Super 8

Trivia: Wait for about 2 minutes when the credits roll and you'll see the kids' completed zombie movie - it's about 5 minutes long and fun to watch.

Trivia: The name of the gas station is Kelvin. This was also the name of the spaceship that was destroyed in Star Trek, another J.J. Abrams film.

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Trivia: Ryan Lee (Cary) was wearing braces when he auditioned for "Super 8", but had to wear fake braces during filming so the braces fit the time period (1979 - when braces were bigger/bulkier).

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Trivia: The chemical company that made the zombie drug in the super 8 movie shown during the credits is Romero Chemical. A nod to George Romero, creator of Night of the Living Dead?

Trivia: J.J. Abrams familiar 'Slusho' logo/ad can be seen briefly in the Kelvin gas station that gets destroyed.

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Trivia: If you thought you recognized "Donny" (clerk at camera store) but couldn't place him, he played the blond-haired kid on "7th Heaven" and was in "Little Secrets" (2002). David Gallagher (born in 1985) looked a lot different playing an adult role.

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Trivia: When Donny was driving Joe and friends to the school, he said he could "get back into disco." The events in "Super 8" happened around the first week of June 1979. The "death of disco" is dated by many to July 12, 1979 ("Disco Demolition Night") - the month after the "Get the Knack" album (with "My Sharona" on side 2) was released.

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Trivia: The song Joe and his friends were singing while waiting for Alice to pick them up, "My Sharona", was the #1 song in 1979. The song was the first song on Side #2 of the Knacks' "Get The Knack." If the Lillian public schools' last day was the last week of May or the first week of June, the boys were singing "My Sharona" before the album was released on June 11, 1979.

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Mistakes

Factual error: After the train crash, the teen characters discover cube-like items. One of them states it looks like a Rubik's Cube. The movie itself takes place in 1979, but the Rubik's Cube, although invented in 1974, was not licensed to sell in the USA until 1980. It was not even called a "Rubik's cube" until 1980 (prior to this, it was known as a "Magic Cube"). (00:21:55)

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Quotes

Cary: He's too stoned!
Martin: Oh, drugs are so bad!

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Questions

Question: During the scene where the kids are eating in the diner and they are talking about the train crash, you can see Joe's father getting out of his police car across the street at the Auto Sales lot. I've noticed in movies that they don't usually have a major character appear in a scene without a reason, even in the background. So it makes me wonder if they cut out some interaction with Joe's father in the diner, or if this diner scene was originally intended to appear at a different point in the film, such as when Joe's father visits the car lot when the owner is complaining about things missing from his cars. I've watched my DVD many times, and I only just noticed this. Now I'm dying to know.

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Answer: The explanation for the police car going into the auto dealership when Joe and friends are at the dinner is provided by J.J. Abrams in the "Commentary": "As it was originally written, you [audience] were simultaneously with the father going into the car dealership... umm... and with the kids in the diner. We ended up moving the structure around. So, it wasn't... umm. It was no longer simultaneous." Abrams said that the kids had been rehearsing at the table. Filming the auto dealership scene was finished so they went ahead and filmed the kids at the diner, too.

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