Will your kids ever watch the movie ET?

[Anonymous]

I think it's important to watch movies that are referenced in American culture at some point. If someone makes a reference to phoning home, etc, you should understand its meaning.

ET is one of those movies.

[Anonymous]

My kids have seen it, ages 14-18. They like older movies, too--they've seen several from the 1940s-1960s. They adored Duck Soup (Marx brothers) when they were small. I would say we're a movie family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, they've all seen it. We watch the classics - Gremlins, Ghostbusters, Goonies, etc

Same. It’s one of my kid’s favorite movies (why yes, he is a weird only child)

[Anonymous]

errr I have not even watched ET, and have no intention to.

[Anonymous]

Mine saw it at 8 or 9 and hated it - thought ET was really gross looking, not cute

[Anonymous]

Of course!

[Anonymous]

We watch a lot of 80s and 90s movies with our kids. Fun for us and the kids have liked almost all of them. For some of the movies the changes in technology make them unintentionally hilarious - War Games was great. We've also watched Big, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Poltergeist, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mrs. Doubtfire, Goonies, Back to the Future. Our kids are in 5th & 6th grade...and we're in our 50s. Fun times

[Anonymous]

I brought my then 8 year old to a small theater at a vacation resort that showed classics. It was ok until they brought ET into the hospital dying. She started sobbing. Loudly sobbing. I kept trying to tell her he wasn’t dying there but she couldn’t stop so we had to leave. I don’t even know how it ended.

My son cries at movies too when someone is suffering on the screen although he’s quiet about it. I always felt bad when that happened because it meant I brought him to the wrong movie. He prefers comedy.

[Anonymous]

It was in IMAX last year. I brought my 9 year old. We were the only ones there! She loved it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:have your kids ever saw the movie ET? for some reason my 14 year old never watched it and neither did any of his friends..

Yes we made a point of watching a lot of original older movies from the 70s, 80s, 90s.

Don’t watch the new one with the silly added CGI scientists BS saga scenes. Watch the original.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I brought my then 8 year old to a small theater at a vacation resort that showed classics. It was ok until they brought ET into the hospital dying. She started sobbing. Loudly sobbing. I kept trying to tell her he wasn’t dying there but she couldn’t stop so we had to leave. I don’t even know how it ended.

My son cries at movies too when someone is suffering on the screen although he’s quiet about it. I always felt bad when that happened because it meant I brought him to the wrong movie. He prefers comedy.

Gremlins was horrible with creatures dying and popping in the microwave.

[Anonymous]

And the goonies when the robbers captured the kid. That was a long bad Avenue for our kid.

[Anonymous]

We tried Jaws I after the Meg came out but it was too realistic in the beginning .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, they've all seen it. We watch the classics - Gremlins, Ghostbusters, Goonies, etc

+1

We sang the ghostbusters song a lot that month. Very creative.

[Anonymous]

My 12 and 9 year olds watch it with their grandmother whenever they visit her. Have been doing it for years. We just went to universal and they insisted on riding the ET ride there multiple times.