In the video, Lt. Col. Martin Abraham gives us an overview of the top-secret project to study the monster that is at the center of "Super 8." Apparently, the creature is an alien that was spotted in a ship and was shot down by the U.S. military.
Some of the alien's abilities are revealed, including the workings of its spacecraft, which appears to be made of thousands of high-energy cubes that respond to the creature telepathically. We even get a glimpse of the alien toward the end, with footage of "the assault."
They seem to be the main structural component of the creature�s ship, while also serving as its power source and control interface. Makes the ship sound more like armor than a vehicle.
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Super 8 take sometime in the 80s. Lead character Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney) is down in the dumps because his mom is dead. Not just dead but crushed by steel while she was working in the mill.
Joe�s dad is named Jack Lamb (Kyle Chandler). He�s a sheriff�s deputy and now he�s going to have to raise Joe alone.
Joe and his friend Charles, making a film. Charles is an aspiring filmmaker and he, Joe, and some other friends have been making a zombie film called The Case which Charles wants to enter into a film festival. The other members of the Monster Squad are Cary (Ryan Lee) and Martin (Gabriel Sasso) and one other.
There�s one more member of the crew. Her name is Alice (Elle Fanning). Joe, likes her. Alice�s dad is an alcoholic, who may have had something to do with Joe�s mom being killed.
While they�re filming a key scene with Charles� Super 8 camera alongside some railroad tracks and an open [Clover]field, Joe notices a pickup truck trying to play reverse chicken with an oncoming train by getting on the tracks. From the first trailer, truck and train collide. The train derails and something seems to have escaped from the wreckage. The truck looks like it�s been totaled and Joe and the crew from The Sandlot notice that the driver�s still alive. It turns out that Joe and the other Goonies actually know the guy in the truck. It�s their physics teacher Mr. Woodward (Glynn Turman). He warns them not to tell anybody about what they�ve see.
Or else they will be killed along with their parents by nefarious government types from a secret wing of the government that deals specifically with hick towns and possible alien life forms. The BMX Bandits are worried because they don�t want their parents to die. They don�t have time to talk about it any more because military vehicles are making their way to the crash site. They thank Mr. Woodward for the valuable exposition.
The Government trucks descend and a lot of guys with worried looks look worriedly at the debris, as if something important, maybe even dangerous, escaped.
Luckily, Joe and the gang make it out of there with their lives, if not their film equipment intact. They vow to keep this to themselves. Charles is worried about his movie.
The Next Morning
The train crash is all over the news. Mr. Woodward is being painted as a loon and �being taken care of� at an undisclosed government location. Perhaps Joe should have asked Mr. Woodward to say hi to his dead mom.
Simple machines like microwaves and televisions are disappearing in bulk and the townsfolk are looking for a scapegoat. Their pitchforks have been taken as well so they can�t even hold those in anger.
The Sheriff and other citizens are missing. He�s been trying to get the manifest from the train, but in the tradition of One-Dimensional Evil Government Characters, Colonel Nelec (Noah Emmerich) has been stonewalling. Maybe Bishop (Lance Henriksen) knows something about The Company�s true motives. Maybe the Colonel is trying to cover something up. Jack surmises this because of the numerous trucks with the words �Cover Up Crew� stenciled on their trailers.
Numerous cats and dogs seem to have run away to neighboring towns. The Government seems to want the creature contained, and the town along with it no matter what the cost.
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