Re: JJ FUCKED STAR TREK UP AND WILL FUCK UP STAR WARS TOO
JJ doesn't do lens flare with the same intentions as my example above. I enjoy movies with music and favorite actors. I don't enjoy JJ's compulsion to do lens flare any more than I enjoy bad acting. It's my opinion, and I don't speak alone, that his aggressive use of lens flare is bad art. It's like the backscratch that becomes painful if done in the same spot for too long. Yeah, it feels nice at first, then not so much.
Performances like movies, theater, singing and sex are very similar in that complete trust very much increases the pleasure of the experience. When you have to wonder with some fear whether, for a polite example, the singer can make it through their song without hitting a bad note and embarrassing themselves, it detracts from the enjoyment. With trust you can lose yourself in the experience with tremendous enjoyment. Wondering when the next flare, like the bad note or the missed line or the annoying lover, will happen is distracting - it has become a lot like hearing The Wilhelm in an otherwise serious action movie. The flares, having become a joke, are no longer sexy for me in JJ's hands.
You are welcome to enjoy JJ's lens flares if they hit your pleasure center that way. I'm sure I'll enjoy Star Wars no matter what. But I hope he earns back my trust and refrains from the excessive and compulsive use of flares (and, by many besides JJ, Wilhelms - I'm looking at you, Ben Burtt). I like my Star Wars (and Star Trek) sexy, not trampy with too much makeup.
If the trailer only has one lens flair, that's a good sign. The OP is overreacting.
I enjoyed The Purple Rose of Cairo, for example, for this very reason. I liked Burt Reynolds's wink at the camera in Smokey and the Bandit while some critics did not for philosophical reasons. I do like breaking the fourth wall when it is fun and creative. But think of how annoying and unhealthy repetitive motion can be and that's how I view JJ's flares - OK, you did it once for art, now let's move on before it becomes mindlessly habitual and repetitious.
JJ doesn't do lens flare with the same intentions as my example above. I enjoy movies with music and favorite actors. I don't enjoy JJ's compulsion to do lens flare any more than I enjoy bad acting. It's my opinion, and I don't speak alone, that his aggressive use of lens flare is bad art. It's like the backscratch that becomes painful if done in the same spot for too long. Yeah, it feels nice at first, then not so much.
Performances like movies, theater, singing and sex are very similar in that complete trust very much increases the pleasure of the experience. When you have to wonder with some fear whether, for a polite example, the singer can make it through their song without hitting a bad note and embarrassing themselves, it detracts from the enjoyment. With trust you can lose yourself in the experience with tremendous enjoyment. Wondering when the next flare, like the bad note or the missed line or the annoying lover, will happen is distracting - it has become a lot like hearing The Wilhelm in an otherwise serious action movie. The flares, having become a joke, are no longer sexy for me in JJ's hands.
You are welcome to enjoy JJ's lens flares if they hit your pleasure center that way. I'm sure I'll enjoy Star Wars no matter what. But I hope he earns back my trust and refrains from the excessive and compulsive use of flares (and, by many besides JJ, Wilhelms - I'm looking at you, Ben Burtt). I like my Star Wars (and Star Trek) sexy, not trampy with too much makeup.
If the trailer only has one lens flair, that's a good sign. The OP is overreacting.
My threads always die on the vine and this gets seven pages!
