2’E.T.

the Extra-Terrestrialwould surely have to be a contender, in any event.

Its a film that sees Spielberg at his most sentimental and family-friendly, but it just works, dammit.

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This movie has so much heart, creativity, humor, and childlike wonder to it.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger holding a gun as the T-800 in ‘The Terminator’ (1984).

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RoboCop (Peter Weller) aims his gun in ‘RoboCop’

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The Fly - 1986 (1)

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George McFly (Crispin Glover) shakes hands with Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) as Lorraine Baines McFly watches, smiling in Back to the Future

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Kaneda sliding to a stop on his bike in Akira

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Macready (Kurt Russell) holding a lantern and a gun in ‘The Thing’ (1982)

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Cpl. Hicks teaching Ripley how to use a pulse rifle from Aliens (1986)

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Rick Deckard holding a gun in Blade Runner

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E.T. and Elliott (Henry Thomas) watch the UFO land in ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’ (1982).

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