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I honestly don't mind his movies. Movie Trek has always been action for the most part anyways and, also, would kind of fuck up the characters. Hell First Contact turned Picard into a mentally unhinged action hero.
Also I still say Kirk being a rocker fucking fits yo.
I don't know if he is any good as I can't get past the generic plots and can't see anything but lens flare.
This won't be popular, but I LOVED his first two Trek movies. Acting was on point without making a caricature of the original people. The call backs in the Kahn movie were great. Both were exciting, engaging, all that.
I have no idea what happened in the third movie. Tried to watch it 4 times. Still never finished it, can't tell you a thing about it.
Begin my punishment. My body is ready.
"on point and not a caricature" you say? https://youtu.be/k9vHopyEtzs?si=nBc7zRs0_h29MNMl
Right? I like Zachary Quinto as an actor, but that Spock was not Spock. And yes, I know, the Kelvin Event changed everything... so why not just invent new characters instead of shoehorning new personalities into beloved ones?
The problem is he makes decent-to-good original films then slaps a thin veneer of franchise on it. Zero respect for what he's actually making a movie of.
Competent Director, and completely incompetent story teller.
I think you got that the wrong way around
No, Rian Johnson is a pretty shit storyteller as well.
A competent storyteller would have seen that Carrie Fisher died, looked at the release window of the movie, with a full year left, and then ordered a single reshoot to kill Leia off instead of pulling a Space Merry Poppins.
He also completely abandoned Finn's Force potential in favor of whatever the fuck that casino raid was.
And then there was the noble sacrifice that Finn was going to make, which was foiled because he decided that Finn should have a love interest, but didn't lay any of the groundwork for it, and the sacrifice could have actually saved the day.
So instead, he invents the hyperspace kamikaze.
Honestly, that entire movie felt like a long filler sequence. The stakes never actually changed, and there was no payoff of anything. It was a placeholder movie, only meant to be the second in a trilogy. And the fans hated it so much that the last movie spent a good amount of runtime retconning it all.
How do you figure that?
I love his non fandom stuff, but the major franchises should have kept him far away from them, he should just stick to original content.
Seriously asking, has he done anything decent since Cloverfield? Maybe Lost but... I never got the hype he had back in the day.
I'm sure he's talented, wouldn't be where he is, but still...
JJ is great at build up Mystery boxes. He can craft this big world changing question and hype around it all.
Then, when it comes time to open the box, you find that it's a pair of old gym socks with more holes than sock.
You then find out that he spent the entire writing budget on more lens flares.
I really liked Super 8 when I saw it in theaters but I haven’t watched it since then
It was okay. I wouldn't call it exceptional. Out of the many sci-fi films that came out in 2011, it was one of them.
He created Fringe, so I'll give him that.
