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The wonder of a movie like this is that the kid element and absent parents nails the era. But there has to be a supernatural threat and an arbitrarily evil government guy to create action in a movie that doesn't need it. The action sequences are overblown and too Spielbergian in that there is too much danger for people to escape unscathed. The truck that runs headlong into a train that has a long catapult into the sky is barely wrecked and the driver oddly intact. Kids are too near explosions with flying debris to be completely missed. The combination of realism and then movie magic escapism doesn't ultimately work for me. The adults' relationships with the kids and themselves changes and resolves as plot points without much plausibility. There is a symbolic act of letting go which is too convenient in how it affects two beings.
This could have been a great movie about kids and yet it needed, for some reason, to be about the supernatural.
I don't intend to be that hard on it because it is an enjoyable summer movie. However, it could have been a great movie like Stand By Me but directors like Spielberg and unfortunately, Abrams, won't trust the human side to the story. I don't think it is one that I will see again.
Just want to add a couple of things. Elle Fanning is great in this movie. She has some moments in this movie that are amazing. The kid who played the director, Riley Griffiths does a great job. The lead kid, Joel Courtney, is fine but more reactive so I can't tell how good a job he did. I can tell you that I thought this character was almost a doppelganger for Patrick Fugit in Almost Famous.
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Got to enjoy it with my kids, then chat about it after.
The film is seemlessly assembled, with lots of bits that refer to plot to come...very well set up.
It was great how the girl the same age as the boys was so obviously more "complex" or mature, and great how the boys' acting skills were so well downplayed when they were in film making mode.
I liked the "don't show the monster" way of building tension, too.
Glad that the dad was not played as a buffoon, as Disney is so wont to do.
This movie reminded me of the first Strokes album, or that Sheryl Crow "Tuesday Night Music Club" disc....take a bunch of well known tropes, blend seemlessly, end up with something that feels fresh!
Each of the male kids was a bit one dimensional, but the characters remained consistent to themselves.
I especially liked when Charlie was mad at Joe and how they worked out their issues.
It also reminded me quite nicely of how epic simple day to day things were when I was a kid, but have minimized since - first crush, trying to figure a girl out, getting to hold hands, working on a project like their film where the project takes up such a vast piece of one's consciousness, food taking precedence over mourning, living by bicycle - in all terrain mode....
All in all, I was very pleased.
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
I really enjoyed the movie. Bordered on borrowing too much from ET, but Elle made it worthwhile. She must have been 12 when she did this, amazing. Every bit as talented as her big sister. And that says much.
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
...a terrific film.
Good recreation of the 1970s small town life.
Sweet, suspensful, enough action and kids you care about.
I'd give it an A-.
With her looks I predict a teen heart throb in the making.
She was stunning.
"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Greg House
I'm pretty sure the younger the audience the more it was enjoyed. Unfortunately I'm not young.I'm thinking above avg Goonies meets less than avg ET.
pfffffttttt.....
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
Edits: 06/11/11
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Falling Skies, also produced by SS, has been diminished by this turd.
Super 8 was unoriginal, cliched, lacked any suspense, and had the feel of a second rate Steven King story. Sorry, not even a good popcorn movie unless yer bringing teenage kids to it.
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
(though a lot of loose ends) but it descended into silliness and had a sappy and tacked on ending.
the comparison to Stand By Me seems right, it could have been a contender
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Phil
They basically said it was an homage to Spielberg and that the movie making was the part worth seeing.
They also raved about Elle Fanning.
Jack
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