What was up with the hype?

Rating: 6/10 (13 June 2011)

I still clicked on the spoiler warning checkbox but I don't know how necessary that would be considering you could figure it out yourself. You know that its an extra terrestrial on that train. You know that its 'plan' is basically it wants to return home and it needs parts to build a ship. The alien looked very similar to the Cloverfield monster, how original. You know the military gets involved to cover up their tracks. You know that it takes place in some quiet midwestern town in the 70s. Seriously this movie was hyped for no reason. They could have taken the marketing slowly like Transformers did. First trailer they show a vague figure. Then they show the actual robots but you don't hear their voices and so on. Yawn.