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Just another one of Bhowie's troll posts... don't worry about it.Its supposes to be good, I'll probably see it at home though.
Garbage.
I'm going to have to agree. If you've seen a contemporary monster movie you've already seen Super 8 ad infinitum. It's the same Hollywood conventions. No hooks, no surprises, and no interesting subtext.
Either way, still a pretty boring and tedious affair.
Actually, upon further thought the film not having something potentially going for it isn't true. It could have had a sentimental edge to it if the boy's narrative with his mother, father, friends, and love interest weren't so thin. And even then, its cinematic accomplishment would have been being a paternal redemption/coming-of-age monster film. Either way, still a pretty boring and tedious affair.
Either way, still a pretty boring and tedious affair.
Yes, I see this more of a coming of age movie rather than as a monster movie. There is far more character development than a typical monster flick. Also, the movie is more refined than many I've seen of late. What would you consider better recent movies of this genre?
Anyone else catch the similarities to E.T.?
I would ask how the main character developed. He is introduced with a scenario that is an appeal to our emotions. Mom's dead, he's a sweet but obviously sad kid, and he's left with an emotionally stunted father who doesn't comprehend him. Other than having things occur to him and being generally likable, the only thing I can see being emblematic of some internal occurrence are of him communicating with the monster that "bad things just happen" (not verbatim) and subsequently letting go of his mother's locket.
Yeah, I thought it had "Ode to Spielberg" written all over it. It's been over a decade, so I'm probably wrong here, but I actually thought the ship was sort of evocative of Close Encounters and E.T.