You like movies? You like movies like The Goonies, ET, Stand By Me, and The Sandlot, with some sci-fi stuff mixed in? Mash 'em all up, add the 2011 version of child actors that convincingly deliever entertaining dialouge, and a winning performance from Coach Taylor, and you have Super 8.
This movie did what the latest Indiana Jones failed to do a couple of years ago...mix some straightforward classic movie adventure with sci-fi and make it enjoyable to watch. The key is to allow only the science fiction characters to be capable of science fictionesque feats. If you wasted your money on that Indiana Jones, you were lucky enough to see Shia Lebouf swing on vines next to CGI monkeys to catch up with army jeeps going 60mph through the jungle...(it was unredeamable at that point). But in Super 8, kids are kids, and the sci fi stuff is sci fi stuff, and they interact in reasonable way.
I reccomend seeing this movie one of two ways...
1) on a Friday night, with someone who likes to be entertained, after killing a Bloomin Onion, Aussie Cheese Fries, and an Outback Special (med. rare)...go ahead and round out the experience by spending extra $ on popcorn.
2) the way that I saw it...out of work early on a Monday aternoon, 12:55 mattinee, 2 cheeseburgers in my pants pockets, 1 small order of fries and a 4-peice Chicken McNuggets in my shirt, and the limited-time-offer Rolo McFlurry in my hand (because I'm gutsy like that).
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