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Review: Super 8

Super 8, an amazing film written and directed by JJ Abrams and joint producer Steven Spielberg. Paramount Pictures presents a science fiction movie in august 2011that grossed over $259 million with a budget of just $50million. JJ Abrams also directed top films like Cloverfield and Star Trek so no surprise that Super 8 would be a success. The main characters are Joe Courtney (Joel Lamb), Riley Griffiths (Charles), Zach Mills (Preston), Ryan Lee (Carrie), Gabriel Basso (Martin), Kyle Chandler (Deputy Lamb) and Elle Fanning (Alice Dainard).

The movie is set in 1979 in a small town called Lilian in Ohio. In the starting scene the mise en scène shows a man changing a sign that said “Safety is our primary goal” and days since last accident was 784, to ‘Days since last accident 1’ it’s ironic how their goal is safety and yet the mill just had an accident. In the accident one of the main characters Joe Lamb’s mother dies. The father who is a Deputy in the town isn’t quite sure how to comfort his son or himself after suffering a great loss. Four months pass later Joel and his friends Charles, Preston, Carrie and Martin want to make a Super 8 zombie film also starring Joel’s crush Alice (Elle Fanning, Younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning). All six go to film their movie at midnight at a train station but while filming an old truck drives on to the tracks crashing into the oncoming train. The train crash was horrendous! Loud explosion, parts of the train flying everywhere, fire. It was amazing. As the kids try to run away from the crash they meet someone who tells them to never speak of this matter to anyone or else their whole families would be in danger. Then weird things started to happen like dogs going missing, car engines being ripped out, people going missing, what’s going on? Aliens. The six friends tries to find out what’s happening when later one of the friends get taken so the rest go on a mission to retrieve her. The military gets involved and like always take the violent path when really all the alien wants is to go home.

This is a brilliant homage to Spielberg’s movies such as The Goonies as the stars are all kids and what I think the movie resembles the most is ET because they’re both about kids finding an alien who can’t go back home then the military gets involved and tries to kill it but then the alien ends up going home. So Super 8 does mirror Spielberg’s work of film.

The acting I thought was amazing and moving for such young people. When the camera would go into close ups the actors/actresses would be so convincing and especially who I thought stood out the most was Elle Fanning (Alice) when she was sad I felt it, when she was happy I felt happy. Her performance was outstanding. I always like a funny character in every movie I watch and for me the comedic actor was Charles, one of my favourite lines was "I haven't leaned up yet; the doctor says it's going to happen" but because Riley Griffiths (Charles) looks really serious it makes it even more funny.

The film is rated at PG13 but in my opinion after watching this film I thought that age is not restricted enough because of the inappropriate language that is being used. Kids watching this would think that it is okay to swear seeing as the characters in this movie who are about 13 are allowed to use this sort of language.

Overall after watching this I would definitely recommend this movie everything was just amazing , but one thing I thought that just didn’t satisfy me was the ending it felt to quick, also there wasn’t much focus on the aliens I would have liked to know a bit more about the aliens like how did they get there, where are they from, how long have they been there, how were the aliens undetected for so long? So many questions I wish I knew because for me the movie feels too rushed at the end. But building the suspense I thought JJ Abrams was successful. I would rate this a 8 out of 10. Amazing, terrific and beautiful.

The Simpsons Movie

The Simpsons Movie

An American animated comedy, released in 2007

Promotion?

·         In London, Battersea Power Station a giant inflatable spider pig that was the size of a double decker bus was set up

·         In Dorset a giant image of Homer was painted on a hill and was called ‘The Cerne Abbas Giant’  but it also caused outrage amongst locals)

·         Toys were released based on the film like action figures.

·         EA Games released The Simpsons Game.

·         Samsung released The Simpsons Movie Phone

·         Ben and Jerry’s created a Simpsons themed beer and D’oh nut flavoured ice cream.

·         Burger King gave away Simpsons toys with kids meals

Rotten Tomatoes

90% were approved ratings and generally all were favourable  

The Guardian

The Guardian and the Times gave the movie 4 out of 5 starts

Problems?

Watchdog reprimanded Sky TV for running pizza advertisements during The Simpsons series. Ofcom said that its rules on barring junk food promotions on output popular with children had been broken. “Dominoes have just announced strong profits” this was dies to the promotion given from Ofcom.

Bad publicity could also be Good publicity.

Film reviews from Media Awards 2011

Best Year 12: Checmate

Checkmate is an astounding movie trailer that gave us all the thrills and chills a good horror should. The target audience was mainly aimed at young adults, so about 18 years or older. The trailer started with three friends going on an adventure in the woods, no lighting was being used it was all the natural light but the weather was gloomy and sort of dark which was a perfect scene setter because it gave that mysterious scary atmosphere. But it was kind of predictable that something bad was going to happen as they were in woods all by themselves but none the less it still gave me that buzz of excitement as they were getting chased. While one of the friends were getting hunted the person filming was also running so it looked like we were at the murders perspective and we could see how scared the girl was as she kept looking back at us. What I thought was cleverly done was how everything was based on a game of chess hence the name checkmate. The game was played by the mastermind of all the killings which connotes how all the murdering was one big game. This is one sick and twisted film but that the magnificence of it all.

WWW- The lighting of the mastermind came from directly under the chin which is a cliché thing to do when telling scary stories but still affective.

EBI- The sounds weren’t as good as the story. The sound is key as it can take that one step further to make a good movie to an amazing movie.

Best Year 13: Detention

Detention. A thriller based on a young attractive girl who became obsessed with one of her teachers. The teacher Mr Patel was already a married man but had an affair with one of his students, the young girl did not know that Mr Patel was married but when she found out she was filled with fury I wanted revenge. One of the shots that was affective was when the wife was washing the dishes and in the window we could see the girls faced pressed up against the glass, it was only for two seconds but still scared the heck out of me. The next scene showed the wife hiding under the table looking petrified while the crazed lunatic walks in at a low shot so we could only see her legs and her purple high heels, this showed the still attractive and sexual side of her and also it intensified the footsteps becoming louder and louder as she came closer. The scariest part was at the end. The scene was filmed under the table where the wife was hiding so it felt like we were there too hiding under the table so it put us in that same position as her, the sound was really affective too as we hear her breathing heavily and the heart beat racing to show how terrified and scared she was and it was also building up suspense when suddenly out of nowhere she gets dragged out from under the table and we hear her ear piercing screech.

WWW- the whole story line, the range of camera shots and angles were incredible.

EBI- …