Super 8

[img] Plot Summary:During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.

While I saw Super 8 when it was initially released, I haven't really seen it since, which is a crime seeing how much I actually enjoyed it. A lot of secrecy surrounded this film, as it was another monster movie released by J.J. Abrams. Some people even theorized that it was a continuation of Cloverfield. If you look at the second Cloverfield promotional backdrop as well as the Super 8 backdrop...they look very similar:

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j.j. abrams accomplished the near-impossible with super 8 and that was to make a film that pays loving homage to the 1980s steven spielberg films instead of being a cheap knock-off of them. abrams' story of an alien let loose on a small midwestern town provides a great backdrop for him to insert his characters, mostly a group of kids who end up caught in the mayhem that follows. abrams takes his visual trademarks such as his love for lens flare and tones them down, overcoming the temptation that zack snyder failed to do with sucker punch. nevertheless, it is clearly an abrams film and the read more