Meet Steven Spielberg's "Other" E.T.

Rating: 6/10 (3 June 2014)

Favorite Movie Quote: "Do you know what this feels like to me?... A Russian invasion, that's what!"
Zowie! Thrills & chills galore! SUPER 8 was a sensational Sci-Fi winner that really delivered.
From a great train wreck, to lots of heart-pounding action, to a first-rate cast and believable/likable characters (the teens were especially good), SUPER 8 easily earned itself its 6-star rating.
Of course, there can be no denying that SUPER 8 was, indeed, a "Steven Spielberg" production right through to its very core.
From my perspective, I see SUPER 8 as Spielberg's way of demonstrating to us all just how hip he is with the times.
In his attempt to keep up with the big boys of today's Sci-Fi aliens - Instead of giving us the cute, cuddly and friendly-type aliens of the 1970s and 80s like he did with Close Encounters Of The 3rd Kind and E.T., here Spielberg is now offering us the perfect alien-monster of this new millennium - A frickin' big, mean, destructive and hungry bastard-of-an-alien who, naturally, just "wants-to-go-home".
Well, hey, since I was satisfactorily entertained by SUPER 8, then I'll gladly take Spielberg's new-age alien as it is and just hope that this'll be the last.
My 2 beefs about SUPER 8?
(1) - How the hell did those teens manage to escape death (or serious injury) (and the car get by almost undamaged) while they were all at the scene of the train wreck?
(2) - I thought that it was just too dumb for words when Joe Lamb was picked up by the huffing'n'puffing alien and he actually managed to reason with the creature by saying some total nonsense to it like "I know bad things happen." - And, at that point, the alien actually let him go! (Spare me!)