He did Force Awakens and Rise of Skywalker.
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
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Dana - Aug 18, 2020 12:27:41 pm PDT #2786 of 3455
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
amych - Aug 18, 2020 12:45:44 pm PDT #2787 of 3455
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
And those proved he grokked star wars about as much.
Consuela - Aug 18, 2020 12:55:02 pm PDT #2788 of 3455
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
And those proved he grokked star wars about as much
As disappointed as I was in those movies, I felt less offended by them, because Star Wars never really tried to be real science fiction. But Trek is SF: the original series hired honest science fiction writers, both for the episodes and the tie-in novels. Yes, it had its howlers (there's a barrier around the galaxy! Spock's brain has been stolen!), but they did try.
Abrams can't be bothered to even try. It's not like they couldn't have come up with some other reason the ship was in danger, that didn't require them outrunning a black hole.
Kalshane - Aug 18, 2020 1:05:54 pm PDT #2789 of 3455
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I've come to the conclusion the JJ is excellent at casting (Alias, Lost, New Trek and Episodes 7-9 of Star Wars have fantastic casts) good at directing and absolutely terrible at writing plots.
Zenkitty - Aug 18, 2020 1:09:12 pm PDT #2790 of 3455
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
What Consuela said.
I'd actually forgotten JJA did the Star Wars . But I don't honestly care much about the Star Wars franchise.
Kalshane - Aug 18, 2020 1:11:30 pm PDT #2791 of 3455
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I really like this version of McCoy.
I think I've said this before, but Karl Urban is easily one of my favorite genre actors right now. I pretty much love him in everything he's in (though I haven't watched The Boys yet because I'm not sure it's really my style).
There's rumors that Paramount wants to do another Star Trek movie with the current cast but without JJ. I'd love to see what a director that actually understands Star Trek could do with these people.
Zenkitty - Aug 18, 2020 1:19:29 pm PDT #2792 of 3455
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
There's rumors that Paramount wants to do another Star Trek movie with the current cast but without JJ. I'd love to see what a director that actually understands Star Trek could do with these people.
Good grief, I'd love to see that. It's the right CAST, for sure, it was just the wrong story.
I won't even mention Beyond.
dcp - Aug 18, 2020 2:20:29 pm PDT #2793 of 3455
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
...JJAbrams...Force Awakens and Rise of Skywalker.
I kept expecting Clifford the Big Red Ball to show up.
Beverly - Aug 18, 2020 4:27:41 pm PDT #2794 of 3455
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
JJA's *stated objective* was to take the movies *away* from all that boring science stuff and just have a rollicking adventure movie with some yocks along the way. Pretty! Pretty sets, pretty people, things go boom! No science! No homage to ST history! Why it's a reboot.
Yeah, I've seen some of them, love most of the cast, but it's not ST.
Consuela - Aug 18, 2020 5:45:21 pm PDT #2795 of 3455
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
ST Beyond was directed by Justin Lin, not JJA. Was it not good?