@PetreRaleigh in between those two he made a star trek that made people want him in prison and a star wars that made people forget that he should be in prison, he’s a strange one

@MetaReflexive In and out of the carceral system his whole career...sad case...

@PetreRaleigh why was "Star Trek as Star Wars" movie better than his actual Star Wars movies

@ViewtifulJC This is the real mystery. Because it for sure was

@PetreRaleigh I'm no film savant, but he strikes me as a spectacle-not-story guy, which is an awkward fit for science fiction settings that depend quite a lot on world-building, consistency and characters.

@BretDevereaux Yeah Star Trek 2009 (which I like a lot) is a certified Dumb Guy Movie but that kinda works because there's a lot of scaffolding there for him and his writers to work with. The Star Wars sequels required him to actually build the sandbox a little and there we ran into trouble

@PetreRaleigh i still think the best thing he's done he wasn't even directing it (cloverfield)

@ChloeNumberIII Cloverfield rocks. Haven't seen it since it came out but it made a big impression

@PetreRaleigh He could have simply not done either of those things.

@PetreRaleigh LOL

@PetreRaleigh That was Rian Johnson. J.J.'s Star Wars movie grossed over $800M.

@PetreRaleigh I was actually that person who always thought: this man should be in prison from the second it was announced he would be destroying Star Trek. (Then Star Wars) We had receipts. Do y’all not remember LOST?

@PetreRaleigh It still strikes me as short-sighted and tasteless, how the 88th Oscars telecast had J.J. Abrams present Best Director 2015 (to Alejandro González Iñárritu for The Revenant), as if to signal to the Directors branch, “Awww, couldn’t you guys have found room for this star?”…

@PetreRaleigh Force awakens weren't great but could have gone interesting places. After TLJ things were beyond saving. His mistake was doing the 3rd. Should have walked away.

@PetreRaleigh Fringe was his last worthwhile endeavor. After therapy, I no longer hate him for Lost

@PetreRaleigh Someone the other day mentioned the sheer emptiness of his career. Just chasing completely hollow ip-driven recreations of childhood artifacts devoid of any other meaning they might have had. Sad bc there's some skill with actors and technical skill there

@PetreRaleigh He’s never figured out how to satisfactorily resolve a mystery, so the entire “mystery box” conceit is about delaying the moment where he has to admit that the box is empty.

@PetreRaleigh He's kind of been in prison...making a Hot Wheels movie

@PetreRaleigh To be fair, his first Star Wars is as well liked as his first Trek. It’s when you get to his sequels to both…

@PetreRaleigh Star Trek 09 was great thanks to incredible casting. Pine and Quinto as Kirk and Spock, respectively, were sublime. But many of Abrams’ directorial choices hinder the movie as a whole, like the excessive lens flares. And then he went and cast Cumberbatch as Khan in the sequel🤦‍♂️