WATCH A HANDICAPPED KID GET SHOT - Collector's Edition of "Mac and Me"

[Rolo_Tomassi]

Someone thought we needed a Blu-Ray Collector's Edition of 1988 E.T. ripoff Mac and Me.

And it may be worth it just for the original ending being dug up.

In the U.S. theatrical version Elliot Crippled Eric dies from an explosion and is then revived by Mac and his posse.

Apparently, the US market was made up of PUSSCAKES. The Japs got to see Crippled Eric straight up get shot by the cops like the director just walked out of Colors right before filming. #wheellivesmatter


Presumably Crippled Eric gets revived, but I would like to imagine the aliens just shrugged and left.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I've never seen this movie. They were a little late to market with their ripoff, since ET came out in 1982.

 

[Xetzyr]

I remember this movie being terrible... like, as a kid I thought it was terrible. And every kid I knew thought it was terrible. It was like the Christian mockbuster version of ET.

 

[XYZpdq]

The Japs got to see Crippled Eric straight up get shot by the cops

Damn, that's way more hardcore than Pod People

 

[NIGGO KILLA]

pls gibbe download link 2 full movie

 

[TrippinKahlua]

Ronald McDonald is in this movie.

 

[Andre The Roboto]

Didn't that movie have a scene where a kid almost drowns?

 

[UnKillShredDur]

The illegal aliens deserved the bullet.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Did a lot of people watch this as a kid? I never heard of it growing up and wouldn't know anything about if it weren't for the internet's resurgence of it as a meme.

 

[The Shadow]

Didn't that movie have a scene where a kid almost drowns?

I wouldn't know about this scene if not for Paul Rudd.

 

[Dysnomia]

Did a lot of people watch this as a kid? I never heard of it growing up and wouldn't know anything about if it weren't for the internet's resurgence of it as a meme.

Yeah. I saw it a few times as a kid. I rented it and enjoyed it back then even though it was no ET. Not even close. But now? I can't even see it as so bad it's good. It has its moments. Just think of it as one big McDonald's, Coke and Skittles commercial. Because that's what it is.

It is a very blatant ripoff of ET. You can't even say it's just inspired. It's a direct copy with a few little changes to make it more original. It follows the formula a little too closely.

The only upside is that they used a real wheelchair bound kid. So SJWs can't complain about a 30 year old film being too ableist.

 

[UnKillShredDur]

Yeah. I saw it a few times as a kid. I rented it and enjoyed it back then even though it was no ET. Not even close. But now? I can't even see it as so bad it's good. It has its moments. Just think of it as one big McDonald's, Coke and Skittles commercial. Because that's what it is.

It is a very blatant ripoff of ET. You can't even say it's just inspired. It's a direct copy with a few little changes to make it more original. It follows the formula a little too closely.

The only upside is that they used a real wheelchair bound kid. So SJWs can't complain about a 30 year old film being too ableist.

Tbh, I've always thought ET was overrated AF anyway.

 

[TrippinKahlua]

Did a lot of people watch this as a kid? I never heard of it growing up and wouldn't know anything about if it weren't for the internet's resurgence of it as a meme.

I must've seen it because I have a memory of a movie scene at a McDonalds, complete with Ronald McDonald present.

 

[Trilby]

I've never seen this movie. They were a little late to market with their ripoff, since ET came out in 1982.

While true, it wouldn't be until 1989 when they FINALLY released ET on VHS. One of Steven's great little pleasures of keeping ET out of home video as long as he could, only re-releasing the film in theaters in '85 and '88.

 

[Xetzyr]

I rented it.

This. Before the Internet and such you usually just went to the video store and would look at the pretty cover art and read the descriptions on the back and then cross your fingers and hope you were getting something worthwhile. A lot of lesser films like this didn't get much trailer play on TV so your local video store was your only real source of information (other than maybe magazines and shit).

Movies like this were usually your 2nd or 3rd pick, like you'd go to the video store wanting ET but then it would be checked out and so then you'd settle for this instead. A lot of video stores only had one or two copies of a lot of movies, so you'd often be forced to watch other films that wouldn't be your first pick.

It was a simpler time.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Never in my life did I think there'd be a day when a collector's edition Blu-Ray of fucking Mac and Me would get released, much less an alternate Japanese ending being found.

I wonder why it never turned up before now, though...

 

[Trilby]

Never in my life did I think there'd be a day when a collector's edition Blu-Ray of fucking Mac and Me would get released, much less an alternate Japanese ending being found.

I wonder why it never turned up before now, though...

I suppose we'll never know, unless it wasn't common knowledge or Orion simply forgot they even had it somewhere after a while.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

James Rolfe just did a review episode about it:

 

[Orkeosaurus]

I wonder how many kilos of cocaine were involved in this movie's production.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

I wonder how many kilos of cocaine were involved in this movie's production.

If by "cocaine" you mean "pure, mercenary greed," then many. Recall this is a movie where there's a dance sequence set in a McDonald's, with Ronald McDonald himself dancing, and where Coke has the power to bring the titular alien back from the dead.