Quote: (02-06-2019 10:26 PM)Kurgan Wrote:
Quote: (02-06-2019 06:23 PM)porscheguy Wrote:
Abrams is without a doubt, a male feminist cut from the same cloth as Harvey Weinstein.
I never got Abrams' appeal as a director other than he's a sci-fi geek.
Abrams does a good high-energy action movie. He gets good performances from actors and shoots in an engaging kinetic style. He's really good at a few writing tricks in particular nostalgia and the mystery box. I would say he is actually good at those things. Not everyone can do nostalgia well or pique curiosity effectively. If you call him a charlatan you can at least call him a good charlatan. So people often enjoy his movies.
Of course, as a writer he's seems to be a hack and as a filmmaker he appears to be severely lacking in creative originality. Abrams movies can be rather empty or muddled once you look past the surface. Abrams might think of himself as Spielberg-lite but he's really more like Michael Bay. Except that Abrams tries to fake real storytelling and drama while Bay just fully embraces the camp and spectacle for entertainment's sake.