Analyzing Evil: J.J. Abrams From Disney Lucasfilm 

J.J. Abrams is essentially that one kid in the science project who brainstorms ideas, but when it comes to putting plans in motion his only contribution to the project is the idea and proceeds to take credit for the team's hard work when in reality he did next to nothing

I personally hate Abrams because he oversaw the Cloverfield franchise, which had an amazing first film but was followed up with horrible sequels with very little connection with the original. He had a great idea with the first film and proceeded to do nothing with it.

That is why he is Jar Jar Abrams. But he did accomplish one thing: The prequels are hated no more, as the sequels unified the hate against them.

The problem with mystery box writing, is that you must open the box eventually.

Never let J.J. touch anything that resembles Star Wars ever again.

It's pretty clear that Abrams was born in to what he was doing. He didn't really need to "claw his way up" like a Cameron or a Spielberg. Abrams was basically given everything.

Jar Jar Abrams, the most over rated man in Hollywood history.

Imagine hating literally half of George's work, and getting creative control of his movie empire.

Credit where it's due, he can film a chase sequence. Also: He's a talentless hack, a terrible writer, and he couldn't stick an ending with superglue.

He’s pretty much responsible for completely wrecking the two big sci-fi franchise to ever come out of Hollywood. The Idiot doesn’t know how the Force works in much the same way that he didn’t know how Vulcans work. And just like how episode 7 is just a plagiarized episode4, “Into Darkness” was just a plagiarized “Wrath of Khan” without the years of character investment.

He has literally helped devolve cinema. First he and Lindelof ruined Lost by never having an ending. He had Spock yell "KHAAANNNNNNNN" because he thought he was cute. He admitted he/Kathy never had a plan for Disney Star Wars. That man is a fraud.

I’m still pissed the fact they didn’t even have a game plan set for their trilogy and just slapped together what they thought would make sense when in reality it was nothing but plot hole after pointless plot hole for a bland story with no originality.

"What are stories but mystery boxes?"

The tragedy of JJ Abrams is that if he worked in marketing and advertising he would be considered a visionary. His marketing campaign for Cloverfield was everything his films are not: original, innovative and creative. In fact, the mystery box is basically the structure of any marketing or advertising campaign. JJ's talent is basically to build hype and interest, delivering on that hype and interest should have been left to others.

When J J Plagiarism talks about J J Abrams Me: Absolute cinema

During film school around 2013 I had a debate with another student about Abrams (before this drama). He basically said you couldn't deny that he was a good film maker. I said, can he effectively organize people and produce effectively? Sure, but he is not a true artist in any sense. Now I feel very justified lol.

And this is how the dark era first began…. The era of the infamous philosophy…..What are stories but mystery boxes…..

JJ Abrams is what happens when you give all creative control to the wrong people

Also known as "Lense Flair" and "Destroyer of Galaxies far far away" He should never be allowed near a film set again.

'Evil' is pretty harsh but Abrams sure is a top-tier con man

A Star Wars film that followed the Imperial Remnant trying to stay together and hold on would have been interesting. They could show storm troopers being bad ass combat troops, and show how horrific it would be to come up against a Force user who just dominates them. That scene from Rogue One with Vader where he just murders those guys is fucking *awesome* and underscores how fucked normal people are against force users.

I have one suggestion, for the "Analyzing Evil" videos, whenever you end them, say the line: "What are stories but mystery boxes?" in a grim and serious tone. That way, it will remain tonally consistent with the rest of the video and the eerie background ambiance/ambience/music.

I literally don't understand how movies as bad as the sequel trilogy can be made when there are a million writers of fanfic and commentators on RU-vid who, despite not getting paid a dime, write dramatically better content.

Him blowing up Romulus has utterly ruined startrek lore as seen with discovery and Picard

JJ Abrams is such an obvious beta it’s brutal.

"A leech who relies on other people's work to make his fortune" Is the PERFECT description for this weak and uncreative hack.

0:31 At this point, most people at Disney lucasfilm. Hate even the original trilogy not just the prequels 😂or else they would have treated Luke Han and Leila better in the sequel trilogy😂

It's an interesting stance to blame Abrams not Rian Johnson and you are right for it. The mystery box was what killed the sequel trilogy as it was a time bomb Abrams left in it as they were already problems appearing in The Force Awakens. The Knights of Ren, Fin's Force sensitivity, the reason for Luke's disappearance, Rey's origin, the origin of the First Order, who Snoke is, it is a film filled with a series of inconclusive threads left to Johnson to essentially answer with little to no guidance. Episode 7 is a case in point of the mystery box's poison to story telling.

A movie that copies so much from the original does not feel like something made by a fan. It feels like the opposite. Like someone watched the original for the first time & the script was due the next day, so they copied as much as they could remember before they had to turn it in.

How can one filmmaker be so utterly void of their own artistry. He’s basically an old man and has made like two standalone films. Cloverfield and super 8. Any other auteur by the same age had a PILE of original films under their belts. He’s an absolute joke.

Nepotism comes to mind.

Your evil twin I guess. Next video should be on Ryan Johnson and the various Disney Star Wars show writers

You know what happened to JJ Abrams people gave them such a good thing for the television show. They didn’t realize that he wasn’t that good writer but he’s some type of post post this writer.

JJ Abrams is Kylo Ren A cheap fucking knock off

Alex "eye fetish" Kurtzman is associated with this man, Kurtzman went on to ruin Star Trek. JD Payne and Patrick McClain are also assosciatea of Abrams who because of him got a job at Amazon Studios to ruin the Lord of the Rings franchise. Its safe to say that JJ Abrams is the biggest villain of our time. Also his wife is a big supporter of George Gascon out here in Los Angeles the worse District Attorney we ever had and who cowrote Prop 47

I've been saying this since Star Trek, but better late than never. I couldn't believe that people were actually excited about him directing TFA when it was announced immediately after Abrams blew it with both of his Trek films. JJ Abrams became the master of hacks by filming scenes that "looked cool", but were otherwise pointless and contrived. Consider the scene in TROS when Rey cuts Kylo Ren's TIE fighter in half, causing a horrific crash that Ren simply walks away from. My only consolation is that it appears Hollywood is done with Abrams. Abrams hasn't directed a film in nearly 5 long years, the longest production gap in Abrams 25 year long mystery box con game.

The Mystery Box is a terrible writing technique. It benefits him more to never have to come up with an explanation than to stoke the collective imaginations of the audience. All the questions he raised in The Force Awakens - Snoke's identity, Rey's parentage- were answered with Mystery Boxes. Even if a writer is never going to impart these answers to the viewer, they should at least know themselves.

What's sad is that The Force Awakens is the best movie out of The Sequels...which isn't saying much at all.

There has been no real star trek except fan productions, including ST Continues, since about 2005

JJ Abrams was like, "people want prepackaged bubblegum that sounds hip and cool and modern and easy to digest because the public are a buncha dum dums", and he rolled with it to this day.

I bet theres gonna be "analyzing scapegoats: ryan johnson"

What do I think of JJ Abrams? TALENTLESS HACK comes to mind. Everything said here is 100% Spot On, but one thing that I detest is that this guy had been touted by the mainstream media as the next Steven Spielberg; something I find to be laughably insulting given at this point in time in his WORTHLESS career, Abrams' total filmography is nowhere near the same level and quality of Spielberg's in the same length of time. Spielberg's total filmography dwarfs Abrams on a planetary scale, and considering that Abrams spends most of his time producing GARBAGE or adding his vile stench to other productions, or finding the next franchise to destroy with his stupid brand of MysteryBoxes, I think Spielberg's legacy is never being overtaken by this plagiarizing parasite with lens flare. Ryan Johnson has Hell to pay, but I gotta give that Round-Headed Simpleton credit: He screwed JJ with TLJ by covering up all of Abrams' plot-holes, not to mention wrapping up ALL of JJ's plot-threads; leaving JJ Exposed for the HACK that he is when he gave us TROS.

I just don't get some people's beef with midi-chlorians. It's a medium connecting living beings to The Force, and the more midi-chlorians people are born with, the more sensitive they are to The Force. It doesn't take away the mysteries of The Force, and even someone like Anakin Skywalker and Yoda had to undergo years of training to be competent in using it. Midi-chlorians made more sense than whatever Abrams came up with to justify Rey's sudden competence with that power.

The man who helped start rhe destruction of Star Trek and Star Wars, and is now working on Batman: Caped Crusader. God help us all.

He is a true hack of a film. I can’t believe that Spielberg and Lucas mentored him. Something weird. Only Snyder is his equal.I mean ruined the DCEU from the first movie alone it would never work.

I knew he was a total hack, but I didn't know until now that he was a nepo baby from a family of TV producers. Figures!!

Bad Jar Jar! No lens flare!

The first disney film was a reboot disguised as a sequel. It never had any intention of carrying on the story. The mandate was to redo Star Wars but this time with a "progressive" stance.

There’s so much worse you could call Abrams out on. His wife is a huge part of the #MeToo power grab and together they are a HUGE reason why we are dealing with this anti-white, anti-male DEI bs. He started earlier than most pushing the ESG scam in cinema. The most frustrating thing i often see is people claiming nothing he did except for Super 8 was original- but Super 8 was not original in the least! Instead of fleecing a single IP for Super 8, he just fleeced a certain Director’s entire body of work. He took the Goonies, ET, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire of the Sun, Jaws and so on and just put together a… story made up of moments from all of those films.

JJ Abrams' method reminds me of this one friend in high school who would lie to people that he could hook them up with any girl/guy that they were into and then he would say "you were happy when i gave you hope! I made you happy momentarily!". He legit never realized that he was hurting people/pissing them off and continued doing this living off their short-lived anticipation thinking that he was doing a public service. Just like the general changing view towards the prequel trilogy, everyone also began to start reminiscing about what they had before once the sense of betrayal had killed all sense of hope for something better. To me he will alway be that kid if that kid was given creative control of such and such.

Yeah, he had to be a postmodern writer

JJ Abrams is like the ideas guy except he has no ideas.

Just discovered ur channel and ur vids a very thought out. JJ when it comes to SW tho it did seem there was a lot of ‘powers that be’ inserting things not to mention giving him a tight deadline to start/finish the script for ep7 to align w/ galaxy’s edge grand opening. Super talented dude - like him a lot but also think ur channel is a fun lens

6:22 This is one of my biggest gripes with Disney Lucasfilm. They allow film and TV show writers do whatever the hell they want lore wise (as long as they comply with the virtue signals/checkboxes that Disney needs) and then leave the plot holes to be fixed by comics, novels and sourcebooks, most of which will probably be retconned by one of the film/TV show writers (especially Filoni) later anyway. They are wasting everyone's time, but especially the people who write and buy comics, novels and sourcebooks. The writers have to spend time trying to fix all of the messes created by the films and TV shows instead of spending more time creating actually good stories. I mean it is clear that the quality of Star Wars physical media has declined since 2014, and I reckon that is because of the increased activity with Disney Plus shows. From 2014 to 2017, the majority of SW physical media was fine. A lot of world building was done, a lot of decent stories were made, etc. If you look at the digital media created during that era, it becomes obvious why. Rogue One was actually great for worldbuilding and Rebels S1 and S2 are arguably Filoni's least lore breaking works of all time, so the writers didn't have to focus on making excuses because there was less to excuse in the first place. The Sequels were obviously a dumpster fire, but there was still a 30 year gap between it and the 2 main periods that people actually cared about, although a lot of effort was put in to keep the Sequel era afloat (in vain of course) by sourcebook, novel and comic writers. 2017 to 2019 was ok-ish, but it was now clear that the end was nigh for Star Wars because of TLJ being so contradictory to TROS and TFA. But the writers weren't allowed to jump ship on the sequels, oh no. Instead they were forced to try and somehow *connect the Sequels to the rest of the timeline.* Thankfully I would argue this crude attempt by Disney failed, thanks in part to Filoni because he predictably messed up the already terrible lore surrounding Episode 9 and made the Aftermath Trilogy even less coherent. 2020 to 2024 is pretty much the result of Filoni's bullshit. A few decent to good projects exist, but the back of camel that was the novel, comic and sourcebook writers has been broken. Now we have writers trying to contradict the obvious chemistry between Cal and Merrin, the story of Obi Wan and Leia no longer making sense, the 'many Bothans died for this information' from ROTJ being retconned into Crimson Dawn', a nonsensical story about a computer virus taking over a bunch of shit pre-ROTJ and being a threat to the whole Galaxy, professional artists who can actually draw well no longer giving a shit about the setting and just tracing fan art/film scenes, etc.

Judaism gonna Juda. Isn't this the guy who complained about there being too many white people in the room?

I don't think it's fair to call him evil or to claim he is untalented. Abrams does a lot of things very well. He films great action sequences and he gets great, charismatic performances out of his actors. His films are always wildly entertaining despite his "ripping off" or "borrowing" or whatever. "Super 8" was a great example. Great acting, great action, compelling "mystery", but in the end it lacked heart. What he needs is someone to make his plots make sense and help him know exactly what the answers are to his "mystery boxes" are during the writing process. He

Unless people can spontaneously learn how to pilot starships via the force in JJ's universe, Rey is still a Mary-Sue.

I just loved when he did NuTrek he pretty much openly stated he wanted to make it more like Star Wars, cause ya know that's what the fans wanted obviously 😂

Just a reminder that time travel is canon, and 4:50 the Rise of Skywalker basically was a plagiarizion of Dark Empire, as such Palpatines return as a clone is a canon event. So Expanded Universe at this point is Star Wars Galaxy 616 5:06 I never understood the prequel hate... im not saying they were as good as the originals, but i loved them. I think Lucas just needed a director and an editor who wasn't a yes man like he did in empire and rotj.

Abrams also paved the way for Orci/Kurtzman

The postmodern writing style is this bad the postmodern writing style they teach kids JGA great stories, but just couldn’t do it. He couldn’t do it on his

I don't wanna act like an arrogant, self-important jerkass, cuz I know I'm nowhere near that important, but I was always a defender of the Prequel trilogy, even when it seemed 99% of people hated them with a burning passion, I always thought they were good. It takes a lot for me to hate something as I tend to be more tolerant of something then the average person. Even if I can find one or two things I don't like it doesn't ruin the entire Movie/TV Show for me. So if even I hate the new Sequel trilogy and the Acolytes and all things Disney Star Wars right now, you know it's bad.

Don Johnson Hates JJ Abrams and I don't blame him.

aka JJ is a hack

He and Kasdan did have a written plan but Rian threw it out. Kennedy is the one who told Michael Arndt Luke was "distracting" from the new characters.

I can't believe Lucasfilm allowed Rian and JJ to have an argument using the final trilogy of STAR WARS. It beggars belief.

Just one more thing: If you're not in the process already, Mr. Plagiarisms, I would love to see an ANALYZING EVIL episode profiling these villains... * Malcolm Frink & Kilokahn (Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad) * Karl "Grimlord" Ziktor (V.R. Troopers) As both series celebrate their 30th anniversary this year, how better to celebrate...! Wouldn't you agree?

Fun fact: BOTH Cloverfield sequels were unrelated films, with NO connection to Cloverfield, that were done and in the can on the shelf, awaiting obscurity, when Jar-Jar Abrams found them, scooped them up, and with a splash of add-on re-shoots- bookending them with new framing devices and interstitial scenes- tied them hamfistedly into the Cloverfield tale. Once again, someone else did the work, and half-ass Jay Z-Grade slapped his name on the side, waited for the applause that never came to die down, and was instantly forgotten.

If you’re gonna do some on Disney executives, I recommend looking at one of Disney potential new CEO Dana Walden, who is a combination of Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy.

JJ performs worse as a producer, he’s incapable of replacing a director with anyone but himself.

He is pure evil. I hate his films . He totally overrated producer .

The only mystery I'm still invested in is why they didn't make profit! I must admit, that I hate Ruin J. more for what he did. He stabbed this IP to death, while JarJar only handcuffed it to a chair and gave it the death blow after RJ was done with it. Great Analysis! We will watch your career with great interest. ; )

All the prequel hate was manufactured consent where is the sequel hate is justified because it's common sense

I grew up watching Alias rather than Lost, so I can't say how bad that was. So when I saw he was directing VII, I was hyped. It... quickly disappeared after I saw it.

worked as a doorman is his building. actually a super good guy. bought me food for no reason a few times.

Lucas didn't have a plan for the Original Trilogy going into it. He had Star Wars. He released Star Wars. It became hugely popular. Then he started working on Episode 5. He didn't work on Episode 6 until after ESB was released. Hell, Episode 6 was originally titled Revenge of the Jedi and wasn't changed to Return until only a few months before release.

Abrams, the Franchise Killer

They're going to do a remake of Alice in Wonderland? Typical for Communists to rewrite history. They'll never learn.

I love this title! You’ll never run out of content

JJ is the reason for the success of badly written, quick fire tгаsh

another word for evil is WOKE, JJ is total woke, his wife actually started the me-too movement. He also said that he was at an awards ceremony and saw nothing but white males, he was determined to change this in other words he wanted to DEI the movie industry. HE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED ANYWHERE TO DO MOVIES AT ALL. I think deep down he wanted to destroy the star wars universe along with the star trek one.

I have hated Abrams ever since the canon-destroying Star Trek reboot.

J.J. Abrams has no creativity and has the Sadim touch (destroys anything he touches). He destroyed Star Trek and followed up by destroying Star Wars.

My firstborn and his wife were so desperate for new SW that it was daughter-in-law who was trying to get me hyped for TFA: "...practical sets, though!" But it was the age of the Mary Sues and girl-bosses, and I dreaded going to see this. But we made a family affair of it, and wife (HUGE SW fan back then) and I HATED/LOATHED/DESPISED everything about. You broke it down succinctly why I hated TFA, but didn't know why.

Ah, yes. The master of lens fare, mystery boxes and good ol' fashioned plagiarism.

The prequels *_were_* pretty crap. However, that was not a "hold my beer" challenge to Abrams, Johnson, and Kennedy.

I'm starting to feel ashamed that Lost Is my fav. TV series. He Is a Cinema-Vampire

TFA is nearly a detail for detail clone of A New Hope. That guy is a hack.

In the expanded universe we continue the story with han, leia and luke as the main characters. The death of the emperor is a catastrophic blow to the empire which fractures and never again will it be this unfathomably large, nearly infinite entity. The rebellion is no longer the rebellion, its the new power that rivals any single faction of the empire but is consolidating its new power. You know "star wars" not "star insurgency" all over again. Leia is at the forefront of the new government and busy meeting all the other major leaders so han kinda feels emasculated because he is in the end just a smuggler. Han and leia build their relationship through this conflict and in the end han is overthinking it and leia is only in love with him. Luke goes through his own conflicts in this same setting and proves that he is the strongest force user to ever exist. After the setting is more or less stabilized luke seeks to rebuild the jedi and makes his jedi temple. Luke does not just go off of jedi teachings but instead uses his own values and morals to try and mend the short comings of the jedi. Like he has a wife and a kid. Luke also crash lands on the kinky lesbian space witch planet and shows them why hes the steongest jedi to ever exist. Han and leia have 2 sons and yes the older one, jacen, falls to the dark side and destroys lukes jedi temple, kills everyone including lukes wife. ...... luke does not run and hide he faces the problem and comes out on top and jacen ends up repenting but he dies like most fallen jedi who repent. Its a massive cost. Luke re re builds his jedi temple. Han and leias 2nd son never falls to the dark side but he does steal a super weapon from the empire that destroys star systems and goes on a genocidal rampage against the empire that makes darths vaders kill count look irrelevant and luke has to come straighten him out. And then the story moves into their children as new main characters. The emperor clones do return but its with lukes son as the main target. They ruined decades of story and gave us this absolute trash. I dont even care legends is still cannon for me.

In the original trilogy, there were no mysteries. There are revelations but no mysteries. The audience wasn't left asking questions. We just wanted to know what was going to happen next in Luke Skywalker's adventure. There were no: "Ooooh, look at this big mystery. Whatever could it be? You'll have to watch the next movie to find out". The worst part is how Abrams never provided any answers to his mysteries

You need to give Vile Eye his props for jacking his swagger.

Abrams, Kurtzman and Lindelof are the trio responsible for everything wrong with modern Hollywood.

To Abrams credit he jumps over plot holes with great speed like it’s a sport.

Jar Jar destroys everything he touches, star trek, star wars, alias, lost... how this guy is successful is beyond me

Abrams is easily the best imitator in Hollywood. He has no originality and can only copy his betters. Also, i agree with your initial point. Listening to the prequel haters was easily the worst mistake disney made with their version of Star Wars. How ironic that they are now churning more prequel-era content compared to their own version😂😂

I'll never forgive him for sucking me into Lost and delivering nothing but endless mystery box bullshit.

First he ticked me off with “Lost”, did a similar thing with “Heroes”, & I saw it coming in “Fringe”, it all felt like he was insulting me, for wanting to have a sense of wonder…when I saw his name with “Star Trek”, & “Star Wars”, I knew both franchises were doomed….

You know I’ve always admired the way the JJ can absolutely suck the soul out of what he’s working on

Do Keven Smith and Joss Whedon. Those are two that we all fell in love with because of their early works who completely bought into an evil ideology and used their fan base to spread.

I had no idea he was involved with Lost. The mystery of that series really captured my imagination. Then nothing was answered. Fuck JJ Abrams.