'Oh no, not more lame Spielberg kiddie mush. We were dazzled by a new mode of storytelling, accessible to all and yet personal and pure, the product of one visionary dreamer.īut then came the Spielberg imitations, some produced by Spielberg's company, and his name became a dirty word. We didn't just consume Close Encounters and E.T. and Jurassic Park - that is, if Abrams didn't rekindle at least some of the excitement of seeing those films way back when. Abrams's Super 8 as a shameless ripoff of Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. 'Super' 4: Gabriel Basso (left), Ryan Lee, Joel Courtney and Riley Griffiths play teenagers shooting a homemade movie when a spectacular crash draws them into a world they weren't supposed to know about.
