skyjedi2005 said:
You guys do know that i am a huge fan of JJ abrams right?
You wouldn't know it by the way you post.
The only thing i don't like is Star Trek by him.
I like Lost, and Alias, have not really gotten around to watching fringe yet.
I thought you only liked the first season? Didn't he leave after that? I've only watched a few episodes here and there (I don't like it), so if I got that wrong, then ok.
Okay i will admit i hated Cloverfield but he did not direct it unlike some would think.
According to IMDB, he hasn't directed much of anything. 5 eps of Alias, 2 eps of Lost, Star Trek (director/producer), and MI3. Those are the notable ones anyway. It looks to me like he has a lot more experience writing and producing than he does directing. I'm not saying he's a bad choice though. Why don't you ever seem to have a problem with the writers? They wrote the story, aren't they at least somewhat to blame on Star Trek?
Even coming out of tv I think people like JJ abrams and Joss Whedon are the George Lucas and Steven Spielberg of this generation. Too bad for Whedon though looks like dollhouse is a flop before it even airs.
Just checked out Dollhouse on IMDB. Kind of funny, Dollhouse starring Faith from Buffy and Fred from Angel :P
I don't mean they are even close to what old school Lucas or Spielberg were just the Best i can think of of the young crowd of directors at the moment. I would have considered Tim Kring in the past as a newcomer to watch but Heroes totally nuked the fridge.
If you've been watching Heroes at all then you'd know that just about everything that took place in the first half of season 3 was a lie. All of it in order to get Sylar to do what they wanted him to do. So the only relationship that was left in tact is Claire and her uncle the flaming dude.
Or that guy who did Pans Labrinthe and the 2 Hellboy movies. I can't think of his name at the moment.
Benicio Del Toro.
Some would say John favreau who directed Ironman, i thought he was a dubious choice when he was announced as the director early on but the movie turned out okay anyways. I am not a fan of him as an actor really so this guy was an unknown at least to me doing his first comic book movie.
And he says virtually the same thing in the behind the scenes videos on the DVD. He was freaked out that the movie was going to be a total failure. The whole time working on it, he wanted to stay as true to the Iron Man comic as possible and he just hoped that people would like it. The origin story was obviously changed so it would make sense on release (putting it in Vietnam wouldn't have made any sense in 2008).
Really ideally if you were a science fiction author or screenwriter there are a ton of people these days you would want to make your story on screen except for George Lucas or Steven Speilberg, those guys wore out their welcome with Indiana Jones IV.
Again you're lumping Lucas and Spielberg together because of one movie. One movie that pretty much had to get made when it did if Spielberg and Ford ever wanted to do it. The screwup that is Indy IV is all Lucas. If I were a film executive, I would still consider Spielberg, but without Lucas.