Paramount Pictures used Twitter this morning to launch the latest movie trailer for Super 8 from writer/director J.J. Abrams and producer Steven Spielberg:
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Hope this is good. The trailer makes me feel positive about this – it’s a feel for a movie I haven’t had in a long time.
Wow. Now that’s a trailer. The kids look like great actors and you gotta love Kyle Chandler huh? Nice
Cloverfield meets E.T. *sigh* and Yawn
I people were getting tire of movies that showcase stuff blowing up and people getting shot. I guess substance is dead in Hollywood. Here’s to the comeback of indie films.
Comeback? They’re everywhere and they’re amazing. Get out and explore young man.
“stuff blowing up and people getting shot” attracts boys 14-35, the PRIME demographic of 90% of all Hollywood movies.
Regrettably, in Hollywood, BOTH substance AND God are dead.
great trailer – like JJ is just a vessel through which SS directs… as he used to. sweet.
Awesome!
If he can really make a late 70′s and early 80′s style Spielberg as good as it looks it can be.
It will be one hell of a movie!
It certainly has the feel of E.T, but other than that it looks entirely predictable. That late 70s/early 80s Spielberg magic just can’t be replicated, least of all by that used car salesman JJ Abrams.
Makes me feel like I’m 10 years old again! Love it.
Super stoked.
it just seems more and more like filmmakers/tv guys such as abrams, singer, kurtzman/orci, et al, stayed inside and, well, watched a helluva lot of movies and television when they were kids (hello, did you guys ever go out on your bike or play stickball or anything?). trying to come up with a new takes on past, successful material is the hollywood norm these days, but in this case it just seems a hollow, derivative attempt to emulate spielberg, lucas, donner, and so on, “homage” be damned. come up with something original, please (and isn’t that music from the trailer for “cocoon”?).
Interesting. Nice throwback to Spielberg movies about middle america. Not very challenging looking, but very intriguing.
Only JJ and Steven could do a movie with no internationally bankable stars. Looks good. I just hope it’s better than that overrated Cloverfield people keep referencing.
With Spielberg and JJ, it should be awesome. The pedigree is there for sucess. Can’t wait!
This seems awesome! And if that was indeed Ron Eldard I saw, then I’m totally going to check it out. This seems promising.
Looks like a classic 80s Spielberg movie. Which is good. Title is misleading, though. The movie isn’t really about a super 8 camera.
Has Abrams ever made a film on par with the likes of…
The Godfather, Private Ryan, Platoon, Raging Bull, Heat, Goodfellas, Network…
Now those were films.
Where have they gone?
Those are some of the best films of all time. To compare Abrams work against them is preposterous
You wonder where all the “good” films like “The Godfather, Private Ryan, Platoon, Raging Bull, Heat, Goodfellas, Network” went?
With the exception of “Network”?, ALL of your so-called great films were VIOLENT, sadistic, gangsta/military shoot ‘em ups, with bullets, punches, guts, flying all over the place.
Scorcese’s a violent, angry, sadistic guy and his films-such as “Goodfellas- reflect his psychopathology. “The Godfather” was a disgusting sadistic series glorifying evil psychopaths. “Private Ryan” and “Platoon” made their name from their unrelenting and sadistic displays of human dismemberment. “Raging Bull” showed us close up face punching.
If these are some of your long-lost lamented films, you’d best have that looked at by a therapist!
“The Godfather, Private Ryan, Platoon, Raging Bull, Heat, Goodfellas, Network…”
Heat?
Heat was one of the best and most underrated movies of the past 25 years. Pretty damn close to the perfect crime drama.
HEAT made gobs of money and is still talked about to this day.
It is not “underrated.”
It’s perfectly rated.
yikes
Lemme see if I have this straight, ya whiny biznatches:
1. This movie isn’t original? Though you can’t tell me exactly what it’s copying, nor should you be able to since you haven’t seen it.
2. Looks like ET, only predictable? As if ET wasn’t predictable. As if, other than having children and bikes in it, this looks anything like ET.
3. Cloverfield meets ET? Except I saw no found footage in the trailer.
4. Abrams hasn’t made Raging Bull, Taxi Driver or Network. Except this is his 3rd movie ever. At this point in his career, Scorsese hadn’t made Taxi Driver by his third film.
Really? If you can’t decipher the derivative tone, derivative imagery, and derivative nuance from CE3K, CLOVERFIELD, et al, perhaps you’re part of the problem in Hollywood, and perhaps you’re one of those responsible for feeding the masses sequel after sequel, remake after remake. Otherwise, you’re simply being willfully ignorant.
We say it looks like E.T. because it’s about a group of children (and yes, they get around by bicycle) who are concealing the existence of a probably benign alien or supernatural being.
Personally, I believe the twist for this one is that the creature being concealed is a supernatural hobo who was quite comfortable riding the rails until some young filmmakers derailed his freight train.
This is exactly why we were cautioned not to put those pennies on the tracks when we were kids.
It’s so much cooler to hate on something than to like it, isn’t it? Makes you feel SO much above it all. I love people who whine and complain about how Hollywood sucks and that it makes nothing good but can’t seem to stop coming back to entertainment sites such as this.
Anyways, this looks fantastic. Captures the mood of the early Spielberg movies but will surely have JJ’s stamp all over it. I can’t wait. And Kyle Chandler deserves to be a movie star, the fact that he’s the lead just makes me want to see it that much more.
“J.J.’s stamp…”
Umm, what exactly is that?
Enough lens flares to make sunglasses in the theater a necessity.
A completely ludicrous plot that you overlook because of killer action sequences and engaging actors. (see: Star Trek, Alias)
It takes place in 1979. At that point Spielberg had just done Close Encounters and was editing 1941. This whole “early 80′s Amblin look and feel” is nonsense. Amblin didn’t begin until 1983 and the only movie people are referencing over and over is The Goonies. Super 8 is a homage to Close Encounters with more likable and natural kids than Goonies had. It’s nice that it takes place 32 years ago and it looks inventive and poignant. I hope it does well because it’s ambitious.
What is “ambitious” about recycling CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, E.T., THE GOONIES, etc.?
Seriously…
You sound like a failed, bitter screenwriter who never could get a meeting with anyone successful.
I agree. This feels much more like Close Encounters than ET. Some of the snarky comments about this being a derivative of Spielberg is ludicrous. Spielberg’s name is the first name you see. This IS a Spielberg movie and Looks like its going to be a good one.
Glad to see Kyle Chandler get such a high profile role.
As someone that spends a lot of time in the town this movie was made in, i’m really looking forward to it. It looks like a really good movie. As far as people that complain about no name stars, everyone that is a “name” was a no name at one point. Not everything needs to be Pacino or someone like that.
I am just a fan of good films. Of all kinds.
Just sayin’ that the hype on (and power given to) this guy… it’s like he’s The Messiah, and yet there is oddly nothing I’ve seen from him that puts him on par with those other filmmakers/films. Star Trek and his MI movie I thought were riddled with plot holes and an all-too familiar look. Neither of those films had a gripping performance either. Granted they are summer action fare, of course. But just wish people didn’t talk about him like he’s as good as those other guys.
And yes, I think HEAT from Mann is a top notch film. But to each his own.
Regarding an earlier post, what is “JJ’s stamp,” anyway? Huge plotholes and action sequences that can be removed from the film without having any impact on the story?
I hope the movie is great. Who doesn’t want great movies?
Scorsese had, though, made MEAN STREETS. Remember that scene where Keitel was spinning drunk? That film showed both a visual style/craftsmanship and sense of character that dwarfs anything I’ve seen from JJ Abrams. The hype and the work just don’t match up there, in my opinion.
You’re right. JJ Abrams is not Martin Scorsese. He must suck then! After all, Scorsese’s sci-fi summer tentpoles were WAY better, because he works in the same genre as JJ you see and so it makes perfect sense to compare the kind of movies they make.
There should totally be a spinning drunk scene in this movie. Except Guy Ritchie now owns the rights to those.
Well, it ain’t SMURFS but it still looks pretty good.
Best.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
It looks like a lot of fun. What the hell is so bad about that?