Super 8 (2011) Pre-Watch with Dylan Smith

With the release of David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street, we’re taking a slight detour in our Summer of Spielberg to dive deeper into Spielberg-adjacent cinema. We are covering one of the most overt Spielberg homages of this century, J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 (2011). What constitutes a successful Amblin homage? Is J.J. Abrams as much of a hack as Film Twitter would like you to believe? Did Stranger Things re-heat this movie's nachos? Is Chris Nolan the Special K Fruit & Yogurt of filmmakers? All is discussed as we prepare for our viewing of Super 8.