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| Topic Started: Jun 12 2011, 07:04 AM (1,216 Views) | |
| zaktan | Jun 12 2011, 07:04 AM Post #1 |
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Has anyone seen the movie '' Super 8 ''? Cause if the alien isn't plausible I'm not watching it. I couldn't find much on the internet about the movie or the alien, up to now.
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| Canis Lupis | Jun 12 2011, 11:20 AM Post #2 |
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.
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Going to see it tomorrow. But I hear it's a freaking awesome movie anyway, so you ought to see it even if the alien isn't plausible. I mean, we all know that the Na'vi from "Avatar" were not plausible (well, they were plausible, just not in that environment and with all the creatures on Pandora), yet I went to see the film. Twice even! Whether aliens are plausible or not doesn't make or break a movie for me. It's what the film does with those aliens that I care about. It's why many of us on this forum are big fans of "Star Trek," despite the obvious fact that those aliens are little more than humans with plastic ridges on their forehead or oddly-shaped ears. Plus, with J.J. Abrams directing it and with Steven Speilberg producing it, it's going to be one hell of a good movie. Both Abrams and Speilberg set really high standards for whatever they do. I mean, look at shows like "Lost" and "Fringe" (made by J.J. Abrams) and the newest "Star Trek" movie. And look at movies like "Schindler's List," "Jaws," "Jurassic Park," "E.T.," and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (all directed by Steven Speilberg). So I've got high hopes that it's going to be a freaking good movie. Though I might be biased since I'm huge fans of Abrams and Speilberg already.
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| Spugpow | Jun 12 2011, 01:45 PM Post #3 |
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This belongs in General Discussion. |
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| Dark-Matter | Jun 12 2011, 05:19 PM Post #4 |
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I want to see the movie and I also want to know how does the alien look like. |
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| Dark-Matter | Jun 12 2011, 05:34 PM Post #5 |
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I think I found the alien desing: http://twitchfilm.com/news/2010/12/is-this-super-8s-alien.php The creatures look too much like the cloverfield monsters and there is supposedly going to be another cloverfield movie. |
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| Holben | Jun 13 2011, 06:02 AM Post #6 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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They say that's not from Super 8 on the article. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| zaktan | Jun 13 2011, 06:34 AM Post #7 |
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Yeah, but the little scientist in me keep saying this contradicts blah blah blah don't watch it its so unrealistic and I can't focus on the show.
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| The Dodo | Jun 13 2011, 08:02 AM Post #8 |
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I've seen the movie and the alien is as plausible as you would expect for a movie like this, which is not very. Still enjoyed most the movie though. |
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| Dinotherium09 | Jun 13 2011, 08:23 AM Post #9 |
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Sorry, i posted twice by mistake
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War is fought, waged, and won in the planning room thus knowing what you're up against is half of the war won. There is no such thing as 'Good vs. Evil'. There's only 'The Educated Vs. The Ignorant'. Which one are you? My Deviantart Account ![]()
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| Dinotherium09 | Jun 13 2011, 08:23 AM Post #10 |
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Is the alien naked again? Because I'm sick and tired of alien being portrayed as naked invaders. If you land in a planet made out of magma and the inhabitants is a race of lava monsters, what would you do? If you answer 'leap out naked from my ship and started punching the lava monsters with my junk flapping proudly', then congratulation, you're a Hollywood alien. Specifically, you're an alien from that awful movie 'Sign' Seriously, alien can't just strut around naked in an environment that can be dangerously toxic to them. We can't go to Mars naked, heck, I can't go to Sydney without a thick jacket handy, and why the alien should be any different? A Rundown on why Hollywood's alien are dumb and high on crack when they decide to invade earth Why don't we take a look at A Guide to realistic Alien profilling and a guide on How to create believable aliens and For alien overlord out there, i'm giving you this guide for taking down humanity Edited by Dinotherium09, Jun 13 2011, 08:25 AM.
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| Dragon wasp | Jun 13 2011, 09:22 AM Post #11 |
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It sounds like a good movie |
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| Dinotherium09 | Jun 13 2011, 09:27 AM Post #12 |
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I agree that Hollywood does make good movies with decent story and amazing cinematography, but I think they can afford to be a little more logical instead of using technobabble to explain everything away. |
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| T.Neo | Jun 13 2011, 10:40 AM Post #13 |
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Translunar injection: TLI
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Lots of teeth, funny shiny oval eyes, and spikes. I fear this archetype is going to become the new "bug eyed monster". And also here, do we really need that shot at 1:41-1:42? Is it really that important? Also, a bit of a historical inaccuracy here; the film is supposedly set in 1978, but we see in the trailer that the kid has a model of the Space Shuttle launch stack in his room; two boosters attached to the iconic orange-brown external tank (but no Orbiter vehicle- presumably he broke it off or something). Originally the STS external tank was painted white (obvious in picture and video of the first launch(es)- NASA then figured that they didn't need the extra weight, and the ETs have been unpainted to this day. The first paint-less launch was on STS-3, which launched in 1982, roughly three years after the film is set. If the kid had any shuttle models in his room (this is before the first shuttle flight, which occured in 1981, but the development of the program was well underway by 1979), they would almost certainly depict a white external fuel tank. Not sure if that poster would have been around in 1979- it might have been, I can't really tell if it would fit into the "1970s art style". I've seen similar posters- potentially identical ones- but I can't really remember much about them (other than that they were shuttle cutaways from a similar angle). Nitpick, nitpick, nitpick, nitpick, nitpick, nitpick, nitpick...
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| Canis Lupis | Jun 13 2011, 07:52 PM Post #14 |
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Saw the movie today. I thoroughly enjoyed it and didn't even think about alien plausibility as I watched it. When I returned home, I did think about the plausibility factor though. I'm completely willing to assume that, since it could breathe our atmosphere, it's home planet is like ours atmosphericly. That fact doesn't phase me at all. Plus, it seems obvious that the alien came from a world with higher gravity than ours, which is why it could leap quite high. The alien looked plausible too. While I question why a subterranean animal would be so large, I'm willing to chalk that up to a) there is a large system of large caves on the alien's homeworld and b) J.J. Abrams just needed a big alien to add that terror factor. A mole-sized sapient monster just wouldn't be scary. ![]() The faces looked quite good though. Two big eyes on the side of the head and two smaller eyes up front (probably to help it focus on smaller objects) that hide inside a little vent-like thing (probably to protect the smaller eyes from dust). The mouth seems adapted to eat plants and smaller aliens from its homeworld. And humans, of course (but I'm willing to chalk that fact up to similar biochemistries. I mean, I did a similar thing with Neo Nod). But enough about the alien, which from a distance seems like a monstrous cross between a thanator and a spider. The movie itself was pretty damn good. I mean, it's quite obvious that it's an homage to some great summer movies from the 1970s and 1980s. I mean, you've got some moments that are quite like "E.T.," "Jaws," and "Jurassic Park" (even though it was from the 1990s). Heck, the alien even sounds like a mix between the roars of "Jurassic Park"'s T-rex and raptors. Though the actors in the movie do a very good job. Especially the kids. The whole time I was watching the main kid characters making their zombie movie or just talking about what was going on in the town, I was reminded of "Stand By Me" (which is a very good movie in and of itself). I mean, the kids are between the ages of 11 and 13, yet they cuss so fluently. Not that I'm surprised, since kids I know between those ages cuss regularly (at least, when their parents aren't around). But I just think it adds a little something to the film, a little charm if you know what I mean. Anyway, I thought it was a very good flick. I'd recommend it. |
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| Zoroaster | Jun 13 2011, 09:44 PM Post #15 |
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T. Neo - ANY thing that's chronologically wrong in ANY movie will spoil the whole thing for me! I'll sit there grinding my teeth - and no matter how good the rest of the movie (or book) are - I won't enjoy it - the one worm in one apple spoils the whole barrell for me. George Lucas is moron who lets anything in his movies (lucky Star Wars was his own universe - he can make the rules there) - I'm talking about Indian Jones stuff - in the one with Sean Connery - the Germans were riding 1980s Japanese road-trail bikes! In the latest drivel installment in Indian Jones (Crystal Skulls?) - the Shia Labeef character is riding around on a 2007 model Harley Davidson Cross Bones Springer (almost virtually unmodified too!) - with Fuel Injection and hydraulic disk brakes, but movie was set in 1959 or something! All Lucas had to do was pay a visit to someone like Jesse James (i.e. the one who got caught shagging around on his missus Sandra Bullock recently - not the one shot in the back on 3rd April 1882) who'd tell him (or his designers or whatever) and find out what was "around" in 1959, but most importantly - what WASN'T around. It's just laziness, and it's an insult to the paying audience. Look at the Coen brothers - their movies are SO high quality, design, visuals, cinematography, fashion/costumes/hair styles - almost "anal" attention to detail - they make Lucas look like an amateur just out of film school... And my favourite Steven Spielberg movie? American Graffiti! And George Lucas worked on it too... |
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