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Super 8 Review
If you were lucky enough to have experienced the release of Spielberg's Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, E.T. and Jaws, then you'll no doubt remember that feeling of awe. For those two hours you were in the palm of a storytelling master. They are just...classics. So when people start to compare J.J. Abrams to Spielberg (calling him a young Spielberg, in fact), one can't be blamed for having near-impossible expectations for his next project.  Abrams' latest, Super 8, isn't exactly in the same league as those early pictures. Sure, it looks very much like a film by Steven Spielberg. Hell, it even carries the Amblin logo (the producing house on The Goonies, E.T, etc). But there's just something missing amongst it. Super 8 tells the story of a young boy, Joe Lamb, whom after the death of his mother struggles with living with his alienating father (the...
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  • 7/3/2011
  • by noreply@blogger.com (Ferg)
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