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The first trailer’s up at Apple. I’ve never bought into JJ’s style of marketing, with all the secrecy and puzzles malarky, but I’ll watch trailers till the cows come home. This one doesn’t fully grab me like it’s designed to but there are definitely things I like about it.
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/super8/
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I’m so there. I love J.J. Spielberg’s name as an exec producer doesn’t lend as much weight as if he’d directed it himself, but my interest’s piqued.
I know Big Steve doesn’t have his hand on the rudder but the opening shots of this trailer hark back pretty strongly to the Close Encounters vibe. Even that old truck makes me think of that film given the context. I’m sure there’s no way that’s accidental when someone with a pronounced talent for visual details like JJ is driving.
I also like the fact that even the credit screens have lens flares.
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Well, the screens having flares is no accident either. JJ has been using the talents of Andrew Kramer on a great deal of projects over the last couple of years. Andrew (VideoCoPilot.net) is an After Effects guy that spends a great deal of time providing studio effects for everyone type tutorials via his website. Anyway… you see that lens flare work show up in Andrew’s work just as much as it does in JJ’s movies… and the titles look like Andrew’s work anyway. -I just checked… yes, it is his work. AK has done the title work for Fringe, including the recent 80s version/episode, work on Lost, and he did the end credits for Star Trek (with the zooming through various planetary systems and such). Anyway, it’s no accident that it looks like JJ’s movie treatments, these two guys work together more and more it seems, and I really like it. AK’s website is where I’ve been learning everything that I know about After Effects.
Here’s some more for you on this movie,
A lot of movie speculation regarding this trailer, hints within it and some still and animations found here: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29519
then, here is one of the marketing efforts already in motion: http://www.scariestthingieversaw.com/
that looks pretty hot. but i’m not so sure. a whole movie about an economy motel chain? and what’s the deal with the train? where they going to the motel? or maybe the truck was taking a shortcut to the motel? it’s all a little vague. they didn’t even show the motel. how are we supposed to get hyped up if they don’t even tease the motel?
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I think the survivor or the train wreck is trying to get out to go find some investment capitol for his new idea: quality budget motels.
@Version3 43912 wrote:
Well, the screens having flares is no accident either. JJ has been using the talents of Andrew Kramer on a great deal of projects over the last couple of years.
I got the impression from MI3 that visually JJ was fighting his way out of his TV box, like a lot of people who go from small to big screen, and Star Trek was the fuller realisation of that. I haven’t seen Lost for a while but I always got the impression that, cheap FX budget aside, they tried to shoot that as much as possible with a widescreen sensibility too.
I mean, two features isn’t really enough to recognise a signature style in a director but I like where JJ’s mind is at and choosing to work with people like Kramer seems to have done him a world of goodness so far.
Also, word on the street is they haven’t even started shooting the film yet and the footage in this teaser was shot just for the teaser. Either way, the CGI in the train crash isn’t mind blowing, but I like the classic look of the rest of it. I definitely hope they go in that direction rather than another found footage Cloverfield type deal.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
that’s the hook, bucho. the guy found the footage at a super 8 motel. on the way back…
BOOM! train wreck. obviously those were illegal mexican immigrants trying to get out of the train car. the return the footage and are immediately granted amnesty.this is the movie of the story i just told. you’re welcome. 🙂
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No, no, no.
The “super 8” is the TAPE they found at the motel and on the tape is the new cloverfield movie smuggled on the train by the Mexicans. The truck seems to be the only car on the road and still not see the massive and loud train because the driver is the girl that the Mexicans finally accept as one of their own.
no shit…..straight from the inside source
Sorry, guys, but you’re way off. I read a script review over at Latinoreview.com and this is what it’s about…
Super 8 is about a group of superheroes that have been genetically engineered by the government at Area 51, using alien technology to create super-soldiers. One of them has the amazing ability of creating large explosions after eating mexican food by defecating standing up. He’s the one in the truck, trying to take a shortcut to a safe house where he can stick his butthole into a large plunger-type device that lessens the effect of the explosion. Unfortunately, the train happens to be barreling through, transporting the most dangerous of these superheroes to a training facility where she can learn to use her powers effectively. The final shot of the trailer is her trying to get out of the car.
See, she’s sort of like Wolverine in a way (a little disappointing, to be sure, since they’re borrowing from a comic book). Anyway, they’ve grafted a gigantic metal vagina to her that will destroy anything in her path with the largest chrome clit you’ve ever seen! That’s probably why they didn’t show it in the trailer, because all of these preteens sitting in the audience would probably be shocked to see a 25-foot wide metal vag chomping at them like the big ol’ Audrey plant from Little Shop of Horrors while they’re waiting for Iron Man 2 to show up on the screen.
Anyway, since superpooper dies by running into the train, there’s only eight of the superheroes left, hence the title, Super 8.
Thank you.
is this japanese? cuz that would totally make sense. super 8 could be a double entendre. one meaning 8 super heroes. and the other meaning is a mistranlation from the original japanese.
giant = super
eating = ate (8) (those translators can’t conjugate verbs worth a damn.)
vagina = ??? (japanese are so scared of vaginas they don’t even have a word for it.)giant eating vagina = super 8
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@rob 43936 wrote:
Sorry, guys, but you’re way off. I read a script review over at Latinoreview.com and this is what it’s about…
Super 8 is about a group of superheroes that have been genetically engineered by the government at Area 51, using alien technology to create super-soldiers. One of them has the amazing ability of creating large explosions after eating mexican food by defecating standing up. He’s the one in the truck, trying to take a shortcut to a safe house where he can stick his butthole into a large plunger-type device that lessens the effect of the explosion. Unfortunately, the train happens to be barreling through, transporting the most dangerous of these superheroes to a training facility where she can learn to use her powers effectively. The final shot of the trailer is her trying to get out of the car.
See, she’s sort of like Wolverine in a way (a little disappointing, to be sure, since they’re borrowing from a comic book). Anyway, they’ve grafted a gigantic metal vagina to her that will destroy anything in her path with the largest chrome clit you’ve ever seen! That’s probably why they didn’t show it in the trailer, because all of these preteens sitting in the audience would probably be shocked to see a 25-foot wide metal vag chomping at them like the big ol’ Audrey plant from Little Shop of Horrors while they’re waiting for Iron Man 2 to show up on the screen.
Anyway, since superpooper dies by running into the train, there’s only eight of the superheroes left, hence the title, Super 8.
Thank you.
Oh shit. So it’s a Martha Stewart biopic afterall.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
If its got giant people-easting steel vaginas I hope its in 3d. Instead of popcorn I heard they will be selling fish at the concession.
@Bing 43949 wrote:
If its got giant people-easting steel vaginas I hope its in 3d. Instead of popcorn I heard they will be selling fish at the concession.
so its definitely japanese.
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New trailer ALERT you guys.
This one really amps up the 80s-ish Spielbergness, Cocoon tune and all. I like it!
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