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In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witnesses a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie. Soon they suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town. The local deputy tries to uncover
… More »In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witnesses a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie. Soon they suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town. The local deputy tries to uncover the truth, something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
« LessDVD release of the 2011 motion picture
Special features: The dream behind Super 8 ; The visitor lives : creating the creature ; commentary by J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk and Larry Fong
DVD ; NTSC region 1 ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround
DVD ; NTSC region 1 ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround
DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround
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Add a SummaryDuring the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.
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Add a NoticeFrightening or Intense Scenes: Like all good suspenseful thrillers, the audience is left wondering "what" the creature is, and where it will strike next. People disappear (usually) screaming into the darkness.
Sexual Content: Part of the language includes crude references to sexual organs.
Violence: "Super 8" is a thriller, which naturally entails a good dose of violence. Perhaps the "worst" section is when a character ends up in an accident that leaves his face dripping in blood.
Coarse Language: This film is meant to feel like a 1980's movie, and they accomplish that partly through the amount of language uttered by young characters. If you're sensitive to language, "Super 8" is not for you.
Frightening or Intense Scenes: humans being consumed, persons being crushed, meat locker effect
Other: Why is this category even here? What could possibly be in here that doesn't fit into the above groups? Really extreme violence? Absurd language? Obscene sexual content? I mean really, what's up with this 'Other' category, it's kinda out of place?
Frightening or Intense Scenes: Pretty much any alien movie is gonna be scary. Given fact.
Violence: Trains blow up, houses blow up, cars are smashed, and property is damaged. Not to a Micheal Bay level, but still a good amount.
Coarse Language: One F word and many S words. it's a PG-13 film though, but nothing over the top for a PG-13 movie.
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Add a QuoteJoe Lamb (of his deceased mom): "She used to look at me... this way, like really look... and I just knew I was there... that I existed."
Dr. Woodward: If you speak of this, you and your parents will be killed.
Alice Dainard: I know he wishes he'd been the one who died, sometimes I wish it too. Joe Lamb: Don't say that. He's your dad.
Cary: He's too stoned! Martin: Oh, drugs are so bad!
[seeing overturned bus] Donny: What the F***K?
Donny: You dorks are alive?
[seeing overturned bus] Donny: What the F***K?
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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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So, in trying to bring the audience a sense of the magic of filmmaking that J.J Abrams felt back in the seventies and eary eighties, he does a film where we are supposed to believe that a group of adolescent children are allowed to run around at all hours of the night with NO parental supervision at all; and that was before as well as during a mounting crisis, where people are disappearing at an alarming rate. Did I mention that one of the children is a deputy sheriff's son? And how should we consider the Air Force and the rest of the sheriff's department who seem only minutely concerned about these kids' welfare? It's another big-budget, big special effect, no-brainer film.
Fun story, but a bit cheesy. How does a person survive a head-on collision with a train?
I thoroughly enjoyed this flick written and directed by J.J. Abrams (Cloverfield, Star Trek '09, etc.). Spielberg's involvement didn't hurt either. And sure, it's undoubtedly influenced by such movies as "Alien", "Goonies", whatever. But... so what? It was well done and very enjoyable. The attention to detail for 1979 was great. Elle Fanning (Dakota's younger sister) definitely secured some future gigs after her performance here. A sweet 'first love' story with a side of alien. FIVE STARS.
Just picked it up and found it very engaging and entertaining. I liked the kids' development. I enjoyed the originality on this theme. The FX stuff was as good as any of this era. I liked that the kids carried the movie and the adults were sub-plots. I give it a five because for this genre I enjoyed it a lot
Vintage Spielberg. Young children as brave superheroes capable of feats that leave even the most seasoned adults in the dust. If you like pure fantasy with no remotely conceivable link to reality -- and plenty of schlock -- this movie has your name written all over it :)
A modernized version of ET with great special effects that rivals recent hits like Transformer and Terminator: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/super_8/
"Super 8" is an excellent, refreshing story with a great theme, score, and cast. Rarely do films actually draw true emotion out of the audience, but "Super 8" accomplishes just that. Add in Michael Giacchino's memorable score, J.J. Abram's directing, and a cast of talented actors, and you have a great film.
The first 10 minutes or so are a tad dorky until you get to the incredible train wreck, from then on the movie is dynamic, suspenseful and fun. It was definitely inspired by ET with a dash of Alien (just a touch). The crossplot of the kids making a zombie movie made the film a lot more interesting.
It was not what I expected, but I enjoyed it. The visual effects were cool!