The director’s vision has always been somewhat… bland.
Abrams butchered the Star Trek reboot and the Star Wars final trilogy, so my whole childhood.
But more, I blame Disney and Paramount for letting him.
C’mon, your entire childhood? A bit dramatic there.
@inkican, JJ is a hack who has connections. I’m so happy to finally find others who see it, too! That said… I honestly enjoy Super 8. Still, I’ll include it’s flaws any time I’m tearing his work apart.
I remember watching Fringe and being utterly underwhelmed by it. It introduced intriguing mysteries, with most of them being forgotten by the next episode. I think this is what J.J.Abrams has always been about. The same seemed true for The Lost. Although, I stopped watching it after about 3 episodes.
No, you got the nail on the head. He loves a mystery, and wants to keep audiences guessing about what’s in his “black box” but there’s never actually been anything there. Fringe, Lost, Star Wars, Star Trek, he’s just never been able to actually tell a story with an actual conclusion. If he absolutely has to be involved in a creative process, it should be for about 5 minutes at the beginning before he’s kicked out in favour of writers that can actually do something interesting with the incomplete messes he spews.
This is how he treated the Star Wars sequel trilogy. All McGuffin, no plan. People have planned better on bar napkins in a restaurant. I really wish Trevorrow’s script would have been used instead of putting Abrams at the helm of Episode IX. Instead we got “Somehow Palpatine returned.”
Jar jar Abrams makes dumb boring movies by committee and board approved jumbo set pieces with the soul of a Pontiac Aztec and the inventiveness of an incandescent light bulb.
I don’t think I ever liked anything he did, not one thing.
I loved season 1 of Lost. Back then, I had no idea who he was or that there were no answers coming.
I watched lost really late, but i also hardly knew anything about it. The beginning is so much fun, and then it turns more and more into a show where it feels like they have no idea what they want to do with that show.
Have you tried Fringe? Not a huge J.J. fan myself, but I really loved Fringe
I think the pilot episode of Lost is one of the bets pilots ever, but it goes down hill really fast.
The pilot is great. And by fast, you mean episode 2. I think the pilot was the only episode I watched that I enjoyed. The rest of the series just feels like work.
the Sci-Fi Genre Expected
Says who?
Seriously. Who didn’t notice he’s garbage?
Connections Connections Connections.
It’s telling that someone can be as creatively bankrupt and still thrive in Hollywood.
I’mma go out on a limb and admit that I posted this article knowing that I disagreed with the premise. JJ Abrams is incredibly talented - he proved that with Cloverfield and Super 8. Additionally, he took Star Trek into a new direction despite its challenges and he remains scandal free unlike some other scifi directors (looking at you Bryan Singer). So you can be angry about TFA or Fringe if you want, but the guy does quality work in an industry full of bad actors. Credit where credit is due.
