Wayhomer Review #68: Super 8

By Widge - posted 06.12.11 @ 12:50 am

Joel Courtney and Elle Fanning from Super 8

Episode #68 for Super 8, in which our protagonist discusses the importance of texture and smoothies, how to tell this isn't actually a period film, and how somebody needed to step up and make Spielberg movies since the man himself can't.

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Widgett Walls is Need Coffee's Chief Cook and Bottle Washer. He is the author of the novel Mystics on the Road to Vanishing Point, and two collections of short stories, Magnificent Desolation and Something Else: The Complete First Season. He is also co-author of the children's book There's a Zombie in My Treehouse! All of those books are available in paperback or for the Kindle from Amazon. He is also the narrator and publisher of the first unabridged recording of Seneca's letters, available here. He is active on both Twitter and Facebook. (If you befriend him on Facebook, do say you came via Need Coffee.) He lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. He hardly ever sleeps.

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Super 8 is an amazing film!

Comment by Stephen N. — June 12, 2011 @ 6:05 am

Spielberg did this movie a few years back, it was called E.T. Apparently Abrahms forgot because this is almost the same movie, updated and given teeth. I was not impressed. The best parts were shown in the trailer.

Comment by mary k — June 14, 2011 @ 10:25 am

Mary: There's a fine line between homage and rip-off, and the line between the two for you is stationed somewhere different than mine. So be it. Although bear in mind, Abrams knew exactly what he was doing. So did Spielberg, who executive produced this. Thanks for the comment.

Comment by Widge — June 14, 2011 @ 6:40 pm

I liked it, and your comment on Abrams having a huge boner for those blue lens flares was right on. About 15 minutes or so in (during the train station filming scene), my wife leaned over and asked me what was wrong with the screen. I had to explain to watch any J.J. movie and she'll see the same thing.

Comment by B. Smith — June 21, 2011 @ 11:23 am

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