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.

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

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.

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

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

"What are stories but mystery boxes?"

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

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.

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.

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

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.

And this is how the dark era first began…. The era of the infamous philosophy…..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.

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

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.

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 KZfaq who, despite not getting paid a dime, write dramatically better content.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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😂

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.

Nepotism comes to mind.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

JJ Abrams is Kylo Ren A cheap fucking knock off

Bad Jar Jar! No lens flare!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!!

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

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. ; )

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

Abrams also paved the way for Orci/Kurtzman

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?

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.

Actually George had scripts for 9 movies and only ever got 6 made. Naturally Disney discarded his last 3 scripts as they discarded Expanded Universe so they could freely destroy the IP. And they did.

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.

Yeah, he had to be a postmodern writer

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

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

Abrams, the Franchise Killer

Analyzing Evil: People who bullied Star Wars actors just because they didn't like the character and/or plot

Born in 1966 was a producer in 72. He must have been a precocious 6 year old.

aka JJ is a hack

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

His 2009 Star Trek film was basically “Top Gun” in space.

"They are incredibly rich, therefore they are successful, intelligent, gifted and talented." This new culture we are subjected to doesn't make sense but it sure is popular.

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.

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

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

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

There's a lot I hate about 7, 8, and 9. But I think the part I hated the most was the finale. The disrespectful way they brought back Sheev Palpatine made my skin crawl. His return wasn't built up, the random ass final battle comes out of no where just to have an unearned final showdown, the fact that others found the location of Sheev disregards the entire rest of the movie's fetch quest if all the characters find the location anyways, his reveal to be related to Ray wasn't built upon at all, and he's literally the big bad guy of the whole series without any previous interactions with anyone. WTF is with J.J. Abrams? Its like he makes shit up without carefully building up a story so it all makes sense.

It's funny because when he was announced as director for the force awakens everyone was like super pumped. As a long time Star Trek fan who felt super burned when into darkness came out, I knew that his Star Wars would end up being terrible because I understood well in advance that he doesn't actually understand anything he makes. Force awakens comes out and is a big hit and I saw it for what it was immediately, but everyone has nostalgia glasses on. Just like with his first Star Trek movie I knew it would be fool's Gold. Everyone said that it was a good starting off point for the trilogy but I knew even if he didn't direct the sequels, nothing good would come from such a terrible foundation. It took until the last Jedi before people started agreeing with me, but I feel very vindicated.

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.

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

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

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

Disney Star Wars is objectively 100% Rian and Kathleen’s fault. It’s nice you have an opinion, but most people loved the Force Awakens.

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

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 😂

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.

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.

I think the shifting of blame to the prequel haters is wrong and giving an excuse to JJ and Disney for being bad. The Prequels definitely had their flaws, but at least they exist in the scope of the Original Trilogy and added to it. The Disney sequels invert and undone the Original Trilogy, which can only occur under malicious intent. It is correct that JJ deserves the blame for how bad the sequels are. However, it is not the prequel critics fault for how bad the JJ and Disney have made Star Wars content.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

There is no debate that Rey Palpatine is a Mary Sue.

Excuse me but what is the name of the song playing at the end

Oh I have very strong opinions of JJ Abrams! I watched all of Lost, and enjoyed some, but disliked some. I watched all of Fringe and felt the same way. Some good, some not so good. I watched some of Alias and thought it was okay. When he was hired to do the first Star Trek movie, and his famous quote saying, he and his writing team were never fans of Star Trek, so they wanted to make something everyone could enjoy... that was the beginning of the end for me. But I went in hoping for the best, and did a lot of eye-rolling. I tried to accept parts of it, but a lot of it was just badly written. Then Into Darkness... I can't express enough how much I genuinely hated that movie for multiple reasons. So when I heard he was brought in to do The Force Awakens, and many people were saying how he "saved Star Trek, now he'll save Star Wars", I could not have been more repulsed. But I'd heard he was a bigger fan of Star Wars, so again I was willing to give him a chance. But yeah, we got a very 'safe' movie that just rehashed a lot of A New Hope. There was some elements that had potential, but there was also a lot of dumb stuff too. But again (how many times now??) I was willing to just accept it and see where it went. To be fair, I read some of the original concepts for The Force Awakens, and there was actually a great movie that was completely discarded so they could make something safe. Ideally, they would have gone with George Lucas's ideas, but whatever. Even after The Last Jedi, I saw a path to potentially make a good movie. My idea was Rey was a clone of Palpatine, without knowing it, which gave her inherent force powers. That's why she could do everything without training. And eventually have her turn dark side. Maybe have Keylo Ren realize he was wrong and turn good, and have newly trained Jedi Finn and Kylo ultimately going after darkside Rey in the next movie. But what we got in Rise of Skywalker was just repulsive on many levels. And in all honesty, I don't think Abrams is entirely to blame! I think there's a reason we don't hear from him anymore. I think he was ashamed at what the execs made him do for the final movie. I think he was set up to fail. As much as I dislike Abrams and his work, I think he genuinely is a fan of Star Wars, and was coerced to doing things for the final movie he fundamentally did not want to do. He had to compromise his own stupid ideas for someone Kathleen Kennedy's stupid ideas, (or possibly Iger). He had to course correct all the damage from The Last Jedi, and try to put things back on track, but I don't think he would have done something this abysmal. I think that movie was a case of too many cooks. This is my theory after watching his dumb work for many years. And I would love to be a fly on the wall for those meetings, or after the NDA runs out, read his tell all book. He did a lot of damage to the franchise, but I really don't think The Rise of Skywalker was anything remotely what he had in mind. And the proof is... where is he? What has he done since then? Seems to me he is in hiding. A director likes to direct movies. But he hasn't done anything since then. Sure producing but it's not the same.

As someone that hated Lost as I was watching it (having mostly to do with smelling Abrams' influence; in retrospect I'm much more warm towards it), I'm actually going to come out and say that I was disappointed at how much sense the ending made, lol (warning: what I'm about to say is largely conjecture, but my evidence is verifiable.) There's a channel called Lost Explained that really dives into the intricacies and the lore, but the short version of it is that the showrunners wanted to write something intellectually stimulating, and honestly, they really did so. The only reason the show had mass appeal was because Abrams had managed to dumb the show down with his stupid mystery box bullshit. That's not to say it wouldn't have been a mystery series without him involved, but after the third season the show stopped leaning on it nearly as hard as it was in the first half. And if you look at the credits, Abrams' involvement is far more limited in the fourth season, and literally nonexistent in the fifth and sixth seasons. This was also after the writers demanded that they only get three more seasons after some rather disastrous season three episodes, but it's hard to say if that's connected to Abrams leaving or not. Even still, I don't think it's a coincidence that the show got way better/smarter after he stopped being involved. But the damage was done by that point. The show had a wide audience that couldn't be bothered to keep up with the show's deeper themes and lore. And so, when the ending fulfilled those ideas, everybody in the audience was stuck on the "but I thought the island was purgatory?!?!?!" meme that the show itself denied many times and thought the ending was stupid and nonsensical. Again, the mystery was integral to the show, but I think the writers wanted the mysteries to service the themes, while Abrams wanted to focus solely on the mysteries, themes be damned. TL;DR: fuck Abrams for ruining everything he touches, lol edit: I do want to clarify, that channel I mentioned is not integral to understanding the ending. I made enough sense of it on my own viewing. It does, however, elucidate some of the more obscure mysteries and make the themes a lot easier to digest. And, I mean, the ending does tie into all of that, so yeah.

Luke Skywalker… one day I will avenge what they did to you… an exiled old man without hope, and without children, the Skywalker Line ended…

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

And now he's a producer on the new Batman: Caped Crusader series. Hopefully Bruce Timm and Matt Reeves will be able to prevent, to at least minimize any damage he might inflict.

“ the force awakens was made to pander to prequel haters” This is the best quote in the video because it speaks the truth and it’s exactly how I felt back in 2015!

The worst mistake Disney and JJA made was setting the sequel trilogy during what should have been the Yuuzhan Vong Wars and the "Dark Nest" Trilogy. Episodes 7 thru 9 would have worked much better following Dark Horse Comics' "Legacy" series...with the following substitutions... * Luke Skywalker = Cade Skywalker * Leia Organa-Solo = Marasiah Fel * Han Solo = Ania Solo ...That's how I would have done it, anyway.

Jar Jar Abrams should be taken to the derelict set of Alien 1 and be chained to the space jockey until they make another good Star Wars movie

You don't have to be a fan of the prequels to despise the sequels. I think George had the right vision, but without his original crew around him, some of the dialogue and storytelling was a bit choppy. Maybe I'm biased, because I knew that it was essentially the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker, and I'm not a big fan of tragedy. But I think my main problem on watching it was how contrived it all seemed. How "everybody knows how this ends," so somehow everybody had to be just dumb enough to let it all play out. I think the main story structure and the main story points were spot-on, but the execution of it was pretty choppy, like the plot was subservient to the spectacle, rather than the spectacle coming about naturally as a consequence of the plot.

I knew this PoS hack for what he was from the beginning of Disney Star Wars. That's right I used to be a Lost "fan". We all knew how bad this shit was gonna end.