mishmash of Spielberg-fest

Rating: Null/10 (19 November 2011)

What happens when you take Spielberg movies, stick them in a blender, and then lay out the result? One gets Super 8. The train crashing for 15 minutes? Standard Spielberg staple of chain reactions. The monster? Standard Spielberg staple of whatevers meant to look nasty, weird, or be nasty and/or weird in Spielberg's movies. Hero coming out alive? ... Authorities covering up? .... The alien is missing one item in order to get his thing to work and leave? ... Ad nauseam. And then the predictability factor: the guy is using a film that needs developing, and one knows right away it will show something that had escaped the public's and the characters' eyes (in this case the monster). Imagine it had also escaped the super 8 camera, had it been focused in hundreds of other possible ways! Amidst this desolation, I liked the dogs fleeing the region. I still think that Spielberg only made one movie worth watching: Schindler's List.