Pretentious, Over-hyped and Overrated!

Rating: 5/10 (27 October 2011)

pretentious, overrated and over-hyped. abrams, stop putting goddamned lens flares in almost every damned night scene, it's goddamned distracting and doesn't make the scene look cool, only cheapens the look actually.
The story is uninspiring, so was the creature design which seemed like a rehash of the cloverfield monster, plus the climactic confrontation at the end was underwhelming to say the least. "Live" you say? Well that's what it's been doing all along wasn't it now.
Now you may say it's the ET(which i haven't watched to this day, not my cup of tea) of this generation or what not and I may have only missed out on the nostalgia or something, but this just felt like a run-of-the-mill movie with no real lasting appeal. It felt more like an extra-long episode of spielberg's Amazing Stories at best.