A couple of days ago, I saw Super 8. Beforehand, I’d read about how this movie was made as an hommage to 70s and 80s scifi movies, like Spielberg’s ET and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Like those movies, and unlike the majority of modern scifi movies, Super 8 kinda works as a drama. It’s a bit overly sentimental, but at least it has actual characters, not just explosions and action. But at the same time it fails miserably at being a scifi movie.

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A psycho, a nymphomaniac, and a cocaine addicted jerk. These are the three horrible bosses of this comedy. I use the term ‘comedy’ loosely, as Horrible Bosses is nowhere near as funny as a good comedy should be. It conjures a few chuckles, but there are no laugh out loud moments. The funniest moments were all put in the trailer, and unfortunately the full length movie did not live up to the trailer’s promise.
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