Brónach 1,302 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 http://comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/8073/super8-firstteaserpostersidewayfull.jpgA poster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,802 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Count me interested... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 lol at the lens flare.Trailer looks like this could be good oldfashioned fun though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Brausam 215 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Looks pretty good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Looks great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I feel like I've seen a ton of movies like this in recent years. Something terrorizes a town and a bunch of people sneak around and try to escape or figure out what's going on, and there's always a police officer as a major character. Maybe I'm just full of shit, I don't know. I'll probably see this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Yeah, but because this will be filmed like a 70's or 80's Spielberg film, people will flock to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Last night my intentions of not to watch the trailer fell apart. And I saw it. And I totally loved it (again, other than the absurd explosions). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I feel like I've seen a ton of movies like this in recent years. Something terrorizes a town and a bunch of people sneak around and try to escape or figure out what's going on, and there's always a police officer as a major character. Maybe I'm just full of shit, I don't know. I'll probably see this.Yeah, I remember they released Beowulf somewhere around 750 AD or was it 1000 AD? But every damn "something is invading a town" work has been trying to follow that formula since then. It's getting really irritating.Why can't a monster invade a town and just wipe out the whole town, focusing on how the monster repopulates the area after humanity has been eliminated? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 This may be my most anticipated score for this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Gia back in Williams-imitation mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Har-har. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,376 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I feel like I've seen a ton of movies like this in recent years. Something terrorizes a town and a bunch of people sneak around and try to escape or figure out what's going on, and there's always a police officer as a major character. Maybe I'm just full of shit, I don't know. I'll probably see this.Many of those "movies" don't make the cinema. They're trapped on the SyFy network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I seriously can't stop watching the trailer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,020 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 What's so special about it? It feels like a film from the 70's and 80's, I can understand that. But is an homage to something else really enough to get excited these days?Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 An homage to the films of a generation ago would be a refreshing change from, say, a subject or intellectual property from a generation ago lifted to create a modern movie that completely desecrates and vomits upon everything that made the original great.Besides, Spielberg's something of a legend around these parts, and hasn't done anything good for a while. A well publicized BM would get some people excited, so a collaboration with up-and-coming wunderkind JJ Abrams is heart-attack-rendering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Agreed.I just want to see a good entertaining film with a good score and we have very little of those these days. This has the potential to be one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Also, there's people who simply happen to like this kind of fantasy stories, which is why I'm excited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laserschwert 475 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Also it's great to see an adventure movie with kids in it again... it's been too long since "The Goonies"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Didn't the last Narnia movie have kids in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,556 Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Didn't the last Narnia movie have kids in it?They weren't just "kids", they were well-behaved, English kids! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Also it's great to see an adventure movie with kids in it again... it's been too long since "The Goonies"...There's something about the kid the trailer puts forward as the "Mikey Walsh" of the story (Joel Courtney) that tells me he's going to be a star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,347 Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Kids running from a monster ... yes, I can see why this is going to be an entertaining film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,556 Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 I am quietly intoxicated by this trailer. It has a 1982 "feel" about it, if you know what I mean. Those of you who were around in 1982, and can remember it, the atmosphere reached fever-pitch, as the release-date aproached. It was all anyone would - could - talk about, and it was abaolutely EVERYWHERE!!! I don't expect this to provoke the same reaction, but the trailer does take me back to a simpler, more innocent time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 I hated the 80s, in the 80s. Things are better now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,347 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Well, what do you know! It's Larry Fong, the cinematographer of 300, Watchmen and Sucker Punch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 First downside I've heard about this project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,347 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 First Nolan chooses Snyder, now Abrams chooses Larry Fong. It seems that the 'film gods' have better taste than their fanboys. However, I'm still not going to watch this kiddie film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 The only person who thinks Abrams is a 'film god' is Abrams himself. As for Nolan, he just saw that Snyder is very good at making films for adults with major developmental issues, which most people probably see as Superman's target audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 First Nolan chooses Snyder, now Abrams chooses Larry Fong. It seems that the 'film gods' have better taste than their fanboys. However, I'm still not going to watch this kiddie film.We don't really know if it's going to be a kiddie film. It could happen that it just features kids on the leading roles.And there's a difference between a film for kids and a film that everybody can enjoy, like Close Encounters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin 22 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Kids running from a monster ... yes, I can see why this is going to be an entertaining film.The Monster Squad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,347 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 We don't really know if it's going to be a kiddie film. It could happen that it just features kids on the leading roles.It's an adaptation of a kiddie novel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 It's actually an original screenplay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,347 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 It's actually an original screenplay.You're right. I was mixed up with that other kiddie movie: War Horse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 It's actually an original screenplay.You're right. I was mixed up with that other kiddie movie: War Horse.I thought you meant 300. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurgaFlippinMan 7 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 However, I'm still not going to watch this kiddie film.And you watched Twilight iirc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,347 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 And you watched Twilight iirc?Twilight? That's for teenager girls! And I had to watch because of me kid (oops, should I worry?). Wait! The boy! Maybe he wants to see a bunch of kids running away from the monster! Oh, no! It seems I'm gonna see it anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 And you watched Twilight iirc?Twilight? That's for teenager girls! And I had to watch because of me kid (oops, should I worry?). Wait! The boy! Maybe he wants to see a bunch of kids running away from the monster! Oh, no! It seems I'm gonna see it anyway!You may even enjoy it! Oh wait, I forgot you've already decided you won't like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,347 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Blame the trailer for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 What don't you like in the trailer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,347 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Because it's a kids movie concept. Something 'unknown' has escaped and a bunch of Goonies are going to solve the mystery. That doesn't sound like an adult-oriented sci-fi film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 Is there a new rating? Only 8 years old and younger permitted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Because it's a kids movie concept. Something 'unknown' has escaped and a bunch of Goonies are going to solve the mystery. That doesn't sound like an adult-oriented sci-fi film.Am I the only one who doesn't think Super 8 is meant for kids? I mean, is clearly trying to appeal to those that are not kids anymore. Actually I think that's why it appeals to me so much, I want to feel like a kid again.I wouldn't want to live in a world where I can only see adult-only oriented stories, anyway. I like it when everybody can appreciate something regardless of their age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,376 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Because it's a kids movie concept. Something 'unknown' has escaped and a bunch of Goonies are going to solve the mystery. That doesn't sound like an adult-oriented sci-fi film.Sometimes its not WHAT the movie is about, but WHY it is about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,347 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 I wouldn't want to live in a world where I can only see adult-only oriented stories, anyway.Then you're lucky because most movies are made for a young public (teenagers and tweens) because that's where the money is. Adult cinema is a rare thing these day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 I wouldn't want to live in a world where I can only see adult-only oriented stories, anyway.Then you're lucky because most movies are made for a young public (teenagers and tweens) because that's where the money is. Adult cinema is a rare thing these day.I don't consider me lucky if I can't see At the Mountains of Madness either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TownerFan 4,983 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Am I the only one who doesn't think Super 8 is meant for kids? I mean, is clearly trying to appeal to those that are not kids anymore. Actually I think that's why it appeals to me so much, I want to feel like a kid again.Hollywood likes to look at his past (sometimes even recent past) with a nostalgic look. It happened in the past (think Star Wars) and will continue to happen in the future. It's part of how Hollywood perceives itself: a mix of nostalgia for the past and anticipation for the future, being both conservative and forward-looking.The curious thing is that Super 8 looks upon something we perceive as fairly recent stuff (i.e. early Spielberg 1980s movies) and still very much here with us, so it may feel awkward or strange to some people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 I wouldn't want to live in a world where I can only see adult-only oriented stories, anyway.Then you're lucky because most movies are made for a young public (teenagers and tweens) because that's where the money is. Adult cinema is a rare thing these day.Uh, Alex, real adults go to plays, operas, and ballet and dance performances. You should try it. Quite a lot of fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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