Spock has to fight a giant spider in the third act

The first one was a great reintroduction to batman given the campiness of the 60's show it was trying to shake off.

Yeah it really got the Batman atmosphere well. I wonder if it's because Batman was such a cultural icon that even if you "didn't read comics" you till knew who Batman was and what he was about?

That doesn't seem possible at face value given that he was also the writer and the majority of the film is faithful to the book, sometimes word for word. Also, [searching] https://www.reddit.com/r/dune/comments/pc5g58/jodorowsky_and_lynch_both_read_dune/

Sorry I can't read your comment. The 20 lens flares he put on screen still have me blinded

Edit: to be clear. I don't think his movies are bad per say. They're just painfully mediocre.

He's always the wrong choice for anything that calls for the bare minimum planning and substance, but that's what they keep giving him. He has good instincts for cinematography but shouldn't be trusted with anything that requires an actual plot.

You can be a hack and still do great work, look at Ridley Scott.

As long as you don't let him anywhere near the plot.

what is this decent work you speak of? did he make a never published short or something?

Mainstream success is not potential fulfillment, it's cultural appropriation and butchery. Subcultures can and do very comfortably thrive for decades, gratifying their communities, without the need for the attention of the majority.

Ok, hear me out: First, fuck IP. Second, AI is pretty lackluster atm, but a lot of people are experimenting. It can reach an amazing high visual fidelity and FX already, and lackluster things like acting and errors or fight scenes could improve in the coming years.

It could be cool to see sort of like "councils" for various franchises pop up and approve / produce different AI fan projects and crowd sourced directors that tell or retell the story of our franchises.

Like imagine a dozen different fan writers and directors creating different seasons 8, 9 and 10 of game of thrones. Much will be shit, but as technology advances it might be possible to even merge or "remix" the scripts of different productions together to come to an "ultimate edition".

Similar to how Hamlet or other classic theater stories are remixed.

"I didn't really have a plan for a trilogy" 🤦🤦🤦

Yeah, you would. He's just that talented a director.

I don't think it's inherently bad for Abrams himself to not have seen the show until asked to do it, but there's absolutely a good question of why the people that commissioned Abrams chose him, when he had no familiarity with Star Trek beforehand.

There is a weird thing that i think was hinted upon in a ds9 interview that for some reason “they” do not like to have star trek fans working on the set and those that where where supposed to act low profile about it.

I can kinda see how it can be both distracting to get work done and irritating or to have crew argue canon all the time (Henry Cavill in the wincher)

But i also can’t not see how political this might all be.

....but he clearly came to understand it, and coaxed great performances from the stars. WoK is one of the best films.

He wrote a two part blog about how he was recruited to direct and working with Ricardo. He did his research and found his "in" for the movie which Rodenburry approved of which iirc was Hornblower in space.

Because its his job.

First, you're assuming you have to love the story or the universe to make a good movie set in that universe.

Second, if you could get paid several tens of millions of dollars to make a movie I'm pretty sure you would, and you'd probably do a hell of a good job catching yourself up.

I'm not sure why you'd say it "doesn't count".

He directed 8 episodes of TNG, as well as First Contact and Insurrection and some of the newer stuff too, in fact he said that when they brought Riker back for Picard, he was terrified of screwing up, because he hadn't acted for years, and had only been directing.

Sometimes he was, though.

Actually I just mentioned it as related trivia, not to to make an argument for or against anything - although this is always the default assumption - you can take people out of reddit but you can't take reddit out of them lol.

It's certainly many times better than Discovery.

I'm assuming you're a Trekkie and your wife is the newbie in this situation?

Picking the entry point of a franchise is a huge consideration undertaking. Lots of possibilities.