If you liked LOST and Cloverfield, guess you will like this. Let the virals begin. ;)
first trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPcta5V5dA0
http://www.super8-movie.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_8_%28film%29

I really do like LOST, but hated Cloverfield.
Perhaps that's because LOST has had much more influence from Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof...
So long as there's no Blair Witch style shaky hand-held camera, I will give it a look.
The trailer showed nothing though, except for hinting at some sort of sci-fi action flick.

That's funny because I hate Lost (at least after like what, six seasons?), but I love Cloverfield, Fringe, Alias (when it was still around). I think this will turn out pretty cool.

Oh come on, Blair Witch the first was nice back in the day; Today it's still nice, but after you've seen it one time, it looses 80% of the fun.
Cloverfield was cool, but way too hyped, I was expecting a lot more scenes with the military guys and how the whole city would react.
People recommended me to watch the spanish film [REC], I've found it okay... but just the ending was the high part of the film, IMO. Well recorded and good image quality for a low budget film, but I'm not easily scared, so... it was okay.
Really hoping that Super 8 is sci-fi-ish, aliens, secrets and all that. Super 8 is about Area 51, in 1979.
Yeah, Lost is tiresome to follow but it pays off.
I've seen the first or second season of 24, and after those it became way too tiresome, then I dropped it.
Have so many cool tv series to follow, and so little time... sucks. =/ (Fringe, The Pacific, Caprica, etc)
Shame, I know zero actor names.
What matters for me is their performance and how nice it fits in the story, and that's it.

Agreed :)
Got Hatorade? :)
Gonna have to wait and see, I liked lost (well... stopped watched after season 2 but I'll pick it up when the whole show is done..) and fringe wasnt to bad... hated cloverfield...
Edit
Damn Katie Holmes was hot... :)

For the record, I never actually watched Dawson's Creek (I got my teen-girl drama fix from Buffy). I just love that line from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back :p

lol No worries.. I couldnt remember where that line came from... but the creek comment made me think of Katie Holmes :) That lip thing she does.... damn...
Buffy was ok.. ended up watching it over here... Never Watched that spin off they had Angel or whatever it was...

Angel was kind of crap for the first season, but it really grows on you as you watch. At first, you would think it is crap, it is all the rejects of Buffy (Cordelia, Wesley, Angel, and even Faith). But it is as though the writers didn't watch Buffy, so it all works out petty well (making Wesley one of my favorite characters, and someone who gives late-Buffy Giles a run for his money).
Even Angel became tolerable in his non-Angelus form.

Well, I found Angel's first season pretty interesting, and to be precise the first half of the first season. It was pretty fun to have some sort of dark police series with vampires and demons. It even had the charm of a new series' low-budget debut.
Then Wesley is part of the series, and the series becomes more and more buffy-esque (even recylcing Buffy stories).
Not to say that it was a bad point, I liked the whole series, but I would rather prefer it as a really different series. Instead, we have some sort of a second-hand Buffy series.
And there's the problem using secondary characters from a series, you have a bunch of undevelopped and clichéd people.
Still don't know why we're talking about Buffy on a thread talking about JJ Abrams and Spielberg's new movie, though.

You summed my feelings up well, the shaky camera was an interesting thing back in Blair Witch, but it suffered from uninteresting characters, which was my main problem with Cloverfield too. After a short while, I just wanted them to be eaten by the monster, and I wasn't impressed with the rest of the story either.
I'll have to rent [REC], I've only heard good things about it. Perhaps that will be the film that raises the hand-held camera from being just a gimmick.

Hehe yeah, sometimes you'd want them to be eaten... but uh, there was the pretty girl trapped in the building, so one more reason to watch the whole movie. :p
It was cool, but some boring characters and others not. It would be a superb movie if it featured the wholeee city, filmed district 9-esque... but guess that is for Cloverfield 2 or even 3...
Definitely rent REC, but stay away from Quarantine (the american remake).
There's a REC2 already, but I haven't watched it yet. I have yet to see The Fourth Kind, too.

josh wheedon crap, bleh.

Would have been interesting if it was actually shot on Super 8 film, but I guess that wouldn't have appealed to large audiences.

Josh Wheedon talk was off-topic, he is not involved.
I can't confirm this, but maybe the film's title is a reference to the camera used by someone/a witness to capture footage of the events, much like Cloverfield was... but with 1979 cameras. (super 8 was released in 1965).
So, maybe it will have scenes with grain effects and all that, simulating old tech's footage.