Super 8

Sorry, that's Ron Eller Eldred, who's in Black Hawk Down and Deep Impact.

Super 8, he plays Ellie Fanning's dad in Super 8.

And he just looks like one of the Beach Boys, if you just picture that.

Yeah, well, you say he needs to love interest.

Steven Spielberg's career as a director literally began with him directing Rod in the first episode of Night Gallery.

J.J. Abrams with Lost and the movies he's made, like Super 8, really just, like...

Rod Serling is his North Star in terms of creativity.

The craziest one to me was I was at an event for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

And the first one was, of course, Ad Astra.

But this movie is called Super 8.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

All right.

I'm excited because I saw Super 8 in theaters, and I don't remember hating it.

I saw

it

What? We're only covering movies involving extraterrestrials.

And it's Dee's pick from J.J. Abrams' Super 8.

I'm not even cutting that.

I'm just keeping those good.

Watch party in our Discord.

The reviews are in.

A lot of people in our community did a watch party from, I presume, Groog Rooks Dave, the MC, put it together for Super 8.

The reviews are in.

Highly recommend.

And then I had somehow missed seeing Super 8 in the theater back in 2011 when it came out.

Oh, man, that movie was so good.

And that's the thing.

The film has a very, um, Stephen King kind of feel to it as far as it being that, uh, that small, small town, uh, experience.

And, um, it's kind of got hints of, uh, Super 8 as well.

Um, I think the, the Super 8, uh, influence comes from just how long you're watching the movie before you actually see the monster.

You see a lot of m- a lot of, uh, damage from the monster.

You see a lot of, uh, a lot of the monster's, um, uh, a lot of the devastation and murder and, and death that has been left in its wake.

Um, it-- this is why it's a, it's a movie that is, uh, best to know as little about as possible because you're finding out what's going on, what the characters look like, what the, uh, what the aliens or the monsters are actually capable of doing as the main characters are.

Uh, it's actually a film that I would...

It, it, it, it has that real, like you say, I guess like Super 8 or Cloverfield.

It has some of the dumb decision things from kids.

But no more or less than, like, say, Super 8 or any of the other '80s movies we've watched.

Mm-hmm.

You know? So it's like, um, I can forgive it for that because it was trying to be...

And I didn't realize it was set in the '80s when I went to see it either.

It took me a couple minutes to try to figure out what era they were in, and I have a little problem with that timeline too, but I won't get too much into that.

Do we, we have, we have problems with Super 8?

No, I don't have problems with Super 8.