Film Reviewing- Super 8 and Cowboys and Aliens

I saw Super 8 the other week. A fantastic film directed by two of the world's most amazing directors, Steven Speilberg and J.J. Abrams. I've got to say, out of the whole film, the train crash scene near the start really made the film for me. It was amazing. I'm not going to spoil anything but I will say the film had just the right amount of action to keep it away from horror genre but there were some scares in there. I mean I'm not one to jump at movies but everyone in the cinema was jumping a surprising amount. Maybe they were just over-excited. It was mostly 13-14 year olds so that isn't too shocking. Anyway it wasn't scary as scary films go, it just had a few scenes where someone would be attacked really quickly and to loud music. Super 8 also contained some comedy which fit in nicely which I thought was surprising but effective to break up the film and leave you unaware that another attack was just round the corner.

Now one thing you should know about me is that I am a film fanatic and I will be posting about every film I see. So that equals a lot of posts. A couple days ago, I saw Cowboys and Aliens with a friend. For those of you that haven't heard, Cowboys and Aliens is set in the wild west at the time of the gunslinging cowboys (not strictly true as cowboys were probably just working men herding cattle rather than shooting anyone who annoys them as they are made out to have done in films) and stars Daniel Craig as a cowboy who wakes up with no recollection of his life or even his name. He wakes up with a piece of alien technology on his wrist which soon reveals itself to be a weapon (not a spoiler as it's in the trailer for the film). Thus begins the cross over between the wild west and the alien universe. Harrison Ford also stars as a cowboy, no less the man it turns out Craig has stolen from. Soon, Ford and Harrison have to work together to fight an alien attack and so begins the main plot of the movie. I loved the mix of the genres and the special effects were fantastic.

Wow that took a while...