It didn't necessarily focus on the locket so much that the shape needed one last bit of material to collapse. It just happened to pull the locket because it was the closest thing.
@@manuelmateo3392 It's poetic though, I think is what they're trying to say. Just as finding common ground with a human was what made the alien move past its pain and grief and continue to live, it gave that gift back to Joe in a way. By teaching that lesson to the alien, Joe also had to embrace it.
@@adamherrick6077 Absolutely, symbolically that's what's represented. If that's what OP meant, then I agree, but speaking in literal terms, something small was needed, and the locket just so happened to be that.
Ian Greene, well said. The alien felt the loss of his mother. Letting the locket go freed weight off his shoulders. But, it still hurts. Because losing a parent is devastating! Yet we must find a way to move on.
@@pkdude5334 he learns to finally let her go. Even if she is not with them physically she is with them in spirit. They will see her again in the next life.
William Darkhölme symbolism of “bad things happen, but we still live” Joe realizes his own words that he had told the creature and realizes he needs to let go of what happened and continue living.
This film for me is the E.T of our generation, years from now it'll be looked back on fondly, amazing soundtrack, performances, script lags a little bit all round engaging and emotional journey.
hell no not even close and most people don't even remember this forgettable movie. Stranger Things is the E.T./Goonies of this generation just look at how many kids are still talking about it
It's silly but it's silly in all the best and most enduring possible ways. You're right about the script and there a few really cringey foley effects too -- but in a way that's what makes it: Because it's not quite possible to take it seriously, that also means we don't have to -- and that's an idea that gets more and more appealing the further in we go. When the sparkler kid says, on the bus, "Guys, I'm not kidding. I think they're gonna kill us" that could have been ... a sour note, to say the least. But we forgive it because we've already decided to just sit back and watch a fun movie.
I had lost my mom a few months before this film came out. I went to the movies to see this one thinking it would distract me to see a SciFi movie. This scene killed me at the end. I cried my eyes out 😢
I really wish more writers/directors/producers would touch this genre or timeline. The cold war era, the 60s-80s, all mix so well with Scifi, Government Conspiracies, Alternate realitys (stranger things), aliens, and the overwhelming fear of the Soviet Union being at Americas doorstep. We need more of these types of films and series, as this hasnt really even been touched.
I think the Duffer Brothers saw this movie and said to themselves let's talk to Netflix and tell them about a brand new television show with a group of kids, a telekinetic individual, a men in black type organization, interdimensional being's, and let's set it in the 80s. Netflix President: What's it called? Duffer Brothers: Stranger Things.
This Beautiful soundtrack tribute was done with full orchrestra as J.J. Abrams idols were John Williams and Steven Spielberg growing up. After Spielberg gave him his first Big shot at directing, the rest was history. 📽❤
I may have cried over the ending on E.T. but damn this movie really made me feel emotional on the film that's a huge love letter to Spielberg's beloved films of the late 70s-early 80s
I lost my dad when i was a kid... and growing up in a single parent household is awkward because there is always that shadow... elephant in the room as to why we were not like other families. We really didnt celebrate holidays or go on vacations for a long time... not until my mom remarried.
Seen this movie super 8 in 2011 to me I think it was the best summer movie of 2011. It was a great movie. The saddest part is the end of the movie letting go the necklace of his mom now that is the saddest part in that movie, but it is one of the greatest movies of 2011. Give me a thumbs up if you guys like my comment.
Read this comment and reply if you agree please it's good to talk about things... @ 0:23 the father is holding his son. Yet I see it as the father and the son have been holding on to this terrible thing that's happened in there lives. Its kept them from moving forward in themselves, as a family and in life. The necklace represents the pain they both need to let go of. Wow so profound let me know what yall think. Thanks
I loved the way the movie ends with Joe letting go of the pain he felt of losing his mother after seeing the alien climb back into his spaceship. I wish we had more movies such as this to look back on. This was the perfect way to end the movie.
my favorite movie as a child. mad they cut the best part of scene out and that’s the fading shot of the ship in the stars. such a beautiful movie and score.
Okay, so we all are here because after finishing stranger Things, we couldn't find anything else in this same 80's,teen, friendship, romance, family, sci-fi, monster genre...! Isn't it right...?
I thought about it too since J.J Abrams was the producer of Cloverfield. The alien had similar features like the Big one in New York in the 2000's era.
I wanted a part 2 of this movie so badly showing the older characters, It Chapter 2 style, I even tried to upload the hashtag MakeSuper8Part2 to see if it reached Paramount Pictures or others involved. Director J.J Abrams and the cast have already said that if there is a sequel they are ready to come back!
😢😢 no pedí a mi madre! Pero me imagino el dolor tan grande de perderla alguna vez! Como tengo a muchas personas de mi entorno! Que si las perdieron 😢! Esa escena me hace derramar lagrimas ! 0:30 ! Es ahi cuando debemos aprender a soltar! Porque mamá aunq no este con nosotros! Nos cuida ddesde arriba espiritualmente
The meaning of the movie is Letting go of the pain that haunts you. Joe was haunted by the lost his mother and so was his dad. The Alien was haunted by the horrible things humans did to him. Alice and her Dad have also a hard relationship that has lead to hurt. When Joe interacts with the Alien, he makes it understand that pain is a part of life. Bad things happen and will always happen. As the Alien lets go Of its pain, so does Joe and later on his dad, Alice and her dad. The movie is about Letting Go Of the pain so you can look forward to the good that awaits for you.
@@redhood2394 it's like how the Iron Giant felt when humans attacked him but that all changed when he met Hogarth Hughes. This one child changed this aliens life around. Even though he was made to destroy, one human being set him on course with a different path a heroic path. The Iron Giant became a superhero to him and to the people of Rockwell, Maine and to the United States Army after what he did to save them from a nuclear bomb. He became more than a robot more than an alien he became....a Superman.
This movie is as rich in archetypal symbolism as anything I've ever seen in a similar genre. Listen to Jordan B Peterson's lectures on maps of meaning to get at many of them. Profound. Not merely a kids movie or an alien movie. To understand what this movie is really about compare the very beginning with the ending. Beautiful book ending themes with the locket, Joe and the two dads. It's about two broken fathers and a couple of broken kids. It's honestly hard to separate this ending scene from the preceding scene where Joe says "bad things happen, but you can still live". In it, Joe looks The monster in the eye , says this line, and the alien's eyes are literally "opened". Almost immediately after, "coincidentally", the ship fires up for the first time. The alien "let's go" literally and figuratively. It's actually free. There's a distinction to be made about that which is taken away forcibly and that which you give up freely. Joe echoes this in letting go of the locket at the end. in the beginning, his mother was ripped from him , leaving nothing but a locket to remember her by . No choice. At the end, it's his choice, and it sets him free in the same way. I don't think it's a coincidence that the locket is the last thing needed . It's symbolic, even if the alien didn't consciously draw up the locket or something. The bursting of the water tower and the shower following always strikes me as baptismal , and it's in keeping with the spirit of the film that this shower falls on the military personnel who are fighting the alien and who imprisoned it as well. Grace and redemption. Anyway, it can't really be appreciated without the "hell" of explosions and gunfire in the moments preceding Joe's descent into the underworld - after passing through an actual graveyard. This is probably my favorite movie. Can't stop watching it. This ending is one of the most transcendent things I've ever seen. Again, not easily appreciated without understanding what came before.
To him, all part of a community that had tortured him really bad: that’s all he had known from human race. So he retaliated. Until... he touched and found a connection with this gentle kid, who represented the good in humans.
@@nikfabbi87 the one kid and not the scientist who he touched? Idk. Seems pretty far fetched after grabbing as many people as he did he just stopped a kid who was sad about his mom dying.
More movies need to be filmed like Super 8. Super 8, Poltergeist, Close Encounters, ET, Jaws. The cinematography in these movies are unique as only Steven Spielberg seems to be able to help create.
This ending had a way more positive feel than most alien movies.
The ending to E.T made alot of people cry.
@@ericsantana1184 If ET was bigger and doesn't fxxk around when it comes to home.
@@ericsantana1184
This is tie with et
ET didn’t violently kill innocent people
Very true 👍
This was Stranger Things before Stranger things
This and Stranger Things were both tributes to Amblin movies so it makes sense
Movies, books and shows aping the 80s have been around before this.
@@gagegunner_And Super 8 was also made by Amblin.
Agree with you
Yeah especially how both are huge love letters to Steven Spielberg's iconic films from the late 70s-early 80s
I just noticed how the alien solely focused on Joe's locket as if non-verbally telling him "Bad things happen, but we still live."
It didn't necessarily focus on the locket so much that the shape needed one last bit of material to collapse. It just happened to pull the locket because it was the closest thing.
@@manuelmateo3392 It's poetic though, I think is what they're trying to say. Just as finding common ground with a human was what made the alien move past its pain and grief and continue to live, it gave that gift back to Joe in a way. By teaching that lesson to the alien, Joe also had to embrace it.
@@adamherrick6077 Absolutely, symbolically that's what's represented. If that's what OP meant, then I agree, but speaking in literal terms, something small was needed, and the locket just so happened to be that.
Ian Greene, well said.
The alien felt the loss of his mother. Letting the locket go freed weight off his shoulders. But, it still hurts. Because losing a parent is devastating! Yet we must find a way to move on.
The most painful pain deep inside of you is holding you back it's only once you let go that it can have the most powerful impact in your life...
Joe letting go of the locket with his mom picture in it.
SYMBOLISM!!
@@pkdude5334 he learns to finally let her go. Even if she is not with them physically she is with them in spirit. They will see her again in the next life.
@@pkdude5334 symbolism....I believe the word you are looking for is ssssssssymbolism ;)
William Darkhölme symbolism of “bad things happen, but we still live” Joe realizes his own words that he had told the creature and realizes he needs to let go of what happened and continue living.
That is why the name of the score is called "Letting Go"
That reminds me to my favority scene from Vinland Saga, thorfinn letting go of his dagger
the music score by Michael Giacchino is pure epic and magical. I wonder if he took notes from John Williams.
Most of the work of Giacchino sounds like John Williams. I believe that Giacchino will take Williams' place. He is so talented.
@@micajohansson1138 Yeah, his work on Lost was also heartbreaking and beautiful.
You bet.
This film for me is the E.T of our generation, years from now it'll be looked back on fondly, amazing soundtrack, performances, script lags a little bit all round engaging and emotional journey.
i hope so too my friend, i hope so too
hell no not even close and most people don't even remember this forgettable movie. Stranger Things is the E.T./Goonies of this generation just look at how many kids are still talking about it
It's silly but it's silly in all the best and most enduring possible ways. You're right about the script and there a few really cringey foley effects too -- but in a way that's what makes it: Because it's not quite possible to take it seriously, that also means we don't have to -- and that's an idea that gets more and more appealing the further in we go. When the sparkler kid says, on the bus, "Guys, I'm not kidding. I think they're gonna kill us" that could have been ... a sour note, to say the least. But we forgive it because we've already decided to just sit back and watch a fun movie.
I don’t think so
@@NinjaxShadowXx This is a fantastic movie die be respectful😡
That damn locket. Hits me right in the feels. So beautiful.
I had lost my mom a few months before this film came out. I went to the movies to see this one thinking it would distract me to see a SciFi movie. This scene killed me at the end. I cried my eyes out 😢
This ending is heart-melted and warm you up until you cry
I really wish more writers/directors/producers would touch this genre or timeline. The cold war era, the 60s-80s, all mix so well with Scifi, Government Conspiracies, Alternate realitys (stranger things), aliens, and the overwhelming fear of the Soviet Union being at Americas doorstep. We need more of these types of films and series, as this hasnt really even been touched.
Most of the sci-fi movies from the 50s are about that.
50s is also cold War and was when the military industrial complex was first getting started. Korea also happened
if you like stranger things , theres scary stories to tell in the dark, IT , summer of 84 just sharing :D
@@micoeoft08 Bumblebee as well
@@thatL33Tboi doesn't fit with the genre we're talking about
I always cry when I see this scene with this beautiful music !
Me too
Ye
This movie was the strangers things for me 😂
I think the Duffer Brothers saw this movie and said to themselves let's talk to Netflix and tell them about a brand new television show with a group of kids, a telekinetic individual, a men in black type organization, interdimensional being's, and let's set it in the 80s.
Netflix President: What's it called?
Duffer Brothers: Stranger Things.
Damn right
Same
I think of this movie as Stranger Things before Stranger Things!
This movie is soooooo underrated!!!
This Beautiful soundtrack tribute was done with full orchrestra as J.J. Abrams idols were John Williams and Steven Spielberg growing up. After Spielberg gave him his first Big shot at directing, the rest was history. 📽❤
0:30 was the most emotional scene ever made in the world
That’s true yes, I cry everytime I see this scene …
0:30-1:08 that’s it. I’m over. Out of all the live action film scenes that made me cry, this is the one that broke me
Joe letting go of his mom's locket and taking Alice's hand is great symbolism between past and future.
I mean.. He could took out his mom picture too before letting go..,but this works to
But the necklace was his moms so it was important to him but he learned that you have to live on with your life even when bad things happen ❤
Amazing throwback to the fun 80’s movies. They don’t make movies like this anymore..
But there’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife!
I may have cried over the ending on E.T. but damn this movie really made me feel emotional on the film that's a huge love letter to Spielberg's beloved films of the late 70s-early 80s
Beautiful little filmmaking moment. Oh, that score...
One of the greatest films of all times! This scene still makes me cry. 😢😢
It is a really great movie
How many times have I watch this movie?! Let me check...
Oh yeah, 8 times
They were all
S U P E R !
Clever
I lost my dad when i was a kid... and growing up in a single parent household is awkward because there is always that shadow... elephant in the room as to why we were not like other families. We really didnt celebrate holidays or go on vacations for a long time... not until my mom remarried.
That soundtrack tho... Damn boy 😭❤️. Absolute chills. This soundtrack should got Nominated at the Oscars, it got snubbed heavily man.
0:42 so sad if he have to say goodbye to his late mother 😢
Seen this movie super 8 in 2011 to me I think it was the best summer movie of 2011. It was a great movie. The saddest part is the end of the movie letting go the necklace of his mom now that is the saddest part in that movie, but it is one of the greatest movies of 2011. Give me a thumbs up if you guys like my comment.
Letting go is hard, Truly letting go of a single thought of them is even harder
“Time to let go”….man it still hits me
I watched Super 8 like 46 times and I still like the Movie
No joke I actually did
Joke
Read this comment and reply if you agree please it's good to talk about things...
@ 0:23 the father is holding his son. Yet I see it as the father and the son have been holding on to this terrible thing that's happened in there lives. Its kept them from moving forward in themselves, as a family and in life. The necklace represents the pain they both need to let go of. Wow so profound let me know what yall think. Thanks
@@pkdude5334 whats your take Patrick?
0:41 made me cry bro I feel bad for him
The Background music 😇
We all cried because we didn't expect this ending.
1:25 - 1:57 So good
The alien wanted to go home.
Joe and Alice❤️
Plot Twist: *the US Government has had enough with aliens and some jets shoot the ship down*
Actually it left Earth at lightspeed
dog mcdog I can do you one better
The alien returns back with more of its kind and lays waste to the earth
You'd think after all us humans put that poor thing through, it would have nuked the planet from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
@@panostsak i understood that reference.
All the kids were so good, a real ensemble cast…I hope Elle Fanning wasn’t the only one to benefit from what they brought to this.
I loved the way the movie ends with Joe letting go of the pain he felt of losing his mother after seeing the alien climb back into his spaceship. I wish we had more movies such as this to look back on. This was the perfect way to end the movie.
my favorite movie as a child. mad they cut the best part of scene out and that’s the fading shot of the ship in the stars. such a beautiful movie and score.
E.T didn't see this coming
Bruh that IS E.T.
Why don’t they make great movies like this anymore?❤️😢
It’s a shame that most movies today are remakes and sequels
@@JLee-g6w Yeah and they just don’t feel as well crafted and handmade as they used to.
Okay, so we all are here because after finishing stranger Things, we couldn't find anything else in this same 80's,teen, friendship, romance, family, sci-fi, monster genre...! Isn't it right...?
This actually takes place in the late 70s but I guess the period doesn't matter.
This movie was basically Cloverfield with kids.
I thought about it too since J.J Abrams was the producer of Cloverfield. The alien had similar features like the Big one in New York in the 2000's era.
Not going to front this had me in my feelings.
I wanted a part 2 of this movie so badly showing the older characters, It Chapter 2 style, I even tried to upload the hashtag MakeSuper8Part2 to see if it reached Paramount Pictures or others involved. Director J.J Abrams and the cast have already said that if there is a sequel they are ready to come back!
Este momento significa que perder cosas importantes de la vida es parte de crecer
Gives me the goosebumps every time
Beautiful
This movie made me cry so much 😭
This is my go to clip when I need to cry. I feel so much better after it's like therapy 😂
Lovely!
I specificly search for this scene in youtube..bcoz i felt it
im glad to know that everyone is also talking bout it..Great music Great performance
Waitaminute.... this movie is 10 years old in 2021?
It really is way ahead of its time
😢😢 no pedí a mi madre! Pero me imagino el dolor tan grande de perderla alguna vez! Como tengo a muchas personas de mi entorno! Que si las perdieron 😢! Esa escena me hace derramar lagrimas ! 0:30 ! Es ahi cuando debemos aprender a soltar! Porque mamá aunq no este con nosotros! Nos cuida ddesde arriba espiritualmente
*12/2023 I asked my son who directed this movie, he said I don't know until he saw the lens flare*
After o became a dad this scene have a total different meaning❤
Fun Fact: this movie came out on my birthday
really, you had to cut out that beautiful ending to it .-.
Some of the soud design in this film was created by prolific 90's sound genius Gary Rydstrom
Haven't seen this movie in ages but I'm just now realizing that Claire from outlander plays his mom!!
What is the meaning of the end of the movie?
The meaning of the movie is Letting go of the pain that haunts you. Joe was haunted by the lost his mother and so was his dad. The Alien was haunted by the horrible things humans did to him. Alice and her Dad have also a hard relationship that has lead to hurt.
When Joe interacts with the Alien, he makes it understand that pain is a part of life. Bad things happen and will always happen. As the Alien lets go Of its pain, so does Joe and later on his dad, Alice and her dad. The movie is about Letting Go Of the pain so you can look forward to the good that awaits for you.
@@redhood2394 it's like how the Iron Giant felt when humans attacked him but that all changed when he met Hogarth Hughes. This one child changed this aliens life around. Even though he was made to destroy, one human being set him on course with a different path a heroic path. The Iron Giant became a superhero to him and to the people of Rockwell, Maine and to the United States Army after what he did to save them from a nuclear bomb. He became more than a robot more than an alien he became....a Superman.
This movie is as rich in archetypal symbolism as anything I've ever seen in a similar genre. Listen to Jordan B Peterson's lectures on maps of meaning to get at many of them. Profound.
Not merely a kids movie or an alien movie. To understand what this movie is really about compare the very beginning with the ending. Beautiful book ending themes with the locket, Joe and the two dads. It's about two broken fathers and a couple of broken kids.
It's honestly hard to separate this ending scene from the preceding scene where Joe says "bad things happen, but you can still live". In it, Joe looks The monster in the eye , says this line, and the alien's eyes are literally "opened". Almost immediately after, "coincidentally", the ship fires up for the first time. The alien "let's go" literally and figuratively. It's actually free.
There's a distinction to be made about that which is taken away forcibly and that which you give up freely. Joe echoes this in letting go of the locket at the end. in the beginning, his mother was ripped from him , leaving nothing but a locket to remember her by . No choice. At the end, it's his choice, and it sets him free in the same way.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the locket is the last thing needed . It's symbolic, even if the alien didn't consciously draw up the locket or something. The bursting of the water tower and the shower following always strikes me as baptismal , and it's in keeping with the spirit of the film that this shower falls on the military personnel who are fighting the alien and who imprisoned it as well. Grace and redemption. Anyway, it can't really be appreciated without the "hell" of explosions and gunfire in the moments preceding Joe's descent into the underworld - after passing through an actual graveyard.
This is probably my favorite movie. Can't stop watching it. This ending is one of the most transcendent things I've ever seen. Again, not easily appreciated without understanding what came before.
@@redhood2394 tienes mucha razón comparto tu contexto 😢
Super 8 is like E.T. on steroid.
E.T. and Goonies on steroids
Esse filme e muito subestimado. Eu adorei.
I haven't seen this movie in 13 years
We have yet a very long way to go as an Evolved Species if Alien Life Forms would visit us someday in the near future...
Smh…allergies acting up man🥲
I always ask myself if that reallly happens in some town 🤔
Exelente película
lol i thought the ending is that they defeated the "monster" and then normal life lol
Que saudade do meu pai
Very E.T. ending.
THE FINAL OF E.T.
Esse filme e tudo pra mim
And until you return what belongs to me as so I'm just going to keep wiping you out in every dimension 🤨
Etre responsable de la vie , ce n'est pas un caprice ...
If the creature is subterranean, why did it fly into the sky?
Achei que esse filme fosse coisa da minha cabeça 😢
After the Alien kill al lot of people and a lot of destruction.....
The ending kinda confused me to be honest. Yes it's touching and bittersweet but that thing killed and ate a bunch of people.
mans gotta eat
To him, all part of a community that had tortured him really bad: that’s all he had known from human race. So he retaliated. Until... he touched and found a connection with this gentle kid, who represented the good in humans.
@@nikfabbi87 the one kid and not the scientist who he touched? Idk. Seems pretty far fetched after grabbing as many people as he did he just stopped a kid who was sad about his mom dying.
This movie probably inspired Stranger things
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Still dont know what this movie genre this is supposed to be..
kids with bikes genre i guess
I think the genres to the movie is sci-fi, thriller, and mystery I guess I don’t know
hold my hand 🗿
Evelyn
Kinda looks like war of the worlds
Stupidity movie fooling around bullshit
More movies need to be filmed like Super 8. Super 8, Poltergeist, Close Encounters, ET, Jaws. The cinematography in these movies are unique as only Steven Spielberg seems to be able to help create.