These are what we call the 'YMMV items.' Things that some people find in this work. We call them 'your mileage might vary' because not everyone sees these things in the same way. This starts discussions in the trope lists, a thing we don't want. Please use the discussion page if you'd like to discuss any of these items.
YMMV: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
From the film:
Award Snub: It was nominated for the Best Picture and Director Oscars, but lost both to Richard Attenborough's Gandhi.
Attenborough even stated in his acceptance speech that he believed E.T. should have won, since it was truly the better film.
This was at least partly due to a rather sleazy Oscar campaign by Paramount, where they more or less stated that a vote against the film was a vote against Gandhi himself.
Drew Barrymore is Elliott's little sister. She has had the exact same face for over 20 years.
Erika Eleniak, who would later be known as Shauni in Baywatch, in the role of Elliott's classmate on whom he has a crush. Also a case of Dawson Casting - a 13 year old girl playing a classmate of a 10 year old boy?! Yeah, right!
They Changed It, Now It Sucks: A response generated by the edits for the 2002 20th Anniversary edition, which included replacing guns with walkie-talkies and changing "terrorist" to "hippie." Mercilessly lampooned in the South Park parody episode "Free Hat." Incidentally, while said episode portrays Steven Spielberg as the diabolical mastermind behind editing Raiders of the Lost Ark, with George Lucas only reluctantly following, in Real Life Spielberg later stated that editing the movie was a mistake.
