DHOPW42 wrote: It's his trademark, like the trunk shot from Tarantino

Is that why Abrams himself admits it's ridiculous?

DHOPW42 wrote:

trevanian wrote:

Jonas Agersø wrote:Star Trek (2009) yesterday, since iv always been a star wars fan, I was surprised to see that i found it alright, 7/10

It makes sense that it appealed to you, because Abrams is a SW fan, and certainly NOT a ST one. Pretty much pissed on all of Trek, and I don't know why the filmmakers weren't locked up for the insane lens flares.

It's his trademark, like the trunk shot from Tarantino

Trademark, huh? I guess I should be happy he doesn't paint, I'd hate to see what he'd do when rebooting the Mona Lisa or Whistler's Mother, they'd probably have lens flare-eyeballs.

Donnie Darko, twice.
(8.5 / 10)

State of Play- Slow going at the beginning, the "twist" thrown in at the very end was unnecessary, but overall I enjoyed it.

8.1/10

Eternalist wrote:

DHOPW42 wrote: It's his trademark, like the trunk shot from Tarantino

Is that why Abrams himself admits it's ridiculous?

Well, I've read that he often uses this technique, his TV series Fringe is full of these lens flares (although he's only the producer and creator of the series). I didn't know he thinks it's ridiculous...

I had to watch Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet last night for an up comming english. for 3hours and 45min-ish, not my idea of fun.

I also watched Juno, a little over rated

6.5/10

Kick-Ass - 9/10

Wow... surprisingly good. I was expecting a lot worse movie than that. It's really good and more than entertaining. The music and the "choreography" of the scenes are extraordinary. I can compare it to Watchmen - it really has a lot in common with Kick-Ass. You know, Kick-Ass is basically just like Watchmen I mean the movies. Certain scenes composed to a dominant music, the great action scenes, the great photography, and the things about ordinary men being superheroes. I know it's maybe not appropriate to compare the two movies, but I'll still do it.

All in all, it was really good.

The Dark Knight (891689416789367236578652786578436374863478346743843687674389628963 / 10)

Raising Arizona

Hugely enjoyable and well-played.

9.5/10

I'm here (a short film by spike jonze)

8.9/10


if you want to watch it i posted a thread with it.