MOVIE REVIEW: Super 8
SUPER 8-- 4 STARS Official Website Internet Movie Database Nostalgia is a free-flowing tribute that appears in many, many movies, whether you are aware of it or not as the audience. So many directors and writers pay homage to the films and filmmakers that influenced them. While they are professionals of their own right themselves, they too were once students of the craft and young fans just like us, sitting in darkened theaters watching inspiring dreams and visions unfold before them through the magic of movies. Steven Spielberg is the quintessential and defining filmmaker of his generation. From bursting on the scene with Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1975 and 1977 and going on a roll of hit after hit (too many to list), his work is both respected and revered (take the entire drive of James Van Der Beek's character from TV's Dawson's Creek and every indie filmmaker on YouTube). People forget that Spielberg too used to just b...