Like A Smashed Together ET and Cloverfield.....

Rating: 4/10 (6 June 2020)

Okay first off lets start by saying I've seen LOST 20+ times beginning to end of the series but I'm a big Abrams / Bad Robot fan.
So here we go with Super 8 this will be my 2nd time seeing it.
Haha. Flashback. Certainly seeing a lot of the inspiration for Stranger Things in this movie.
-1 Star For the Kids in the Diner scene. Like any kids have money to go eat at a diner.
+1 Star for the Creature Effects. I really enjoy Abrams' critters.
-1 Star for If the Critter is below ground what are all the guys above ground firing at???
-1 Huge Star for the stupidity of the selective magnetizing of all the stuff at the end, really?? what a dumb scene oh i guess unless you're a kid or something
I guess this was supposed to be a movie for kids. Like a Cloverfield for Kids or something? I wasn't really touched by it I was more annoyed by it.
But it was a nice template for Stranger Things to build on. What a great job of building on this nonsense that Stranger Things did.
Okay fine being generous +1 Star for the kids movie shown at the end! Now THAT is something Spielbergesque . We know Spielberg made movies as a little kid. Now that's a good little throwback tribute.
4/10