Hot Clip: J.J. Abrams’ ‘Super 8′

COMMENTS (23)

• what is it with this guy and the lens flares

  Comment by suicideblondjay — Monday May 16, 2011 @ 9:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Yeah – and where’s the story?

    Comment by Rocky Robillard — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 8:59am PDT  Reply to this post

• I love, love, LOVE the oldschool 80s popcorn feel this movie has – casting, camera angles, the setting…. Can’t wait to see it.

  Comment by Jackadoodle — Monday May 16, 2011 @ 9:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Love the lens flares, quite a cheeky trademark. Makes you want to see the image, stimulates the visual cortex. Certainly has the mentor elements of ‘Close Encounters’, but with such an iconic movie, the points of difference will hopefully be on display to a eleviate overt comparison.

  Want to see some originality brought to the ‘party’, that may well be in the authored script and its drawn characterizations. Hopefully there will be some original and engaging depth beyond the by the numbers kid and parents under social pressure templates we’re used to.

  Comment by Norman — Monday May 16, 2011 @ 10:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• that’s a thriller movie

  Comment by best cheap hosting — Monday May 16, 2011 @ 10:31pm PDT  Reply to this post

• there is going to be a keg at the moon tower! WAIT…

  Comment by chris — Monday May 16, 2011 @ 10:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• everything down to the Cars in the soundtrack just feels like epic win.

  it may have the smallest opening weekend of any of the summer’s major releases but i predict it will have the longest, biggest legs

  Comment by can't wait for super 8 — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 12:26am PDT  Reply to this post

  • I agree. This looks like one of those great surprises that just keep going week after week. Looks phenomenal.

    Comment by addison — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 3:04am PDT  Reply to this post

• Beg to differ. That clip does nothing for me. I hope the film offers more.

  Comment by Fan — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 2:57am PDT  Reply to this post

• is this movie about Superheroes or Camera film?

  Comment by JoshP — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 4:29am PDT  Reply to this post

• It doesn’t know if it wants to be a saccharine sweet kids adventure movie or Cloverfield 2. I predict a major BO fail and Abram’s aura will diminish.

  Comment by TheHonestTruth — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 4:37am PDT  Reply to this post

• if the mosnters don’t scare, nobody’s gonna care

  Comment by Frank Tien — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 5:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• Weird, choppy clip.

  Comment by Liam Gallagher — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 8:32am PDT  Reply to this post

• It’s people like JJ and these movies they make that will inspire the next generation of creators.

  Comment by Bad Robots Rock. — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 9:19am PDT  Reply to this post

• while admitting that I understand the plot of this film, this trailer is garbage. If you don’t know anything about this film, you’d think it was about a train crash with lousy visual effects. I have zero desire to see this movie, based on the new trailer. yawn. It’s like saying the Godfather was about a shooting in an Italian restaurant.

  Comment by musicmix — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 9:30am PDT  Reply to this post

• Still wondering how one pickup truck derails an entire train.

  Still…wondering.

  Hopefully the movie clears up this mystery for me.

  Comment by Truth-o-Meter — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 9:59am PDT  Reply to this post

  • 1) It’s a movie.

    2) In 2005 a man bent on suicide parked his SUV on Metrolink tracks in Glendale, California. Eleven people died in the derailment, none of whom was the creep who’d parked his truck on the tracks.

    Comment by Santayana — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 2:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

• looks silly. such a stretch. they’re shooting a little super 8 movie?

  Please…

  Comment by sorry — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 10:17am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Super 8 film is cool. How do you think Spielberg and Abrams got started?

    The Super 8 film format still has devoted fans. The TV show “Globe Trekkers” uses Super 8 film in every episode. Music “videos” use super 8 all the time, check out Zooey Deschanel’s “Thieves” video.

    Many wedding movie makers use Super 8 and all the stars use film NOT digital, to document their weddings. I recently saw a “White Stripes” concert(“Blackpool Nights”), filmed entirely in Super 8. Kodak makes a wider variety of Super 8 film stocks now than ever before.

    Super 8 film is magic.

    Comment by Joe Brown — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 12:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Cannot wait for this!

  Comment by raley roger — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 10:25am PDT  Reply to this post

• Bad stuff. Count me out.

  Comment by T — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 11:42am PDT  Reply to this post

• Super boring.

  Comment by Ethan — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 11:54am PDT  Reply to this post

• How has nobody commented on the editing of this? It’s great, if that’s the pace of the movie then count me in!

  Comment by Miguel — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 1:13pm PDT  Reply to this post