Super8 is one of my favorite modern movies. I would've loved to have been part of the live chat. Why aren't you guys announcing your sessions anymore? The release/record thread still says you're about to discuss the hunger games in April. There's been no activity on that thread for two months. I sometimes just go the live feed on a sunday afternoon only to find nothing happening. I once stumbled upon your comic con discussion but that was it.

Anyway, about Super8, I found the theme of "letting go" very clear. The creature just wanted to get home. By keeping him here and not letting go, the government turned him into an enemy. By blaming the drunk for his wife's death and not letting go of his bitterness, the dad made an enemy out of the drunk. The boy couldn't let go of his mom and thus made an enemy of his dad. Everyone needed to learn to let go.

Now about the creature and his ship, he needed some sort of energy source to reconstitute his ship, he couldn't just do it on his own. The airforce knew that, that's why it was no issue to transport them together. The creature still needed some sort of energy source to work with, that's why he was taking all of that hardware. They brought the cubes back into town to catch the creature. The airforce guy tells the Dr. That they are going to bait him and catch him. The cubes were the bait to lure the creature out. What they didn't know was that the creature had built a machine to reconstitute his ship. Maybe the creature had some sort of electrical aura or magnetic field around him that caused all the tech around him to go haywire. Maybe the machine he made just enhances and focuses that energy, I don't know. That part of the story isn't explained very well I agree.

I just love the feel of this movie. It definitely has some imperfections but it just feels good. It's a sappy, Spielberg, 80's, feel good movie. If I could walk out of the theater feeling this good after any movie then I say it's a success.

Scratch that. I figured out how to make it work.

It's like a special tag for those joining us from the mid-west, or possibly Germany.