You forgot the free crappy comic shoved in the middle of the dc comics that ties in to the movie.
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I have always been of the opinion that *in general* the quality of a movie is inversely proportional to the quantity of advertising it gets.
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Caught a midnight showing last night. I enjoyed it thoroughly. E.T. meets Cloverfield is a good description.
My only complaint is the excessive lens flare for which Abrams is known.
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It's gotten good reviews but the trailers did not make me want to see it. It looked like they tease you the whole movie and don't tell you what's doing it until the end.
The only good thing I can say from the trailers is that it doesn't look like it's filmed shakey-cam style. Otherwise...meh. It's another Cloverfield where you probably won't see the actual monster/whatever for more than a minute or two.
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Originally Posted by Dark One
The only good thing I can say from the trailers is that it doesn't look like it's filmed shakey-cam style. Otherwise...meh. It's another Cloverfield where you probably won't see the actual monster/whatever for more than a minute or two.
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I've seen cloverfield, and ET, and with the number of previews I've seen, I'm betting I could piece together the general plot of this movie fairly easily.
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Originally Posted by Pouncer
It's gotten good reviews but the trailers did not make me want to see it. It looked like they tease you the whole movie and don't tell you what's doing it until the end.
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Movie trailers used to be more cryptic about what the plot twists were, especially for monster/horror movies. Go youtube the original Alien trailer. You don't even get to see what they look like. No one knew till they saw the movie.
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Honestly, I haven't seen this movie, but with the number of Ads for it I've seen on Hulu and TV and in theatres, it's probably already killed a cumulative total of 2 hours of my life...
To say nothing of the fact that the stupid preview is on my Iron Man 2 DVD and even an "in game" preview came with Portal 2, where I can play a 2 minute mini game of the teaser trailer... Sometimes I wonder if studio execs get a finished movie, realize it's crud and just toss millions into advertising hoping to recoup their investment in the first week or two before word gets around the the movie is horrible. It'd been a long time since I've gotten this fed up with movie ads, but I'm so ready for this movie to come out so I can never see another trailer for it. And no I won't watch it, I never thought it looked good and after seeing so many commercials for it, I'm already sick of it. |
wow, the amount of nerd rage for being confronted with a leisure time activity whilst pursuing other leisure time activities is just mind boggling. i mean if the advertising really bugs you that much, why don't you just rant about the folks doing the advertising? or better yet, rant at your favorite leisure time activity manufacturer/retailer for exposing you to said advertising. or, and i know this sounds crazy, you just ignore it, like the multitudes of advertising we are exposed to every day and we have all learned to tune out.............
ya know what? forget that logic stuff, DOWN WITH SUPER 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT KILLS BABIES AND KICKS PUPPIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
I'd rather have this than a movie where you've guessed what happened and who did it 10 minutes into it.
Movie trailers used to be more cryptic about what the plot twists were, especially for monster/horror movies. Go youtube the original Alien trailer. You don't even get to see what they look like. No one knew till they saw the movie. |
What I don't like about the Super 8 trailer is people getting dragged across the ground or things flying through the air but the camera just manages to misses it or it's just off the edge of the screen. There's no evidence of anything, it's all just editing. You don't even get a sense of what the movie's about: supervillains, ghosts, monsters, aliens, experiment gone awry, my cats when I don't feed them on time, or what.
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Well, many of those things are just templates, in a lot of cases it really doesn't matter what the monster is, as long as there's a monster. Of course, that's part of the weakness of the movie by the looks of the trailers: there will be 30 other horror/monster movies this year (if not just this month), and nothing we see here seems to set it apart from the pack.
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Originally Posted by Pouncer
There's no evidence of anything, it's all just editing. You don't even get a sense of what the movie's about: supervillains, ghosts, monsters, aliens, experiment gone awry, my cats when I don't feed them on time, or what.
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The site I read for reviews added The Goonies and some other stuff sprinkled in with a general love letter to Spielberg.
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Originally Posted by Mental_Giant
Caught a midnight showing last night. I enjoyed it thoroughly. E.T. meets Cloverfield is a good description.
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It's gotten good reviews
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For me, JJ Abrams = pass without pausing. No sale.
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Metacritic is better since it averages out the score. Still, it's at a 72.
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Originally Posted by Ironik
I've seen one good review, four reviews that were bad and two reviews that could be described, at best, as "tepid." (Which means Rotten Tomatoes bias-o-meter will give them fresh ratings instead of rotten ones.)
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Funny, I guessed what was going on in this one from the trailer.
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Saw Super 8 last night, thought it was pretty good. It definitely felt like a tribute to kid adventure movies of the 80's: The Goonies, E.T., Monster Squad, etc.
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Star Trek was great (though the lens flares drove me nuts) and Lost is amazing (though I don't think he was terribly involved in it). Other than that, I haven't liked anything he's done. Super 8 looks like it's going to be a spiritual successor to Cloverfield, which I was super excited for and incredibly disappointed by.
Yeah, Star Trek is the only thing he's done that I liked. Super 8 hasn't grabbed my interest at all, and indeed I've hardly seen any commercials for it to be "sick of Super 8"...
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For me, the test of whether something is good is whether, even if I've guessed that stuff early on, I'm still interested enough to want to see/read the rest. A case in point is one of my favorite books, Elizabeth Redfern's The Music of the Spheres. I figured out the murderer and the murderer's motive on the second page, but the book was so entertaining that I read through to see the characters and how it was revealed.|
Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
I'd rather have this than a movie where you've guessed what happened and who did it 10 minutes into it.
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On the subject of this thread, some movies seem to get more exposure in some places than in others. For instance, I saw a preview of Adjustment Bureau with every single movie I went to for the nine months preceding its release. My parents, who go to many more movies than I do but have a different chain of theatres in their town, apparently didn't see a single preview for it.
I have nothing to say about Super 8, except that I, too, think of the hotel chain when I see the title.
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Gah, Star Trek was so bad, it's hard to even know where to start with that thing. I watched it just because my cousin and Trekkie friends were insisting that it was actually good. My opinion of *their* opinion has subsequently dropped precipitously. Inconsistent characterization, bad writing, over-the-top and dumb "humor" plus lens flares, lens flares, lens flares. Everything that's bad about a JJ Abrams production. Plus a plot and main antagonist stolen from Star Trek Nemesis.|
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Yeah, Star Trek is the only thing he's done that I liked. Super 8 hasn't grabbed my interest at all, and indeed I've hardly seen any commercials for it to be "sick of Super 8"...
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I have enormous fond memories of the films of my youth, especially those of the late 70s and early 80s, and Lucas and Spielberg have done more than enough to destroy those memories without having to endure Abrams' hamfistedly manhandling them into gooey stupid paste.
I really hate that guy's work, apparently.
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Honestly, I haven't seen this movie, but with the number of Ads for it I've seen on Hulu and TV and in theatres, it's probably already killed a cumulative total of 2 hours of my life...
To say nothing of the fact that the stupid preview is on my Iron Man 2 DVD and even an "in game" preview came with Portal 2, where I can play a 2 minute mini game of the teaser trailer...
Sometimes I wonder if studio execs get a finished movie, realize it's crud and just toss millions into advertising hoping to recoup their investment in the first week or two before word gets around the the movie is horrible.
It'd been a long time since I've gotten this fed up with movie ads, but I'm so ready for this movie to come out so I can never see another trailer for it.
And no I won't watch it, I never thought it looked good and after seeing so many commercials for it, I'm already sick of it.
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