tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432116.post9123098225883669423..comments2023-09-01T04:29:54.172-06:00Comments on Maximum Verbosity: Just Watched Super 8. It's An Okay Movie, But...Bettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403255764384760662noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432116.post-8974002757741384712012-01-10T14:11:07.169-07:002012-01-10T14:11:07.169-07:00It's worth pointing out that he didn't dir...It's worth pointing out that he didn't direct or write <i>Cloverfield</i>; he just produced it. The only other movie he's directed, besides <i>Star Trek</i> and <i>Super 8</i>, is <i>Mission: Impossible III</i>. And I don't remember any stupid monsters in that one...unless, possibly, you consider Tom Cruise. (But I kid!)Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00277636954260900156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432116.post-8342691407642244042012-01-09T11:14:32.915-07:002012-01-09T11:14:32.915-07:00I actually rather liked Cloverfield. But Super 8 ...I actually rather liked <i>Cloverfield</i>. But <i>Super 8</i> is, well, an odd case. As a kid-buddy-movie and an homage to Spielberg films, it's really very nice, but taken just on its own merits, well, the monster plot is kind of pointless and dumb.Bettyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06403255764384760662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432116.post-663169970007388672012-01-09T11:10:08.951-07:002012-01-09T11:10:08.951-07:00And while he's stopping the lens flares, he ca...And while he's stopping the lens flares, he can stop sticking stupid monsters in every damn movie he makes, too (<i>Cloverfield</i>, the giant ice creature that Spock fights off with nothing more than a torch in <i>Star Trek</i>, now this...).Peter T Chattawayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07395937367596387523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432116.post-13928883944917179082012-01-09T08:37:14.994-07:002012-01-09T08:37:14.994-07:00Yeah. I think he passed that point about five min...Yeah. I think he passed that point about five minutes into <i>Star Trek</i>.Bettyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06403255764384760662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432116.post-37031071740980759962012-01-09T08:35:33.705-07:002012-01-09T08:35:33.705-07:00You can only take an affectation so far before it ...You can only take an affectation so far before it starts pissing people off.Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00277636954260900156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432116.post-31317661360213699972012-01-09T08:12:31.000-07:002012-01-09T08:12:31.000-07:00It's a little more justifiable in Super 8, due...It's a little more justifiable in <i>Super 8</i>, due to the movie-making subject matter, and I might not have noticed it as much if <i>Star Trek</i> hadn't primed me to be so sensitive to them. But there was a moment where I almost started wondering if something was wrong with my TV, because suddenly there was this weird blue line across it, before I realized that, no, it was just another damned lens flare. And just... nobody needs that. Stop distracting your audience, J.J.!Bettyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06403255764384760662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432116.post-9258676424002793062012-01-09T07:50:01.679-07:002012-01-09T07:50:01.679-07:00I minded it less in Super 8, which I think benefit...I minded it less in <i>Super 8</i>, which I think benefits from seeing it on the big screen, since it's basically just one big homage to the Spielbergian movies of his (and, to an extent, my own) youth.Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00277636954260900156noreply@blogger.com