Super 80's! not so super ending...

Rating: 1/10 (17 June 2011)

After watching this amazing film, i gotta say it was a good job done by JJ, but it's not like people are saying it's perfect, somethings didn't work with this story, it's really amazing the beginning and u get that sense of a good old Spielberg movie(does he make any good one today?) the scenes inside the houses are miracles of transportation to the E.T. time line, god i was missing that kind of movies, sometimes i would think why we don't have that kind of feeling anymore of a cozy safe environment like in the E.T. and in Close Encounters of The Third Kind, well in that point of view this movie is perfect, it brings u that epic feeling of aliens are good, military are bad(so Spielberg), but the problem of this movie not being good as E.T. or Close Encounters, is that u never get to know the alien and the military so much so u can understand what's going on, and the magic disappears in the end, making this movie only a simple one, with not much meaning, cus the director doesn't focus the story on the two kids, or the friends, or the family, or the alien and the military, and it's a mix of everything, and it's a mix of nothing, OK it's not that bad, this are just a few of the things i think were missing, but honestly i don't like JJ that much, it almost feel that JJ is doing with Spielberg what Tarantino did with Sergio Leone, copying the environment and scenes it's not the same as the real deal, Spielberg is much better then JJ directing as Sérgio Leone is of Tarantino, the kids will like this movie cus it's not so complicated to them, it will be a movie for the kids with the same age as the ones in the movie, but it has some epic scenes this one, but back to JJ, i didn't like Cloverfield, i thought the ending ruined the film for me, it was one of the most dumb and easy endings to make, it ruins all the experience, the same happens with this one, if the ending would unveil something about the story, really give it a meaning like something happening to the kid's dad, or his "girlfriend", something that would give u a last "awh" and a last grasp of air, but no, JJ (witch is amazing filming this film) gives it a Cloverfield ending, a numb dumb ending, non-emotional, and i won't even criticize the alien, because it seams lots of people, in some weird way of "how did we let this go wrong", seam to like this kind of monsters instead of the aliens of E.T. and Close Encounters, if it wasn't for the simple wrap-up ending i would never have written something here, i would have gone home with a happy smile on my face and would have thought of seeing it again, but like this i just want to see E.T. and Close Encounters again to believe again in intelligent life in outer space, and when u already understood u were in the 80's again it wasn't necessary to send a ship to the sky to makes feel again like kids saying goodbye to E.T., it doesn't work, especially not in that way... Good awesome movie to honor Spielberg, but nothing else...