ET-80’s childhood

[ETmagicfinger]

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

I've never seen ET, even though I would've been about 7 when it came out. Not sure how I've managed to miss it all these years. Also never seen The Goonies (which caused a colleague to recoil in horror when I fessed up!). Maybe I'll try & catch it over Christmas. Wonder if it doesn't have the same effect watching it as a 40 something tho

Totally agree with you @MorningStarling! I was born in ‘80 as well.

I was born in '79. I have very fond memories of the 80s and 90s. I'm not sure how much of it is nostalgia, but I do think many things were better back then. There are good things, now, of course, but if I had to choose a decade to stay in forever, it would probably be the 80s.

@MorningStarling 80's music was not poor. Late 80's when you got bros and Stock Aitken and Waterman maybe wasn't so great 80-86 were incredible. Although the later 80's were brilliant for dance music.
OMD, Yazoo, The Specials, The Damned,
Joy Division, New Order, Ultravox, Spandau, ABC, Duran Duran, Roxy Music, Dire Straits, Def Leppard....to name but a few. Simple Minds were better in the 70's though.
BBC 4 had a great series recently about what a great decade it was for diverse styles of music.

Born early 70s, parents took us to watch ET in cinema, then for Christmas we got lots if ET themed gifts like pencil cakes etc.

I love the 80s, people seemed to enjoy themselves more

Yes, he has jangling keys.

Has anyone read the book? It was told from ET's point of view. I remember he referred to the mum as the Willow something. He was a botanist collecting samples from the planet when he got left behind

I watched it recently and was also surprised that I watched it age 5, no way would my 5 year old watch it now.

My 80s music keeps me going I love especially Duran Duran 1980 to 1985. I love watching as the lights go down concert I can’t dance anymore but I sit and bop on the bed.

I still remember how much I loved my E.T sticker book and which cinema and friend I went to see it with!

We've just watched it too. So nostalgic and I have seen it so many times and know it word for word. The score is absolutely amazing, they don't make them like that anymore.
I loved the 80s. I still love the early/mid 80s music and fashion. They were such fun times to grow up in

Just watched it too with 16yo and 13yo. If I'd said to them, "Right, let's watch ET" I'd have got eye-rolls and refusals. But I put it on and said nothing and they were engrossed

One of the best film scores ever, isn't it?

I went to see it with a group of friends when we were at university. We loved it so much we went back the following day, taking more friends with us.

@TakeMe2Insanity Do you think it’s bad my three and a half year old just watched it 🙈

@MorningStarling

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.

Ah, there you are....The Joyful Spirit of Christmas! I wondered where you had got to.

It’s a lovely film, just like the lovely films of the 70s, 90s and 21st century.

[quote ETmagicfinger]@TakeMe2Insanity Do you think it’s bad my three and a half year old just watched it 🙈[/quote]
I don’t. I doubt they understood much of it.

@Holothane

My 80s music keeps me going I love especially Duran Duran 1980 to 1985. I love watching as the lights go down concert I can’t dance anymore but I sit and bop on the bed.

Possibly the worst big name band of the decade.

@DoctorSnortles 🤣

@MasterBen I didn’t ask for your opinion I had crap teenage years so my music kept me going.

Me and DD watched it today too. I was 8 in 1980 and have lovely memories from growing up in the 80’s. My Dad took us to see ET at the pictures in Pontefract it was a real treat to go as we hardly ever went. I remember it like yesterday

[quote Holothane]@MasterBen I didn’t ask for your opinion I had crap teenage years so my music kept me going.[/quote]
I didn’t ask for yours, but you posted it on this message board, so there we are…

I'm a teen of the 80s and never seen ET. My friend has seen it so many times over the years that her husband has banned her from watching it because she cries her heart out every time.

80s child here, we had the best music, and definitely the best films. The best times.

I was born in 77, so was a young teen in the 80s. I absolutely adore the era though.

Loves 80s movies, fashion and music and like pp, absolute 80s is always on the radio.

I was a raver in the 90s and the mid 90s hold really special memories for me too, but I prefer the 80s.

I was born in 1968 so the 80s were my entire teen years. Marvellous and I'd never wish to change it.