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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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