A question for fans of Abrams Trek...

[Warp Coil]

Felicity - I remember watching the first season when it aired, and liking it, but I tried to re-watch it on DVD years later and wasn't impressed.

Alias - a fun show but horribly inconsistent; the first two seasons are stellar, the third season is quite decent. Season four is a mess and season five is only a slight improvement. The show had a lot of potential but kinda fizzled out.

Lost - despite J.J.'s lack of involvement with the series now, you gotta give him credit for co-creating the series and for setting the tone with that great pilot episode.

M:I:III - the best of the series, IMO.

Cloverfield - great movie, a lot of fun!

Fringe - tried to watch it but didn't make it past the first few episodes. Found it a bit dull. Lead actress lacks personality. May give it another shot on DVD.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Cloverfield.

That was Abrams? I didn't know. I liked that as well.
Very scary.

Well, it was Bad Robot. And it was excellent. Directed by Matt Reeves, not Abrams. Abrams was the producer.

I really enjoyed the raw footage concept of "Blair Witch" - and "Cloverfield" took that idea and combined it with 9/11 and "Godzilla".

"Lost" is wonderful! The pilot was riveting, then I kinda lost interest, until I caught up with Season One in repeats. It's storytelling within each episode is very "Twilight Zone", in that you can be quickly and totally sucked in by the backstory of barely-known characters.

 

[number6]

Cloverfield.

That was Abrams? I didn't know. I liked that as well.
Very scary.

Well, it was Bad Robot. And it was excellent. Directed by Matt Reeves, not Abrams. Abrams was the producer.

Abrams had a ton of creative input in Cloverfield.. It's as if the only thing he didn't do was direct it...at least according to the commentary and behind the scenes stuff on the DVD release.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Love Fringe! Very x-files-ish.
Loved the first season of Lost. The second season wasnt nearly as good (mho) and from there i think it went downhill.
Cloverfield: i would have liked it alot more if it wasnt done in a first person hand held camera. I literally got motion sick watching it. Otherwise it was cool.

 

[Shazam!]

Alias had Jennifer Garner, 'nuff said.

So we shouldn't watch it?

 

[Rackon]

Hehehe, I try not to hold Regarding Henry against Abrams.

The pilot of Lost is one of the best series openers I've ever seen. Loved the first season. Fringe is great fun. Never seen Alias and likely won't.

MI3 was soooo much better than the first two MIs, not that that's saying a great deal. Much of what was best about Cloverfield was due to Abrams. But I truly think Xi is his best film by quite a considerable margin.

 

[Therin of Andor]

It's as if the only thing he didn't do was direct it...at least according to the commentary and behind the scenes stuff on the DVD release.

But of course!

 

[Chrisisall]

Alias had Jennifer Garner, 'nuff said.

So we shouldn't watch it?

*AHEM*
I OWN the mess that is "Elektra: The Directors Cut" ONLY because she's in it.
Okay, that, AND the Christophe Beck music...

 

[Amra]

Lost is highly thought of, but I've never taken .

Heresy! Get on that right now.

A Braves AND Lost fan? Hells yeah.

 

[Greg Cox]

Hehehe, I try not to hold Regarding Henry against Abrams.

The pilot of Lost is one of the best series openers I've ever seen. Loved the first season. Fringe is great fun. Never seen Alias and likely won't.

MI3 was soooo much better than the first two MIs, not that that's saying a great deal. Much of what was best about Cloverfield was due to Abrams. But I truly think Xi is his best film by quite a considerable margin.

Actually, if you liked MI3, you probably ought to check out ALIAS. MI3 feels very much like the most expensive ALIAS episode ever made--minus Jennifer Garner.

 

[Borgminister]

Lost is highly thought of, but I've never taken .

Heresy! Get on that right now.

Got a lot of catching up to do... always struck me as kind of boring, but I will give it a shot eventually, given the raves...

Alias had Jennifer Garner, 'nuff said.

So we shouldn't watch it?

*AHEM*
I OWN the mess that is "Elektra: The Directors Cut" ONLY because she's in it.
Okay, that, AND the Christophe Beck music...

Point made...

 

[Sabataage]

Lost is perfect for showing what he (or more accurately, his team of writers and producers) can do over the course of a long running science fiction series. Lost is in its fifth season now (I think) and still has a rabid fan base and is one of the best looking best produced genre shows of all time. And it has one the greatest all time villains in Benjamin Linus, a character introduced during the second season. He's slight, he looks like salesman at a car dealership or the assitant manager at a grocery store, but he's terrifying. It gives me serious hope for the rebooted Star Trek movie series, so long as he's the one doing it.

 

[Robert_T_April]

Just wondering if any of you'd recommend any of Abrams other work... all I've seen was Mission Impossible III, and I very much liked it.

Fringe is fantastic IMO of course!

 

[Starbreaker]

Lost is highly thought of, but I've never taken .

Heresy! Get on that right now.

A Braves AND Lost fan? Hells yeah.

Yeah, I'm kind of a big deal around here.