Archive → June, 2011
Please, Louise, Save Me from the Remake Disease
![Footloose [Paramount]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/screengrab.jpg "Footloose [Paramount]")
The trailer for the Footloose remake/reimagining is here! Soon (soon!) we can expect remakes of Flashdance and Dirty Dancing to follow! Hopefully we’re on the verge of an 80s dance-movie renaissance! Or at the very least 80s Kevin Bacon movies. So until that Tremors remake comes callin’, sate your Kevin Bacon lust and clicky below the break to watch the glorious (awful-looking) Footloose trailer. READ MORE!
Review: Super 8
![Super 8 [Paramount]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/super82.jpg "Super 8 [Paramount]")
Warning: The review below contains very minor spoilers for Super 8. If you’re so spoiler-averse you can’t stand to learn that ‘the good guys win’ and other relatively inconsequential things, beware!
Confession time: I’ve never seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I wasn’t even born when E.T. came out, and I think the last time I saw that I was like seven. I have no connection to this nostalgic Steven Spielberg people keep touting while hailing J.J. Abrams’ Super 8.
The Spielberg I nostalgia-bomb myself with is the guy in the 101st Airborne jacket, the guy behind Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Munich or Schindler’s List. Spielberg’s films fill the viewer with a certain sense of awe, wonder and adventure, and even Spielberg’s weaker entries fare far better than anything Super 8 can muster.
Super 8 is a mess. A mess that starts off promising but ends up falling apart under its own weight. This is unfortunate because there is a bevy of strong performances from the movie’s cast of kids and some interesting concepts but, like most summer schlock these days, the concept is the only aspect of the film that’s been fleshed out. Abrams had an idea for a movie and shot it before anyone finished writing the last act. READ MORE!