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| Thread: Super 8 (film) |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
-Carl Sagan
Nice to see some more of it, but it would have been nice to get a quick shot of what we're dealing with here. |
First review I've seen and pretty +ve |
-Carl Sagan
My first thought was: they should have made a movie about Motel 6 instead, that Tom Bodett cracks me up. And then I watched the trailer and, yes, it looks awesome. |
Last edited by Publius; 02-Jun-2011 at 10:46 AM. Reason: cuz
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist." - Queen Victoria
This review is less +ve... |
-Carl Sagan
Aint It Cool's reviewers are generally worthless to me these days. Those guys hate everything but Fincher... |
Last edited by bassman; 09-Jun-2011 at 02:20 PM. Reason: .
This flick was in my Netflix queue the day it was announced (and Netflix had it available for saving). Netflix has actually irked me recently as it seems later and later before they have newer films up for you to go ahead and save for when they come out, of course my queue has about 50 films that are currently available and about 280 that are saved which haven't been released yet, but I digress... |
Last edited by JDFP; 09-Jun-2011 at 02:53 PM. Reason: yes
"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid." - Ronald Wilson Reagan
"A page of good prose remains invincible." - John Cheever
I still haven't seen Super 8, but had to share this. This is just about the only thing that I hated about Star Trek.... | ||||
Last edited by bassman; 21-Jun-2011 at 05:44 PM. Reason: .
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"Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany
The lens flare in Star Trek got on my nerves. It was okay and did work in a few scenes, but it was greatly overused. Then on top of that there's an entire special feature documentary on the lens flare? Abrams just talks about how he loves it, had the CG guys do it in the space shots, and then it shows some guys standing off camera pointing flash lights into the lens. |
Last edited by bassman; 21-Jun-2011 at 06:15 PM. Reason: .
Not sure if this has been discussed or not, but there are a couple of Romero nods in the film. The kids are shooting a zombie film and the name of the company in the story that causes the zombies is Romero Chemical. One of the kids has a Dawn of the Dead poster on his bedroom wall as well. And Romero vet Bingo O'Malley shows up in a scene too. |
Still torn on seeing it. The stuff I've seen said if you were there for movies like E.T., you're gonna love this. However, my 19 year old son loved it, and that's bitten me in the ass more than once... |
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No it takes place in the early 80's. I loved the movie!! I took my 12 yo daughter and she loved the movie. It does indeed have that ET/Goonies vibe to it. . but with a more serious tone. Just a great nostalgic film. |
"When the dead walk, we must stop the killing, or lose the war."
The movie is set in 1979. It mentions Three Mile Island on the news in the film and when it shows the main character sitting in the cemetery next to his mother's grave you can see her death is 1979, which had just happened a couple of weeks prior to the film's events. |
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Originally Posted by bassman
It doesn't make or break the movie, but I hope Abrams doesn't continue to get too carried away with it.
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