If there is one man known for his secretive trailers then it’s J.J. Abrams, the man behind Cloverfield and the trailer that hyped it up immensely. Once again, he gives us a trailer to one of his super duper secret projects and it’s known to us as Super 8. Let’s see how it fairs in this next installment of tHop
Crickets, wasteland, nighttime. All right, okay. Atmospheric opening. Let’s move on, now. GAH, a train. Right. A mentioning of Area 51. What, this gonna be a movie version of the TV show Roswell? So then we see a signal at a crossing going off, warning of the train’s coming. There’s also a car speeding at us from the distance. Gee, I wonder what’s going to happen. Following this is another message saying that all materials of area 51 were to be transported to a location in Ohio. What I don’t get then is that the aforementioned car turns on the tracks and heats straight for the train. Yeah, sure, you can say that the lack of information is because of the trailer but still. Maybe we’ll get lucky later. What follows next has raised the hope bar back towards good as the title of Producer is accompanied by the name: Steven Spielberg. Aaaaaaaaand then the truck hits the train, the shit hits the fan and the pimp hits the ho. The train derails and all hell breaks loose. Well, actually it’s the alien in the train.
In the end, this trailer gives us more questions than answers only giving us pretty effects as a reason to go watch this movie. Because after watch the trailer, the effects are the only thing interesting me. From what we know from this trailer alone, it’s a run of the mill story with nice effect to go with it. Because I’ll be damned if that train derailment wasn’t awesome. Maybe it’ll be like Avatar and the story won’t be that bothersome, save obvious.
Super 8. What does the title tell us? Nothing. What does the trailer tell us? Nothing. It’s kind of like Lost. The title means squat, the story tells us a whole lot but basically nothing and you’re left feeling like you were being jerked around by a guy holding something shiny in front of us. Seriously, Abrams, Cloverfield was a far more effective than this one. At least there we were told something. Hell, we were told a lot in that trailer. Here however, we have none of that. Dude, you are a talented director and I really love your work. Just, knock it off. Stick with either tradition trailers or trailers as effective as the Cloverfield one.
And, please, don’t have the movie turn out to be exactly what this trailer is promising it to be. I’d even prefer a Roswell movie over what this trailer is promising. Seriously, I would.
Super 8. What does the title tell us? Nothing. What does the trailer tell us? Nothing. It’s kind of like Lost. The title means squat, the story tells us a whole lot but basically nothing and you’re left feeling like you were being jerked around by a guy holding something shiny in front of us. Seriously, Abrams, Cloverfield was a far more effective than this one. At least there we were told something. Hell, we were told a lot in that trailer. Here however, we have none of that. Dude, you are a talented director and I really love your work. Just, knock it off. Stick with either tradition trailers or trailers as effective as the Cloverfield one.
And, please, don’t have the movie turn out to be exactly what this trailer is promising it to be. I’d even prefer a Roswell movie over what this trailer is promising. Seriously, I would.
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