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I must disagree with those who enjoyed this movie.
I thought this was the worst kind of manipulative directing and editing -- incredibly representative of substandard modern Hollywood. The only thing that kept me awake through this pointless mess was the obnoxious blasts of sound substituting for any kind of drama. This movie was bad for kids and bad for adults.
Naturally, I thought it was unfortunate that aliens are once again portrayed as ridiculous illogical monsters.
Very poor work J.J. You tried to tell a Spielbergian kid's story, but failed miserably.
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I am so tired of the standard hollywood story lines:
1. The military is always bad.
(Avatar had the same stupid premise.)
2. Kids can always out think everyone else on the entire $%#$@ planet.
(That is fine in Goonies, but in a semi-serious movie like Super 8?
Give me a break!)
3. The black person is always the good guy, (and typically a token black person).
('Unbreakable' was such a great movie because it broke the mold.
It had a bad guy who was black, who was intelligent and capable.
(And in his mind, not even evil - although he was a token black person, well except for his mom, which was a nice added touch to the movie actually.)
Give me more movies like this!!!
My two cents worth.
It was a coming of age film about the kids. The budding romance with Elle Fanning and Joel Courtney. The massive problems with their two feuding fathers. The amazing train wreak and the delicious mystery of what's up. And not to mention the amazing acting chops of Elle. Every bit a good as her big sis Dakota.
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
and that's it. Boring and predictable and couldn't hold a candle to Stand By Me. Train wreck? Yea, the truck that plowed headfirst into a speeding train and caused that MASSIVE unholy disaster was freekin intact and the driver STILL ALIVE.
Wake me when Spielberg is involved in another good movie, a la, Schindler, Color of Purple, SPR.
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
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I must disagree with those who enjoy chocolate ice cream.
Only vanilla ice cream is worth enjoying.
"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Greg House
;-)
What part of 'I disagree with your enjoying this' do you not get?
Enjoyment is subjective. You can't really argue it.
'I enjoyed this candy bar', 'NO YOU DIDN'T', OR YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE'.
Ridiculous.
He was ranting, and badly.
"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Greg House
The alien was portrayed as an intelligent kidnap and theft victim who was really pissed off and wanted his shit back and to exact revenge on those who imprisoned him and tortured him.
Then, he rebuilt an interstellar vehicle using alot of scrap metal.
He was also shown to be telepathic and capable of changing his opinion about his experience, sharing an emotion with the lead character that lead the alien to change his approach to people.
What do your alien friends have to say about the movie?
There were many other behaviors which were absurd:Hangin people up for storage by rope
The fact that he eats people
The idea that a highly evolved intelligence would look like a swamp monster.At least a dozen more details I with which I won't both.
Edits: 06/27/11
...would most likely look like an earth bacteria or insect.
Not anything like us having evloved in a different atmosphere on a different planet.
immensity, I don't think it's impossible for others like us. Granted, a world onto which just the perfect size asteroid would hit, tilting the earth just right and then setting up a perpetual moon orbit and then another smaller object striking and obliterating the dinosaurs, allowing a tiny and fairly unsuccessful little mammal to prosper, is a tough bet, it's not technically impossible. And it wouldn't necessarily have to happen quite that way, either.
What about his look did your alien friends object to?
I don't have any alien friends, unlike yourself and the other white trash surrounded by all the illegal aliens in Vegas. I hope you're proud of your cesspool.
You're the world's second biggest hypocrite, behind Tin.
Go campaign for your false messiah.
for human flesh and most times, a voracious appetite for mating with our HOT (the hottest in the universe) womenses. Most experts think they've evolved acid for blood as a defense mechanism. They also want to steal our natural resources. You don't think they're monitoring us just to say "hey, how're yew?" one day?????????????/If you do yer incredibly naive
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
Edits: 06/27/11
You, of course, should know that the alien depiction in this film was done under the supervision of the vast 9/11 consipracy group that precludes accurate alien depiction, so you should chalk this up as another example of the "Conspiracy" suppressing info, and not to any artistic failing on the part of the film maker.
They are just taking orders from their superiors.
Namely 9/11 Truth, UFOs and aliens.
A couple books to start would be:
A New Pearl Harbor Revisited
A.D. After Disclosure, by Richard Dolan
Of course, a faster way would be to make use the the resources on my blog.
Without study, it does not take a great intuitive mind to realize that the monster portrayed in this POS movie is entirely illogical and unrealistic. The manipulative techniques used in the direction and editing of this film are so excessive and trite and are a bad substitute for drama.
...usually go downhill after you see the monster.
The suspense is gone.
The director did a good job of hiding the monster until the end.
This wasn't a monster movie as much as a movie about kids coming of age in the 1970s.
Stand by Me meets ET meets Cloverdale.
Very well done.
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typical predictable Spielberg schlock. Not even a good popcorn flick.
As for the alien monster, certainly not portrayed as most in the know believe they really are, i.e., scaly, reptillian, acid for blood, with an appetite for human flesh and or here to take our resources, women folk, etc..
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
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"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
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