Anchorhead said:

danny_boy said:

Super 8 is a Spielbergiun Close Encounters/E.T rip off (and nowhere near as good as either of them!) in style and tone.

Spielberg produced it so I wouldn't call it a rip-off. It was much more of a collaboration\homage. One which I welcomed and enjoyed.

TFA will do well just to stand out from such a saturated crowd.

We'll all have the answer in just two months.

Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Star Wars are both homages to the serialized cinematic adventures of the 40's and 50's........but they are not creative generic rip offs like Super8.

That is the difference between Lucas and JJ.

Lucas took tremendous risks inventing original stories like THX 1138, American Graffiti and Star Wars(all be it with obvious cultural and literal references) and helping to create/fund/conduct research and development into new cinematic techniques(Motion capture and CGI).

In the world of cinema what has JJ invented?

Mission Impossible? Nope

Star Trek ? Nope

Star Wars? Nope

CGI? Nope

Yes he did invent the story of Super 8(trash like Lost is TV fodder...not cinema).

JJ adopts...he does not create.

And Star Wars has always been about trying to create something new....irrespective of whether it succeeded or failed.