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While addressing the Academy of Achievement in 2006, Steven Spielberg said that his initiation to th [...]	D
It bugs J.J. Abrams when actors cry on-screen and don't wipe away the tears. "It feels like they're [...]	D
Every shot of a train during that train station scene was accomplished by ILM.	D
At 28 mins ) The shot looking through the family at the breakfast table as the two boys sit glued to [...]	D
J.J. Abrams: [Kelvin] The gasoline station on the outskirts of town is named Kelvin Gasoline. Kelvin [...]	D
They tried to get George A. Romero to cameo as he's from Pittsburgh, and they were filming in Pittsb [...]	D
J.J. Abrams recently watched Joe Cornish's Attack the Block and loved it while acknowledging the sim [...]	D
After filming the town hall scene for several hours in blistering heat, director J.J. Abrams introdu [...]	D
Deputy Jackson Lamb compares Joe's friend Cary to Carrie - Lo sguardo di Satana (1976). Ryan Lee wou [...]	D
Much of the films Super 8mm footage was shot on different kinds of film including Super 8mm.	D
Steven Spielberg suggested Jackson's line "I got you," and J.J. Abrams is appreciative.	D
The water tower isn't real, and this includes the crane shot (at 1hr 5 mins.) that goes up from the [...]	D
According to J.J. Abrams, the alien creature, when it finally meets Joe face-to-face, has the eyes o [...]	D
Since Elle Fanning was 12 years old while filming her driving scene, it was illegal for her to actua [...]	D
When the trailers began to be released, speculation started that this would be a prequel to Cloverfi [...]	D
J.J. Abrams originally had two separate ideas for his follow-up to Mission: Impossible III (2006). O [...]	D
J.J. Abrams named the film's fictional setting, Lillian, Ohio, after his grandmother. The map showin [...]	D
Ryan Lee (plays Cary) already had braces, but they were the modern style so the production removed t [...]	D
Italian censorship visa # 104560 delivered on 17 August 2011.	D
The train crash was purposely made much more sensational than a train crash would actually be. The g [...]	D
At 1hr 28 mins.) The tracking shot of Joe and Cary running down the war torn street is one of J.J. A [...]	D
In the Snack Shack Diner scene where the kids are talking amongst themselves about the train wreck, [...]	D
J.J. Abrams had the image in his head of starting a film with a factory's "Days since last accident" [...]	D
In the video game Portal 2 (2011), there is an interactive teaser trailer in the Extras menu, found [...]	D
Dakota Fanning: During the town hall meeting, for a brief second you can spot Elle Fanning's big sis [...]	D
This is J.J. Abrams' first original feature film since it isn't a sequel or a reboot from another fr [...]	D
J.J. Abrams mentions in the DVD commentary that every time you see the water tower in the movie, it [...]	D
DIRECTOR_TRADEMARK(J.J. Abrams): [Music]: Music by Michael Giacchino.	D
The code name for the military's cover up is "Operation Walking Distance". In the Twilight Zone epis [...]	D
"Firelight at 0500 hours," is a reference to Spielberg's 1964 student film made when he was just sev [...]	D
J.J. Abrams was nervous on the kids' first day of filming, so he called Rob Reiner and Spielberg for [...]	D
J.J. Abrams took inspiration in his messy, busy family homes from Close Encounters of the Third Kind [...]	D
The first teaser for the film was shot by cinematographer Wally Pfister, Christopher Nolan's frequen [...]	D
As the kids drive away from the train accident, they pass the gas station that gets prominence a few [...]	D
When Deputy Lamb is coming out of the press conference, a man comes up to him and tells him about "s [...]	D
"The whole idea was that this creature was this metaphor for the pain that this kid was going throug [...]	D
Originally, when the boys were sitting and waiting for Alice to pick them up, they were supposed to [...]	D
When Charles Riley Griffiths drinks from an open soda bottle in a house, the drinking sound effect t [...]	D
Charles is choleric (focused on his film most of all, and low in patience), Martin is melancholic (p [...]	D
They only had access to the child actors for limited hours, so nearly every time you see a reverse s [...]	D
Bruce Greenwood provided the motion-capture performance of the alien. He is credited in the cast lis [...]	D
Film debut of Joel Courtney, Riley Griffiths and Caitriona Balfe.	D
As teenagers, J.J. Abrams and his friend Matt Reeves (director of Cloverfield (2008) and Blood Story [...]	D
It was composer Michael Giacchino's idea that there should be no music during the train crash.	D
The portable cassette player is a Sony TPS-L2: the orange microphone button is clearly visible.	D
The flies circling Dr. Woodward's (Glynn Turman) head were real and attracted to the bloody makeup. [...]	D
David Gallagher plays the camera shop employee. "He was the little kid on 7th Heaven, and now he's a [...]	D
Steven Spielberg (a producer of the production) was reportedly on set many times throughout the cour [...]	D
J.J. Abrams didn't want to add the "Four months later" card, but Steven Spielberg convinced him that [...]	D
Approximately 5000 children were auditioned for the main parts.	D
Joe and Alice very nearly hold hands well before the end of the movie. See 1h 34m 24s.	D
They recommend listeners stop listening to the commentary and instead check out the featurette showi [...]	D
The mention of Operation Walking Distance is a reference to Abrams' favorite episode of The Twilight [...]	D
The video release has a supplement called "Do You Believe in Magic?" showing DOP Larry Fong doing ma [...]	D
The train crash was largely improvised - there was no set storyboard for this key event in the film.	D
An early scene when Joe is in his room painting models, he is listening to a radio drama. This was n [...]	D
Riley Griffiths (Charles Kaznyk) played an April Fool's prank on director J.J. Abrams during filming [...]	D
During post-production, Judd Apatow was shown some completed footage, which he praised as "awesome". [...]	D
In the summer of 2010, Joel Courtney visited his brother, an aspiring L.A. actor, attended one of hi [...]	D
J.J. Abrams: Dressed as a soldier coming out of the jeep he is driving at 01:08:15.	D
Steven Spielberg is notorious for not doing commentary tracks, so J.J. Abrams tried to circumvent th [...]	D
While discussing his movie, The Case, Charles Kaznyk addresses the importance of its potential "prod [...]	D
The monster has 3 minutes of screen time.	D
Was shot on film, but later pick-up shots were captured with the RED digital camera.	D
The moving train was completely computer-generated, but in the shots of the kids moving among the wr [...]	D
After the train crashes and the kids find the white squares, one says, "they look like white Rubik's [...]	D
J.J. Abrams: [Lens flares] Cinematographic effect.	D
At 44 mins.) The M-38 power line mention is an overt reference to Close Encounters of the Third Kind [...]	D
The Super 8mm footage seen in the movie had to be shot in 16mm, in order to give the VFX team enough [...]	D
The only film directed by J.J. Abrams to not be shot by his frequent cinematographer Dan Mindel.	D
The Super 8mm footage that plays during the end credits features train crash sound effects by Giacch [...]	D
When several of Martin's scripts sheets blow away, he is seen chasing them across the screen behind [...]	D
Early test audiences "hated" Jackson. They worked in the editing to shift him into a broken man inst [...]	D
At 34 mins.) The shot at between Jackson and the sheriff was a pickup done at Bad Robot's offices.	D
J.J. Abrams insisted that the train station scenes were actually shot at night outside, instead of i [...]	D
It was very difficult for Joel Courtney to film the scene where he had to yell at Kyle Chandler (who [...]	D
In Joe's room there is a framed picture of the cast of the original Star Trek series behind the movi [...]	D
At 1hr 3 mins ) The interaction between Alice and her father concerned J.J. Abrams in that he didn't [...]	D
When the cube picked up from the crash site goes crazy in Joe's room and flies through a wall to the [...]	D
A reference to the Three Mile Island accident was initially part of the script, but Japan's Fukushim [...]	D
Glynn Turman also plays a biology teacher in Gremlins, which was also produced by Steven Spielberg.	D
In the first draft of the script, the alien was never shown at all.	D
J.J. Abrams wanted to end the film with a shot of the kid looking up towards the sky as the ship fle [...]	D
The title 'Super 8' was a double entendre. As well as being the name of the film gauge, it was also [...]	D
The green Air Force fatigues with the blue name tapes and blue insignia are correct for the 1970s er [...]	D
Jeremy Renner declined the lead role in order to star in Mission: Impossible - Protocollo fantasma ( [...]	D
Joe (Joel Courtney) claims to have learned most of what he knows from the Dick Smith Monster Makeup [...]	D
One of the challenges in making a movie about movie-obsessed kids in the late 70s was that they coul [...]	D
The only film directed by J.J. Abrams that Simon Pegg does not appear in any way.	D
The military bus that takes the children from the school has the number 6674 painted on it. The sum [...]	D
Since the kids were making a zombie movie, there are several references to director George A. Romero [...]	D
As of 2020, this is the only movie directed by J.J. Abrams not to be part of an already established [...]	D
The alien is first briefly seen in the reflection of a gasoline puddle.	D
Just as in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), the military uses a ruse to force a mass eva [...]	D
J.J. Abrams wanted the train crash sequence to be like the kids would remember it as opposed to how [...]	D
The film according to J.J. Abrams was homage to the producer of the film, Steven Spielberg, and his [...]	D
The creature's breath on Joe's hair during the final scene was actually J.J. Abrams waving a large s [...]	D

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When the boys break into a classroom at the school (at around 1h 14 mins), they break a window from [...]	D
The kids are seen riding 'BMX style" bikes. Many believe that this is a error, which is mainly becau [...]	D
time stamp 49:33, the map used shows Beavercreek as a city. At the time period of the movie, Beaverc [...]	D
The Il mostro della laguna nera figure seen being played with in the film (Benji Kaznyk's toy at 43: [...]	D
During the fire scene there are several shots of rolling hills with horses (and other livestock) gra [...]	D
In the closeup of the metal cube vibrating on the table in Joe's bedroom (26:48-26:54), the cube has [...]	D
Although middle schools were not widespread until the 1980s, the National Middle School Association [...]	D
When Joe picks up one of the cubes in a close-up (at around 8 mins), the cuff of his jacket conspicu [...]	D
Just after the train wreck, one of the boys describes the small block shapes they found in the train [...]	D
While the neighborhood used in filming may have looked the same to locals as it did in 1979, there w [...]	D
Seeing the alien's claw marks in the walls of the caverns he created after initially tunneling down [...]	D
The Lillian Airfield sign (at around 46 mins) shows "Town of Lillian, Ohio". In a later shot, the fi [...]	D
Dr. Woodward uses his truck to ram the train. Considering that the train was made up from several mu [...]	D
The morning after the film's pivotal train wreck, Joe and Charlie are watching coverage of the story [...]	D
When Joe is speaking to Alice on her front doorstep (from 30:01 to 30:06), modern vehicles can be se [...]	D
When the Air Force weapons begin to misfire (and the kids are running through the chaos), an airman [...]	D
The patch seen on the Ohio Deputy Sheriffs did not come into use until 1996 or 1997. The patch befor [...]	D
Although Joe and Cary quickly find a rope to climb down into the alien's tunnel, it isn't unreasonab [...]	D
After the train wreck, Alice's car is dirty, has something sticking through the wheel/tire, and the [...]	D
When Joe and Cary are running through the tunnel with a sparkler in Joe's right hand (1:30:45 to 1:3 [...]	D
When the sheriff is filling up his car at the gas station, he opens the fuel flap and sticks the noz [...]	D
When Joe is in his room painting one of his monster models, you can see in the background a model of [...]	D
The movie is set in southwest Ohio. A woman mentions in a town meeting (at around 49 mins) that "Bel [...]	D
At the end of the film many of the soldiers guns are shown to be pulled out of their hands with cons [...]	D
The sheriff (at around 45 mins) and his deputies (at 03:45 and 46:46 to 45:56) are shown driving whi [...]	D
The 'four months later' scene (at around 7 mins) when the kids film their movie at the depot takes p [...]	D
The sheriff's deputies were all wearing semi-automatic pistols. In 1979 (the year the movie takes pl [...]	D
When they show the map of where the dogs went (at around 31 mins), it shows I-675 as complete. I-675 [...]	D
During the town hall meeting one guy says he had interference on his ham radio. Officer Lamb asks hi [...]	D
Hitting a pickup truck will not cause the massive train wreck depicted (it will just kick the pickup [...]	D
When the bus overturns, the window is obviously breakaway candied glass, which breaks into large pie [...]	D
After Joe and Charles board an evacuation bus (at around 1h 08 mins), a string of M35 2-and-a-half t [...]	D
While at the water tower, as metal items are being attracted to the tower, the extended necklace out [...]	D
The police car lacks a partition between the front and rear seats.	D
In Joe's room is a model of the Space Shuttle and the external fuel tank is red/orange (at 09:35 alo [...]	D
When father Louis Dainard wrecks his car and begins hearing daughter Elle Fanning (Alice Dainard) sc [...]	D
When the deputies are eavesdropping on USAF communications via radio, an airman can be heard saying [...]	D
After the train wreck, Alice's car is dirty, covered in ash and debris When the kids get in the car [...]	D
After the train wreck, one scene shows the car they came in has a steel or wooden beam/bar stuck int [...]	D
At about 15 minutes-in, the kids arrive at the abandoned train station to shoot the 'parting scene' [...]	D
After the children are apprehended in the school, they are put aboard an Air Force bus. When the cam [...]	D
Joe is shown building an Aurora Hunchback of Notre Dame glow-in-the-dark model which is correct for [...]	D
When the main characters are viewing the teacher's film in the classroom, the label design on the TD [...]	D
When the kids get to the train station Martin's pages blow away and he chases after them (at around [...]	D
When Joe rides up to his house (at around 12 mins), late 80's architecture can be seen in the brickw [...]	D
While the blue name tapes and stripes were correct for the USAF in 1979, the rank on Colonel Nelec's [...]	D
When the four boys are locked in the back of the military vehicle being attacked, Martin is seen cle [...]	D
When Joe and Alice are watching old home movies of Joe and his mom on Christmas morning, Willow Tree [...]	D
When Joe asks Cary to give him sparklers, he grabs some unlit ones (at around 1h 30 mins) and runs d [...]	D
When the kids are watching the home movie it is clear they are in the projector's light but the cut [...]	D
An Air Force man is seen talking into a WWII-era hand-held walkie-talkie. In 1979 the military used [...]	D
In the kids' mini film the doctor drops the syringe and the detective picks it up. In one shot, the [...]	D
The alien creates a spaceship by using a massive field to metal things to the water tower. Indeed, t [...]	D
Hitting a pickup truck will not cause the massive train wreck depicted (it will just kick the pickup [...]	D

Frase

Joe Lamb: I know bad things happen. Bad things hap [...]	D
Cary: He's too stoned! Martin: Oh, drugs are so b [...]	D
Preston: According to my Uncle Seth, an accident l [...]	D
Charles: [trying to escape the train derailment] I [...]	D
Jackson Lamb: You listen to me. I've got 12,000 pe [...]	D
Donny: Dorks, no shoes on my upholstery.	D
Donny: You dorks are alive?	D
Joe Lamb: I'm just doing the best I can to save yo [...]	D
Alice Dainard: I know he wishes he'd been the one [...]	D
Joe Lamb: Just because mom died, doesn't mean you [...]	D
Martin: Am I the only one here who doesn't know wh [...]	D
Joe Lamb: Have you seen Lucy? Jackson Lamb: No. I [...]	D
Charles: I know that's your camera, sir, but techn [...]	D
[as the water tower transforms into a spaceship] [...]	D
Charles: They look like white Rubik's cubes or som [...]	D
Alice Dainard: So how am I supposed to be a zombie [...]	D
Alice Dainard: What was that necklace? The one you [...]	D
Sheriff Pruitt: Kids walking around with their own [...]	D
Charles: Production Value!	D
Louis Dainard: I came to your house that day to te [...]	D
Alice Dainard: I Know I don't know you at all. Eve [...]	D
Charles: Joe, pass me that thing off the curtain. [...]	D
Dr. Woodward: If you speak of this, you and your p [...]	D
Joe Lamb: She used to look at me... this way, like [...]	D
[first lines] Mrs. Kaznyk: I'm so worried for tha [...]	D
Joe Lamb: [old home movies of Joe's late mother pl [...]	D
Jackson Lamb: I hope we're clear on that. Joe Lam [...]	D
Joe Lamb: [shooting Charles' movie] I wouldn't hav [...]	D
Cary: Stop talking about production value, the Air [...]	D
[seeing overturned bus] Donny: What the FUCK?	D
Jen Kaznyk: I asked Charles about you and he said [...]	D
Cary: Hey, pussy! Stop taking the fries away. Cha [...]	D
Charles: I can't believe we're breaking into the s [...]	D
Louis Dainard: I've seen it... nobody believes me. [...]	D
Martin: Guys, I have never had a teacher aim a gun [...]	D
Louis Dainard: Where're we going? Jackson Lamb: W [...]	D
Cary: Excuse me, can I have another order of fries [...]	D
Preston: Your obsession with fireworks - and I'm s [...]	D
Charles: That is Money.	D
Nelec: I swear to God on my mother's life, if you [...]	D

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