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To help contribute, here's the only meme I've ever done, which I did in response to news that Abrams was working on a new ST movie. And after seeing how well the franchise is going with SNW and LD, I feel it's even more appropriate.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly! If he was not a fan of any of the 60 years of source material perhaps he should’ve stepped aside and let someone who cares about Star Trek contribute to it

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Imo, instead of asking why he didn't step aside, I think the fault is on the studio executives for wanting to go in that direction in the first place. They clearly wanted a different direction to classic Trek, otherwise JJ wouldn't have been their choice.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the guy who directed rogue one and the andor tv series isnt much of a fan of star wars, and those are two of the most acclaimed star wars projects since disney bought star wars

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Although I do really like both of those and would probably put them at the top of the current generation of SW, they feel much less like SW properties and a lot more like they're wearing a SW skin. Which, you know, is fine since it's actually good and doesn't destroy the property. Even if you don't like Andor, they're still making a ton of just regular Star Wars shit.

JJ basically derailed Trek for those of us that actually like the type of thing Trek was doing for nearly a decade. Basically took until SNW to get an actual Trek show.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Star Wars is samurai movies with a skin on it. The whole thing is borrowed, in space. So it’s okay to have stories like Andor, Rogue One and Mando, etc because they mesh well with the general design of the universe.

Lower Decks is as far as Star Trek as it can be, and yet it fits very well in the universe. Because it respects itself and respect the source material.

JJ never respected the source material and the universe.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

It is, or at least was, a strangely popular thing n Hollywood for people working on franchises to claim they knew nothing about them. A kind of “too cool for all this” vanity they were trying to project.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I love me some JJ Abrams hate. The man deserves it all and sooo much more.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He’s a great visual director, but he needs a good writer to keep him in check.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

His black box storytelling is garbage and the coincidence-based plot in that SW movie was unforgivable.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah. In that Jon Stewart interview he straight up says that he never liked Star Trek and that "Star Trek was always too philosophical for me."

He sucks so bad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Not in that SW movie. In two of those SW movies.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, is that what J. J. stands for?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Creating intrigue is relatively straightforward if you don’t worry about sticking the landing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

After seeing the rise of skywalker, I don't think I agree on the pacing bit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Is he good at pacing? His movies are just go go go go without any room to breathe.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

"Star Trek was too philosophical. So I fixed it." -JJ Abrams

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I don't mind the Kelvin movies too much. Actively enjoy them for the most part. But JJ was definitely the worst part of those movies by far and I completely agree with the meme. You can feel the love of everyone bleeding through despite him, not because of him. So many people worked on those movies who were huge fans of Trek and then he has the nerve to openly talk about how he isn't a fan of Star Trek.

Beyond is my favorite of the Kelvin movies and, what do you know, JJ didn't direct it. Funny that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Oh absolutely. Visually those movies are stunning. Like yeah, you can argue about plot and what not all you want but the shots of Into Darkness of the Vengeance sliding across San Francisco? Absolutely fucking amazing. And that shot of the Enterprise on a death spiral through the sky before the camera stops and you see the Enterprise slowly rise through the clouds? I have goosebumps thinking about it. I'm gonna need to rewatch that scene again.

Beyond has one of my favorite ship destruction sequences in all of Star Trek. Just the glory of the Enterprise cruising through space before having its throat unceremoniously slit was... Honestly it was a gut punch. Then seeing the saucer section bashing through mountains before crashing to a stop? FUCK! Not to mention the follow-up scene of reactivating the thrusters and causing the saucer to flip over.

Honestly the visuals are a huge reason as to why I enjoy the movie so much.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The part about the visuals of the ships is mostly opinion. I don't think they're that ugly.

I mean... there are a lot of differences that separate Starfleet from the US Military. That seems like a bit much. However the militaristic thing in general is completely explained in universe. It's not just a "Oh, Starfleet is more of a military now!" thing. The Kelvin was rocking along, doing it's typical stuff, and then suddenly a massive warship with unheard of weaponry shows up and proceeds to obliterate it, killing a massive amount of people and forcing over 800 other people to run for their lives. All in no time at all and within Federation borders. Prime Timeline Starfleet beefed up the military aspect after the Borg and only increased due to the Dominion. Makes a lot of sense to me that they'd step up the militaristic aspect in a universe where a random incursion within their own borders left them completely defenseless. Then 20ish years later, the fleet that was sitting at Earth and is responsible for Earths defense is completely wiped out in less than 10 minutes by that same ship. At that point it would be absolutely idiotic to not have Starfleet be more militaristic.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

At least with Trek it was an alternate universe, rather than the canon he got his hands on with Wars.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

...Somehow, Abrams has returned...

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Needs more lens flare:

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think if he had done ALL 3 sequel trilogy movies for starwars, it woukd have turned out much better.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who knew throwing away your plans twice in a trilogy would backfire?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I say give Zach Synder a wack at it.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The films really weren't that bad

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope you are talking about star trek.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The validity of your comment really depends on which movie franchise you’re referencing

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

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