It is the
summer of 1979 and a group of friends are filming an amateur movie for the
contest. During one of the scenes they witness a train crash which put the
start to the chain of events that are going to change the lives of all people
in their small town.
I was not
intending to watch this movie based on what I saw in the trailer. I am not a
great fan of horrors or anything like that, and given the fact that 2011 was
rich in good movies, my conscience did not object much. Anyway, as the flow of
movies came to a stall, I got back to the Super 8.
Well, J.J.
Abrams, writer and director of the movie, fooled me. It is beyond the
understanding come the trailer to the movie is so detached and different from
the movie itself, as if the trailer was a completely independent unit of
cinematography. In a way this is good as it does not give away all the catches
of the movie, but the fact remains that based on the trailer you would expect
something completely different.
