Is well-meaning nostalgia enough to sustain a film? I wondered that while I watched Super 8. Even though I'm a nostalgia fetishist, I think the answer is no. Watching it, my thoughts were focused the imitation. "Great ranch house. Very 70s." "I wonder if that lens flare is real or CGI?" "Did braces really look like that in 1979?" As always, I'm with A.O. Scott. It was like Close Encounters with the awe digitally extracted. 7.05.2011
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Is well-meaning nostalgia enough to sustain a film? I wondered that while I watched Super 8. Even though I'm a nostalgia fetishist, I think the answer is no. Watching it, my thoughts were focused the imitation. "Great ranch house. Very 70s." "I wonder if that lens flare is real or CGI?" "Did braces really look like that in 1979?" As always, I'm with A.O. Scott. It was like Close Encounters with the awe digitally extracted. 
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Almost went to see it recently but today caught the Transformers movie instead (my younger son is 14 and likes them). It had a few nostalgia moments for the 60's--moon landing mostly--and no character development but the special effects were fun. Also fun to watch Chicago being destroyed.
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