Super 8

The trailer hits different when you’re someone who makes things. Abrams framing it around these kids in the seventies shooting their own film, the whole thing filtered through that warm blown-out Super 8 stock—it’s not subtle, but it works. There’s something about watching people actually *create* on screen, even fictional people, that gets to you in a way normal hero’s journey stuff doesn’t.

I remember being the age those kids were, thinking a camera and some friends were all you needed to make something that mattered. You don’t make anything that mattered, obviously, but you don’t know that yet. Super 8 gets that feeling—the possibility, the earnestness, the sense that you’re on the edge of something real happening. Whether the film itself delivers on that is another question, but the trailer convinced me it might.