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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!
Review: Restrepo
![Restrepo [Photo - National Geographic/Outpost Films]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/restrepo.jpg "Restrepo [Photo - National Geographic/Outpost Films]")
There’s no explicit agenda in this documentary, no side rooted for. There are no experts from one side of the ideological fence lobbing grenades at the other, no professors or economists or politicians. There’s only the soldiers. Frightened, angry, depressed, they form the core of Restrepo, a war documentary unlike any other. READ MORE!
Triweekly Podcast: Summer Movies, Double Downs and Centipedes
Triweekly (or so), I gather with friends associates Mike Konieczny and Patrick Stone. We sit at a round table as if to summon eldritch spirits, consume a mighty, greasy dinner, and record.
Feel like something’s missing in your life? Clearly, the answer is meandering, blabbering and unfocused discussion on all things video games, movies, TV, etc. (and etc.)
Woogmoog Triweekly Podcast 05/20/2010
It’s moresome!
Start listening RIGHT THIS SECOND to get uninformed opinions on the following topics:
- Clash of the Titans – supplanted by an in-depth discussion of The Scorpion King
- Kick-Ass
- The Losers
- Iron Man 2
- The Human Centipede
- KFC Double Down “Sandwich”
- Planet of the Apes prequel, James Franco (of Flyboys fame)
- M. Night Shyamalan, action movie director
- Megan Fox’s departure and its impact on Bayformers canon
- MW2 Stimulus DLC, Activision Likes Your Money
- Harrumphing and groaning over 3D idiocy
- 20 minutes of Mike crinkling a gum wrapper!
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Intro: Pat and Mike
Outro: Pat
Disagree with us? (how dare you) Think we’re idiots? (yes) Leave a comment down below or email us!
Review: The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
The Human Centipede is a great movie.
It is a fucking great movie.
It is precisely what a horror movie should be, and that is horrifying. Lately, way too many horror movies have been taking the easy Saw/Hostel route READ MORE!