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It was just a movie some kids were making, when the train derailed, releasing a dangerous presence into their town. What do YOU remember about Super 8?
What is the character’s name who is the makeup artist for their films and his father is the deputy?
Joe
Joe lost his mom in a factory accident and his father works as a deputy sheriff. Joe loves making models and being a makeup artist. Joel Courtney portrays Joseph "Joe" Lamb, for which he received critical acclaim and a Saturn Award. He also played the lead role of Peter Moore on The CW's series The Messengers.
Charles
Cary
Donny
What is the character name of Joe’s best friend, who wants to make movies?
Amanda
Charles
Charles is Joe’s best friend and is an avid movie maker. He is making a zombie movie with Joe and their friends. Charles is played by Riley Griffiths whose first acting role came when he was 6 years old, when he participated in a version of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. No longer in acting, Riley now plays defensive line at Montana State University.
Cary
Donny
What is the name of the character who loves to blow up things?
Amanda
Cary
Cary loves to blow up things and is excited to be the one blowing up Joe’s train model. Cary is portrayed by Ryan Lee, known for Goosebumps and This Is 40.
Donny
Preston
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What is the name of the character who Joe is in love with?
Amanda
Alice
Alice is also infatuated with Joe. She blows the group of boys away with her acting ability. Alice is portrayed by Elle Fanning, the younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning. She is well known for her starring roles in Wonderland, Somewhere, We Bought a Zoo, Maleficent, and as Jesse in 2016's The Neon Demon.
Julie
Jen
What is the name of the character who plays the background person at the pay phone in the train scene?
Preston
Preston is a friend of both Joe and Charles.Preston is played by Zach Mills. Mills' first significant supporting role in a film was as Adrien Brody's son in the 2006 film, Hollywoodland. In 2007 he appeared in the Hallmark movie The Valley of Light, and played the leading role in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium and in the film Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. He also portrayed a news vendor in Changeling.
Joe
Charles
Cary
What is he name of the character who works at the photography shop and asks Charlie if he wants to buy pot?
Cary
Donny
David Gallagher, who portrays Donny, is a five-time Young Artist Award nominee and Teen Choice Award winner, best known for his role as Simon Camden on the long-running television series 7th Heaven, as well as for his feature film roles; as Mikey Ubriacco in Look Who's Talking Now, as Kevin Harper in Angels in the Endzone and as Richie Rich in Richie Rich's Christmas Wish. Gallagher is also well known for the voice of Riku in the Kingdom Hearts video game series.
Joe
Charles
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What is the name of the character who plays the husband of Alice who needs to leave to investigate the zombies?
Martin
Gabriel Basso plays Martin, a friend of Joe’s and one of the actor’s in Charles’ zombie movie. He is shy, paranoid and throws up a lot. He is known for his roles in the Showtime series The Big C and the 2013 comedy-drama The Kings of Summer.
Joe
Charles
Donny
What is the name of Joe’s father who is a deputy?
Jackson Lamb
Jackson Lamb is suspicious of the train crash and the military investigation that follows. Jackson Lamb is portrayed by Kyle Chandler, best known for television roles on Early Edition and notably as Coach Eric Taylor in the television series Friday Night Lights, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2011. He has also appeared in supporting roles in films like King Kong, Super 8, Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, The Wolf of Wall Street and Carol. In 2015 he began starring in the Netflix original series Bloodline, for which he received his fourth and fifth Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Colonel Nelec
Mr. Kaznyk
Louis Dainard
Who is the bad guy, the one that leads the military investigation?
Sheriff Pruit
Deputy Rosko
Sergeant Walters
Colonel Nelec
Keeping the intent of the Military investigation a secret he puts Joe’s father into confinement and has his number two, kill Dr. Thomas Woodward, a biology teacher. Colonel Nelec is portrayed by Noah Emmerich who is best known for his work in The Truman Show, Cop Land, Frequency, Love & Sex, Windtalkers, Miracle, Super 8 and Little Children. He currently stars as FBI Agent Stan Beeman on the FX series The Americans.
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What power does the alien have?
Communicates through touch
Actually, we don’t know all the things the alien can do. It seems to be able to use the cubes to make any shape or form it needs. Plus, it can communicate through touch and it eventually builds a space ship so it can return home. The alien is only on film for 3 minutes.
Flies
Becomes invisible
None of the above
What kind of strange events does the town experience since the train derailment?
Dogs running away
Townspeople go missing
The electricity fluctuates
All of the above
While Joe and Charles wait for their film to be developed, the town experiences strange events: All the dogs run away, several townspeople go missing, the electrical power fluctuates and electronic items from all over are stolen.
Who is Joe talking to? “I hope we're clear on that.†Joe: “We're not clear!â€[turns around] “What'd you say?†Joe: “We're not clear! You and I aren't clear about anything! We couldn't be less clear!â€
Joe's Father
Joe is saying this to his father when his father tells him not to see or be friends with Alice anymore. It was very difficult for Joel Courtney to film the scene where he had to yell at Kyle Chandler. Since Joel was naturally very quiet, J.J. Abrams had to coax him into yelling loud enough.
Charles
Donny
Cary
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Who says this? “I’m just doing the best I can to save you.â€
Joe
Joe says this when he rescues Alice from being strung upside down by the alien. Joe doesn’t rescue Alice alone, he rescues the sheriff and a few other people as time allows. In the summer of 2010, Joel Courtney visited his brother, an aspiring L.A. actor, attended one of his brother's acting classes, fell in love with acting, auditioned for a TV commercial in LA, was urged by an acting coach to answer a J.J. Abrams casting call, and after eleven call-backs landed the lead role of Joe Lamb.
Charles
Cary
Donny
Who is talking to Joe? “I know I don't know you at all. Even though it sort of feels like I do. Do you not feel like that?†Joe: No, no, I totally do. I'm just kind of in shock at this entire conversation.â€
Amanda
Alice
Alice says this to Joe when she visits his bedroom at night because she can’t sleep. Did you know that since Elle Fanning was 12 years old while filming her driving scene, it was illegal for her to actually drive, so there is another person driving the car with a mini-steering wheel in the backseat.
Jen
Julie
Who says this? “I can't believe we're breaking into the school. Who does that? Nobody does that. Idiots do that.â€
Joe
Charles
Charles says this as they break into the school and find the biology teacher’s notes about the alien. The notes are important so Joe can find out as much about the alien so he can rescue Alice. Charles said this and he is also the one making the zombie movie for the international festival. Since the kids were making a zombie movie, there are several references to director George A. Romero. For example, Romero Chemicals as the evil company, plus the poster for one of his movies in Joe's bedroom and reference on the radio.
Cary
Donny
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Who says this? [trying to escape the train derailment] I don't want to die!
Joe
Charles
Charles says this as he tries to escape the train derailment. It is because of him that his friends are out in the middle of the night shooting a scene at the train station. J.J. Abrams insisted that the train station scenes were actually shot at night outside, instead of in a studio.
Cary
Donny
Who says this? “Stop talking about production value, the Air Force is going to kill us.â€
Joe
Charles
Cary
Cary, with a mouth full of braces says this to Charles. Charles is always looking at the production value of the scene and he sees it in the train derailment. The moving train was completely computer-generated, but in the shots of the kids moving among the wrecked train cars (shot at Agua Dulce 43 miles north of L.A.) the wrecked cars were actually there.
Donny
What is the code name of the military operation?
Operation Walking Distance
In the film, the code name for the military's cover up is "Operation Walking Distance". In the popular episode of The Twilight Zone "Walking Distance" a dissatisfied man returns to his hometown and finds himself as a young boy, essentially reliving his childhood and a happier way of life. Director JJ Abrams (a Twilight Zone fan) revisits his childhood with this film, echoing the classic episode.
The Serpent
The A Train
None of the above
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Who said this to Dr. Woodward? “I swear to God on my mother's life, if you help us now, we will take care of you.†Dr. Woodward: “I've seen what happens … when you take care of people.â€
Sheriff Pruitt
Deputy Rosko
Colonel Nelec
Colonel Nelec says this in a last ditch attempt to get the data on the alien from Dr. Woodward. Dr. Woodward would not comply and so the military killed him. The green Air Force fatigues with the blue name tapes and blue insignia are correct for the 1970s era the movie portrays. The utility uniform would later change to the jungle then desert BDU.
Sergeant Walters
What town did the train derailment take place?
Lillian
J. J. Abrams named the film's fictional setting, Lillian, Ohio, after his grandmother. The map showing where runaway dogs were found shows it located on the north side of route 35 ten miles west of Dayton (twenty-two miles west of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base).
Weston
Wheaton
Deerfield
Who says this? “Dorks, no shoes on my upholstery.â€
Alice
Charles
Joe
Donny
Donny agrees to drive them to the school but first informs the boys of the “rules†in his car, including no shoes on the upholstery. As for the kids, they were hand-picked for the roles. Approximately 5000 children were auditioned for the main parts.
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Who says this referring to Charles? “Excuse me, can I have another order of fries? Because my friend here is fat.â€
Preston
Martin
Cary
Cary says this to Charles in the Snack Shack Diner. In this scene where the kids are talking amongst themselves about the train wreck, Deputy Lamb can be seen through the window getting out of his patrol car at the auto dealership because, as it was originally written, the diner scene and the auto dealership scene took place simultaneously but during editing the dealership scene was moved to later.
Donny
Who is Charles attending to? Charles: “Joe, pass me that thing off the curtain. Ok, this is going to hurt a lot.†OWWWWWWWWW! OUCH! AWWWWWW!†Charles: “Jesus …! I haven't done it yet!â€
Preston
Martin
Charles says this after the train crash when Martin’s leg is hurt and Charles decides he’ll put a tourniquet on it. The train crash was purposely made much more sensational than a train crash would actually be. The goal was to pay homage to the science-fiction movies of the '70s.
Joe
Cary
Who is Joe saying this to? “I know bad things happen. Bad things happen. But you can still live. You can still live.â€
His Father
The alien
Joe says this to the alien, while the alien has grabbed him and held him up to his “faceâ€. Bruce Greenwood provided the motion-capture performance of the alien. He is credited in the cast list as "Cooper", which was the creature's nickname on set. According to J.J. Abrams, the alien creature, when it finally meets Joe face-to-face, has the eyes of Caitriona Balfe, who plays Joe's mother.
Alice
Cary
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Who says this, “Guys, I have never had a teacher aim a gun at me!â€
Charles
Martin
Martin says this right after Dr. Woodward waves a gun and tells the kids not to say anything about the train wreck as the military will kill them and their parents. Glynn Turman portrays Dr. Woodward. Turman is a stage, television, and film actor as well as a writer, director, and producer. He is known for his roles as high school student Leroy "Preach" Jackson in the 1975 coming-of-age film Cooley High, math professor and retired Army colonel Bradford Taylor on the NBC sitcom A Different World, and fictional Baltimore mayor Clarence Royce on the HBO drama series The Wire. Glynn is recently playing Jeremiah Kaan on the Showtime series House of Lies.
Joe
Alice
The first scene of the movie shows a factory’s “Accident-Free†sign. What is the sign referring to?
The accident that kills Joe’s mother
The Steel Mill factory’s “Accident-Free†sign that is being updated references the accident that occurred a day ago in which Joe’s mother is killed. J.J. Abrams had the idea to start a film by showing a factory's "Accident-Free" sign long before he came up with the rest of the idea of the film. Super 8 was actually the combination of two ideas; one for a film about kids making their own movie during the 1970s, and another for a blockbuster alien invasion film. Worried that the former idea would not attract enough attendance, Abrams combined the ideas.
The factory where Joe’s father and Louis Dainard have a fight
The labor strike at the factory
None of the above
Who do the boys convince to pretend to hit on Donny so they can rescue Alice?
Amanda
Jen
Joe, Charles, Martin, and Cary convince Jen, Charles' older sister, to pretend to hit on Donny (a worker at the camera shop) in order to get into town to rescue Alice. They break into Dr. Woodward's storage trailer and discover films and documents from his time as a government researcher. Woodward was compelled to rescue the creature now that he was touched by the alien and understood him.
Julie
Gayle
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Where does the alien's tunnel start?
The cemetery
Inside the cemetery's garage, they find a massive tunnel leading to a warren of underground caverns. In a chamber beneath the town's water tower, they find the alien has created a device from the town's stolen electronics, that it appears to be trying to fully activate. The alien also has several people, including Alice, hanging from the ceiling and unconscious, that it uses for food.
The cinema
The shopping mall
None of the above
How is the alien distracted so Joe can rescue Alice?
Cary uses his fireworks to distract the alien
Using Cary's firecrackers as a distraction, Joe frees Alice and the others, but they end up trapped in a dead end cavern after the alien chases them down. Alice and Cary scream and cower against the tunnel wall, but Joe steps forward and tries to talk to the alien. The creature's breath on Joe's hair during the final scene was actually J.J. Abrams waving a large sheet of cardboard up and down.
Joe releases a bunch of birds that get the alien ensnarled
Joe uses Dr. Woodward’s gun to shoot the alien
None of the above
What happens when the spaceship starts taking off?
All the metal in town is drawn upwards to the spaceship
Everyone watches as various metal objects from all over town are magnetically pulled to the top of the water tower. Using the objects, and the water tower as its base, the alien assembles his spaceship.
All the musical instruments start playing by themselves
All the mirrors break
None of the above
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Ever since his mother’s death, what does Joe keep in his pocket?
A piece of gum
His mother’s locket
The locket was his mother’s, that his father gave to her on the day Joe was born. The locket was passed along to Joe after his mother's tragic death. It is repeatedly made clear throughout the film how much he values this locket as a memory of her. In the end scene, the locket is then drawn from Joe's pocket towards the tower and Joe, after a brief moment, decides to let it go, completing the ship. If you recall, the alien touched Joe, and now Joe is part of the alien, necklace and all.
A Swiss Army knife
None of the above
What song do the boys sing as they wait for Alice to give them a ride?
Don't Bring Me Down
A Heart of Glass
My Sharona
Originally, when the boys were sitting and waiting for Alice to pick them up, they were supposed to just talk. However, J.J. Abrams heard the boys singing together between takes later on, and re-shot the scene featuring them singing "My Sharona. As for the other songs, "Don't Bring Me Down" by Electric Light Orchestra, The Blondie song "Heart of Glass" and The Cars song "Bye Bye Love" are also featured in the film.
Bye Bye Love
During the community meeting, who do the townspeople think are causing all the troubles in their town?
Aliens from outer space
A Government Conspiracy
A Soviet Invasion
The townspeople are sure it’s a soviet invasion. At that time period that would be a reasonable explanation rather than an alien invasion. During the town hall meeting, for a brief second you can spot Elle Fanning's big sister, Dakota Fanning, among the assistants. She and J.J. Abrams had cameo appearances. J.J. Abrams is dressed as a soldier coming out of the jeep at 01:08:15 into the movie.
None of the above
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How was the film received?
A. The critics hated it
B. The fans loved it
C. The critics liked it
D. B & C
Super 8 had a production budget of $50 million and grossed over $35.4 million on its opening weekend, ranking first at the box office. The film grossed $127 million in North America with a worldwide total of some $260 million. Super 8 received positive reviews from critics. On the film-critics aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a score of 82%.
What Saturn awards did the movie win?
Best Performance by a Younger Actor
Best Director
Best Music
All of the above
Joel Courtney won the Best Performance by a Younger Actor category in the 38th Saturn Awards. The other awards were for J.J. Abrams for Best Director and Michael Giacchino for Best Music. The Saturn Awards honors the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television.
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