Super 8

If there's any movie this year that I think could serve as the great escape that Inception was last year, it's Super 8.

I don't see many movies that I like. That might be surprising if you know me in real life. If you've ever watched a movie like Versus with me, I can gush about sound effects or just how freaking cool it is. But, conversely, I can hate on a movie like Priest for being utterly generic and so dull that you couldn't cut butter with it.

This year has had a few good movies, but not really any that I would call great. Sucker Punch was a hell of a lot of fun, but it didn't really live up to its premise in the plot department. X Men: First Class and Thor are some of the better superhero movies I've seen in ever and Captain America is still coming down the pipe, so, yeah. As fun as all those movies were, they didn't wow me as much as Super 8.

I really had to nag my friend to go see this movie, too. She wanted to watch Pirates again, and then we compromised by deciding to see Bridesmaids. Eventually, she decided to just see Super 8 and she liked it. She should just accept that I only like to see good movies and wouldn't drag her to see a bad one.

Anyway, going back to my whole "I can gush about sound effects" thing, a good amount of Super 8 is about a group of misfit kids making a movie(hence the title) for a film festival.
The scenes of the kids shooting the movie are so goddamn funny, I would've been happy if it were only about that. Seriously. Some of the scenes would have been at home in an episode of Darkplace.
I think I'm one of the few people who actually finds making movies funny since I've made movies. A few of which turned out about as good as The Case did. I think that may be why I was the only person laughing uproariously in some of the filming scenes.

Anyway, a monstrous...monster escapes from an Air Force train as the kids are filming out near the railroad tracks, as all kids were allowed to do back in the 70's. Afterwards, people begin disappearing and the kids try to hide from the soldiers who come looking for the creature.

I don't want to spoil anything, but know that it's a really good show and if you're like me, in that you like anything with a monster in it, then you should go see Super 8.

And, for the love of Eneru, stay for the credits.