A Gem in a Coal Mine, Anyone who does not like this should grow up!

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2012)

Sorry for being so harsh, but this film should be rated R for mature audiences only. Why? Not for content, but for target marketing. This film is not for lazy bucket-heads (again, sorry for being so harsh) who watch movies like transformers 2 or Final Destination, and think it is cinematic masterpiece. This is a family movie! This (even being a monster movie) contains moments that Destination fans call "cheesy". Destination movies do one thing right, what George Meleis designed films to do, take your mind, and inflict it with emotions. A movie's greatness is determined by how much it changes and/or forces emotions. Final Destination does this with fear, but Super 8 does it with way more that Gory shots (there is ONE in the feature) but does it with scenes that are so emotional that it seems to reach out and whack your brain, (Michael's score helps allot with this). These scenes are what make Destination fan's feel it is cheesy. So if you are a Destination fan, DO NOT RATE THIS MOVIE!!! It was not made for you, it was made for human beings. (Again, sorry for being so harsh)
Also Spielberg fans are enraged that Steven put his name on this one. People are complaining that it is EXACTLY like his old films, well this is a quote from the good man: "This isn't a Spielberg movie, this is an Abrams movie, his past films are all not fully his, but this is, he is just unleashing his creativity that happens to be allot like mine" THAT WAS BY STEVEN Spielberg!!! This is JJ ABRAMS movie, so if you don't want to see a movie that is LIKE a Spielberg Don't WATCH OR RATE THIS MOVIE! IT IS NOT FOR YOU!!! This movie is truly a gem, and in a world full of coal it is an ease on the mind JJ Abrams knew this, and so did Steven, that's why they made it.