My impression of the J.J. Abram's film Super 8:

JJ: I have this awesome idea for a scene where these kids are making a movie with an old super 8 camera just like we used to do back in the old days (right! right!) and then all of a sudden BLOOSH! the train blows up and they're suddenly in a REAL summer blockbuster movie just like the one they were filming! It's like, a play on their imaginations!!!!!

SS: Oh man that sounds awesome!

JJ: Yeah! Yeah! And there's a MONSTER on the train too that gets away! And all these government guys come and they're all secretive and we're not sure what's going on!

SS: Oh wow I'm so intrigued! Then what happens!?!?! How does it end!?!?!1

JJ: Well..... I was hoping that's where you came in...

SS: Oh... I see... well shit, I ran out of good ideas years ago.

JJ: Hmm.... How about some character stuff? Nothing?

SS: Well.. I guess we could just recycle every single lame, cheesy, overdone, melodramatic element of every single movie into the few underdeveloped characters we have. People eat that shit up, trust me man.

JJ: So you're saying we can just bullshit our way through the last hour or so by shoving the drama down people throats and we don't even have to come up with our own character development?

SS: More or less.

JJ: Sounds good bro, lets make some cash!