Super 8

[KeithTalent]

You have to ask that question? The creators of this POS were mailing it in.

Nowadays, Speilberg and Abrams are too rich to give a fuck about anything related to really tight story-telling. :thumbsdown:

How do you give a POS a 6/10? :hmm:

Anyway, I liked the movie quite a bit. I thought the kids were amazing and how anyone could not have some sort of attachment to Fanning's character, particularly after that scene in the boy's bedroom with the camera playing on the wall, is beyond me. Amazing piece of acting there and a very touching scene. The writing of the adult's parts seemed a bit shallow to me, but the kids stuff was great.

And yeah, I noticed the lens flares and they seemed out of place in a few spots, but who really gives a shit, it's not like they obscured a plot point or anything. To be honest I do not see the point of the "technique" at all, but it always seems to be a part of Abrams' work now.

KT

 

[Ichinisan]

... I thought the kids were amazing and how anyone could not have some sort of attachment to Fanning's character, partciularly after that scene in the boy's bedroom with the camera playing on the wall, is beyond me. ...

C O N T R I V E D

I didn't hate the movie, I just didn't like it. That scene, in particular, made me groan a little. Why did that video conveniently show his chronological childhood? Why did he have it in his room? Was he just so vain that he spends all day editing video of himself?

...and these kids were supposed to be big-time film enthusiasts, yet the home video of the kid and his mother was somehow cut and edited better than their collaborative masterpiece!

 

[KeithTalent]

C O N T R I V E D

I didn't hate the movie, I just didn't like it. That scene, in particular, made me groan a little. Why did that video conveniently show his chronological childhood? Why did he have it in his room? Was he just so vain that he spends all day editing video of himself?

...and these kids were supposed to be big-time film enthusiasts, yet the home video of the kid and his mother was somehow cut and edited better than their collaborative masterpiece!

Eh? He was sad and watching film of his dead mother. People do that you know, mourn the loss of family members by looking at photos and watching video. I did not notice the editing as it is completely irrelevant.

KT