[ SECRET POST #3332 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3332 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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(David Bowie)


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(Great British Bake Off for Sports Relief, Ed Balls)


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04.
[Pokemon]


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[Star Wars: TFA]


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[Damian Lewis, Dick Winters, Band Of Brothers]


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07.
[Daughter of the Lilies]


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[David Eddings]


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09.
[Sengoku Basara]


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10.
[JJBA]


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[Men In Black I, II, III]
















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I would say that blockbusters are made to appeal to as many people as possible - with the recognition that it's utterly impossible to appeal to everyone. JJ Abrams has a real skill for making films that appeal to a far larger percentage of movie-goers than most blockbusters manage to do. So while I personally don't put a particularly high premium on mass appeal, objectively his movies have such strong and frequent success with audiences that he's more than just good at what he does - he's fucking amazing.

For my part, block-buster popcorn flicks aren't usually my thing. I tend to favor conceptually complex films with a lot of ambiance and some narrative ambiguity. I find most blockbuster movies silly and/or boring, but I found both The Force Awakens and the first movie in the new Trek reboot extremely entertaining and fun. That makes JJ Abrams a skilled and respectable filmmaker in my books.

[scrubber]

Sorry anon, but this does little to convince me of Abrams' net talent and does more to confirm that he is brilliant at marketing, which he is. "Appeal" is such a tricky word to use, as the appeal of something says nothing about whether: A) the people it appeals to end up seeing the movie, B)whether the people who see the movie end up liking it at all, and C) whether the movie is any good by any critical criteria. It only says that people WANT to SEE his movies... but so what? All five of his top-grossing movies have been movies already part of a popular franchise, Star Wars and Star Trek already having HIGHLY committed preexisting fanbases.

Abrams is not totally without talent, very few people who make it to his position are, but the only thing he's amazing at as far as I can see is landing big projects that were bound to succeed anyway. Making him a world-class salesman.

[(Anonymous)]

the appeal of something says nothing about whether: A) the people it appeals to end up seeing the movie, B)whether the people who see the movie end up liking it at all, and C) whether the movie is any good by any critical criteria.

Except that in Abrams' case, this is something we can answer in the affirmative: A) the people his movies appeal to tend to turn up in droves, as the box-office sales will tell you. B) An uncommonly large percentage of the people who see his movies end up liking them, as viewer polls and internet buzz will tell you (unless you are foolish and biased enough to think you can judge his movies' popularity simply by how F!S feels about them, but it's hard to imagine anyone being that blinkered). And C) TFA has a 92% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and the first two Treks have 95% and 87% respectively.

If you don't call that successfully appealing to an extremely wide audience, I...don't think the words "successful" and "appealing" mean what you think they do.

the only thing he's amazing at as far as I can see is landing big projects that were bound to succeed anyway.

And smashing them out of the park.

There. Fixed that for you. :)