ET-80’s childhood

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Watching ET with my 3.5 Dd, who’s actually concentrating a little and enjoying it.
I’m a child of the 80’s, teen of the 90’s
Aibu to really miss the 80’s

Not at all! I was a child of the 70s, teen of the 80s, and I still miss that era. Our television alternates between Now 70s and Now 80s, the car radio stays on Absolute 80s. We can re-watch older films where new ones bore us. It was a good era.

Nope,
But many people look back in their childhood with rose tinted glasses! My dad looks back in his 60s childhood very fondly… as do I on my 80s childhood.

Watching ET too but my pre-teens have seen it so many times they're not up for watching it today.
I adore E.T and all the nostalgia it brings.
Bought my DD a E.T soft toy and I'm drinking my coffee out of my E.T mug.
The 80s were fabulous as we're the 90s.

Same. I was 7 when ET came out, remains one of my all time faves and reduces me to tears without fail every time. I let my then 7 year old watch it last year, they loved it!
Kids films were so much better then IMO.

Even the style and the 80’s Nike trainers etc, such a great time!

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@Billyliarohdear Completely agree

YANBU - I'm feeling very nostalgic for my 80s childhood at the moment.

I was a child of the 70s, teen of the 80s, and I still miss that era

Snap. Don't get me wrong, life is pretty good. But some of my best memories are from the 80s.

I loved the 80s - a great time!

I went to Disney in the early 90s as a young adult and went on the ET ride which was amazing (at the time...). We took the kids there a couple of years ago and lo and behold, it was still there, tucked away at the very outer edges of the park, so I dragged the kids on. It wasn't quite as exciting as I remembered!

@FrankiesCheeseTruckle My Dd was watching but got a bit upset new that the men are going to take him 🙈I’m thinking she’s way too young, although it was the first film I saw at the cinema at around 4/5

I yearn for the days before the internet (says she, using the damn thing).

I remember the 80s as being so colourful, e.g., bright red mugs on a pine mug-stand. The last few years have been so grey .

@SirChenjins I’ve been to many places in the world but would love to go to where they filmed ET, I read they do a tour in LA

@quietinhere Me too

We're watching ET too.

I was a child in the 1980s and a teen in the 1990s. Love both eras - feel really lucky to have experienced them.
ET makes me feel really nostalgic too !

It’s so iconic, I just WhatsApped my mum (we’re in different countries) to see if she’s watching. She is and crying of course!

80s child here, I'm just sat watching a documentary on the Disney channel now, about the 80s and it's so nostalgic. One of the best decades. I'd love to rewind back there.

@Lahlahlah We were so so lucky!

It was a better time. We set our own trends, not relying on influencers telling us what to think. Music was much more diverse. Rock, rock and roll, rap, pop, new wave, post punk, punk, new romantics all were hits in the 80s
Adults were able to debate and discuss politics and agree to disagree.
TV programmes were watched as a family and everyone watched the same things.

Born in late 70s. Child of the 80s.

It is so nostalgic isn't it? ET was a brilliant fil with an utterly fantastic score. I saw it in the cinema, but I've only really been able to watch in that once all the way through because it's so sad!

I had the sticker book, the doll, the vinyl LP of the soundtrack, everything!

Watching 80s cartoons and TV programmes on YouTube is nice but a little sad too. The 80s were great!

Social media and mobile phones have really fecked up our future generations (IMO). In lots of ways.

Born in '80. ET disturbed me then and it disturbs me now.

The 80s weren't that great. Chernobyl, the Challenger disaster, the Hungerford massacre, the Lockerbie bombing. Fred and Rose West were still killing. Jimmy Savile was on TV every Saturday (and often offending the rest of the week).

Music was very poor. It had shaken off the last remnants of the 60s and 70s but had yet to find a new direction to go in, that would take until the 90s.

Litter was rife, dog shit was openly left on the pavement, there was a lot more overt racism and misogyny. No CCTV and little in the way of DNA evidence meant criminals went undetected for a lot longer, if at all. Think of the Everard murder, the suspect was quickly identified and rounded up. Lots of 80s murders remain unsolved, others took many years before a case could be brought against a suspect.

I remember going to watch ET at the cinema. It was a full experience, you could buy little flags and other memorabilia, like at a gig or concert. I remember standing outside the cinema in an excited gaggle, waving our ET flags.

DH saw ET at the cinema, he'd have been about 6 and cried so much his DF had to carry him hysterical to the car afterwards. He still wells up at the sound of the music now nearly 40 years later 😂

is ET the film with the jageling keys?