Super 8 Movie Blurb by Shale June 10, 2011 Today, I really wanted to see this movie, so I made it to the 11:45 matinee at the Regal multiplex and was enjoying it. Just as we were seeing the creature, with about 20 minutes or so left of the movie - there was a fire alarm. The strobe light came on, the screen went off and we were ordered to evacuate the theater. After wasting half an hour in and out of the theater it was finally closed. At 3:15 after goofing off for a couple of hours and the theater not yet reopened, I went home. Now I have to go back tomorrow in order to see the crucial last 20 minutes of this film. I have no idea how it will end. However, I wasn't gonna tell you about that anyhow, so here is my blurb of most of the movie. The setting is 1979 in Lillian, Ohio, a small factory town and we open with the death of Joe's (Joel Courtney - 15) mother. Joe's father, Jackson (Kyle Chandler) is a Deputy Sheriff. Four months later, summer vacation and Joe and his teen friends are making an amateur zombie movie on Super 8 film (8 mm with an oxide track for sound). Charles (Riley Griffiths - 14) is the producer/director who wants to enter the film in an amateur showing, Cary (Ryan Lee - 14) is the cameraman/pyrotechnic (actually suspect pyromaniac), Martin (Gabriel Basso - 17) is the not so bright leading man and Joe does makeup and sound. They recruited a leading lady, Alice (Elle Fanning - 13) which Joe has a huge crush for. (This movie is centered on these kids and I included all their ages because I was amazed at how accomplished they were as actors) Shooting a Zombie Movie They all sneak out and are shooting a scene at a railroad station at night when there is a horrific train wreck they barely escape. Joe saw something knock a door off a train car and escape. Also, he picks up one of the many strange metal cubes that were being transported in this train. Alice and Joe watch the vibrating cube Turns out it was an Air Force train and Colonel Nelec (Noah Emmerich) is in charge of the clean up operation. Immediately Deputy Jackson realizes he is being stonewalled by the military and we know it too, that this is the typical government agency hiding secrets. People and dogs go missing, including the Sheriff, so Jackson becomes the lead law enforcement. Deputy Jackson Investigates Scene of Mayhem We get glimpses of things being thrown with great force and cars being destroyed but never see the source. (If this sounds familiar, like the monster in Cloverfield, you should know that J.J. Abrams director of this film was a producer with Bryan Burk on that film.) The Air Force sets a phony fire so they can evacuates the town and hunt down their escaped target. The kids figure out what is going on when they see their own footage of the train wreck after the camera dropped and was still running. Alice is missing and Joe goes off to find her. That's about as far as I got and actually about as much as you need to know. I'll find out how it ends tomorrow - and I would recommend you go see this movie too.
