Originally Posted by
4Dragons
There was a poll on DeviantArt on which of the known directors should get the job and I picked JJ for one reason; that he has worked with the equipment and knows how to deal with enormous amounts of effects shots that become realized over months of splicing everything together. Literally everyone else who answered the poll said Joss and I just don't get it.
I happen to love what they did with Star Trek and laughed my ass off when I learned he hired Andrew Kramer to do the lens flares.
Kramer also did the asteroid credit sequence for Into Darkness. Supposedly all inside Element 3D.
Don't get me wrong, I like big dumb action movies. But it's a damn shame to use Star Trek (or Star Wars for that matter) as a vehicle for that. Star Trek was never driven by space battles and fistfights. It had plenty of them, but they weren't the whole point. It was about humanity striving to be more. Exploring the next great frontier, facing moral dilemmas, examining our weaknesses, learning from other cultures and evolving. It got preachy at times, but it was a cool vision of the future.
The Abrams movies just glossed over all that and gave us explosions and callback groaners and emotional Spock punching people in the face.
I'm surprised to see a Star Wars fan considering special effects the priority when you've seen exactly what happens to the franchise when plot takes a backseat to masturbatory CGI. How would you feel about Michael Bay at the helm?