Final Super 8 Promo Is 95% Backstory, 5% Spoiler?

Bits and pieces from this promotional video for Super 8 were mailed out to blogs and websites on memory sticks. Now that the last of those stunts has been completed, the whole thing, in a stitched together form, was released via Yahoo.

You might want to not watch the last ten seconds of the clip if you’re a card carrying member of the JJ Abrams fan club. I know the fans like to play along with Abrams’ myth of The Big Secret and the end of this clip shows… something. Something more than “the club” might be wanting to see.

The whole “filmed science experiment on aliens goes wrong” trope is played out now. Stop it, please. It was never wittier or more purposeful than in Starship Troopers anyhow. Shame there’s pretty much a whole film of it coming…