11/26/2011
Super 8: The Movie
Super 8. I just watched it and this movie bothers me. ...Super 8...It means something...almost like saying 8mm.
JJ Abrams and Steven Spielberg, who both claim to love their roots in 8mm amateur film making decided to crap all over that tradition.
First off, the only reason you use Super 8 is because you are taking your Dad's camera and doing whatever you can to make something like the “real” movies you love. You have no money, no skills, only desire. What does “Super 8” do? It starts off presenting the energy of teenagers wanting to make movies* then takes all that enthusiasm and spends a bunch of money making a multi million dollar blockbuster.
They COULD have stayed true to the super 8 ethos while making a modern movie but no, they had to pull out the checkbook and buy a whole bunch of special effects. Of course the irritating part is that it starts off pretty good but then suddenly you are in Spielberg's “War or the Worlds”
With all humility and acknowledgment that my (our) Super 8 is crude, but THAT is what Super 8 is all about.
*I REALLY had trouble getting past the part about these kids having a sound Super 8 camera, and then after the one was broken another kid's dad had a sound camera. NOBODY had sound Super 8 cameras, that was something you dreamed about. Plus you would need a really expensive editor to make something with it. Realistically, any Super 8 meant silent. I was willing to let it go that one family might have one, but two families? Now Way!
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Steven Spielberg just ruins everything he touches. Abrams has done some cool stuff, but I had a bad feeling about his movie. I still can't find a picture of the monster anywhere online -- it must have sucked.
I can't even remember the monster, it was such an animated cliched. I'm sure the production values were great and and it was fantastic CGI. But maybe with Spielberg the bigger the budget the worse the movie.
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