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scytale@lemm.ee 1 year agoHe’s a great visual director, but he needs a good writer to keep him on check.
Comment on One thing the fandoms can agree on.
scytale@lemm.ee 1 year agoHe’s a great visual director, but he needs a good writer to keep him on check.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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. 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.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
His black box storytelling is garbage and the coincidence-based plot in that SW movie was unforgivable.
BeardedSingleMalt@startrek.website 1 year ago
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
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not in that SW movie. In two of those SW movies.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 1 year ago
Wait, is that what J. J. stands for?
ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
It is now.
dejected_warp_core@startrek.website 1 year ago
I’ll add that this didn’t start with the SW prequel movies either. The various essays on the topic typically focus on The Phantom Menace to make this case (see: Red Letter Media); we do love to hate on that movie. But if you look to early drafts of the very first Star Wars movie script, it’s clear that it took a village to make it more than B-movie material. Also, the making-of stories are complete with every kind of move-making person improving and adding to our producer’s vision, right down to salvaging the whole mess in the editing room. It’s been a problem the entire time.
Now I wonder if THX-1138 and American Graffiti have similar war-stories behind them.