From: dtravel@sonic.net
On 12/29/2015 4:36 PM, Your Name wrote:
> In article , Gutless
> Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
>> Your Name wrote in
>> news:291220151042342329%YourName@YourISP.com:
>>> In article
>>> <9457ee4f-9710-4f61-af60-68cb8478a483@googlegroups.com>,
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 7:51:43 PM UTC-5, Gutless
>>>> Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Expectations are running so high that a lot of people are
>>>>> referring to him as "Jar Jar Abrams." (That joke will almost
>>>>> certainly provide more amusement, both qualitatively and
>>>>> quantitaviely, than the movie.)
>>>>
>>>> Well, Terry? Do you stand by this comment from November?
>>>
>>> Yep, it's certainly true that a lot of people are calling the
>>> lazy, talentless hack "Jar Jar Abrams" ... me being one of them.
>>> :-)
>>
>> He's earned a lot of scorn for what he's done ot Star Trek, though
>> he's gotten more than he deserves, mostly for the fact that what he
>> made, while decent action movies, wasn't even remotely Star Trek.
>>
>> Now that I think about it, though, I'm more moderate in my hopes for
>> the next two movies, especially the last one. As he demonstrated,
>> quite vividly, with Alias and Lost, he's *much* better at starting
>> interesting storiest han at finishing them.
>
> I don't think he's ever finished anything. He always seems to walk out
> part way through to go and do something else, meanwhile leaving the
> hopeless mess he made behind for someone else to attempt to fix up.
>
I was going to say something similar. Abrams has also reached a point
of popularity in Hollywood where studios will hire Bad Robot just so
they can slap his name in the credits somewhere.
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Now the Force-Ghost of DTravel since he was forced by shame to commit
hara-kiri with a dull light-spork after liking the Abrams/Bad Robot Star
Wars movie.
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