There's no there there

Rating: 6/10 (13 June 2011)

I really wanted to like this movie, but had the same problems with it that a lot of folks are having. It has no soul. It's like having to change from vinyl LP's to CD, some strangely sterile difference that "technically" is unprovable. It tries to fill-in with forced dialogue that was almost condescending. Not cool. Maybe the real problem is that the sci-fi genre has been done to death. Or better yet, the money-making genre is all that matters. Not anything new there, but nonetheless discouraging every time I run up against it. I joke with my pacifist friends about what literature or entertainment would look like if, suddenly, the world changed to their way. I used to say it would be a bunch of books that nobody would want to read. Now, after seeing Super 8, I may have to back-pedal and pray for something honest.