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J.J.Abrams is an ass!
Sorry, but I've just watched "Super 8" I've tried, and failed misereably in the past, to watch his versions of Star Trek.
WTF is it with his ridiculous obsession with adding stupid "light glares/flares/flashes" onto the screen??? :rolleyes:
It's distracting, annoying and down right crap IMHO.
There you go. I said it.
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WTF is it with his ridiculous obsession with adding stupid "light glares/flares/flashes" onto the screen??? :rolleyes:
It's distracting, annoying and down right crap IMHO.
There you go. I said it.
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I also can't stand other crap he's done on TV like Alias, his films, Mission Impossible 3 was it? God just watching the interviews alone with him and Tom Cruise smugly congratulating one another all the way before the film was even released was a sickening puke fest.
And whilst I am not a Trekkie, I did always respect the intelligence of Star Trek and enjoyed it whenever I have watched it in its various incarnations. This moron degenerated all and turned Star Trek into a brainless juvenile pile of crap that people who like the Transformers films would enjoy. If that's "genius" its not a genius I care for. Apparently the latest one didn't do quite as well as they thought it would. I dunno maybe the problem is people have found him out and don't want to watch reboots that are inferior to the original?
Whatever anybody thinks of George Lucas, he is light years ahead of this clown. Some might say Star Wars has already gone beyond parody anyway, but I genuinely fear how bad he'll make the Star Wars series if he's given enough creative control to do so. At least Lucas had a vision and was inspired by the greats like Akira Kurosawa. JJ Abrams has probably never watched a Kurosawa film or for that matter any film made before he was born, and only seems to be inspired by recent pop culture, hence why all his films are so shallow and bad.
That said compared to the other overrated nerd directors of our era, I'm talking the likes of Joss Whedon and Zack Snyder, he's probably like Shakespeare in contrast to them as they are even more shallow, comic book influenced rather than real literature and creatively bankrupt. He is the best of a talentless bunch, and perhaps his greatest skill is he can charm the Tom Cruises of this world so he keeps getting work.
Over-rated ass! North by Northwest was tedious and Cary Grant criminally mugging it up, and that Eva Maria-Saint is no Jennifer Lawrence!
It's different with things that are totally in your face like the lens flare. They are just annoying.
I won't be watching the new Star Wars movies, because I've only watched one of the other six and that was as boring as sin.
Abrams more often than not is a producer / creator and not a director so you can't always lay the irritating bits at his feet.
Lost got lost thanks to the writers.
The Trek movie was ok and I'm only just reaching the end of the first season of Fringe although even for an X-Files fan this series stretches credibility a bit too far at times.
Thought his Mission Impossible stuff was great even though it started with the irritating idea that he often used in Alias which was to basically start in the middle of the story - stop at an exciting moment then present you with a "48 Hours Earlier" caption so you then take another hour to get to where you started.
He is talented but he does have some irritating styles
I have to say that I prefer it when I see written by JJ Abrams rather than Directed but I am not put off by his direction (lens flare can be off putting but I can deal with it
Directors should be considered on their ability to tell a story, not whether they like making things shiny...
Tarantino has similar trademark shots used in most of his films, does he slagged off for them? No, he gets celebrated...
Actually that goes for actors / actresses / singers / etc. etc.
I guess that makes him an ass ...... or human !
For allowing muggles this opinion alone j.j. Abrams should be found guilty. The prosecution rests m'lud.
If you think the first season of fringe is like that you should just give up now, it gets even weirder, but IMO it's excellent one of the best sci fi shows in recent memory.
Joss Whedon gave us Firefly, Buffy, The Avengers, Dr Horrible and Toy Story. I think he deserves all the credit he gets.
You know he's not the same person as JJ Abrams, right?
I was the first person to respond to the OP. My second post was in regards to the person who mentioned Whedon. I should have quoted, but I thought it would be obvious what I was responding to. I'll edit
It merely draws your attention away from the "story".
It reminds me of those idiot "documentary" makers who give the camera a false "shake & zoom movement" on purpose to add some sort of effect. The Real Hustle (BBC) is particularly bad at this.
Do these producers/directors sit at home moving their head about like an Alzheimer sufferer all the time when looking at thing?
Probably not. :rolleyes:
THIS! I love the way people use Lost as a stick to bash Abrams with when he had little to do with it beyond the initial concept.
I've enjoyed most of Abrams' work, and I think Super 8 is a wonderful film, it must be nice to be in the position JJ finds himself in where he can make a full-budget Hollywood film as a big "Thank You" to Spielberg for everything he did in the 80s.
Super 8 is a critically acclaimed film, and post 2001 every film with J.J. Abrams directing or writing has been critically acclaimed. If the lens flare was that universally distracting, he wouldn't have fans and his films wouldn't be critically acclaimed. Maybe his style is problematic for you, but for most other people it isn't. You're the problem not him...
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jeffrey_abrams/