Super-8 (2011)
Okay first off I have to thank Steven Spielberg , and JJ Abrams for a trip down memory lane. Super-8 brings back a time when things were a bit simpler, and life was a bit slower. Now that I've dispensed with the nostalgia I have to say I really liked the film. The ending seemed a bit corny to me, and yet it worked. After all Super-8 is simply a B-movie picture that we all once watched on Saturday nights at the local drive-in. Joe Dante did this in a film called " Matinee " way back in 1993. What Spielberg and Abrams does in Super-8 is ratchet the action up a bit more then what Dante did. Super-8 feels like a long lost Spielberg film when he started out. It's a bit like " ET ", " Close Encounters of the third kind ", and " the Goonies " all rolled up in one. Yet Spielberg is only the producer. Super-8 was written and directed by JJ Abrams, and I have to confess I really liked the story, and best yet I loved the char...