Ryan and I went to watch the movie over the weekend, and I'll admit, I shed a few tears. Apart from being a Steven Spielberg / J.J. Abrams film, it definitely had an E.T., and The Thing feel to it. So, in essence, it is a feel good movie that will help you understand that grief "isn't something you get over, but rather something you learn to live with."
This movie took me back to a time when Walkmans were coming into existence, whereas kids, we used to play outside instead of being confined to a room all day watching porn or playing video games - 1979.
The movie is about a kid who is stricken by grief, who doesn't get along with his father, and is relying on his friends to help him cope with life and growing up a child of the late 70's. In the mix of all this, he gets together with his friends who want to make a zombie movie for an upcoming festival, while at the same time a train derails with a mysterious creature inside. Could it be something from Area 51 possibly?
You have two separate stories going on here, but yet they rely on each other. On one side you have a father and son, a daughter and father who are at odds with each other. And on the other side you have something mysterious on a train that escapes and wreaks havoc in a small town in the United States.
Overall I give the movie an 8 out of 10. Check out the trailer after the jump.
8 comments:
I thought it was just ok.could have been better. It was just et in a grown up way if you ask me. :-/
It had elements of it, but we liked it nonetheless.
I didn't dislike it, I more disliked the fact that they made it seem so much more interesting than what it turned out to be. It was a Cloverfield/ET hybrid. I just wanted more.
Better than many movies that have been coming out in the last year or so though. Haha
I thought it was a mixed Signs and Stand By Me....
LOL, now that was a good analogy, i never thought of it that way.
Yeah, I saw it last week at the screening and thought "mystery alien we never see, group of kids bonding along the way and a unspoken "incident" that kills someone and shapes everyone in the town" Yep, Signs and Stand By Me.
Oh by the way, tomorrow is Green Lantern :) and Next Monday is Transformers (not that I really care about that one)
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