Super 8
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Sep 9, 2026
NathanHOST
I don't know, but he was scared of the color yellow, so whatever.
RickHOST
Then Super 8 and Mr. Popper's Penguins.
NathanHOST
I don't think I've ever heard of either of those.
RickHOST
I've definitely heard of both of them, but I don't think I've ever watched either of them.
RickHOST
Super 8, I feel like was, yeah, it was a sci-fi movie.
RickHOST
Elle Fanning and others, they made a zombie movie with a Super 8 camera.
RickHOST
And then in the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives.
NathanHOST
Oh, nice.
Jason KleebergHOST
It's like the Spielberg framework, but pushed much further into horror.
Jason KleebergHOST
I felt notes of Gremlins, Signs, Super 8, but especially Poltergeist in this one.
Jason KleebergHOST
Speaking of Poltergeist, the score by Michael Giacchino actually reminded me a lot of Jerry Goldsmith's score for that film, which was released in 1982, the same year that The End of Oak Street is set.
Jason KleebergHOST
His big melodic score gives you a sweeping sense of discovery that you really want from a dinosaur movie, and then, of course, it switches into a thumping, heart-racing monster movie score when it needs to.
Jeff BraunHOST
The 1982 of it all, apparently just for the nostalgia Amblin Entertainment vibes, this movie is produced by J.J. Abrams, among others, and he loves that sort of thing.
Jeff BraunHOST
He really wanted to be the next Steven Spielberg, and if you've ever seen his movie Super 8, you can sort of feel that.
Jeff BraunHOST
And the movie has those vibes.
Jeff BraunHOST
I mean...
JakeGUEST
No, it's not a franchise film, original film.
AaronHOST
Is it Super 8?
JakeGUEST
It is Super 8.
JakeGUEST
I love Super 8.
JakeGUEST
I saw it once.
JakeGUEST
I kind of like it.
Meredith StedmanPANELIST
Yeah, when I was looking through 2011, I realized, wow, it's kind of an incredible year.
Meredith StedmanPANELIST
Just to list it off, Moneyball, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, as aforementioned, Crazy Stupid Love, Drive, The Untouchables, Captain America, The First Avenger, Pirates of the Caribbean, On Strange Tides, The Help, Bridesmaids, Thor, The Cabin in the Woods, X-Men First Class, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Source Code, Limitless, Horrible Bosses, Shame, Super 8, Cars 2, Rio, Rango, No Strings Attached, Friends with Benefits, Midnight in Paris, The Lincoln Lawyer, The Hangover Part 2.
Meredith StedmanPANELIST
Yeah, I remember
Craig MazinHOST
that
Andy YoungHOST
So, you know, that's sort of like the way J.J. Abrams kind of tries to chase the sort of like Spielbergian style, you know, family movie, but with Peril.
Andy YoungHOST
Did he do Super 8? I believe so.
Andy YoungHOST
Okay,
Beth MartinHOST
that makes sense then.
Beth MartinHOST
stop it you guys stop it right just
Andy YoungHOST
stop and like I think this really kind of fills that gap and it's a shame because it says not doing great but I think it's a really entertaining movie and it's reviewing really well so I don't know what's happening with it but it's definitely worth your time okay I was
Beth MartinHOST
we were right about J.J. Abrams and Super 8
Andy YoungHOST
yeah that's what i thought i like obviously he like you know did okay with star trek fucked up star wars like he has a overall pretty poor record i think in my opinion but like you know um it's the mystery box storytelling bullshit that he loves so much anyway and he's
Lee CaseyHOST
And I think Stranger Things has got a lot to answer for here.
On BashawHOST
And I suppose Super 8 as well? Super 8, yeah, that was Abrams, wasn't it? Was that really the first real love letter to the Spielberg-y 80s?
Lee CaseyHOST
Yeah.
Lee CaseyHOST
So there is this nostalgic vibe for the 80s.
HelenHOST
I did think about Lost many times watching this movie.
EdisonHOST
And Super 8, the other J.J. Abrams film, right?
HelenHOST
Yeah.
HelenHOST
It's all there.
Aren BergstromHOST
Yeah, I didn't write this in the review because I didn't want to get bogged down in reading it as a David Robert Mitchell movie compared to the tack, which I did, which you discussed in the setup.
Aren BergstromHOST
It is a kind of Amblin Entertainment style movie or something that you can even compare to a Super 8, right? JJ Abrams 2011 pastiche, because it's a pastiche at the end of the day.
Aren BergstromHOST
And I think it's a pretty successful one, but it is a little bit disappointing after Under the Silver Lake, which is like a really interesting new noir.
Aren BergstromHOST
And then It Follows, which I really confidently just say is the best horror movie the last 25 years.
NickHOST
Yeah, it's like-
JoshHOST
Super 8 was big into that.
NickHOST
It's like S- J.J. Abrams, I, I admire him as a producer, but as a director, he is literally just, just the jukebox Steven Spielberg.
JoshHOST
[laughs] Just playing the hits, you know?
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