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I really, really enjoyed Super 8.
It was a good movie. I liked it a lot - but I think a lot of the reason I liked it was because it was so familiar to me. It felt like a live-action anime. Maybe it's because kids were the focus of the film, but this wasn't a kid's film; and a goodly chunk of anime focuses on that time between 12-17 years old. And also because the formula was pretty by the book. Strange/bad thing escapes -> things start happening -> military sweeps in to hush it up, does potentially Bad Things -> band of plucky kids do whatever the fuck they want and get in the middle of all of it -> kids save the day.
Maybe I've seen so much at this point that I can see everything in terms of tropes, but I don't think that's the case. This isn't a criticism of the movie at all, mind you, but I think it funny had this been an anime project everyone except fans of anime would have written it off as kid's fare, even if it was shot scene-for-scene exactly the same, violence and all.
The whole theme of the movie is, "bad things happen but you have to move on." And that's a theme seen repeated many a time in the other shows I watch.
I adored the kids, though. They were perfect, their conversations, the overlapping dialogue and having four different conversations at the same time, everyone too excited and not letting a thought finish, it was spot on. They acted their age. The "adults" weren't useless characters, Deputy Lamb is almost my favorite as ridiculously badass as he turned out to be. I also like that the movie didn't shirk from showing emotion even when the characters tried to; especially the scene where Joe comes home to find his father crying in the bathroom.
I highly recommend it; the movie didn't hold any surprises for me (except for the shape of what was being transported in that train) but I enjoyed it immensely.
There was a butt-ton of trailers on the movie too, some new ones and some not. First time I've seen the full final trailer for Harry Potter in theaters, at this point I'm not ashamed to say it made me tear up. I can't believe it's almost over. Captain America, (in 2D this time), the full Transformers trailer, that goddamned Zookeeper movie I'm sick of hearing about, Cowboys & Aliens, Abducted and the fucking Breaking Dawn trailer.
Now, let me talk about Abducted for a sec. Mostly because I was sitting through most of the trailer going "...wut." It's like Jason Bourne as a teenager, apparently, judging by the stunts and the crazy, but mostly I was being slain by the similarities to Kennichi's backstory and the fact that the main character in this movie who apparently goes through a lot of the same shit Kennichi does is played by TAYLOR LAUTNER. You know, that kid who's most famous for being a werewolf. Things that made Catie almost bust a gut laughing in the theater: This. THIS RIGHT HERE.
I almost have an obligation to see this movie so Kennichi can rofl it up, lmao. Oh Hollywood.
It was a good movie. I liked it a lot - but I think a lot of the reason I liked it was because it was so familiar to me. It felt like a live-action anime. Maybe it's because kids were the focus of the film, but this wasn't a kid's film; and a goodly chunk of anime focuses on that time between 12-17 years old. And also because the formula was pretty by the book. Strange/bad thing escapes -> things start happening -> military sweeps in to hush it up, does potentially Bad Things -> band of plucky kids do whatever the fuck they want and get in the middle of all of it -> kids save the day.
Maybe I've seen so much at this point that I can see everything in terms of tropes, but I don't think that's the case. This isn't a criticism of the movie at all, mind you, but I think it funny had this been an anime project everyone except fans of anime would have written it off as kid's fare, even if it was shot scene-for-scene exactly the same, violence and all.
The whole theme of the movie is, "bad things happen but you have to move on." And that's a theme seen repeated many a time in the other shows I watch.
I adored the kids, though. They were perfect, their conversations, the overlapping dialogue and having four different conversations at the same time, everyone too excited and not letting a thought finish, it was spot on. They acted their age. The "adults" weren't useless characters, Deputy Lamb is almost my favorite as ridiculously badass as he turned out to be. I also like that the movie didn't shirk from showing emotion even when the characters tried to; especially the scene where Joe comes home to find his father crying in the bathroom.
I highly recommend it; the movie didn't hold any surprises for me (except for the shape of what was being transported in that train) but I enjoyed it immensely.
There was a butt-ton of trailers on the movie too, some new ones and some not. First time I've seen the full final trailer for Harry Potter in theaters, at this point I'm not ashamed to say it made me tear up. I can't believe it's almost over. Captain America, (in 2D this time), the full Transformers trailer, that goddamned Zookeeper movie I'm sick of hearing about, Cowboys & Aliens, Abducted and the fucking Breaking Dawn trailer.
Now, let me talk about Abducted for a sec. Mostly because I was sitting through most of the trailer going "...wut." It's like Jason Bourne as a teenager, apparently, judging by the stunts and the crazy, but mostly I was being slain by the similarities to Kennichi's backstory and the fact that the main character in this movie who apparently goes through a lot of the same shit Kennichi does is played by TAYLOR LAUTNER. You know, that kid who's most famous for being a werewolf. Things that made Catie almost bust a gut laughing in the theater: This. THIS RIGHT HERE.
I almost have an obligation to see this movie so Kennichi can rofl it up, lmao. Oh Hollywood.