6. I took my two daughters to see it, ages 11 & 8 at the time.

I figured I would have some explaining to do when we got home. But they never said anything about it so I never did either.

[Deja Q]

8. No, but I'm offended spielberg cut out the scene...

[JVS]

13. Yeah, Spielberg is a spineless pussy-face for that!

[democracyindanger]

9. Is having breath that smells like genitals not offensive?

Is the term 'your breath smells like ass' also offensive, or merely accurate?

[mcctatas]

10. Nope...

and when my in-laws rented it to watch with my daughters (my holy roller fundie in-laws), the look on my mother in laws face when she warned me what they had heard was...priceless. Not quite as good as when she asked me what oral sex was during the Clinton debacle, but still priceless!:evilgrin:

[mykpart]

11. No, since I have two sons who were 10 and 12 at the time

the movie was originally released, and their favorite nicknames for each other were "Fuckwad" and "Asswipe." I thought at the time that the writer must have boys at home, or else remembered his childhood with a brother.

I can't believe they took it out when they re-released it. It's part of what made the characters seem like a real family.

[Not_Giving_Up]

12. I was in fourth grade, I think

My fundie parents refused to let me see that movie, simply because of that one line. All of the kids at school had already been to see it, and I was desperate, so I went with my uncle. I didn't even notice the line at the time. Laughed my ass off about it years later, realizing that THAT was the one little line that had my parents all twisted up.

[alphafemale]

14. I thought it was an early, accurate glimpse of how kids insult each other

Funny tho'

[wickerwoman]

16. I don't think I understood it.

That, or I had already fallen asleep. ET just never did it for me. I think a lot of what worries parents about movies just goes completely over the kids heads. I'm always amazed when I rewatch films I haven't seen since I was a kid. It seems like there are always a few lines I just didn't get. Like "trouser snake" in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I didn't get that at all until I tried it out on my brother in front of my parents. Whoops.

[slutticus]

17. Yes....I was quite offended ...

:eyes:

I think I was 5. :D

[skygazer]

20. Hell no

At the time, my pet name for my husband was "Fartwad".

[fortyfeetunder]

21. No way.

That is typical kid baiting. I have heard worse.
So what was the substitution in the remake? Bad Breath?

[evlbstrd]

22. No.

That's very tame compared to me and my three brothers. And ET came out when I was already an adult.

[bertha katzenengel]

23. Hell, no, it was one of the most hilarious scenes in the film!!

:rofl:

[Nikia]

24. I was very young when I saw that movie in theaters

I am 27. My sister is 1.5 years younger. We saw it with our parents at the theater when it came out. My sister thought that it was hilarious. She laughed loudly. Then she yelled the line in the theatera short time later and laughed some more. She repeated that a couple of times. I didn't really care much at the time except that I laughed a little bit too.

[Placebo]

25. That's what brothers do! But on ANOTHER note:

ET fucking scared the shit out of me!

I had nightmares all my childhood about him/it. In them, I usually came out of my bedroom and ET was standing down at the end of the hall and started run/waddling at me at high speed SCREAMING in his weirdo ET scream at the top of his lungs, with his arms oustretched, and I had nowhere to run to! :scared: :scared: