Topic: Super 8

[addicted2dvd]

My brother just got this movie from Netflix. I was just wondering if it was worth it for me to check it out this weekend before he sends it back. Thoughts? Something you think I would like?

[Najemikon]

Not seen it yet, but if you like Spielberg movies, in particular Close Encounters or ET, then yes, you should like it, because he produced it and the director intended it to be a homage to that kind of cinema.

[Jimmy]

Roger Eberts like it

"During the first hour of Super 8, I was elated by how good it was. It was like seeing a lost early Spielberg classic."

"All the same, Super 8 is a wonderful film, nostalgia not for a time but for a style of filmmaking, when shell-shocked young audiences were told a story and not pounded over the head with aggressive action. Abrams treats early adolescence with tenderness and affection. He uses his camera to accumulate emotion. He has the rural town locations right."

I'm sure you would like it... Even the last citation I quote made it sounds interesting to me and you know the problem I have with the recent film productions

[samuelrichardscott]

My favourite of 2011.

[addicted2dvd]

Thanks Everyone... I will be sure to try my best to fit it in before it has to go back. 

Not seen it yet, but if you like Spielberg movies, in particular Close Encounters or ET, then yes, you should like it, because he produced it and the director intended it to be a homage to that kind of cinema.

I am embarrassed to say that Close Encounters is one of the movies I have never seen yet.  And no... don't have it in my collection yet to watch it.

[Blair]

Not my favorite movie of the year like Sam, but it's certainly worth watching.

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Not my favorite movie of the year like Sam, but it's certainly worth watching.

Same here.
Entertaining watch, but it all seemed so awfully familiar (the house where the professor lived looked exactly like I remembered the house in E.T.). In fact I waited for the bicycles to lift off.

[Achim]

You've already been convinced, but me me add my recommendation anyway. In fact, I might watch it today myself, and I saw it at the cinema just a few months ago.

I don't this spoils anything, as it's the thing that starts the plot 10min in, but the only thing I didn't like was that the train crash seemed much too big and took way too long to finish. I am not sure what J.J. was thinking

[Dragonfire]

Watch it.

I haven't seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind either.

[Jimmy]

I am embarrassed to say that Close Encounters is one of the movies I have never seen yet. 

I haven't seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind either.

As the original film isn't available on DVD, unless you have seen it on TV or VHS when you were younger you can't...

The version currently available was modified by Spielberg, what else is new

[samuelrichardscott]

Jimmy, unsure if you know but the newer 30th Anniversary Ultimate Editions have three cuts - Theatrical, Special Edition Edit, Director's Cut

[Jimmy]

I didn't know. Is it this one?

[samuelrichardscott]

Yep. Full specs:

DISC ONE
*The Film - Original Theatrical Version (1977)
"The Making of Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Part 1" Documentary (39:18)
Original Theatrical Preview (5:48)

DISC TWO
*The Film - Special Edition (1980)
"The Making of Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Part 2" Documentary (47:33)
Special Edition Trailer (1:54)

DISC THREE
*The Film - Director's Cut (1998)
"The Making of Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Part 3" Documentary (15:31)
"Steven Spielberg: 30 Years of Close Encounters" Featurette (21:23)
"Watch the Skies" Featurette (5:41)
30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition Trailer (1:32)

IN THE BOX
64-Page Scrapbook with Production Photos and Biographies
"A View from the Above" Version Comparison Poster with Original Theatrical Poster Replica on the Back


http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=275

[Jimmy]

Thanks

Just ordered it

[goodguy]