Originally posted by ares834
Great film. Probably the best I have seen yet this year.
I agree. I just got back from seeing it, and thought it was fantastic. My favourite film of the year so far.
I was also about the same age as these kids were in 1979, so the setting mixed with all the homages to Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and E.T gave me such a warm glow; actually had a tear by the end.
The homages almost bordered on ripping off to me. I liked most of the film, but the ending was too sappy and cheesy considering how much damage was done. I also thought it was a cop out when
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nearly every person the monster grabbed to be used as food turned out to stay alive and never actually got eaten.
Originally posted by Myth
The homages almost bordered on ripping off to me. I liked most of the film, but the ending was too sappy and cheesy considering how much damage was done. I also thought it was a cop out whenSpoiler:
nearly every person the monster grabbed to be used as food turned out to stay alive and never actually got eaten.
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The girl, the woman with curlers and a cop. Thats only 3 people. He was shown chewing on the leg of another (someone they didnt show whom he must have grabbed) so for all you know, he could have taken more people to feed on.
Better safe than sorry.
I am mixed on it. The scenes that were good were REALLY good, but overall the film was so incredibly lacking for me. It felt like a thin outline to an in depth 2 1/2 hour movie.
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The film had some great special effects scenes and heartwarming moments. However, it was far too short for the character arcs it wanted to do, some characters were completely unnecessary, and the monster was a major copout. The kids would vary from cute to irritating, and the dad would vary from heroic to random dick. And the whole "let's spend 1 1/2 hours NOT showing the main event" really irritated me, especially since when we finally see it, you can hardly even tell what it looks like! And the monster even felt like a subplot to the generic evil military, an idea that could've been handled better in a longer film. However, there was some great acting (Elle Fanning blowing me away with her magnificent performance), and some legitimately good scenes. The best scenes, however, were about the kids making a different movie that was actually superior to the main film. The main kid and the pyro were incredibly annoying, though.
Originally posted by MairuzuSpoiler:
The girl, the woman with curlers and a cop. Thats only 3 people. He was shown chewing on the leg of another (someone they didnt show whom he must have grabbed) so for all you know, he could have taken more people to feed on.Better safe than sorry.
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My point wasn't that nobody died, it was that nobody we had any connection to ended up dying. The only character that we know who was actually killed by the monster is the bad military guy. It came across as too family friendly with its ending where it goes "oh, every who we thought was dead are actually alive, yay!" That just feels cheesing and makes it feel too much like a kids movie for me. They did the same thing in the movie Monster House. That is not a movie I was hoping to compare Super 8 to. In the end, by showing every character live, it changes the feel for me from 'they survived a horrible monster attach' to 'oh, the situation wasn't as severe as we thought.'
Super 8 movie was good to watch but not so much interesting.i watched it and i think it was ok.this movie was about In the summer of 1979, Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney), a 14-year-old boy living in the fictional town of Lillian, Ohio, has lost his mother in a factory accident. Louis Dainard (Ron Eldard) comes to the wake, but Joe's father, Deputy Jackson Lamb (Kyle Chandler), takes Dainard in handcuffs. It is later revealed that Jackson blames Dainard for the former's wife's death because he was absent during his shift and she had to fill in for him.so it was ok for me...
I don't know if I ever reviewed this movie yet. I saw it awhile ago and I have to say that it was nothing special. Spielberg and JJ Abrahams obviously have a kiddy pedo thing happening here. Moreso evident with the camera lovingly ****ing the young girls mouth during the lipstick scene. Seriously, people gushed over this?! I am saying, most gushed buckets I imagine. Perverts! Anytime I watch a movie were two young child actors are forced to act sexual or attracted to one another. It screams PEDO! i'm kidding... this movie sucked though. 😂