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J.J. Abrams

Dark of the Matinée: That Boy's Life // Super 8

Movies post by Sara Reihani on July 5, 2011 - 11:06am; tagged dark of the matinee, film, J.J. Abrams, movies, Steven Spielberg, Super 8.
Five white kids stand in a field around a camera. They are making a Super 8 movie. Three of them, all boys, operate the camera equipment while the other two, a boy and a girl, stand nearby in old-timey costumes

Super 8 is one of the few movies I was genuinely excited to see this summer, and for the most part, it lived up to the hype. It's a consummate summer movie if there ever was one: it's got action, romance, aliens, explosions, and even takes place during summer. It's not a groundbreaking or exceptional movie by any means, but I felt fully engaged with it and enchanted by it while I watched, comforted by the familiar rhythm of cliché parent-child relationships and minor character comic relief, and viscerally thrilled by the reptilian pleasure of watching stuff blow up.
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