Yes he did, but some of the very best character moments in the TOS films were in Final Frontier, and that was still awful.
Meyer for Trek IV ?
Bring it on !
I would like JJ Abrams to direct Star Trek 4.
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Meyer for Trek IV ?
Bring it on !
Sorry, I can't take you seriously after that.
I thought Beyond was excellent though. Not perfect, but very entertaining.
I hope that Abrahams won't return
I'd like someone like the Russo brothers to direct Star Trek 4. They may not be in the same wheelhouse but I keep thinking of Person of Interest directors like Chris Fisher. That show always had a good eye for action.
Bryan Singer would be a great choice, but he's latched on to the foX-Men films and 20 Leagues Under the Sea for the foreseeable future.
I haven't seen STB, but I didn't mind Abrams as a director. I liked his Star Trek reboot films better than his reboot Star Wars.
I guess it doesn't matter to me as long as the movie comes out well, obviously the director has a lot of control over the film.
I guess it doesn't matter to me as long as the movie comes out well, obviously the director has a lot of control over the film.
I don't care who directs ST4 - as long as it's a good story.
I love Meyer, but like you said, these films would have to go in a completely different direction if Meyer was involved. They wouldn't be action films.
Meyer has shown that he can get a lot out of a small budget. TWOK was made on a budget of 11M (30M adjusted for inflation). Pretty incredible, but I assume films were cheaper to create back then.
TMP cost 46M. Going from 46M to 11M would be like going from 185M for Beyond to 45M for ST4.
No Meyer.
Personally, Lin is getting too much of the praise. The story was vastly superior to what came before, and I think Abrams would have done great with it, it's just unfortunate the scripts he worked with weren't as well done.
And I hate, hate, hate Lin's action work. Some of the camera movements, smoothly going from one deck to the next were inventive, but in general, modern directors really need to go back to school, learn about choreography, pull the camera back and show us their nicely done action. Abrams is good at that. Lin is not.
And I hate, hate, hate Lin's action work. Some of the camera movements, smoothly going from one deck to the next were inventive, but in general, modern directors really need to go back to school, learn about choreography, pull the camera back and show us their nicely done action. Abrams is good at that. Lin is not.
Bah? Abrams is the master of quick shots only, in his Trek movies the camera rarely lingers on any one thing for longer than twenty seconds during an action scene.
Plus, the number one thing Lin has going for him over Abrams: No lens flares. Seriously, Beyond only has one lens flare in the entire movie. The opening shot in Trek XI has three dozen.
I think part of this issue is driven by modern cameras being much smaller and manoeuvrable than vintage gear. Older camera tech pretty much forced a "stage perspective", even with quite dramatic camera work whereas modern cameras allow the recreation of POV, up close to the action. Because of the wider array of camera angle options, along with (speculation on my part) the likely desire to avoid being "old-fashioned" (unless there is a deliberate reason for it--like the filming technique in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, for example), more directors opt to "bring us closer to the action", rather than offer a more remote perspective.
Actually, I kinda missed the lens flares.
I certainly don't.
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