Just got back from seeing Super 8 and I really enjoyed it. I feel like the alien thing isn't such a big deal because the point isn't the aliens, it's the kids. You don't need to see the alien because the point is how everyone reacts to what's going on, rather than the alien itself. I've been making mental comparisons to The Goonies far more than to E.T..
It was exactly what I expected going in, and I thought it was a lot of fun and had lots of great moments. I didn't think it was exactly like a Spielberg movie, but if you don't like his films I suppose you won't like it, as it reminded me of that genre.
Ailleann, I totally had
Goonies
vibes, too.
I liked that the
reason behind the dead wife and the guilty neighbor wasn't a drunk driving accident or something. I liked that it was a woman doing a stereotypical man's job. Just, doing a job, picking up slack, shit happens. Although I'm curious as to why Deputy Lamb arrested Shep the day of the wake. Did I miss something or was it just random background stuff?
Julie, in hindsight, I don't think he actually arrested him, he just got mad and took him away. I mean, they didn't show him in jail later, and it didn't seem to be connected to the cops picking him up as a suspect in the missing engines thing. (I figure that's just cause he's a drunk-and-disorderly type.)
And yeah, there wasn't anything weird behind the wife's death, just everyday tragedy. I think it helped make her death not seem cheap/only a plot device.
eta: sorry about the broken tags.
Just back from Thor. I liked it but I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more if I didn't keep hearing Sir William Thatcher.
I totally enjoyed Super 8. Yeah, it's derivative, but it still worked. I thought you might have to know Spielberg's work to really get it, but we went with friends and their actual 13-year-old boy, who was convulsed with laughter by the kids' dialogue. He thought the whole thing was really good.
And definitely stay through the credits.
High School movies:
Teen Wolf
is a favorite.
My can't-not-watch movie is
Singin' in the Rain
despite the fact that I can recite the dialogue and probably dance (badly) most of the choreography.
My drop everything movies are Velvet Goldmine and Bring it On.
I don't think there's anything else on the list.
Aww, Alan Rubin died of lung cancer. If you don't recognize that name, he was the trumpeter for the Blues Brothers and in that movie, his character was Mr. Fabulous, the maitre'd at Chez Paul before the brothers came in and humiliated him into rejoining the band.
Does
Clueless
count as a high school movie? Because it could be the anti-Auntie Mame movie in that Cher Knows What's Best for everyone, but Cher gets it wrong where Auntie Mame gets it right.
