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Well this thread sure made the lens flare jokes completely unfunny real quick. As far as Star Wars VII goes... It's so far off I really couldn't care less about it right now. But nobody could make it any worse than Lucas has. | |
Dear Disney, Every single director in hollywood would of loved to do this film. Most of them must of been begging for it. You could of gotten any director, any of the oscar winning, epic making geniuses who have untouched track records that should of made you, as a studio, absolutely been drooling. WHY DID YOU GO WITH CAPTAIN LENS FLARE? | |
To me it's less Captain Lens flare and more the guy who turned Star Trek into Star Wars already so why not let him actually do Star Wars. | |
There's nothing funny about "lens flares" since they were all over that damn movie. But if you're looking for other reasons why it sucked and likely drove the entire Star Trek brand into the ground long-term, see here: http://whatculture.com/film/15-blunders-that-ruined-j-j-abrams-star-trek-and-destroyed-the-franchise.php This is also great at explaining why people hate it in video form, but it's rather long: http://blip.tv/redlettermedia/star-trek-2009-review-part-1-of-2-4088156 | |
Pu-leeze. I've been a Star Trek fan for over 20 years now, watched nearly every episode of TNG as it aired. Watched all of Deep Space Nine and Voyager as it aired and even gave Enterprise a chance. The Abrams film didn't kill Star Trek: Rick Berman and Brannon Braga did. If anything Abrams at least saved the IP from dying completely. EDIT:
I take it you've never watched that, because I love those reviews and yeah, Plinkett is saying that the Star Trek movie was enjoyable. | |
Pu-leeze to you. I've been a Star Trek fan for over 20 years, watched every episode of TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT + all the movies waaaay more than I should have (I probably average the whole kitten twice a year... what? There is a lot!). Yes, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga suck. I would even call them monsters... but they didn't kill Star Trek. They left it weak and hungry, but they didn't kill it. Abrams killed it. There is nothing "Star Trek" in the last movie. The names are there, but the characters are not (no, I don't mean actors). You can not drown someone, remove internal organs, place them in a new body, and say that you "saved" them. This is a Frankenstein monster, it is an abomination. You can play the doctor and placate it all you want, but it murdered a child and the villagers are pissed. | |
I'm not going to get into a debate about the movie because the truth is you're not going to convince me and I'm not going to convince you. But what you said at the end, that is proof that Star Trek was already dead. And it was, it was dead and gone... it was never coming back until it actually came back. Berman and Braga killed it with Enterprise and the TNG movies. | |
Nope. I look forward to see what he does with it. | |
Except it didn't come back, it's like that scene in Pet Sematary where the little boy misses his cat and buries it in the Indian burial ground, but what comes back isn't his cat.
I did, I still think him "liking" the movie is tongue-in-cheek, he brings up so many valid arguments and points for why it sucks and is nothing like Star Trek (even outright stating it a few times in Part 2 and that you have to short-term lobotomize your brain to "enjoy" it) and he brings up the image of the "mass audience" it was meant for so often, that I can't really come to another conclusion. | |
yo, no one wanted it. People don't want to be known as the guy who killed star wars. Award winning directors don't want to be working under Disney and Lucasfilm to tell someone elses story. Meanwhile, Abrams is known for not only being commercially successful but also Critically successful, is able to handle sci fi and special effects, and already once rebooted a loved franchise with success. He had a lot of lens flare in one film. Get over it
*are and technically you are wrong. There are 6 with at least 3 more on the way. If you try to argue that the prequels suck then you should also argue that Episode 6 sucks, since it has all of the same problems (bad script, bad acting, lame visual style, weak directing, fucking ewoks), but isnt nearly as interesting as episode 3.
95% on rotten tomatoes says that literally almost everyone who knows what they are talking about disagrees. | |
All I keep hearing is whining. Good directors have made shit, and shit directors have made gold. So why go ape-shit already? All we know is the director, and nothing else. I remain cautiously optimistic. | |
Star Trek died the minute they decided to make a TNG movie. There is "nothing Star Trek" in any of the TNG films, they're just poor attempts at blockbuster action movies. You claim Abrams killed Star Trek, but he just did succesfully what Berman and Braga had been trying to do for four movies. | |
We're not in a debate. Myself and a few others are saying that we do not like the new Star Trek movies and providing specific instances and proof where there were problems and why they were problems. You are saying that you like the new movie, without rebuking any of the arguments that have been make and not offering up any proof of your own. I'm not saying one side or the other is correct, just that this is not a debate. Also "But what you said at the end, that is proof that Star Trek was already dead. And it was, it was dead and gone... it was never coming back until it actually came back." <- I don't know what that means. Are you saying that it came back with Star Trek '09? Again, that's not Star Trek for all the reasons mentioned in the many postings above this one. It's no more Star Trek than I would be Princess Leia once I mail you a picture of myself in a metal bikini. Berman and Braga are idiots, we agree. Whoever holds the actual Star Trek license (I think Paramount?) is an idiot too. But for all the bad storylines and nonsense they wrote in Voyager and Nemesis, the heart was still there. Not so with new Star Trek, and I won't take a man dressed up in my wife's clothing as a replacement for when her life support is finally pulled. | |
Not to disparage your point, but 90% on rotten tomatoes says that "Bridesmaids" was good. Just because 95% of people surveyed say something is true, does not make it so. | |
I like J.J. Abrams. He is however, one of the worst possible choices I could have thought of for this project. Has killed my interest in it sadly. | |
How I think it went: | |
While this may be true, I would also say all those things about Nemesis. There is nothing that Abram's film did which exceeded the damage that horrible, ugly film inflicted on ST's heritage. | |
Oh lord oh lord why have you forsaken me? Then again, if I'm being brutally honest here, I never expected anything to begine with. Star Wars has been dead to me for YEARS. | |
Seeing as we don't know who is writing it I stand by my post. It is possible to get worse, much worse. | |
The only way things get worse is if he is picked to do a 40k movie too. | |
We actually do know -- it's the writer from Toy Story 3. Good writer, but still a troublingly odd choice for a Star Wars film. | |
Really...wow, um no idea if that will work. Maybe if they bring back the claw? | |
On the bright side (c wut i did?) his reboot of Star Trek was actually a pretty fun watch, and some of hat retro style may present itself in the upcoming movies. Abrams has demosntrated his love for movies of the 70s and 80s era, so these could turn out better than the more recent Lucas abortions. Also lense flare, because I knew this was coming... even if you all beat me to it.
Boy I hope he's paying attention to the lens flare bitching, or he'll pull a Lucas and give nary a fuck about what the fans say and shit out another disaster. | |
The whole lens flare thing is getting older faster than the 'arrow in the knee' thing... | |
Its probably going to be a split; alot of star trek fans don't like what he did with Star Trek - I personally thought it was fine - but given the Star Wars fans have already had everything good about Star Wars tainted by Lucas, I have no idea how they'll react to this. Personally, I think Abrams is a good choice for Star wars, but we'll see what he does with it. EDIT:
I wouldn't say it was fucking great, but I definely enjoyed it and thought it was at least 'alright' if not 'good'. But yeah, everyone just seems to be moaning and posting billions of 'lense flare' photos. Le-sigh.
Indeedie - I do think Abrams had at least some understanding of Star Trek (a hell of alot more than the people who did all the previous Star Trek next-gen movies), and I certainly think he understands more about the appeal of Star Wars than George Lucas ever did.
Fair enough - I would argue though that the new Star Trek did at least have characters and some plot that at least made as much sense as the Star Trek universe does. I do admit he has a very definite visual style that somewhat overwhelms the story sometimes. HOWEVER, I would add that he's a better choice for trying to clear up Star Trek than Lucas could ever manage.
True - I definitely think he'll be able to do the 'clean' type environments of the Empire (i.e. the insides of their ships, the death stars, etc), but I do hope he'll be able to do the 'down and dirty' environments too; come to think of it, he did have the Romulian mining ship in ST that did seem to be quite dark and dirty. We'll see, I suppose.
I have to admit, I was SO thinking of Mr Plinkett when I was thinking about this. IF Episodes 7, 8, and 9 are good, i think Disney should give him the leyway to redo the prequels and try and salvage something from the mess George left on the whole Star Wars universe. EDIT2:
Agreed. It was funny the first time or two, now its just sad and annoying. | |
Ture but from a directorial standpoint it can't be much worse. LOL | |
People, why bother letting this colour your expectations? How about ignoring all VII-related news aside from release dates and trailers? Some times you don't get what you expected, and that can be good or bad. Go into this with cautious optimism, and forget all of the previous post-VI stuff for now. Or even treat these movies as a parallel universe, we're kinda used to doing that for other series. The only thing I expect from Episode VII is a quality science-fiction movie set in the "Star Wars" universe, taking place after the events of "Episode VI." I'm pretty sure MovieBob once said that you can make a good movie out of anything, but that sometimes comes at the cost of destroying the source material. So relax, it's just a movie. This will not affect the really important things in your life if you don't like it. And if you don't like it, go back to the stuff about "Star Wars" that you do like. There is absolutely nothing sacred any more, especially your favourites. | |
i just cant see this guy taking the starwars franchise anywhere special. oh well ill just shut up and watch the three good ones. | |
Eh. The Abrams Star Trek movies were basically star wars anyway. Not much of a leap to making an actual star wars film, now is it? XD | |
Can we count star wars episode VII oops we left the lens cover on the whole time and all you get is the audio as worse and blame it on the director? | |
Pity. Star Trek 2009 was OK..exploitative of nostalgia to be sure, but at this stage that's the best one can hope for from these franchises. Though this does dash any hopes of watching a good story in a Star Wars film again, instead of just action set piece after action set piece. | |
I figured Disney would try to get at least one of the films made by him, if only for the fanboy dollars. Still don't care about the franchise anymore, but it'll make its money back no sweat -- and at this point, that's all that really matters. | |
So every part of the review where he criticized the movie was genuine, but the numerous parts he displayed affection for it were tongue-in-cheeck? Saying it was a "guilty pleasure", that it was "well shot, well light", and "a pretty darn good action movie". Sounds like you're simply ignoring every arguement you didn't agree with. | |
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To quote Plinkett in his Star Trek: the Star Trek review.
"In fact, JJ Abrams should have directed the Star Wars Prequels and George Lucas should have directed people to their seats."