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Insiders at Paramount said days ago there would be no divulging the creature in Super 8 before Friday, but that was before they pushed up the release one day. Today, director JJ Abrams and producer Steven Spielberg have leaked online what appears to be an industrial film that explains the creature. Part of this shows up in Super 8. It places an emphasis on the creature and even gives the first glimpse (it does look a bit like the Cloverfield critter). Now, Paramount insiders had said the film was being launched for playability and that success wasn’t determined by a huge opening-weekend number, but they certainly seem to be changing their tune. Here is the footage leaked to Yahoo:
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1. So much for originality and everyone acting like Super 8 is hallowed. Cloverfield for kids is what it is
2. Why does it have to be the (one of two) black guy that gets assaulted and first too. Are aliens are racist too?
because, sadly, there were no black scientists involved with the military in 1960.
You are quite ill informed. There were black scientists in the 1960′s and some were affiliated with military intel operations. SMH
I for one find it refreshing that the black scientist died first when the slutty girls are always the first ones to go in movies. Thank God for equal opportunity aliens.
Disclaimer: I’m also black.
I know right. Those slut-shaming movie directors. Nothing wrong with being a slut.
Wait a minute….that’s not just any brotha….that’s Glyn Thurman….from Cooley High……what the deuce?!?!?!?
As soon as I saw it was GT, I knew he was getting the axe. LOL! Sorry, guys, the brothas always get the axe first in scary movies. Or, at least, that’s my perception since I’m not usually paying attention to the sluts.
And they got a brother to kill him — which, what, cancels something out, right?
You know they probably did a casting call for that part. The whole clip seemed odd to me.
who….i mean WHO?? decided this was THE clip to release this late in the game and believe it would get people excited??
IMO would have been better to not release this clip at all
or at least do a quick test with average moviegoers…..cause i think they would have found what their discovering here…..
kinda boring……BUT…I will see this to support the film that is NOT A SEQUEL…NOT BASED ON A BOARD GAME OR TV SHOW ETC…AND IS NOT IN BLOODY 3D!!
I agree 100% 12oclock.
TRY TO CLEAR YOUR MIND NUMBING POLITICALLY CORRECT BRAIN.
Sequence is actually reverse “racist”— as factually no black man, a “negro”, in 1960/61 as is the timeline of the clip would hold a high ranking, super security, highest echelon job in the federal government.
The film makers betray their political correctness and lack of historical/cultural knowledge as well as authenticity by casting a black actor as the apparent leader of this government entity.
(Also, I did not see one single scientist in this hyper tense environment with a cigarette— as almost everyone smoked back in the 50′s/60′s especially when under stress. See Space program/military)
i’ve seen the film and it’s not CLOVERFIELD for kids. CLOVERFIELD was a marketing campaign with no movie behind it; the marketing campaign here seems to be failing which is unfortunate because SUPER 8 is AWESOME. And it’s not for kids, it’s for everyone. this is classic spielberg rendered by JJ and it works big time.
Absolutely nothing is revealed here.
This looks like the pseudo-newsreel footage from “Lost”, though maybe less well done.
Move along. There’s nothing to see here.
Yep. Reminded me of the cryptic-but-don’t-actually-lead-to-anything “Lost” reels.
Is Abrams suggesting that cameramen were retarded in 1958/60? Not sure why modern found footage movies always use the same technique as if people don’t know how to use movie cameras…pan, zoom, focus, unfocus…shake, jump cut, edit. An eight year old with a camera can do better.
LOL! Going back to traditional media and not relying solely on online. It didn’t work for X-MEN and it seems it’s not working for SUPER 8. Maybe some skywriting will help?
Why the black man?
of all of them!
it looks like another by the numbers movie.
It’s been done…..alot
I don’t get it. It’s like they’re saying “please don’t see this movie.” I have to hand it to them though, they just made a cold-war-era, secret military found-footage video of an alien assault, boring.
Saw it last night. Secrets are revealed in this clip. I recommend skipping the clip, it’s more fun to be surprised.
As for the actual film, it’s good, but by God, someone needs to punch J.J. Abrams in the face when he says he wants a lens flare.
Also stay in your seat during the credits for the completed film the kids are making.
re: lensflare, ha, so right! a dude next to me thought it was the alien at first…
The creature is NOT revealed in this film.
What IS revealed is what the cubes are – which is actually a relatively big mystery in the movie; I’m surprised they revealed it – but then the film DID open today, so I guess it makes sense.
It’s getting fantastic reviews, over 80% on Rotten Tomatoes’ aggregate – and a 92% “want to see” rating. However, I doubt the film will make, say, “Transformers” money (even though “Transformers” is garbage), just because it’s an unknown cast, an original story and involves real people with real feelings – you know – what movies USED TO BE LIKE.
I hear you, Mark. Real movie goers will read Rotten Tomatoes and pay top dollar to see it. But, you must admit, the clip was less than exciting.
I guess they’d better lower the company line on the budget even more. $15 million sounds about right and it’s only $100 million or so off.
Ha! Nobody buys the $50 budget figure but it has been gracious of people to join Paramount in pretending it is true.
That was so boring. It was like the LOST footage type of stuff they did on that series, except this was so… wow… boring. Boring, boring, boring. Yawn. JJ and Steven, really? Jeez. And I’ve seen pics of the creature, they’ve appeared online already (just know which message boards to find on AICN and you’ll be led to them). The creature looks like Cloverfield monster replica. Which is a really boring creature to look at, and there’s no human element to it, which immediately makes this nothing like ET or CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, which is what people have been pretending it is. I hope this clip stays online though, because it’ll help me fall asleep tonight.
I know how they can goose up those numbers with the additional $15 million spend — BUY $15 MILLION IN TICKETS!
LMAO!! Alla your comments are dead on..Perhaps the creator of that monster is a racist..
Would there ever be a black scientist working for the air force in 1958?
Maybe, Anonymous. Although there are many small minded, insular people who have succumbed to the white-washed tales in our history books, African-Americans have made breakthroughs in science since the 1800s. Scientists are usually military contractors. So, it is highly possible and quite likely that there were a few Af-Am scientists at Roswell.
Seriously, this is WHY THEY NEED TO TEACH AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY for more than just one month out of the year. Have you ever heard of George Washington Carver…Benjamin Banniker, Percy Julian??? read a fu**ing book!
Yes….if you wanted him to be killed like this one was.
I saw Super 8 at a preview screening last night. It was phenomenal. The sniping going on above is more than unfounded, rest assured.
I have not seen the film but this clip or whatever it is does not make me want to. I don’t know why they would release this — too slow, too mock-serious. Maybe the film will do well but even if it does it should not have delayed Star Trek. I do not understand what Paramount was thinking – you do not delay franchises.
Uhh, someone should explain to the the creators that when you transfer an old film to video or digital file, you can’t actually hear the old projector while it’s playing!
What?! Well, I think it’s obvious that you’re missing the theme of this movie, or where they got the title “Super 8″ at. Keep moving.
Man. Even in the fake newsreel the black guy dies first.
I’d been pretty dismissive of the phenomenon until now but recent films have me thinking that the “in crowd” of directors and producers are now doing this on purpose as some kind of inside joke.
Call me sensitive.
you know, he didn’t actually die in the news reel, he’s just shaking around in the tentacle. for all you know he ninja chops the arm black-dynamite style, lands on two feet after a spectacular triple back flip, and then rips off a white scientist’s head which he feeds the creature as an offering of peace and awesomeness.
But how do we know it’s because he’s black? I just assumed that he was the only one in the room who had had sex the night before.
Monsters can always tell.
Yea.. whats up with that? Like another person said “sadly there were very few if any black scientist that would be in that position in the 50s” You would think with all the cliche jokes about the black guy getting killed fist they would not have done that.
I’m with Alla. The black dude’s always the first to go.
That makes me want to skip it. A giant Monster? meh.
Yes, yes, black man dies first. How original, commentators.
Actually, if you think about the film (heaven forbid), a white woman actually dies first.
So there.
Rip this movie or its marketing all you want but good god the business needs to get a grip when it comes to its carpetbombing campaigns and trailers and clips and b-roll features that cumulatively leave NOTHING for a ticket buyer once they get to the theatre. I honestly think most of the carping toward Super 8 is coming from people scared to death that they might have to be a little more creative or understated in their pitches to moviegoers.
I’m not holding my breath waiting for that to happen though. They can’t even do one-sheets anymore.
“Leaked?” Really? “Leaked?” huh? Well, maybe Anthony Weiner can recommend a firm to conduct an investigation into just how this footage, gosh darn it, got “leaked.”
I GUESS PR and marketing people are still shouting “It’ll go VIRAL” at conference tables around the city, but I’d hoped even they had moved beyond that a year or two ago.
Just saw the film in IMAX. Ignore the backbiting above. It’s well worth a look. Yes, it traffics heavily in Amblin nostalgia, but not to the point of hackery. Seeing the creature beforehand or even knowing about it is not a spoiler. It’s really just a sideshow to the main story about growing up and coping with loss. Has this been done before? Yes. But so has the grilled cheese sandwich, and I still love it.
SERIOULSY, the shark from JAWS looked more real than this…. and I am referring to the shark on the UNIVERSAL studios TRAM tour !!!!
To quote the Comic Book Guy;
“Worst joke ever.”
Forget the attempts at 70′s nostalgia. Why not just re-release Close Encounters and Jaws in theaters again?