Free Super 8
Genres: ThrillerMysterySci
Starring: Ron Eldard, Andrew Miller, Kyle Chandler, Gabriel Basso, Elle Fanning, Zach Mills, Jessica Tuck
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
Director(s): J.J. Abrams
Country: USA
Year: 2011
IMDB Rating: 7.3
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
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Visitors Review
bigcalkenobi (16 May 2012)
A great piece of nostalgia that reminds viewers where modern sci-fi came from
Super 8 takes us back to a style of film making that has been longforgotten. Things like camera flare, charming child characters, cameraglare, and certain types of camera tricks have been done away with inthe modern film making era. This movie goes back to the fundamentalstyle of film making in the 1970s and 80s that inspired J.J. Abrams tobecome a film maker. Abrams claimed that this film was heavily inspiredby the Spielberg sci-fi movies he grew up on and to ensure that thisstyle is felt Spielberg himself produces the movie. The other thingabout this movie that has peaked the interest of film goers is thesecrecy and mystery surrounding the film. Abrams has always had a habitof keeping his projects under wraps because he wants the audience to besurprised whenever they see the film. This film has held a lot ofpromise for a lot of different people due to the talent on the projectand the the exciting mystery surrounding Super 8. Can Super 8 meetthese expectations or will the film fall flat and deliver anunmemorable; unoriginal experience for audiences?Check out the rest of my review on my film bloghttp://mastersfilmreview.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/super-8-review/
seechester (15 May 2012)
Finally Something Fresh!!!
The theme of "aliens" have been tainted much in modern cinema such asin the abysmal Skyline and the mediocre Battle:LA. Even StevenSpielberg had spoilt his latest Indiana Jones installment with aliens.This theme has reached its overdose and keeps on firing at all of thewrong directions.Thankfully, director J.J. Abrams saved the theme gloriously with thisfilm. With an interesting plot, a fresh band of young (very potential)actors and great special effects, J.J. Abrams have unleashed one of thegreatest aliens films easily in this decade.The story is told very similar to 1980s Steven Spielberg alien films(ET & Close Encounters Of The Third Kind) where suspense play a largerole to keep the viewers hooked.Therefore, I strongly recommend to give this movie a go and exit thecinema with a brand new feeling that has been missing in the filmslately. Also, like Inception, the lesser you know before you watch themovie...the better.
(13 May 2012)
Super 8
Are you kiddin me, what a waste of a perfect bluray. Do not purchase.Warning,warning cannot believe Spielberg put his name on this bust.
bl-606-352256 (13 May 2012)
worth seeing to pass the time
Filmed well, visually interesting, likable & developed characters, butnothing new.How many times does someone have to make a movie about the governmenttrying to control a new technology for military purposes before seriousfilm makers become embarrassed about it?ET, Romeo and Juliet, a group of kids saving the day... I've seen thisbefore. It does nothing new with the material it references. This well madehomage seems more like a big jerk off circle.I enjoyed watching this, but I don't know why it needed to be made.
ackstasis (12 May 2012)
"Production Value!"
'Super 8' was my first film from 2011, and it was a fantastic place tostart the year. The film's teaser trailer enigmatically promisedsomething along the lines of 'Cloverfield (2008)' (which I stillhaven't seen), but the second trailer was pure Spielbergian nostalgia Ânot surprising, given the "Amblin Entertainment" logo that opens thefilm. But what really distinguishes 'Super 8' is its love offilmmaking. The story is set in 1979, when director J.J. Abrams wasjust a kid, and probably running around with his own Super 8 camera.The film's characters are a group of children who spend their free timemaking a hokey amateur zombie detective thriller, though theirequipment still looks more professional than that in my latestfilmmaking project. A massive train derailment, a huge militarypresence in the town, and an ominous entity on the loose, cannot dampentheir enthusiasm for completing the film. To each new turn-of-events,the boy directing the film (played by first-timer Riley Griffiths)keeps getting excited and exclaiming "production value!", which wasfunny until I remembered I did the same thing when the annual Festivalblocked off my town's main street in 2009. All of the child actors(including Joel Courtney and Elle Fanning) are impressive, given thatthey're carrying the entire film on their little shoulders. And, ofcourse, be sure to stick around for the final credits.
Hellmant (12 May 2012)
Nostalgia at it's best!
'SUPER 8': Four and a Half Stars (Out of Five) Nostalgia at it's best! 'SUPER 8' is a great throwback to the 80'ssci-fi kids films that inspired it. Just like producer StevenSpielberg's classic flicks from that decade. Writer/director J.J.Abrams has been quoted by many to be the next Spielberg and with thisfilm I think he definitely lives up to that representation (alsofollowing the very impressive 'STAR TREK' reboot from 2 years ago). Themovie is a classic coming of age film mixed with adventure and sci-fi,much like many of the great films of the 80's like 'E.T.', 'THEGOONIES', 'EXPLORERS', etc.. The film stars a group of mostly unknownchild actors like Joel Courtney and Riley Griffiths (both in their filmdebut roles) as well as Elle Fanning, Zach Mills, Ryan Lee and GabrielBasso. It's complete fun popcorn entertainment with equally impressiveparts of alien action flick adventure and emotional coming of agedrama.The movie is set in 1979 when 13 year old Joe Lamb (Courtney) just losthis mother to a work accident. It flashes forward four months to whenJoe is helping his three friends make a zombie movie on Super 8 film.The director of the flick Charles (Griffiths) asks one of the mostbeautiful and popular girls at his school, Alice (Fanning), to star inhis film because he has a crush on her (I know this move pretty well).Once filming Joe and Alice hit it off instead though, much to Charles'disappointment. While filming at a local train station the five kidswitness a train wreck and capture glimpses of it on film. When peoplebegin disappearing and strange occurrences keep occurring the kids findthemselves involved in something well over their heads.The movie is whimsical and very adventurous as well as touching andfull of strong character driven drama. It works best as a coming of agefilm, despite the cool effects and thrilling action scenes. The mysteryand surprises touted in the advertisements are nothing more than amarketing gimmick. The film is pretty straight forward traditional filmtelling and pretty much everything you'd expect from the trailers goinginto it. The previews did a good job of not giving away too much of thefilm or revealing the monster to you but there's really no mysteryhere. Just a good old fashioned kids monster movie. The effects areimpressive and the action scenes are well shot and edited, nevershowing you more than you need to see until the big payoff at the end.The drama builds at the same rate as the action though and the twoclimaxes occur at the same time (which is the way all great films likethis should play out). Spielberg of course set the mold for films likethis, Shyamalan and others have followed to great results. This isanother masterpiece in the same league. It will probably disappointthose looking for something more (in the way of action and specialeffects) but for movie nerds like myself it fulfills everything aboutcinema we grew up loving.Watch our review show 'MOVIE TALK' at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4tG6zhJxO8
ElyssaWinn (06 May 2012)
If you haven't seen it...You've still seen it
It's a true shame this film presented nothing new or exciting to itsviewers if only because it seemed to me to be the perfect platform forgetting younger viewers back into classic science fiction. Though there is nothing terrible about this film, I watched it 2 daysago and can already barely recall a captivating moment. When it wasn'tripping off the story line from the animated film Iron Giant, it wasonly just keeping my attention with explosions and so-called "plottwists" which didn't actually change the essence of the story at all.The characters were quite basic though cute and the special effectswere nice but only for a big screen environment. I'm not sure why it's getting such high scores from users so far but Ithink my assessment of 5 out of 10 is more than generous for a filmthat is not offensive to people who paid to see it yet hardly value formoney. Rent Iron Giant instead - it's a cute film.
Anmol Rawat (06 May 2012)
Great - Good - Average - Poor wrt progress of movie
It was a highly anticipated movie so watched it with much expectations.Movie started off quite well and I really got interested. Reminding meof Goonies it gathered my attention. As the movie progresses things gopretty well. An environment is created that something is gonna happen.But when it happens its not much of a surprise, the movie falls downthen to the category of average. In short it's good for most of theformer part but the latter has spoiled it. The problem is with scriptwhich do not cooperate with the theme well at the end. Its one of thesame old formula used several time in movies like Goonies, ET, CloseEncounters etc. The acts are pretty fine by everyone. CG work is nice.There are few good sudden scenes to stir you which serves well. Now Ifeel that surely when you see it you will find that you were notactually expecting the movie to turn out so bad reaching the end withstupid script. Anyways, this will serve as a nice flick overall andentertaining as well but don't keep high expectations or you mayregret.
(05 May 2012)
Surprisingly good
I usually don't like movies about kids, but this one had the same kind of appeal that Goonies had. It does draw you in. It also has one of the best train wrecks I've ever seen in a movie. If you listened to certain dialogue midway through the movie, you got tipped off as to what would ultimately happen. It's been a very long time since I was a kid and I had to laugh about how serious they were about their movie project. Still, they were quite believable and the mix of character personalities was good. Ron Eldard, whose name, I had to look up, put in a very nice performance. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that the pieces fit together a little too neatly, at the end. Still, a fun movie.
phurbu16 (05 May 2012)
So much potential......
When JJ Abrams makes films, I either like them or don't like them.There doesn't seem to be a happy medium. A bit like with his recentattempt at a Star Trek movie, which I didn't like.Now when you add Spielberg as well, I seem to have a similar reactionto his movies as well. Either he makes a masterpiece (I.E. IndianaJones, ET, The Goonies, Hook) or he makes a movie that leaves youfeeling that the hours spent watching that film could have been spentdoing something more productive.Unfortunately, this movie hits the latter of the two. Now if we didn'thave previous movies to go by, this would probably be a decent movie.But like what has been mentioned in previous comments, we've seen thesekind of movie plots and characters many times before and in some casesdone a lot better as well.This is all down to personal opinion at the end of the day so if youhaven't seen this movie, then please go and watch it and make up yourown mind.As I stated in my title, this movie had a lot of potential to be thenew Goonies & ET movie of this century. Unfortunately it took all theelements of those movies, gave you the impression (in trailers) that itwas going to be like Cloverfield, only to slap you in the face and giveyou something that doesn't even do either Director's names any justiceat all.Both Abrams and Spielberg can make outstanding movies. The ones theyhave made will be a part of many peoples lives for many years to come.Even with the new generation of kids, who I'm which will be sure to seethe classics like ET, Goonies, Indiana Jones.Like one reviewer said, if you want to see any movie that brings backthat magic, then go watch them again. Nothing will ever beat theoriginals in my opinion.At the moment in the movie industry, all we seem to get is Reboots,Prequals, Sequels to a movie that hasn't been done in over 10 years (IERocky, Die Hard etc), Origin movies and comic books to movies.Countless times we see this kind of thing being done and only about 1-2out of 10 seem to bring anything new and original.I will admit I have seen a lot worse out there and I did manage to getthrough the entire movie without turning away. However the 1/10 is therating against Spielberg/Abrams best work in comparison....
bkoganbing (04 May 2012)
Another Alien Just wants to go home
I'm not sure why Super 8 could not have been set during the presentrather than in 1979 which is so identified because at the beginningthere is mention of the famous 3 Mile Island nuclear disaster over theradio of the protagonist family. I do believe it may be set therebecause this is the era that producer Steven Spielberg knew first handas a young man and the one he personally identifies with.The movie is a combination of both E.T. and Stand By Me. But instead ofcute and lovable E.T. just trying to get home, instead we've got areally nasty alien monster with an attitude wanting same. However thisalien has a real good reason for his bad attitude. He was captured byour government and tortured by an elite unit.Some kids who are trying to make a film for some contest happen tocapture a train wreck on camera where our monster has escaped. Rightafter that, strange events start happening in the town and the armycomes in. The military is not real forthcoming with answers aboutwhat's happening. A little bit of national security and a whole lot ofguilt.But the kids led by Joel Courtney Miller and Elle Fanning do startfiguring this whole thing out until the alien captures Fanning alongwith other assorted townfolk who've gone missing. Then young Millergets a boys adventure of a lifetime when he goes to rescue Fanning andhas to make contact with the alien to do so. That's when Super 8becomes vintage Spielberg.One other performance I should single out is that of Glynn Turman whois the doctor who was involved with the alien and took his point ofview and is against what our government was doing. Turman reminded me abit of Danny Glover, but he gave a restrained and intelligentperformance in a difficult role. He has to and does convince theaudience that their sympathy must lay with the being from outer space.Super 8 should be seen in an Imax theater as I did. The special effectsare great. But the kids are a really winning bunch of real and notmovie star kids. They and Glynn Turman make Super 8 one of the betterfilms of this year so far.
(04 May 2012)
Great movie
This review is from: Super 8 (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) (Blu-ray) This is such a good movie and all the discs in this pack make it a great value too. Its like E.T. meets the goonies.
miguel-a-g (02 May 2012)
Huge Disappointment
One thing is to create a good story which JJ clearly can do, another isto direct and make good movies out of them. I always thought MI3sucked, just like MI1 and MI2 for that matter. So, when Star Trek cameout, it was a good surprise to me, and started to consider JJ adirector I should pay more attention to. Now, he made a dull, flatmovie again, where even the story is empty, and don't know what tothink of him again. The similarities with Spielberg exist, but onlywith the modern one, that in the last decade only managed to make halfdecent movies (except Munich, which is good), and not the 80'sSpielberg, that would leave us in magic and wonder in almost everyscene. I can't understand how it got such a high score at IMDb. Hope JJdoes better next time
(02 May 2012)
Super 8 = SuperB
This review is from: Super 8 (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) (Blu-ray) So sorry I missed this in the theater, but at least I have a 42" TV to enjoy it now. This is a superb movie with some good young actors & a satisfying story. It's a monster movie, a family movie, a movie about friends, and a movie about growing up and moving beyond.This could easily join my overly-crowded pantheon of top ten movies.
(01 May 2012)
A Powerhouse Movie That Doesn't Avoid Tenderness
Though this film rings of Spielberg in action - fantasy mixed with the magic of kids' imagination and camaraderie - SUPER 8 is a very entertaining film. It is a movie within a movie - a nice twist on reality versus illusion - and the writer/director JJ Abrams has the keen idea of show the intended movie made by the kids at the end of the film during the credits. it works very well.The story involves Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney) and a group of youngsters getting together to make a super 8 film of their own writing and acting and production and films: Riley Griffiths (as writer/director Charles), Ryan Lee as the zombie obsessed Cary, Gabriel Basso as Martin, Zach Mills as Preston, and Elle Fanning as Alice Dainerd. As the youngsters struggle with their film we learn of town troubles - such as Joe's dad, policeman Jackson Lamb (Kyle Chandler) and his concern with the town troublemaker Louis Dainerd (Ron Eldard) who is Alice's Dad - until everything changes as while on location at the train stop the youngster's film a bizarre train crash with a truck driven by a wise but somewhat scary science teacher. It becomes evident that there is more to the incident than meets the eye and as the youngsters realize that there is present among them a creature form space the speed of events wallops to a wild climax. In the end the Youngsters are the ones who relate to the possibilities of fantasy being real and the story ends with an uplifting sense of understanding.Placed in the year 1979 in Ohio the film manages to capture the flavor of the times and the fears of the people (could all this be a Soviet attack?!) to a tee. Joel Courtney is outstanding in his role and the supporting cast is excellent. Grady Harp, December 11
kenshinyusuke (30 April 2012)
Awesome(some spoilers)
I am so sick and tired of hearing all these users complain about howbad this movie is. You are not movie critics. And you would not know agood movie if it slapped you in the face.For people that compared this movie to others like the goonies, ande.t., those were amazing movies! What is your problem? Who cares if themovie is based on just kids. They did an amazing job acting in myopinion and you felt heartfelt for Joe. Elle fanning did an awesome joband deserves just remarks for being spot on and on the way to be likeher older sister.The graphics were amazing and the alien was so cool! I was on the edgeof my seat practically the whole time. And for all who didn't get thismovie, you are as dumb as you sound when you write a review, or you arean old prude who doesn't have any taste in movies.Go see this movie if you enjoy a good film. There is suspense, it is inthe beginning of the film when you have no idea what is happening.There is climax when you find out what was really in the train and youget to see it. and there is an ending to see it off. And for the thingsthat don't necessarily make sense in the movie, its a bloody movie!!!its not supposed to!! its make believe!! not everything has to make abit of sense in a sci fi movie!! Like back to the future and the hoverboard makes sense? Still awesome! Like star trek and all the crazystuff that happens in there! get a life. its a movie!
chrisskaja (27 April 2012)
For younger viewers, and Lens flares again....................
Best described as the Goonies meets E.T. on steroids. Heavy on theyounger audience (13 to 15 yr. olds) very light on adult entertainment.JJ Adams persists in using lens flares.......... most of us think theyare an obnoxious distraction, but Mr. Adams continues ruining sceneswith his obsession/love making use of lens flares. There are only a fewpeople in the world who thinks it's really cool- JJ Adams and theperson who showed him the first one. The kids acting is well done. Thelittle bit of adult interaction was average. Takes two thirds of themovie to finally get to the alien, which was done just o.k...... Onlypay admission if you have a minibus full of kids, otherwise it willmake a good red box rental.
Rory Stewart (27 April 2012)
Could've been VERY good... but wasn't.
The majority of this movie was very good. The whole idea of the kidsmaking the movie, the fat kid thinking he's a movie director, theblonde kid with the worrying number of explosives and everyone'sobsession with "production value" was really clever. The majority ofthe movie rather focuses on the kids then the monster, and these bitsare the best bits of the movie, especially Joe's relationship withAlice, and the majority of the let- downs of the movie are cause by themonster.My thoughts of the movie started to go downhill when Joe's dad knocksout the military officer, steals his uniform and blows up the tanker,"Mission Impossible" style. It didn't really have the same feel as therest of the movie and felt like it had just been thrown in to give themovie some action and explosions, and it just wasn't necessary.The next bit that was ruined was when operation "Walking Distance" wasin action and everyone was being evacuated. The military had set thegrass on fire, but then that just dissolved into nothing as it wasnever brought up again, and you almost forgot why the evacuation was inplace.Then there was the characters. A lot of people had no feel or depth andfelt like the had been thrown in for an easier story line. I felt thatthey shouldn't have been in the movie in the first place.The main major downside of this movie was - as always - the ending. Tobe honest, they way the whole movie had been one big build up to whenthe kids meet the monster, made the ending really difficult to handle.But it was handled VERY badly. The group of kids shouldn't have splitup. The monster shouldn't have been eating the people it was abducting.Everything about the bit when Joe, Alice and the blonde kid werecornered and the monster picks up Joe and he convinces the monster tostop was wrong. The last scene was very poor. Too many questions wereleft unanswered. I could go on and on and on, but I will say that itwas a very difficult story to end, and how it should've ended is beyondme, just not as cheesy and predictable as it did.One thing that made this movie good was the way the kids were - well,just kids and were wound up in the midst of everything, and the instantJoe convinces the monster to stop destroying everything, that wholetheme was crushed and the corny "kids save the world" theme took overand ruined everything.However, the development and relationships in the main characters, thesuspense and build up in the first three-quarters of the movie wereVERY good and are what made up for the bad ending, and what made "Super8" an overall good film.
smilingseal7 (23 April 2012)
Average to the extreme
I was really looking forward to watching this movie. It looked like afun, sci-fi flick with some cool action and decent characters. Well, it kind of was... but not really.First of all, the story was very predictable. I more or less had itfigured out in the first 20 minutes or so. And it was really cheesy-all the creepy monster attack scenes were at night, when the victimswere alone and helpless. I mean, seriously?I can't tell if this movie was supposed to be primarily about the alienor about the death of the boy's mother. It started off with the kidsfilming their zombie movie and focusing on the boy (I already forgotthe character's names, which tells you how connected I was to them)dealing with the death of his mom... but after maybe half an hour itwas all about the alien. Also, the ending was really anti-climactic andcheesy. I know these types of movies aren't supposed to be realistic at all,but some of the situations in this movie were so ridiculous that Icouldn't help laughing during the "serious" parts.I will say that the acting was very solid, and was the score, editing,cinematography (for the most part), and effects.But there's more to a movie that the appearances. A good movie needs astrong plot and three-dimensional characters. This movie has an averageplot with too many subplots that get mentioned and dropped. I reallydidn't care about any of the characters in general. There are someemotional scenes between two of the kids, but the rest is very averageand I found myself frequently getting bored and staring at my watch.Super 8 could have been so much better... but, alas, it was justaverage and very forgettable.
MYeah_Gorlomi (22 April 2012)
Reawakens the nostalgia of classic Spielberg.
This movie's got my heartbeat running away. Beating like a drum, andit's coming your way. Can't you hear that. Boom ba-doom-boom. Boom ba-doom-boom, baby. Super 8. Boom ba-doom-boom.Boom ba-doom-boom, baby. Super 8.Now that that little tick is out of my system, let's get to the review.Super 8, writer/director J.J. Abrams' nostalgic love letter to vintageSpielberg, centers on a young boy named Joe (Played by Joel Courtney),who has recently lost his dear mother, and has a rocky relationshipwith his father, the local police deputy (Played by Kyle Chandler).He's part of a group of kids filming a home zombie movie to enter intoa local contest. But their plans go awry when a mysterious train crashoccurs, and the local government is sent in to keep things quiet.Eventually, disappearances happen across town, the culprit being acreature that barely anyone knows about.Abrams is very gleeful in the way he integrates these old styles ofstorytelling. And while the format is basic, he makes up for that withhow he uses those elements. He likes to sprinkle in bits of humor andaction, but the one thing I praise him for most is that he doesn't losehis focus. He makes sure there's a strong, beating heart beneath thesurface. It's also worth noting that the movie's ending is the bestending I've seen all year, so far.What about the cast? They are exceptional. The teen actors and adultactors are quite good. Joel Courtney gives a very nuanced, quietlyemotional performance as Joe, especially when acting alongside Joe'slove interest, Alice, played gently, and terrifically by Elle Fanning.The chemistry between these two put the adorable rating off the charts.Technically, the film is also very well designed. The editing by MaryJo Markey and Maryann Brandon is right on the nose, and the VFX ofIndustrial Light ad Magic are quite lively. I have even higher praisefor the sound. I was quite thrilled by the work of my two absolutefavorite sound designers, the legendary Ben Burtt and Gary Rydstrom,and Michael Giacchino's John Williams/Jerry Goldsmith influenced scoreis enough to make one's heart soar.All in all, Super 8 is a wonderful experience, and I give it ***1/2 outof ****
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