Do not want! - Lucas messes with the trilogy again.

David Jimerson said:
I don't think Spielberg should have put in the walkie-talkies. HOWEVER, when thinking about it, it's understandable -- not for any touchy-feely reasons, but because come on . . . was there any possibility they'd really shoot the kids? The ostentatious closeup of the shotgun being pumped -- that was going to lead up to . . . what? It's just not believable. So, I get it. I'd have left it alone, but I get it.
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I don't know. Googling 'child shot by police' returns some 216,000,000 hits. Whether or not you find it appropriate within the world of a story like ET is one thing, but in reality it's all too believable. Considering that the kids in question are in the middle of facilitating the escape of an unknown alien organism carrying gods-know-what kind of potentially Earth-sterilizing pathogens...I don't find 'shoot on sight' orders particularly tough to buy. Even with kids in the line of fire.
 
Sad Max said:
I don't know. Googling 'child shot by police' returns some 216,000,000 hits. Whether or not you find it appropriate within the world of a story like ET is one thing, but in reality it's all too believable. Considering that the kids in question are in the middle of facilitating the escape of an unknown alien organism carrying gods-know-what kind of potentially Earth-sterilizing pathogens...I don't find 'shoot on sight' orders particularly tough to buy. Even with kids in the line of fire.
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I find it more believable that they were just using the guns to intimidate the kids into surrendering E.T.. The shotgun isn't actually being pumped in the close up that was removed, only being raised in a vaguely threatening manner. Under normal circumstances using guns on suburban white kids would be absurd, but it wasn't a normal situation. E.T. could have shot lasers out of his ass for all they knew.
 
Sad Max said:
I don't know. Googling 'child shot by police' returns some 216,000,000 hits. Whether or not you find it appropriate within the world of a story like ET is one thing, but in reality it's all too believable. Considering that the kids in question are in the middle of facilitating the escape of an unknown alien organism carrying gods-know-what kind of potentially Earth-sterilizing pathogens...I don't find 'shoot on sight' orders particularly tough to buy. Even with kids in the line of fire.
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Batutta said:
I find it more believable that they were just using the guns to intimidate the kids into surrendering E.T.. The shotgun isn't actually being pumped in the close up that was removed, only being raised in a vaguely threatening manner. Under normal circumstances using guns on suburban white kids would be absurd, but it wasn't a normal situation. E.T. could have shot lasers out of his ass for all they knew.
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You guys are approaching this as if it was real life. What's realistic is irrelevant, it's all about what's credible within the context of this particular film, and that's it.
 
Jawa Ex Machina said:
You guys are approaching this as if it was real life. What's realistic is irrelevant, it's all about what's credible within the context of this particular film, and that's it.
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Steven Spielberg once said something I thought very sharp: One foot must remain firmly on the ground, no matter what color sock the other foot is wearing. Most narrative films - even aliens-from-outer-space stories - still must be rooted to some degree in the real world. That's the larger context within which the film must work. The credibility of what's presented within a given film is very much tied to its credibility in day-to-day experience, if it's an element with which the audience has some familiarity, in their day-to-day experience.
 
So I picked up the original trilogy blu-rays this morning, and I have to say, I am actually pretty disappointed in the picture quality. I expected them to look a lot better. The black levels seem really crushed and the color timing is all over the place. I have my projector pretty well calibrated and most blu-rays look great without any tweaking, but I had to go in an futz with the brightness and color settings to get it looking right. There is also evidence of artificial sharpening (edge halos). I have since learned that they didn't even bother to do a new 4k scan of the films and just used the 2k scans from the 2004 dvd release. Yes, these are older films, and that they look better than the DVD's is a given, but I have seen some amazing blu-rays of films from the same era (The James Bond films come to mind), which were taken from 4k scans and that look much, much better. It's a shame that these films weren't given the highest possible treatment. The sound mixes however get an A plus, especially on A New Hope, as John Williams score isn't buried under laser fire anymore during battle scenes.
 
A couple of Redditers gave him a taste of his own medicine:

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Wow. Looking at that bottom right frame, I am now convinced that isn't Lucas. The real George Lucas must be locked in a secret prison somewhere.
 
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