# "Super 8" is super lame (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-8-is-super-lame-open-spoilers/585978 "2011-06-18T22:44:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-8-is-super-lame-open-spoilers/585978/41 "2011-06-21T01:33:46Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Think that’s bad, you should smell was Elliot’s dick now smells like. Only Drew Barrymore would know. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-8-is-super-lame-open-spoilers/585978/42 "2011-06-21T01:37:40Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Only Drew Barrymore would know. Don’t be disgusting. That’s his _sister._ ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-8-is-super-lame-open-spoilers/585978/43 "2011-06-21T04:25:02Z")
> [@Zhen\_ka](#): > > Except that one of those posters frequently gets butthurt if anyone disagrees with his/her erudite and informed opinions of the movie he/she is praising. I started to get all butthurt thinking you were talking about me, but then I read closer, and since the last thing I am is erudite and informed, you must be talking about Dio. Dio, are you going to stand for that? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-8-is-super-lame-open-spoilers/585978/44 "2011-07-10T13:12:48Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > You forgot all the lens flares. > > All lens flares > \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ o \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ > ALL the time! --------====O=-O- - - > This movie was JJ Abrams last chance to redeem himself after Star Trek. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ . .. \_\_\_\_\_\_ That movie, while otherwise enjoyable, felt like I’d been pulled over by the cops at night while I watched it. I refuse to see any more of his movies until someone tells him LENS FLARES =======O==== SUCK. God help us if Michael Bay and J.J. Abrams ever get together to do a movie. It’ll be nothing but explosions, lens flares, and lens flares caused by the explosions. Saw it last night (drive-in double feature with Cars 2.) When I saw the description on TV Tropes this morning of it being like an amalgamation of Spielberg’s early work, I figured out why I didn’t like it. I don’t like E.T. (though part of that may have been being forced to watch it with all the other kids at parties over and over again in the 80s on VHS as a kid), I don’t like the Goonies, I don’t care for Close Encounters, and (to name the movie’s X Meets Y), I didn’t like Cloverfield. Glad I didn’t pay more than $4 to see it. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-8-is-super-lame-open-spoilers/585978/45 "2011-07-10T16:52:11Z")
Ok, so I’m one of those people who just HAS to see the movie on opening weekend or my interest drops rapidly. I missed this movie and have no desire to see it anymore. I read the synopsis on Movie Spoilers and it seems pretty much like what **Dio** posted. With that said, I’ve been trying to find a picture of the alien. All I get when I google are some Cloverfield monster pictures and some random monsters that may or may not be the Super 8 monster. Anyone who’s seen the movie have a legitimate pic? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-8-is-super-lame-open-spoilers/585978.md?page=2)