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.
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.
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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.
It’s easy to write confusing pilots that sets up a universe but the problem is that neither Jar Jar, nor any of the writers that stuck around after the strike had the talent or vision to actually resolve the plot points so they just kept adding more and more until the show was just comically retarded and when they realized there was absolutely NO hope of resolving a single fucking thing, they just played the dead card and rolled credits.
Everything about Lost is fucking stupid.
I think the pilot episode of Lost is one of the bets pilots ever, but it goes down hill really fast.
Have you tried Fringe? Not a huge J.J. fan myself, but I really loved Fringe
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.
