I’m very unsure about Super 8. Everyone seems to be latching onto the “80’s Spielberg Nostalgia” angle and I don’t get it. When I want warm feelings about 80’s Spielberg works I revisit 80’s Spielberg works. I don’t need a new one. In fact, in many ways I think the man is more interesting as a filmmaker now [though War Horse can piss off]. Even further, I like what JJ Abrams is doing as a feature filmmaker. I think he’s 2-2 and am anxious to see what his take on a softer alien story might be like. Nostalgia is very, very dangerous. And overblown.
Super 8 just needs to be its own thing and not hitch onto anyone’s coattails.
So here’s a sideways poster.
Source: Impawards.
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Pretty great poster.
Wait, I think I missed something: what’s so bad about War Horse?
Nick doesn’t want no filthy Horse winning an Oscar.
I still wonder about that title. How many kids think it’s about a team of junior superheros?
There’s something about Super 8 that makes me feel very uncomfortable – violated even. It’s like my childhood memories have been infiltrated and a shoddy plastic recreation has been made. I really hope Super 8 bombs, because otherwise we’ll get homage films to the original Star Wars and Raiders Of the Lost Ark, and that will feel just too weird. This isn’t nostalgia, this is a sinister way of trying to exploit thirtysomething males by dangling an illusion of ther childhoods in front of them
Sideways lens flare!
haha…I was thinking the same thing.
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