It was so insulting for him to come out and say he isn't a fan of the source material. Was it too much to ask to find someone who's passionate about Star Trek? I know they're out there.
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I love me some JJ Abrams hate. The man deserves it all and sooo much more.
What's annoying is that he's good at pacing and creating intrigue. He just never knows how stick the landing without turning the plot into swiss cheese.
Jorge is a fantastically creative guy. He needs limitations on that creativity, but he is undeniably a foundation of ideas.
JJ Abrams mostly regurgitates without having any truly unique ideas. Anything unique he does have is either a subversion or an unfinished mystery concept that’s film student tier. Especially in Star Wars and Trek, he took a bunch of the most surface level aspects from the franchises and threw them in without really doing anything with them.
His black box storytelling is garbage and the coincidence-based plot in that SW movie was unforgivable.
What's even funnier is when he tells how he came up with his "mystery box" method. He tries to play it off as some kind of profound insightful story from his childhood about magic shops. But then he explains it as the magic shops would package the junk that didn't sell into an unmarked "mystery box" to create intrigue which duped people into buying it. He outright admits he's selling junk
Wait, is that what J. J. stands for?
Creating intrigue is relatively straightforward if you don’t worry about sticking the landing.
After seeing the rise of skywalker, I don't think I agree on the pacing bit.
Is he good at pacing? His movies are just go go go go without any room to breathe.
The man knows how to absolutely decimate a Starfleet vessel. I’m all for bringing him back if he’s just limited to 10 minutes of an unpowered ship tumbling in free fall towards a planet.
Strange New Worlds is much better modern Star Trek, but you can’t say JJ didn’t take advantage of the theatrical scale of things.
I didn't hate the Kelvin movies, aesthetically though they were trash in that they took a scifi franchise known for inspiring good UI design and expanded upon it with absolutely horrendous UI. Seriously the computers and interiors of those ships are so ugly it hurts.
Also, starfleet felt WAYYYYYYY too much like a military for me in those movies, there was no attempt to differentiate starfleet from a direct analog to the U.S. military and that just gives me that "kind of want to throw up" feeling every time I see it in star trek.
At least with Trek it was an alternate universe, rather than the canon he got his hands on with Wars.
Because of the nature of Trek, it was easy to retcon into an alternate universe. The world building in Star Wars didn't leave much room for that.
Maybe they can keep ignoring it for another decade, then write it off as a vision from the Dark Side.
Yeah, it's kinda funny how the supposedly more fantastical Star Wars has no really out there things like time travel or alternate universes.
It wasn't a retcon, though, it was conceived from the beginning as an alternate universe.
I've hated him since Lost. Possibly even Alias. Stupid mystery box bullcrap, Yeah, some unresolved mystery is fine. Your entire show shouldn't revolve around boatloads of them being insufficiently explained.
I think if he had done ALL 3 sequel trilogy movies for starwars, it woukd have turned out much better.
JJ Abrams can only begin narratives. He has no idea how to solve any of his own mystery boxes.
Look at anything he's ever done and you will probably not find a satisfying conclusion.
He can start a narrative better than most creators, he just has no idea what do to with it once it's running.
Who knew throwing away your plans twice in a trilogy would backfire?
Eh I liked Star Trek 2009 and Force Awakens. I can get into how I dislike into darkness and episode 9 but not worth it.
I say give Zach Synder a wack at it.
I also don't want Rian Johnson or Kathleen Kennedy anywhere near Star Wars or Star Trek anymore. Can we add them to the list as well.
The films really weren't that bad
They were very typical “J.J. Abram’s has no idea what a franchise is actually about”. He actually admitted not having seen any extra materials about the franchise before making the movies, and rehashed existing storylines because it’s safe.
JJ Abrams is loved by the studios for the very same reasons he’s dreaded by the fans.
Yep. I liked them. Movie Trek has always been action anyways. He did some shit I really enjoyed honestly. Like Kirk being a rocker totally fucking fits.
I hope you are talking about star trek.





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