Nonsense. The Star Trek movies were unwatchable they were so bad. Super 8 was mediocre and on par with Ep. 2 and 3, in my opinion.
But maybe you see things differently than I do.
See, I think this is your bias as a Star Trek fan showing through. And I totally agree. As Star Trek movies, Abrams' films were pretty awful. They weren't in the spirit of Star Trek at all. However, I've never been a Star Trek fan, and I found them to be fairly entertaining
action movies. That's the key difference, to me. I can see why, as a Star Trek fan, you didn't like them, but to call them unwatchable is a huge stretch to me. They were fun action movies, and entirely watchable.
See, I think this is the disconnect. To say that the prequels are worse than say, Fast and Furious, I think really calls into question how you're judging these films.
I'd much rather watch the Fast and Furious movies (well, except Tokyo Drift...) than the Star Wars prequels any day. The Furious movies know what they are: dumb action movies, and they've proven that by getting increasingly dumber and more ridiculous. They're trying to be dumb fun and succeeding pretty brilliantly, in my opinion.
The Star Wars prequels, on the other hand, showed that Lucas had no idea what the original Star Wars movie were all about, which is ironic considering he (obviously) made those too. He ripped the heart out of Star Wars and replaced it with consumerism. The whole point of those movies was shoving as much shit on screen as possible so he could turn it into toys. He put no thought into the actual plots of the films, which is why they don't make any sense, and instead focused on ridiculous CGI fights that were so cluttered and absurd that they weren't even fun to watch. That's not and never been what Star Wars has been about.
I get it... I think I can speak for most Trekkies when I say that's how bad the Star Trek films were. But even those shitty movies weren't "the worst movies ever," and you say I must "hate" Abrams, right?
Perhaps I should have phrased that as three of the worst movies I've ever seen. Are there worse movies? Undoubtedly. I've even seen a couple. But even generic summer action blockbusters tend to be more enjoyable than the Star Wars prequels to me. I'd rather watch Michael Bay's latest summer shitfest than go back and watch George Lucas destroy one of my favorite childhood franchises. Although my preference would be to watch neither, obviously.
And honestly, if I think a movie looks like it's going to suck, I won't see it. Aside from that, I'm really more into TV shows now than films anyway. I prefer the long stories that television shows can tell over the course of multiple years over a two hour film. That's not to say I don't watch movies or enjoy them, but I watch a hell of a lot more TV these days. Give me Justified, Game of Thrones, Daredevil, The Americans, etc. over the majority of movies that are coming out this year.
You're not saying much here... lol. And watchability is largely subjective and debateable. I'd say the degree of shit Abrams' gets about the Star Trek movies and Super 8 might not really support your point.
Eh...successful directors always get a lot of hate, especially when a guy does an adaptation fanboys consider inappropriate like Abrams and Star Trek. I've already made my opinion on Star Trek clear, though. We'll have to agree to disagree since you're a fan and I'm not. Obviously we won't agree on how it was adapted, although I do see your point of view here and agree that, if I were a fan of Star Trek, I probably would have hated Abrams' version.
Again, I disagree. Both of these guys are bad directors.
I'd probably lump Abrams in the mediocre category. I think there are plenty of worse directors out there. Lucas, though? Jesus, he's been awful for decades now.
And I'm not really defending Abrams here. I think he's a decent director. Nothing special, but he makes marketable films, and that's clearly what Disney was looking for in their Star Wars relaunch.
