E.T. Revisited

The moment I saw E.T. was now available on Netflix streaming, I realized I hadn't seen it since I was Elliott's age.  That fact struck me; like all kids born in the '80s, I have endlessly rewatched the touchstones of my childhood--Star Wars, Star Trek, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, etc--ad infinitum.  Yet the biggest hit of 1982, a movie which, adjusted for inflation, pulled in over a billion dollars domestically, which posted Dark Knight and Avengers and Avatar numbers on a ti...