Feast your eyes on a non-bootlegged SUPER 8 teaser
Feast your eyes on a non-bootlegged SUPER 8 teaser
May 12
I recently vomited some words about JJ Abrams’ super secret alien film Super 8, and was forced to link to a bootlegged YouTube video of the teaser. Now, however, the teaser has been released for real, on real websites, in rock-solid, HD goodness. Embedded below for your viewing pleasure.
Sure, it’s pretty ambiguous, but there’s some action there, and some mystery, and everyone loves a good mystery. Early reports of the film’s plot have been conflicting — one synopsis reckoned that Super 8 was about some home video footage shot in the 80s that, once developed, featured an alien that had been invisible at the time of shooting (this idea both excites and terrifies me); the other synopsis sounded more like Cloverfield, where an alien invasion / escape was covered by some folks with a dinky old super 8 camera. I think this teaser kind of destroys both synopses, so I guess we’ll just wait around till a real one hits the net.
Super 8 is due in the “summer” of 2011 (which is actually winter in half of the world, but whatever, we don’t mind being forgotten and ignored all the time like this. I mean, really, why not just pick a month — like June — and stick with that, rather than risk confusion like this? Solipsistic assholes.)
Big fan on how JJ Abrams sets up his mystery for his films, to be this is part of the experience of the films. What he did for Cloverfield was amazing as much as the first two seasons of lost (i quit watching shortly after).
But Clovefield was before slashfilm and movie news time so it may or may not ruin the experience by being spoon fed everything…