21st
June
2011
On Super 8
Super 8: A Movie Review
by John David Ebert
Hollywood movies are in trouble.
Just like the cliche of the graying middle ager with the beer belly who regales his bored listeners with tales of his former high school glories as a football superstar, so now we have, with J.J. Abrams’s Super 8 the celluloid equivalent of the wash up living on faded memories of yesterday. Indeed, most of the movies being made nowadays, from superhero movies to the average sci-fi flick, are living off of cannibalized images, themes and stories from the golden era of the 1970s and 1980s when Hollywood movies were actually achieving something that had never been done before. Read the rest of this entry »
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