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Super 8 Sneak Peak

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (6)

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J.J. Abrams released the first trailer for Super 8 ahead of Iron Man 2 last year and followed that up with a teaser during the Super Bowl this year. With the release date less than a month away, ‘twas decided that there should be more advertising, since a movie that makes it to theaters without six trailers, two teasers, four “making-of” vignettes, cast interviews, and a beverage tie-in just isn’t trying these days. So they released a 30 second clip to warm up the Internet a little.

It’s funny, but this represents 30 seconds of completely new footage while managing to not actually reveal anything new. The action is (presumably) the final footage of more or less the same footage in the original trailer, although at that point it was just slick CGI in a vacuum without characters and dialogue and such.

Two notes. First, I don’t get the Spielberg vibe from it so much as the early Stephen King vibe. Teenagers, summer days, rural America, the sudden appearance of horror. Let’s just say that if I was handed a thirty year old paper back with “Super 8” and Stephen King on the cover, I would be baffled at how I missed it all these years, but still might accept its reality.

Second, please tell me that kid getting out of driver’s seat of the car isn’t really supposed to be sixteen or older. He looks twelve. IMDB doesn’t have an age for the actor. I feel old.

Also, Wikipedia says that Matt Damon is doing the voice for the alien, which is not confirmed elsewhere, but if true is some kind of awesome, but if not, is an equally awesome troll.









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Comments

If the alien yells nothing but "MATT DAMON!" all movie long, I'm sold.

Posted by: Craig at May 17, 2011 10:08 AM

I keep thinking Goonies when I see this.

Posted by: logan at May 17, 2011 10:23 AM

Little Fanning girl is one of the kids so I presume that they're al supposed to be really early teens/preteen aged. One hopes. I shouldn't get a thrill and flash of glee to see my hometown get exploded in this, should I?

Posted by: Jos at May 17, 2011 10:28 AM

I'm getting Cloverfield flashbacks where they over-hyped and viraled the shit out of the movie only to have it turn out to be an anti-climactic monster movie. I know some of you in here like it, but the audience I watched it with said an almost collective "You gotta be shitin' me!" when the monster finally showed its face.

I have a bad feeling the same thing might be happening here. The build-up for this movie is equally tremendous and it's going to have a near impossible task of living up to expected greatness. It's taking a risk suggesting elements of earlier Spielberg movies such as Close Encounters and E.T. The letdown backlash could be especially vicious if after all the ads and teasers the story turns out to have the tension of a wet noodle.

Something in the back of my head keeps telling me this is going to turn into some kind of shaggy dog story. Abrams is very quickly burning through his audience street credit with both his TV and movie productions and if this turns out to be yet another case of a good idea that couldn't quite figure out how to finish, he's going to hurt his own brand name on future projects.

Movies of quality do not need to be force-fed down everyone's throats. If it's a a good movie, it will still be whether we see a million ads for it or not. On the other hand if you do intend to saturate the market with it, it had best deliver.

Posted by: bleujayone at May 17, 2011 11:23 AM

Stephen King and Spielberg have always had the exact same style but different focuses. Both are obsessed with a nostalgia for the 1950s Americana and farm life, and introducing something strange into the midst of it. They basically write about their childhoods. Spielberg likes aliens and King scares the crap out of you, but they like banding groups of kids together and setting it in the past. The difference between ET and IT is one letter and the intent and nature of the monster.

Stand by Me is the place where their sensibilities meet, and Super 8 feels like a combination of every Spielberg produced or directed film combined (Jaws, Close Encounters, ET) and ended up feeling like King.

Posted by: puppetDoug at May 17, 2011 3:39 PM

It looks like someone else gets out of the drivers side during the wide shot and then the kid climes through from the backseat, so likely not driving. Anyway, I'm still excited for this and am now going back to avoiding all advertising until it comes out.

Posted by: AllSigns at May 17, 2011 4:14 PM