Well, I thoroughly enjoyed it - and so did the folks I was with that evening.
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Posted on 06/17/2011 1:36:19 PM PDT by pabianice
I have the beta copy from my bud here in Hollywood who works for Abrams and watched it last night. he warned me that it was crap...it was.
Hubby and I liked the movie....it was a combination of ET and Goonies.....fun
entertainment......
Yeah, I liked Thor and so did my GF. She had more of a libtard radar than I have.
Regarding Damon, I couldn’t stand that wuss. I can easily grab the DVD version off bit torrent for Adjustment Bureau but I won;t. And his acting in True Grit was overrated and so was Obama ass-licker Jeff bridges. John Wayne must be laughing hard at these fools but the girl in the film was the lone light for the movie.
The train wreck sequence was completely ridiculous and overdone. A pickup truck is going to stop a train? Right!!
And then cars go flying through the air in all directions, as if an atom bomb has exploded. Please!
Abrams should have watched Unstoppable’ with Denzel, and would have learned from Tony Scott how not to direct a movie and kill it with SFX. It was a load of sh8t. My bud has a time-coded copy of Captain America LOL, but I;ll get my hands on that next week when the ‘coast is clear’.
Just saw Super 8 Loved it. Far SUPERIOR to ET, I was totally caught up in the kids’ stories and in the excitement. I know lots of people adoe ET. It was great in its time but a bit slow in comparison. Spielberg can be a little one dimensional. JJ Abrams is not.
I thought it was copying the earlier filns but it was better. Sad, moving, inspiring, exciting, funny, scary. Justa lovely film. Will see it again.
Not necessarily. Been a lot of trailers at movies for HP "the end" and ads... that will NOT be hurting for box office by any stretch of the imagination.
I have no wish to see ‘Super 8’. For someone raised on 1950s Red Scare Sci-Fi flicks. Where the Prime Directive of any Alien Life Force, Giant Lizard or Bug Eyed Monster is to tear up downtown Tokyo or any other major city while kicking the Army or Marine in the slats. This film is a personal affront.
If you haven’t guessed, I haven’t see ‘E.T’ for those reasons expressed above.
Jack.
First off all when you make an Area 51 style alien film like this you HAVE to have a military coverup. It’s virtually a requirement of the genre. This was a spitrtual homage to the classic late 1970s early 1980s Spielberg films. How were the soldiers in E.T. evil?
Thanks for the info. Sounds terrible...
What was mean spirited about E.T.?
What didn’t you lilke about it? It was great to see a summer film with a coherent narrative and some character delineation.
Just my opinion, but it seems kind of cruel to toy with little ones' emotions in this manner. Maybe not.
That’s just suspense. Old Disney films did that sort of thing all the time.
What was your objection to it as a whole? It ‘entertained’ virtually everyone who saw it.
I know. But Old Yeller and Bambi stayed dead.
It was a partial Christian allegory. Hence E.T. had the power to ‘heal’ and was ressurected at the end before ‘ascending’ in front of his followers.
It was total schmaltz, IMO.
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