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 Post subject: Super 8
PostPosted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:22 am 
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Anyone catch it this weekend? My daughter and I went and saw it. Not a bad flick. Decent story...the kids were really good.

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 Post subject: Re: Super 8
PostPosted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:41 am 
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Wife and I saw it. I agree that the kids acted really well, and the cinematography was quite good. I can't say I loved the story as much, as the whole kids and "main plotline" felt really disconnected from each other and felt forced towards the end.

My wife's biggest problem was that
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the alien in this movie looked pretty dang similar to the Cloverfield alien. If you look at the two side by side there are a lot of similarities.


But overall I would say I didn't dislike it. I didn't love it enough to own it, but I didn't hate it.

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 Post subject: Re: Super 8
PostPosted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:18 pm 
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Numbuk wrote:
Wife and I saw it. I agree that the kids acted really well, and the cinematography was quite good. I can't say I loved the story as much, as the whole kids and "main plotline" felt really disconnected from each other and felt forced towards the end.

My wife's biggest problem was that
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the alien in this movie looked pretty dang similar to the Cloverfield alien. If you look at the two side by side there are a lot of similarities.


But overall I would say I didn't dislike it. I didn't love it enough to own it, but I didn't hate it.



Bout sums it up for me as well. Worth seeing again as a rental but not something I want to purchase. Did you stay through the credits and watch the kids finished zombie movie?

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 Post subject: Re: Super 8
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Yeah, the zombie movie was pretty enjoyable to watch. :D

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I thought this film was great, with one minor issue:

100% CGI beasties aren't scary or awe-inspiring.
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I saw this tonight, and perhaps it was because I had low expectations, but I liked X-Men a little better.
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Numbuk wrote:
Wife and I saw it. I agree that the kids acted really well, and the cinematography was quite good. I can't say I loved the story as much, as the whole kids and "main plotline" felt really disconnected from each other and felt forced towards the end.

My wife's biggest problem was that
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the alien in this movie looked pretty dang similar to the Cloverfield alien. If you look at the two side by side there are a lot of similarities.


But overall I would say I didn't dislike it. I didn't love it enough to own it, but I didn't hate it.


Haven't seen the movie yet -

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But wasn't this supposed to be the prequel to Cloverfield. At least, that's what all the rumors were, when the first teaser got released.

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Nay.
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Please note that I haven't seen this yet.
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Yeah, no, NF. People were hoping it was a sequel or somehow related (I hadn't really heard that it might be a prequel, though). Given that the monster apparently resembles that in Cloverfield, and that monster's origin was never quite explained (other than some deep-sea drilling, a glimpse of an asteroid, etc.), then it would be pretty interesting if, in three years, Abrams comes out with a third movie tying them all together. Come to think of it, this one certainly has some thematic similarity to Cloverfield, in terms of both having a hand-held camera play an important role. Huh.

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