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I have not written any movie reviews for almost a year now. It was a pastime I loved but, well, let's just say things got in the way. One of those things was making not one but two movies myself, working with a group of other talented filmmakers my age. ...

I am not the biggest fan of Steven Spielberg's early science fiction movies, but I connected with Super 8 more than I expected. It takes place in 1979, but despite that offers a very universal story about the difficulties of being a young teenager that collides with a mysterious and ...

In today’s world of cinema, a straight-faced nostalgia for the past is often diagnosed as an ill sense of longing and a retrograding reaction to modernity. Yet sentimentality isn’t tangential to the victory or collapse of Super 8, director J.J. Abrams’s latest feature following a string of solid sci-fi titles ...

Going into Super 8, having only seen the teaser from about a year ago was an interesting experience. Trailers these days tend to lay out almost the entire plot, so not knowing what the movie was about really added to the experience. I won't talk about the plot, but I ...

"Bad things happen, but you can still live."---Super 8 is a pretty great movie, just flat out. It strives for something much bigger, and gets really close, but falls short by inches. Thankfully, almost every aspect of the filmmaking that went behind this film is executed in a gorgeous and ...

This starts out very well. A good atmosphere, a brilliant late 70's setting. Inside it all a surprisingly good cast is fitted, all of them acting well above the standard for their age. Especially great is Elle Fanning who proves the Fanning family name still is a force to be ...

Plot:  The year is 1979, and in the fictional town of Lillian, Ohio a group of teenagers are together at a train station in the eve of the night, filming a scene for their upcoming entry into the Super 8 film festival. As they witness and survive a most catastrophic ...

Super 8 is a movie where JJ Abrams tries to bring that 80s Spielberg film vibe back to the big screen, but fails, resulting in the final product being a movie that is kind of watchable on it's own, but Super 8 could have been much, much more. I really ...

So I’m sitting in the theatre, about thirty minutes into J.J. Abrams latest sci-fi blockbuster when I suddenly think to myself; I haven’t seen a movie quite like this in a while. In fact, it’s a style which owes very much to the film-maker that Abrams too often gets himself ...

This may have a few spoilers in it:I watched this movie in the theater with a bunch of friends and a good audience. The experience was good.The movie was amusing and fun at the start (besides the unfortunate accident) and the children actors did a good job keeping me interested ...

I watched Super 8 yesterday. Most of the time when I write a review it’s written on the same day I watch the movie, when it’s fresh in my mind, but Super 8 is a different kind of movie. It’s mostly a love letter to the movies of the 80′s, ...

Super 8 is about a group of young kids on summer vacation who are trying to make a zombie movie, when one night during their filming a train accident occurs and the kids are thrown into a serious of increasingly dangerous situations and are placed in the middle of a ...

I saw Super 8, the much-hyped, secretive lovechild of J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg at 12:02 on Friday morning. Despite being tired out of my mind, I was determined to see this film, which was easily my most anticipated film of the summer, if not the year. I was not ...

Copied and pasted from my blog:   Kyle Chandler in "Super 8" As I was driving home today I thought back to my psychology classes in high school. One day we talked about multiple personality disorder. The details are sadly scarce, but I like to think that the concept has ...

The degree of appreciation (or lack thereof) you have for the film Super 8 probably is at least somewhat dependent upon what generation you're from. Not that everyone can't appreciate a well-crafted, effects laden SF film. But as the film is both set in and an homage to the late ...

 I have a fair share of disappointment of this film due to me hating J J Abrams' previous movie, Star Trek and me not wanting a Star Trek remake or facelift of this generation. His latest directional debut however, Super 8 had also become dismissive as Abrams' attempt on directing an ...

While I went into this film with high hopes from everything I had heard from others. It started out good but after an hour it started getting too dull for this alien lover. The acting could only be described as adequate on the most part except for the stoner and ...

This was one strange movie that I expected to be true to the hype. Looking at the trailer I was intrigued by this unseen horrifying monster and what kind of terror that could bring upon those kids trying to film a movie. The movie stretches so much that it tries ...