"Super 8:" Don't bother (stupid and slanderous)

6/17/11 | Vanity

[Borges]

It is popular but the reason I like it is because it’s a great work of pop art.

[ViLaLuz]

I don’t disagree about you liking the movie. I’m assuming you are of legal age. I just don’t think it’s appropriate for children in children’s movies to shout “Penis breath!” and other swear words.

[aruanan]

"Super 8" is an almost scene-by-scene remake of "ET." That is not a compliment. Same-same. Kids. Evil U.S. military. Robotic killer soldiers/airmen. Misunderstood monster that just wants to get home. What a waste of time. Even the CGI is second-rate.

I waited to see the movie before responding to what appeared to me to be one of the clearest examples of knee-jerk reactions I have ever seen. Having seen the movie, I can say that my initial impressions were justified.

Could your almost totally inaccurate description of Super 8 (which I saw last night for the first time) stem from a dislike of its portrayal of the military? Your simplistic, functional equivalent, depiction is on par with saying that there's no difference between Oliver Twist and Little Lord Fauntleroy because both take place mostly in England, both have kids whose earlier life, at least to the kid and the audience, was somewhat of a mystery to be revealed in the course of the story, both featured creeps of various sorts trying to screw the kid out of the life he should have, and both have a happy ending.

So the military were bad guys. Let's think, have the military ever been bad guys anywhere in the world throughout human history? But, but, but, these were American military and we know that neither they nor the government directing their actions have ever been the bad guys abroad or at home.

In the context of the story, did their actions make sense? Sure. It was a fricking alien they were principally being bad against and, given its arachnoid nature and its advanced technology, in their minds, it posed a real national security threat if it could ever manage to get out and get its ship working again and so they felt they were pretty much justified in taken over a town, putting the people in a detainment facility, while pursuing a scorched earth policy. But, but, but, they didn't cooperate with the town police department but just ran roughshod over them. As though this isn't the case every single time when the feds move in to take over an investigation or design national health care or outlaw a perfectly good light bulb technology! To the extent that the movie showed one should be very suspicious of the motives of federal power and helped to inculcate that in the viewers it was doing a public service.

[aruanan]

You take things to seriously. It was a fun ride. And the kids didn’t really have any of the answers until the end, they were just the ones willing to listen. And the zombie movie they were making is a blast.

I finally saw it last night. It was very enjoyable. Very un-ET-like. Some people just get overwrought for no good reason. It was funny reading the initial comments on this thread, especially the comments of those who had not seen the movie but were already so sure it had to be bad. I think Ann Coulter describes these folks pretty accurately in one of her latest books: They react based on images and slogans. Though this is typical of the left, I've seen this approach to life popping up on FR over the years.

[discostu]

Wish I remember who said “never let the facts get in the way of a good diatribe”, actually I wish it was me, because it’s oh so true. There’s a certain amalgam of ET and Close Encounters in Super 8, high points and themes if not necessarily the whole plot. It’s not JJ’s best work, but it’s a fun ride. Some people though prefer to get angry, I’m sure their cardiologists don’t mind.

[MoreWhiteBabies]

I am sickened by this movie.

Notice at the end of the movie the young boy’s locket necklace (with his mom’s picture in it) is being pulled towards the alien. There is no indication of whether this is just the magnetic force still picking up random objects, or if the alien is wanting the necklace.

This “confusion” is created on purpose, to “throw off” the movie dissectors and to remind him that the rat is aware that We are aware of what they’re doing, and will continue to do.

Liberals will see the alien wanting the necklace and the boy hesitating because he’s being touched by the emotions of the alien admiring the love shown in the picture, or to remind the alien of the boy and Earth, perhaps.

Conservatives will see the magnetic force of the alien still picking up random objects and the boy hesitating because this is his mother’s picture in the necklace and the alien has no right to it. Then the boy “reconsiders” and “submits” to the corruption rat and lets the necklace go.

When the boy lets the necklace go, the ultimate message is that he let his mother “go” with the alien. This is what the corruption rats worked hard for the entire movie to get you to “accept”, that “the mother is no longer of value”, or the kid would have refused to let his mother go, which any NORMAL boy would as well.

You know I’m right. Look guys, it’s not hard dissecting these corruption rat movies. It’s becoming a hobby of mine and I use this system to determine which movies my kids can see. I think you should do the same, and take on the corruption rat head on.

However, I knew going in that Spielberg is a rat and this is what they have been practicing for 3 generations now with our youth.

The next agenda of the rat is to push beastiality which can be seen in “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” and the Twilight saga which the entire U.S. youth has flocked to.

We are doomed.