Vina Talwar
Super 8 Evaluation
The director of Super 8 is JJ Spielberg. He has made many movies such as 102 Dalmations which was a great success. I have also heard of his movie called The adventure of Tin Tin which is soon to be relaeased on IMAX and 3D. Spielberg uses childrean in his movie which appeal and understand other childrean which they can relate to. I think Speilberg is a big success as using childrean as the main characters as it is something we don’t get much. The main stars in the movie are the childrean ages 14-16. Joel Courtney who plays the main role in Super 8 and is mainly the hero as he sorts everything out and puts in back into order. Riley Griffiths is 14 years old and has been acting since he was yound and also appeared in Uthah in Shakespreans Fevistival in his hometown. Ryan Lee is familiar as he is the voice on Jack in the USO’s. Gabrial Basso a new apperance.
Super 8 is a scince fiction movie set in 1979 in a small town called Ohio. A young boy called Joe who is mourning the recent death of his mother. He hangs out with his friends for comfort and a way of escapisim from relaity which recently hit him. His best friend Charles Is creating a Zombie movie on his camera for a conteset on Zombie movies with Joe and his other friends which are helping him to complete it. They were filming there scne at the train station when they witness a horrific accident which has taken place between a car and the train. Everything at the station is wrecked. However something mysterious and monsterous esacpes from on the cars. Joe and his friends flee from the Air Force. But strage things keep happening around the town. Joe and his friends flee from the air force but only him and his friends have the clue of what is really going to happen and why.
The soundtracks were really affective as the non digitic sounds were very flashy and at parts of the films it keeps you grabbed on and your eyes wide open as many parts of the movie is quiet shocking. Most of the soundtrack was quiet heroic which continously played through the movie when the friends were finding out information in the school of what was happening and why it was taking place. The sounds also created an massive impact atmosphere as it was loud but also came through different directions which made the armoshphere more humid and firghtening.
I think the characters were really good with the acting as it seemed so real and they were really into their roled. As Joe Lamb made parts of his mother and his moments very emotinal as he was upset the fact he lost his mother through an accident. Elle Faniting decribed her life really well through her emotions as she was broken up in to piece as her father doesn’t treat her well as he gives her orders and she is really scred she also expresses the unkown love of her mother which she didn’t recive. Riley grabs on to the fact he’s very determined to wining the contest and willing to do anything to make his Zombie movie he does this by still wanting to do his movie even after the terrible situation he goes through. Kyle Chandler known as Jackson Lamb was broken up into the pices with no support after he lost his wife but also showed dertemination in order to fix everything which was happening in his city.
In Super 8 the film starts equliribrium as they start of with the friends entering a contest and wanting to make a movie. Which then is disorderd as it is distrupted with the massive explosion of the train which affects all part of the places in the city. However it is then reslutioned as back to order as the hero (Joe Lamb) puts everything in order.The genre of this film is scince fiction which therefore doesn’t really fit in to my expectations as I don’t really like fiction film as they are mostly based on air forces, explosion, past and future. But I would recommend it for children around the ages of 10 and over as it is based around their ages and it also if a movie which helps them to escape and entertains them.
