I really enjoyed this, I don't know why so many negative remarks here

Rating: Null/10 (27 October 2011)

I read comments here before watching this movie so I went in with an open mind expecting maybe to be disappointed a bit. After seeing the movie I fail to understand the really negative scores and remarks? I have seen people here say that would give it a zero out of 10 if possible, this is just nonsense! It has a good story, even though we have seen this story before, which can be said for most movies today. I would assume that some of these people people who gave this movie a one out of ten probably gave the new star trek movie a nine out of ten, even though that was a remake. I enjoyed the young actors acting, their ribbing of each other and the plot twists. There are few moments in the movie that made my wife jump with fright, so thats always good ;-) A group of kids making a zombie movie for a competition witness a train crash, the Airforce rocks up, all hush hush, strange stuff starts to happen, big climatic ending. I can say after seeing thousands of movies over my 45 years that this was a good movie and certainly no waste of time. Production quality was very good, as mentioned the kids acting was very good, the story was very good.
The problem here is many people expect every movie they see to be some brand new idea, that is just not possible. Any movie today can be compared to some movie from the past, remakes can be judged against the original but movies that have some similarities cannot be compared one on one with some great big hit movie from years ago.
Lets face it, if we stopped watching movies because something similar has been done before then we would probably only see one movie produced worldwide every five years. If some people here don't like seeing movies with similar plot lines then perhaps there should never have been any science fiction movies made after the movie "2001". No maniac truck movies after "DUEL", no danger in the oceans movies after "JAWS", No slasher movies after "FRIDAY THE 13TH", and how about no gangster movies after "WHIITE HEAT" with James Cagney ! Its just stupidity to suggest every movie released must be an Earth Shattering new idea, its just not possible.
What do I look for in a movie ? To be entertained for 90 minutes or more, did SUPER 8 entertain me? Yes it did, Would I recommend it to family and friends ? Yes I would. Do I recommend this movie to you? Yes I do, its a good movie.