Analyzing Evil: J.J. Abrams From Disney Lucasfilm

[@roam980]

J.J. Abrams is essentially that one kid in the science project who brainstorms ideas, but when it comes to putting plans in motion his only contribution to the project is the idea and proceeds to take credit for the team's hard work when in reality he did next to nothing

[@UNUSUALUSERNAME220]

Sounds like Steve Jobs.

[@bigtechisbigbrother8690]

But even his ideas are taken from other people. He creates nothing.

[@terrylandess6072]

I listened to only one 'directors comments' of his: Star Trek. In between his bragging all I heard was 4-5 yes men saying what great ideas those were. It got very sickening, very fast.

[@Wandamiancrucifixplat]

Sometimes that is a good thing but taking all credit is bad

[@gordonchen9510]

That would make Rian Johnson that "gifted kid" who would never study just because he aced one or two tests though sheer chance without studying and just naturally assumed he was capable of anything. The science project was abandoned by JJ and the teacher put Rian in charge instead with the belief he studied for those tests.

[@fnord4960]

The problem with mystery box writing, is that you must open the box eventually.

[@AttitudeIndicator]

Says who?

[@talentlessartist7929]

@@AttitudeIndicator the fans that will walk away once they get whats going on.

[@AttitudeIndicator]

@@talentlessartist7929 They're making an insane amount of money, those fans are a minority

[@talentlessartist7929]

@@AttitudeIndicator You are right its crazy more people don't complain about their bad practices. It's like a cult....

[@fnord4960]

@@AttitudeIndicator Says every convention of good writing.

[@jasontodd8296]

That is why he is Jar Jar Abrams. But he did accomplish one thing: The prequels are hated no more, as the sequels unified the hate against them.

[@Marinealver]

Only Abrams could have ended the war between trekkies and star wars fans as they now hold commonality in seeing their beloved franchise dead and dying.

[@olymbiabirda7131]

Ironic jj Abrams wanted people to forget about the prequel trilogy and was desperate to bring star wars back to its original glory but instead people started loving the prequels more because of how bad the sequels are

[@Marinealver]

@@olymbiabirda7131 I still think if there is a Remake (after this terrible generation in charge has died off) they can change the prequels, keep the OT exactly the same just with different actors, and complete throw out and redo episodes 7-9

[@aramisone7198]

IMO the prequels were good except the Phantom menace.

[@matthewgaudet4064]

People were wrong somewhat in their hate for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull considering the Dial of Destiny is the absolute rock bottom of the Indiana Jones franchise.

[@patrickstewart3446]

He’s pretty much responsible for completely wrecking the two big sci-fi franchise to ever come out of Hollywood. The Idiot doesn’t know how the Force works in much the same way that he didn’t know how Vulcans work. And just like how episode 7 is just a plagiarized episode4, “Into Darkness” was just a plagiarized “Wrath of Khan” without the years of character investment.

[@matthewgaudet4064]

I won't defend him remaking Star Wars 1977 nearly beat for beat, but he had nothing to do with the Star Trek screenplays, sure there were many writers of those, but the heart of New Trek was Bob Orci. It was his vision JJ just directed what Bob put on the page. And Khan was the thing from the beginning they wanted to do it in the first one but the studio made them save it for the sequel, that was Paramount. He also wanted Captain April to be Spock in disguise I'm glad they didn't do that.

[@AttitudeIndicator]

these movies are literally some of the best performing star wars movies in history, you are unfortunately in a very miniscule minority.

[@burningphoneix]

@@AttitudeIndicator Counting inflation and separating domestic and international sales shows that Force Awakens did the best of the new trilogy, it got subsequently worse with each entry.

[@AttitudeIndicator]

@@burningphoneix i guess accounting for inflation rise of skywalker didn't do too well, but the last jedi and force awakens are the highest grossing star wars movies to date. all these companies see are numbers and it's being made abundantly clear to them people are showing up for this and speaking with their money, this is what the majority of people want out of star wars

[@ltb1345]

@@AttitudeIndicator There's a reason Star Wars hasn't been getting many movies anymore.

[@Doomzdayxx]

It's pretty clear that Abrams was born in to what he was doing. He didn't really need to "claw his way up" like a Cameron or a Spielberg. Abrams was basically given everything.

[@matthewgaudet4064]

He actually was a wunderkind that impressed Lucas and Spielberg as crazy as that sounds. He grew up idolizing Rod Serling and Steven Spielberg. Making Super 8 movies the way Spielberg his hero had done. It still doesn't mean squat when he hasn't made an auteur film that tells you anything about the man, or an original IP that didn't lift from more creative minds. His movies are as deep as McDonalds, and there is a place for popcorn flicks, hell I'd defend him if he made something fresh and new in that genre he hasn't. Hollywood has decided people want the same experience time after time, just with bigger effects each time. and for most of the last few decades they have been correct people go to see it. Only recently have movies started flopping.

[@juliancate7089]

Well, clawing their way up didn't make Cameron any better than Abrams. Granted, it's an opinion, but I think Cameron is a Leftist hack by every measure as bad as Abrams with the possible exception of not leaning on other people's work.

[@Doomzdayxx]

@@matthewgaudet4064 We all know that Lucas and Spielberg haven't made the greatest of choices in their later years, artistically speaking. Both genius businessmen though, gotta give them that.

[@UNUSUALUSERNAME220]

Born on third, acts like he hit a triple. His son has grown into a very attractive lesbian though.

[@WarlockX4]

The tribe take care of their own...

[@BennysGamingAttic]

Imagine hating literally half of George's work, and getting creative control of his movie empire.

[@Xbalanque84]

Please, I just ate!

[@pufffincrazy5275]

then proceeding to make a carbon copy of a new hope, utter rubbish

[@YouilAushana]

I hate you and got into the comments. See I just proved its a mess

[@yammt3148]

He has literally helped devolve cinema. First he and Lindelof ruined Lost by never having an ending. He had Spock yell "KHAAANNNNNNNN" because he thought he was cute. He admitted he/Kathy never had a plan for Disney Star Wars. That man is a fraud.

[@YouilAushana]

Who is evolving cinema, you or some pink haired he/she?

[@binary1045]

I personally hate Abrams because he oversaw the Cloverfield franchise, which had an amazing first film but was followed up with horrible sequels with very little connection with the original. He had a great idea with the first film and proceeded to do nothing with it.

[@PEDRELVIS]

Story of his professional life

[@Drunkgamer904]

I hate him for how he treated star wars like it was a joke, something to have fun with and not take seriously.

[@inigo_bpc]

I think he's a hack and I hate what he did to Star Wars, but I don't hate *him* because I don't know him.

[@metalhedp8ntbll]

It was good but boy did it make me feel sick. Probably the only movie I’ve ever had to look away before I puked. Never knew I’d get motion sickness

[@trufreedom]

I think his mystery box philosophy is inherently flawed. I kind of thought we pay story tellers to tell an entire story… not just a setup and then, “well, you guys figure out what happens, it’s more fun that way.”

[@thehealthy-man7522]

Never let J.J. touch anything that resembles Star Wars ever again.

[@jasontodd8296]

Or Trek.

[@Rootiga]

I'm pretty sure the franchise is so poorly off right now that it wouldn't matter

[@BrandontheAwesome]

Or Batman. Or Star Trek.

[@Yoda-93]

​@@BrandontheAwesomeToo Late JJ Is One Of 2 Producers For The Upcoming Amazon Series Batman Caped Crusader.

[@BrandontheAwesome]

@@Yoda-93 Crap. As if Batman can't take enough garbage...

[@pamusso1466]

Jar Jar Abrams, the most over rated man in Hollywood history.

[@AGreen-ug9oi]

Jar Jar Abrams! That’s what I (and many others, I’m sure) call him! 😃 (regardless of what he worked on since TFA) 🙄

[@JENNerationX]

😂😂😂😂

[@Shamshiro]

Don't you dare call him that. Jar Jar Binks was an incompetent yet lovable goofball, while Abrams couldn't give a damn about life even if it poked him with a uranium rod.

[@odojang]

I call him the Ed Woods of the 21st century. And to be fair to Ed Woods, Woods was back in the 50's and worked with shoestring budgets and limited tech on risky original movies.

[@c1ph3rpunk]

I don’t know, Snyder might be a close call.

[@ShadySliver17]

I’m still pissed the fact they didn’t even have a game plan set for their trilogy and just slapped together what they thought would make sense when in reality it was nothing but plot hole after pointless plot hole for a bland story with no originality.

[@tomgee8211]

“Ray, there’s something I never told you” -Finn

[@Sketch_Sesh]

Not to mention all the dead-end plot threads .. like snoke .. and they couldn’t even reunite the big 3

[@ShadySliver17]

@@Sketch_Sesh I miss when being a Star Wars fan was sacred and cherished.

[@curtiskretzer8898]

I'm OK w/being disaffected by Mouse House.🍿

[@rutgaurxi7314]

@@ShadySliver17 Reminder, he currently has hold of the Half-Life film rights.... Think about that.

[@sirg-had8821]

Credit where it's due, he can film a chase sequence. Also: He's a talentless hack, a terrible writer, and he couldn't stick an ending with superglue.

[@stormsurge2103]

I've been telling my friends and fam that for years!

[@ToeCutter0]

I disagree bc it seems he's even forgotten how to do that? The opening scene of TROS was essentially a car chase in hyperspace and despite all the VFX and budget, was yawn inducing. 😴

[@matthewgaudet4064]

Before he was a director, he actually was a sort of decent script writer or script fixer. That JJ was nowhere on Force Awakens. He usually uses a team of writers and editors to make himself look good, he should never have taken over writing on Star Wars period, but he had to because they had a locked date and no script. And Larry Kasdan obviously has no connection or love for Star Wars except for the Han Solo character which he also messed up.

[@BrandonScott-mi5pz]

EXCELLENT WORK. J.J. PLAGIARISMS JJ ABRAM PLAGIARISM,

[@DontrelleRoosevelt]

"What a heavy load Einstein must've had; fucking morons, everywhere!"

[@ganykaliya7811]

The tragedy of JJ Abrams is that if he worked in marketing and advertising he would be considered a visionary. His marketing campaign for Cloverfield was everything his films are not: original, innovative and creative. In fact, the mystery box is basically the structure of any marketing or advertising campaign. JJ's talent is basically to build hype and interest, delivering on that hype and interest should have been left to others.

[@darthprime1990]

"What are stories but mystery boxes?"

[@mridlon1634]

Apparently, Schrodinger’s Cat? We are living in the universe where the cat is dead…

[@ToeCutter0]

Mystery boxes that were never intended to be opened, bc they are empty, like Abrams's ideas.

[@Marinealver]

When you open a box just to get another box, then open that box to see another box. Eventually as the boxes get smaller the big reveal is just disappointing.

[@autobotstarscream765]

"Miserable little piles of secrets!"

[@IndyDefense]

South Park should edit him into that episode with Michael Bay and M. Night Shymalan.

[@Roofhack]

During film school around 2013 I had a debate with another student about Abrams (before this drama). He basically said you couldn't deny that he was a good film maker. I said, can he effectively organize people and produce effectively? Sure, but he is not a true artist in any sense. Now I feel very justified lol.

[@matthewgaudet4064]

He was a good script fixer ages ago, and he can direct actors. He also is good at casting. But you shouldn't allow him to write for big franchises. What he has never been except in the tv days of Bad Robot is someone who innovates or can do anything on a budget. Except maybe in places on MI 3 and Star Trek 2009, but the bloated budget of Into Darkness sank the franchise. and Beyond which he didn't direct was horrible. I hope if he directs again, he loses the lens flare at least. Star trek is a horrific experience in HDR and 4K it's a nightmare for someone who experiences photo sensitivity, you also can't see a darn thing.

[@rutgaurxi7314]

@@Roofhack The bridge set piece was almost entirety the work of the secondary director and the editor, since Abrams made such a hash of it, wasted so much time and money on it only to "throw it away," so to speak. But Abrams was of course only too happy to take the credit.

[@capndallas4918]

​@@matthewgaudet4064beyond wasn't made by Abrams. You needcto check yourself before you wreck yourself. You need jesus

[@jaxxpool9630]

And this is how the dark era first began…. The era of the infamous philosophy…..What are stories but mystery boxes…..

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Stories for thousands of years being concise tales with deep morals. A beginning, middle, end. Heroes journey and climaxes. Thousands of years of stories…. Throw that out the window, it’s a “mystery box”.

[@ABurntMuffin]

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 it's like somebody told him a really good story once and he's been trying to remember that story through un-scripts and half-baked movie ideas for the last 20 years.

[@mattburke5491]

Idiotic stories. That’s the mystery box.

[@catelynstark9883]

JJ Abrams is what happens when you give all creative control to the wrong people

[@Steve-3P0]

Or fail to hire the same people to make the prequels that made the OT the masterpieces that they are.

[@MSpotatoes]

Also known as "Lense Flair" and "Destroyer of Galaxies far far away" He should never be allowed near a film set again.

[@sentryogmixmaster]

is "Lense Flair" related to Ric Flair?

[@GP.Records]

JJ Abrams is such an obvious beta it’s brutal.

[@misterhimura036]

When J J Plagiarism talks about J J Abrams Me: Absolute cinema

[@decimated550]

He does not have the great impressive look that other great creative minds in history have. Not the craggy face of Stephen King, not the young lean Turk that George Lucas was in his youth, not the form your leg but fertile over the top output of Michael Bay, not the angular brilliance of Tony Scott, he's just a regular dweeb with a scrunchy face hipster glasses. Obvious hair dye, no one's hair. Is that dark, he's not imposing in any way. He doesn't have that great man look. And absolute mediocrity

[@brokenclock77]

'Evil' is pretty harsh but Abrams sure is a top-tier con man

[@DarranKern]

People who owe their entire wealth to abusing trust are, in fact, evil

[@gregoryl.levitre9759]

They're all evil in that company.

[@apstrike]

I literally don't understand how movies as bad as the sequel trilogy can be made when there are a million writers of fanfic and commentators on KZbin who, despite not getting paid a dime, write dramatically better content.

[@standardofexcellence]

It's an evil corrupt world in all things acting/entertainment and they aren't nepo babies

[@Steve-3P0]

And yet the sequel trilogy is WAY better than the prequels.

[@mirtalpur739]

@@Steve-3P0no because it is incoherent while prequels were coherent.

[@MsSovereign1214]

Him blowing up Romulus has utterly ruined startrek lore as seen with discovery and Picard

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

God, I hate that Romulus being blown up is canon in Star Trek.

[@MsSovereign1214]

@@BiggieTrismegistus it started the downfall of lore everything wrong with nu trek stems from 2009 movie

[@dr.strangelove5708]

Not just Romulus also Vulcan.

[@ravenRedwake]

A Star Wars film that followed the Imperial Remnant trying to stay together and hold on would have been interesting. They could show storm troopers being bad ass combat troops, and show how horrific it would be to come up against a Force user who just dominates them. That scene from Rogue One with Vader where he just murders those guys is fucking *awesome* and underscores how fucked normal people are against force users.

[@gregoryl.levitre9759]

That scene sucked. It added nothing to that boring movie. Vader didn't work like that as seen in the very first scene of A New Hope -he lets his troops handle his light work.

[@penske_material]

​@@gregoryl.levitre9759 the scene was good. I think the difference between that scene and he fist of the original film is that he was alone in RO and had to handle it himself. It was the best scene of RO tbh lol

[@N1venz]

"A leech who relies on other people's work to make his fortune" Is the PERFECT description for this weak and uncreative hack.

[@standardofexcellence]

Best thing he ever made was fringe which is based off x-files and probably star trek so yea i totally agree

[@FMK03]

I have one suggestion, for the "Analyzing Evil" videos, whenever you end them, say the line: "What are stories but mystery boxes?" in a grim and serious tone. That way, it will remain tonally consistent with the rest of the video and the eerie background ambiance/ambience/music.

[@sonofluke3172]

A movie that copies so much from the original does not feel like something made by a fan. It feels like the opposite. Like someone watched the original for the first time & the script was due the next day, so they copied as much as they could remember before they had to turn it in.

[@mistermeow527]

It's an interesting stance to blame Abrams not Rian Johnson and you are right for it. The mystery box was what killed the sequel trilogy as it was a time bomb Abrams left in it as they were already problems appearing in The Force Awakens. The Knights of Ren, Fin's Force sensitivity, the reason for Luke's disappearance, Rey's origin, the origin of the First Order, who Snoke is, it is a film filled with a series of inconclusive threads left to Johnson to essentially answer with little to no guidance. Episode 7 is a case in point of the mystery box's poison to story telling.

[@pufffincrazy5275]

Also, LITERALLY ALL THE INTERESTING PARTS OF THE TRILOGY HAPPENS OFFSCREEN. Leia and Han get together, the First Order rises, Luke trains Jedi, Luke fails training Jedi, Kylo falls to the dark side, and the New Republic is established. All of that very important interesting stuff a just haphazardly crammed into the title crawl.

[@matthewgaudet4064]

@@pufffincrazy5275 , Disney is still filling that in with books and comics, but no one will care to read them when the movies were terrible.

[@chheinrich8486]

0:31 At this point, most people at Disney lucasfilm. Hate even the original trilogy not just the prequels 😂or else they would have treated Luke Han and Leila better in the sequel trilogy😂

[@Yoda-93]

I think it was Kathleen Kennedy idea remember she is also a producer so she also has creative input too

[@redjirachi1]

That is some bantha shit. Have you considered maybe, just maybe, they thought they were doing the characters justice but didn't do a good job? There's a difference between maliciousness and ineptitude. I think the sequels are the weakest of the three trilogies and even I think the writers still cared for the franchise Also, Luke, that's fair, but Leia and Han? Carrie Fischer died before TLJ came out so whatever that would've messed with whatever they had planned for Leia. And Harrison Ford has been pretty focal about believing Han should've died in Episode 6 to up the stakes.

[@ltb1345]

@@redjirachi1 True about Han and Leia, but Luke's treatment in TLJ was absolutely malicious.

[@joquin4618]

@@ltb1345 💯

[@penske_material]

​@@redjirachi1I think you're being naive. Are you gonna continue ignoring what they've been saying for so many years now? They've been pretty outspoken on how the man being the hero is misogynistic, the whole women being smarter and stronger than men in their movies isn't a coincidence either. What they did to Han Solo in TFA was just a small dose of what they had in store for Luke but they had to be more subtle.

[@fersuvious]

How can one filmmaker be so utterly void of their own artistry. He’s basically an old man and has made like two standalone films. Cloverfield and super 8. Any other auteur by the same age had a PILE of original films under their belts. He’s an absolute joke.

[@matthewgaudet4064]

Cloverfield is a ripoff of Godzilla, and Super 8 of Close Encounters and ET. Star Wars 7 is a remake of A New Hope Episode 4, Star Trek 2nd reboot is a remake of Wrath of Khan. I'm in complete agreement with you except on the age part he is only 58.

[@fersuvious]

@@matthewgaudet4064 haha noted! I didn’t love those films anyways…but look at people like Spielberg, Tarantino, PTA, Scorcese…they all had a BUNCH of classics to their names by 58. Maybe I was pushing it with the old man generalization :)

[@matthewgaudet4064]

@@fersuvious , and Francis Coppola.

[@elijahhernandez906]

Nepotism comes to mind.

[@kaiwancallender2761]

You know what happened to JJ Abrams people gave them such a good thing for the television show. They didn’t realize that he wasn’t that good writer but he’s some type of post post this writer.

[@DarranKern]

Pretty decent director, was able to write a couple good projects, like maybe season 1 of lost, and especially the excellent Mission Impossible III……and then everything else he’s ever made has been mediocre or plain bad

[@DjDeadpig]

Your evil twin I guess. Next video should be on Ryan Johnson and the various Disney Star Wars show writers

[@j.j.plagiarisms7149]

They will be indeed.

[@TrueYankeeFan]

His name is Rian Johnson by the way - as someone named Ryan it must be said that we do not claim him

[@sephikong8323]

The one positive I will say about him is that, at least his movie had something to say and stands on it's own as an actual movie (Episode 7 was just plagiarism that somehow managed to get the source material so wrong the end product is severely underwhelming on top of being creatively bankrupt and Episode 9 went no fucking where and is a mess on every level). It's not a good addition to Star Wars by any means, but of the three movies, it's the only one I can say that I respect somewhat because at least there was some thought put into it even if they were massively misplaced. Comparing Rian and J.J and it's night and day, one may not be amazing by any means, but at least he's not a Nepo baby that's a complete hack

[@Tallacus]

Alex "eye fetish" Kurtzman is associated with this man, Kurtzman went on to ruin Star Trek. JD Payne and Patrick McClain are also assosciatea of Abrams who because of him got a job at Amazon Studios to ruin the Lord of the Rings franchise. Its safe to say that JJ Abrams is the biggest villain of our time. Also his wife is a big supporter of George Gascon out here in Los Angeles the worse District Attorney we ever had and who cowrote Prop 47

[@PseudoNym13]

JJ Abrams is Kylo Ren A cheap fucking knock off

[@dr.strangelove5708]

That is an insult to Kylo, I think Jar Jar Abrams is far better.

[@ToeCutter0]

I've been saying this since Star Trek, but better late than never. I couldn't believe that people were actually excited about him directing TFA when it was announced immediately after Abrams blew it with both of his Trek films. JJ Abrams became the master of hacks by filming scenes that "looked cool", but were otherwise pointless and contrived. Consider the scene in TROS when Rey cuts Kylo Ren's TIE fighter in half, causing a horrific crash that Ren simply walks away from. My only consolation is that it appears Hollywood is done with Abrams. Abrams hasn't directed a film in nearly 5 long years, the longest production gap in Abrams 25 year long mystery box con game.

[@emperorremus8409]

JJ Abrams was like, "people want prepackaged bubblegum that sounds hip and cool and modern and easy to digest because the public are a buncha dum dums", and he rolled with it to this day.

[@neganstains5745]

The Mystery Box is a terrible writing technique. It benefits him more to never have to come up with an explanation than to stoke the collective imaginations of the audience. All the questions he raised in The Force Awakens - Snoke's identity, Rey's parentage- were answered with Mystery Boxes. Even if a writer is never going to impart these answers to the viewer, they should at least know themselves.

[@raymathews1474]

There has been no real star trek except fan productions, including ST Continues, since about 2005

[@TONYGILLEY]

What do I think of JJ Abrams? TALENTLESS HACK comes to mind. Everything said here is 100% Spot On, but one thing that I detest is that this guy had been touted by the mainstream media as the next Steven Spielberg; something I find to be laughably insulting given at this point in time in his WORTHLESS career, Abrams' total filmography is nowhere near the same level and quality of Spielberg's in the same length of time. Spielberg's total filmography dwarfs Abrams on a planetary scale, and considering that Abrams spends most of his time producing GARBAGE or adding his vile stench to other productions, or finding the next franchise to destroy with his stupid brand of MysteryBoxes, I think Spielberg's legacy is never being overtaken by this plagiarizing parasite with lens flare. Ryan Johnson has Hell to pay, but I gotta give that Round-Headed Simpleton credit: He screwed JJ with TLJ by covering up all of Abrams' plot-holes, not to mention wrapping up ALL of JJ's plot-threads; leaving JJ Exposed for the HACK that he is when he gave us TROS.

[@dr.strangelove5708]

The only good thing about Rian is he killed off that cheap imitation of That Which Could not be Named from Potter, Snoke.

[@konstancemakjaveli]

I bet theres gonna be "analyzing scapegoats: ryan johnson"

[@Deuteromis]

What's sad is that The Force Awakens is the best movie out of The Sequels...which isn't saying much at all.

[@redjirachi1]

Personally I think it's The Last Jedi. Controversial it may be it at least tried to be something unique and with its own identity

[@burningphoneix]

@@redjirachi1 Nah, Last Jedi was even more convoluted and made little sense too. Awakens at least had the bones of a competent film (New Hope) to plagiarize.

[@wadewilson6628]

That's because Awakens is just a remake of Star Wars.

[@Walamonga1313]

​@@redjirachi1I also think Last Jedi had at least some interesting stuff, even though it was mostly copied from KOTOR 2's force link. Force Awakens was just ANH but way dumber (Finn gets ptsd for seeing 1 trooper death, then merrily kills tons of fellow troopers 5 mins later) and then the last one I don't even remember

[@Shamshiro]

I just don't get some people's beef with midi-chlorians. It's a medium connecting living beings to The Force, and the more midi-chlorians people are born with, the more sensitive they are to The Force. It doesn't take away the mysteries of The Force, and even someone like Anakin Skywalker and Yoda had to undergo years of training to be competent in using it. Midi-chlorians made more sense than whatever Abrams came up with to justify Rey's sudden competence with that power.

[@thac0twenty377]

I liked it more as a spiral discipline. I get your point, it was just that actually quantifying it took away the mysticism. and once you have that count, there'd be someone finding a way to ammipukate it scientifically. wither enhance or cut off. just opens a lot of questions

[@BrandontheAwesome]

The man who helped start rhe destruction of Star Trek and Star Wars, and is now working on Batman: Caped Crusader. God help us all.

[@harrisfrankou2368]

He is a true hack of a film. I can’t believe that Spielberg and Lucas mentored him. Something weird. Only Snyder is his equal.I mean ruined the DCEU from the first movie alone it would never work.

[@edpistemic]

I knew he was a total hack, but I didn't know until now that he was a nepo baby from a family of TV producers. Figures!!

[@FailedTheTuringTest]

Bad Jar Jar! No lens flare!

[@gordonchen9510]

JJ Abrams' method reminds me of this one friend in high school who would lie to people that he could hook them up with any girl/guy that they were into and then he would say "you were happy when i gave you hope! I made you happy momentarily!". He legit never realized that he was hurting people/pissing them off and continued doing this living off their short-lived anticipation thinking that he was doing a public service. Just like the general changing view towards the prequel trilogy, everyone also began to start reminiscing about what they had before once the sense of betrayal had killed all sense of hope for something better. To me he will alway be that kid if that kid was given creative control of such and such.

[@kaiwancallender2761]

Yeah, he had to be a postmodern writer

[@swoozie]

Just discovered ur channel and ur vids a very thought out. JJ when it comes to SW tho it did seem there was a lot of ‘powers that be’ inserting things not to mention giving him a tight deadline to start/finish the script for ep7 to align w/ galaxy’s edge grand opening. Super talented dude - like him a lot but also think ur channel is a fun lens

[@j.j.plagiarisms7149]

Thanks for your words!

[@fattiger2000]

The first disney film was a reboot disguised as a sequel. It never had any intention of carrying on the story. The mandate was to redo Star Wars but this time with a "progressive" stance.

[@nono9543]

JJ Abrams is like the ideas guy except he has no ideas.

[@tk-6967]

6:22 This is one of my biggest gripes with Disney Lucasfilm. They allow film and TV show writers do whatever the hell they want lore wise (as long as they comply with the virtue signals/checkboxes that Disney needs) and then leave the plot holes to be fixed by comics, novels and sourcebooks, most of which will probably be retconned by one of the film/TV show writers (especially Filoni) later anyway. They are wasting everyone's time, but especially the people who write and buy comics, novels and sourcebooks. The writers have to spend time trying to fix all of the messes created by the films and TV shows instead of spending more time creating actually good stories. I mean it is clear that the quality of Star Wars physical media has declined since 2014, and I reckon that is because of the increased activity with Disney Plus shows. From 2014 to 2017, the majority of SW physical media was fine. A lot of world building was done, a lot of decent stories were made, etc. If you look at the digital media created during that era, it becomes obvious why. Rogue One was actually great for worldbuilding and Rebels S1 and S2 are arguably Filoni's least lore breaking works of all time, so the writers didn't have to focus on making excuses because there was less to excuse in the first place. The Sequels were obviously a dumpster fire, but there was still a 30 year gap between it and the 2 main periods that people actually cared about, although a lot of effort was put in to keep the Sequel era afloat (in vain of course) by sourcebook, novel and comic writers. 2017 to 2019 was ok-ish, but it was now clear that the end was nigh for Star Wars because of TLJ being so contradictory to TROS and TFA. But the writers weren't allowed to jump ship on the sequels, oh no. Instead they were forced to try and somehow *connect the Sequels to the rest of the timeline.* Thankfully I would argue this crude attempt by Disney failed, thanks in part to Filoni because he predictably messed up the already terrible lore surrounding Episode 9 and made the Aftermath Trilogy even less coherent. 2020 to 2024 is pretty much the result of Filoni's bullshit. A few decent to good projects exist, but the back of camel that was the novel, comic and sourcebook writers has been broken. Now we have writers trying to contradict the obvious chemistry between Cal and Merrin, the story of Obi Wan and Leia no longer making sense, the 'many Bothans died for this information' from ROTJ being retconned into Crimson Dawn', a nonsensical story about a computer virus taking over a bunch of shit pre-ROTJ and being a threat to the whole Galaxy, professional artists who can actually draw well no longer giving a shit about the setting and just tracing fan art/film scenes, etc.

[@BrandontheAwesome]

Ever since Disney took over Star Wars media took a nosedive. The Battlefront reboot, the books that barely anyone cared about (seriously no one was talking about them) so on and so forth.

[@tk-6967]

@@BrandontheAwesome Filoni is the main cause for the nosedive though. Perhaps if he hadn't been involved in TCW then Disney wouldn't have been so cocky with their lore breaking bs and would have taken Lucas seriously. But Filoni's antics clearly created a sense of confidence in KK that she could get away with doing what she wants with the IP, which, as JJP has pointed out, was mostly virtue signalling nonsense and using people as tokens to win brownie points with political activists and journos.

[@curtiskretzer8898]

Mouse House cancelled the EU.Star Wars ran into the ground by activist 304s.

[@tk-6967]

@curtiskretzer8898 Star Wars was on an inevitable crash course due to Filoni, the Sequels steepened it and activists just made the crash worse.

[@curtiskretzer8898]

@@tk-6967 crash course happened w/Iger signature on $4.1billion sales contract.

[@tylerskiss]

There’s so much worse you could call Abrams out on. His wife is a huge part of the #MeToo power grab and together they are a HUGE reason why we are dealing with this anti-white, anti-male DEI bs. He started earlier than most pushing the ESG scam in cinema. The most frustrating thing i often see is people claiming nothing he did except for Super 8 was original- but Super 8 was not original in the least! Instead of fleecing a single IP for Super 8, he just fleeced a certain Director’s entire body of work. He took the Goonies, ET, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire of the Sun, Jaws and so on and just put together a… story made up of moments from all of those films.

[@Thomasmemoryscentral]

Geez seriously. If that isn’t enough Abrams isn’t fit to create an ending, he and his wife can take credit for esg crud

[@One21Jiggawatts]

Abrams also paved the way for Orci/Kurtzman

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

I feel nauseous every time I read Kurtzman name because of what he did to Star Trek. I absolutely loved that franchise (and still love the stuff pre-2009) and never thought I'd see the day where I had no interest in watching new Star Trek shows.

[@bendakstarkiller1270]

I still cannot fathom how someone who's been in Hollywood so long could merely remake Episode 4 and think that's a great idea for one of the biggest franchises ever...

[@greglbennett]

I don't think it's fair to call him evil or to claim he is untalented. Abrams does a lot of things very well. He films great action sequences and he gets great, charismatic performances out of his actors. His films are always wildly entertaining despite his "ripping off" or "borrowing" or whatever. "Super 8" was a great example. Great acting, great action, compelling "mystery", but in the end it lacked heart. What he needs is someone to make his plots make sense and help him know exactly what the answers are to his "mystery boxes" are during the writing process. He

[@kaiwancallender2761]

The postmodern writing style is this bad the postmodern writing style they teach kids JGA great stories, but just couldn’t do it. He couldn’t do it on his

[@alex_tucker]

Unless people can spontaneously learn how to pilot starships via the force in JJ's universe, Rey is still a Mary-Sue.

[@F_Yale]

Judaism gonna Juda. Isn't this the guy who complained about there being too many white people in the room?

[@Bullitt3401]

109 so far. 110 coming soon, it appears. 😊

[@rutgaurxi7314]

His wife, is a permanent part of the Academy... Let that sink in, while his daughter is currently working as a screenwriter.

[@elijahhernandez906]

Forced diversity is never a good thing

[@sebastiantrias1529]

If you’re gonna do some on Disney executives, I recommend looking at one of Disney potential new CEO Dana Walden, who is a combination of Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy.

[@williamlarochelle3160]

He and Kasdan did have a written plan but Rian threw it out. Kennedy is the one who told Michael Arndt Luke was "distracting" from the new characters.

[@matthewgaudet4064]

Who knows what Arndt wrote, he got screen credit, but they never used his draft. When JJ was hired, and Larry Kasdan brought on there was no script. From what I have been told Kasdan didn't even look at or read what Michael wrote, JJ wrote an outline and worked with Kasdan dividing up the script. Kasdan wrote the Han Solo scenes.

[@curtiskretzer8898]

​@@matthewgaudet4064then Kasdan was obviously script filling, because the Han and Leia scenes were beyond stupid. Trotting out the ball droid for the debt collectors/repossessors and then taking ball droid to the oldest watering hole in the galaxy, where,it is literally Solo verbally acknowledging that the untrustworthy,lowlifes congregate. Then the dumbassian tripe that zhey decided was thoughtful dialogue for the General Leia POD.Fitting that "The Force Awakens"woke me up and was the last💰doled out for any of zheir🐂💩

[@curtiskretzer8898]

Had a cop pull me over in a B class I was operating, that told me how my "turn signal had alarmed the drivers behind me".I told officer Abrams that it was "because turn signals were something that zhey neither knew of or recognized and that I wasn't surprised".I failed to inquire how he knew what was transpiring for a sadass excuse for a thought pattern in those POD's empty heads.(of course,he didn't.He was just fishing, hoping that I wasn't a townie in a rental truck;which I was.)

[@tonyjackson4078]

I just loved when he did NuTrek he pretty much openly stated he wanted to make it more like Star Wars, cause ya know that's what the fans wanted obviously 😂

[@DaringDan]

I can't believe Lucasfilm allowed Rian and JJ to have an argument using the final trilogy of STAR WARS. It beggars belief.

[@Positiva360]

The only mystery I'm still invested in is why they didn't make profit! I must admit, that I hate Ruin J. more for what he did. He stabbed this IP to death, while JarJar only handcuffed it to a chair and gave it the death blow after RJ was done with it. Great Analysis! We will watch your career with great interest. ; )

Just one more thing: If you're not in the process already, Mr. Plagiarisms, I would love to see an ANALYZING EVIL episode profiling these villains... * Malcolm Frink & Kilokahn (Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad) * Karl "Grimlord" Ziktor (V.R. Troopers) As both series celebrate their 30th anniversary this year, how better to celebrate...! Wouldn't you agree?

[@LedZedd]

KILOKAHN MENTIONED - Ft Malcolm Frink - the Original incel

[@AmandaFessler]

I grew up watching Alias rather than Lost, so I can't say how bad that was. So when I saw he was directing VII, I was hyped. It... quickly disappeared after I saw it.

[@rutgaurxi7314]

@@AmandaFessler It was good for two two seasons, then fell down quick, thanks to the "mystery box" writing technique. It had potential.

[@roycehuepers4325]

Just a reminder that time travel is canon, and 4:50 the Rise of Skywalker basically was a plagiarizion of Dark Empire, as such Palpatines return as a clone is a canon event. So Expanded Universe at this point is Star Wars Galaxy 616 5:06 I never understood the prequel hate... im not saying they were as good as the originals, but i loved them. I think Lucas just needed a director and an editor who wasn't a yes man like he did in empire and rotj.

[@Sketch_Sesh]

I love this title! You’ll never run out of content

[@mattlamson240]

aka JJ is a hack

[@timmholl9238]

My firstborn and his wife were so desperate for new SW that it was daughter-in-law who was trying to get me hyped for TFA: "...practical sets, though!" But it was the age of the Mary Sues and girl-bosses, and I dreaded going to see this. But we made a family affair of it, and wife (HUGE SW fan back then) and I HATED/LOATHED/DESPISED everything about. You broke it down succinctly why I hated TFA, but didn't know why.

[@drlarrymitchell]

Fun fact: BOTH Cloverfield sequels were unrelated films, with NO connection to Cloverfield, that were done and in the can on the shelf, awaiting obscurity, when Jar-Jar Abrams found them, scooped them up, and with a splash of add-on re-shoots- bookending them with new framing devices and interstitial scenes- tied them hamfistedly into the Cloverfield tale. Once again, someone else did the work, and half-ass Jay Z-Grade slapped his name on the side, waited for the applause that never came to die down, and was instantly forgotten.

[@ImanFate]

worked as a doorman is his building. actually a super good guy. bought me food for no reason a few times.

[@heartlessangel2910]

I'm three seasons into JJ's Alias. This is a show that is plagued with his signature "mystery box" storytelling in the form of the Rambadli inventions. These are exaggerated historical artefacts that are considered technologically significant and prophetically capable of world changing power. They typically facilitate an episode and are so self-contained, they are irrelevant to the proceeding plot. It's like JJ had no idea how to do a genuine spy and intrigue drama thriller, and instead tried to fool everyone with outlandish fantasy.

[@4dmind]

TFA is nearly a detail for detail clone of A New Hope. That guy is a hack.

[@ryeguy7471]

JJ performs worse as a producer, he’s incapable of replacing a director with anyone but himself.

[@SpFlash1523]

Fun Fact: The most watched Star Wars movie on Disney Plus is The Phantom Menace.

[@pladampa]

Don Johnson Hates JJ Abrams and I don't blame him.

[@enriquemino9963]

another word for evil is WOKE, JJ is total woke, his wife actually started the me-too movement. He also said that he was at an awards ceremony and saw nothing but white males, he was determined to change this in other words he wanted to DEI the movie industry. HE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED ANYWHERE TO DO MOVIES AT ALL. I think deep down he wanted to destroy the star wars universe along with the star trek one.

[@StarOasis26]

They're going to do a remake of Alice in Wonderland? Typical for Communists to rewrite history. They'll never learn.

[@Yasiri00]

He is pure evil. I hate his films . He totally overrated producer .

[@FMD-FullMetalDragon]

Lucas didn't have a plan for the Original Trilogy going into it. He had Star Wars. He released Star Wars. It became hugely popular. Then he started working on Episode 5. He didn't work on Episode 6 until after ESB was released. Hell, Episode 6 was originally titled Revenge of the Jedi and wasn't changed to Return until only a few months before release.

[@johnwong8146]

J.J. Abrams has no creativity and has the Sadim touch (destroys anything he touches). He destroyed Star Trek and followed up by destroying Star Wars.

[@andreix123]

I'm starting to feel ashamed that Lost Is my fav. TV series. He Is a Cinema-Vampire

[@dozyproductionss]

I'm still pissed that they never addressed that killer cloud shit.

[@onlyonewhyphy]

JJ is the reason for the success of badly written, quick fire tгаsh

[@vernonhampton5863]

You need to give Vile Eye his props for jacking his swagger.

[@BufusTurbo92]

Abrams, the Franchise Killer

[@realplonk]

Jar Jar destroys everything he touches, star trek, star wars, alias, lost... how this guy is successful is beyond me

[@starryeyes5860]

As bad as the force awakens is, there were a few characters that had potential. Mainy finn, but good ol round head rian said "not on my watch" then proceeded to assassinate every character that had a sliver of potential.

[@knightmare_edits]

Ah, yes. The master of lens fare, mystery boxes and good ol' fashioned plagiarism.

[@One21Jiggawatts]

To Abrams credit he jumps over plot holes with great speed like it’s a sport.

[@Lupinemancer87]

I don't wanna act like an arrogant, self-important jerkass, cuz I know I'm nowhere near that important, but I was always a defender of the Prequel trilogy, even when it seemed 99% of people hated them with a burning passion, I always thought they were good. It takes a lot for me to hate something as I tend to be more tolerant of something then the average person. Even if I can find one or two things I don't like it doesn't ruin the entire Movie/TV Show for me. So if even I hate the new Sequel trilogy and the Acolytes and all things Disney Star Wars right now, you know it's bad.

[@hannicullen]

I have hated Abrams ever since the canon-destroying Star Trek reboot.

[@Jeff-cn9up]

The prequels *_were_* pretty crap. However, that was not a "hold my beer" challenge to Abrams, Johnson, and Kennedy.

[@Wordbird69]

Pretty sure explaining this guy's evil can be summed up in a 3 letter word.

[@ZeusAmun-pt9dc]

All the prequel hate was manufactured consent where is the sequel hate is justified because it's common sense

[@brandonspivey5282]

You've got to be fucking kidding me

[@andrewdau1299]

Abrams, Kurtzman and Lindelof are the trio responsible for everything wrong with modern Hollywood.

[@DreAmeoba1]

First he ticked me off with “Lost”, did a similar thing with “Heroes”, & I saw it coming in “Fringe”, it all felt like he was insulting me, for wanting to have a sense of wonder…when I saw his name with “Star Trek”, & “Star Wars”, I knew both franchises were doomed….

[@jeffersonsam5316]

You know I’ve always admired the way the JJ can absolutely suck the soul out of what he’s working on

[@fenixfelixx]

I knew this PoS hack for what he was from the beginning of Disney Star Wars. That's right I used to be a Lost "fan". We all knew how bad this shit was gonna end.