Super 8 (film)

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Super 8

Theatrical release poster
Directed by J. J. Abrams
Produced by Steven Spielberg
J. J. Abrams
Bryan Burk
Written by J. J. Abrams
Starring Joel Courtney
Elle Fanning
Kyle Chandler
Riley Griffiths
Ryan Lee
Ron Eldard
Music by Michael Giacchino
Cinematography Larry Fong
Editing by Maryann Brandon
Mary Jo Markey
Studio Bad Robot Productions
Amblin Entertainment
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) June 9, 2011 (2011-06-09) (Australia)
June 10, 2011 (2011-06-10) (United States)
August 5, 2011 (2011-08-05) (United Kingdom)
Running time 112 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $50 million[1]
Box office $259,422,500[2]

Super 8 is a 2011 American romantic science fiction thriller film written and directed by J. J. Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, and Kyle Chandler and was released on June 10, 2011[3][4] in conventional and IMAX theaters in the US. The film tells the story of a group of young teenagers who are filming their own Super 8 movie in a small town in 1979 when a train derails, releasing a dangerous presence into their town. The movie was filmed in Weirton, West Virginia and surrounding areas.

It was released to critical acclaim; being praised for its nostalgia, visual effects, and musical score. The film was also lauded for the performances of its young actors, especially those of Elle Fanning and newcomer Joel Courtney. It was also an enormous commercial success, grossing over $250 million on a $50 million budget. It received several awards and nominations; mainly in the technical categories and for Elle Fanning's performance as Alice Dainard.

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[edit] Plot

In 1979, Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney), a 14-year-old boy living in the fictional town of Lillian, Ohio, has lost his mother in a factory accident. Louis Dainard (Ron Eldard) comes to the wake, but Joe's father, Deputy Jack Lamb (Kyle Chandler), takes Dainard away in handcuffs, blaming him for his wife's death.

Four months later, Joe's school is let out for the summer. His friend Charles Kaznyk (Riley Griffiths) convinces Dainard's daughter Alice (Elle Fanning) to be the protagonist's wife in his low-budget zombie movie, filmed on Super 8. Charles wants to enter the film into a local film festival. Alice appropriates her father's car and takes Joe, Charles, Preston (Zach Mills), Martin (Gabriel Basso), and Cary (Ryan Lee) to an old train depot, where the group plans to film a scene.

During the shoot, Charles sees a train coming towards the depot and sets up the cameras, hoping that the passing train will add authenticity to the scene. As they are filming, Joe watches a pick-up truck drive onto the tracks and place itself in the path of the oncoming train, causing a massive derailment. Something breaks open one of the train car's doors and escapes. In the aftermath of the accident, the kids find the wreck littered with strange white cubes. They approach the truck and discover Dr. Woodward (Glynn Turman), their biology teacher, behind the steering wheel. He instructs them, at gunpoint, to never talk about what they saw, otherwise they and their parents will be killed. Moments later, the U.S. Air Force, led by Colonel Nelec (Noah Emmerich), arrives to secure the crash site, while the kids flee the scene. Nelec ends up finding the empty box of one of the kids' Super 8 film reels, realizing that someone potentially filmed the crash.

Over the next couple of days, strange phenomena occur: numerous town dogs run away, kitchen appliances, car engines and power lines vanish, along with people. The odd behavior of the Air Force personnel (who are ostensibly there to clean up the train wreck) begins to make the township suspicious. With help from one of the town's citizens, who is a ham radio buff, Jack manages to intercept Air Force communications. Using a code word he overheard in the transmissions, Jack tries to get Nelec to divulge what is really happening to the town. But Jack's plan backfires when Nelec has him arrested while on his way to a private meeting with Nelec.

Later, Alice tells Joe that her father had been drinking on the morning of the accident and, because of this, he missed his shift at work. Joe's mother, therefore, had to work the shift for him and was killed in the accident.

The Air Force deliberately starts a wildfire outside of town, giving them a pretext to evacuate the entire town to a nearby base. At the same time, Joe and Charles finally watch the footage filmed at the train crash and see a glimpse of a monstrous alien creature escaping from the train. Before they can tell anyone about their discovery, a siren sounds, forcing them to evacuate to the base. Upon arriving at the base, Joe finds Dainard, who tells him that a creature has abducted Alice, which Joe believes. Charles convinces his older sister Jen (Amanda Michalka) to flirt with Donny, a video store owner who has a crush on her, to give Joe, Charles, Cary and Martin a lift in his car. They sneak back into town and head to their school. There, they break into Woodward's stash of confiscated items, thinking he may have hidden documentation about the creature that might help them save Alice. In the papers, film and audio recordings, they discover that, in 1958, the government imprisoned an extraterrestrial, who had crash-landed on Earth. The alien only wished to rebuild its ship, using the shapeshifting white cubes, and return home. But it was, instead, imprisoned and tortured by the Air Force, who sought to seize its technology. One film shows Woodward, a researcher at the time, being attacked by the alien. This physical contact caused him to form a telepathic bond with the alien, through which he learned that it only wanted to go home. Woodward had deliberately derailed the train, to free the alien from captivity.

Colonel Nelec and his men storm the school and capture the boys. They take the children by bus and head back to the Air Force base. On the way, the alien attacks the bus, and Nelec and his men are killed, while Joe and his friends manage to escape. The kids head through the town, which is now under heavy fire from malfunctioning military equipment, as the military attempts to battle the alien. In the confusion, Martin is injured and Charles stays behind with him, while Joe and Cary go to find Alice. Near the cemetery where Joe's mother is buried, they find the alien's subterranean lair. Inside, are several missing people, who have been trapped there by the alien, which has apparently kept them for food. The town's missing electronics are there too, formed together to create a giant electromagnet, underneath the base of the water tower. Joe manages to rescue Alice, but, as they escape, the alien grabs Joe, who tells the creature that it can still live on even after painful events. The alien understands Joe's meaning, through their tactile telepathic connection, and lets go of him, allowing him and his friends to escape.

Meanwhile, Jack manages to overpower a guard and leaves the base disguised as an Air Force staff sergeant. When he arrives at the town evacuation site, he learns from a fellow deputy, and Preston, that his son went back into town to rescue Alice. Jack takes Dainard with him to find their children. As they head towards town in an Air Force jeep, Dainard tearfully apologizes to Jack about his wife's death. Jack forgives Dainard, stating that it was an accident

Shortly afterwards, all the cubes break free from the Air Force transport trucks and, with loose metal from around the town, are magnetically drawn to the town's water tower. The cubes begin to align and a ship takes form around the water tower, which the alien enters. Joe's locket, containing a picture of him as a baby with his mother, is also drawn towards the tower, and, after a moment, he decides to let it go, finally putting the past behind him. Everyone watches as the ship takes off toward space.

[edit] Cast

[edit] The Case

The Case is the amateur zombie film supposedly being shot by the youngsters throughout the movie. Brief excerpts are seen in the main film, along with episodes in which scenes are being shot. It is said to be written by Charles to be entered in a film contest. It was in fact written by Basso with assistance by his co-stars and Abrams. The complete short film is shown through the end credits of Super 8. It tells the story of a detective named Hathaway who is put on a case to investigate numerous zombie murders, while fighting zombies on his way. He meets with the president of a chemical company, a doctor, and his wife to discuss the murders, before ultimately finding a cure.

[edit] Plot

Detective Hathaway meets with a young witness who says he has seen a zombie attack. He presents Hathaway with a building access pass that fell out of the attacker's pocket. The pass is for the Romero Chemical Plant. Hathaway then goes to the President of Romero Chemicals. He confronts him about an incident that occurred in the plant that he funded. The President disregards it as an accident, but Hathaway argues. He tells the President that he is going to look around the building that was on the note. He leaves, and the President makes an urgent phone call saying "He knows". He goes to the building and is attacked by a zombie. He manages to kill the zombie by pressing its head against exposed nails in the wall. He then calls someone to buy his wife a ticket to Michigan because it is not safe for her. But that night at the train depot, she tells him that she loves him and doesn't want him getting into danger. Seconds later, a massive train wreck occurs confirming his wife's staying. The next morning they are looking out at the wreck and are attacked by a zombie, who Hathaway shoots. That night, Hathaway records in his audio journal that the attacks are putting stress on his town and his marriage. He then gets a call from an Air Force officer that served with Hathaway in Vietnam who tells him that an airman committed suicide because there was a secret he could no longer keep. He then gives him top-secret information about a doctor that the late airman worked for. He goes to meet this doctor who says that he has found a cure for the zombie epidemic and begins to test it on a victim of the virus. However, the victim wakes up and bites the doctor turning him into a zombie. Hathaway shoots them both. He goes home to see that his wife has been turned into a zombie. She attacks him, but he injects the antidote into her neck. He gets ready to shoot her but she is cured of the virus and they embrace. The film ends and we hear a small announcement from the director, Charles Kaznyk, who tells the audience how much fun they had making it and that he hopes they choose his film for the festival. Alice, in zombie makeup, then attacks Charles and bites him, leaving his fate unknown.

[edit] Production

J.J. Abrams had had the idea to start a film by showing a factory's "Accident-Free" sign long before he came up with the rest of the idea of the film. Super 8 was actually the combination of two ideas; one for a film about kids making their own movie during the 1970's, and another for a blockbuster alien invasion film. Worried that the former idea would not attract enough attendance, Abrams combined the ideas.

Abrams and Spielberg collaborated in a storytelling committee to come up with the story for the film.[6] The film was initially reported to be either a sequel or prequel to the 2008 film Cloverfield,[7] but this was quickly denied by Abrams.[8] Primary photography began in fall 2010. The teaser itself was filmed separately in April.[9] Super 8 is the first original J. J. Abrams film project produced by Amblin Entertainment, Bad Robot Productions, and Paramount Pictures.[10]

Abrams wanted to find new faces to play the parts in his movie. He conducted a national talent search in order to find the child actors to play each of the leading roles. Courtney (who was hoping to land a part in a commercial) was picked out of many boys because Abrams found something "different" in him. Riley Griffiths sent Abrams a tape of himself in order to land the part of Charles.

Filming took place in Weirton, West Virginia, from September to October 2010.[11] To promote the film, Valve Corporation created a short video game segment and released it alongside the Windows and Mac versions of Portal 2.

Abrams' original plan was to film all of the sequences for the film-within-a-film "The Case" in Super-8 using Pro8mm stock and cameras. However, this approach proved unsuccessful, as visual effects house Industrial Light and Magic found it impossible to integrate CGI into the footage due to the format's graininess. For sequences involving CGI, cinematographer Larry Fong used Super-16 instead.[12]

[edit] Music

Super 8
Film score by Michael Giacchino
Released August 2, 2011
Recorded 2011
Genre Orchestral
Length 69:84
Label Varèse Sarabande
Michael Giacchino chronology
Cars 2
(2011)		 Super 8
(2011)		 Monte Carlo
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars....[13]
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The score for the film was composed by Michael Giacchino, Abrams' long-time collaborator. Giacchino recruited his team of conductor Tim Simonec, recorder Dan Wallin and the Hollywood Studio Symphony to bring the music to life. The soundtrack was released on August 2, 2011 by Varèse Sarabande.

During the final credits, the songs "My Sharona", by The Knack and "Don't Bring Me Down" by Electric Light Orchestra are featured. The Blondie song "Heart of Glass" and The Cars song "Bye Bye Love" are also featured in the film.

All music composed by Michael Giacchino.

Track listing
No. Title Length
1. "Super 8"   1:44
2. "Family Matters"   0:29
3. "Model Painting"   0:41
4. "Acting Chops"   0:40
5. "Aftermath Class"   5:54
6. "Thoughts of Cubism"   0:48
7. "We'll Fix It in Post-Haste"   0:44
8. "Productions Woes"   0:34
9. "Train of Thought"   0:35
10. "Circle Gets the Cube"   1:06
11. "Breen There, Ate That"   1:12
12. "Dead Over Heels"   0:48
13. "Gas and Go"   1:34
14. "Looking for Lucy"   0:49
15. "Radio Haze"   1:08
16. "Mom's Necklace"   1:33
17. "Shootus Interuptus"   2:35
18. "Thoughts of Mom"   1:41
19. "Woodward Bites It"   1:54
20. "Alice Projects on Joe"   2:29
21. "Neighborhood Watch - Fail"   4:45
22. "The Evacuation of Lillian"   3:40
23. "A Truckload of Trouble"   0:57
24. "Lambs on the Lam"   2:40
25. "Woodward's Home Movies"   2:40
26. "Spotted Lambs"   1:37
27. "Air Force HQ or Bust"   1:04
28. "World's Worst Field Trip"   3:36
29. "The Siege of Lillian"   2:57
30. "Creature Comforts"   10:10
31. "Letting Go"   5:18
32. "Super 8 Suite"   5:54
33. "The Case"   3:28
Total length:
 69:84

[edit] Viral marketing campaign

Like Cloverfield, an earlier J. J. Abrams-produced film, Super 8 was promoted through an extensive viral marketing campaign. The first trailer for the movie was attached to Iron Man 2, released in May 2010. The trailer gave the premise of a section of Area 51 being closed down in 1979 and its contents being transported by freight train to Ohio. A pickup truck drives into the oncoming train, derailing it, and one of the carriages is smashed open while a Super 8 camera films. Fans analyzing the trailer found a hidden message, "Scariest Thing I Ever Saw", contained in the final frames of the trailer. This led to a website, Scariest Thing I Ever Saw, which simulated the interface of a PDP-11 and contained various clues to the film's storyline; the computer was eventually revealed to belong to Josh Woodward, the son of Dr. Woodward, who is trying to find out what happened to his father. Another viral website, Rocket Poppeteers was also found, which like Slusho from Cloverfield plays no direct part in the film but is indirectly related. The official Super 8 website also contained an "editing room" section, which asked users to find various clips from around the web and piece them together. When completed, the reel makes up the film found by the kids in Dr. Woodward's trailer, showing the ship disintegrating into individual white cubes, and the alien reaching through the window of its cage and snatching Dr. Woodward. The video game Portal 2 contained an interactive trailer placing the player on board the train before it derails, and showing the carriage being smashed open and the roar of the alien within.

[edit] Release

The film was released on June 9, 2011 in Australia, June 10, 2011 in the United States, and August 5, 2011 in the United Kingdom.[14] On June 8, Paramount also launched a “Super 8 Sneak Peek” Twitter promotion, offering fans a chance to purchase tickets for an advanced screening, taking place on June 9, 2011 in the United States.[15] The film opened at #1 in the U.S. Box Office for that weekend, grossing about $35 million.

[edit] Home media

The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD on November 22, 2011.[16] The release was produced as a combo pack with a Digital Copy, including nine bonus features and fourteen deleted scenes.[17]

[edit] Reception

[edit] Critical response

Super 8 received very positive reviews from professional critics. On movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a score of 82%, based on 251 reviews, and a rating average of 7.4/10, with the consensus that: "it may evoke memories of classic summer blockbusters a little too eagerly for some, but Super 8 has thrills, visual dazzle, and emotional depth to spare."[18] Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score from 1–100 to reviews from critics, assigned the film a Metascore of 72 based on 40 critics, signifying 'generally favorable reviews.'[19]

Chris Sosa of Gather gave the film an A rating, calling it, "a gripping and exciting tale of finding one's place in the world amidst tragedy." His review concluded, "While the genre-bending occasionally unsettles, the film's genuine and emotionally gripping nature make its journey believable." [20]

Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ stars out of 4 and said, "Super 8 is a wonderful film, nostalgia not for a time but for a style of filmmaking, when shell-shocked young audiences were told a story and not pounded over the head with aggressive action. Abrams treats early adolescence with tenderness and affection."[21] Richard Corliss of Time gave it a similarly positive review, calling it "the year's most thrilling, feeling mainstream movie".[22] He then named it one of the Top 10 Best Movies of 2011.[23] Jamie Graham of Total Film gave the film a perfect five-star rating, saying, "like Spielberg, Abrams has an eye for awe, his deft orchestration of indelible images – a tank trundling through a children's playground, a plot-pivotal landmark framed in the distance through a small hole in a bedroom wall – marking him as a born storyteller".[24] Christopher Orr of the The Atlantic called it a "love letter to a cinematic era", while Claudia Puig of USA Today praised it as "a summer blockbuster firing on all cylinders".

Particular praise was given to the performances of the young cast, especially newcomer Courtney, and Fanning who received numerous accolades and nominations. Rick Groen of Globe and Mail says "It's the child actors, heroic indeed, who rescue Super 8 from the blockbuster grip of its adult makers". Carrie Rickey of the Philadelphia Inquirer believed that "The worst that can be said about the film is that the characters are far more compelling than the mystery they solve". A reviewer from the Newark Star-Ledger stated that "It's as full of rich characters as it is smart popcorn-movie scares."

Many regarded it as one of the best summer movies of 2011. Lisa Schwarzbaum from Entertainment Weekly wrote that "Loving, playful, and spectacularly well made, Super 8 is easily the best summer movie of the year -- of many years. And I make that declaration with full knowledge that the season has just begun". Roger Moore from the Orlando Sentinel declared that "Super 8 is the movie of the summer, the movie of MANY summers going back to the '70s. It's a creature feature, a first-love romance and a movie buff's movie about movie buffs trying to become movie makers".

Most of the film's negative reviews commented negatively on the film's ending,[25][26] and its frequent homages to the early films of Steven Spielberg. Writing for Mubi's Notebook, Fernando F. Croce alleged that "no film this year opens more promisingly and ends more dismally than J.J. Abrams' Super 8."[27] CNN's Tom Charity felt that "Abrams' imitation [was] a shade too reverent for [his] taste."[28] David Edelstein, of New York magazine, called it a "flagrant crib," adding that "Abrams has probably been fighting not to reproduce Spielberg's signature moves since the day he picked up a camera. Now, with the blessing of the master, he can plagiarize with alacrity."[29]

[edit] Top ten lists

The film has appeared on the following critics' top ten lists for the best films of 2011:

Critic Publication Rank
Danielle Grimm The Buffalo News 1st
Chris Stuckmann Youtube Movie Critic 2nd[30]
Tom Chatalbash Youtube Movie Critic 9th
RevolutionReviews Youtube Movie Critic 3rd
Woodrow Goldsmith The News Record 3rd
James A. Molnar Toledo Free Press 3rd
N/A TV Guide 4th[31]
Jim Brunzell Twin Cities Daily Planet 4th
Alex Williams The Daily Texan 5th
Rick Bentley The Republic 5th
Richard Corliss Time 6th[31]
Kyle Smith New York Post 6th[31]
Caroline Preece Den of Geek 8th
Peter Paras E! Online 9th[32]
N/A The Daily Sun 9th
Joe Neumaier New York Daily News 10th[31]
Satya Nagendra Padala International Business Times 10th[33]
Richard Lawson The Atlantic N/A[31]

[edit] Box office

Super 8 had a production budget of $50 million. It was commercially released on June 10, 2011. In the United States and Canada, it opened in 3,379 theaters and grossed over $35.4 million on its opening weekend, ranking first at the box office.[34] The film grossed $127 million in North America with a worldwide total of some $260 million.[2]

[edit] Accolades

84th Academy Awards

  • Best Visual Effects (short-listed)

2011 Teen Choice Awards nominations:

  • Choice Movie: Sci-Fic/Fantasy (Nominated)
  • Choice Movie: Actress Sci/Fi - Elle Fanning (Nominated)
  • Choice Movie: Breakout Male - Joel Courtney (Nominated)
  • Choice Movie: Scene Stealer Male - Riley Griffiths (Nominated)
  • Choice Movie: Chemistry - The Super 8 Crew (Nominated)
  • Choice Movie: Hissy Fit - The Alien (Nominated)

2011 Scream Awards nominations:

  • The Ultimate Scream (Nominated)
  • Best Science Fiction Movie (Won)
  • Breakout Performance - Female - Elle Fanning (Nominated)
  • Best Director - J. J. Abrams (Nominated)
  • Best Scream-Play - J. J. Abrams (Nominated)
  • Holy Sh*t Scene Of The Year - The train crash (Nominated)

Satellite Awards:

  • Best Supporting Actress - Elle Fanning (Nominated)
  • Best Original Score - Michael Giacchino (Nominated)
  • Best Visual Effects (Nominated)
  • Best Sound (Editing & Mixing) - Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Ben Burtt, Mark Ulano, Matthew Wood, Tom Johnson (Nominated)

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

  • Best Action Movie (Nominated)
  • Best Sound (Nominated)
  • Best Visual Effects (Nominated)
  • Best Young Actor/Actress - Elle Fanning (Nominated)

Hollywood Film Awards

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards

Golden Reel Awards

  • Best Sound Editing: Music in a Feature Film (Pending)
  • Best Sound Editing: Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film (Pending)
  • Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film (Pending)

YouReviewer Awards

  • Best Supporting Actress - Elle Fanning (Nominated)
  • Best Visual Effects (Nominated)
  • Breakthrough Actor - Joel Courtney (Nominated)

65th British Academy Film Awards

  • Best Original Screenplay (Long-listed)
  • Best Sound (Long-listed)
  • Best Special Visual Effects (Long-listed)

Morgan Hill Times

  • Best Alien Invasion Film (Won)

2011 BAM Awards

  • Best Cast (Nominated)
  • Best Youth Ensemble (Won)
  • Best Performance by a Child Actress in a Leading Role - Elle Fanning (Won)
  • Best Performance by a Child Actor in a Leading Role - Joel Courtney (Won)
  • Best Performance by a Child Actor in a Supporting Role - Ryan Lee (Won)

4th Annual Coming of Age Awards

  • Best Newcomer - Joel Courtney (Pending)
  • Best Cinematography (Pending)
  • Special Soundtrack (Pending)

MTV Top Ten Film Scores - #1

Central Ohio Film Critics Association

  • Best Picture (Nominatied)

48th Annual CAS Awards

  • Best Sound Mixing (Nominated)

10th Annual TSR Awards

  • Actress of the Year (Multiple Roles) - Elle Fanning (Pending)
  • Best Visuals: Special Effects (Pending)

Film Bitch Awards

  • Sound Mixing (Pending)
  • Sound Editing (Pending)

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