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movie review - Super 8

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a low-key Sci-Fi story about some kids who decide that something's up in their mid-western town. It starts out well, staying on point with a plot that mixes realistic characters with the growing realization that there really is something going on. But midway it begins to somehow fall apart. The estlabished characters start behaving differently, but in a way that's attributable to the strange goings-on.

Not recommended. And I kick myself for even seeing it, because just like the Sixth Sense ads gave me the impression that the councilor is a ghost, something in the trailer for this one told me that the creators didn't know what movie they wanted to make. I hope everything's all right with Spielberg.