Author Topic: Ready for more Spielbergian nostalgia than the law allows? (Read 1535 times)

Great Rumbler · « **on:** June 01, 2011, 06:17:52 PM »

Quote from: The Vine

Super 8 is still fun, and often funny too. It's also entertaining, and sometimes even a little startling.

Quote from: Bloody Disgusting

'Super 8' can be simplified as 'E.T.' meets 'Cloverfield'... [it] truly is the beginning and the end of summer blockbusters...

Quote from: Total Film

Super 8 doesn't possess the top-to-bottom greatness of the films it's modelled on but, in shooting for the stars, leaves 90% of modern blockbusters in the gutter.

Quote from: JoBlo

Super 8 is a fun-filled tribute to creature features, mayhem and finding your way in the world.

12 reviews, 11 Fresh. Average rating = 8/10

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/super_8/

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #1 on:** June 01, 2011, 06:21:54 PM »

I'll wait for actual journalists to review the film, not fanboys

Mupepe · « **Reply #2 on:** June 01, 2011, 08:00:14 PM »

Seeing this Saturday so I'll chime in after

Diunx · « **Reply #3 on:** June 02, 2011, 01:36:01 AM »

JJ abrams? pass.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #4 on:** June 02, 2011, 09:12:59 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on June 01, 2011, 06:21:54 PM

I'll wait for actual journalists to review the film, not fanboys

Quote from: TIME Magazine

The year's most thrilling, feeling mainstream movie.

Good enough for ya?

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #5 on:** June 02, 2011, 09:34:41 AM »

you gonna post a USA Today review next?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #6 on:** June 02, 2011, 09:40:58 AM »

You will crumble when Armond White posts his glowing review.

chronovore · « **Reply #7 on:** June 04, 2011, 01:35:36 PM »

I'm hopeful, but really don't want to see any shakycam in 3D. Is this a 3D movie? Are there still non-3D blockbusters?

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #8 on:** June 04, 2011, 02:16:48 PM »

His use of flaring is the worst thing ever. It doesn't even look right. But I'm interested in the nostalgia cannoli this movie seems to be

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #9 on:** June 04, 2011, 03:05:21 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on June 04, 2011, 01:35:36 PM

I'm hopeful, but really don't want to see any shakycam in 3D. Is this a 3D movie? Are there still non-3D blockbusters?

It's actually NOT in 3D.

Also, it doesn't look like there's much in the way of shakycam either.

Mupepe · « **Reply #10 on:** June 04, 2011, 05:11:06 PM »

No shakycam. I'll write up something bigger when I'm not on my phone, but overall it was good. Its a throwback to 70s and 80s alien Sci fi. Its got the sentimentality of early Spielberg. The first half could really be its own movie focusing on the kids (and its actually entertaining in a sandlot way). The kid actors don't make me want to chop my nuts off. Good action too. Its worth paying for and definitely worth seeing. But its not the definitive blockbuster people are making it seem but its really good anyways.

Mupepe · « **Reply #11 on:** June 04, 2011, 05:16:08 PM »

Also there's puking and a lot of kids saying "shit" a lot

Mupepe · « **Reply #12 on:** June 04, 2011, 06:26:11 PM »

The best thing is that its competently shot, lens flare aside.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #13 on:** June 04, 2011, 07:13:03 PM »

Quote from: Mupepe on June 04, 2011, 05:16:08 PM

Also there's puking and a lot of kids saying "shit" a lot

ManaByte · « **Reply #14 on:** June 08, 2011, 06:44:46 PM »

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #15 on:** June 08, 2011, 06:50:31 PM »

fuck this movie and everyone involved.

Robo · « **Reply #16 on:** June 08, 2011, 07:04:49 PM »

dat poster

Drew Struzan

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #17 on:** June 08, 2011, 07:13:32 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on June 01, 2011, 06:21:54 PM

I'll wait for actual journalists to review the film, not fanboys

Actually journalists have weighed in now, and they all pretty much agree that the movie is awesome.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #18 on:** June 08, 2011, 07:27:51 PM »

Too bad it has a lower RT rating than X-Men: First Class

Robo · « **Reply #19 on:** June 08, 2011, 07:36:07 PM »

That just tells me it has less critic-pandering bullshit.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #20 on:** June 08, 2011, 07:38:41 PM »

Pirates 4 movie of the summer

ManaByte · « **Reply #21 on:** June 08, 2011, 07:50:08 PM »

Just bought 5 tickets for the midnight tomorrow. We were going to take off work tomorrow afternoon for the early IMAX release until we saw the $18 ticket price for a FoMAX theater. Fuck that shit.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #22 on:** June 08, 2011, 07:59:24 PM »

Quote from: CajoleJuice on June 08, 2011, 07:27:51 PM

Too bad it has a lower RT rating than X-Men: First Class

Still has a higher average score.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #23 on:** June 08, 2011, 08:22:11 PM »

Quote from: ManaByte on June 08, 2011, 07:50:08 PM

Just bought 5 tickets for the midnight tomorrow. We were going to take off work tomorrow afternoon for the early IMAX release until we saw the $18 ticket price for a FoMAX theater. Fuck that shit.

e tu, mana

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #24 on:** June 08, 2011, 08:38:19 PM »

All this movie needs is a scene of one of the chubby friends being chastised for being chubby and some belly shakin

ManaByte · « **Reply #25 on:** June 10, 2011, 02:27:08 AM »

Waiting for the midnight Super 8. I think my friends and I are the only people here who were alive in 1979.

Mr. Spinnington · « **Reply #26 on:** June 10, 2011, 09:46:33 PM »

it went okay

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #27 on:** June 10, 2011, 09:46:59 PM »

I'll probably go see it tomorrow, maybe sometime early next week.

Robo · « **Reply #28 on:** June 10, 2011, 10:53:12 PM »

LENS FLARE: THE MOVIE, PART 2

I liked it, tho.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #29 on:** June 11, 2011, 12:31:36 AM »

The wife and I both really enjoyed Super 8.

While standing in line to get into the theater, someone tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I purposely looked like J.J. Abrams (I guess he was just dressed like me on Letterman the night before)... that was a first.

Akala · « **Reply #30 on:** June 11, 2011, 02:13:06 AM »

how embarassing

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #31 on:** June 11, 2011, 02:47:31 AM »

you should have said "oy shove off muggle," then the crowd would have been like fffffuuuu

Bebpo · « **Reply #32 on:** June 18, 2011, 02:38:55 AM »

Thumbs up.

A bit formulaic and safe in order to stay appeasing as a family film to all ages, but overall good film and man, some really really well done scenes. The scene where:

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They're in the rolled over bus was masterfully directed. The tension and pacing was just stellar. And the scene at the end in slow motion with everything going crazy in town was perfect spielberg

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Vizzys · « **Reply #33 on:** June 18, 2011, 03:20:02 AM »

saw it today, movie was very meh

dont waste your monies

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #34 on:** June 18, 2011, 11:15:13 AM »

Don't waste your monies...if you don't want to watch an awesome movie.

etiolate · « **Reply #35 on:** June 18, 2011, 03:02:46 PM »

I really enjoyed the film. It felt very self-conscience, even its little faults. Real great use of the jarring/ejaculate experience of horror.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #36 on:** June 18, 2011, 03:05:10 PM »

Good movie.

It was like The Goonies + E.T. + Aliens.

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Author Topic: Ready for more Spielbergian nostalgia than the law allows? (Read 1535 times)